Two of the coolest, funniest, most talented actors in Hollywood also have one of the town’s best relationships, and it’s time we talked about it: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale are couple goals for grown-ups.
The Jersey-born actor and the Aussie star aren’t technically wed, but their partnership is as strong as any marriage, and they publicly refer to one another as “husband” and “wife,” like a lot of other together-forever partners (Paul Thomas Anderson and Maya Rudolph, for instance).
Here, take a look at their entire journey together, with the latest updates up top and going all the way back to the beginning…
2026
March 15, 2026: Cannavale and Byrne attend the Oscars arm-in-arm. Byrne wore a custom Dior couture gown and a Taffin by James de Givenchy necklace with a yellow diamond. Cannavale was the perfect complement to his “wife” in a black tuxedo and tortoise shell sunglasses.
January 22, 2026: Byrne is nominated for an Oscar for her performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and shares the moment she celebrated over FaceTime with Cannavale, who congratulates her online.
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January 11, 2026: Byrne accepts her Golden Globe Award for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and thanks Bobby, mentioning that he isn’t with her because he’s at a reptile expo buying their family a bearded dragon (which their son eventually named Benson Boone, LOL). Rose’s brother, the artist George Byrne, was her date to the event. The internet made a lot of cracks about this admission, but in separate Tonight Show interviews before and after the Globes, Byrne and Cannavale made it clear that this was a plan they agreed on.
2021
July 16, 2021: Byrne opens up about why she and Cannavale haven’t gotten around to tying the knot, telling the Sydney Morning Herald, “I keep going, ‘Let’s get around to it, let’s do it.’ And then, you know, you have a baby, and then, oh, there’s another baby,” she says. “It was kind of like that for us. I love weddings, and I know people [for whom] it’s an important thing, and I respect that totally. I guess for us it’s just been, we didn’t do it, we’ll do it, then—no! Pandemic.”
2020
January, 2020: Cannavale and Byrne costar in a modernized production of Medea at the BAM Harvey Theatre. (This is not their first time working together, and you should really watch 2015’s Spy if you haven’t already, they’re both so good in it.) The show’s planned run closes just before the pandemic.
2019
December 2019: Ahead of their theatrical collaboration (including a planned Australian production of A View From The Bridge, which was scrapped by COVID), the Brooklyn-based pair sit for a joint interview with Vanity Fair, and reveal a bit about their home life and the strange way their careers and public personas are a reverse of gender norms: she makes more money; he’s more likely to be objectified.
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2017
November 2017: Byrne gives birth to the couple’s son Rafael, whom they call Rafa.
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May 1, 2017: The couple make their third and, as of now, final Met Gala appearance.
2016
May 2, 2016: Byrne and Cannavale return to the Met.
February 2016: Byrne gives birth to the couple’s son Rocco.
2015
May 4, 2015: The pair make their Met Gala debut.
2013
September 22, 2013: Accepting an Emmy for his work on Boardwalk Empire, Cannavale says, “I want to thank the love of my life, Rose.” Aww.
August 9, 2013: They’re spotted on a double date with then couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.
June 3, 2013: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale attend the CFDA Fashion Awards together, confirming their couple status.
2012
The pair meet in the autumn and are spotted holding hands, per People. At this point, Cannavale has been divorced from his ex-wife Jenny Lumet for almost a decade. They share one son, Jake.
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This post will be updated.
This article originally appeared on Glamour US.
