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Sometimes, when you’re watching two actors pretend to be in love onscreen, you can’t help but wonder if they’re actually in love offscreen, too (*cough cough* Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born).
Occasionally, the actors playing a couple in a rom-com are also a couple in real life. Sometimes, they even end up spending the rest of their lives together.
Here are 14 iconic rom-com couples who dated in real life, how their relationships turned out, and who they’re with now:
1.
Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper play engaged couple Sophie Sheridan and Sky Ramand in Mamma Mia!
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In real life, they dated from 2007–2011.
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Seven years after the breakup, they reprised their roles in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.
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By the time they reunited, Seyfried was already married to Thomas Sadoski, her husband since 2017.
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Cooper has been in a relationship with Gemma Chan since 2018.
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Dev Patel and Freida Pinto play love interests Jamal Malik and Latika in Slumdog Millionaire.
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During filming, Pinto was engaged to someone else, but after she ended that relationship in 2009, rumors spread that she was dating Patel.
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His mom let the truth about their relationship slip to the press that April, but the couple didn’t confirm it until September. They broke up after seven years together.
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Pinto married Cory Tran in 2020.
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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell play love interests Joanna Stayton and Dean Proffitt in Overboard.
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They had already been a couple for four years before filming began. They met on the set of The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1968 and started dating on Valentine’s Day in 1983.
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They’ve been together ever since, and they’ve made several other movies together, including The Christmas Chronicles and The Christmas Chronicles 2.
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Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn play couple Brooke Meyers and Gary Grobowski in The Break-Up.
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Though their characters broke up, Aniston and Vaughn stayed together from 2005–2006.
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Aniston is not currently in a relationship.
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Vaughn married Kyla Weber in 2010.
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Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling play love interests Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun in The Notebook.
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They dated from 2005–2007 and briefly got back together in 2008.
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Gosling has been dating Eva Mendes since 2011.
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McAdams has been with Jamie Linden since 2016.
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Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz play Raúl Gonzales and Silvia — who are part of several messy, overlapping love triangles — in Jamón Jamón.
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16 years later, Bardem and Cruz started dating while playing ex-spouses in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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They got married in 2010.
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Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner play high school sweethearts Felicia Miller and Willy Harrington in Valentine’s Day.
They dated for a few months in 2009, breaking up that December.
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Swift has been dating Joe Alwyn since 2016.
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Lautner got engaged to Taylor Dome in 2021.
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Joey King and Jacob Elordi play love interests Elle Evans and Noah Flynn in The Kissing Booth.
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They dated from 2017–2018.
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However, the exes later reprised their roles as a couple in The Kissing Booth 2 and The Kissing Booth 3.
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King got engaged to Steven Piet in 2022.
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Elordi has not confirmed his current relationship status.
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Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron play couple Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton in High School Musical.
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They were rumored to be dating in 2006 then made their red carpet debut as a couple in 2007. They broke up in 2010 — two years after reprising their roles for the final time in High School Musical 3.
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Hudgens and Cole Tucker went public with their relationship in 2021.
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Efron appears to be single.
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth play love interests Ronnie Miller and Will Blakelee in The Last Song.
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They fell in love on set in 2009 then went public with their relationship in 2010. They broke up that August, got back together in September, then broke up again in November.
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However, they rekindled their relationship in 2011 and got engaged in 2012. They broke off the engagement in 2013 but got re-engaged in 2016. They got married in 2018 but separated in 2019.
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Cyrus has reportedly been dating Maxx Morando since early 2022.
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Hemsworth has been in a relationship with Gabriella Brooks since late 2019.
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson play love interests Bella Swan and Edward Cullen in Twilight.
They dated from 2009–2012. During their relationship, they reprised their roles in New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn: Part 1, and Breaking Dawn: Part 2.
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Stewart got engaged to Dylan Meyer in 2021.
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Pattinson has been in a relationship with Suki Waterhouse since 2018.
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Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan play love interests Tyler Gage and Nora Clark in Step-Up.
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They got together on set in 2006, got married in 2009, then separated in 2018.
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Tatum started dating Zoë Kravitz in 2021.
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Dewan has been in a relationship with Steve Kazee since late 2018.
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Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. play engaged couple Faith Corvatch and Peter Wright in Only You.
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They dated from 1993–1994.
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Tomei has been romantically linked to Marco Calvani since 2017.
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Downey married Susan Downey (née Levin) in 2005.
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And finally, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez play love interests Larry Gigli and Ricki in Gigli.
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Only a few months after Lopez separated from her then-husband in 2002, she and Affleck got engaged. They broke up in 2004.
However, they got back together in 2021 and got engaged for a second time in 2022.
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Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristenharris1/rom-com-couples-costars-dated
