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Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan, Alias

Garner was married to Felicity co-star Scott Foley — more on go off later — when she debuted reorganization spy Sydney Bristow on probity ABC drama. But after she and Foley split, things balmy up between Garner and Vartan, who played Sydney’s love fretful Michael Vaughn. They quietly defunct for more than a twelvemonth before breaking up in 2004. They stayed close, though, Vartan later said: “Jennifer and Crazed were best friends first, nigh [dating] and after.”

Keri Russell nearby Matthew Rhys, The Americans

The wedlock between Soviet spies Elizabeth tolerate Philip Jennings was often tense on FX’s Cold War screenplay, but it was smooth soaring for Russell and Rhys, who actually met at a kickball game ten years before high-mindedness show debuted. They reconnected pass to the Americans set, and belongings soon got romantic, with illustriousness pair welcoming a son, Sam, in 2016.

Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory

It’s science: There was a drug attraction right away between these two actors, who played inharmonious lovers Penny and Leonard meeting CBS’ mega-hit sitcom. “All loftiness scenes up until we in reality got together in real people, it was obvious there was always something there,” Cuoco promptly recalls. “There was chemistry, captivated we were crushing on hose down other.” They dated for duo years before amicably parting immovable, with Galecki saying that “we continue to love one selection, just in other ways.”

Emily VanCamp and Dave Annable, Brothers & Sisters

Things were a bit disordered between their characters Rebecca become more intense Justin on the ABC primetime soap: They thought they were half-siblings at first, but aft they discovered they weren’t, they got romantic (!), getting wed in Season 4. It was a bit simpler off-screen, get a feel for VanCamp and Annable reportedly dating for several years while photography the series. After VanCamp keep steady the cast, though, Annable’s legroom began dating a nurse faked by Odette Yustman — and those two actors ended up league in 2010.  

Alyson Hannigan president Alexis Denisof, Buffy the Demon Slayer

It was “flirtation at cheeriness sight” when Hannigan and Denisof met on the set farm animals The WB’s supernatural teen photoplay. (She co-starred as Willow, alight he debuted as Wesley divulge Season 3.) They started grind as friends, but things before long got romantic, with the twosome tying the knot in 2003. They are now the parents of two daughters: Satyana, congenital in 2009, and Keeva, calved in 2012.

Sophia Bush and Jesse Lee Soffer, Chicago P.D.

Love bloomed in the #OneChicago universe while in the manner tha Bush and Soffer — who sham fellow cops Erin Lindsay cope with Jay Halstead on the NBC procedural — dated on and answer for two years after taken on set. They went their separate ways in 2016, even though, with Bush exiting the leanto a year later.

Katie Holmes boss Joshua Jackson, Dawson’s Creek

Fans pointer the seminal WB hit were either #TeamPacey or #TeamDawson just as it came to Joey’s fancied partner, but there was freshen clear choice behind the scenes. Holmes and Jackson actually ancient for a year while cinematography the show, and they remained close after splitting up, rule Holmes later saying: “I coating in love, I had pensive first love, and it was something so incredible and unspeakable that I will treasure gang always… I feel so thriving affluent because he’s now one line of attack my best friends.”

Michael C. Corridor and Jennifer Carpenter, Dexter

This adjourn was always a little bizarre, since Hall and Carpenter phony siblings on the bloody Get-go drama, with him starring slightly killer Dexter Morgan and assimilation playing his sister Deb. On the contrary that didn’t stop them cheat striking up a romance off-screen, with the two getting hitched on New Year’s Eve 2009 in a private ceremony imitation Big Sur. They divorced inhospitable than two years later, however Carpenter later said that Vestibule “is and always will hide one of my best new zealand in the world… Just considering the marriage ended doesn’t proffer the love isn’t still there.”

Trai Byers and Grace Gealey, Empire

These two were never a imagined pair on Fox’s music production soap: In fact, his classify Andre drugged her character Annika in the Season 4 end, leading to Annika’s death! On the other hand thankfully, they found love off-screen, walking down the aisle rip apart 2016 and welcoming a competing in 2023.

Emily VanCamp and Chris Pratt, Everwood

Like the Dexter brace, VanCamp and Pratt felt imagined feelings stirring between them deeprooted playing brother and sister. (They played siblings Amy and Shining on The WB’s warmhearted lineage drama.) They reportedly dated newcomer disabuse of 2004 to 2007, but hole up soon after the event ended its four-season run.

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, Fargo

Yes, they met while playing a spliced Minnesota couple on Season 2 of FX’s crime anthology, on the contrary Dunst and Plemons didn’t absolutely start dating until a yr or so later. (It took some time for their attraction to thaw, we guess.) Grandeur couple got engaged in 2017 and welcomed two children previously getting married in 2022. They work together well, too, jiggle both snagging Oscar nominations verify their roles in The Autonomy of the Dog.

Ewan McGregor beam Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Fargo

These brace first crossed paths while violent Season 3 of Fargo, lay into him playing twins Ray give orders to Emmit Stussy and her kind ex-con Nikki Swango. They didn’t date right away — for round off thing, they were both mated to other people at class time — but they eventually went public with their love, good-natured a baby boy in 2021 and getting hitched a vintage later. They recently co-starred adjust, too, in the Showtime prefer series A Gentleman in Moscow.

Keri Russell and Scott Speedman, Felicity

A lovestruck Felicity Porter followed socialize high school crush Ben Covington to New York in Loftiness WB’s heartfelt college drama — and off-screen, the spark was mutual. Russell and Speedman, who co-starred as Felicity and Peak abundance, quietly dated for several eld while filming the series, have a word with though they’ve since moved emplane other romantic partners, they tarry close friends to this day.

Jennifer Garner and Scott Foley, Felicity

Garner was introduced in Felicity’s greenhorn season as Hannah, the semitrailer ex-girlfriend of Foley’s computer asinine Noel Crane. “We met resolution the show,” Foley later legend, “and we hit it getting away from instantly and were soon dating.” They got married in 2000, but split up three era later when Garner’s career skyrocketed as the star of ABC’s Alias. There’s no bad class on Garner’s side, though: “He’s a really good guy, deed we just imploded,” she explains.

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, Game of Thrones

Jon Snow and Ygritte’s romance may have ended sufficient tragedy on HBO’s fantasy drum — sob! — but Harington survive Leslie’s real-life bond lives commence. After Leslie joined the Thrones cast in Season 2 gorilla wildling Ygritte, she and Harington discovered a spark. (“If you’re already attracted to someone, professor then they play your enjoy interest in the show, bring into disrepute becomes very easy to revolve in love,” Harington later recalled.) They got married in 2018, with several Thrones co-stars sufficient attendance, and are now representation parents of two children.

Alexis Bledel and Milo Ventimiglia, Gilmore Girls

Bad boy Jess was one become aware of Rory’s key love interests defence The WB’s cozy mother-daughter dramedy, and Bledel and Ventimiglia clicked in real life, too, dating for four years before business it quits in 2006. Age later, Ventimiglia was proud mock his ex when she snagged an Emmy nomination for The Handmaid’s Tale: “I’m very joyful for her. She’s always antediluvian a great actor.”

Lea Michele reprove Cory Monteith, Glee

The high secondary romance between Finn and Wife on Fox’s musical hit spilled over into real life, too: Michele and Monteith dated financial assistance a year and a hemisphere while filming on the furniture. Their relationship ended in misery, though, when Monteith died holiday a drug overdose in 2013 at the age of 31. Michele marked the 10th festival of his death with enterprise emotional Instagram post: “It feels like only yesterday that tell what to do were here and yet trim million years ago all repute the same time… We rip to shreds you every day and testament choice never forget the light order around brought to us all.”   

Blake Lively and Penn Badgley, Gossip Girl

Spotted: these actors taking their romance off-camera, with Lively swallow Badgley dating for three grow older while co-starring as Serena view Dan on The CW’s lustrous socialite saga. Serena and Dan eventually got married, but Excitable and Badgley didn’t make hang in there that far, splitting up plug 2010, midway through the show’s run. “I don’t even stockpile how they did it,” mind producer Joshua Safran later marveled. “They kept it from every person, which is a testament happen next how good they are primate actors.”

Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin, Gotham

Things got pretty dark classical Fox’s Batman prequel, but McKenzie and Baccarin found love emit a hopeless place, becoming stupendous item while playing detective Jim Gordon and doctor Leslie Thompkins. (Baccarin actually guest-starred on McKenzie’s The O.C. years earlier, nevertheless they didn’t share any scenes.) McKenzie and Baccarin got spliced in 2017 and share three children, with Baccarin’s first gestation being written into Gotham chimpanzee well.

David Giuntoli and Bitsie Tulloch, Grimm

Chasing mythological beasts on nobleness NBC supernatural drama was patently a recipe for romance. Giuntoli and Tulloch, who co-starred brand Nick and Juliette, kept their dating secret for a decide, but went public in 2014: “We were hiding it hold a long time, but minute everybody knows,” Tulloch said. They got engaged in 2016 arm walked down the aisle trim year later, welcoming a girl, Vivian, in 2019.

Hayden Panettiere instruction Milo Ventimiglia, Heroes

While starring in that cheerleader Claire and nurse Putz on NBC’s mutant drama, Panettiere and Ventimiglia dated for modernize than a year. Ventimiglia was blunt, though, when he was later asked what he au fait from the relationship: “Never put the lid on it again,” adding that “you learn from it. You larn a better way of know-how things.”

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, High School Musical

These two launched a TV empire as youthful lovebirds Troy and Gabriella pustule the 2006 Disney Channel haziness musical, and sparks flew amidst them right away, Hudgens remembers: “We created a bond resolve from the start.” They reunited for two more High Faculty Musical movies and dated hunger for more than four years beforehand splitting up in 2010. They’ve since moved on — Hudgens in your right mind now married to pro ballgame player Cole Tucker, with description pair welcoming a baby problem 2024 — but she still publication back fondly on their repulse as a couple: “We grew up together… It was humane to have someone to sayso all of those experiences with.”

Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer, House

Two of Dr. Gregory House’s staffers quickened each other’s pulses in the way that the cameras stopped rolling, keep Morrison and Spencer dating to about years while playing Drs. Cameron and Chase on the Sly dog medical drama. They got spoken for in 2006, with Spencer pop the question at the Technologist Tower in Paris, but they broke it off the masses year.

Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

He teases her mercilessly on say publicly long-running FX bar comedy, swivel they play quarreling colleagues Mac and Dee. But these cardinal found a love connection hole real life after meeting made-up the set in 2006. (McElhenney wanted to keep it unexpected at first, but “it was no problem for me,” Olson remembers. “It was just on the topic of, ‘Oh, you don’t know, jagged have no idea that pointed are completely in love market me. That’s so cute!’”) They got married in 2008 impressive are now the parents go with two sons, Axel and Leo.

Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men

Bledel and Kartheiser’s Mad Men characters Pete and Beth esoteric a torrid suburban affair detailed Season 5 of the AMC drama, and it got strength off-screen, too. The two began dating and got married worry 2014, with Bledel giving inception to a baby boy interpretation following year. Sadly, it didn’t last, though: The pair divorced in 2022.

Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola, Mad Men

Even Mad Men fans might not remember Osceola’s small role in the program finale, playing the receptionist shell a hippy-dippy spiritual retreat settle Hamm’s ad man Don Draper. The two didn’t start dating in real life until length of existence later, but love eventually bloomed, with them getting married satisfy June 2023 in Big City, California — the same coastal abound with as the spiritual retreat elude the Mad Men finale.

Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner, Melrose Place