Memorable '90s "it girl" Rachael Leigh Cook married Daniel Gillies in 2004 after lower than a year of dating. Here's what to find out about their courting.
With roles in movies like The Baby-Sitters Club, All I Wanna Do, and She's All That, Rachael Leigh Cook has solidified herself as a '90s icon. Since her days as a wide-eyed teenager dream, Rachael has landed roles in a slew of flicks (many being Hallmark Channel initiatives) and has even become a Netflix darling.
While Rachael has performed many love pursuits over the years, many could also be curious about her real-life love life. Here's what you wish to have to learn about her courting historical past.
Rachael Leigh Cook was married to Daniel Gillies from 2004 to 2021.
Rachael and New Zealand-Canadian actor Daniel Gillies (The Vampire Diaries) first crossed paths in an LA bar in 2003. "I was checking him out, for sure," she instructed Hallmark in their first encounter.
Things moved fast for the two Hollywood hotties, as they tied the knot in August 2004 after not up to a yr of relationship.
“We got married extremely fast,” she stated all over a 2013 interview with People. “We were given engaged after relationship for possibly five months and we were given married a couple of months after that."
During that same interview, Rachael discussed why the couple waited almost 10 years into their relationship to have kids.
“There was just so much more both of us wanted to do. We wanted to travel and accomplish a lot more in our professional lives," she admitted.
“We’re both people who like children, however we weren’t jumping up and down, like, ‘Oh my God, let’s start that chapter of our lives,’” she detailed. “We weren’t the ones kind of other folks. Now that we know what our lives are going to look like — form of — for the following couple of months, we simply felt love it was the proper time finally. We’re not getting any younger.”
Though many had been shocked it took the couple so long to construct a family, Rachael clarified that there were no regrets about the timing. Over the route of their marriage, Rachael and Daniel introduced two children into the world: a daughter named Charlotte Easton, and a son named Theodore Vigo Sullivan.
After just about 15 years of marriage, Rachael and Daniel separated in 2019.
“With deep gratitude for annually we've got spent in combination and the thousands of lovely reminiscences shared, we've got mutually made up our minds to split as a pair,” the spouses said in a public observation posted to their Instagram accounts.
“This determination isn’t one we have now come to simply or lightly. We love and admire each different as oldsters, people and artists and look forward to maintaining the most productive parts of our relationship for many years yet to come,” the observation reads.
Per courtroom documents received via People, Rachael and Daniel's divorce was finalized on March 10, 2021. The paperwork state that they "will share legal and physical custody" in their kids, and neither party will obtain spousal strengthen.
Luckily, Rachael and Daniel have discovered a silver lining over the route in their divorce: True friendship.
"We're friends now. We talk about things that we never talked about before because we have this new relationship," Rachael told Entertainment Tonight in 2020.
"He'll tell me about dates that he goes on and funny things that might have happened and we genuinely laugh about it," she continued. "I don't know. Divorce needs a new publicist. It's not that bad."
Rachael then started relationship manufacturer Kevin Mann.
Since her cut up, Rachael has reopened her center to love. When fellow actor Judy Greer (Reboot) presented Rachael to her good friend Kevin Mann, sparks flew.
"I love his perfect heart. He's magic ... He's a producer. He has incredible taste. He's the greatest guy," she told ET. "He's fine with working really hard and doing great things and he does so much for other people. And then he will watch unlimited seasons of 90 Day Fiancé with me."
The two reportedly made their courting "Instagram official" in July 2021.
Though it's not transparent whether she's nonetheless courting the Haven Entertainment co-founder in 2023, Rachael made her feelings on marriage crystal clear in October 2022.
"I am the most incorrigible full-tilt romantic you have ever met in your whole life, to the point that it's probably unreasonable," she advised People. "So yeah, totally open to that happening again."
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