Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys have long been one of Hollywood’s most quietly powerful couples — a real-life love story born on the set of The Americans. After playing married spies in the acclaimed series, the pair’s chemistry spilled off-screen, blossoming into a partnership that fans still can’t get enough of. Together since 2014, they share a son and what friends describe as an “incredible, grounded relationship built on respect and laughter.” Away from the spotlight, the Emmy-winning duo live a low-key life in New York, balancing parenthood with selective, high-quality projects — like Russell’s The Diplomat and Rhys’s Perry Mason. “We’re each other’s biggest supporters,” Russell once said. “It’s easy because we genuinely like each other.” In a world of fleeting fame, theirs remains a rare story — of love, artistry, and unwavering connection both on and off the screen.

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys have long been one of Hollywood’s most quietly powerful couples — a real-life love story born on the set of The Americans. After playing married spies in the acclaimed series, the pair’s chemistry spilled off-screen, blossoming into a partnership that fans still can’t get enough of. Together since 2014, they share a son and what friends describe as an “incredible, grounded relationship built on respect and laughter.” Away from the spotlight, the Emmy-winning duo live a low-key life in New York, balancing parenthood with selective, high-quality projects — like Russell’s The Diplomat and Rhys’s Perry Mason. “We’re each other’s biggest supporters,” Russell once said. “It’s easy because we genuinely like each other.” In a world of fleeting fame, theirs remains a rare story — of love, artistry, and unwavering connection both on and off the screen. WATCH BELOW 👇👇👇

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys have long been one of Hollywood’s most quietly powerful couples — a real-life love story born on the set of The Americans. After playing married spies in the acclaimed series, the pair’s chemistry spilled off-screen, blossoming into a partnership that fans still can’t get enough of. Together since 2014, they share a son and what friends describe as an “incredible, grounded relationship built on respect and laughter.” Away from the spotlight, the Emmy-winning duo live a low-key life in New York, balancing parenthood with selective, high-quality projects — like Russell’s The Diplomat and Rhys’s Perry Mason. “We’re each other’s biggest supporters,” Russell once said. “It’s easy because we genuinely like each other.” In a world of fleeting fame, theirs remains a rare story — of love, artistry, and unwavering connection both on and off the screen.

Keri Russell is back on our TV screens in the hotly anticipated third season of Netflix’s political thriller, The Diplomat. The 49-year-old actress is a household name thanks to her stellar Hollywood career and is known for her roles in The Americans, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and more. But did you know that her other half is also a big name in the acting world? Keri is in a relationship with Welsh actor Matthew Rhys, whom she met and fell in love with on the set of The Americans, which first aired in 2013.

The A-list couple are still going strong and even welcomed a son together, Sam, in 2016. Keep reading to find out all about their life off-screen in Brooklyn, New York, below.

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Keri and Matthew began dating after starring in The Americans

Keri and Matthew’s relationship history

Keri and Matthew first started dating after the pair played husband and wife, Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, in the hit spy drama, The Americans. While they first met back in 2002, the actors reconnected on the set of the espionage series, which aired from 2013 to 2018 and followed two undercover Soviet spies in America during the Cold War in the late ’80s.

Like Keri, Matthew, 50, has starred in his fair share of major films and TV shows, but is perhaps best known for his roles in Perry Mason, The Edge of Love and, of course, The Americans, for which he earned an Emmy Award in 2018. Keri and Matthew’s romance was confirmed in 2014 after they were spotted on a date at The Public Theatre in New York City. Two years later, in May 2016, they welcomed their son, Sam.

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys on the red carpet together© Getty

Keri has praised Matthew as “an incredible partner”

Keri and Matthew’s “incredible” partnership

Keri and Matthew make a great time both in front of and behind the camera, with the California-born actress praising her other half as “an incredible partner” during an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

When quizzed on how the couple divide their household chores, the Felicity star said: “Matthew is an incredible partner in that regard. His mom and dad were both teachers. They both had big, everyday jobs and so they shared tasks really well, and they taught him that. And he is an incredible dad and helper in the way that most moms are. We have a very good, natural, unspoken thing. He usually does trash. I usually do dinner, and sometimes he’ll do the cleanup.”

The secret to Keri and Matthew’s long-lasting romance

Sharing her thoughts on the secret to a good relationship, Keri said to “give people a break”, adding it’s important to acknowledge that everyone has “bad days where you kind of miss each other”. “I just try to pay attention when I can. And getting away from kids occasionally is really important, and we try to do that,” she said.

Matthew also shared an insight into their relationship whilst chatting with People in 2017, admitting that the pair “absolutely” needed alone time after spending most of their days working together on The Americans. Praising Keri, he continued: “She has the patience of a saint, so that helps. That is basically it,” before joking: “And alcohol. The great leveler, the great equalizer. Everything is so much better after a good, solid half-bottle of red wine!”

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys hugging at the Golden Globes© CBS Photo Archive

Keri has two other children from a previous marriage

Keri’s three children

Keri and Matthew, who live in Brooklyn, New York, welcomed their son Sam in May 2016, revealing his name and sex two months later. While the couple like to keep their son out of the spotlight, Matthew previously spoke of his desire for Sam to learn the Welsh language. He told Deadline, “I only speak to him in Welsh, and he understands everything I say. He’ll always answer me in English. He’ll pepper a few words sometimes in Welsh, I think just to please me.”

Keri is also a mother to two older children from her previous marriage to Shane Deary. Her eldest son, River, was born in 2007, and her daughter Willa arrived in 2012. Opening up about motherhood, Keri previously spoke to People about personalising her parenting to each of her children. “I think it’s just different [based on] the kid. You never know,” she said in 2017. “You get what you get, and they’re all so different and wild and weird and good in their own way.”

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