Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are a power couple whose relationship timeline stretches
across almost a decade.
The pair have managed to keep their personal lives relatively secret and shielded from
the public eye.
Together, they've used the intricacies of their own love story in films for the world
to see.
From collaborating on films to falling in love, Greta and Noah have proven that they’re
the ultimate Hollywood duo.
So sit back while we take a deep dive into their love story and their growing family.
Greta and Noah first met on the set of his film 'Greenberg' back in 2010.
Baumbach cast Gerwig alongside his wife at the time, Jennifer Jason Leigh.
He and Jennifer had been married for five years around this time and had also welcomed
their first child, a son named Rohmer, just before the release of the film.
While it may not have been love at first sight when Greta and Noah met, they certainly connected
on their love for filmmaking.
Unfortunately, Noah and Jennifer went on to get divorced in 2013 after eight years of
marriage.
Soon after his split, Greta and Noah took their friendship to the next level and started
dating.
However, they kept their budding relationship pretty private because they didn't want anyone
to get the idea that she played some part in his divorce.
A source shared, "Baumbach and Gerwig firmly place the start of their romance at a point
after his separation."
'Frances Ha' was the first film the couple collaborated on, and it wouldn't be their
last either.
Noah directed and co-wrote the film, while Greta co-wrote and starred
in it.
At the time, they neither confirmed nor denied an existing relationship.
However, in an interview with The New Yorker, Baumbach did let his admiration for Gerwig
slip, comparing her to cinematic icons of Hollywood's golden age.
He gushed, "Greta has old studio-system chops."
Of his creative partnership with Gerwig, Baumbach gushed, "What I didn't know is that Greta
was this incredible writer, I mean, I had a feeling she'd be a great collaborator, but
that writing really was kind of her thing when she was in college, and so I really lucked
out.
It was amazing."
The pair continued to work together.
After 'Frances Ha' came 'Mistress America' in 2015, which was co-written by the couple.
After several collaborations, it was clear that Greta and Noah showed a real admiration
for one another in interviews.
Baumbach shared, "Greta's one of the funniest people I'd ever met, both as an actor and
a person, and she also has this incredible vulnerability."
They finally confirmed their relationship with the public in 2019 when the couple stepped
out holding hands together at the 2019 Oscars and Golden Globes.
Gerwig's film 'Lady Bird' was a front-runner nominated for multiple awards at both ceremonies.
When Lady Bird won Best Comedy at the Globes, Gerwig, during her acceptance speech, did
something we can all relate to.
She forgot to thank her boyfriend.
Greta confessed, "I had an entire speech that I was going to give, and I got up there, and
none of it came out.
I looked at Oprah, and I was like, 'It's gone!'…I had a whole thing about him.
He's my favorite writer and my favorite first reader."
While they've kept most of their relationship out of the public eye, the couple gave a rare
insight into their home life and how they help each other with their work.
Baumbach shared, "I don't want to sound sickeningly happy, but it's a truly great thing to watch
someone you love make something and love the thing they make.
I don't know how else to say it without saying 'great' a lot."
Over the course of Greta's relationship with Baumbach, Gerwig has gone from an actress
to a co-writer to an acclaimed director.
Baumbach has been by her side for most of these changes, but he does not take credit
for any of her accomplishments.
Greta is also very aware of all the hard work she's put in for her own career.
Though Gerwig explained that Baumbach has been "the most important" collaborator in
her life, she knows she would have created movies on her own, anyway.
She said, "I'm lucky to find collaborators and kindred spirits.
But I don't need a man, and I would have done it anyway."
After almost a decade of silently strengthening their bond as one of Hollywood's most enduring
couples, in 2019, Greta and Noah welcomed their first child together, a son they named
Harold Ralph Gerwig.
Gerwig shared that she "gave him all the names."
Greta graced the cover of December Vogue that year, cradling six-month-old Harold.
She opened up about having to keep her pregnancy a secret while filming 'Little Women.'
In her interview with the magazine, she revealed that she actually gave birth to Harold twenty-four
hours after turning in her rough cut of the film.
She shared, "I knew that as soon as I did that, some part of me would relax, and then
the baby would come."
For Gerwig, she felt like there was a definite overlap between having a child and making
a movie.
She expressed, "That feeling of forever being under qualified and kind of awed by the thing."
After being together for almost ten years, the couple revealed that they call themselves
husband and wife, even though a wedding has not officially taken place.
Greta shared, "'Boyfriend' makes it sound like I just met him last week.
'Lover' is disgusting.
And 'fiancé' makes it sound like there's an imminent wedding.
So none of it works."
So while they consider themselves 'husband and wife,' there are no plans for a wedding
just yet.
In 2020, Gerwig's film 'Little Women' and Baumbach's film 'Marriage Story' were both
nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Although they've both collaborated on films numerous times, and they had always given
each other support during their working process, Greta admitted that she couldn't bring herself
to vote for Baumbach's "Marriage Story" as Best Picture — at least not while her film
"Little Women" was nominated in the same category.
She confessed, "It's very funny, but we did actually vote for ourselves.
We were at our computers, and I was like, 'Just, so you know, I'm going to vote for
myself,' and he said, 'OK, I'm going to vote for myself, too.'"
Baumbach admitted that the 2020 Oscars night results were "easier" because both films lost
out on Best Picture.
He shared, "We could celebrate that together."
Naturally, there is some form of friendly competition between the pair since they work
in the same industry, but it never crosses the line of jealousy or resentment over either
of their successes.
Noah and Greta have always been supportive of one another's work and have been there
to give their insight and opinion when asked for it.
Most importantly, they're proud of their partner's achievements.
They prefer to collaborate and not compete with each other.
Baumbach shared, "I've been in a ton of therapy.
If I show her something I'm writing, or I show her a cut or something I'm working on
that she's not directly involved in, the highest compliment she pays is, she says, 'I'm jealous.'
Maybe if I was 25 and met her, I wouldn't have been able to handle it."
The duo worked together once more on Netflix's 'White Noise,' written and directed by Baumbach,
with Gerwig starring opposite Adam Driver.
And Gerwig offered directorial advice "once on the set," saying of Baumbach, "He's incredibly
open to suggestion.
The truth is, I think if I had wanted to sit there all day, every day, even when I wasn't
on the set, he'd be happy to ask what I thought of every shot."
Laura Dern, who is close to the couple and appeared in both 'Marriage Story' and 'Little
Women,' gave The Hollywood Reporter a glimpse of their relationship.
Dern said, "They work so beautifully together, even when their work is separate.
With Greta and Noah, you can't separate out the impact and influence [they have on each
other] and how it impacts their individual work."
In December 2022, the couple announced the exciting news that they would be expecting
their second child together.
During The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Greta confirmed that she's pregnant for the
second time.
Gerwig opened up about motherhood, joking, "Babies are in a hallucination the whole time,
and when they make eye contact with you, there's this kind of joy – Oh my God, someone else
is in here, too!
– and then they go away again into their hallucinatory world.
That's pretty interesting to be around."
She went on to gush about their firstborn, Harold, "He's a good little baby – I could
look at his face all day."
Though Gerwig hasn't revealed any more details about her second child, including her due
date, she did share her son Harold's thoughts on becoming a big brother.
"It's hard to know what a three-year-old makes of things that aren't existent yet in front
of him," Gerwig admitted.
"He's beautifully sophisticated in some ways, and then in other ways; he asks, 'What language
do they speak in New Jersey?'"
While they prefer to keep their romance under the radar, it's pretty clear that Noah and
Greta are one of Hollywood's most underrated power couples.
Not only are their collaborations as filmmakers incredible, but their partnership in life
is clearly one for the books.
They've maintained respect and admiration for one another throughout their decade together,
and we're sure that will never stop.
We're so happy that Greta and Noah found love, and we're super excited about their growing
family.
We wish them only the best!