Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling met while making The Place Beyond the Pines, filmed in 2011, and later appeared together at its 2012 premiere. They have two daughters, and Mendes has described choosing to keep much of their family life private. The public record does not establish the exact date their relationship began or when they married.
How Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling met
Mendes and Gosling worked together on The Place Beyond the Pines, which was filmed in 2011 and released in 2012. Later accounts describe them as friends before they began a relationship, but neither a confirmed start date nor the transition from friendship to dating is established in the public record. Sightings reported in 2011 are not confirmation of when they became a couple.
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In September 2012, they appeared together at the film’s premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival. That is a clear public milestone, but it does not mark a confirmed start to their private relationship. ELLE’s timeline and the public-record coverage trace the couple’s story through appearances and statements rather than a first-person chronology.
Relationship timeline
2011–2012: A film brings them together
They met while filming The Place Beyond the Pines in 2011. The film’s release and their joint premiere appearance in Toronto in September 2012 made their connection visible to the public, while the date they started dating remained private.
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September 2014: Their first daughter is born
Mendes and Gosling welcomed their first daughter, Esmeralda Amada, in September 2014.
2015: They work together again, and Gosling speaks about Mendes
Mendes appeared in Gosling’s directorial film Lost River. In a December interview with Hello!, Gosling said, “I know that I’m with the person I’m supposed to be with.” ELLE’s relationship timeline recounts the remark.
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May 2016: Their second daughter is born
The couple welcomed their second daughter, Amada Lee, in May 2016.
January 2017: Gosling thanks Mendes at the Golden Globes
While accepting a Golden Globe for La La Land, Gosling thanked “his lady” for raising their daughter, being pregnant with their second child, and supporting her brother during cancer treatment while he worked on the film. The speech offered a rare public acknowledgment of the family support behind his work.
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2020–2021: Mendes explains their privacy boundary
Mendes said she chooses what family information to share and does not want to involve Gosling or their children too much in public. Her comments help explain why the couple’s timeline has few public milestones compared with many celebrity relationships.
2022: Mendes refers to Gosling as her husband
Mendes publicly referred to Gosling as her husband and later showed a “de Gosling” wrist tattoo. Those moments indicate how she describes their bond, but the coverage does not establish when or where they married. A wedding year or ceremony details should not be treated as confirmed.
March 2024: Mendes describes their parenting arrangement
Mendes described a “nonverbal agreement” that she would pause acting to focus on their children. That is her account of their family arrangement; it does not establish that she permanently left all professional work.
September 2024: Mendes discusses family and her children’s book
In a September 2024 interview with EL PAÍS, Mendes discussed her children’s book, Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries. The report identified their daughters as 10 and eight at the time and named The Place Beyond the Pines as the film where Mendes met Gosling. Read the interview in EL PAÍS.
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March 2026: A rare joint appearance on The Tonight Show
According to ELLE’s August 2026 retrospective, Mendes joined Gosling onstage during his March 5 Tonight Show interview as a birthday surprise. It was a rare public appearance together.
August 2026: Mendes shares another detail about her tattoo
In August 2026, Mendes posted the “de Gosling” wrist tattoo and called it the only tattoo she had ever wanted. It is a public expression of her connection to Gosling, not evidence of a wedding date.
Quick Recap
What is known—and what remains private
- How they met: They worked together on The Place Beyond the Pines, filmed in 2011.
- When they started dating: No reliable exact start date is established by the public milestones described above.
- Children: They have two daughters, Esmeralda Amada and Amada Lee, born in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
- Marriage: Mendes has referred to Gosling as her husband, but the sources cited here do not establish a wedding date or ceremony details.
- Privacy: Mendes has said she chooses what family information to share and wants to limit her family’s exposure.
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