actor Mark Blucas and his wife, Ryan HaddonWe've been together for over a decade.
Blucas, best known for his roles in… Summer fishing, First daughter The Hallmark movie star married Haddon in 2009. Together they have two daughters. (Haddon too Parents of two older children With ex-husband Christian Slater.)
“My family will always be more important to me than my career,” the actor told Wake Forest graduates. magazine In 2019. “Right now, my kids are getting to the age where they want to be around me.”
Blucas will travel home every two weeks from the set just to see his loved ones. He and Haddon live with their mixed brood In a renovated farmhouse In rural Pennsylvania.
“You know what's amazing, our house was built in 1711, you know, before George Washington was born. “It's a way to stay creatively stimulated when I'm not filming or working,” Blucas gushed during a 2016 interview with the Hallmark Channel. Home and family. “We wanted to be closer to our family so we moved back to the East Coast to be there for them. It's the only place in the United States that has this kind of architecture with old stone barns and old stone houses.
According to Blucas, the property has become a “lifetime project.”
“We have 15 chickens, 2 rabbits, dogs, cats He added: “The wildlife is (off the charts).” “We see (foxes and deer) constantly. We house them all. In fact, my wife and I had to make a new rule. … We were working on the main house and my wife came home with the chicks and so, I said, 'Where are we going to put them, honey?'
Keep scrolling to revisit Blucas and Haddon's love story:
2008
Three years after Haddon and Slater's divorce, she began dating Blucas.
2009
Blucas and Haddon married in July after one year together.
2012
Blucas and Haddon left Los Angeles for Pennsylvania the same year their eldest daughter was born.
“From 25 to 35 years old, it was a great place to be,” he told Wake Forest Alumni Magazine in 2019. I was single. “It was the heartbeat of the industry I was working in, and I needed to learn it and build relationships with it.”
He added at the time: “It's Groundhog Day in L.A. It's 70 years old and it's perfect all the time, but you can't really tell time. There's no cycle of life and death. Leaves don't fall from trees. And after a while, you blink, and five minutes go by.” Years, and you don't even know it because trees don't grow.
2015
Four years after the birth of Blucas and Haddon's daughter, she became the older sister. (The couple has not publicly revealed the names of any of their children.)
“There's nothing better than watching them share new experiences together,” Blucas wrote via Twitter. Instagram In 2017, sharing a photo of the siblings.
2024
the My Life with Walter Beuys The star pays tribute to his wife, children, and pets in his Instagram bio.
“13 chickens, 2 rabbits, 2 dogs, 2 kittens, 4 kids, 1 wife, 15 acres, 300 year old farm… one actor’s dream come true in PA,” his biography reads.
In December of that year, news broke that Haddon's mother DaleHe died at the age of 76 years after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at the couple's farm.
“I always trust the timing of things. There are no accidents and certainly how we enter and exit this world is mysterious and unknown,” Haddon wrote on Instagram about her mother, a supermodel. “She was a kind-hearted spiritual being who placed value on the evolution of her soul, so I know her journey is here.” In this dimension it must have been perfect. I honor her. I bow to her. I respect all the paths and adventures you have taken. I saw her as golden and always reaching for the light in all areas of her life.
Blucas did not immediately address the death of his mother-in-law.