Meet the ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Cast’s Real-Life Loves
Though a gruesome murder is at the center of Ryan Murphy‘s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, there’s also a forbidden love story going on in the Netflix series. While Lizzie Borden’s (Ella Beatty) fraught relationship with her father, Andrew (Charlie Hunnam), and her stepmother, Abby (Rebecca Hall), plays out, Lizzie finds respite in housekeeper Bridget (Vicky Krieps) before the former is accused of murdering her parents.
Lizzie and Bridget’s relationship was never confirmed in real life, but who among the star-studded cast of the Netflix series, including Sarah Paulson, Jessica Barden, and Billie Lourd, is publicly in a relationship? Does Monster’s leading lady have a famous relationship like her parents, Annette Bening and Warren Beatty? Who is Charlie Hunnam’s wife? Scroll through the gallery below to find out who is dating, married, or single, whether they have kids, and so much more.
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Ella Beatty
Beatty may be part of a romance in Monster, but the 26-year-old actress has kept that part of her personal life under wraps since she stepped into the spotlight with Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. She’s either single or keeping her love life private.
Sarah Paulson
Paulson has a well-known off-screen romance with actress Holland Taylor, who is 32 years her senior. They started dating in 2015 and confirmed the relationship a year later.
In a 2024 SiriusXM interview, Taylor acknowledged their “big generational difference,” but said, “We are very interested in the same kinds of things, and yet we share big differences.”
Paulson said the secret to their long-lasting relationship is not living together. “We spend plenty of time together, but we don’t live in the same house,” the 51-year-old said on the SmartLess podcast in 2024. “We’re together when we want to be, and we’re not when we don’t.”
Prior to Taylor, Paulson dated actress Cherry Jones for several years before they amicably split in 2009.
Jessica Barden
Jessica Barden, who plays actress Nance, has been married to director Max Winkler since 2021. He’s the son of Happy Days icon Henry Winkler, and he’s worked on Love Story and more Murphy projects throughout his career. Six months after they wed, Barden and her husband welcomed their first child. The actress confirmed that they had a second child in January 2025.
Charlie Hunnam
Hunnam has been in a relationship with jewelry designer Morgana McNelis for about two decades. They’ve kept their romance mostly private, though they’ve posed on the red carpet together on several occasions. They first appeared in public together at a 2008 Sons of Anarchy screening.
The couple hasn’t confirmed if they tied the knot, though Hunnam called McNelis his “wife” in early 2026. Hunnam has been married once before, to actress Katharine Towne. They met in 1999 at an audition for Dawson’s Creek, and they got married in Las Vegas weeks later. They divorced in 2002.
Rebecca Hall
Hall is married to The Gilded Age star Morgan Spector. They wed in 2015, two years after meeting as costars in the Broadway play Machinal. They fell in love when they went on a trip to Hudson, New York together, per Vogue. They had their first child in 2018 and are currently living a quiet life in the countryside when they aren’t filming or attending industry events.
Billie Lourd
Lizzie’s older sister, Emma, is played by Billie Lourd, who has been with her husband for about a decade. She started dating producer and actor Austen Rydell in 2016. They married in 2022, about two years after welcoming their first son. Months after their wedding, Lourd and Rydell’s second son was born.
Vicky Krieps
Krieps married to Greek film production assistant Lazaros Gounaridis in 2025. They met in 2023 while working together on the film Hot Milk, according to Vogue.
“This is me getting married to the sun and the sea and the greek wind to my wonderful Lazarus who came back from the dead to save me from drowning,” she wrote on Instagram.
Krieps was previously in a relationship Jonas Laux, with whom she shares two children.
Joey Pollari
Joey Pollari, who plays Lizzie’s uncle, hasn’t shared any details about his relationship status publicly. He came out as gay via an interview with The Advocate while promoting his film Love, Simon.
