I honestly quite like a good old-fashioned messy start to a celebrity relationship. People are so cautious and overly PR-friendly, so it’s nice when two people who should know better end up falling in love in the middle of a shady and messy situation. So it is with Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie. They started working together on Gotham when Morena was very much married to husband Austin Chick. Soon Morena and Ben were in the midst of an affair (a rather torrid one, from the sound of it) and before Morena could even properly file for divorce, she ended up pregnant. With Ben’s baby. Morena and Austin spent more than a year fighting about money and custody of their kid together, and Morena gave birth to her second child, a little girl named Frances, last year. They also announced their engagement last fall, even though I wondered at the time if her divorce had even been finalized. I guess so, because Morena and Ben got married last Friday.
Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie are married! Seven months after getting engaged, PEOPLE has learned that the Gotham costars tied the knot on Friday — Baccarin’s 38th birthday — at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn, New York. To celebrate their nuptials, the couple, whose romance was revealed in September 2015 when they were spotted getting cozy at Emmys afterparties, was joined by family members and close friends for the small, intimate ceremony.
In March of last year, the duo welcomed their first child together: daughter Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan, now 15 months.
The Deadpool actress, who is mom to 3-year-old son Julius with estranged husband Austin Chick, said of McKenzie’s support before the pair welcomed Frances, “Ben’s the sweetest… It’s very nice to work with your significant other, especially when you’re pregnant because you know you’ll get some extra TLC and get taken care of.”
“[Being a father] is something I’ve wanted for a long time,” McKenzie, 38, told PEOPLE at the Gotham premiere ahead of his daughter’s birth in 2016. “I’m excited about all of it, poop, diapers and everything!”
Well, congrats to them. Even though they had a messy beginning, I hope they have a happy marriage. It really did seem like things just “clicked” between them and they were hellbent on being with each other no matter what. Passionate, I suppose. I wonder if that kind of passion burns out now that they’re married and she’s spending a small fortune to her ex-husband and they’re now taking care of two small kids. Hm.
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Well, congrats! You crazy kids.
Isn’t this sort of what happened with Lea Ann and Eddie?
Dear God…what a comparison! Doomed.
Haha, love this!
LeAnne never got pregnant did she?
Sometimes you have to mess around on your husband and get pregnant by another man before you find true happiness. But I love Gotham and am happy Commissioner Gordon and Val found love, here’s hoping her ex does too.
True happiness shouldn’t come at the expense of another human being forced through an earth-shattering experience, or the destruction of a family.
two other human beings. Benjamin was seriously seeing someone when he hooked up with his co-star. Wonder how the co-star who introduced him to his former girlfriend felt about him cheating on her?
If you missed my sarcasm, sorry. I agree. Was she that blindly in love that she just had to sleep with another guy before she was divorced. No class involved here.
People know literally nothing about the state Morena’s marriage was in when she and Ben started hooking up. The few things I heard are not particularly favourable towards Austin. So why assume that this was such a horrible thing to do and that the “family” is worse off now?
Sorry, but no. If you are married and find yourself being attracted to someone else than you need to either distance yourself in someway if you care about your marriage or break it off before starting with someone new. If that person is truly the love of your life that you just can’t stay away from them then they should care and respect you enough to wait while you deal with your situation.
+1
Right? Like she obviously did not care about her husband.
I hope for the sake of their daughter that their marriage will be a happy, lasting one.
Congrats to them! This is why I don’t believe most gay rumors about people, there have been so many rumors about Ben McKenzie over the years because he’s low key and wants to have a private life and then he ends up getting married and having a kid within a year! Messy but fun! I hate the Stan communities that want their celebrities to be gay at any prize or against any common sense
Messy but fun! I bet the 3-year-old moved across the country away from his father just had an absolute ball!
I’ll bet it was tons of fun for the woman involved with McKenzie, too.
Messy. But does the ex even see the kid anymore? Last I knew he refused to stay in a NYC apartment that Morena was paying for because he wanted to difficult rather than make things easier for the child.