Linda Cardellini’s Fiancé Steven Rodriguez: All About Their Romance & Her Past Relationships

• Linda Cardellini is simply a celebrated histrion known for her roles successful Netflix’s Dead to Me, Scooby-Doo (2002), Freaks and Geeks, and more.
• She is engaged to Steven Rodriguez.
• The quality formerly dated her costar Jason Segel.
• Linda starred successful the Netflix series Dead to Me alongside Christina Applegate from 2019 until the show’s last play successful Nov. 2022.

Linda Cardellini, 47, has taken connected immoderate of the astir iconic roles successful Hollywood, including Velma Dinkley successful the 2002 movie Scooby-Doo. On the tiny screen, she starred successful the deed TV series Freaks and Geeks from 1999 to 2000, and astir precocious successful Netflix’s series Dead to Me. The 47-year-old keeps overmuch of her beingness retired of the nationalist eye, but she has been engaged to Steven Rodriguez since 2013. Below is everything to cognize astir him, their relationship, and her erstwhile narration with Jason Segel, 42.

Linda Cardellini has been engaged to Steven Rodriguez since 2013. (Shutterstock)

Who Is Steven Rodriguez?

Steven is Linda’s longtime partner, who she has loved since their childhood. Steven antecedently worked arsenic an histrion but aboriginal moved connected to go a personage constitution artist, per Oprah Daily. The Mad Men actress met her starring antheral erstwhile she was lone 10 years old, and helium was 11 years old. And successful 2013, Linda opened up to PEOPLE about the archetypal clip she laid eyes connected Steven, “He was 11. He was the caller kid astatine my school,” she said. “He could bash astonishing motorcycle tricks and I was impressed. Not acrophobic to accidental it.”

Although they knew each different since they were children, the brace did not reconnect romantically until 2010. “We’ve been friends for years and years,” Linda told the outlet, “and it was not adjacent 3 years that we got unneurotic and realized that we should’ve been doing that each on … It didn’t instrumentality agelong to fig retired we were astonishing friends and we could astir apt beryllium large partners.”

How Long Have They Been Engaged?

After getting unneurotic successful 2010, it was lone a substance of clip until Linda and her beau were happily engaged. By 2013, the constitution creator officially popped the question, astir 1 twelvemonth aft they welcomed their daughter, Lilah-Rose Rodriguez, 10. “I was amazed that it was happening astatine that moment,” The Curse of La Llorona histrion said connected The View at the time. “We were really with immoderate of the radical I emotion most: my sister, and my cousins and 1 of my champion friends Maura [Tierney] . . . and we were sitting, and helium started getting choked up and past got connected his knee. It was precise beautiful.”

When she was expecting her bundle of joy, Linda spoke to Access Hollywood about her pregnancy. “Morning sickness was unspeakable the archetypal 4 months,” the proud mom said. “It was awful. I was benignant of a monster! … Now I consciousness great, and it’s astonishing and I tin consciousness kicking and it’s a wholly unbelievable experience. It’s a small spot like Alien in subject fabrication and past besides it’s a brainsick miracle.”

Linda Cardellini & Jason Segel dated from 2001 to 2007. (Shutterstock)

When Did Linda Date Jason Segel?

Before getting engaged to Steven, however, Linda dated her former Freaks and Geeks costar Jason Segel from 2001 to 2007, per Who Dated Who. The 2 were bully friends during the show, which filmed from 1999 until 2000, but aboriginal reconnected and dated. The How I Met Your Mother star revealed to The New York Times that a breakup adjacent inspired the hilarious breakup country successful the 2008 drama Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Although helium did not notation Linda by name, they broke up the twelvemonth prior. “I was trying to acquisition [the breakup] viscerally, arsenic a person,” helium told the outlet. “But each I could deliberation was: ‘This is hilarious. I cannot hold for her to permission truthful I tin constitute this down.’”

Also, successful 2008, Jason told The Los Angeles Times that the movie was not needfully inspired by anyone successful particular. “I can’t power what radical think,” helium said. “I was inactive precise overmuch a kid [then], and this was much an amalgamation of a batch of antithetic relationships and breakups I’ve had. People are bound to talk, but she was a large girlfriend.” Linda and Jason appeared connected galore reddish carpets unneurotic during their relationship, but yet called it quits successful 2007.