Tensions are running high at Netflix The diplomatwhich follows US Ambassador Kate Wyler as she is tasked with stopping a potential war, while her marriage to a political superstar hangs in the balance.

Fortunately, the cast’s real-life love stories are much less dramatic.

Keri Russell, who plays Kate, admitted to PEOPLE that her character’s relationship with former diplomat Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) is “complex.” But she also argued that the second season feels “very mature” and shows the “reality of knowing someone for so long,” something she can relate to in her decade-plus relationship with Matthew Rhys.

Season 2 of The diplomatwhich was released on October 31, raises the stakes even higher in Kate and Hal’s on-again, off-again dynamic. There’s also the undeniable chemistry she has with British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi), and the awkward tension between her right-hand man Stuart Hayford (Ato Essandoh) and CIA station chief Eidra Park (Ali Ahn).

While the characters’ on-screen relationship status remains a question mark, many of the actors who portray them have long-term partners.

Here’s everything you need to know about the real loves of The diplomat form.

Keri Russel and Matthew Rhys

Before she defused international crises The diplomatRussell was an undercover spy at FX’s The Americans from 2013 to 2018. While on set, the actress began secretly dating her costar (and fictional husband), Matthew Rhys. During a 2024 episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson Dinner is for me podcast, Russell said the timing of their relationship was everything.

“It was so amazing that we got to do that together… in the prime of our lives,” she said. “If we had met when we were 20, we wouldn’t be together. We were just at the right time.”

The couple went public with their relationship in 2014 and welcomed their son Sam in 2016. Russell also has two children – Willa and River – with her ex-husband Shane Deary.

Rufus Sewell and Vivian Benitez

Sewell has been in a relationship with actress and former model Vivian Benitez since 2020. In December 2023, she announced their engagement on Instagram with a photo of her diamond ring, followed by a selfie of Sewell kissing her on the cheek. The caption read: “Till death (or he continues to walk on bath mats in his outdoor shoes) do us part.”

Sewell and Benitez tied the knot on July 17, 2024, in a ceremony she called “perfect.” Although the couple has made a few appearances on the red carpet, they usually keep their relationship private.

Benitez occasionally shares photos on her Instagram of their life together, including a series of images from a trip to Wales they took in 2022.

David Gyasi and Emma Gyasi

He might have a will-they-or-won’t-they thing with Russell The diplomatbut in real life, David Gyasi has been in the same relationship since he was a teenager. In 2021, the British actor said The standard that he started dating his wife, Emma Gyasi, in sixth grade — the last two years of high school in the United Kingdom — when she became pregnant with their daughter Elena.

“Obviously, 32-year-old David is very different from me at 19,” he said. “But I feel incredibly lucky that I was able to change, and that my wife feels like she is allowed to change.”

The couple later married and had another child, a son named Nathaniel.

Ali Ahn and William Jackson Harper

Ahn met her friend, The right place‘s William Jackson Harper, while they were both active in the New York theater scene. In 2012 they performed in an outdoor production of Romeo and Julietand Harper told the Los Angeles Times that their relationship “just took off from there.”

While the couple largely flies under the radar, Ahn posted a series of Instagram photos with Harper at the 77th Tony Awards in June 2024. She captioned the post: “So proud of @williamjacksonharper. An honor to be his date.” They were also present The diplomatSeason 2 will premiere together in October 2024.

Rory Kinnear and Pandora Colin

One couple further The diplomat even exists off-screen.

Rory Kinnear, who plays Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge, has been in a relationship with actress Pandora Colin, who plays Lydia Trowbridge, since 2006. She also starred in Chernobyl and that of Aziz Ansari Master of none.

Kinnear said The Guardian in 2017 that the couple shares two children, Riley and Hope.

Michael McKean and Annette O’Toole

The diplomat’Who Michael McKean, who plays President William Rayburn, is married to Virgin river‘s Annette O’Toole for over 25 years. They first met in the 1970s and then reconnected on the set of the 1998 Lifetime movie Final justice. They married a year later.

“I married my best friend 23 years ago and it turned out beautifully,” says the actor posted on X (formerly Twitter) in March 2022. “Thank you for saying yes.”

The couple, who are also musicians, have collaborated on shows such as Boy meets world And Smallville. McKean and O’Toole were even nominated for an Oscar for the songs they wrote for the 2003 comedy musical A mighty wind.