Mark Ruffalo Wishes Wife Sunrise a Happy Birthday: 'You Only Get Better with Each Passing Year'

Mar. 15, 2025

Sunrise Coigney and Mark Ruffalo.Photo:Mark Ruffalo/Instagram

Mark Ruffalo/Instagram

Mark Ruffalois wishing his wifeSunrise Coigneya happy birthday.

On Tuesday, Sept. 17, the actor, 56, shared photos of Sunrise and himself onInstagram, writing in the caption, “Happy Birthday you magical being. You only get better with each passing year. Now the real fun starts. We love you. Us.”

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Ruffalo and Sunrise have been married since 2000 and theyshare three children: Keen, 23, Bella Noche, 19, and Odette Moon, 16.

TheAvengersstar originally met his wife on the streets of Los Angeles in 1998. He toldMen’s Journalin 2017 he and a friend met her on the street and that he suspects his friend was initially interested in Sunrise.

“I don’t think he wanted us to meet,” he said at the time. “But I saw her and was like, I’m going to marry that girl.' "

“All I had was my decency, wit and charm — I didn’t have anything,” Ruffalo recalled. “When I met her, she was like, ‘You don’t have a driver’s license, you don’t have a credit card. What is wrong with you, dude? I can’t be with you!’ I was living in a converted garage, and she was there for that, she was game. She believed in me.”

“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.’ "

Sunrise Coigney and Mark Ruffalo on March 10, 2024.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

They celebrated their24th wedding anniversarytogether on June 11. When thePoor Thingsactor received a star on theHollywood Walk of Famein February, he told PEOPLE it was the “most glorious thing” to have his family with him to celebrate, and he added that the honor is “theirs as much as it is mine.”

“It’s not easy being married to an actorand being the children of an actor. I’m away a lot,” he said at the time. “This whole thing is distorting and difficult.”

source: people.com