Jack Black marks 20 years of marriage to Tanya Haden with emotional online post
Taking to social media to share photographs and memories from their two decades together, Jack Black has marked 20 years of marriage to Tanya Haden.
Jack Black has marked 20 years of marriage to Tanya Haden by sharing photographs and memories from their two decades together.
The Jumanji actor, 56, posted a series of images on Instagram on Sunday, 22 February, to celebrate the anniversary with Tanya, 54, after they got hitched following encouragement from his brother.
The couple married in 2006 in a private ceremony in Big Sur after a short courtship, though they had known one another since their teenage years.
In his anniversary post, Jack included a photograph of Tanya gazing into his eye and an image of the pair meditating with their sons as toddlers – Samuel “Sammy” Jason Black, now 19, and Thomas “Tommy” David Black, 17 – as well as clips of Tanya on a swing and dancing.
He captioned the post: “20 years! Happy anniversary my love. @tanyahaden.”
Among the comments, Jack’s “King Kong” co-star Naomi Watts responded with heart and clapping emojis, while Josh Brolin added a string of red heart emojis.
Jack’s tribute also featured photographs of Tanya playing the drums and posing with their sons as babies.
Reflecting on their early years, Jack previously told Parade in 2015 he was “pretty shy” when he and Tanya first met at Crossroads, a private high school in Santa Monica.
He said: “I didn’t date Tanya or talk to her or anything in high school. I was pretty shy. I just watched her from afar.”
It was not until years later, at a surprise birthday party for a mutual friend, that they reconnected.
Recalling the meeting during an appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast in August 2024, Jack said: “She came up to me and said, ‘Hey, do you ever wanna go get dinner? I should give you my number.’ ”
He added: “And I was like, ‘Oh my God’. Heaven opened up above my head, because it was like, this is the thing that I would always want to happen.”
Jack said in the same interview even though he and Tanya agreed on having children, marriage had not initially felt necessary.
He said: “We didn’t get married because it was like, (we) don’t really believe in the contract and that whole thing. Why is it necessary?”
Jack added: “And then as soon as she had a baby in her belly, my brother was like, ‘What the hell are you – you marry her!’
“I was like, ‘You’re right, dude’. I got on bended knee and she laughed and said yes.”
Jack and Tanya welcomed Samuel in June 2006, months after their wedding, and Thomas two years later.
