Grey’s Anatomy Stars’ Real-Life Romances
“I was with my mutual friend,” the actress—who’s starred as Meredith Grey since the series’ 2005 premiere—detailed during a 2022 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.
So, after sharing a quick hello with her fellow Boston-area native, “He called me a bunch of times, and I wouldn’t call him back. And then he said, ‘You’re rude. You won’t call me back,’ and I said, ‘Well, because I’m not trying to go on a date with you.’ And he said, ‘Who’s trying to go on a date with you? I don’t even know you.'”
Basically, she continued, “We had a fight first. That’s kind of always the way to my heart, is like, piss me off and I’m all yours.”
Married four years later, the pair welcomed daughter Stella in 2009, her little sister Sienna in 2014 and son Christopher in 2016.
“We’re sort of two kids who made it out and then landed in Hollywood and jumped on this ride,” Pompeo said of their journey during a 2025 appearance on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast. “We just couldn’t believe that something was actually happening—that it was great, that I had this great job and we were getting to travel all over the world.”
A stroll through Central Park proved to be the first steps of their forever. “We have a mantra that we’ve lived by for 35 years,” the dad to Carl and Gavyn explained of the Deliver Us from Eva actress on Live with Kelly and Ryan in 2019. “Love unconditionally, forgive quickly and treat strife and trouble like a basket of rattlesnakes.”
And the skies certainly seemed sunny as Scorsone (mom to daughters Eliza, Pippa and Arwen with ex-husband Rob Giles) and Fightmaster strolled through L.A. in March 2026. Holding hands as they exited local mini-chain Highly Likely it seemed, uh, pretty certain that they were a couple.
Meeting at the University of Virginia, “She’s my day one,” he raved to Us Weekly of his bride, mom to Jasmine, Nikhil and Arun. “I’ve known this woman since before I knew I wanted to be an actor. I’ve known her over half my life. I’ve known her longer than I haven’t known her.”
He shared his prescription for a decades-long union during a 2017 appearance on Steve Harvey‘s titular talk show.
“You’re gonna have fights, because if you don’t have fights, you’re not being honest,” he noted, stressing the importance of fighting fair. “When you settle it, don’t say it’s settled if it’s not, and then bring it up again six months later.”
The pairing “just kind of happened,” the dad of four explained to People months later at The Walt Disney Company’s 2023 Emmy Awards Celebration. “We’re really happy and she’s an amazing human being, so I feel lucky on many levels in my life right now.”
Though she was willing to share how her husband—the two share sons Luke and Leo—helped her block out her character Teddy Altman’s first intimate encounter with onscreen love Cass Beckman (Sophia Bush).
With Raver also tasked with directing the scene, “I couldn’t tell whether he was like, ‘This is awesome,’ or, ‘What how are you going to do this?'” she admitted to People. “And I was like, ‘This is how we’re going to do it.'”