Celebrity Couples Who Had to Work Together After Calling It Quits — Including One Marriage That Fell Apart In Just 5 Months
These celebrity couples had to work with one another again following their split.
Aug. 20 2025, Published 8:30 p.m. ET
They may have broken up after being in love, but that did not stop these former lovebirds from crossing paths once again.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the celebrity couples who found themselves working together despite the end of their relationship.
Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen were married for a decade.
More than three decades after their split, Malcolm McDowell, 82, and Mary Steenburgen, 72, who were married for 10 years, teamed up for the Western Last Train to Fortune, and it was like no time had passed.
"From the first moment we started rehearsing, it was like putting on a pair of comfortable slippers," Malcolm said, adding, "We're both now with other partners and very happy."
She's been married to Ted Danson since 1995, while he married Kelley Kuhr in 1991. The exes share two actor kids, Lilly and Charlie.
Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki
Kaley Cuoco 'crushed' on Johnny Galecki while on 'The Big Bang Theory.'
Kaley Cuoco, 39, admitted to "crushing so hard" on Johnny Galecki, 50, from the very start of their hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory, but the pair didn't get together until 2008.
After their 2010 split, their characters continued to date, and even married, which would have been awkward if the two weren't such good pals.
"Luckily, Johnny and I came out of it so brilliantly and we're closer today than we ever were," Cuoco confirmed.
Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult
Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult worked together on the 'X-Men' franchise.
Jennifer Lawrence was bereft when her five-year relationship with her X-Men costar Nicholas Hoult, 35, ended during X-Men: Days of Future Past, while the superhero series kept on going.
"My life was this person and these movies, and we broke up around the same time that I wrapped those movies," Lawrence, 34, later said. "Being 24 was this whole year of, 'Who am I without these movies? Who am I without this man?'"
Jennifer Aniston and Tate Donovan
Tate Donovan appeared on 'Friends' in 1998.
The 61-year-old was still dating Jennifer Aniston, 56, in real life when he played Rachel's love interest for five episodes of Friends in 1998.
"The only bummer was Jennifer and I were breaking up at the time," Tate Donovan later said. "And so that was tricky to sort of act, and act like we are just meeting each other and falling in love, or whatever, interested in each other when we're sort of breaking up. That was just tough."
Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray
The pair's marriage only lasted a few months.
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Sophia Bush was angry about how producers sensationalized her marriage to her One Tree Hill costar Chad Michael Murray, 43, which ended after just a few months in 2006 (the show continued until 2012).
"They ran TV ads about it," the 42-year-old later griped. "It was really ugly. They made a practice of taking advantage of people's personal lives... and they would end up in storylines. It wasn't OK."
Florence Pugh and Zach Braff
Florence Pugh and Zach Braff had to promote a movie together following their split.
After making A Good Person together, the couple of three years split, but still had to smile on the red carpet to promote the 2023 flick.
While Florence Pugh, 29, admitted to getting "a lumpy throat" talking about the breakup, Zach Braff, 50, was nothing if not a gentleman about his ex, saying he was "just in awe of her talent," and he even spent time with her family.
