Jimmy Fallon has had wife Nancy Juvonen by his side for nearly two decades.
The couple met in 2005 when Juvonen visited the set of Saturday Night Live with longtime friend Drew Barrymore. However, Fallon and Juvonen didn’t start dating until they reunited on the set of Fever Pitch nearly one year later.
“[Nancy] just stood out in this gray [background], almost like a painting,” Fallon shared on an episode of The Tonight Show in April 2020. “You stood out like a neon [person].”
The pair tied the knot in December 2007 and welcomed daughters Winnie and Frances via surrogate in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Fallon has been open throughout the years about how fatherhood has changed him.
“My biggest revelation is how much I ended up caring for other people’s kids if that makes any sense. You get it more,” he told Fatherly in October 2020. “When I didn’t have kids, if I heard a crying baby in the restaurant, I would think, ‘Can you stop the crying and go around the block?’ Now I would be like, ‘Just give me the baby — how can I help? I’ve been there.”
Keep scrolling to relive more of Fallon and Juvonen’s romance:
2004
The couple were introduced by Barrymore when Juvonen visited the set of Saturday Night Live.
“I kind of crept in quietly, and all of a sudden Jimmy goes, ‘Hey, Nancy! You’re Nancy? Hi, it’s so nice to meet you, welcome!’” Juvonen recalled on an episode of The Tonight Show in April 2020. “And I felt just so embraced and cool, like, ‘Thank you! Thank you for welcoming me in. This is so nice, it’s so intimidating [here].’”
2005
Fallon and Juvonen reunited on the set of Fever Pitch, which the talk show host starred in and Juvonen produced with her and Barrymore’s production company, Flower Films.
“He was just so friendly and fun and welcoming and he loved music,” Juvonen shared on The Tonight Show in April 2020. “When I really developed a crush was when [producer] Bradley Thomas’ kids came to set and he had a little girl named Lucy and Jimmy played with Charlie and really played, like, really [got] into it, as if they’d come to visit us and so, I think that’s when my heart just sort of melted even more.”
August 2007
Fallon popped the question to Juvonen while the duo were visiting her family home in New Hampshire.
December 2007
They exchanged vows in a ceremony held on billionaire Richard Branson’s private island, Necker Island.
July 2013
The pair welcomed their daughter Winnie via surrogate.
December 2014
Their daughter Frances was born via surrogate as well.
December 2021
Fallon took to social media to give his wife a shout-out.
“Here’s to many more years of us crying laughing,” he wrote via Instagram alongside a picture of Juvonen laughing. “You’ll never read this because you’re not on social media, but as we all know these posts will be here forever so I’m sure the kids will see this one day and say ‘Gosh, dad was a romantic.’”
August 2023
When asked about the best gift he ever gave Juvonen, Fallon bragged that he “crushed it one year” — and explained exactly how. “It’s her birthday. … I get funny glasses and wigs to wear because I think that’d be funny,” he recalled on Mike Birbiglia‘s “Working It Out” podcast. “We’re wearing wigs and we’re hanging out. I get a driver. We had a cocktail before we went to dinner. We go to the sushi restaurant … and all of a sudden, this woman stands up and she goes, ‘Why do birds suddenly appear every time?’ And I go, ‘Huh?’”
More people from around the restaurant began to join in, but it was all part of Fallon’s plan. “They were all paid actors,” he said. “They were all in a local choir. … And I look at Nancy and I just mouth, ‘Happy birthday.’”
September 2024
Juvonen went all out for Fallon’s milestone 50th birthday, as he recalled during an episode of The Tonight Show. His special day began with a “Pee-wee Herman breakfast” made by Fallon’s wife and kids. “It was the pancake with two fried eggs for eyes and the bacon for lips and it was just so cool. My mom used to make me that for me, it was the best,” he gushed.
The sentimental celebration continued when Juvonen gave Fallon a refurbished jukebox from his childhood. “This is the exact jukebox,” he said. “It’s got my dad’s handwriting. … I remember him writing it and putting it in there. This is the same one I grew up with, it’s crazy.”
Fallon said he “never felt more loved,” revealing one more sweet detail about the gift. “There is a song in there called ‘Oh Babe What Would You Say’ by Hurricane Smith, which I love, and I remember playing it when we were filming the movie Fever Pitch,” he continued. “They put it in the movie, in the soundtrack. That’s where I met my wife, she produced that movie, and one of our wedding songs is ‘Oh Babe What Would You Say’ — that was on this jukebox!”
