General Hospital Stars and Their Real-Life Partners: A Valentine’s Day Spotlight

Messy love lives are a soap opera staple, but fortunately for these General Hospital stars, the romantic drama ends when the cameras stop rolling! Scroll through this gallery for a look at the real-life loves, spouses and partners of many of your favorite stars, including Steve Burton (Jason Morgan), Genie Francis (Laura Webber Collins), Rory Gibson (Michael Corinthos), Sawandi Wilson (Isaiah) and Dominic Zamprogna (Dante).
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Arian Anchondo (Marco)

Instagram/Adrian Anchondo Adrian Anchondo (Marco Rios, r.) went public with his romance with Days of Our Lives star Colton Little (Andrew Donovan) last year.Sparks first flew between the duo when Anchondo landed his GH role early in 2025 and, through mutual friends, reached out to Little for advice on adjusting to life in daytime.
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INSTAGRAM/ANDERSON Spinelli only has eyes for Maxie, while in real life, Bradford Anderson is a devoted husband to Kiera, his wife since 2010, with whom he shares two daughters, Juna and Finola.The pair’s relationship began at New York University, where they both studied acting, and their wedding took place near her hometown of Sacramento, CA.
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Maurice Benard (Sonny)

Instagram Last year, Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) marked 35 years of marriage to Paula Smith, with whom he shares three daughters and a son (Joshua, who played Adam Wright on GH from 2022-24).Benard and Smith had been a couple for five years before they exchanged their vows. On Instagram, Benard praised his wife — who is also his manager — as someone who “has never wavered always there for me and our children. Has never made me feel small.”
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Steve Burton (Jason)

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) will celebrate one year of wedded bliss with his beloved, chef and content creator Michelle Lundstrom, in May.“Just married the love of my life, an absolute angel who takes my breath away every day,” he wrote on Instagram shortly after they tied the knot. “So grateful. I’m beyond blessed to call her my wife. Here’s to forever with the most amazing woman I know.”
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Nazneen Contractor (Justine) and Carlo Rota (Sidwell)

CHRISTINE BARTOLUCCI/ABC Nazneen Contractor (Justine Turner) and Carlo Rota (Jenz Sidwell) have been happily married since 2010.The duo, whose characters are on the opposite side of the law in the Port Charles universe, first crossed paths in 2001 on the set of the action-adventure series Relic Hunter and share two children, a son and a daughter.
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Genie Francis (Laura)

JILL JOHNSON/JPI Genie Francis (Laura Webber Collins) knows a thing or two about storybook romance; after all, as Laura, she was one half of daytime’s most legendary supercouple, Luke and Laura. But nothing beats the real thing — and that’s exactly what she has with her husband, actor/director Jonathan Frakes.Francis and Frakes met in 1983 on the set of Bare Essence, but it wasn’t until they were both cast in the 1985 miniseries North and South that their romance began to flourish. They made it to the altar in 1988 and have since raised two children, daughter Elizabeth and son Jameson.
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Kathleen Gati (Liesl)

Twitter Kathleen Gati (Liesl Obrecht) found later-in-life love with her husband, Michael Browers, with whom she tied the knot in 2012, when she was 54.They originally met when they were matched by an online dating service and, as Gati told Soap Opera Digest in 2016, “It was love at first phone call.” For his part, Browers told Digest, “We’re very much opposites, but with a lot of the same values, a lot of the same warmth and heart.”
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Rory Gibson (Michael)

Jesse Grant/Variety via Getty Images Since 2022, Rory Gibson (Michael Corinthos) has been engaged to be married to his high school sweetheart, Alicia Ruelas, who first caught his eye when he was 16 years old.The wedding must be drawing near, as he recently shared that co-star Ryan Paevey (Nathan West), who is a talented jewelry-maker, is crafting his wedding band!
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Van Hansis (Lucas)

INSTAGRAM/VAN HANSIS Van Hansis (Lucas Jones, l.) navigates romantic turmoil on the show, but in real life, he is happily married to Broadway dancer Tyler Hanes.Both stars attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, then reconnected in 2007 and began dating. They have been together ever since.
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Alexa Havins (Lulu)

NATAS Alexa Havins (Lulu Spencer) has had her red carpet escort on lock since 2005. That’s when she said, “I do” to her then-All My Children co-star, Justin Bruening (who played Jamie opposite her Babe).Havins and Bruening met on the AMC set in 2003 and became fast friends, but romance soon flourished. The Bruenings went on to welcome four children.
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Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth) and Michael Saucedo (ex-Juan)

Michael Saucedo, Rebecca Herbst General Hospital Fan Club Luncheon Sportsman Lodge Studio City, CA 7/22/06 ©Jill Johnson/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661JPI Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth Webber) fell in love with Michael Saucedo when he was her co-star in the role of Juan Santiago, which he played from 1999 until 2001, the year they got married.Herbst and Saucedo went on to become the proud parents of three children: sons Ethan and Emerson and daughter Ella. She shared some rare personal photos of herself with her family on X (formerly Twitter) in 2025, teasing, “Yes, I am the shortest one in my house.”
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Josh Kelly (Cody) and Chloe Lanier (ex-Nelle)

Jill Johnson/jpistudios.com Josh Kelly (Cody Bell) and his significant other, Chloe Lanier (ex-Nelle Benson), have been going strong for two years. They went public with their romance at a fan event in 2024.The fun-loving couple never worked together on GH — Nelle was killed off the year before Cody was introduced — but have been collaborating on other projects, including a movie they filmed last summer.
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Kate Mansi (Kristina)

Kate Mansi/Instagram Kate Mansi (Kristina Corinthos-Davis) found her off-camera Prince Charming in husband Matt McInnis, a film producer. The pair said, “I do” in May 2025, surprising their loved ones with an intimate ceremony at what they thought was an engagement party.The duo’s wedding capped off a nearly year-long engagement after McInnis popped the question to Mansi on July 4, 2024 at her family’s cabin.
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Laura Wright (Carly) and Wes Ramsey (ex-Peter)

Instagram Laura Wright, who plays Carly Spencer, has been in a long-term relationship with Wes Ramsey (ex-Peter August) since 2017.The couple first met while working on Guiding Light in 2000, when Wright played Cassie and Ramsey was cast as Sam. They later reconnected at an event for Daytime Emmy Award nominees, where he asked her out and their off-screen romance began.
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Sawandi Wilson (Isaiah)

ScreenshotINSTAGRAM/Sawandi Wilson Sawandi Wilson (Isaiah Gannon) had a big year in 2024: not only did he join the Port Charles ranks as the dashing doctor who ultimately won Portia Robinson’s heart, but he became a married man after swapping vows with actress Anna Eilinsfeld.The couple got engaged shortly before Wilson nabbed his GH gig. Once he inked his contract with ABC, the New York-based duo relocated to Los Angeles with their Husky, Brando.
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Dominic Zamprogna (Dante)

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for NATAS Dante Falconeri, the stalwart cop played by Dominic Zamprogna, has been living single since the tragic death of his fiancée, Sam McCall, in 2024. But off camera, Zamprogna is happily hitched to wife Linda, who he wed in 2009, the same year he signed on with GH.Their wedding followed an 8-year courtship that began on the set of Edgemont, the Canadian TV series on which Zamprogna starred and his future spouse worked as a makeup artist. They share three daughters, Anbilliene, Eliana and Adeline.