It Ends With Us star and director Justin Baldoni has been married to his wife, Swedish actress Emily Baldoni, since 2013.
In 2017, Justin told Makers that he knew their relationship was different. “I had made the same mistake so many times, searching for something in a package that I thought I would want,” he said. “When I met Emily, it was unlike all my other experiences. She had like a depth and a grace, and this quiet strength that I think I always dreamed of—and I just knew.”
The pair celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary in 2024. Here’s what we know about Justin and Emily Baldoni’s marriage.
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Is Justin Baldoni married?
Yes, Justin Baldoni has been married to Emily Baldoni, a Swedish actress who was credited with the last name Foxler in her early career, since 2013.
What does Justin Baldoni’s wife Emily do for a living?
Emily Baldoni is an actress whose earliest credit is in the 2005 short The Elephant’s Room. In 2007, she was featured in one episode of How I Met Your Mother, and in 2019 she was featured in Five Feet Apart, a drama directed by her husband.
How did Justin Baldoni and his wife Emily meet?
It’s unclear exactly how they met, but they had their first date in 2011 at the Blu Jam Café in Los Angeles.
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When did Justin Baldoni get engaged?
Justin proposed to Emily in 2012 at Blu Jam Café, the site of their first date, and shared a nearly 30-minute video of the proposal on YouTube.
“On April 13th I proposed to my girlfriend Emily at the restaurant where we had our first date,” Justin wrote in the video’s caption. “I told her I was running late, had the restaurant opened just for her, and set up hidden cameras all around her. When she sat down at the table, there was a TV in front of her set to take her on a journey that would lead to the proposal of a lifetime.”
The video includes a variety of segments, from a montage of proposal parodies to a flashmob to a scene where Justin visits the grave of Emily’s late father to ask permission for her hand in marriage.
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When did Justin Baldoni get married?
Justin and Emily got married in 2013. Emily told the wedding website Style Me Pretty, “Our wedding day was on July 27, 2013, a beautiful summer’s day and evening at our dear friend’s stunning Corona, CA property. My mother-in-law, Sharon, did all the decorating and turned the place into a Midsummer Night’s Dream, exactly what I had hoped for. She put so much love in all the details, you could feel the magic of it all.”
“Our flowers looked like ones we could have picked ourselves out in the meadows, natural, simple yet so beautiful,” she continued. “My girlfriends helped place them out everywhere, the perfect addition to the already stunningly decorated garden. It all had a very simple and rustic feel yet with a certain magical spark á la Midsummer Night’s Dream, a place where lovers go and get lost in the night.”
Do Justin and Emily Baldoni have kids?
Yes, the two are parents to daughter Maiya Grace, born June 2015, and son Maxwell Roland-Samuel, born October 2018. Baldoni told E! News in October 2024 that both of his kids are actually in It Ends With Us. “They’re in the final scene in the farmer’s market,” Justin explained. “There are two kids that are running into the farmer’s market and that was their kind of debut—I said, ‘Action,’ and then they ran off.”
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