All the Sweetest Photos of Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster Through the Years
It’s all love for theater’s starriest couple
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Some love stories begin in sequins under stage lights, and Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster's is exactly that. According to Harper's Bazaar, the two first appeared in a photo together backstage at Shrek: The Musical in December 2008 — long before anyone was writing think-pieces about their chemistry. By the 2014 Tony Awards, where Jackman was hosting, they were dancing together on national television, which in hindsight reads less like coincidence and more like foreshadowing.
The real acceleration happened in 2022, when they co-starred in the Broadway revival of The Music Man. Opening night, Tony nominations, charity appearances with God's Love We Deliver, the 75th annual Tony Awards — they were everywhere together, racking up enough public appearances to fuel speculation while maintaining plausible deniability. The Drama League Awards that May doubled as a victory lap: Jackman took home Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater; Foster earned Distinguished Performance. Both, naturally, for The Music Man.
From Co-Stars to Red Carpet Official
Three years later, the deniability was gone. By October 2025 — roughly nine months after going public — they were attending the Fetch Pet Gala together, followed by the LA premiere of Song Sung Blue, where candid shots caught them laughing on the red carpet like people who have completely forgotten cameras exist. December brought the Gotham Film Awards, where Jackman received the Musical Tribute award alongside Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, and the couple arrived looking — there's no more precise word for it — smitten.
2026 only escalated things. Premieres for The Sheep Detectives in April, then the main event: their Met Gala debut in May, arriving together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the "Costume Art" theme. They even carved out a quiet moment on the carpet amid the chaos — the kind of image that gets screenshotted approximately ten thousand times before midnight.
What makes this particular timeline compelling isn't the celebrity of it, but the slow burn — years of professional respect and genuine affection building in plain sight before anyone put a label on it. Sometimes the best love stories don't announce themselves; they just keep showing up, year after year, until the pattern becomes undeniable.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
