Oscar Isaac and Wife Elvira Lind’s Relationship Timeline: From Meeting in Character to Family Life

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Oscar Isaac and Wife Elvira Lind’s Relationship Timeline: From Meeting in Character to Family Life

Two of a kind. Oscar Isaac has always been open about his admiration for his wife, Elvira Lind. "My wife, God bless her, was with a newborn at home while I'm doing Hamlet, and that was a lot to deal with. She's an incredible woman," the Star Wars star told GQ in January 2018, referring to a Shakespeare production that he starred in the previous year. Isaac's run in Hamlet happened in the wake of his mother's death and the birth of his first child, and the complicated year changed his mind about marriage, which wasn't really a priority before then. "[Lind is] Danish — she's not a citizen, and she was very pregnant, and there was an element of figuring out 'Well, where are we going to be?' And us wanting to be a family unit a bit more," Isaac told the magazine of why the couple decided to get married after five years together. "But, you know, at the time, right before it happened, my mom was ill, and so I saw her carrying my child, bathing my sick mom—seeing her do that, I just thought: I want to be with this person forever and ever. And I just wanted to take that extra step as well. He continued: "And so my mom passed in February and we got married in March and our son was born in April." [jwplayer uLKq0oc0-zhNYySv2] Since tying the knot — and welcoming a second son in October 2019 — the couple have shared a bit more about their relationship both on and off set. After collaborating on the short film The Letter Room, which starred Isaac as an empathetic prison guard, the screenwriter gushed about her husband on Instagram in June 2020. "To my talented husband. Thank you for letting me put you in a fat suit during a Summer heat wave," Lind wrote at the time. "Thank you for trusting me to direct you while I was 7 months pregnant. I know that wasn't always easy. Thank you for encouraging me and showing up and doing absolute magic like you always do. And thank you for growing the most impressive mustache I have ever seen." She continued: "You are the funniest man I know. I love you more than any words can explain on social media. I am very happy we got to make this together - (and stayed married after)." Keep scrolling to see the full timeline of Isaac and Lind's romance: [podcast_block]

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2012

The Golden Globe winner revealed that he met a "documentary filmmaker" at a party in 2012 while preparing for his role in Inside Llewyn Davis. "I went to a party, and I was forced to be at this party, and I went dressed as Llewyn," he told NPR in December 2013. "It was a month before shooting. And then I was sitting in the corner just eating. I was the only person eating at the party. And this girl who ended up, she's a documentary filmmaker, so obviously she spotted the weirdo and went directly to that one. And [she] sat with me and talked to me for a long time. I guess she liked the whole thing."

In March 2020, Lind seemed to confirm that she and the Card Counter actor met in 2012 when she wrote that her favorite dress "helped me lure in my now husband eight years ago."

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2013

Lind directed her now-husband for the first time in 2013, as part of her Staircase Sessions project, in which she filmed musicians performing in stairwells. Isaac took part in four of the 13 videos she filmed.

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January 2016

The couple made their red carpet debut at the 2016 Golden Globe awards. The Moon Knight star kissed Lind as he made his way up to the stage to accept the award for Best Performance By An Actor In a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made For Television for Show Me A Hero.

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Early Spring 2017

Isaac and Lind quietly tied the knot in the spring of 2017. In February 2022, the Bobbi Jene director celebrated "5 Years of being married to this handsome fella," on Instagram, noting that they had just 5 guests in attendance at their intimate celebration. However, in January 2018, Isaac told GQ that they pair had gotten married the previous March.

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April 2017

The couple welcomed their first child not long after they decided to get married. Isaac and Lind chose the name Eugene in honor of the Ex Machina actor's late mother, who died a few months earlier.

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October 2019

Isaac and Lind welcomed their second son — who they named Mads — two and a half years after Eugene was born.

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August 2020

The Songs For Alexis director announced that the short film she made with Isaac, The Letter Room, would make its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The movie, in which the Dune actor plays a prison guard who gets overly involved with the life of one of his inmates, was eventually nominated for the Academy Award for Best Life Action Short Film in March 2021.

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November 2020

The pair also became business partners near the end of 2020 when they established a production company together called Mad Gene Media. "We have podcasts, shorts, docs, fiction and graphic novels in the making," Lind wrote via Instagram while announcing their collaboration.

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September 2021

While Isaac made headlines (and broke hearts) by stroking and kissing Jessica Chastain's arm at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Scenes From a Marriage, Lind was spotted waiting to the side of the red carpet, laughing at her husband goofing off for the cameras. "We went to college together at Julliard," Chastain explained during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert later that month. "We're both married to other people, we've been friends for more than 20 years."

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February 2022

The duo wore coordinating pink ensembles to the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Isaac was a presenter. "Thank you to the magicians that fixed us up so beautifully and made us red carpet ready ... You guys rock! We appreciate you," Lind wrote via Instagram the next day.