Minka Kelly and Dan Reynolds have been together for just over two years and are still in a relationship in 2025. The Imagine Dragons singer appeared on the Ransom Canyon star’s Netflix show and made a rare public appearance in Los Angeles in the new year.
They seem to prefer to keep most of their relationship private, but here’s everything you need to know about Minka Kelly and Dan Reynolds’ relationship.
November 2022
Kelly and Reynolds were first spotted together in November 2022. The pair reportedly left together in a black SUV after enjoying a long dinner at Cafe Stella restaurant in Los Angeles. A few days later, the two were photographed holding hands.
February 2024
The couple attended the Super Bowl together in 2024, watching the San Francisco 49ers play the Kansas City Chiefs.
On February 25, the couple attended a U.S. women’s national team soccer game, Inter Miami vs. Los Angeles Galaxy, at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. They were photographed sharing a kiss while Kelly took a selfie.
June 2024
The two were photographed together at the UFC 303 event held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on June 29th.
July 2024
In July 2024, Reynolds revealed more than ever about his relationship with Kelly in an interview with People magazine, saying that Kelly has become friends with his four children with ex-wife Aja Volkman: Arrow, Valentine, Gia, and Coco. The singer said her children “love” Kelly.
“The children really love Minka, they really love their mother, and that’s fine. We see this as a kind of bonus for the family: more people to love, more people to help,” he said. “We paid close attention to that and took some time to think about how to include Minka in that conversation.”
“She’s done a really great job of being sensitive and careful on her part,” Reynolds added.
He also revealed that he and Kelly were introduced through mutual friends. Kelly was filming overseas at the time, so they spoke on the phone for a month before meeting in person. Kelly was working on his memoir, Tell Me Everything, while he was working on a new album with Imagine Dragons. They ended up trading their works of art.
“She was like, ‘If you’re going to share your art, you can share something, but that’s very vulnerable for me. Do you want to do this or not?'” Reynolds recalled. “As much as I was scared for her to hear the songs we wrote, she was really scared for me to read the book because we had never met. But we shared it and it ended up being really great and brought us a lot closer. I think it helped us understand each other on a deeper level right away.”
He continues, “It was a really weird and wonderful way to meet someone because I was hearing all the stories of her life from when she was young to now, and she had a really tough, colorful, beautiful life,” he says. “To have someone read all this book before you meet them… I have never had someone introduce me like that.”
October 2024
They made another rare appearance at the special screening of “Gladiator II” held at Paramount Pictures Studios.
February 2025
The two were spotted on separate outings in Los Angeles in early 2025, wearing casual sportswear.
April 2025
Reynolds guest starred on Kelly’s Netflix series Ransom Canyon. Kelly told People magazine that he was popular with the rest of the cast and crew.
“He came to visit, and all the producers and writers just fell in love with him,” Kelly said. “It’s easy to love Dan.”
When asked how it happened, she said, “One day he asked me, ‘Do you think he would play this character?'” So I thought, “I’ll ask him.” “And he was a very good athlete and had the drive to play.”
Co-star Josh Duhamel added: “He’s a good guy. He did a great job, he really did.”
Kelly admitted that the singer was “surprisingly nervous.”
Duhamel added, “It’s hard to step into a different environment. It’s scary. He’s an amazingly talented guy in so many ways. It only takes one, two, three, maybe a few scenes, and all those tensions disappear.”
July 2025
On July 14, Kelly celebrated Reynolds’ 38th birthday and paid tribute to him on Instagram. In her caption, she reflected on how much of an influence he had on her life.
“This beautiful man healed the hurt in my heart that he didn’t inflict, by just being himself,” she wrote. “By embodying true masculinity. Vulnerable, honest, loving masculinity.”
“Watching him be a father and loving his baby. Honoring and respecting his beautiful mother. Trying his best to be everything everyone needs him to be. Finding ways every day to brighten the lives of those lucky enough to be loved by him.”
“Thank you for loving me. Thank you for blessing my life in ways I never could have imagined, but always dreamed of. I love you, Dan. Happy birthday. Now let’s dance!”
November 2025
Kelly appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show on Nov. 19 and spoke about Reynolds. When Barrymore asked Reynolds if he had read her memoir, Tell Me Everything, Kelly revealed that she had finished reading the book before they met in person. “We were FaceTiming, talking, texting before we met. I was out of the country for work…and he said, ‘I want to read,'” she said. “And I thought, ‘Well, all right, here you go. Either you get scared and run for the hills, or you see the beauty of it all.'”
Kelly added that Reynolds was “fortunately the latter” and said the experience “brought them closer together.”
