Highlights

• Joshua Leonard is known for his role in The Blair Witch Project.
• Alison Pill is recognized for her work in American Horror Story: Cult and The Newsroom.
• The couple, who are known for being private about their relationship, got engaged in 2015.

When The Blair Witch Project was in theaters in 1999, people were equally fascinated by and scared of the seemingly true story. While it's now considered one of the greatest horror movies ever made, it wasn't always obvious that it would become such a big part of the genre. As it turns out, though, Bruce Willis knew Blair Witch would do well and was a fan as soon as he saw it.

The Blair Witch Project cast engaged in method acting while filming, and after he co-starred in the film along with Heather Donahue and Michelle Williams, Joshua Leonard continued to work in Hollywood. He also married Alison Pill, an actress best known for starring in the compelling HBO drama The Newsroom. Here's what the private couple has revealed about their relationship.

Inside Alison Pill And Joshua Leonard's Marriage

Alison Pill and Joshua Leonard have both been acting for a long time. They have had very different careers, and it's interesting to look at what their professional lives looked like before they got married in 2015.

After starring in The Blair Witch Project, Leonard starred in movies of all genres, but his horror roles are what he is known for. He starred in the slashers Hatchet and Prom Night in 2006 and 2008. He also played James Finnigan on the creepy TV series Bates Motel and Mark Collins in the TV drama Scorpion.

Fans likely recognize Pill since she played Ivy Mayfair-Richards in American Horror Story: Cult and Maggie Jordan in The Newsroom. She has starred in a few popular movies and was praised for playing Zelda Fitzgerald in the 2011 comedy Midnight in Paris and Kim Pine in the 2010 cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

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Alison Pill was engaged before she began dating Joshua Leonard. According to Us Weekly, Jay Baruchel and Pill split up in March 2013. It sounds like she is the one who ended the relationship because the actor tweeted "Getting dumped rules."

While Pill and Leonard are very private about their romance, they have shared a bit about their journey to the altar. Since they are the kind of actors who seem to like keeping things out of the media, this is proof of how much they love each other and how excited they were about getting married.

In January 2015, People reported on Leonard and Pill's sweet engagement. He organized a Joshua Tree hike with their friend group and then surprised his partner by asking her to marry him.

Leonard explained, “I told her that I loved her more than anybody on the planet. It was pretty good. Her hands were shaking, and so about 30 seconds after I gave it to her I said, ‘You might want to put that on now.’ ”

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The couple got married a few months later in May 2015. While not much is known about the details of their wedding day, Pill did wear a yellow dress. It seems like the actors wanted to make sure that their wedding really felt like them and that they weren't just following tradition.

The Daily Mail reported that after Leonard and Pill went to the courthouse in Beverly Hills to pick up their marriage license, they had a small wedding a few days later.

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While Joshua Leonard and Alison Pill don't say much about their relationship in interviews, they always appear to be happy when they are photographed together at TV and movie premieres.

The couple became parents in November 2016 and have a young daughter named Wilder Grace Leonard. According to People, Pill shared a photo of herself and her husband holding their baby girl on Instagram. She wrote a moving caption that included a quote from the Thorton Wilder play "Our Town" and said, “So much to be thankful for. Wilder Grace Leonard, born November 19, 2016. ‘Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. …Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?’

In 2011, a few years before he married Pill, Joshua Leonard talked about his movie The Lie with Interview Magazine. He co-wrote and directed the film and also starred as Lonnie, a character who is stressed out about parenthood, marriage, and career problems.

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Leonard said that he was interested in exploring these topics as he saw that his friend group was settling down. He called it a "flight into marriage and parenthood." The actor continued to Interview Magazine, "All of a sudden, everybody I knew got married and pregnant. Especially in Los Angeles, it’s easier to appear like you have a domestic life because so many of us have little bungalow houses on safe-looking streets and it feels more family-friendly."

Alison Pill posts about her husband from time to time, and her messages are always charming and unique. On February 15th, 2022, she shared that she didn't want to say anything on Valentine's Day, but she did want to acknowledge her love for her husband. She wrote, "Here’s to more rail trail walks and puppy snuggles and being impressed with the human you are."

While neither Alison Pill nor Joshua Leonard talks about each other all that often, they do seem to share a great bond. Leonard has been honest about his career path and how he has grown up over the decades since The Blair Witch Project.

In 2018, he talked to Indiewire about his movie Unsane and mentioned how humbled he was by parenthood and marriage. He said, “I was absolutely a cocky kid when I did ‘Blair Witch,’ and I think part of the glory and the downfall of being a cocky kid is that you don’t know you’re a cocky kid. Now being a husband and a father and 20 years into a career, I am very aware of all the things I don’t know, and may never know, and very aware of the fact that life and filmmaking should not be some solipsistic journey.”

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