Max Minghella does not have a wife and has never been married, but he has been romantically linked to several women and has been dating Elle Fanning since 2018.
Anthony Minghella and Carolyn Jane Choa had Max Giorgio Choa Minghella in Hampstead, London, on the 16th of September 1985. While the latter is a dancer and choreographer, his late father was a film director, playwright, and screenwriter. So it is only natural that Max settled for a career in the entertainment industry as an actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. The entertainer of multi-ethnic extraction gained mainstream recognition when he played Robby Barnes in the 2005 geopolitical thriller film, Syriana. In the years that followed, he consolidated on that with roles in popular productions like Art School Confidential, The Social Network, The Internship, and The Handmaid’s Tale.
Playing Commander Nick Blaine in the latter, a dystopian television series, earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2021 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. It has widely been expressed that Max Minghella has a promising future in the industry as a filmmaker. This is because, among other projects, he directed and produced Teen Spirit, a 2018 musical drama film that was released to critical acclaim. The film marked his directorial debut and stars his girlfriend Elle Fanning alongside Rebecca Hall and Zlatko Buric. Unsurprisingly, the career exploits of Minghella have made a lot of people inquisitive about him and it extends to his personal life, including his relationship with Fanning and those he dated before her.
Profile Summary of Max Minghella
- Full Name: Max Giorgio Choa Minghella
- Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England
- Date of Birth: September 16, 1985
- Age: 38 Years Old
- Occupation: Actor, Film Producer, Director, and Screenwriter
- Years Active: 1999 – Present
- Father: Anthony Minghella (1954 – 2008)
- Mother: Carolyn Jane Choa
- Marital Status: Single
- Romantic Partner: Elle Fanning (2018 – Present)
His Girlfriend Elle Fanning Is 26 Years Old and Was Born In Conyers, Georgia
Unlike her boyfriend who followed the footstep of his parents career-wise, Elle Fanning is professionally unrelated to her parents. She is the daughter of Steven J. Fanning and Heather Joy Fanning (nee Arrington). As you would easily find, they had her on the 9th of April 1998 and her place of birth was in the Atlanta suburb and only city in Rockdale County, Georgia – Conyers. Elle came from a family that is prone to pursuing a career in sports or related fields. Her mother Joy Fanning played professional tennis while her father who is now an electronics salesman played baseball professionally for minor league baseball teams.
The ESPN reporter Jill Arrington is Elle Fanning’s aunt and the former football quarterback for NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, Rick Arrington, is her maternal grandfather. She is of German, French, Irish, English, and Channel Islander heritage and was raised in a Christian family of Southern Baptist denomination. Elle is related to the British royalty; it is said that she is the 22nd great-granddaughter of King Edward III and as such, a distant cousin of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. She is not the only child of her parents, Elle has an older sister named Dakota Fanning and she is also a popular actress.
Reports have it that Elle’s grandmother Mary Jane Arrington home-schooled her until 2007 when she began attending Campbell Hall School. American actress Ariel Winter Workman was her classmate at the private K-12 Episcopal day school in Los Angeles. Following her graduation in June 2016, she proceeded to the small interdisciplinary college within New York University, The Gallatin School of Individualization Study, to further her education. Ella Fanning is way younger than her boyfriend, he is over 12 and half a year older than her. But like they say, age is just a number and the two wouldn’t let it get in the way of love.
Max Minghella and Elle Fanning Met On The Set of Teen Spirit and Has Been Dating Since July 2018
Based on the foregoing, you have already learned that Max Minghella’s girlfriend Elle Fanning is an actress, what you have not been told is that she began acting when she was a kid; before she turned three. Her earliest acting roles were in I Am Sam (2001) and Taken (2003) and they both had her play the younger version of her older sister’s characters.
In the years that followed, she was seen in several productions including Babel (2006), Phoebe In Wonderland (2008), and Somewhere (2010). She got her breakthrough in 2011 and became a mainstream actress when she played Alice Dainard in the monster thriller film, Super 8. It was work that brought Max and Elle together: they reportedly met when Elle was hired to play Violet in Teen Spirit which was directed and Max Minghella.
As far as the public knows, it was in July 2018 that the two began dating. They were seen in public together for the first time holding hands in Florence, Italy. The following month, they were yet again seen together in public; this time it was in London and they were out for a date. In May of the following year, they made their red carpet debut as a couple at the annual Met Gala. In an interview with ET, Elle Fanning related that she enjoyed working with Max and described him as a “good friend”.
The Actor Intends to Get Married to The Actress Someday
Max Minghella and Elle Fanning are not engaged and are probably not discussing marriage yet. Nevertheless, it wouldn’t be wrong for one to assert that the actor intends to get married to the actress. This is based on an Esquire piece about the actor cum filmmaker wherein he was described as “a serial monogamist”. According to the report, Max said he has never been in a relationship with anyone he didn’t think he could get married to. This, he said, has been his way even when he was as young as 14 years old.
If that’s true, then it means the actor was open to getting married to Kate Mara and Leigh Lezark. Reports have it that he dated Kate Mara on and off from 2010 to 2014. Before her, he dated Leigh from 2006 to 2009. It was once rumored that he was in a relationship with the Canadian-French singer, Avril Lavigne, and the Irish actress Eve Hewson. None of this was substantially confirmed.
