Olivia Thirlby And Her Husband Jacques Pienaar Met On Set Of Dredd

Posted by Carisa Kissane on Monday, May 20, 2024

Olivia Thirlby husband Jacques Pienaar is a boom operator and sound engineer. Jacques Pienaar was married to Olivia for eight years before filing for divorce in March 2021.

The couple met on the sets of the 2012 sci-fi action film Dread. After dating for two years, they married on December 28, 2014.

New Yorker Thirlby is best known as the actress from the comedy-drama film Juno. The Oscar-winning coming-of-age movie starred Thirlby in the role of Juno’s friend Leah where Juno, the titular character, is played by Elliot Page.

The actress has been trending since the first trailer of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer dropped. One of the most anticipated films of 2023, the epic thriller starring Thirlby, follows Cillian Murphy as the real-life figure J. Robert Oppenheimer, often known as the father of the atomic bomb.

Olivia Thirlby Husband Jacques Pienaar Is a Sound Engineer

Olivia Thirlby husband Jacques Pienaar is a sound engineer by profession. Jacques met Olivia while working for the sound department on one of his movie sets.

As a sound handler, Pioneer works on acoustic productions, ensuring the sound effects, voices, and music is clearly heard and understood by the audience. Assembling, operating and maintaining all the necessary sound technical equipment also falls under his cap.

The engineer has been working as a sound and boom operator since 2006 and is credited with popular Hollywood TV shows and films such as Hulu’s Love, Victor, Netflix’s Good Girls, Chronicle, Green Lantern, and Dread, on the sets of which he met his wife.

Furthermore, he also works in the camera and electrical department, doing additional photography, video, and even operating cables. His other photography credits include DC’s Green Lantern, featuring another celebrity couple, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, and The Gunman.

Recently, he has been the camera assistant for a reality show, The Housewives of Pretoria, focusing on the personal and professional lives of the elite women of Pretoria, South Africa.

A South African native, Pienaar loves to surround himself with nature, and it’s earthly creatures. His Instagram handles, majorly filled with all things spirit, speaks for itself.

Moreover, he provided aid in raising funds for the conservation of Rhinos in Africa in 2017 and backed Dicaprio’s biodiversity conservation through his social handles.

Olivia Thirlby Was Married To Jacques For Eight Years

Olivia Thirlby and her former partner Jacques Pienaar’s romance sparked on the sets of the movie Dread. While Olivia played Judge Cassandra Anderson, Jacques worked off-camera for the sci-fi movie.

The couple reportedly began dating in 2012 but kept their relationship hush-hush for the next few years. It wasn’t until Jacques shared a polaroid image of the couple from their vacation was their relationship confirmed.

By March 2014, Olivia was already engaged to Jacques after dating for only two years. Jacques shared a picture of the couple with a very cryptic caption calling life a rollercoaster of emotions and decisions and the path carved by one’s choices on his socials.

The Dread actress’s comments with a ring emoji might have hinted at the couple’s union, but Jacques later confirmed it by posting Olivia’s engagement ring with the caption, “I put a ring on it !!”

The couple eventually tied the knot on December 29, 2014, later confirmed by the anniversary post made by Jacques on his handle. “married this jewel a year ago today ” wrote Jacques on the post, sharing a picture of a happy-looking Olivia.

Olivia made sure the couple’s first Halloween after marriage was quite special since it was Jacques’s first Halloween ever. They made sure to dress up to the nines as the founders of Jupiters. They enjoyed Halloween eve on a “maiden voyage” through Chinatown.

Jacques penned a beautiful note on the couple’s second anniversary thanking his wife for the most two years of marriage and for being his best friend.

“Life is truly wonderful with you and I look forward to this life with you by my side, its one hell of a ride,” captioned the sound engineer on the anniversary post.

After seven-year-long partnership, the couple have decidedly called it quits. However, Olivia and her partner are yet to disclose the reason for their separation.

According to the court records on UniCourt, on March 22, 2021, Jacques filed a Family – Marriage Dissolution/Divorce lawsuit against Olivia at the Los Angeles County Superior Courts, Stanley Mosk Courthouse, located in Los Angeles, California.

While judge Riff Lawrence P is overlooking the case, it remains pending. Hence, the couple isn’t officially divorced yet but have been living their separate ways for quite some now.

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