Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are a couple whose professional partnership preceded their public romance. They went public in January 2025 after starring together in Broadway’s The Music Man, and their appearances together continued into 2026. In August, they reunited onstage for a duet in Massachusetts.
Their story includes several distinct milestones: a Broadway collaboration, the announcements surrounding their previous marriages, and their later appearances as romantic partners. Those events establish a public timeline, although they do not reveal exactly when their friendship became a relationship.
Bio
| Profile Detail | Hugh Jackman | Sutton Foster |
|---|---|---|
| Profession | Actor and singer | Actress, singer and dancer |
| Known for | The Greatest Showman, Les Misérables, The Boy from Oz | Younger, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes |
| Shared Broadway production | The Music Man | The Music Man |
| Role in The Music Man | Harold Hill | Marian Paroo |
| Broadway run together | December 2021–January 2023 | December 2021–January 2023 |
| Notable Tony wins | Best Leading Actor in a Musical, The Boy from Oz (2004) | Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) and Anything Goes (2011) |
| Relationship | Dating Sutton Foster; publicly documented through August 2026 | Dating Hugh Jackman; publicly documented through August 2026 |
| Romance became public | January 2025 | January 2025 |
| Previous marriage | Deborra-lee Furness; separation announced September 2023 | Ted Griffin; divorce filed October 2024 |
| Children | Two | One |
| First red-carpet appearance as a couple | October 26, 2025, at the Song Sung Blue premiere | October 26, 2025, at the Song Sung Blue premiere |
Are Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster still together?
Their most recent documented joint performance provides a clear update. On August 11, 2026, Jackman invited Foster onstage at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, where they sang “A Million Dreams” from The Greatest Showman. They shared a kiss after the performance, according to People’s coverage of their surprise duet, published on August 14.
The appearance followed several public events earlier in the year. On April 19, Foster accompanied Jackman to the New York premiere of his film The Sheep Detectives. They subsequently attended the Met Gala together on May 4, making their debut as a couple at the event.
These appearances document their relationship beyond its initial announcement. They also show that performing together remains part of their public connection, alongside attending film premieres and other events.
The Broadway production they shared
The Music Man brought the two performers together as the romantic leads in a major Broadway revival. Jackman played Harold Hill, while Foster portrayed Marian Paroo.
The production began previews at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre on December 20, 2021, ahead of its official opening on February 10, 2022. Previews are public performances before a production’s formal opening. Broadway.com’s report on the start of the run confirms the casting and opening schedule.
Originally intended to arrive on Broadway in 2020, the revival was delayed by the theatre shutdown. Jerry Zaks directed the production, which ultimately played its final performance on January 15, 2023.
Meredith Willson’s musical follows Harold, a travelling con man who persuades a town to invest in a boys’ band, and Marian, the librarian who challenges him. Their developing romance belongs to the musical’s story, making it essential to distinguish photographs and footage of the characters from evidence about the actors’ private lives.
The production also left a recording of their collaboration. Its Broadway cast album was released in September 2022, featuring Jackman and Foster in their respective roles.
What Foster said about their friendship
During the Broadway run, Foster spoke directly about the friendship she had developed with Jackman.
In a June 2022 interview with Vogue, she called him “one of my best friends” and described that closeness as an unexpected outcome of working together. She also praised his kindness and generosity as a colleague.
Asked about moments when they appeared to break character, Foster explained that their director had encouraged them to find the smiles between two characters falling in love.
Her comments document a close working friendship at that point. They do not establish a romantic starting date.
Their previous marriages and the public timeline
Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness announced their separation in September 2023 after 27 years of marriage. In their joint statement to People, they said they had decided to pursue individual growth and emphasised that their family remained their priority.
Furness later filed for divorce in May 2025.
Foster filed for divorce from screenwriter Ted Griffin on October 22, 2024, according to court records reviewed by People. They had married in October 2014.
These dates help explain the sequence of public developments, but they answer different questions. A separation announcement establishes when a couple publicly disclosed a change in their marriage. A divorce filing records a legal step. Neither automatically establishes when a subsequent relationship began.
For that reason, January 2025 is best understood as the point when Jackman and Foster’s romance became public, rather than a confirmed date for its private beginning.
Going public in January 2025
The relationship became public when the pair were photographed holding hands during a dinner outing in Santa Monica on January 6, 2025.
Their appearance followed another connection through theatre: Jackman had attended a performance of Foster’s Once Upon a Mattress at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on January 4. Carol Burnett, who originated Foster’s role in the musical, also attended that performance.
The January coverage marked a change from earlier interviews about their friendship. They were now appearing together as romantic partners, rather than solely as former colleagues discussing a shared production.
Their first red-carpet appearance as a couple came later, on October 26, 2025, at the Los Angeles premiere of Jackman’s film Song Sung Blue during AFI Fest.
In November, Jackman also shared a photograph and video of Foster performing at Café Carlyle. His caption described the performance as “truly magical”. That post added a direct public expression of support for her work to their appearances together.
Foster’s career beyond the relationship
Foster had established a substantial stage and television career before the romance became public.
She won Tony Awards for Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002 and Anything Goes in 2011. Her work also extends to solo recordings, including her debut album Wish, released in 2009.
Television viewers may know her as Liza Miller in Younger. The series followed a woman who presented herself as younger to restart her publishing career and concluded in 2021 after seven seasons.
After The Music Man, Foster’s stage work included Once Upon a Mattress, in which she played Winnifred opposite Michael Urie’s Prince Dauntless. Their collaboration also connected back to Younger, where both had appeared.
These credits form a career distinct from her relationship with Jackman: leading musical roles, television work and concert performances.
Jackman’s longstanding connection to musical theatre
Jackman also brought an established theatre background to their Broadway partnership. He won the 2004 Tony Award for leading actor in a musical for playing entertainer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz.
His later Broadway credits included the plays A Steady Rain and The River, as well as The Music Man. His concert work has drawn on that stage experience alongside his screen musicals.
In January 2025, he launched From New York, With Love at Radio City Music Hall, performing material associated with projects including Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman and The Boy from Oz.
For Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, musical performance is therefore a documented connection that predates their public romance. Their careers explain both the Broadway partnership that brought them together professionally and the shared performances that have continued since.
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