The Barbie director, Greta Gerwig and her longtime boyfriend Noah Baumbach have tied the knot after dating for 12 years. The pair met in 2010 during the filming of the movie Greenberg and began their romantic relationship in 2011. The pair co-wrote Barbie this year, along with welcoming their second child- a son, in July. The couple had their first song in March 2019. The pair have occasionally commented on how and why they make working together function alongside his wife, “when we write together I am always trying to impress her. I feel I write better because I work at it harder, I want her to be impressed” Noah once stated. The pair called working together on writing Barbie the “Best thing we’ve ever written”, despite their initial hesitation to work on the project together.
The filmmaker pair met at the sets of the movie Greenberg in 2010, which was written and directed by Baumbach and Gerwig played the lead role in. The pair made their legal change of relationship at the City Hall in New York City, a representative of the pair confirmed to People Magazine. Greta welcomed both her sons 4-year-old Harold and baby Isadore, privately so it’s no news that her legal status change happened in the public eye. Gerwig spoke about her life at home, surrounded by males, the pair also live along with Noah’s 13-year-old son Rohmer, whom he shares with his ex-wife.
Gerwig and Baumbach’s creative partnership began with his next film Frances Ha which the pair co-wrote with Greta starring as the main lead and title character, they moved not their next collaboration with Miss America in 2015, which led up to Greta branching out and into her own solo directorial debut with LadyBird in 2017. Barbie became the first film the pair co-wrote that Gerwig directed, Noah mentioned in an interview how he was sceptical about taking up this project during the pandemic but “Greta was persistent and Greta saw something”.
Greta Celeste Gerwig is an American actress, writer and director, she was initially known to work on mumblecore films, before moving towards independent films and then directing major studio films. As a solo filmmaker, Gerwig has directed and written many coming-of-age films Ladybird (2017) and the adaptation of Little Women (2019) both of which earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, for the former she received Academy Award Nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay and for the later Best Adapted Screenplay. Her next directorial project Barbie became the First film from a solo female director to gross over 1 Billion worldwide. Gerwig has become one of the few female playwrights and directors to capture and impeccably deliver the essence of femininity in her films, and she also mainly focuses on films for women and by women adding to the notion of her film being an exceptionally accurate representation tool for women worldwide. She is known as an icon in the directorial world, especially for achieving so much and still maintaining the authenticity that makes her films- hers.
