Inside Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman’s Headline-Making Marriage and Divorce

In 2008, Hawke remarried—this time tying the knot with his family’s former nanny Ryan Shawhughes. Though he was careful to note that their romance (the two have since welcomed daughters Clementine Hawke, 17, and Indiana Hawke, 14) didn’t start dating until a year after he and Thurman split.

“I know people imagine some kind of Sound Of Music type love affair,” Hawke told The Guardian in 2009, “but the truth is by the time Ryan and I were falling in love, it had been a long while since I had employed her.”

Thurman grew her family as well, adding daughter Luna Thurman-Busson, now 13, during her relationship with former fiancé Arpad Busson, which ended in 2014. 

And while the tabloids have had plenty to say about her and Hawke’s marriage, the Oscar nominees have made a point not to speak ill of each other.

“She’s my children’s mother,” he told People in 2006. “You have to keep that above anything else. If you bring two people into the world together, that supersedes anything else.”

To see more stars who struck up a romance on set, keep reading.