7 Couples Who Starred in Hallmark Channel Movies Together

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Hallmark Channel proudly proclaims it's the transmission "where emotion happens," and this is literally existent for these personage couples. 

Known for their feel-good rom-coms, the web is liable for staging respective meet-cutes betwixt the stars of their movies, including Victor Webster and Shantel VanSanten, who became adjacent portion filming successful Belgium, and caller parents Chris McNally and Julie Gonzalo, from The Sweetest Heart.

But, it turns out, the acceptable of a made-for-TV movie isn't conscionable for uncovering love, but besides nurturing already established relationships arsenic Hallmark has go a destination for respective joined couples. Carlos and Alexa PenaVega person worked connected respective projects together, portion different celebrated brace worked unneurotic for the archetypal time in their decennary of marriage, teaming up for a Hallmark movie. 

So, it turns out, determination mightiness adjacent beryllium much emotion behind-the-scenes of the channel's contented and their meets are each spot arsenic cute arsenic that large metropolis exec who stumbles upon a azygous begetter who owns a Christmas histrion workplace connected the brink oregon ruin. And, to beryllium honest, we would decidedly ticker films inspired by immoderate of these IRL romances.

Check retired these 7 pairs who person co-starred successful a Hallmark Channel movie together: 

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Chris McNally and Julie Gonzalo

The brace softly began dating erstwhile they met connected the acceptable of 2018's The Sweetest Heart, wherever they played precocious schoolhouse sweethearts who find their mode backmost to each other.

"At the extremity of the day, chemistry is astir feeling bully astir the idiosyncratic you're with and knowing their energy," Gonzalo told FanSided astatine the time. "So we took the clip to conscionable benignant of chat and speech and get to cognize each different arsenic overmuch arsenic we could successful the small clip that we had. And past passim the film, we were capable to get unneurotic aft enactment and work immoderate lines."

The mates ne'er publically confirmed their narration until Gonzalo revealed that they had welcomed their archetypal kid successful June 2022.

Our hearts are full," the Veronica Mars histrion captioned an Instagram photograph of their newborn grabbing some parents' fingertips. "Welcome babe M."

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Victor Webster and Shantel VanSanten

Webster, a Hallmark Channel staple, and the One Tree Hill alum began dating 1 twelvemonth aft gathering connected the acceptable of 2017's Love Blossoms, with VanSanten telling Brides, "While working, we were conscionable friends and successful information I helped him with his dating life."

The mates got engaged successful February 2021, with VanSanten revealing the blessed quality connected Instagram.

"We hiked 2000ft to the apical of the upland wherever @iamvictorwebster told maine helium loved maine for the archetypal clip years ago! What happened adjacent inactive has maine successful shock," she wrote. "He told maine helium wanted to walk everlastingly with me, arsenic helium got down connected 1 genu and asked if I would wed him!!"

Webster and VanSanten got joined successful 3 antithetic wedding ceremonies successful 2021, including a civilian ceremonial connected her grandparent's wedding day date.

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Alexa PenaVega and Carlos PenaVega

After getting joined successful 2014, the mates starred successful 2014's Enchanted Christmas earlier going connected to beforehand the Picture Perfect Mysteries franchise for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

"When we're working, we're full-on working. But erstwhile we're home...it's conscionable us," Alexa told E! News in February 2020. "It's our family. We absorption connected each different and we instrumentality clip with each other."

Alexa called moving connected a movie bid unneurotic a "blessing" for the brace arsenic they tin walk much clip with their 2 sons, Ocean and Kingston, and daughter, Rio Rey.

"I deliberation the hardest happening successful this manufacture is families get separated each the clip due to the fact that of work," the Spy Kids alum explained. "We truly effort to support each different conscionable unneurotic arsenic a unit."

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Colin Donnell and Patti Murin

While the Broadway pair, who wed successful 2015, person co-starred successful 2 movies—2020's Love On Iceland and 2021's To Catch a Spy— and the NBC procedural Chicago Med, they ne'er played emotion interests.

In an interrogation with People, Murin, who originated the relation of Princess Anna successful Frozen connected Broadway, revealed she learned she was large with their eldest, girl Cecily, portion they were filming their archetypal Hallmark movie unneurotic successful Iceland.

"We were going to bash that 'not NOT trying' happening wherever you conscionable propulsion caution into the wind. And then, it conscionable happened," Murin said. "We are conscionable virtually a acquisition for everyone retired determination that this is what happens erstwhile 2 adults don't usage protection. I don't deliberation either of america realized it would hap rather truthful quickly, but we're precise fortunate it did."

Murin and Donnell announced successful October that they are expected their 2nd child. 

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Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez

Though they've been joined sine 2008, Winter and Sanchez didn't stock the surface until 2019's A Taste of Summer. And including their 2 children, Dylan and Sebella, was a large origin successful their determination to enactment unneurotic for the archetypal time.

"We had talked astir if and erstwhile we were going to enactment together," Winter told MediaVillage. "It had to beryllium the close happening and thing amusive and cute that was a household affair, and that's what this was like. Our lad and girl could articulation us, truthful they were connected acceptable and capable to beryllium a portion of the experience. That was important and a large portion of the decision. The Hallmark assemblage is simply a large instrumentality basal and precise supportive, truthful it each conscionable felt similar the close fit."

While Winter had antecedently starred successful 4 films for the network, Sanchez made her Hallmark debut successful the summertime flick. 

"For me, this was my archetypal Hallmark movie, and it was much astir the archetypal clip doing thing together, and if we are going to, let's bash thing suitable for our girl to watch," Sanchez explained. "With Hallmark, everyone knows that they are affirmative feel-good movies, cleanable and precise beautiful. We ne'er truly planned connected acting unneurotic unless it was thing precise special. We'd talked astir producing much than anything, arsenic we some person autarkic careers. Then this came on and we thought, 'You cognize what? This would beryllium thing to beryllium down and ticker arsenic a household without freaking retired that the worldly wouldn't beryllium suitable.'"

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Kevin McGarry and Kayla Wallace

Dating since 2020, McGarry and Wallace bash not play a mates connected their deed Hallmark Channel bid When Calls the Heart. But they did play emotion interests successful 2 2022 films: In Feeling Butterflies and My Grown-Up Christmas List.

"Believe it oregon not, there's nary clause successful my declaration that says I lone bash movies with him—I conscionable bask moving with the guy," Wallace said successful an interrogation with MediaVillage. "Hallmark is simply a fantastic portion of my life, and I'm truthful grateful for everything, and for each the experiences that they've brought my way."

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Daniel Stine and Rachel Hendrix

After gathering connected the acceptable of the 2016 film Virginia Minnesota, Stine and Hendrix got joined successful 2019, the aforesaid twelvemonth they co-starred successful Hallmark's Midway to Love.

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