Meryl Streep and Martin Short are not dating despite rumors
Martin Short and Meryl Streep
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagicMeryl Streep And Martijn Kort‘s chemistry captured Only murders in the building viewers, but their off-screen relationship remains strictly platonic.
A rep for Short, 73, denied that the actor and Streep, 74, are dating, tellingly The messenger in a statement: “They are just really good friends, nothing more.”
Dating rumors intensified after Short and Streep were spotted side by side at the 2024 Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7. Short earned his third consecutive nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for playing Oliver Putnam on the Hulu series, while Streep was nominated in the supporting actress category for her role as Loretta Durkin in season 3. Both left the awards ceremony empty-handed.
The pair were previously linked in December 2023 when Time Out New York was a theater editor and critic Adam Veldman hinted on social media that there are “two pretty surprising celebrity couples” who have managed to keep their new romances under wraps, with many replies pointing to Streep and Short.
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Streep was married to Don Gummer For 45 years before the news broke in October 2023 that they were quietly calling it quits. “Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been divorced for more than six years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen separate lives,” a rep for the actress said in a statement. We weekly.
The former couple tied the knot in 1978 and welcomed four children: Henry, Mamie, Grace and Louisa. Streep and Gummer kept their relationship relatively private and made their final appearance together at the 2018 Academy Awards, where Streep was nominated for her role in The mail.
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Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Moët & ChandonStreep previously opened up about what made her marriage to Gummer work in a 2002 interview Fashion. “Goodwill and a willingness to bend – and occasionally shut up,” she said. “There is no road map for raising a family: it is always a huge negotiation process. But I have a holistic need to work and have tremendous love connections in my life. I can’t imagine eschewing one for the other.”
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Short, for his part, was married to Nancy Dolman from 1980 until she died of ovarian cancer in 2010. The pair met in 1972 during a series of God game, but Dolman retired from the entertainment world to focus on the couple’s family. She and Short adopted three children during their marriage: Katherine, Oliver and Henry.
Nearly ten years after her death, Short talked about his late wife’s battle with cancer and their relationship. “Our marriage was a triumph. … I still communicate with her all the time,” he shared AARP: The Magazine in 2019. “It’s ‘Hey, Nan,’ you know? How would she react to this or that decision, especially regarding our three children.
Noting that he still feels Dolman’s presence, Short added, “I believe that when people die, they zoom in on the people who love them.” The idea that it just ends, and not talking about it – that’s wrong… for me she’s still there.