"They're On The Ride for life!" Aly Michalka, of the duo Aly & AJ, is married to Stephen Ringer. While most people are familiar with the sisters/musical duo they may not know who her husband is.
Aly has been in the entertainment/music industry since 2004, so most people are familiar with her and her sister. However, her husband is a director, so he is mostly behind the scenes, but unlike Stephen Spielberg or Martin Scorsese, he is not as popular.
The couple tends to live a pretty private life, even though they are both famous. Ringer is so private in fact that his Instagram feed is just filled with photos of others and scenery, including his wife and sister-in-law. Not too much is known about him, so we figured we would compile what we do know all into one place.
Here's what we know about Aly Michalka's husband, Stephen Ringer.
6 Stephen Ringer's Early Life
Stephen Ringer was born on December 12, 1984, in Dallas, Texas, which makes him 37 years old. Not too much is known about his childhood. However, Aly has tagged photos of him with his mother's account, and we know her name is Kitty Ringer. Before he became a cinematographer/director/producer, Ringer was a photojournalist, gaffer and camera seeker.
5 Stephen Ringer's Relationship With Aly Michalka
In 2013, Ringer and Michalka began dating after meeting on the set of Sequoia. Just about a year later, they got engaged in July in California. The couple had a very small and private wedding in Italy in 2015. Michalka wore a lavender gown and of course, her sister, was her maid of honor. This year will mark nine years since Ringer and Michalka have been together and seven years since they've been married. They do not have any children. If it wasn't for Aly's Instagram, fans might not ever get an update.
4 Stephen Ringer's Career
Stephen Ringer is a cinematographer, director and producer. Ringer directed Aly & AJ's 78Violet music video for "Hothouse." Most recently, he directed the music video for their latest single, "Dead on the Beach." As for producing. Ringer was behind the short film, The Films of Avi Krum, Sequoia and Weepah Way for Now, which star Aly and AJ Michalka. He has been the cinematographer on other projects and the director on Leighton Meester's "Heartstings" video. Ringer has been behind most of the recent videos that Aly & AJ have released recently. His career began in 2009 when he began making independent short films.
3 Stephen Ringer's Social Media
One way that Stephen Ringer and Aly Michalka keep their relationship private is by Ringer not being very active on social media. He goes by the username @auhasardspr and has not tweeted since 2014. His Instagram handle is the same, and while he is more active on there, there are not any pictures of him. It is all photos he has taken of Aly, AJ, people he has worked with, landscapes and promoting his latest project. There isn't even a bio.
2 Stephen Ringer's Work On 'Weepah Way For Now'
Ringer's biggest work was the 2015 film, Weepah Way For Now. The film, which starred Aly & AJ, was directed and written by Ringer and was about "two sisters on the cusp of adulthood experience stress about throwing a going away party," according to IMDb. The film was nominated for an LA Muse Award at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival. However, it did not win.
1 Ringer's On Work On Independent Films
During an interview with Final Draft, Ringer weighed in on how it can be hard to produce independent films because of the budget. "It's really important to have a script that has elements in it that will appeal to people. We saw finding funding as a way to test whether or not the film would find an audience because if you can convince people to fund the movie, then you can convince people to watch it. If no one wants to put money into it, it's also an indication that you may struggle to find an audience. Aly and AJ already have an audience because they have fans, but we also knew that their relationship and chemistry is so electric that if you could just get it on screen, people would relate to it," he said.