30 TV Characters You Didn't Realize Were Married in Real Life

Celebrities have proven time and time again that it's more than possible to find love on the set — some actors seem to exclusively date people they've worked with, while others can't help turning an onscreen romance into the real thing. But what happens when two characters from totally different TV shows cross paths and find true love? There are a handful of high-profile pairs who also happen to be famous for their classic TV roles, and we're matching them up in a way that may surprise you. Keep reading to see them all now, then check out 14 actors who starred on two TV shows at the same time.

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Denise Huxtable and Khal Drogo
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Denise Huxtable and Khal Drogo

Lisa Bonet, who played Denise Huxtable on both The Cosby Show and A Different World from 1984 to 1991, is married to Jason Momoa, the totally ripped, incredibly sexy Khal Drogo from HBO's Game of Thrones.

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They tied the knot in 2007 and have two children together, Lola and Nakoa, as well as Bonet's daughter Zoë Kravitz from her marriage to rocker Lenny Kravitz. You can probably say that she's the moon of his life.

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Serena van der Woodsen and Michael "Berg" Bergen
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Serena van der Woodsen and Michael "Berg" Bergen

Blake Lively is best known for her role as the reformed Upper East Side party girl Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl for six seasons from 2007 to 2012. Before becoming a blockbuster film star, her now-husband Ryan Reynolds played the slightly stupid pretty boy Michael Leslie "Berg" Bergen on the ABC sitcom Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place (later titled Two Guys and a Girl) from 1998 to 2001.

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Lively and Reynolds began dating in 2011 and tied the knot in a South Carolina ceremony a year later. They welcomed their first child, daughter James, in 2014.

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Rory Gilmore and Pete Campbell
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Rory Gilmore and Pete Campbell

That's right: brainiac Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) is married to ambitious advertising executive Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser). Bledel starred on the CW show Gilmore Girls from 2000 to 2007 and will reprise her role on its Netflix reboot later this year. Kartheiser played Pete for all seven seasons of Mad Men, and in 2012, his now-wife appeared on the show as his character's mistress.

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After falling in love on the set of Mad Men, Bledel and Kartheiser began dating, and they tied the knot in a secret ceremony in June 2014.

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Seth Cohen and Blair Waldorf
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Seth Cohen and Blair Waldorf

Gossip Girl's queen bee Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) is married to everyone's favorite hipster nerd, The O.C.'s Seth Cohen (Adam Brody).

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Brody and Meester first went public with their romance in 2013, and tied the knot in a secret ceremony the following year. Their daughter, Arlo Day, was born in August 2015.

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Ronald "Mac" McDonald and Dee Reynolds
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Ronald "Mac" McDonald and Dee Reynolds

Married couple Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney both star on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but their characters, Dee and Mac, are far from romantically involved. Mac constantly calls her a "bird," and the gang is pretty sure Mac is gay anyway. Ironically, they had to work Olson's two pregnancies into the show.

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McElhenney has admitted to becoming romantically interested in Olson "around season two" of their hit FX series, and the pair got married in 2008. They have two sons together.

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Rachel Green and Kevin Garvey
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Rachel Green and Kevin Garvey

Rachel Green may have ended up with Ross Geller on Friends, but in real life, Jennifer Aniston (who portrayed the iconic character from 1994 to 2004) is married to Justin Theroux, who plays police officer and father of two Kevin Garvey on the HBO series The Leftovers.

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Aniston and Theroux were good friends before they started dating in 2011. They got engaged in August 2012 and tied the knot in a surprise ceremony at their Bel Air home two years later.

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Ron Swanson and Karen Walker
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Ron Swanson and Karen Walker

Nick Offerman cracked us up for seven seasons as the notoriously private, hilariously deadpan parks director on Parks and Recreation, and his real-life wife Megan Mullally also charmed audiences on NBC as self-absorbed gold digger Karen Walker on Will & Grace from 1998 to 2006. While their alcohol of choice is vastly different — Ron is a Scotch man, while Karen's love of vodka is unrivaled — it sort of makes sense that these two would find each other.

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Offerman and Mullally met while doing a play together in 2000. They got married in 2003 and have popped up on each other's sitcoms; Offerman guest-starred on Will & Grace during its fourth season and Mullally played Ron Swanson's ex-wife Tammy in nine episodes of Parks and Rec.

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Gloria Pritchett and Alcide Herveaux
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Gloria Pritchett and Alcide Herveaux

What would Modern Family be without the sexy, loud, over-the-top Gloria Pritchett? In real life, Gloria (played expertly by Sofia Vergara) is married to the equally sexy werewolf Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello) from HBO's True Blood.

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The couple began dating in July 2014 and wed in a stunning, star-studded Miami ceremony in November 2015.

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Andy Dwyer and Christy Plunkett
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Andy Dwyer and Christy Plunkett

Parks and Recreation's good-natured dimwit, Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt), is married to recovering alcoholic and drug addict Christy Plunkett (Anna Faris) from the CBS sitcom Mom.

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Pratt and Faris met in early 2007 while Faris was going through a divorce. They got engaged in 2008 and married the following year in a small wedding in Bali, Indonesia. Their son Jack was born in 2012, and they are easily one of our favorite celebrity couples.

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Dean Winchester and Rachel Gatina
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Dean Winchester and Rachel Gatina

Jensen Ackles has been playing the role of Dean Winchester on The CW series Supernatural for 11 seasons. He's married to Danneel Harris, who made a name for herself as One Tree Hill bad girl Rachel Gatina from 2005 to 2009.

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Ackles and Danneel were friends for seven years before falling in love and getting married in May 2010. They have one daughter, Justice Jay, who was born in 2013.

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Lily Aldrin and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
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Lily Aldrin and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

How I Met Your Mother's Lily Aldrin (played by Alyson Hannigan) is married to Alexis Denisof; Denisof is best known for portraying Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, a member of the Watchers' Council, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series, Angel.

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Denisof and Hannigan tied the knot in October 2003 after both having starred on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They have two daughters, Satyana and Keeva, and are godparents to Buffy creator Joss Whedon's son, Arden.

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Matt Saracen and Nikki Fernandez
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Matt Saracen and Nikki Fernandez

Zach Gilford played the role of Dillon Panthers quarterback Matt Saracen on NBC's Friday Night Lights from 2006 to 2011. His wife, Kiele Sanchez, is best known as Nikki Fernandez on Lost. She joined the ABC drama in its third season and was killed off after six episodes.

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Gilford and Sanchez met while filming an ABC pilot in 2010. They got engaged the following year and wed in December 2012. In August 2015, the couple announced that they were expecting a son, but sadly suffered a late-term miscarriage.

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Benjamin Linus and Arlene Fowler
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Benjamin Linus and Arlene Fowler

Michael Emerson starred as the manipulative Ben Linus on ABC's Lost from 2006 to 2010. In real life, he is married to Carrie Preston, who played waitress and single mom Arlene Fowler for all seven seasons of True Blood.

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The couple met in 1994 and married at a theater in Preston's native Georgia in 1998. Preston has popped up on two of her husband's TV shows; she played his former fiancée on the CBS drama Person of Interest, and also appeared as his character's mother in flashback scenes during Lost's third season.

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Olivia Benson and Charles Brooks
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Olivia Benson and Charles Brooks

Mariska Hargitay is best known for her portrayal of badass police detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role she's held since 1999. She met her husband Peter Hermann on the set of the NBC series; he's had a recurring role as defense attorney Trevor Langan since 2002. In 2015, he began starring as single father Charles Brooks on TV Land's Younger.

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Hermann and Hargitay got married in Santa Barbara, CA, in August 2004. Hargitay gave birth to a son, August, in 2006, and the couple adopted a daughter, Amaya, in 2011, and a son, Andrew, later that same year.

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Jenny MacArthur and Pete Eckhart
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Jenny MacArthur and Pete Eckhart

The League characters Jenny MacArthur (Katie Aselton) and Pete Eckhart (Mark Duplass) are a real-life couple, despite the fact that she plays his best friend's wife on the FX comedy.

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Aselton and Duplass got married in 2006 and have two daughters, Molly and Ora.