It must be tough for actors to find love. They're always away from home or stuck in the middle of nowhere shooting, with little time to meet people. Plus, they're famous, and muggles often get freaked out by famous people.
Every movie or TV series features an on-screen couple, many of which end up falling for each other off-camera, too! Here is a beautiful selection of fictional couples that became couples in the real world. Enjoy!
Ygritte and Jon Snow fell in love in the amazing TV series Game of Thrones, but Rose Leslie and Kit Harington were actually a real-life couple at the time.
Although they've kept it rather private, Kit and Rose began dating soon after she joined the cast as Jon Snow's enemy turned lover turned enemy Ygritte.
Speaking of meeting Rose in Iceland, Kit said: "The country is beautiful, the Northern Lights are magical, and it was there that I fell in love.
"If you're already attracted to someone, and then they play your love interest in the show, it becomes very easy to fall in love."
They had a flirtatious relationship on the screen while filming the movie Scream in 1996. They married in 2003 and had a daughter named Coco in 2004. Unfortunately, their union did not last and they divorced in 2013.
Katie and Joshua actually dated in real life before their characters got together in the show, having been in a relationship for the first couple of seasons.
Years before she married Tom Cruise, Holmes revealed in a very sweet interview with People back in 1998 that Joshua was actually her first love.
She said at the time: "I'm just going to say that I met somebody last year. I fell in love. I had my first love, and it was something so incredible and indescribable."
As partners on CBS's Stalker, Maggie Q and Dylan McDermott found something far more savory than the crimes they chase onscreen: each other. The two stars met on set and announced their engagement in January.
It’s not hard to see why these two beautiful people met and fell in love. Though The Green Lantern flopped at the box office, love triumphed. Blake and Ryan were married in 2012 and welcomed a daughter named James in December 2014.
These two managed to stay in a relationship on screen for at least half a season, even though they sadly broke up in real life after three years together.
They've both since found love with other actors (Bilson has been with Hayden Christensen for nine years, and Brody is married to Leighton Meester).
This talented pair showed off their dancing chops in the first Step Up movie. The couple has been married since 2009 and welcomed a baby girl in 2013.
They play a married couple on CBS's political drama Madam Secretary, and the show brought these two together as well. They've been dating since 2014.
This famous couple not only fell in love on the Vampire Diaries but also away from the cameras, in real-life. They dated for three years, but their relationship ended, and Ian is now married to the actress Nikki Reed, who played Rosalie in the Twilight movies. Coincidence, much?
She told Seventeen in 2012: "Sometimes you can't help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long. I didn't want to be dating one of my co-stars – my goal on the show was to be professional."
Fans loved the dramatic relationship between Rory and Jess on Gilmore Girls, and apparently, there was something real about that onscreen chemistry - Alexis Bledel and Milo Ventimiglia dated for four years.
The pair had even talked about the possibility of marriage but broke up just as Milo left the show.
She said back in 2005: "I think everybody who has been dating for more than a couple of years probably talks about it at some point. It's a fun thing for us to talk about, but that's it."
She has since got married to actor Vincent Kartheiser, whose Mad Men character Pete had a brief fling with Alexis's character Beth Dawes in 2012. They had their first child together in 2015.
Playing a couple on the ABC drama Revenge, laid the foundation for this couple to start dating in real life.
Their onscreen relationship was fraught with deception on Revenge, but there appears to be far less drama in the real-life romance of Emily VanCamp and Josh Bowman.
How sweet is this: They place a romantic-sounding couple on TV Snow White and Prince Charming on Once Upon A Time, and in real life, Josh has become Ginnifer’s Prince Charming. The two were married and have one child together.What a fairy-tale ending.
On Gotham, Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin have a relationship threatened by dastardly villains at every turn, but in real life, they're blissfully together and have a baby.
On the American television sitcom created for Warner Bros, 2 Broke Girls, the characters Max and Johnny have a complicated flirtationship.However, they broke up in 2014.These days, Dennings now dates Josh Groban.
Bill and Sookie's vampire/human love affair didn't turn out so well for them on True Blood, but outside of Bon Temps, things are going quite well for Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer — the married pair now have a couple of kids. I still wonder if he calls her "Sookeh" at home.
From the set of Gossip Girl to real life, Leighton Meester and Sebastian Stan dated for a couple of years while the show was still running.
In the cult hit Freaks and Geeks, Nick — one of the freaks — can't help but pour all his energy into Lindsay. In real life, Jason Segel and Linda Cardellini ended up dating for a few years after the show was cancelled.
Her character Marley may have chosen another guy over him on Glee, but in real life, Blake Jenner is the one who Melissa Benoist wants. The pair quietly dated and surprised everyone when they got engaged in 2013 and then married a year later.
Their relationship is fraught with espionage and disguises on The Americans, but for the couple who play the Jennings duo, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, things are far more simple. The couple have been quietly dating and had a child together in mid-2017.
This lovely couple from the American TV series House dated and tied the knot on the show, but in real life, they didn’t quite get that far. They are engaged to be married, though!
Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin were both on the long list of famous guest stars on Veronica Mars. The real-life married couple played Logan's parents on the detective series. Too bad their onscreen marriage wasn't as successful as their real one!
It's almost too perfect that Jackie and Kelso are together. We loved their on-and-off relationship on That '70s Show, but we're glad their current pairing has led to a marriage and baby.
On Entourage, Turtle doesn't have the easiest time catching the ladies' attention — until he starts dating Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who plays herself. After her guest-starring role in 2008, the couple stayed together off screen until 2009.
Arrested Development's George — aka "Gob" — marries a seal dealer who eventually joins the army to avoid her feelings for Gob's brother-in-law, Tobias. The quirky duo is played by then-married couple Will Arnett and Amy Poehler, who started dating in 2000, got married in 2003, and announced their separation in September 2012.
They were passionate high school couple Lucas and Brooke on One Tree Hill, and that passion carried over into a romance and eventual marriage for actors Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush. But unfortunately, much like their characters on the show, it wasn't meant to be, and they split up.
