In early 2024, fans of Justin Hartley saw the This is Us alum step away from the Kevin Pearson character and into a hit CBS series, Tracker. The series debuted in February that year as the most-watched new series on broadcast TV in six years. The show features Hartley as Colter Shaw, a sleuth-like survivalist who travels the country as a “reward seeker.”
The 47-year-old’s real-life love, wife Sofia Pernas, shows up to guest star in episode 6, portraying Colter’s nemesis and fellow reward-seeker Billie Matalon. Pernas the actress had actually made an entrance into Hartley’s life in 2015, when they met on the set of The Young and the Restless. Years later, they dated for about a year before marrying in March 2021.
“It doesn’t have to be that hard. You just meet the right person and you just go, ‘Oh, this is amazing. It’s just so wonderful!’ You’re so attracted and so attached to this person. You just love this person so much,” he gushed in December 2021 to Haute Living. “Even though we’ve only been married a few months, it’s hard to remember what it was like without her.” He added, “I’m just at peace with myself. I feel loved and I feel appreciated. I know she feels the same way. We just have a really great relationship and a really terrific family. It’s healthy and it’s wonderful.”
Get to know Justin Hartley’s wife—including how they met and just how much he adores her!—as well as what we know about his previous unions and why they ended.
Is Justin Hartley married?
Hartley is married to Sofia Pernas, and boy, is he smitten with her!
“Everything is easier with her in my life. I also feel like I’m better at stuff. I learn from her. She speaks five languages. She’s brilliant, she’s incredible, she’s fun to look at,” he gushed to Haute Living. “Everything about her is amazing—she’s just hilarious. She inspires me to want to be a better man, like Jack Nicholson said in As Good As It Gets. I want to rise to the occasion because she’s so great. She does make me want to be a better person, and [this kind of love] certainly does complete me.”
Who is Justin Hartley’s wife?
Sofia Pernas was born in Morocco to a Spanish dad and Moroccan mom but relocated with her family to the U.S. when she was five years old. She planned on pursuing a career in journalism, but after being spotted by talent scouts, ultimately pivoted to modeling and then acting.
Who was Justin Hartley married to before?
The 48-year-old actor was previously married to two fellow soap stars—first Lindsay Nicole Korman, from 2004 to 2012, then Chrishell Stausefrom 2017 to 2019.Stause, like Hartley, has since found success in another TV genre as one of the stars of Netflix’s hit reality series, Selling Sunset.
Related: ‘Tracker’ Renewed for Season 2
Why did Justin divorce Chrishell?
While the details of Hartley’s first marriage are scarce, sources told People that when Hartley filed for divorce from his second wife Stause in November 2019, it was due to a number of reasons, including his newfound fame with This Is Us, as well as different priorities and goals as a couple.
When did Chrishell Stause get divorced?
Hartley filed for divorce from Stause in November 2019. Stause has alleged that Hartley told her he wanted a divorce via text—and that she only found out about it about 45 minutes before the rest of the world did. Ouch!
Who is Justin Hartley’s daughter?
Hartley shares a daughter with ex-wife Korman, Isabella Justice Hartley; she’s 20 years old.
He recently told Peoplehis daughter has become like a confidant as she’s matured.
“It’s great, I love it. It’s the best,” Justin told the magazine. “Having an adult, it’s like having another friend you can talk to. She’s really wonderful … I don’t think, for me anyway, being a dad really goes away. It’s always dad first. I think when she’s 30, it’ll be dad first.”
It seems to be exactly what he’d hoped for their relationship back in 2018 when he penned an essay for Glamour about how This Is Us changed him for the better as a father.
“I think about how much I’ve taught her and what a sliver it has been so far. I think of all the things I want to teach her and see her go through,” he wrote. “I want to walk her down the aisle. I want to be there when her kids are born. I want to call her when her boyfriend breaks up with her, or talk her through a breakup. I want to teach her how to drive. All this stuff. I want to take her to college and make sure she knows everything is OK and I’m only a phone call away. I want to pick her up from college and bring her home. I want to be there at the airport … I try to make sure my daughter has a great relationship with her grandparents, her stepmom, her mom, and her friends. I’m trying to give her every single thing that I never had—and I had a good childhood. I just want to make sure she has all those things and keeps her feet on the ground.”
When did Justin Hartley get married?
Hartley married Pernas in March 2021 after dating for a little over a year. The pair first met in 2015 when co-starring on The Young and the Restless, but according to Hartley, they didn’t pursue a relationship until later.
“You meet in different capacities. We didn’t work together that closely, and we didn’t work together that long,” he told Haute Living. “I knew that she was very kind and very nice. I liked being around her. But I was in a different place in my life. I wasn’t available.” What got them together romantically finally? “Timing has a lot to do with that,” he said. “I’m very lucky to not only have found ‘the one,’ but I found her when she was available and the timing was right.”
