Romance On The Set / Live-Action Films

• Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz on the set of Dream House. This led to Weisz's breakup with Darren Aronofsky and Craig breaking off his engagement. Weisz and Craig married a few months later. They had known each other for some time before the film, however.
• Helena Bonham Carter was in a relationship with Kenneth Branagh, with whom she became involved during the filming of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This ended Branagh's marriage to Emma Thompson.
  • Director Tim Burton met Bonham-Carter during the filming of Planet of the Apes (2001), ending Burton's decades-long relationship with girlfriend/muse Lisa Marie. They were together thirteen years and had two children.
• Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal fell in love while filming The Fountainhead. But Cooper was married at the time (and divorce was not so easy then), so this was doomed from the start.
• Tom Hanks met Rita Wilson while filming Bosom Buddies, but they fell in love while filming Volunteers.
• Tom Cruise is a serial offender:
  • He met Nicole Kidman on the set Days of Thunder.
  • Started dating Penélope Cruz on the set of Vanilla Sky. Some say he deliberately wanted to be in the film for this reason.
• So is Ben Affleck:
  • He started dating Jennifer Lopez while filming Gigli and the film was rewritten to take advantage of that. Didn't turn out well for the relationship or the movie, though they were still reunited 17 years later.
  • He dated Jennifer Garner while filming Daredevil (2003) (though they starred in Pearl Harbor together before that). They were married for ten years and have three children.
  • He began dating Ana de Armas on the set of Deep Water. They called it off less than a year later and Ben and Jennifer Lopez dated again afterwards.
• Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward fell in love while filming The Long, Hot Summer. They married soon after and remained so until Newman's death in 2008. They are still cited today as one of the rare examples of a Hollywood marriage that actually lasts.
• The two leads of Space Mutiny, the alleged sci-fi pastiche which worked so well that Mystery Science Theater 3000 did an episode about it, are still married after falling in love while filming it.
• Alexander Fu Sheng met his wife, Jenny Tseng, during the making of Chinatown Kid, where they married before filming wrapped.
• Charlie Chaplin appears to have had affairs with or married the female leads of every movie he made between 1915 and 1940, with the sole exception of Virginia Cherill in City Lights—this may be why Chaplin tried to replace her with his old girlfriend, The Gold Rush star Georgia Hale.
• Angelina Jolie with Jonny Lee Miller on Hackers, with Billy Bob Thornton on Pushing Tin, and with Brad Pitt on Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). The last one was particularly scandalous, as Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston at the time. Even though Pitt and Aniston were legally separated, that didn't stop people from painting Jolie as a homewrecker, and the three of them were the Holy Trinity of tabloids for years. In addition, Jolie had a somewhat less-publicized romance with Jenny Shimizu, who she starred alongside in Foxfire (1996).
  • Jolie and Pitt separated after 13 years together (two married) due to differences raising their six kids but rumors grew that Pitt was also having an affair with his Allied costar Marion Cotillard. The latter, after being harassed publically, denied those rumours.
• Besides Jolie on Mr. and Mrs. Smith, there was also Pitt with Gwyneth Paltrow on Se7en.
• Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux on the set of Wanderlust, which effectively ended Justin's relationship with his long-term girlfriend. They were married until 2018.
• Perhaps the most (in)famous example is the affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton during Cleopatra. Popular opinion says their relationship killed all of the on-screen chemistry.
• Paul Hogan met his wife on the set of "Crocodile" Dundee. She was his co-star, Linda Kozlowski. His wife at the time (Noeleen Hogan) was not pleased.
• Jet Li met his first wife, Huang Qiu-yan, when she was his co-star in Martial Arts of Shaolin. They had two daughters together during their marriage in the 90s, but they ended up divorcing roughly a decade later.
• John Travolta and Kelly Preston got married a few years after filming The Experts.
• Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin in Siesta.
• Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, in Bull Durham.
  • Sarandon confessed to having an affair with David Bowie while making The Hunger.
• Warren Beatty and Annette Bening married shortly after Bugsy. Beatty dated co-stars, including Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass), Goldie Hawn (Shampoo), Diane Keaton (Reds) and Madonna (Dick Tracy).
• According to the DVD Commentary of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, not only did the actors playing the parents end up getting married, but Matthew Broderick, the actor playing the titular character, was dating Jennifer Grey, the actress who played his character's sister while the movie was being filmed.
• Humphrey Bogart and a 19-year-old Lauren Bacall, while making To Have And Have Not. They called each other by their nicknames from the film in Real Life from then on, as well. (For example, Bogart called Bacall "Slim".) That was a romance that did last; their marriage only ended when Bogart died of cancer.
  • Bogart met and married his costar in Marked Woman, Mayo Methot. He left her for Bacall.
• Drew Barrymore and Tom Green from the first Charlie's Angels movie.
  • Barrymore and Justin Long dated for awhile after making He's Just Not That into You. They're still good friends.
• Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown after The Thorn Birds, they're still married after 30 years.
• Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova on Once. They've since amicably split.
• Jessica Alba met her husband Cash Warren on the set of Fantastic Four (2005) (he was director Tim Story's assistant. Alba swore never to date any more actors after an abortive relationship with Mark Wahlberg). They have three children together.
• Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain^note Ironically, in the movie Ledger played an Armored Closet Gay and Williams was his beard. until they had an amicable split a few months before his death.
• Diane Keaton and Al Pacino met during The Godfather, but didn't start dating until a few years later. They were on-and-off through the '70s and '80s before eventually breaking up for real.
• Scott Wolf and Alyssa Milano dated for a while after filming the Double Dragon (1994) movie.
• Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart of the The Twilight Saga movies, much to the delight (and debate) of tabloids. According to Rob, he had a crush on Kristen and getting the chance to work with her was the main reason he signed up for the movie, meaning that he was probably hoping to invoke this trope. Eventually, Kristen Stewart cheated with Rupert Sanders, the married director of Snow White & the Huntsman. To make matters worse, the director's wife Liberty Ross was playing Stewart's (Snow White's) on-screen mother.
  • Kristen is no stranger to this trope. She met and dated her Speak co-star Michael Angarano.
• David Arquette and Courteney Cox began dating while filming the first Scream movie, were engaged during the second, and were married by the third. (And separated by the fourth, but still, that's over a decade there.)
• Somewhere between this and The Muse are Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, who met on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Spielberg now says that this is the best thing about the film.
  • Prior to meeting Spielberg, Capshaw was in a brief relationship with filmmaker Armyan Bernstein. They both met while working on the movie Windy City (a film so obscure that the people who most likely have heard of this film nowadays are fans of The Cinema Snob).
• Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth met on the set of the Made-for-TV Movie An Unfinished Affair in 1996. They got married in 2001, had three daughters, and filed for divorce in 2012. It's interesting since her character in the movie only struck up a relationship with his character to make his character's father jealous.
• Zach Braff and Natalie Portman dated during and shortly after making Garden State together.
• Portman had a later romance on the set of Black Swan with the film's choreographer Benjamin Millepied (which ended his relationship with fellow dancer Isabella Boylston). They have married and have two children together.
• Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar met on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer, but didn't start dating until a few years later. They've been happily married since 2002.
• Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe on the set of Proof of Life, which contributed to her divorce from her previous romance on two sets, Dennis Quaid.
• Crowe met his future wife on the set of The Crossing in 1990, but they didn't get together right away, and didn't get married until 2003.
• Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy dated after filming Just Married together. He broke up with her to get with his now-ex-wife Demi Moore.
• Jeff Bridges met his wife while filming Rancho Deluxe. The film was shot on an actual ranch where the future Mrs. Bridges was working as a maid, which makes this sort of a real live Cinderella story.
• Vincent Price and Coral Brown, on the set of Theatre of Blood. Particularly ironic, given that he electrocutes her to death in the film.
• Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans met on the set of 102 Dalmatians, started dating, and are currently married.
• Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan met while filming Step Up and later got married but they are now seperated.
• Seems to be something of a tradition for actors in the live-action Spider-Man franchise: all three headline actors have hooked up with their leading ladies IRL.
  • Tobey Maguire, playing the title character, and Kirsten Dunst, playing Love Interest Mary Jane Watson, hooked up while filming Spider-Man. (He later met his jewelry-designer wife on the set of Seabiscuit, resulting in nine years and two children.)
  • Andrew Garfield (playing the title character) met Emma Stone (playing Love Interest Gwen Stacy) on the set of The Amazing Spider-Man; the two were together for three years.
  • Tom Holland (playing the title character) and Zendaya (playing a re-imagined version of MJ Watson) became a couple while filming the MCU Spider-Man movies. They spent years trying to keep their private lives private and only came clean about their relationship after it became the worst-kept secret in Hollywood.
• Jensen Ackles and Danneel Ackles, who co-starred in Ten Inch Hero, became engaged, and eventually married.
• Dev Patel and Freida Pinto became a couple while filming Slumdog Millionaire. Pinto was engaged to someone else at the time but broke it off.
• Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth had been dating since filming The Last Song and had broken up and made up several times. They got married in December 2018 before ending things for good and divorcing in August 2019.
• Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn during Woman of the Year. They did nine films together. Tracy, a devout Catholic, refused to divorce his wife, but nevertheless, he and Hepburn were together and absolutely devoted to each other for twenty-five years, until his death in 1967.
• Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith met on the set of Two Much and later got married. Ironically, in the movie, she was his Romantic False Lead, though, in real life, their affair ended both their marriages at the time.
• Robert Downey Jr. met Susan Levin while filming Gothika, which she produced. The two later married in 2005 and she has produced most of his movies since.
• Tia Mowry met her husband while they were making Hollywood Horror.
• Willow:
  • Sorsha and Madmartigan hooked up in real life. Val Kilmer married Joanne Whalley, who added the hyphenate "Kilmer" to her name. They had two kids together but divorced eight years later.
  • Warwick Davis met his wife Samantha Burroughs while she was playing a Nelwyn extra.
• Peter Lorre and Kaaren Verne on the set of All Through the Night, but both were married to other people at the time. They eventually got together a few years later, but that marriage only lasted five years (the divorce was amicable, however).
• Harry Hamlin and Ursula Andress met during the original Clash of the Titans. Even though he was 28 and she was 43 at the time, they dated and lived together (but never married) and had a son. They broke up in 1983.
• Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh met and fell in love on the set of Fire Over England.
• Claire Danes: twice. First with Billy Crudup. They met while dubbing Princess Mononoke, and started dating after filming Stage Beauty (causing a lot of controversy because Crudup left his pregnant girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker for Claire). The two later broke up, and Claire married Hugh Dancy after filming Evening.
• Shia LaBeouf:
  • He and Megan Fox hooked up while filming Transformers.
  • With co-star Carey Mulligan on the set of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
  • He married his Nymphomaniac co-star Mia Goth. They separated in 2018 but reconciled in 2020.
  • With Honey Boy co-star FKA twigs. However that one didn't end well at all and in 2020, Twigs sued him for abuse during their relationship.
• Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams after The Notebook. During the film, the two actors were known for fighting to the point of hating each other, until the director shoved them in a room and let them scream it out with each other until they could do a proper kissing scene together. After the movie, the two dated for four years.
• Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen during Midnight in Paris
• Ryan Phillippe dated several co-stars and fathered a child with one.
• Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of Rendition.
• While filming The Turning Point, James Mitchell, who played the choreographer, partnered up with the film's costume designer, Albert Wolsky. They were still together when Mitchell died over three decades later.
• Laura Dern has dated a number of her co-stars, including Kyle MacLachlan, Jeff Goldblum, and Billy Bob Thornton.
• Even though they didn't share any scenes whatsoever, Eli Roth and Rosario Dawson briefly dated while filming Death Proof. Dawson also dated her Trance director Danny Boyle, of all people.
• Julia Roberts was briefly engaged to two of her co-stars: Dylan McDermott after filming Steel Magnolias and Kiefer Sutherland after Flatliners. Then she hooked up with cameraman Danny Moder on the set of The Mexican. Even though she was dating someone and he was married at the time, they ended up getting married a couple of years later and are still together.
• Jim Carrey met his second wife, Lauren Holly, when she played his one-sided romantic interest in Dumb and Dumber. They were married for about two years. He later dated another on-screen love interest, Renée Zellweger on Me, Myself & Irene. They dated for roughly a year.
• In order to increase the realism, the director of Time After Time kept Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen from meeting until the scene when their characters did. It worked better than he expected; they fell in love while filming, married, and then divorced about a decade later.
• Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick met during the PBS American Playhouse production of Lemon Sky, married the following year, and welcomed Sosie Bacon to the family and the world in 1992. That one's still going strong.
• Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens met and started dating during the High School Musical trilogy, and were together for over five years, to the point they were known as one of the power couples of Hollywood despite barely being out of their teens. The director admitted that he picked up on their chemistry during the auditions and pairing them with anyone else didn't work as well.
• Jamie Campbell Bower and Bonnie Wright met during the Harry Potter film production and dated from 2009 to 2012.
• Pauly Shore and Kylie Minogue on the set of Bio-Dome.
  • Kylie also had an affair with Jean-Claude Van Damme while making Street Fighter.
• Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz got together after making Vicky Cristina Barcelona (they had acted together previously on Jamón jamón, but nothing came of it at the time) and are now married with a son and a daughter. Before that, Cruz had a relationship with Tom Cruise after the two of them worked on Vanilla Sky together, and later with Matthew McConaughey after the two of them worked on Sahara (2005) together.
• Taylor Lautner has had a couple: He dated Taylor Swift after the two of them filmed Valentine's Day and then he and Lily Collins briefly dated after filming Abduction.
• Kate Hudson divorced her current husband and got together with Owen Wilson while filming You, Me and Dupree.
• Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts got together during the making of The Painted Veil; they had two kids before eventually splitting up in 2016.
• While filming Underworld, Kate Beckinsale split from partner (and co-star) Michael Sheen to hook up with the director, Len Wiseman (who was also married; his wife was not happy about the affair). Beckinsale and Wiseman were married from 2004 to 2019, and the former has a healthy relationship with Sheen, the father of her daughter.
• Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively met while making Green Lantern (2011), but only began dating after filming had wrapped. Despite this, the movie is still Reynolds' biggest Old Shame, and he would continue to make fun of it a decade after its release.
  Ryan Reynolds: Now, I met Blake on the darkest crease in the ass of the universe known as Green Lantern...
• Jennifer Connelly met Paul Bettany on the set of A Beautiful Mind. They're still married.
• Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend dated for a few years after making Pride & Prejudice (2005) together.
• James McAvoy's ex-wife Anne-Marie Duff was once his co-star on Shameless (UK). His current girlfriend Lisa Liberati worked as a production assistant on Split.
• Roy Rogers and Dale Evans met while filming a movie together called "The Cowboy and the Senorita."
• During the DVD Commentary for Star Wars: A New Hope, Carrie Fisher mentions that Mark Hamill had a crush on her. Given a lot of photos◊ from◊ that◊ time◊, it doesn't seem unreasonable.
  • In 2016, Carrie Fisher disclosed that she and Harrison Ford had a Secret Relationship on the set of the first film.
• Shane West and Mandy Moore got together while filming A Walk to Remember.
• Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger on the set of The Marrying Man.
• Casper Van Dien got together with Catherine Oxenberg while filming The Collectors they got married a few years later.
• Milla Jovovich hooked up with her director Luc Besson during filming on The Fifth Element; they were married that year (1997) and divorced two years later. She later got together with Paul W.S. Anderson in the course of Resident Evil (2002) - they're now married with children.
• Rosanna Arquette had an affair with Jean-Marc Barr, her co-star in The Big Blue; not only did this result in the breakup of her marriage to film composer (including two of her own movies!) James Newton Howard, but the affair was short-lived.
• While making Van Helsing, Richard Roxburgh (Dracula) met and fell in love with Italian actress Silvia Colloca (Dracula's bride Verona), and they got married later that year. The couple have two sons.
• Writer-director Andrew Niccol fell in love with Rachel Roberts on the set of S1m0ne and married her. In the film, the director played by Al Pacino becomes obsessed with the synthetic eponymous actress, played by Roberts.
• Ali MacGraw dumped producer Robert Evans for Steve McQueen (actor) while they were filming The Getaway.
• Actress Catherine Hicks and Special Effects Technician Kevein Yagher met at the wrap party for Child's Play and got married in 1990.
• George Harrison and Pattie Boyd, who was an extra in A Hard Day's Night. They were married a good ten years before she left him for Eric Clapton...
• ...But his fellow Beatle Ringo Starr had better luck when he married Barbara Bach, who played his love interest in Caveman. They're still together.
• Rumor has it, Kristanna Loken and Michelle Rodriguez on the set of Bloodrayne.
• Fred Vogel met his future wife Shelby Jackson while the two were making August Undergrounds Mordum.
• Anna Faris can attribute all three of her marriages to this trope. Faris met her first husband, Ben Indra, on the set of Lovers Lane. She was also married to Chris Pratt, both of whom met during the making of the now-forgotten Take Me Home Tonight. She then married cinematographer Michael Barrett she met on set of Overboard.
• America Olivo and Christian Campbell got engaged while working on Neighbor, a film in which she spends most of the running time torturing him horribly, at one point shoving a chopstick up his urethra. Chinese food dinners must be awkward.
• Lea Thompson met her husband Howard Deutch on the set of Some Kind of Wonderful. He also directed an episode of her show Caroline in the City. They currently have two daughters.
  • She is a serial offender, as she had an engagement with Dennis Quaid, whom she worked with on Jaws 3-D.
• Joel Coen met Frances McDormand on the set of The Coen Brothers' first film, Blood Simple. She became his muse and they have been married ever since. Lampshaded by her when she won an Academy Award for her role in Fargo: "Years of sleeping with the director have paid off."
• Amanda Seyfried met Dominic Cooper on the set of Mamma Mia! and dated for two years before splitting due to her living in the States and him staying in the UK.
• The B-movie Ghost Rig is an Old Shame for Jamie Bamber, but given that he met his wife while working on it, it couldn't have been all bad—they've been Happily Married since 2003 and are the parents of three beautiful girls.
• Anna Friel and David Thewlis, on the set of Timeline.
• Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, on the set of Hanky Panky. They married a couple of years later, and their marriage lasted until Radner died.
• Lucille Ball met Desi Arnaz while making the film version of Too Many Girls.
• Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult began dating after appearing in X-Men: First Class and later split...only to rekindle upon shooting the sequel.
• Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington met on the set of Men Only. The actors have two children.
• Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant met on the set of All of Me. It led to a marriage that lasted eight years.
• Bridget Fonda and Danny Elfman met during the making of A Simple Plan. They married in 2003 and are still together.
• Joan Crawford:
  • With Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on the set of 1928's Our Modern Maidens. They eventually married in 1929 but broke up four years later.
  • She and Clark Gable had an affair after meeting on the set of 1931's Dance Fools Dance. In most of the scenes Gable appears in with Crawford, he's sporting a mile-wide grin, and the sequence where he asks her to come back to his room for supper looks less like an actual take and more of an unscripted invitation for a date. They starred in several films together (which led to MGM management infamously ordering them to stay apart) and they still seemed to be on very good terms at the time of his death.
  • With Franchot Tone on the set of 1933's Dancing Lady. She eventually married and divorced him after five years amid accusations of abuse.
• Johnny Depp met Amber Heard on the set of The Rum Diary. Rumors abounded that they had an affair, causing the end of Depp's 14-year-old relationship with Vanessa Paradis. They divorced in 2016.
• Harold Lloyd married his longtime leading lady Mildred Davis, which lasted 46 years until her death in 1969.
• Billy Campbell and Jennifer Connelly dated for five years after meeting on The Rocketeer.
• Otto Preminger had an affair with Dorothy Dandridge that began on the set of Carmen Jones. The affair ended sometime before they began filming Porgy and Bess together.
• Helen Mirren and director Taylor Hackford on the set of White Nights.
• Bruce Campbell met his second wife Ida on the set of Mindwarp, where she was a costume designer.
• Tom Hardy married his Wuthering Heights co-star Charlotte Riley. They played the tragic lovers Heathcliff and Catherine.
• Actress Riley Keough married Australian stuntman/actor Ben Smith-Peterson, who she met on the Mad Max: Fury Road set. Meanwhile, the stunt doubles for Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron married after meeting on the set of the movie. Ironic, considering Hardy and Theron did not get along well (though they eventually came to form genuine respect for each other).
• RoboCop (1987): Kurtwood Smith's real life wife Joan Pirkle played Dick Jones's secretary, with whom Smith's character, Clarence Boddicker, flirted.
• The Light Between Oceans: Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander met and fell in love during filming and are still together.
• Peter Bogdanovich had an affair of Dorothy Stratten, whom he cast in They All Laughed. This one ended about as badly as possible, with Stratten being shot to death by her husband.
• Between Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
• Audrey Hepburn had a passionate affair with William Holden on the set of Sabrina. It ended when he revealed that he couldn't have children.
• Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly had an affair on the set of High Noon.
• Clint Eastwood had an affair with Jean Seberg on the set of Paint Your Wagon. This drew the attention of tabloids - and Seberg's husband, French director and novelist Romain Gary. Gary arrived on set planning to kill Eastwood, who fled into the woods.
• Tony Scott had an extramarital affair with Brigitte Nielsen while making Beverly Hills Cop II.
  • She also had an affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger while making Red Sonja.
• John Ireland and Joanne Dru had an affair on the set of Red River and were later married. This annoyed Howard Hawks, as he was also pursuing her. As a result, his part was considerably shortened.
  • It's rumoured that Ireland had an affair with Montgomery Clift.
• James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich had an affair while making Destry Rides Again which lasted for the duration of filming. She later claimed that she had to have an abortion after Stewart made her pregnant.
• George C. Scott had a tempestuous affair with Ava Gardner while making The Bible (1966).
• Darren Aronofsky dated Jennifer Lawrence from 2016-17, who he directed on the set of his horror film, mother! (2017).
• Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson dated for roughly a year after filming Made in America.
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory had one between the child actors. Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca) and Denise Nickerson (Violet) both had a crush on Peter Ostrum (Charlie). The two girls would take turns on alternating days hanging out with Peter; the runner-up got the assistant director's son. This spilled into the filming itself; Veruca and Violet's onscreen animosity was a result of the two feuding over Peter until Gene Wilder convinced them to stop.
• Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway had a brief relationship which started when they made A Place For Lovers together. The romance ended because, like Spencer Tracy, Mastroianni refused to divorce his estranged wife thanks to his Catholic guilt.
• Adam Devine and Chloe Bridges after filming The Final Girls.
• Chris Pine and Sofia Boutella after filming Star Trek Beyond. Hints of them being a couple occurred when Boutella attended the premiere of Pine's Hell or High Water.
• Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara. They met on the set of her but didn't start a romantic relationship until they reunited on the set of Mary Magdalene. The pair are now engaged and have a child together.
  • Mara previously had been in a relationship with Charlie McDowell from 2010 to late 2016, with whom she's Amicable Exes.
  • Phoenix also dated his Inventing the Abbotts costar Liv Tyler.
• Despite a twenty-something year age difference and her being married, Piper Laurie and Mel Gibson had a fling while filming the movie Tim ^note  A novel by The Thorn Birds author Colleen McCullough , paralleling the relationship between their characters.
• The King of Kings: Ayn Rand and Frank O'Connor both played extras in this film. They met, fell in love, and got married in 1929, lasting all the way to his death in 1979 (despite Rand openly having an affair with her protege Nathaniel Branden).
• Joel McCrea and Frances Dee met on the set of The Silver Cord in 1933, fell in love and were married a few months later. They remained together until McCrea died, on their 57th wedding anniversary, in 1990.
• Between Nevena Kokanova and Rade Markovic, the lead actors of the 1964 Bulgarian film The Peach Thief, which portrayed a doomed love affair between a Bulgarian Colonel's wife and a Serbian prisoner of war during WWI. As both were married, their relationship was as doomed as the one shown on the screen.
• Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis met on the set of Transylvania 6-5000 (the fateful moment came during an end-of-the-day viewing of some dailies at the hotel the cast and crew were staying at) and became a couple afterwards. When he was cast as the lead in The Fly (1986) and enlisted her to help him learn his lines, she realized she wanted to play his character's love interest — and while David Cronenberg had reservations about casting an actual couple, he was impressed enough by her first reading (as well as her height, which is comparable to the famously tall Goldblum's!) to go ahead with it. The film ended up providing both leads with Star Making Roles. From there, Goldblum and Davis did Earth Girls Are Easy together and were wed mid-shoot in 1987, before they divorced in 1990.
• According to Robert Englund, every teen male cast member on A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors had a crush on Patricia Arquette, citing it as "the most love-sick set" he'd ever been on.
• Pro wrestler Bill Goldberg met his wife Wanda on the set of Santa's Slay. Funnily enough, she portrayed a topless stripper whose crotch was in Goldberg's face.
• First Girl I Loved: Brianna Hildebrand met her girlfriend Jonnake Grisham (who's a set director) while filming.
• Bloodhounds Of Broadway: Randy Quaid met his wife Evi on the set of the film, where she worked as a crew member and the two would marry a couple years later.
• Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke have dated since 2013, when they met and co-starred in Kill Your Darlings.
• John Travolta had two - which both had unhappy endings. (The other is in the TV section). Travolta met his wife Kelly Preston on the set of 1989 comedy The Experts. They were together until her demise in 2020.
• Jacob Elordi and Joey King reportedly began dating in 2017 after filming The Kissing Booth (where their characters are in a romantic relationship). Ironically, by the time the sequel began filming, they broke up. However, they remained professional as actors while filming the movie.
• Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda became involved over the course of filming Ondine. She gave birth to their son after the premiere.
• Foxfire (1996): Angelina Jolie and Jenny Shimizu had a relationship which began during filming. Jolie said it was Love at First Sight, and the pair remained a couple for several years (while they both saw other people at the same time) before breaking up.
• During production of The Fifth Musketeer, Sylvia Kristel and Ian McShane began a tumultuous love affair, which lasted for almost five years.
• Blame (2017): Quinn Shephard and Nadia Alexander got together while filming. They're still a couple to this day, and got engaged as well in 2021.
• Blockers: Geraldine Viswanathan (Kayla) and Miles Robbins (Connor) are in a relationship, while their characters went on a prom date together. They began dating after meeting during production.
• Army of Thieves: Matthias Schweighöfer (Sebastian) and Ruby.O Fee (Korina) started their romance on the set of this film.
• Bruce Campbell admitted in his 2017 book Hail to the Chin that he lost his virginity to his The Evil Dead (1981) co-star Ellen Sandweiss, who played Ash's sister Cheryl. Unlike some other examples, though their romance quickly fizzled, they've remained good friends over the years.
• Eric Bruskotter and Tami-Adrian George, who played recruits Breckinridge and Djana'D respectively in Starship Troopers. They are both introduced together as new recruits, and they both leave the movie together when Djana'D accidentally shoots Breckinridge in the head during a live firing exercise, and Djana'D quits. They began dating during filming, later married, are are together to this day.
• French actor Jean Marais had an affair with actress Mila Parély on the set of Lit à colonnes in 1941. It was the only straight relationship of his life, and he even planned to marry her (which his lover Jean Cocteau reluctantly consented to) but it didn't go through.
• Sweetheart: Kiersey Clemmons, star of the film, fell in love with their stunt double Ebony de la Haye during filming.
• Brett Dalton and Eloise Mumford met and began dating while filming Hallmark Channel Made-for-TV Movie, One December Night in 2021, confirming they were together on Instagram in June 2022.
• The stars of the Live-Action Adaptation of Your Lie in April, Kento Yamazaki and Suzu Hirose, were revealed to be in a relationship and living together by Japanese tabloids in July 2022. Their relationship started after filming concluded, since at the time of the movie's release in 2016, they had been reported to be dating other people.
• Sense and Sensibility, 1995 edition: While Marianne Dashwood (Kate Winslet) was busy falling in love with Willoughby (Greg Wise) on-camera, Winslet's onscreen sister, Emma Thompson, was falling in love with Wise himself off-camera. The two began seeing each other while making the film and have been together ever since, marrying in 2003.
• Allison Williams and Alexander Dreymon on Horizon Line (2020) who have since got engaged and have a son.
• Asako I & II: Erika Karata (Asako) and Masahiro Higashide (Ryohei/Baku), the stars of the film, reportedly began dating each other while working on the film in 2017. The only problem was that Higashide was married at the time to Anne Watanabe with two children (and third one on the way). When their relationship was leaked in 2020, it became one of the biggest scandals in Japanese media for the year, with several shows and endorsements dropping the two, and was also the reason why Higashide and Watanabe ended up divorcing.
• Leslie Phillips and several other actors in Doctor in Clover tried to get close to Élisabeth Ercy, only for Michael Caine to come in from another set and sweep her off her feet!
• The relationship between William Hurt and Sandrine Bonnaire started on the set of the 1992 film adaptation of The Plague. A child was born of it.
• Viral: Director Henry Joost and actress Sofia Black Delia (playing Emma) met during while filming. They began a relationship and were married five years later.
• Ed Harris and his future wife Amy Madigan fell in love while filming Places in the Heart. They've been married since 1983.
• Sara Crowe married Jim Dale's son, Toby Dale, during the making of Carry On Columbus. Toby also appeared as a member of the Inquisition in the film.
• Peter Sellers was madly in love with Liz Fraser during the filming of I'm All Right Jack and constantly tried to make passes at her. When the two were reunited on the set of Two-Way Stretch two years later, nothing had changed and Sellers was once more up to his old tricks.

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