All About Elle Fanning’s Boyfriend, Max Minghella

Elle Fanning and her boyfriend, Max Minghella, might just be living proof that low-key ‘ships do stand the test of time in Tinseltown. I mean, they were first linked shortly after they were introduced on the set of 2018’s Teen Spirit (which Max wrote and directed btw) and have since kept their romance mostly private. Mostly.

So if you, too, are nosy and wanna know every little thing about just who Elle’s BF is, grab a snack and let’s dive right on in!

For starters, Elle’s boyfriend is v creative

Sure, Max might be best known for playing Nick Blaine on The Handmaid’s Tale, but that’s just one of the many projects he’s been in. Case in point? He was cast as Divya Narendra in The Social Network and Richie Castellano on The Mindy Project.

The actor’s also had stints behind the camera as both the writer *and* director of Teen Spirit, which is how he and Elle originally met—but more on that later 👀. In the meantime, enjoy this super cute clip of them with the rest of the cast:

His family is all about show business, bb

This fam is filled to the brim with talent. For starters, Max’s mother Carolyn Choa is a choreographer who has worked for the English National Opera and New York’s Metropolitan Opera. She is also specifically known for her work as part of the crew on The English Patient and Madam Butterfly. Casual! Max even dished to Esquire in May 2019 that “film has been the one thing [they both] connect over and love.” He added it was his mother who “introduced [him] to all of the significant filmmakers.”

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Max’s father, Anthony Minghella, sadly died in March 2008 at the age of 54. He too left his mark in the entertainment industry as an Oscar-winning director behind movies like The English Patient, Cold Mountain, and The Talented Mr. Ripley. As for Max’s older sister, Hannah? Well, she just so happens to be the head of motion pictures (!!) at Bad Robot, a role she earned after serving as the president of TriStar Pictures and TriStar Television, per Deadline. Uhm, hi @ Minghella family? Adopt me pls?!?

He grew up in London but studied in the United States

More specifically, the multi-hyphenate was born in the Hampstead area of London. Max has often discussed growing up in an immigrant household—with his father’s side being Italian and his mother’s side being Chinese—and how he felt it made him closer with his parents.

It wasn’t long before the actor headed to Columbia University to study history. “I hadn’t finished school in England, so I didn’t have the qualifications to go to university in England unless I went back to school…The most logical way to continue my education was to do it in America and just take the SATs,” he dished to Interview about how he ended up attending the New York City Ivy.

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When asked why he decided to continue pursuing his education, he candidly (and hilariously) admitted, “Honestly, probably the guilt of having very academic parents. I think they were slightly ashamed. I’ve always been a terrible student, but they really hoped that I would be better, and I kind of hoped for them…It was, in retrospect, an apology, probably, for being a high school dropout and becoming an actor young and naively. But I’m so grateful for the experience—whatever motive I had to go, it definitely was a great thing. I made key relationships in that time. It also rescued me from a lot of bad career decisions.” Touché, Max! Touché.

One play in particular inspired him to be an actor

Max previously told DuJour magazine back in the day that when he saw Kenneth Lonergan’s play, This Is Our Youth, as a teenager, he was inspired to act. “I really didn’t have any interest in being an actor at all. That play changed my life in so, so many ways,” he said. “That was the singular thing that got me interested.”

He also told Esquire,“The first couple of things I did, I’d never acted before. Ever. So the first time I was seeing myself perform was in these wide release movies that I wasn’t doing a very good job in.”

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On the other hand, Max admitted he was “pretty douchey kid in school.” That is, until his friend Josh brought him back down to Earth: “I was on the phone, rolling calls the entire drive, and I never spoke to him or acknowledged him or said, ‘Thank you for picking me up,’ and we got out of the car, and he just lost it on me. I was 17 and that really was a wake-up call.”

He and Elle met on set

Like many Hollywood love stories, this one started on a movie set. While Max wrote and directed Teen Spirit, Elle starred in it and played Violet, a Polish teenager desperate to become a pop star with *many* obstacles in her way. In an April 2019 interview, Max told Entertainment Tonight that Elle was “the only actress who could have carried” the story due to the “incredible list of requirements.”

“You have to be able to sing, you have to be able to dance, you’ve got to, you know, be able to speak Polish convincingly, do the British accent, play the age range and carry the movie with an incredibly nuanced performance…It’s a lot for one person, and she just handled everything with such discipline and professionalism and she never complained,” he gushed.

Elle also chimed in during the interview and added, “I mean, we just really love working together. That was, like, very special.”

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The duo initially sparked romance rumors when they were seen holding hands in Florence, Italy, and then again a few weeks later on a date in London. Okay, jet setters! “They seemed so relaxed and comfortable,” a source who saw them in London told Us Weekly at the time. “They were very low-key and cozy with each other, and looking over for one another and chatting quietly to each other when they were together looking at stuff.”

They made their debut as a couple at the Met Gala

Because meeting on a literal Hollywood set just wasn’t enough, the duo decided to, ya know, up the ante and make their red carpet debut as a couple at the 2019 Met Gala. I mean, could they be any more cool?! Answer: negative.

Max considers himself a serial monogamist

Good to know! In his interview with Esquire, the actor self-identified as a serial monogamist and said he would never date anyone he didn’t see himself marrying eventually…and he felt this way even as a teen. There you have it!

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