Meet the Real-Life Loves of the “Only Murders in the Building” Season 4 Cast
Get to know the partners of all the Hulu series' season 4 stars, including Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Tina Fey
Many of the characters on Only Murders in the Building may be unlucky in love, but many of their real-life counterparts have cracked the mystery on lasting relationships.
The Emmy-winning series, which premieres its fourth season on Aug. 31, 2024, features Selena Gomez as Mabel, Steve Martin as Charles and Martin Short as Oliver. The sleuthing trio collaborate to solve murders throughout the series, all while managing their interpersonal and private lives.
The Hulu series is not short on romantic plotlines. Mabel has had three love interests, including Cara Delevingne’s Alice Banks in season 2, while Oliver romances Meryl Streep’s Loretta Durkin in season 3.
Off-screen, many of the actors are in fulfilling long-term relationships. Read on to learn all about the real-life partners of the Only Murders in the Building season 4 cast members.
Selena Gomez's Boyfriend, Benny Blanco
Selena Gomez is blissfully happy with producer and songwriter Benny Blanco.
The Rare singer confirmed her relationship with Blanco in December 2023 by liking Instagram posts speculating that the two were dating. Blanco and Gomez had been together for six months, and to her fans questioning the relationship, she fired back, “If you actually care about me. This is my happiest. If you don't feel free to say whatever you want. But I will never allow your words to guide my life. Ever. I'm done. If you can't accept me at my happiest then don't be in my life at all."
At the 2024 Primetime Emmys in January, the couple made their award show debut and were photographed being lovey-dovey in their seats.
While on The Howard Stern Show in May, Blanco told the radio jockey that he could envision marriage to Gomez but hadn’t purchased a ring. He called her his “best friend” and couldn’t imagine a world “where it could be better than this.”
Gomez, celebrating her 32nd birthday on July 22, 2024, shared a sweet photo of the pair on her Instagram Stories with the caption, “Love of my life.”
Steve Martin's Wife, Anne Stringfield
Steve Martin and his wife Anne Stringfield have been married since 2007.
The couple met in the mid-2000s while Stringfield worked as a fact-checker for The New Yorker. She first got in touch with Martin, who regularly contributed to the magazine’s Shouts & Murmurs section, while checking one of his pieces. The actor told AARP in 2017 that he talked to Stringfield over the phone for a year before they ever met face-to-face.
On July 28, 2007, Martin and Stringfield wed at their L.A. home in front of 75 guests, including Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton and best man Lorne Michaels. Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, a friend of Martin, officiated the ceremony.
In 2012, they welcomed a daughter named Mary. At the Governors Awards the next year, Martin said in his honorary award speech, “My wife alone would have been enough reward for my life … but now she's brought me a wonderful child.”
Stringfield has never walked a red carpet with her husband but has accompanied him to a few industry events like Vanity Fair’s 2013 and 2015 Oscar parties and the 2021 American Museum of Natural History Gala.
Tina Fey's Husband, Jeff Richmond
Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond are a Hollywood power couple.
The comedienne, who plays true crime podcast host Cinda Canning in Only Murders, met pianist Richmond when she joined Chicago’s Second City improv theater troupe in the mid-'90s. Two years later, they began dating; Richmond proposed to Fey while they were vacationing on Lake Michigan, toasting the occasion with champagne and a ring.
Of the proposal, Fey told PEOPLE in 2004, “My husband always said, 'If I'd known so many people would ask me how I proposed, I would have done it in some more theatrical way.' “
They wed in a 2001 Greek Orthodox ceremony and moved from Chicago to N.Y.C. to further their careers. Richmond has composed music for several of Fey’s high-profile projects, including 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the Mean Girls musical.
Fey and Richmond share two daughters: Alice, born in 2005, and Penelope, born in 2011.
Jane Lynch's Wife, Jennifer Cheyne
Jane Lynch married her longtime love Jennifer Cheyne in 2021.
Lynch, who portrays Charles’ body double Sazz Pataki, dated Cheyne for a few years in the early 2000s and rekindled their relationship a decade later.
“[We] fell back together so easily and lovingly," Lynch told Parade in 2019. "We’re very different people now — we don’t have the same insecurities we used to have.”
The Glee alumna opened up about her relationship to PEOPLE in 2020, explaining why Cheyne makes her “thankful all day long.”
“She figures out how to deal with [everything]," said Lynch. “ That's the greatest thing about her, because I get overwhelmed, and I have no patience with details. She's very methodical and she takes things very slowly."
Michael Cyril Creighton's Husband, Brian Mullan
It’s been 20 years since Michael Cyril Creighton and Brian Mullan began dating.
The actor, who plays the lead trio’s cat-loving neighbor Howard, went on his first date with Mullan on May 14, 2004, and married him on the same day 12 years later. In an Instagram tribute to his husband for their 19th anniversary, Creighton wrote, “I am so glad I sent that Friendster message and then stalked him and convinced him to go on a date. … Thank goodness for you. Truly.”
Zach Galifianakis' Wife, Quinn Lundberg
Zach Galifianakis, who plays himself in season 4, wed philanthropist Quinn Lundberg in a 2012 private ceremony on a farm in Vancouver, Canada.
The Hangover star has kept his family life private, only offering the occasional tidbit about his longtime partner. In a 2011 cover story for Rolling Stone, he called Lundberg “the coolest.”
The pair share two sons, born in 2013 and 2016. When their eldest was born, Galifianakis skipped the Toronto Film Festival premiere of his film You Are Here to meet their new arrival.
Eva Longoria's Husband, José Bastón
Eva Longoria, who plays a version of herself playing a version of Selena Gomez's character when the podcast goes to Hollywood, has been married to Mexican businessman José Bastón for nearly a decade.
When they first met through a mutual friend in 2013, the TV executive didn't know who she was, as he had never seen an episode of Desperate Housewives, Longoria revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2016. And though the first date wasn't a knockout, on the second one, Longoria felt “immediate chemistry.”
“He was the most handsome man I’d ever seen,” she recalled to PEOPLE in 2017. “He was so charismatic, charming, sweet and funny. I thought, ‘Who is this guy?!’ ”
They dated for two-and-a-half years before Bastón got down on one knee in Dubai with a ruby and diamond ring. Longoria and Bastón married in a lakeside Mexico town on May 21, 2016. In June 2018, they welcomed their first child, a son named Santiago Enrique.
Eugene Levy's Wife, Deborah Divine
Nearly 50 years ago, Eugene Levy and Deborah Divine wed and launched a comedic dynasty. Levy, who appears as himself in Only Murders season 4, tied the knot with the producer and screenwriter in 1977.
Although Divine prefers to stay behind the screen, the rest of her family is no stranger to the spotlight. Levy and their two children, Dan and Sarah, starred in the Emmy Award-winning comedy Schitt’s Creek. In his 2020 Emmy acceptance speech for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, Levy thanked his wife “for all the love, support and sage counsel over the years.”
“I wouldn’t be up here without you, Deb. I love you,” the American Pie actor continued.
At the unveiling of Levy’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star in March 2024, he was joined by Divine and their daughter. The comedian credited his wife for supporting him for 47 years, saying that “there would be no star today” without her.
Kumail Nanjiani's Wife, Emily Gordon
Kumail Nanjiani met his wife of 17 years, writer Emily Gordon, at one of his comedy shows.
Days after Gordon heckled him at a 2006 show, the two ran into each other and hit it off. Though they started dating, Nanjiani was hesitant to commit to anything long-term, as he knew his parents were still hoping to find him an arranged marriage. However, when Gordon was put in a medically induced coma for Still’s disease, Nanjiani decided to reveal their relationship to his parents. Looking back on the health scare in 2017, the Eternals star told PEOPLE that he knew he wanted to marry Gordon after she went under.
“I remember thinking, ‘Oh, I love this woman, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. If she comes out of this I’m going to marry her.’ ” Nanjiani said.
They married a few months after Gordon recovered, tying the knot in a Pakistani-style wedding at Chicago’s City Hall.
The couple wrote the 2017 romantic comedy The Big Sick about their love story, which earned them an Oscar nod for Best Original Screenplay. They have also collaborated on the television series Little America as co-writers and executive producers. In 2022, Nanjiani starred in the comedy series Welcome to Chippendales, and Gordon served as a producer.
Molly Shannon's Husband, Fritz Chesnut
Molly Shannon and her husband, artist Fritz Chesnut, recently celebrated their 20th anniversary.
They met in 2000 on a blind date set up by a mutual friend and have been by each other’s side ever since. Shannon and Chesnut dated for four years before tying the knot in a private ceremony at Four Seasons Hotel in Santa Barbara, California, on May 29, 2004.
Though they’ve never collaborated professionally, Chesnut told the Swell Season Surf Radio podcast that the pair exchange opinions on each other’s projects.
“I look to her, and she has a good instinct as to what's really catching her attention,” he explained. "And then vice versa you know, she'll show me scripts or things that I'll read and I'll say 'This looks really good.’ “
The longtime couple have two children: daughter Stella, born in 2003, and son Nolan, born in 2005.
Melissa McCarthy's Husband, Ben Falcone
Melissa McCarthy found her match made in heaven with fellow comedian Ben Falcone, whom she married in 2005.
After briefly crossing paths as students, the two formally met in 1998 during a comedy writing class in Los Angeles. In a 2018 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, McCarthy recalled feeling drawn to her future husband “immediately” when he performed a skit in the class.
On Oct. 8, 2005, the couple said “I do” in a private ceremony. Eighteen years later, they’re still happily married and even translated their love onto the silver screen when they played love interests in the 2011 comedy Bridesmaids.
Speaking to PEOPLE as the cover star for the 2023 Beautiful Issue, McCarthy called her husband “constantly loving and kind and funny.”
“I remember thinking, 'Maybe I'll get married someday, but it won't be my family.' My family is my mom, my dad and my sister Margie, and nothing will ever feel like that. With Ben, it was the first time that I was like, 'Oh, this can grow,' " she added.
McCarthy and Falcone have two daughters: Vivian, born in 2007, and Georgette, born in 2010.
Jackie Hoffman's Husband, Steven Smyth
Jackie Hoffman is happily married to jazz trumpeter Steven Smyth. The two live together in New York (in 2017, she gave The New York Times a tour of their home) and have occasionally performed together.
Catherine Cohen's Boyfriend, Brian Muller
Catherine Cohen is dating fellow actor Brian Muller.
The comedienne met Muller around 2019, and the couple appeared alongside each other in the 2021 movie Dating and New York starring Jaboukie Young-White. Speaking to Vanity Fair about her comedy show “Come for Me” in 2022, she revealed that Muller lets her talk about him during her sets.
“He only lifts me up. It’s so rare. He’s so proud of anything I do. He’s obsessed, and I feel the same way about him,” Cohen told the magazine.
Daphne Rubin-Vega's Husband, Thomas Costanzo
Daphne Rubin-Vega and businessman Thomas Costanzo tied the knot more than two decades ago, on Sept. 14, 2002. The In the Heights actress hasn’t spoken much about her marriage to Costanzo, but in 2019, she shared an anecdote with Glamour about making sofrito for her husband near the start of their relationship.
“His response was, ‘We need to put this in everything,’ ” Rubin-Vega recalled. “He was like, ‘We have to have a jar of this stuff handy for all kinds of different things!’ ”
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