Mark Ruffalo and Wife Sunrise Coigney’s Relationship Timeline

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His biggest supporter. Mark Ruffalo and wife Sunrise Coigney have been together since the late ‘90s — and their connection has only grown over time.The pair met by chance while walking the streets of Los Angeles in 1998 with a mutual friend, whom the Avengers actor believed might have had a crush on Coigney as well. “I don’t think he wanted us to meet,” he recalled to Men’s Journal of meeting his wife in May 2013. “But I saw her and was like, ‘I’m going to marry that girl.’”At the time of their first interaction, Ruffalo was a struggling actor living in a converted garage without a driver’s license or credit card.

Despite his lack of success at the time, the Louisiana native believed in her future partner’s talent.“She was like, ‘I know you’re a really good actor,’ and I was like, ‘You haven’t really seen me act yet.’ And she was like, ‘I just know it, I can tell,’” he recalled in the 2013 interview.After two years of dating, the twosome tied the knot in 2000.

One year into their marriage, the 13 Going on 30 actor was diagnosed with a brain tumor that required surgery. At the time, Coigney was pregnant with their first child.“When these things happen, you sort of remember your religion a little bit,” Ruffalo opened up about his health scare to the Acoustic Neuroma Association in 2013. “I was praying and bargaining with God … I said, ‘Please, don’t take my face and don’t take my life because without my face I can’t really support my family, and [without] my life, I definitely can’t support my family.’”The surgery was a success, and the couple welcomed their first child, son Keen, in 2001.

Ruffalo and Coigney later expanded their family with daughters Bella in 2005 and Odette in 2007.As their kids got older, Ruffalo