Colin donnell and patti murin
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I feel ready to raise a girl because I'm in a place as a woman where I feel like I know something about how I want them to turn out.
Speaking toPEOPLE Magazine in 2021, Colin and Patti were asked why they hadn't played love interests on-screen before. One of which was the fact that while pregnant, Murin contracted COVID-19. When they weren't able to be together while he was filming "Chicago Med," she would sometimes visit him in the Windy City, where the couple did normal things like visit bookstores and catch up over coffee.
The actors share their secret to lasting love
As of this writing in 2022, Colin Donnell and Patti Murin are still going strong, both professionally and as a couple.
Four wonderful years on this incredible show. (Keep up the romance novel music collabs, Colin and Patti!)
Just one day before the couple released “Sounds Like Love,” they celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary. They have two daughters, Cecily and Lorelai.
“You are the best decision I’ve ever made.
"It's nice that people like to have us both around at the same time," Patti chimed in. That I think has been really great for the two of us. The couple reenacted the reality TV show's notorious rose ceremony with actor pal Andrew Rannells standing in for "Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison (via Us Weekly). We are officially hitched!" was the adorable caption.
Murin and Donnell have a bumpy road to a baby bump
The path toward starting a family was difficult at first for Colin Donnell and Patti Murin.
The couple was over the moon with joy, but with that joy came another difficult hurdle for the family. It seems these trials and tribulations have only made Donnell and Murin's bond even stronger. I just don't see it.'" If Donnell had eyes for Murin back then, he kept it to himself.
Shakespeare and fate brought the couple together
In 2013, Colin Donnell and Patti Murin were both cast in an updated musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost." Sparks flew at a party Murin threw prior to rehearsals for the play.
She was previously married to fellow actor Curtis Holbrook, but it appears they split sometime during 2012-2013.
As for Murin and Donnell, they initially met at the birthday party of a mutual friend, but it would be eight years before a romantic relationship blossomed between them. And then I never would have really met Patti."
Still, the couple took their time before becoming official.
This was in April of 2020 when the pandemic was in full swing and the world was trying to figure out how to handle the virus. Honestly, it works for us, especially now with a child, because then it's either he's working or I'm working. Murin shared that while each had their particular process, they were also always happy to help their partner prepare, such as running through lines with them.
Donnell agreed and added, "I think we both kind of have our own ways of working that complement each other very, very well when we're working opposite each other, and working together.
Let's take a look inside the relationship of Patti Murin and Colin Donnell, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's cutest couples.
It was not love at first sight
For a couple so entrenched in the magical world of stage and screen, Colin Donnell and Patti Murin's relationship had a decidedly mundane start.