Did Ben Platt and Kaitlyn Dever date? What we know about The Last of Us star’s personal life

Ben Platt, 31, and Kaitlyn Dever, 28, shared the screen in the film Dear Evan Hansen (2021). Platt is considered the protagonist, playing the lead role of Evan Hansen, a high school student dealing with social anxiety. Dever's character is named Zoe Murphy, a romantic partner of Hansen.

Amid speculations guessing whether the co-stars ever dated each other, we bring the answers here.

According to a Showbiz Cheat Sheet report, the entire team filmed the movie during the COVID-19 pandemic.

They underwent the shooting process while strictly following all guidelines. Ben Platt and Kaitlyn Dever lived at the same home during this time.

While they lived together while shooting Dear Evan Hansen, they were never together in a romantic relationship. To abide by the protocols of the pandemic, they lived under the same roof.

Currently, Kaitlyn Dever is dating Ethan Dawes. On the other hand, Ben Platt is married to Noah Galvin. According to IMDb, they have been together since January 2020. In November 2022, they celebrated their engagement and later tied the knot on September 1 last year.

In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, Platt compared the shooting experiences to "first people on the moon vibes."

Recalling those days, he shared,

"We really were only able to go to work and then home and we shot in Atlanta but we might as well have been anywhere else. We really never went to a single business or public space in Atlanta."

Revealing about the experience of living together with Kaitlyn Dever, Ben Platt shared,

"We lived together during the movie and we spent a lot of time in that house together. Personally, it just made it so much warmer and more familial of an experience because it could have been a very isolated experience, which at times it was, but there was such a safe haven to come home to."

Here's what we know about Kaitlyn Dever's boyfriend

The Last Of Us Season 2 star is in a relationship with Ethan Dawes, and they gladly hard-launched as a couple at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars Party last month, according to a People Magazine report.

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Hosted at Beverly Hills' Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the loving couple posed for the paparazzi and went public with their relationship at the grand event.

While gossip about the actor and the director dating started making the headlines in 2024, they took their sweet time to confirm it in front of the world. While they were seen sharing a blissful time that night, neither Kaitlyn nor Ethan responded to news about their personal lives, romance updates, or even their love story timeline.

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