Margaret Qualley has always seemed a little out of sync with the rest of the celebrity world, but in a good way. She doesn’t use too much social media. The news about her relationship doesn’t come out of the blue. Living a quiet life, appearing in great movies, and sometimes letting the world see who she loves are all that she does. That’s why it hurt a lot when news came out in early July 2026 that she and Jack Antonoff had split up after being married for almost three years. Not quite tabloid-level shock. Like letting out a slow breath.
It helps to follow the thread back a bit to understand where Qualley is now. Even though her love life isn’t very long, it’s really interesting. The 31-year-old actress from Montana, whose mother is Andie MacDowell and is a trained ballet dancer and Cannes beauty, met actor Nat Wolff for the first time. The relationship was never made public, but by 2017, quotes from British Vogue and appearances on the red carpet told the story all by themselves. In the quiet way that young actors in the same circle of friends often do, they seemed to be a good match. It didn’t end with a big deal, which is kind of how it started.
After that, Pete Davidson came along in the summer of 2019. People were more surprised by that pairing, mostly because Davidson’s personality takes over any room or relationship he walks into. The picture was taken at the Venice Film Festival, where Qualley was promoting Seberg. For a split second, it looked like it was real. Andie MacDowell, Qualley’s mother, even gave the couple a public thumbs up, which, depending on how much you know about royal families, could be seen as either cute or scary. It was over by October of that year. It’s said to be friendly. Mess-free.
It’s harder to write around the Shia LaBeouf part without mentioning what came after. In 2020, they met on the set of Rainey Qualley’s music video. They started dating and broke up in January 2021, not long before LaBeouf got into a very public legal mess. Later, Qualley told Harper’s Bazaar that she believed the things that were said about him. It was a short relationship that ended badly, and she hasn’t talked much about it since then.
Jack Antonoff came next. Most accounts, including Antonoff’s very vivid account on Howard Stern’s show, say that the link happened right away. He saw her at a party in August 2021 and, from what he said, quickly broke up with her. His statement, “It was like a Hallmark movie,” is strange for a Grammy-winning record producer to say in public. However, Antonoff has never been very careful. They became official on Instagram in early 2022. In May of that year, he proposed in Paris while she was sweating after calling her sister Rainey for a blessing. In August 2023, they got married in New Jersey. You could tell this wasn’t like other Hollywood weddings just by looking at the guest list: Zoë Kravitz, Channing Tatum, Taylor Swift, and Lana Del Rey. A Lana Del Rey song is even named after the woman.
Qualley called Antonoff “my person” in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar right before the wedding. That sentence has a certain kind of certainty—the kind that either looks great with age or hurts quietly in hindsight. By July 2026, people close to the couple said the marriage was “rocky,” and Antonoff went to Taylor Swift’s wedding to Travis Kelce without Qualley, but with his sister Rachel. Soon after, People confirmed what the photo ops had already started to hint at: the couple had broken up.
It’s still not clear if this is a temporary break or not. Something else they said was “figuring things out,” which could mean a lot of different things. Antonoff is on tour with Bleachers Forever right now. A scary movie called Possession is being planned by Qualley. It looks like both of them are keeping busy, which could be a healthy way to separate their lives or the oldest Hollywood way of dealing with stress.
Reports say that Qualley is now linked to actor Drew Starkey, but nothing has been confirmed. Her next job is with Ridley Scott, and she is 31 years old. From what we can see, she handles heartbreak with the same calmness she uses for everything else. It remains to be seen if Margaret Qualley’s new boyfriend will ever come out in public. Not only is her love story still going on, but so is her other story as well.
