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- Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead met as love interests on the set of the FX show "Fargo."
- The actors reunited for the 2020 DC Comics movie "Birds of Prey."
- They welcomed a son together named Laurie in 2021 and reportedly wed in April 2022.
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The two stars met while playing love interests on season three of the FX series "Fargo."
The third season premiered on April 19, 2017, so they likely met and filmed together sometime during the previous year.
McGregor took on dual roles on the drama series, starring as brothers Emmit Stussy and Ray Stussy. Winstead portrayed Nikki Swango, the fiancee of Ray.
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May 13, 2017: Winstead and her then-husband Riley Stearns announced they were ending their marriage.
Winstead and Stearns, who wed in 2010, revealed the split in posts that have since been deleted from Instagram, People reported.
"Sitting here with my best friend who I love with all my heart. We have spent our lives together and it has been full of joy and warmth every day. We've decided to move on from our marriage, but we will stay best friends and collaborators for all our days. We are still ride or die, just in a different way now. I love you always, Riley," Winstead captioned a photo of them, according to People.
Stearns shared a similar now-deleted post, writing: "I met Mary 15 years ago and we've been the most important people in each other's lives ever since. Those lives have been full of every emotion imaginable and we've embraced it all."
"Life is unpredictable though," he added. "While we will still be in each other's lives we will no longer be living those lives together. We still love each other very much but we're different people with different paths and different futures. I can't wait to see where we both end up. I'll always love you, Mary."
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October 22, 2017: The Sun published photos of McGregor and Winstead kissing at a cafe in West London.
"They were deep in conversation and were there together for more than an hour," an anonymous source told the publication. "As they left she got on to the back of Ewan's motorbike and they sped off together."
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October 23, 2017: People reported that McGregor and his wife Eve Mavrakis were divorcing after 22 years of marriage.
According to the publication, an anonymous family source confirmed that McGregor and Mavrakis had been separated since May.
The "Star Wars" actor and the production designer got married in 1995 and share four children, one of whom they adopted: Clare, Jamyan, Esther, and Anouk.
The following month, McGregor and Winstead were photographed holding hands in LA.
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January 7, 2018: McGregor gave Winstead a shout-out during his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes.
McGregor won the award for best performance by an actor in a limited series or a motion picture made for TV for "Fargo."
In addition to thanking Eve and his four kids, McGregor said: "There would have been no Ray without Mary Elizabeth Winstead."
January 11, 2018: McGregor and Winstead embraced after he won a Critics' Choice Award for his performance on "Fargo."
McGregor beat out stars like Robert De Niro and Evan Peters to win the award.
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January 19, 2018: TMZ reported that McGregor filed for divorce from Mavrakis.
The publication reported that McGregor asked for joint custody of their then-minor children, while Mavrakis wanted sole physical custody with the actor being given visitation rights. The actor cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for their divorce.
The pair's date of separation was also listed as May 28th, 2017, per TMZ.
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April 22, 2018: The stars were photographed arriving at an after-party for Winstead's movie at the Tribeca Film Festival.
They were seen arriving at Catch Roof in NYC for an after-party for the movie "All About Nina."
Earlier that month, they were spotted holding hands on the set of Winstead's movie "Gemini Man."
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Summer 2018: McGregor's daughter, Clara, publicly called Winstead a "piece of trash" and later said that she regretted it.
In July, Clara commented on a photo of Winstead posted by a fan account on Instagram and wrote: "Most beautiful and talented woman on Earth? Oh man y'all are delusional. The girl is a piece of trash x."
In an interview published the following month with The Times UK, the model explained why she wrote the comment.
"I kept being tagged in this photograph and I was seeing negative things about my mom," she said. "I said how I felt and I didn't want to apologize for it. It wasn't the right way to go about things, but it's a hard thing to wrap your head around when you feel you had this idea of what the family unit is and then to have that shift. It's very weird."
Clara also said that it was "incredibly surprising" to see her father and Winstead go public at the London cafe as the family was privately dealing with the split.
November 6, 2019: McGregor reportedly asked a judge to declare him and Mavrakis single before finalizing their divorce.
According to court documents obtained by People, McGregor said "that a termination of the status of our marriage at this time will assist in [the] resolution of the balance of this matter."
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February 7, 2020: "Birds of Prey" was released in theaters.
The DC Comics film starred Winstead, Margot Robbie, Jurnee Smollett, Rosie Perez, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina, and McGregor.
Winstead portrayed Helena Bertinelli/the Huntress and McGregor played a narcissistic crime lord known as Roman Sionis/Black Mask.
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June 27, 2021: McGregor's daughters revealed the birth of the couple's first child together, a baby boy named Laurie.
Clara, the actor's eldest child, posted two photos on Instagram of herself cradling the newborn. "Welcome to the world little brother," she captioned the post, adding, "congratulations to my Dad & Mary - this is the greatest gift."
Esther McGregor posted photos of herself dressed as a pirate while holding her new sibling and revealed the newborn's name.
"Met my little brother looking like a pirate. I recommend! Welcome to the family little Laurie," she wrote.
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September 19, 2021: McGregor gave Winstead and their child a shout-out during his Emmys acceptance speech.
McGregor won the award for lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie for his performance on "Halston." Before walking on stage, he and Winstead embraced.
"Mary, I love you so much," he said. "I love you so much and we'll take this home and show it to our new little boy Laurie. And to my beautiful girls who I know are watching, Clara, Jamyan, Esther, and Anouk, I said I would say hello to you too."
October 23, 2021: The couple performed a duet of Townes Van Zandt's "If I Needed You."
McGregor and Winstead played guitar and sang the song during a virtual appearance for the 2021 Go Gala.
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March 19, 2022: They coupled up for the 33rd Producers Guild Awards.
The event was held at Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California. McGregor wore a black suit with a black bow tie while Winstead wore a black tulle gown.
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April 25, 2022: McGregor and Winstead reportedly got married, according to People.
The stars reportedly wed during the weekend of April 23, 2022. An anonymous source told People that McGregor and Winstead had a small, outdoor wedding "for family and close friends."
"It was lovely and joyful," the source said. "The menu was farm-to-table. They are an adorable couple. They are pretty low-key and like their canyon life. They often hike and go to the beach."
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