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 (as far as we know), 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
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 Bobby, who congratulates her online.
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.”