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!
Seven years after the breakup, they reprised their roles in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.
By the time they reunited, Seyfried was already married to Thomas Sadoski, her husband since 2017.
Cooper has been in a relationship with Gemma Chan since 2018.
2.Dev Patel and Freida Pinto play love interests Jamal Malik and Latika in Slumdog Millionaire.
During filming, Pinto was engaged to someone else, but after she ended that relationship in 2009, rumors spread that she was dating Patel.
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.
3.Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell play love interests Joanna Stayton and Dean Proffitt in Overboard.
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.
They've been together ever since, and they've made several other movies together, including The Christmas Chronicles and The Christmas Chronicles 2.
4.Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn play couple Brooke Meyers and Gary Grobowski in The Break-Up.
Though their characters broke up, Aniston and Vaughn stayed together from 2005–2006.
Aniston is not currently in a relationship.
Vaughn married Kyla Weber in 2010.
5.Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling play love interests Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun in The Notebook.
They dated from 2005–2007 and briefly got back together in 2008.
Elordi has not confirmed his current relationship status.
9.Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron play couple Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton in High School Musical.
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.
Hudgens and Cole Tucker went public with their relationship in 2021.
Efron appears to be single.
10.Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth play love interests Ronnie Miller and Will Blakelee in The Last Song.
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.
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.
Cyrus has reportedly been dating Maxx Morando since early 2022.
Hemsworth has been in a relationship with Gabriella Brooks since late 2019.
11.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.
