Morena Baccarin & Ben Mckenzie got married very quietly in NYC last week
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.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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