Zach Gilford and spouse Kiele Sanchez are reportedly separating after 12 years of marriage.
The Friday Evening Lights actor, 43, filed for divorce from the Misplaced alum, 47, on Friday, April 18, in line with authorized paperwork obtained by TMZ.
Gilford cited “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation for the longtime couple’s cut up, and didn’t specify a date of separation, per TMZ.
The outlet additionally reported that the Gilford is searching for joint authorized and bodily custody of the couple’s two youngsters — Zeppelin, 7, and Revel, 4 — and checked a field to award his estranged spouse spousal assist.
Representatives for Gilford and Sanchez didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for touch upon Saturday, April 19.
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Sanchez — who received engaged in December 2011 and tied the knot in 2012 — starred collectively in 2014’s The Purge: Anarchy. Extra lately, Sanchez portrayed Gilford’s on-screen spouse in a recurring position in 2022’s Prison Minds: Evolution, during which he performed serial killer Elias Voit.
The actors are fairly personal about their private life, although Gilford often shared glimpses into their time as each an on-screen and off-screen couple on Instagram. Sanchez’s Instagram account, in the meantime, is personal.
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“Enjoyable occasions with my pretend household (actual spouse, pretend youngsters),” Gilford captioned a selfie of the pair with the actors who portrayed their on-screen kids in 2022.
The identical yr, the couple celebrated a decade of marriage with an anniversary journey, which Gilford additionally documented on Instagram, writing, “Thanks to @sanchomonsto for 10 years of ‘sexy-tinis.’ ”
The actor additionally shared a picture of the couple kissing to commemorate his forty first birthday in January 2023.
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Gilford and Sanchez welcomed their first baby, daughter Zeppelin Adele Gilford, in November 2017, information that got here years after the couple introduced that that they had misplaced a child close to the tip of Sanchez’s third trimester.
“We regretfully verify that Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez lately misplaced their baby to a late-term miscarriage,” a rep for the couple advised PEOPLE in 2015.
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After welcoming Zeppelin by way of surrogate, the actors advised PEOPLE, “We’ve all the time wished to be mother and father, and Zeppelin has made our desires come true.”
Opening up about fatherhood — and Sanchez — after beginning their household, Gilford advised Us journal that he can “tear up” simply by watching her as a brand new mom.
“My spouse isn’t like anybody I’ve ever met in my life,” he stated within the 2018 interview. “I believe when folks meet her they only fall in love together with her. I really feel like she’s taught me methods to love and also you simply see her this child and also you simply know she’s a mama lion and nothing will ever occur to this child. It’s actually unimaginable.”

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