Longtime Partners Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater Hit the Stage Together in Henrik Ibsen’sGhostsOff-Broadway

Mar. 15, 2025

Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe.Photo:Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Getty

LovebirdsLily RabeandHamish Linklaterare sharing the stage once again in the new year!

The pair of actors, who have three children together, are set to star in Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Henrik Ibsen’s classic playGhosts, a drama about a family confronting the dark secrets that are embedded in their past and present.

Joining them in the star-studded production areBilly Crudup,Ella BeattyandLevon Hawke.

Billy Crudup, Ella Beatty, Levon Hawke.Jesse Dittmar; No credit; Hedi Slimane

Jesse Dittmar; No credit; Hedi Slimane

Both Rabe and Linklater have extensive stage credits, and have threaded the boards together in the past.

They first met in 2010 when they were cast opposite Al Pacino in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production ofThe Merchant of Venice.Though Rabe stayed with the revival when it transferred to Broadway, Linklater didn’t. But their first Broadway co-credit came the following year, when they starred in Theresa Rebeck’s contemporary comedySeminarin 2011.

Other productions — includingMuch Ado About NothingandCymbeline, both at the Delacorte — have since followed, as have on-screen collaborations.

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Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater attend the Los Angeles premiere of Amazon Studio’s “The Tender Bar” at TCL Chinese Theatre on Dec. 12, 2021 in Hollywood, Calif..Amy Sussman/Getty

In April 2024, the couple made their co-directorial debut, in the film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman’s novel,Downtown Owl. The comedy-drama starred Rabe oppositeVanessa Hudgens, and followed the lives of residents in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota during a whiteout blizzard.

Linklater, ofThe New Adventures of Old Christinefame, and Rabe, ofAmerican Horror Storyfame,welcomed their first daughterin 2017 — and two more babies in2020and2022.

Speaking to PEOPLE at Chanel’s 16th Annual Tribeca Artists Dinner in June 2023, Rabe said that her children allow her to stay grounded after finishing an acting role. “Listen, my kids always help me kind of come back to the present moment,” she said, noting that the 2023 seriesLove & Deathwas particularly hard to “shake.” “So when in doubt, that’s what I go to.”

Ghosts, Lincoln Center.Lincoln Center Theater

Lincoln Center Theater

In addition to Rabe and Linklater’s romance, theGhostscast includes two others on a similar path, as both Hawke and Beatty come from famous families.

Ella, 24, also has A-list parents:Annette BeningandWarren Beatty. TheFeud: Capote vs. The Swansactress made herBroadway debutin theSarah Paulson-ledAppropriatelast year.

Tickets forGhostsgo on saleJan 17 at 12 p.m. ET.

source: people.com