Glen Powell is one of Hollywood’s biggest leading men right now. Top Gun: Maverick, Twisters, and Anyone But You — the guy can do no wrong at the box office. But off-screen, his love life has been just as closely watched as anything he’s done on camera.
From a quietly confirmed romance with a Vampire Diaries star in 2017, to a four-year relationship that imploded under the weight of co-star chemistry, to a PR strategy that broke the internet — and now a low-key new romance with a rising actress — Glen Powell dating history reads like a rom-com script with actual consequences.
If you’ve been loosely following the headlines and want to understand the full picture, here is every relationship Glen Powell has had, laid out clearly and honestly.
Glen Powell and Nina Dobrev: How Their 2017 Romance Began and Ended
Before Glen Powell was a household name, he was the guy quietly dating one of the most recognisable faces from The Vampire Diaries.
Rumours between Powell and Nina Dobrev began swirling in January 2017 after they rang in the New Year with friends in Texas. Their representatives initially brushed it off, calling them just friends. But the evidence kept stacking up. Their romance was confirmed when photos of them at Julianne Hough’s Idaho wedding surfaced in July of that year.
They were fun together. Sources described them as similar people who fell into something naturally. One insider said, “They laugh all the time! They are enjoying each other’s company and the summer together. Both Glen and Nina are relationship kind of people.”
But by the end of the year, things cooled. In November 2017, a source told E! News the couple was taking a break, with Nina’s demanding filming schedule cited as the reason, noting they had not spent much time together since the end of the summer. There was no dramatic fallout, no public statement — it just faded.
What makes this chapter interesting in hindsight is what came after. They stayed genuinely friendly. Dobrev even showed up at the Top Gun: Maverick premiere years later with her now-fiancé, Shaun White. And in early 2026, she was part of the New Year’s Eve celebration in St. Barts, where Powell rang in the year with his new girlfriend, Michelle Randolph, and a close group of friends. No awkwardness. No drama. That says a lot about how both of them handled it.
Renee Bargh: The Brief Romance Hollywood Barely Noticed
Most people who follow Glen Powell dating history gloss over this one. Renee Bargh is an Australian TV host and entertainment reporter, and their relationship lasted roughly a year — quiet, undramatic, and almost entirely out of the spotlight.
News of the romance came in November 2018, when a source confirmed the pair had been seeing each other for about six months. They were photographed together at Powell’s ’80s-themed 30th birthday party, which — in a very Glen Powell move — also included his ex, Nina Dobrev.
There were no public declarations, no red carpet moments that made headlines. The two never announced a breakup, but by 2019, Bargh told the Daily Mail she was single.
That was it. The relationship fizzled the same way it started — quietly. But it adds something to the larger picture of Powell’s romantic personality. He tends to keep things private when he can, and he ends things without manufactured drama. That pattern becomes more significant once you get to his next relationship.
Glen Powell and Gigi Paris: Four Years, Red Carpets, and a Public Breakup
News of Powell and Paris’ relationship went public in January 2020, when they were photographed on vacation together in Mexico. They did not go Instagram official until the following year, when Paris shared a Valentine’s Day post for Powell in February 2021.
They looked like a real couple. Paris cheered him on through his biggest career moments — including the Top Gun: Maverick premiere. She posted about the film on Instagram, writing that she was “fangirling for life” and could not be more proud of him. At the 2023 Golden Globes, Powell called her his “wonderful” girlfriend on camera.
Two months later, it was over.
On April 26, 2023, sources confirmed to Entertainment Tonight that the couple had broken up weeks earlier. A source told ET, “Glen Powell and his now ex-girlfriend Gigi Paris broke up in early April. The breakup was amicable.”
But the real story was more complicated than “amicable.” Another source said the relationship had actually been off and on since Powell’s role in Top Gun, and that Paris was never happy with the long-distance filming. When she came to Australia, they both decided to break up for good.
Split rumours had started swirling in April 2023 when Paris shared a social media caption that appeared to reference the situation: “Know your worth and onto the next.” Us Weekly quickly confirmed she had unfollowed Powell on Instagram.
Four years. Multiple breakups. A career that suddenly went stratospheric. And a co-star whose name was everywhere. That co-star, of course, was Sydney Sweeney.
The Sydney Sweeney Rumour: PR Strategy or Real Feelings?
This is the chapter that broke the internet, and it deserves to be understood properly — because it was more nuanced than either side of the debate tends to admit.
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney filmed Anyone But You in Australia in 2023. The chemistry on screen was undeniable, and the press tour that followed was strategically, deliberately electric. Powell told the New York Times in April 2024 that the key to selling a rom-com is fun and chemistry, and he and Sweeney had both in abundance, adding that sometimes you just have to lean into it.
But here is the thing — Powell was going through a very real, very raw breakup while all of this was happening. He later told Business Insider that the only reason it was harder for him to lean into the promotional dynamic was that he was going through a very real breakup at the time and was still trying to make sense of a lot of things.
Sweeney, for her part, pushed back on the idea that any of it was engineered. She told Variety in October 2025 that the tabloids and journalists created the entire narrative themselves, and that she and Powell genuinely care for each other and have love and respect for one another.
Did it work? Spectacularly. Anyone But You earned $220 million worldwide. But the cost of that strategy was real — and it was paid by someone who was not part of the PR plan.
Gigi Paris Breaks Her Silence on the Anyone But You Press Tour
Two years after the breakup, Gigi Paris went on the Too Much podcast and told her story. She was careful not to name anyone directly — but nobody needed names.
The podcast was billed as Paris talking about “the very public unraveling of her four-year relationship with a certain A-list celebrity ex.”
Paris revealed that she had her visa sorted and was preparing to fly to Australia when she received a phone call. According to her account, Powell told her, “The producers and I have discussed, and I think it’s best if you don’t come to visit.” That was the moment she decided it was over.
She said she was “shattered” — and made clear it was not a calculated move. “It wasn’t a way to monetize the breakup. It wasn’t a way to twist the story around. I was completely blindsided,” she said.
She also criticised Powell for not publicly shutting down the rumours, saying all she wanted was for him to say he would never cheat on his girlfriend. According to her, that was never said.
Powell responded months later in a GQ interview. He told the magazine he would always have nothing but love and respect for her, and acknowledged that when two people break up, they each go to their own brunch and tell their own version of events. Measured. Respectful. But not exactly a denial.
Paris ended her remarks by saying she “hoped” Glen and Sydney wound up together — because at least it would have made her walking away feel worth it. That line hit differently than almost anything else in the whole saga.
Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones: On-Set Chemistry and Speculation
By the time Twisters came out in 2024, the public was already conditioned to read Glen Powell’s co-star relationships as potential real-life romances. So when he and Daisy Edgar-Jones showed undeniable on-screen chemistry, people started asking questions.
During a July 2024 interview with People, the two teased about their so-called “first date” on set. Powell recalled Daisy arriving in a chic outfit with a scarf and all sorts of accessories, joking that it was the last time he saw her dressed up — sweatpants followed for the rest of the shoot. Edgar-Jones laughed and said she had made so much effort for that first date.
It was playful. It was warm. But there was never any serious indication of a real-life romance. Daisy Edgar-Jones has been dating photographer Ben Sneed since 2023.
The bigger cultural conversation around them was actually about a kiss that never happened. The costars filmed a kiss for the final moments of the movie, but executive producer Steven Spielberg pushed to have the romantic moment cut. Director Lee Isaac Chung later said the decision came after a test screening with the kiss received mixed reactions from audiences.
Powell himself was characteristically unbothered. He told Screen Rant he was “delighted” by the chatter, saying it showed that fans cared — and noted that he and Daisy were already sending each other the TikToks and laughing about it.
Is Glen Powell Dating Michelle Randolph? What Sources Say (2025)
Here is where the story currently stands — and it is, quietly, one of the more grounded chapters of Powell’s romantic life.
In November 2025, the 28-year-old Landman actress first sparked dating rumours with Glen Powell when she was spotted supporting him at Saturday Night Live, the night he hosted the show. Days later, a TikTok of the two dancing closely at an Austin dance hall went viral. A source who was at the venue told People they looked “super cute together and quite happy,” adding that Powell’s mom was also there that night.
By early December, a source told Us Weekly the two had been “casually seeing each other” since around October and had been trying to keep it under the radar for almost two months.
They have not kept it entirely under wraps. The pair vacationed together in Miami after Christmas, dining out and flying off to St. Barts together. They rang in 2026 together on a yacht with a close group of friends, including Alix Earle, Miles Teller, Nina Dobrev, and Chord Overstreet. Randolph also spent time with Powell’s mother, Cydney, and the two accompanied him to the 2026 Golden Globes.
The two met through Powell’s sister, who is friends with Randolph. That detail matters — this was not a co-star situation or a press tour dynamic. It was a normal introduction through mutual connections.
Randolph has been thoughtful but firm about keeping the relationship out of the spotlight. She told Bustle in February 2026 that her personal life is separate from her work life, that she has chosen a public career, but that keeping those two things apart is important for her peace of mind. She did, however, call Powell “a wonderful actor” — which, under the circumstances, reads as about as warm a public statement as she was willing to make.
Glen Powell on Being Single: His Own Words on Love and Timing
For much of 2024, Glen Powell was genuinely, actively single — and he was candid about why.
In a June 2024 interview on CBS Mornings, Powell said life was moving so fast he was not sure he could bring someone into it in a healthy way. When host Gayle King suggested the right person would change that, he agreed — but added that he was “not chasing love.”
He also admitted he was not on any dating apps, and shared advice he had received from people in his life: that his failures in love would just be a little more public and a little more embarrassing than most, but that when he eventually fell, it would work.
He had also previously noted that navigating a high-profile relationship would take a very specific type of person. Someone who understands the demands of his career, the public scrutiny, and the trade-off between privacy and presence.
Michelle Randolph, it seems, may be exactly that kind of person. She has built a career on her own terms, she is fiercely protective of her private life, and she walked into this knowing exactly who Glen Powell is and what comes with that.
Whether this one goes the distance remains to be seen. But of all the chapters in this particular dating history, this one feels the most deliberately chosen — by both of them.
