Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig are married after more than 10 years together

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have tied the knot. The "Barbie" co-writers were married at New York City Hall on Dec. 19, Gerwig's reps confirmed to NBC News. The longtime couple and collaborators share two sons.

The power couple both started their careers in independent film. Gerwig was part of the “Mumblecore” movement of indie film in the 2000s, writing and starring in “Hannah Takes the Stairs” (2007) and writing, co-directing and starring in “Nights and Weekends” (2008). Baumbach earned acclaim for writing and directing the lower budget films “Kicking and Screaming” (1995) and “The Squid and the Whale” (2005), which earned him an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay.

While they’ve become frequent collaborators since they first met on the set of Baumbach’s “Greenberg” in 2009, the pair rarely discusses their relationship. During a joint interview in 2019, The Hollywood Reporter noted how they would “deflect” relationship questions. But the actors who’ve worked with them tell the truth.

“They work so beautifully together, even when their work is separate,” Laura Dern, who starred in Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” and Gerwig’s “Little Women,” both from 2019, told The Hollywood Reporter. “With Greta and Noah, you can’t separate out the impact and influence (they have on each other) and how it impacts their individual work.”

Ben Stiller, who’s collaborated with Baumbach and Gerwig on “Greenberg” (2010); and Baumbach solo on “While We’re Young” (2014) and “The Meyerowitz Stories” (2017), also finds them intriguing. “I’m fascinated with them as a couple, that they’re able to find a way to have a family and to make their own movies and to do it all at the same time,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “Pretty incredible.”

And so in honor of the pair’s recent nuptials — and the fact that there’s a good chance that they could both score Oscar nominations for “Barbie” in 2024 (they co-wrote the film; Gerwig directed), let’s look back at how this particular relationship developed over the years.

2009: Baumbach and Gerwig meet on the set of his film 'Greenberg'

Though Baumbach and Gerwig didn’t officially connect until she was co-starring in “Greenberg,” he’d had his eye on her for a while. According to New York Magazine, Baumbach spotted her in “Hannah” and referred his agent to her. Baumbach’s agent signed her, then recommended Gerwig audition for “Greenberg,” which Baumbach was co-writing and directing. She was 26 and landed the job, playing a personal assistant in the film — alongside star and co-writer Jennifer Jason Leigh, who was then married (but separated from, according to The Los Angeles Times) to Baumbach. To prepare for the role, Gerwig worked for Leigh’s mother — a screenwriter — as a personal assistant.

“I didn’t really notice anything,” Stiller told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 about working alongside both of them. “She was kind of doing what she did and Noah was responding to it the same way he would respond to other actresses.”

2011-2012: The couple begin making 'Frances Ha' — and start dating

Leigh filed for divorce in November 2010 after five years of marriage; the divorce was finalized in 2013. They share a son, Rohmer, born in 2010.

In that span of time, Baumbach and Gerwig began collaborating on 2012’s “Frances Ha!” — a quirky black-and-white comedy that they co-wrote, she starred in, and he directed.

But as Baumbach told The Guardian in 2013, they weren’t actually together … yet.

“I’ve always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with,” he said. “I’d worked with Greta on ‘Greenberg’ when we weren’t together and had a great time, so that was already taken care of. But actually, when we started the script for Frances we weren’t together either. So in a way, the other thing came from liking each other and liking working together.”

He also told The Guardian that Gerwig took the lead in “Frances” on camera and as inspiration. “Things were clear to me in large part because of knowing Greta. And it became clear to me that I was motivated by a desire to protect this character. I wanted the movie to be as buoyant as she is.”

Gerwig earned a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a musical or comedy for her role.

2015-2018: More collaborations, then Gerwig directs 'Lady Bird' solo

A slew of projects came their way, sometimes independently, sometimes together, and not all landed. Gerwig co-starred in a proposed adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” for HBO that Baumbach was working on in 2012 with Scott Rudin, but the show failed to be picked up, as Deadline reported.

They united again behind the cameras for “Mistress America” in 2015, with shared writing credits, Baumbach directing and Gerwig starring.

In 2017, Gerwig made her directorial debut with “Lady Bird,” starring Saoirse Ronan. Though Baumbach got a “thanks” in the credits, she was the sole writer and director on the film, which was nominated for five Oscars, including directing and writing nominations for Gerwig. She won the Golden Globe for best picture, musical or comedy.

Did her relationship with Baumbach help open doors for Gerwig? She admitted as much to Vogue in 2020. “Yes, of course, for so many reasons,” she said. “He’s also this incredibly important collaborator and influence on me. The most important. But I think I was hell-bent on making my own films, so I would’ve done it anyway.”

2019-2020: 'Little Women', 'A Marriage Story' and becoming parents

Baumbach and Gerwig actually had three major productions in 2019, including one very special one: Gerwig gave birth to their first child, Harold Ralph Gerwig Baumbach.

As she told Vogue a few months later, Harold was born just a day after she’d turned in her rough cut of “Little Women,” which she’d written and directed.

“I knew that as soon as I did that, some part of me would relax and then the baby would come,” she told the magazine.

She mused on motherhood to Elle, saying, “Babies are in a hallucination the whole time and when they make eye contact with you, there’s this kind of joy — ‘Oh my God, someone else is in here, too!’ — and then they go away again into their hallucinatory world. That’s pretty interesting to be around. He’s a good little baby — I could look at his face all day.”

Meanwhile, Baumbach was making “Marriage Story,” a film rumored to have been inspired by his relationship with ex Leigh, something he disputes.

“It’s not autobiographical,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. “It’s personal. A David Lynch movie is the most personal filmmaking I could ever imagine. But nobody asks him if those things actually happened to him. It’s all him. It’s all his expression.”

“Little Women” earned six Oscar nominations and won one, for costume design; “Marriage Story” also earned six Oscar nominations and won one for Dern, as a supporting actress. The fact that the now-established power couple were up for a combined 12 awards — but for different films — led to some sweet stories, like the one The Hollywood Reporter shared of the pair going to the Governors Awards, but being sat at different tables.

“They’re asking me, ‘Who do you want your plus one to be?’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Oh, Greta’s over at the Sony table?’ We just hoped we were close enough that we could reach over to each other,” said Baumbach.

In January 2020, the couple joined James Corden on “The Late Late Show” and revealed that they didn’t know what to call one another. “‘Boyfriend’ makes it sound like I just met him last week,” said Gerwig. “‘Lover’ is disgusting. And ‘fiancé’ makes it sound like there’s an imminent wedding. So none of it works.”

2022-2023: Just a “Barbie” girl — and a mom for the second time

After revealing that she was pregnant with baby No. 2 on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in December 2022 (“Yes, I am with child,” she told the host), and showing off her baby bump at a screening for Baumbach's “White Noise” in November, Gerwig gave birth in early 2023 to another son. The boy’s name has not yet been made public.

“He’s a little Schmoo,” Gerwig told Elle UK in July. “I don’t know if you can tell energy from the picture, but that’s very much his energy. He’s a wise little baby.”

But that wasn’t the only release Baumbach and Gerwig had together: They co-wrote the hugely-successful “Barbie,” which has since earned over 1.4 billion in U.S. box office. And this time, the director was Gerwig herself.

At first, Baumbach thought the idea of the film was a “terrible idea,” but let Gerwig sign him up, Variety reported in October.

“Then it was the most fun I think either of us have ever had, right? And then at a certain point, I was like, ‘I think this is the best thing we’ve ever written.’ I know enough always just to follow what Greta says, so even in my bellyaching and revolting, I kind of knew, ‘Well if she really believes it, then there’s something there.’”

2023: They got married

To wrap up the year in which they may just have had the “most fun” ever, the two collaborators tied the knot at City Hall in New York City on Dec. 19.

Baumbach, in 2020, summarized their collaborative relationship, where work and life are blended.

“The pleasure of writing for us is that it seeps into everything,” Baumbach told Vogue in 2020. “I’d show her a cut of my movie, and then a few months later, I’m watching her movie. I don’t want to sound sickeningly happy, but it’s a truly great thing to watch someone you love make something and love the thing they make. I don’t know how else to say it without saying ‘great’ a lot.”

This article was originally published on TODAY.com