'He never flirted': Co-stars never expected what came months after this (2025)

Amanda Seyfried is best known for her on-screen appearances, including the original Mean Girls film, Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables.

But the former child star has seemingly traded the spotlight for a quieter life on a farm where she lives with her husband of seven years, actor Thomas Sadoski, and their two children.

When they met in May 2015, both were in relationships: Seyfried was dating actor Justin Long, while Sadoski was married to studio casting executive Kimberly Hope.

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The pair appeared in an off-Broadway play called The Way We Get By, playing strangers who had a drunken one-night stand after meeting at a wedding reception.

They appeared on talk show The View together to discuss the play.

"[He] never flirted ... that was another reason why I thought, later on, that I could marry him."

Seyfried reflected on their first meeting in an Instagram post in January 2023.

"I met Tommy eight years ago on this day for a play reading and remember feeling calm in a space that usually felt very vulnerable and scary," she wrote.

Seyfried told PorterEdit in 2018 that their relationship was strictly platonic at first.

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"[He] never flirted, never disrespected his wife," Seyfried said.

"That was another reason why I thought, later on, that I could marry him."

Just nine months later, the two reunited on the set of the film The Last Word in February 2016.

By then, both had split from their respective partners and it was soon revealed they were dating.

Their relationship moved quickly, with their pair becoming engaged just six months later.

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In November that year, Seyfried revealed she was pregnant when she showed up at the launch of a new fragrance with a baby bump.

The couple finally made their red carpet debut in March 2017 at the premiere of The Last Word.

That same month, Sadoski revealed the two had married during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden during which he showed off his wedding band.

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"We eloped. We just took off into the country with an officiant and, just the two of us, and we did our thing," the star of The Newsroom said.

"It was beautiful. It was everything that it should be. It was just the two of us talking to each other."

Sadoski also shared he was excited to become a father.

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"I'm more excited about this than I've ever been about anything in my life. And I'm also more terrified about it than anything I've ever been in my entire [life]," he said.

The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Nina, in March 2017.

They hit the red carpet together at the World of Children Hero Awards just a month later.

Later that year, Seyfried went back to work, reuniting with her former boyfriend Dominic Cooper on the set of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Sadoski and her baby daughter went with her to Croatia when filming began in August of that year.

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In 2019, she posted a cute throwback photo to reminisce about the trip, writing "#fbf Croatia '17 for @mammamiamovie."

During a 2018 interview with The Mirror, Seyfried admitted it was tough for Sadoski.

"I think he has the same kind of issues that I would have if we were hanging out with his ex-girlfriend from long ago," she said.

"I think it's always like, 'I'm so in love with this person, so that person must be so in love with her too.'

"I'd guess he assumed Dominic is in love with me the way he's in love with me. And it's just not the case, it's sweet... I'd rather he be jealous than completely fine with it."

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Even before Seyfried met her husband, she had already moved to a farm in upstate New York, which is where the couple based themselves after Nina's birth.

During a 2020 interview on the YouTube Series Molner's Table, she talked about their routine.

"These days, it's been me waking up and going downstairs and drinking coffee and hanging out with my daughter and then Tommy feeding [the animals]," she said.

She also revealed her mother lives with them.

"She's our nanny," she said. "My life is awesome because she is the third parent for us. I am so lucky – I know I am."

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The couple welcomed their second child, son Thomas, in September 2020.

A year later, she talked about complications that occurred during his delivery, and her resulting spinal problem, in an interview with People.

"I had something that went wrong with my second birth. The baby was OK but it was tricky and it was painful and it didn't have to happen, and it did so it added an extra level of trauma," she said.

"At that point, I'm very freshly out of the hospital, I had to feed him, my husband was with my daughter and I had people that could drive me back to the hospital."

She took to Instagram to wish Sadoski a happy wedding anniversary in 2021 and 2022, and thanked him when she won a primetime Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress (in a limited or anthology series or movie) in 2022 for The Dropout.

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"Thank you to my family, my mum, my husband, my dad and my kids, and my dog, Finn," she said.

During a June 2023 interview with People, she said she loved the way Sadoski parented their children.

"[One day], I looked at my husband Tom and said 'God, that was good parenting. You stopped [the behaviour] with your tone,' and then I came in... it was a gorgeous moment," she said.

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However, they don't always see eye to eye.

She told People in 2023 she supported her daughter following in her acting footsteps, even though her husband was 'terrified' at the prospect.

Sadoski paid tribute to his wife in November 2023 during an interview with People about being an ambassador for War Child USA.

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"I'm so grateful and I'm really proud that we're able to do this together and that we are both unified in making a difference in a way that isn't easy and isn't performative," he said.

"I feel very, very proud of the fact that I have that in my partner."

The Make it Cute children's playhouse co-founder continues to act, with the 39-year-old most recently appearing in the 2024 film, I Don't Understand You, and the 2023 mini series, The Crowded Room, which co-starred her husband, now 48.

When they are not off on location filming, they share looking after their kids, now aged seven and four, and a menagerie of animals that live with them on their Catskills farm.

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