Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy’s Relationship Timeline: Photographs

A personal romance constructed to final. Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy had on the spot chemistry once they met on the set of their film Night.

“I used to be very just lately single, and I had by no means been single earlier than, so we had been simply associates for some time,” the Homeland alum recalled their first assembly throughout a February 2017 interview with Marie Claire. “[Hugh and I] met in Rhode Island when it was at its most audaciously stunning, within the fall. And there was someday once we had been bicycling by the water and it was sparkly and idyllic, and I simply had this dumb epiphany, like, ‘I’m actually simply comfortable.’”

Whereas Danes was within the England native, she had determined to take a break from relationships after a string of failed ones. After she felt her “palate was cleansed” following a one-night stand throughout a manufacturing hiatus on Night, she realized it was Dancy she needed all alongside.

“[I thought,] ’Oh s—t! I believe I’m going to marry this individual,’” she recalled throughout a January 2020 look on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Skilled” podcast. “[That was how] the tip of my life as a single individual was realized.”

Dancy, for his half, was significantly happy upon her realization earlier than they began courting.

“I can solely say that I’m actually glad my spouse selected to have a one-night stand with an insufficient lover,” the Ella Enchanted star joked on SiriusXM’s “The Michelle Collins Present” in Could 2020. “It was sort of within the second [when] she was single, I used to be single, and we had been each clearly eager about it. She was additionally pondering, I suppose, as one usually does, ‘Effectively, do I wish to soar again into one other relationship?’ She had simply come out of 1.”

After just some dates, Danes was smitten.

“Effectively, Hugh’s a giant nerd, too,” the Romeo + Juliet actress stated throughout a February 2020 interview with Web-A-Porter’s Porter journal. “After we first began sorta-kinda-dating for real-ish, I had an ornament-making celebration for Christmas, and he helped set up it. Then he made an decoration of cowboy paper dolls, and I assumed, ‘And he crafts?’ That was it. You will have me for the remainder of our lives.”

After a number of years collectively, Dancy proposed in February 2009. They wed in a romantic ceremony in France that September.

“It’s nice. They’re each treating me very nicely,” the Hannibal alum gushed about marriage and fatherhood throughout a Could 2013 interview with the U.Ok.’s Night Commonplace amid busy careers. “If Hannibal comes round once more, our schedules would overlap by a few months, which might imply both I could possibly be together with her or she with me, or neither of us could be working, and there’d be a interval the place we’d should commute. It’s a sophisticated stability, like several marriage. We’ve got received to be comfortable as a unit and I additionally need each of us to be comfortable independently and fulfilled in what we do, so there needs to be some elbow room.”

The married couple shares two sons Cyrus and Rowan, born in 2012 and 2018, and have since loved their quiet lives as a household of 4.

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