Penn Badgley is an American actor and producer. He is famous for his acting roles as Dan Humphrey in the drama series “Gossip Girl” (2007-2012) and Joe Goldberg in the series “You” (2018-present). Many of his fans are interested in the personal life of Badgley and want to know more about her relationship status.
He has dated many women which also includes some of her co-stars. However, in 2014, he met Domino Kirke and both of them started seeing each other very seriously. The couple married each other just three years after meeting each other. Learn more about the relationship and marriage of Penn and Domino.
Domino Kirke
Kirke is the daughter of Simon Kirke who was co-founder of the band Bad Company. He was also the drummer of the band and owned a vintage shop, Lorraine Kirke. Her family was fully committed to the performance. However, Kirke decided to choose her path differently. She studied to become a doula and reiki practitioner.
Domino is also the co-founder of Carriage House Birth, which provides special services for women who are pregnant. She was named after Domino Harvey, as her mother met him once. Kirke has always had a talent for singing as she took piano lessons since she was six years old. Kirke attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and also studied classical voice and piano.
She also managed to form a band called DOMINO after completing her studies in music. Back in the year 2017, she released a music album of her own along with Mark Ronson. This album was titled as “Beyond Waves”.
How Did Penn Badgley & Domino Meet?
The first public appearance of Penn Badgley and Domino Kirke was in New York City in July 2014. No one knows the exact date as to when the couple started dating but it was sometimes earlier than their first outing. They met each other due to some common New York friends and both of them saw each other during common friends gatherings.
During the early stages of their dating history, Domino did not think that they would end up marrying each other. Kirke already had a child (a son, Cassius Riley with musician Morgan O’Kane) and according to her, she was used to being a single mother at that time. Once she realized that they belonged to each other, she was destined to marry Penn.
The religious connection between the couple helped them to be with each other. Both of them believed that it was important to study more about religion. According to the American actor, faith in his religion helped him to marry Kirke. Penn even stated at one time that:
The phenomenon of fame is literally invisible, but it influences and dominates your life if you aren’t careful. Learning how to accept it and accept that lots of people think they know me is ultimately what led me to seek out such a spiritual perspective.
Public Appearance After Dating
Both Penn Badgley and Kirke were spotted at various times supporting each other in public. The first occurrence happened when Domino came to support her boyfriend during the show of his band, MOTHXR, in September 2014. She posted a picture of Penn Badgley and captioned it with a red heart which was later deleted and never resurfaced on her Instagram till this day.
In December 2014, the couple was seen again at the Millions March which was conducted in New York in support of Black Lives Matter.
During the early month of 2015, Badgley confessed to his Gossip Girl co-star, Chace Crawford that he watched the Gossip Girls series with a ‘special someone’. Penn later confessed to himself in 2020 when he stated:
It would be very interesting to watch it now. I watched with my wife, with Domino, before we got married. It must’ve been six months after we met. She had never seen it, and that’s the last time I can remember seeing an episode.
On 12 November 2015, the couple attended the LoveEMC fundraiser. This was held at the Bowery Hotel in New York City. The charity institution, Every Mother Counts, was the beneficiary for this fundraising.
On 21 January 2017, Penn Badgley and Domino attended the Women’s March together in New York. Kirke had uploaded a picture of Penn holding a placard but soon deleted it.
Penn Badgley Wife
The official wedding of Badgley and Kirke was held on 27 February 2017, in a courthouse ceremony. This wedding was held in Brooklyn, New York. Badgley wore a navy-blue suit while Kirke wore a short dress with white laces.
Both the couple celebrated this wedding with some of their close relatives and friends at Maison-May, a restaurant in Brooklyn.
Another wedding ceremony was held on 24 June 2017 as the couple planned a large outdoor wedding in the upstate region of New York. It was attended by many people including some of the celebrities as well such as Zac Posen, Mariska Hargitay, Debra Messing, and Heidi Klum.
