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Libby Torres
- Julia Roberts and Danny Moder, who first met on a film set in 2000, have been married since 2002.
- The couple have mostly kept their marriage out of the spotlight and have three kids together.
- Here's a complete timeline of their notoriously private relationship.
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Spring 2000: Roberts and Moder met on the set of her film "The Mexican."
Directed by Gore Verbinski, and starring Roberts and Brad Pitt, the drama was released in March 2001.
Moder was working as a camera operator on the film when he met Roberts, but at the time, the two were romantically involved with different people. Roberts was dating actor Benjamin Bratt, while Moder was married to makeup artist Vera Steimberg.
Eventually, both couples split up, and Moder's divorce with Steimberg was finalized in 2002.
July 4, 2002: The couple tied the knot on Roberts' ranch in New Mexico.
According to Us Weekly, the ceremony (held at an 82-acre property in Taos) was ultra secretive, and guests were just invited to come and "celebrate Independence Day" with Moder and Roberts.
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November 2004: Roberts gave birth to twins Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter.
On November 28, Roberts and Moder welcomed their first two children together in Los Angeles. As People noted at the time, two of Roberts' cousins, as well as the actress' great grandmother, are twins.
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2013: The couple collaborated on another film, HBO's "The Normal Heart," together.
Based on Larry Kramer's award-winning stage play, the film follows an impassioned AIDS activist in the early days of the disease. Roberts plays Dr. Emma Brookner, one of the few physicians shown in the film to be not only compassionate towards AIDS patients, but determined to help research and spread awareness about the disease as well.
Mark Ruffalo, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, and and Taylor Kitsch also star in the film, which features cinematography by Moder.
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November 2015: Roberts gushes about Moder while promoting their new film, "Secret in Their Eyes."
As with "The Normal Heart," Roberts starred in the film, while Moder worked as cinematographer.
"It was amazing. It was so great. He's my favorite person on the planet, so I love spending time with him and I love his work ethic," Roberts told People in 2015 of her experience working with Moder. "His point of view is really valuable to me."
The actress also revealed how comfortable she felt working while having her husband on set.
"If he was sitting right behind me and I felt some sense of that security, it just makes you want to do more, really," Roberts added.
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July 4, 2017: Moder commemorated the couple's 15th wedding anniversary with a sweet Instagram post.
"This pretty lady and I have been following each other around for awhile," Modern captioned a photo of Roberts wandering through a grassy field with a hat in her hand.
"look how green our garden still is!!! love you," the cinematographer added.
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November 2018: Roberts described the "seismic shift" that occurred when she met Moder.
"That was the first time my life will never be the same in the most incredible, indescribable way," Roberts, speaking to Gwyneth Paltrow on her Goop podcast, said of meeting Moder.
"He truly, to this day, to this minute, is just my favorite human. I'm more interested in what he has to say or his point of view just than anybody," the "Mona Lisa Smile" actress continued. "Really, we're so lucky in that way. We just really, really like each other and we just enjoy each other's company."
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January 2019: Roberts posted a picture of her and Moder enjoying In-N-Out to Instagram following the Oscars.
In the blurry photo, Roberts and Moder share a kiss while holding burgers and an In-N-Out bag in their hands.
The "Pretty Woman" actress congratulated everyone involved in the evening's festivities, and wrote, "to all a good (burger) night."
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February 14, 2019: The couple paid tribute to their relationship on Valentine's day with sweet Instagram posts.
"My very funny valentine... Still pinching myself," Moder captioned a photo of Roberts making a face for the camera.
The "Notting Hill" actress, on the other hand, shared a striking black and white photo of her gazing lovingly at Moder, with only a string of heart emojis as the caption.
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May 2019: Moder celebrated Roberts and their family on Mother's Day.
In the photo Moder shared to Instagram, Roberts sits at a table surrounded by her three children and smiling husband.
"That pretty mama in the middle. We love you so much," the cinematographer wrote in the caption.
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February 2020: Roberts wished Moder a happy Valentine's day on Instagram.
"Happy [heart emoji] Day to the light of my life," Roberts wrote, along with a photo of Moder, backlit by the sun and laughing.
July 4, 2020: Roberts commemorated her 18th wedding anniversary on Instagram.
In the photo the actress shared with followers, she kisses a wet-haired Moder on the cheek. Roberts also included a hashtag, "#heckyes," in the caption.
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July 2021: Both Moder and Roberts took to Instagram to celebrate another year of marriage.
In the caption of her photo (showing her and Moder embracing on a beach), Roberts wrote that the couple were "Just getting started!"
Moder shared a throwback photo of him and Roberts (that appears to have been taken just before their 2002 wedding), and captioned it: "Today we start our 20th year of marriage. This photo was on a dusty road before that big idea … just holding on to this beautiful girl one day at a time. One epic day at a time."
Roberts' post garnered several supportive comments from fellow celebrities, including Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife, and director Sam Taylor-Johnson.
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Early 2022: Roberts posted a photo for Moder's birthday, and another one a few weeks later for Valentine's day.
"You make my world go round," Roberts captioned a birthday photo of Moder holding a surfboard.
For her Valentine's day post, the actress shared a photo of her and Moder kissing on the lips, with only a smiley-face emoji as the caption.
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