Zach Gilford and Liana Liberato are ringing in Valentine’s Day 2026 with loads of PDA.
Liberato, 30, uploaded a photograph seemingly kissing Gilford, 44, to her Instagram Tales on Saturday, February 14. The Caught in Love actress dressed casually in a navy hoodie as she wrapped her arms round her boyfriend. Each of their heads have been cropped out of the body as they shared a smooch.
Liberato, who added an emoji of an envelope sealed with a coronary heart to her publish, later teased that she had one other valentine beside Gilford.
“My valentine,” she captioned a follow-up Instagram Story slide of her black-and-white cat.
Us Weekly broke the information in November 2025 that Liberato and Gilford have been courting after assembly on the set of Legal Minds: Evolution.
“They began courting after they labored collectively,” a supply advised Us on the time, noting the pair’s romance was nonetheless “comparatively new.”
Previous to discovering love with Liberato, Gilford was married to Kiele Sanchez for 12 years. Gilford filed for divorce in April 2025, citing irreconcilable variations.Gilford and Sanchez, 48, share two children and likewise work collectively on Legal Minds.
“It’s truly more durable,” Gilford solely advised Us in 2024 of starring reverse his then-wife. “It’s more durable as a result of I don’t wish to maintain a gun to my spouse’s head. … It simply occurred to be that the character of those scenes have been fairly gross. Actually, all these scenes are so f***ed up. I’ll solely communicate for myself. Kiele can clearly communicate for herself, however it felt gross (bringing these darker moments to life collectively).”
In keeping with Gilford, he and Sanchez weren’t solid for Legal Minds on the identical time.
“I used to be on my option to work, and I stated goodbye to Kiele. And he or she checked out her cellphone and stated, ‘That’s bizarre. I simply acquired a suggestion to play your spouse on Legal Minds,’” Gilford advised Us. “Then, Erica (Messer, the showrunner) advised me, ‘We didn’t wish to put strain on you or Kiele. We simply needed to make it very skilled.’”
He continued on the time, “I feel they have been like, ‘Properly, if Zach’s doing this then the one means we’ll get an actress of Kiele’s caliber to play this half is as a result of she’s married to him. And it’ll be like a homie hookup.’ As soon as they acquired Kiele, they undoubtedly leaned into it they usually’re like, ‘Properly, we’ve got this actress so let’s write to her.’”
Gilford and Sanchez, who met on the set of 2010’s The Matadorshave additionally shared the display screen on Kingdom and The Purge: Anarchy. Sanchez later wrote an episode of The Fall of the Home of Usherof which Gilford had a number one position.
“We’ve labored collectively a number of instances and in very completely different conditions,” Gilford recalled to Us in 2024. “However there’s a theme on set if you find yourself coworkers but additionally a married couple. It’s type of attempting to stroll that tightrope. There’s instances the place I wish to (assist her). Like, if she’s having a dialogue (with a director or a author), I wish to be like, ‘Yeah, Kiele is true!’ However that’s not my place. Kiele can discuss for herself — she’s a really sturdy girl.”
As for Liberato, she has usually saved her courting life personal by the years.