Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez have known as it quits.
The “Criminal Minds” star, 43, filed for divorce from the “Lost” alum, 47, after 12 years of marriage, in response to courtroom paperwork obtained by TMZ.
In Friday’s submitting, the “Friday Night Lights” vet cited “irreconcilable differences” as the explanation for his or her break up, however didn’t listing a date of separation.
Per the courtroom paperwork, Gilford — who tied the knot with Sanchez in 2012 — is searching for joint authorized and bodily custody of their two children Zeppelin, 7, and Revel, 4.
The pair are usually not solely married in actual life, but additionally play spouses on “Criminal Minds: Evolution” on Paramount+.
Gilford received candid on working alongside Sanchez in August, noting that starring reverse each other is “actually harder.”
He instructed Us Weekly, “It’s harder because I don’t want to hold a gun to my wife’s head. … It just happened to be that the nature of these scenes were pretty gross.”
Gilford performs Elias Voit, a serial killer who poses as a household man and hides his true id from his spouse Sydney (Sanchez) and their two daughters.
“Honestly, all those scenes are so f–ked up,” confessed Gilford. “I’ll only speak for myself. Kiele can obviously speak for herself, but it felt gross [bringing those darker moments to life together].”
The “Dare” alum additionally revealed how the sequence forged Sanchez within the function.
“I was on my way to work and I said goodbye to Kiele. And she looked at her phone and said, ‘That’s weird. I just got an offer to play your wife on ‘Criminal Minds,’” Gilford recalled.
“Then, [showrunner] Erica [Messer] told me, ‘We didn’t want to put pressure on you or Kiele. We just wanted to make it very professional,’” he defined. “I think they were like, ‘Well, if Zach’s doing this then the only way we’ll get an actress of Kiele’s caliber to play this part is because she’s married to him. And it’ll be like a homie hookup.’”
“Once they got Kiele, they definitely leaned into it and they’re like, ‘Well, we have this actress so let’s write to her.’”
Gilford and Sanchez first met in 2010 on set of “The Matadors.” In 2014, the 2 went on to star collectively in two tasks: “Kingdom” and “The Purge: Anarchy.”
Sanchez was additionally a co-writer on Gilford’s episode of the 2023 horror sequence “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
“We’ve worked together several times and in very different situations,” the actor mirrored to the outlet. “But there’s a theme on set when you are coworkers but also a married couple. It’s kind of trying to walk that tightrope. There’s times where I want to [support her]. Like, if she’s having a discussion [with a director or a writer], I want to be like, ‘Yeah, Kiele is right!’ But that’s not my place. Kiele can talk for herself — she’s a very strong woman.”
In 2013, Gilford and Sanchez’s wedding ceremony photographer, Jonas Peterson, revealed the star emailed him to shoot their big day and wished to set the scene of how he met his then fiancé.
“It’s a very long email. I can’t think of any specific thing, but the whole email is amazing,” Peterson instructed ABC Information on the time. “[He said], ‘I want to tell you the story of how I met the love of my life.’”
Gilford instructed Peterson that when he met Sanchez they have been each with different individuals, “but [he said], ‘We knew we had to spend our lives together.’”
“It’s just a long story about him and her and personal loss — and by the end I said, ‘I’m doing this.’”
“It’s amazing to meet people who treat me like family,” Peterson mirrored. “I was honored and amazed. There’s such a facade of actors and there was no facade with them at all. This was them being themselves, crying and all of that. This was them.”
Because it seems, their wedding ceremony was a star-studded occasion.
In attendance was Michelle Hurd, who starred on “The Glades” with Sanchez, and her husband Garret Lee Dillahunt.
Gilford’s former “Friday Night Lights” co-star Jesse Plemons, who tied the knot with Kirsten Dunst in 2022, was additionally on the huge day.
“Oh man, that guy [Plemons] can play guitar!” Peterson shared with the outlet. “He’s in a band called Cowboy and Indian and they were good — very good! [Gilford and Sanchez] are the most normal people in the world. It’s so nice to see that celebrities can be completely normal and down-to-earth because, trust me, that never happens.”
He added of Gilford and Sanchez: “They are the most in-love couple you’ll ever see. It’s really amazing. Zach said, ‘This is the love of my life and I want you to come capture that.’ And that’s how it was, and that’s how they act. To see them doing this thing was spectacular.”
In 2015, the pair was anticipating their first youngster collectively, a son, when Sanchez suffered a being pregnant loss.
“We regretfully confirm that Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez recently lost their child to a late-term miscarriage,” a rep for the couple instructed Individuals on the time.
“No additional details will be made available. We thank everyone in advance for their sensitivity and discretion during this difficult time.”
Shortly after the delivery of their daughter in 2017, Gilford and Sanchez instructed Individuals: “We have always wanted to be parents and Zeppelin has made our dreams come true.”
