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LGBTQ+ Celebrities Who Dated Costars
When you're working on a film set or a stage production, you spend long hours with the same people, so it's no surprise that plenty of actors find themselves in showmances! Sometimes, these costar relationships are only for a season, but other times, it's totally true love!
Here are 13 LGBTQ+ celeb couples who met on screen or on stage:
Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson met when they played bandmates Crassie Cassie and Roxie Rotten in Her Smell. They started dating in 2018. Cara told Elle, "I get why people care so much, and I don't want to be so secretive that people think I'm ashamed of anything. But I've never been in a relationship where things are so public, or where I posted pictures of someone else. This seemed different. We had gotten to the point where we had kept it a secret, or at least not wanted attention, and now I feel like I'm not going to not be proud."
When they split in 2020, a source told People, "Cara and Ashley always had their ups and [downs] before, but it's over now. Their relationship just ran its course."
Playing Poussey in Orange is the New Black led Samira Wiley to her wife, Lauren Morelli, who was a writer. Samira told BuzzFeed, "I'll never be the same because of Poussey being in my life — my career, she's also the reason I have a wife and a family, to be very honest. It's something that actors dream of — to have a role like that, to be on a show as impactful as that. I'm just happy I accidentally fell into it."
The couple got married in 2017, and they welcomed their daughter, George Elizabeth, in 2021.
Angelina Jolie fell in love with Jenny Shimizu while they were playing Margaret "Legs" Sadovsky and "Goldie" Goldman in the 1996 teen movie Foxfire. They reportedly kissed during the second week of filming. Angelina told Rolling Stone, "I realized that I was looking at her in a way that I had looked at men. And it was great, and it was a discovery. It had never crossed my mind that I was going to one day experiment with or kiss a woman; it was never something I was looking for. I just happened to fall for a girl."
However, at the time, Angelina was also involved with her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller. In 1997, she reportedly told Girlfriends, "When I was doing Foxfire, we started talking, and months later, we got married. I probably would have married Jenny Shimizu if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her. Actually, I saw when she was being cast in Foxfire, and I thought she had just read for my part. I thought I was going to lose the job. I said to myself, 'Oh, my God, that's Legs.' She's great. We had a lot of fun."
She continued, "[Jonny] came to the set of Foxfire. He was around when I was figuring things out about myself, when I was realizing that I was attracted to women also. If anything, he took it very seriously. When I realized that somebody like Jenny could be a deep love for me, he realized it, and he took it very seriously. If anything, he didn't treat it just like some sexy thing."
In his 2023 memoir Pageboy, Elliot Page revealed his secret behind-the-scenes romance with Juno costar Olivia Thirlby. The pair played friends Juno and Leah. Elliot wrote, "I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby. We stood in her hotel room. Billie Holliday played. She was about to start making lunch, when she looked directly at me and said point-blank, 'I'm really attracted to you.' 'Uh, I'm really attracted to you, too.' At that we started sucking face. It was started having sex all the time: her hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant. Ironically, playing a pregnant teenager was one of the first times I felt a modicum of autonomy on set. I was wearing a fake belly but not being hyperfeminized. For me, Juno was emblematic of what could be possible, a space beyond the binary."
Ben Platt first met Noah Galvin when he asked him to be in a web series he was working on in 2014. Ben told Vogue, "Our first meeting was shooting with a tiny crew in his mom's old apartment doing improv together. I was playing his weird roommate who loved cacti and cried over his distant cousin Josh Groban. Noah was medium into it."
They reconnected when Noah replaced Ben as the titular lead in the Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen in 2017, and they started dating three years later. Ben told The Kelly Clarkson Show, "We were friends for five years and right before the pandemic, we finally decided to really give it a shot. We kind of skated around it for a long time." They got married in 2024.
Beanie Feldstein met her wife, Bonnie-Chance Roberts, when she starred as Johanna Morrigan in How to Build a Girl. Bonnie-Chance was a producer. Beanie told Vogue, "Actually, we first met on Skype. Bon had been developing Caitlin Moran's book How to Build a Girl into a movie for over five years when they finally started the casting process for Caitlin's fictional proxy, Johanna, a 16-year-old girl from Wolverhampton, England. With a dash of luck and a push from the universe, they ended up being open to meeting a Jewish girl from Los Angeles. In classic Bon fashion, she hadn't actually introduced herself; she just launched into it all. At the end of the call, I wrote in my notes: 'the producer… Brooke?'"
Over the summer of 2018, they experienced a friends-to-lovers romance. Beanie continued, "From the moment we first kissed, we both knew we would get married, and months after that, Bon had announced that when the time came, she wanted to be the one to propose to me. Because of the pandemic, we were not able to see each other in person for 13 months." They tied the knot in 2023.
Frankie Rodriguez and Joe Serafini fell in love while playing onscreen love interests Carlos Rodriguez and Seb Matthew-Smith on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. They confirmed their relationship in 2021. Joe told Entertainment Weekly, "We started as good friends and just slowly realized, hmm, maybe we should go on a date or something! We very much enjoy each other, and we just have such a blast, both on the show and making our own relationship outside of it."
Frankie added, "And there's like a built-in dynamic that now just flows naturally [when we're filming]. Even when we're in the background that day and we're just making eye contact with each other or saying things in different ways, it just adds another layer of comfortability. I toss the ball knowing how he's going to respond back."
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne met while playing Cher and Nancy in In a World... However, they didn't develop a relationship until they reconnected later on. In a joint interview with Cosmopolitan, Stephanie said, "Yeah, we were at Sundance — and this was right after we had just reconnected — and she wasn't feeling well and I put my hands on her shoulders, and it was like this electric feeling through my body where I'm like, 'Oh my God, I love this person, and care about this person,' and it felt so comfortable to touch her. I had never really experienced that feeling before."
Tig was the first woman she fell in love with. Stephanie also said, "I had not dated women before, and I think when we first started spending time with each other, I was so into Tig and I was falling in love with her and I didn't know how to identify it because I thought I was straight. I kept gravitating towards her and wanting to spend time with her, and then in the process of recognizing that in myself, I was like, 'Oh my God, I am fully in love with this person.' It kind of blew my mind in terms of sexual orientation, where you're like, 'I'm this way, and it's black and white.' I look back and go, 'God, I closed the door that I had no idea what was behind it.'"
Their blossoming relationship was chronicled in the documentary Tig. In the same interview, Tig said, "For both of us, it was the first time we had met somebody that we wanted to, you know, spend the rest of our lives with. I guess if I was dating someone casually, I would've let them be in the film as long as it was established that we were casual, but if I was in a relationship with somebody that thought we were serious but I was like, 'Eh, I don't know how I feel,' I never would've let that happen, you know? And we were never anywhere near breaking up, and I think it just didn't really dawn on us because once we were together, we were together."
Tig and Stephanie got married in 2015. They share twin sons, Max and Finn, who were born in 2016.
Andrew Rannells and Tuc Watkins met while starring in the 2018 Tony-winning Broadway run of The Boys in the Band. They played a couple named Larry and Hank. Their onstage romance reportedly became a real-life relationship in 2019. They reprised their roles in the Netflix movie adapted from the play, which premiered in 2020.
Tuc was a single father before Andrew became part of his family. On TODAY with Jenna & Friends, Andrew said, "My boyfriend has two kids. They were 6 years old when we started dating, and that was not on my radar, been really unexpected. And there's no good way to prepare for it. Which is really what this monologue that I do is about. There's no way to really prep for parenthood."
Jessica Origliasso of The Veronicas and Ruby Rose first dated in 2008. Eight years later, they reconnected when Ruby wrote, directed, and starred in The Veronicas' "On Your Side" music video. They rekindled their relationship. Jessica told Australia's Nova FM, "When we first got together way, way back, it was hard to know how much to share. Now we are quite protective of what we have, so obviously being able to be open enough but keeping a lot of it for ourselves is something that we're very conscious of, and I think it just depends on the people what you're willing to share."
They dated from 2016-2018. Ruby tweeted, "Break ups are always incredibly hard on the people involved. But I can only be grateful for the experiences we shared. It's with a heavy heart to share that Jess and I parted ways a few months ago." At first fans thought it was a prank for April Fool's Day, so Ruby added, "I understand it's 'April 1st' but I would never use something so personal as an April fools joke."
The late Gavin Creel and Henry Gottfried were both in Waitress on Broadway in 2019. Gavin played Dr. Jim Pomatter, and Henry was an ensemble member and understudy. They were reportedly dating around that time.
When Gavin died in 2023, Henry posted this to his Instagram story: "I was so lucky to be held by Gavin for a few years, and to get to hold him, and to see how he held so many other people."
Kevin McHale and Austin P. McKenzie met while playing Bobbi Campbell and young Cleve Jones in the ABC miniseries When We Rise. They've been in a relationship since 2016.
Kevin told People, "I honestly have no desire to get married or have kids. Every now and again, it seeps in. Everyone's getting married around us, and I'd be like, 'Oh, that would be fun....' And maybe we would one day. But we're just in such a good place, it's kind of like, if it ain't broke — I don't really see the point for myself. I'll think about being a dad too. Like, you entertain that fantasy. And then I go hang out with somebody's kid, and I'm like, 'Ugh, never mind.' Don't get me wrong, I love being an uncle. I've been an uncle since I was 11, and I'm a pseudo-uncle to all my friends' kids. Kids are magical; I just like to sleep! To bring a child into this world, you've got to be really committed to that in a way that I am not."
And finally, on Supernatural, DJ Qualls played the werewolf Garth, and Ty Olsson played the vampire Benny. They "didn't know each other at all" before they met at a 2014 fan convention for the series. On his podcast Locked and Probably Loaded, DJ said, "We maybe said three words together at the Supernatural convention, and then we went to London for four or five days afterward."
"And then I was going to Turkey with a friend — and he is such a pure, awesome guy. He came up to us — we all went out as a group — and he was like, 'Can I come on your trip with you?' And I'm like, 'That is so ballsy!' I could never invite myself on somebody's trip. 'Cause I'd be afraid they would begrudgingly tell me yes and then not want me there. But it was just so pure and awesome, and that's who he is. I didn't know him. And it was the beginning of our friendship," he said. They announced their engagement in 2024.
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