Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes are, notoriously, one of the most private couples in Hollywood. Despite being together since 2011 and sharing two daughters, we weren’t even sure if they were married until November 2022! Still, the pair have kept their family together and away from the press for 12 years, which makes them one of the most consistent, stable couples in the business.
In 2017, Gosling broke their usual protocol when he gushed over Mendes in his acceptance speech after winning a Golden Globe for his performance in La La Land. “I just would like to try and thank one person properly and say that, while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer,” he said. “If she hadn’t taken all that on so I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me. So sweetheart, thank you.”
Here’s everything we know about Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes’s enviable relationship, and their complete relationship timeline, with the most recent updates up top.
February 14, 2025: Mendes supports her Gosling’s new movie Project Hail Mary by posing in nothing but a “Believe In the Hail Mary” t-shirt. “For my Valentine ♥️,” she captioned the black and white pics on Instagram.
August 4, 2024: Gosling and Mendes make their first joint appearance in years at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
April 29, 2024: Mendes clarifies what she meant by a “nonverbal agreement” with Gosling to stop acting in an interview with Glamour. “That got—not twisted, but taken out of context because I meant it was almost a no-brainer,” she says. “There was actually obviously a lot of thought and conversation—especially on my end—of what I wanted to do with my life. It was very clear to me that I didn’t want to be away from the kids. Acting takes you on location for months. But I still wanted to work. So I had to get creative about what that work was going to be.”
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March 26, 2024: In an interview with Today, Mendes reveals that she and Gosling had a “nonverbal agreement” that she would pause her acting career to focus on their children.
“It was like a no-brainer,” the actor said. “I’m so lucky if I can have this time with my children.” Because with acting, Mendes explained, you have to travel to be on location all the time, which necessarily takes you away from your kids. “I still worked; I just didn’t act.”
She continued, “It was almost just like a nonverbal agreement. It was like, ‘Okay, he’s going to work and I’m going to work—I’m just going to work here.’”