Rose Byrne is clarifying why longtime partner Bobby Cannavale was at a reptile expo instead of the 2026 Golden Globes.
“Never in my life will I announce something like that on a major awards show again,” Byrne, 46, told The New York Times in an interview published on Sunday, February 22. “Everyone was thinking it’s for Bobby. It’s not! It’s for our children. The children.”
Byrne made headlines at the awards show last month when she won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and shared in her acceptance speech that Cannavale was absent.
“I want to thank my husband, Bobby Cannavale, he couldn’t be here because we’re getting a bearded dragon and he went to a reptile expo in New Jersey,” she said at the time. “Thank you baby!”
Byrne and Cannavale began dating in 2012 and welcomed their first child, son Rocco, four years later. The pair welcomed their second child, son Rafael, in November 2017 — which Rocco wasn’t onboard with at first.
“It’s pretty hectic. It’s funny that the little guy is a lot more aggressive than the big guy,” Byrne teased on Live With Kelly and Ryan in 2018. “[Rafael] just goes in for the tackle and loves to pin [Rocco] down. … There was a bit of an adjustment at first.”
Byrne continued, “Rocco, he didn’t quite get having the brother and he would wake up in the morning and go, ‘No Rafa, no Rafa.’ It’s quite a trauma on them, I think, the first few months. It toughens them up, right?”
As Byrne and Cannavale’s family expands, the pair have been open about how they’re not in a rush to tie the knot.
“I keep going, ‘Let’s get around to it, let’s do it.’ And then, you know, you have a baby, and then, oh, there’s another baby,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald in July 2021. “It was kind of like that for us.”
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She continued, “I love weddings, and I know people [for whom] it’s an important thing, and I respect that totally. I guess for us it’s just been, we didn’t do it, we’ll do it, then — no! Pandemic.”
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Through the years, the couple has shared the screen together — with Cannavale making a cameo in Byrne’s Platonic while also starring in Spy, Annie, Adult Beginners, Inappropriate Behaviour and Ezra.
“We’ve been doing this a long time. We’re supportive of each other,” Cannavale exclusively told Us Weekly in 2025. “Rose is my favorite actor on the planet. I’m always surprised and amazed at her work. The different qualities that she brings to all these characters — I never see her the same way twice. I would like to show up for her — unequivocally — for anything that she’s a part of.”
He went on to gush that he’s “really proud” of Byrne’s recent movie Tow. “I think she’s phenomenal. I really haven’t seen a performance like that in a very long time. It’s one of those [movies] I think people will be talking about for a very long time,” he said. “This is one of those performances for the ages.”
