While characters in Succession aren’t great at maintaining healthy relationships on-screen, many of the actors have happy, long-lasting romances off-screen.
No one on Succession appears to be in a happy relationship, but luckily the cast are happily married. Many of the award-winning cast members of the HBO show are in long-term relationships with people in the entertainment industry.
Here is everything you need to know about the dating history of the cast of Succession.
9 Brian Cox's German Actress Wife
Brian Cox has been married to actress and yoga instructor Nicole Ansar-Cox since 2002. They share sons Orson and Torin. Previously, the Scottish Logan Roy actor was married to Caroline Burt from 1968 to 1986, and they share a daughter Margaret and a son Alan.
Ansar is a German-born actress who has had small roles in Deadwood, Law and Order and Remember Me. The couple met in 1990, when she was 21 and he was 44. She and Cox were introduced when the play was running in Hamburg, Germany. “I met Brian at a party and there was just an instant connection – It was like meeting a soulmate. He understood me. We were just talking, talking, talking.” They would not start dating until 1998.
She told The Herald that in 2001, when Cox was shooting a movie in Texas, she flew to the United States to talk to him about breaking up. “I had been working since I was 12 years old. I had to make a decision whether I wanted to live like that – as the wife of a famous actor, the wifey basically.”
The couple married in Las Vegas in 2002 and then renewed their vows in 2006 with a celebration at Birkhill Castle in Scotland.
8 Kieran Culkin's Famous Exes Before Meeting His Wife
Although Kieran Culkin has been married to French-British Jazz Charton since 2013, with whom he shares two young children, he has quite a famous dating history.
Culkin, who plays Roman Roy in Succession, dated Anna Paquin when they starred in the Off-Broadway play After Ashley in 2005. He then dated Paper Man costar Emma Stone in 2010. He was also linked to Scarlett Johansson.
Culkin told The Hollywood Reporter that his wife was working in the music department of an ad agency when they met. "I said, 'I'm Kieran. You have an English accent. What's your name?' " he recounted. "She said, 'Jazz.' I said, 'J-A-Z-Z, like the music?' And she said, 'Yeah.' And I said, 'Well, that's f****** stupid.' " The pair eloped in 2013.
7 Nicholas Braun Is A Known Playboy
If you’re a regular reader of Deux Moi’s weekly Sunday Spottings on Instagram, you are sure to have read about Cousin Greg himself, Nicholas Braun. He can regularly be found in bar Ray’s which he owns with Justin Theroux in the Lower East Side of New York City or generally around New York with a range of pretty ladies.
The 34-year-old is hoping that one day that he will find The One but he is worried finding love. In an interview with The New York Times, he says he’s “fascinated by romance and courting another human,” but it’s because he hasn’t really been in a long-term relationship, ever.” He briefly dated artist Camilla Engstrom, who appeared in the music video for his 2020 single "Antibodies."
The Sky High actor added, “I do yearn for it and yet I’m incapable of it. I go toward it and then I hit a wall where I’m like, I can’t go farther into this. I’ve got to exit. I do believe it’ll happen at the right time with the right person. Until then, it’s fun to meet people and see what works.”
6 Jeremy Strong's Child Psychiatrist Partner
The Emmy nominee met child psychiatrist Emma Wall during a party being thrown during 2012's Hurricane Sandy in New York City. Wall, a Denmark-born documentary director, married Jeremy Strong in 2016.
“He does a really good job of maintaining what he’s doing but also creating a space for the family and a normal life," she told The New Yorker of her husband in a December 2021 profile. Wall recently worked in the Los Angeles foster care system and as a clinician and educator at UCLA.
"My life has changed a lot in the sense that there's some sort of stable center," the actor told GQ in 2019. "I never had that before — I was always just kind of a transient and work was the only thing. And that feels different now, in a very good way. There's something to come home to." They couple split their time between New York and Denmark.
5 Sarah Snook Married Her Best Friend During The Pandemic
Australian actress Sarah Snook married her best friend, comedian Dave Lawdon during the global Covid-19 pandemic. The 34-year-old recently revealed she was expecting her first child during the season 4 Succession premiere.
“At the beginning of the pandemic last year, I got locked down in Melbourne with one of my best mates and we fell in love,” the Shiv actress told Vogue Australia in October 2021. “We’ve been friends since 2014, lived together, travelled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic. We’ve just never been single at the same time. I proposed and we got married in February in my backyard.”
4 Matthew Macfayden's Famous Acting Wife
Matthew Macfayden, who plays Tom on Succession, is married to fellow actress Keely Hawes. The pair recently starred in the British drama Stonehouse together.
They started dating 2002 after meeting on the set of Spooks and married in November 2004. The couple share two children, Maggie and Ralph, while Macfadyen is also stepfather to Myles, who is Hawes' son from a past relationship.
There was some controversy to the start of their relationship as Hawes had only just married cartoon designer Spencer McCallum and Macfayden was dating actor Surita Chowdry.
“You have to work at it,” she told You magazine in May 2019, when speaking about her relationship with Macfadyen. “We still fill up the dishwasher and put a wash on — that’s life — but you also have to make the effort to be romantic. When life takes over, going out to dinner together isn’t top of your list, but before you know it, the children are older and around less and you’re sort of back together again. I couldn’t love him more. It helps that he’s the nicest man in the world.”
3 Alan Ruck's TV Star Wife Who Gave Him "Second Wind"
Alan Ruck, who plays Connor Roy on Succession, was married to Claudia Stefany from 1984 to 2005, and the exes share two kids, a daughter Emma and a son Sam.
The Ferris Bueller's Day Off star married actress Mireille Enos in 2008. They welcomed daughter Vesper in 2010 and son Larkin in 2014.
Ruck recently joked that the unexpected role in Succession came after a "second wind" in his career from marrying The Killing star Mireille Enos in 2008.
"I had some craters, but I was definitely on an upswing," he said before joking about his marriage to Enos. "But I was definitely on an upswing. I kind of coat-tailed on my wife when we first got together."
When the couple met during rehearsals for a play in New York City, “Alan walked in the door and my brain said, ‘Oh, there he is,’ ” explained World War Z star Enos. “It was a moment of recognition of some other person who was going to change my life.”
2 J Smith Cameron's Oscar-Winning Husband
J Smith-Cameron is married to playwright, screenwriter, and film director Kenneth Lonergan. He wrote and directed Margaret and won an Oscar for writing Manchester By The Sea. They married in 2000 after meeting during a New York theatre show when she was intrigued by his play.
"Then I passed him in a stairwell, and he was carrying his bike," The Gerri Kellman actress explained. "I said, 'Your play reminds me of a William Inge play or something.'" When Lonergan said he didn't know who Inge was, Smith-Cameron asked him if he went to college, a question that was met with a resounding, "'Yes!'" to which Smith-Cameron replied, "Well, I didn't, and I know who William Inge is!" the actress recalled. As she put it, it was like something "right out of a Preston Sturges film."
The couple have a daughter Nellie, who is now in her early 20s. Smith was previously briefly married to Nick Bakey, who voices Salem in Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
1 Dagmara Domińczyk Also Married To Fellow Actor
Dagmara, who plays Waystar Royco's head of PR Karolina Novotney on Succession, is married to Aquaman actor Patrick Wilson.
The couple wed 2005 and welcomed son Kalin in 2006 and son Kassian in 2009. The couple met while overlapping as drama majors at Carnegie Mellon University,