Nicholas Braun is finding success in his love life.
The Succession alum gave a rare update on his relationship with girlfriend Hyunji Ward as he celebrated her birthday with a heartfelt message on social media.
“HBD to my sweet sweet DARLING of a girlfriend,” the actor gushed in a post on Instagram March 26. “You are the absolute joy of my life. You make me my best self!!”
To prove his point, Nicholas, 36, pointed to the “shirt full of forks” he wore in one of the photos in the carousel, noting that Hyunji—an executive at TeaTime Pictures—was the one who told him he could pull off the bold style.
“You were right,” he concluded. “Love you dearly.”
While the couple have kept their romance relatively quiet, they’ve made occasional appearances together such as an understated outing at an Emmy Awards after-party in January 2024 and a date night at a Netflix event the following month.
And while the How to Be Single star appears to be happily partnered, he previously admitted that his tendency to overthink potential connections contributed to his past dating struggles.
“I don’t feel like I have power or leverage at all,” he told The Cut in June 2021. “I’m the one trying to get something, get a text back or get a call back or anything.”
Months later, Nicholas confessed he didn’t have much relationship experience whatsoever.
“I haven’t really been in a long-term relationship, ever,” he told The New York Times that October. “I do yearn for it and yet I’m incapable of it. I go toward it and then I hit a wall where I’m like, ‘I can’t go farther into this. I’ve got to exit.’”
But despite being unlucky in love at the time, the three-time Emmy nominee was optimistic that his fortunes would eventually improve.
“I do believe it’ll happen at the right time with the right person,” he continued. “Until then, it’s fun to meet people and see what works.”
Keep reading for more on the love lives of your favorite Succession stars.
Brian Cox
Logan Roy, media mogul and father of four adult kids who are each unhappy in their own way, is on his third marriage, with the occasional other woman popping in and out of his bedroom.
Cox is also a father of four: Son Alan (also an actor), and daughter Margaret with Caroline Burt, whom he was married to from 1968 to 1986, and sons Orson and Torin with his second wife, NicoleAnsari-Cox.
“I was just in my twenties when I got married to Caroline,” the Scottish actor wrote in his 2021 memoir Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. “Far too young. But I wanted the stability of marriage and kids. I wasn’t one of those middle-class actor-types, taking drugs and letting it all hang out.”
He called Ansari-Cox, an actress and theater director, his “soulmate.” She also, incidentally, made a winning cameo at Logan Roy’s funeral as Sally-Ann, his mistress from his second marriage to Caroline (Harriet Walters), who drolly introduces the newcomer as “my Kerry” to Logan’s third wife Marcia (Hiam Abbass) and his most recent girlfriend, Kerry (Zoe Winters).
Alan Ruck
As the poor little rich boy no one seems to expect anything of, Logan’s eldest son Connor, from his first marriage, wavers between being the least nasty and most delusional of the siblings. The aspiring presidential candidate finally got to marry former escort Willa (Justine Lupe), who sorta likes him—but accepting his largesse and promising not to leave today is kinda like love, right?
In real life, Ruck and first wife Claudia Stefany share daughter Emma and son Sam. Ruck is also dad to daughter Vesper and son Larkin with The Killing star Mireille Enos, his wife since 2008.
Enos and a newly divorced Ruck met while doing a play together in New York. The first time she saw her future husband, Enos told People, “Alan walked in the door and my brain said, ‘Oh, there he is.’ It was a moment of recognition of some other person who was going to change my life.”
Jeremy Strong
It was easy to forget Kendall Roy was a separated father of two young kids because he was so wholly consumed with taking his dad down.
In real life, Emmy winner Strong is still a bit of a jet-setter, but navigating friendlier skies: Strong and his wife since 2016, Emma Wall, split their time between homes in New York and her native Denmark. They’re also parents of three young daughters.
“He does a really good job of maintaining what he’s doing,” Wall told the New Yorker about her famously intense-on-the-job husband in 2021, “but also creating a space for the family and a normal life.”
Sarah Snook
Siobhan “Shiv” Roy isn’t entirely sure why she got married, either, other than it seemed like a respectable move and she felt some sort of love-like emotion for Tom Wambsgans. And now those chickens are coming home to roost, with Tom ending season three on Team Logan and shanking his wife with the proverbial shiv, just as the Roy siblings seemed poised to get the better of their father.
Snook’s domestic situation feels more hopeful. “I’m in bliss,” the Australian actress told Australian Vogue in 2021 after quietly marrying comedian Dave Lawson, her longtime “best mate” whom she fell in love with during pandemic lockdown.
“It’s been a ride,” she acknowledged. “There’s so much heartache and sadness in the world, but on a micro personal level, I’ve been very fortunate.”
Snook, whose real-life pregnancy became Shiv’s conundrum, and Lawson welcomed their first child together in May 2023.
Matthew Macfadyen
Tom Wambsgans thought he was hitting the jackpot, marrying the woman of his dreams in Shiv and securing himself an executive post in the family business, Waystar RoyCo.
Well, his wife may have broached the topic of non-monogamy hours after they said “I do,” but Tom did end up on the Succession equivalent of the Iron Throne, no prison toilet wine in sight.
In reality the English actor—who won a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for his efforts in 2022—is doing quite well.
He’s been married to actress Keeley Hawes since 2004, and is stepdad to her son Miles and father to their daughter Maggie and son Ralph.
“It was a bit bumpy at the time,” Macfadyen told the New York Times in 2023 about the beginning of his and Hawes’ relationship (a headline-making extramarital affair on her end), “but it’s fine now.”
Kieran Culkin
To say Roman Roy has intimacy issues would be a bit of an understatement.
But Culkin celebrated 10 years of marriage to wife Jazz Charton on June 8, 2023, and they’re parents to two kids with a third on the way.
That being said, the actor does have a bit of a mouth on him, not unlike his quick-witted character.
When Culkin met his future wife at a bar in New York, he recalled to The Hollywood Reporter, “I said, ‘I’m Kieran. You have an English accent. What’s your name?’ She said, ‘Jazz.’ I said, ‘J-A-Z-Z, like the music?’ And she said, ‘Yeah.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s f–king stupid.'”
We’re guessing he said that with a certain Romanesque charm because, reader, she laughed. And married him.
J. Smith-Cameron
Let’s just say, Gerri Kellman didn’t exactly help Roman with his intimacy issues, but the release he got from being chastised by a successful older woman certainly fit the profile.
Cameron has been married to filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan since 2000 and they’re parents to daughter Nellie
Nicholas Braun
In October 2021, Braun told the New York Times that he was hoping to be in his first long-term relationship one day.
“I do believe it’ll happen at the right time with the right person,” said the actor, who was also writing what he described as a “relationship traumedy” when not busy filming. “Until then, it’s fun to meet people and see what works.”
And that time finally came thanks to film executive Hyunji Ward.
“You are the absolute joy of my life,” he wrote on Instagram in March 2025. “You make me my best self!!”
Jesse Armstrong
The British writer-producer’s crafty mind may have created Succession, but at home he’s just a fellow who’s lived, as the New Yorker reported in 2021, “in the same unflashy part of South London for almost three decades” with his wife and their two kids.
Armstrong met his missus when they were both students at University of Manchester and she works for the National Health Service.
“We might do a new kitchen,” the five-time Emmy winner told the magazine. “So that will be corrupting.”
