Meet David Corenswet's Wife, Julia Warner—The ‘Superman' Star's Real-Life Lois Lane

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David Corenswet met his wife, Julia Best Warner, at a youth summer theater program.
The couple had a 'slow-burn' relationship before getting married in March 2023.
Corenswet and Warner welcomed their first child in 2024.Superman star David Corenswet has found his real-life Lois Lane. The latest actor to step into the role of the caped Kryptonian married actress Julia Best Warner in March 2023. The pair reside in his hometown of Philadelphia with their 1-year-old daughter, per an April 2025 Time profile.
Taking up the mantle of the iconic superhero, who was previously played by the likes of Henry Cavill and Christopher Reeve, would be intimidating for a veteran actor. For Corenswet, 31, it's the opportunity of a lifetime.
'There is an amazing, solemn responsibility to be the person to play this character. And there's no guarantee that I would have had a more interesting career if I hadn't,' he told Time. 'I know a lot of fantastic actors, better than I am, who may never be seen by more than an audience of 50 or 100 people at a regional theater.'
Becoming a dad right when Superman started filming forced the actor to balance multiple life changes at once. In a June 2025 People cover story, Corenswet said he felt excitement and uncertainty as he embraced '[the] two big unknown things at the same time. And they were both great things.'
While Corenswet keeps his personal life pretty private, social media posts and interviews have given fans insight on the leading man's low-key romance. Here's everything to know about David Corenswet's wife, Julia Best Warner.
Like her husband, Warner felt called to acting at a young age. 'As soon as I could talk I was singing and that turned into putting on little plays and performing for anyone that would watch,' she told Nerd Alert News in 2020. 'No one ever prompted me to act or sing and I didn't really have an inspiration to start, I just did. I think performing was probably my first love.'
Pursuing the craft would unexpectedly lead her to her real-life love story. In her teen years, Warner met her future husband at Philadelphia's Upper Darby Summer Stage acting program, per Delco Today. Corenswet described their romance as a 'slow burn' in his 2025 People cover story. They tied the knot in 2023, when they were both around 30 years old.
After studying acting at Point Park University, Warner moved to LA to break into television, per her LinkedIn profile. She appeared in a variety of short films and the web series The Baby Sitters Pub before landing a part in Netflix's Ratched. In the latter, she played a young nurse working alongside the titular character, Nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson).
The experience was an unforgettable one for the aspiring actress. 'My first day on set I was able to watch a scene being filmed between Judy Davis and Amanda Plummer. It was incredible to watch them work. It felt like a free master class in acting, professionalism, and play,' she told Nerd Alert News. 'I also got to have a scene with Sarah Paulson who is a gem of a person and actor,' she added.
According to her IMDB profile, Warner's next role will be playing Naomi in the drama The Cutting Room Floor, helmed by Alec Baldwin and Karen Allen. The project is slated to begin filming in summer 2025, per Deadline.
In March of 2023, Warner and Corenswet married in an interfaith ceremony in New Orleans' historic Immaculate Conception Church, according to The Times of Israel , who interviewed the rabbi who served as an officiant. Corenswet's extended family has ties to the city, although the Superman star grew up in Philadelphia.
Few details are known about their proposal or ceremony, as Corenswet has always kept his relationship with Warner out of the spotlight.
Before becoming actual parents, the actors were dog parents to a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Ira. 'He's less of a doggy, more of a toddler,' Corenswet said in his 2025 People cover story. He shared that the 7-year-old dog visited him on the set of Superman—although it's not clear if he got to meet Krypto the Superdog, who appears to save the titular hero in early trailers for the film.
The proud dog dad also said Ira 'has a wonderful mohawk, a natural tuft of hair right between his eyes, which is the reason he's disqualified from being shown [making him] adoptable.'
Superman director James Gunn shared a snapshot of the lovable pup to his Instagram in April 2024. 'So I came back from set to my director's chair to find it was stolen by @davidcorenswet's dog Ira. He also had some suggestions for new shots,' he joked in the caption. Other behind-the-scenes photos from set show Corenswet and Ira twinning in matching Superman costumes.
In 2023, Corenswet's wife told him she was pregnant 'two days after I found out I was going to screen test for Superman,' he revealed to People. In suspense about the role, the pair kept the news of their expanding family—and Corenswet's high-profile audition—a secret from everyone they knew. 'We had these two quite huge secrets that we just had between the two of us. And that was intense,' the actor recalled.
In the same interview, he revealed that Warner's due date was around the same time he was set to start filming in early 2024. 'She gained about 40 pounds while she was pregnant and in the same period I gained about 40 pounds gaining weight for Superman,' he joked of their overlapping timelines. 'I started snoring and had to use her pregnancy pillow.'
As for adjusting to fatherhood, the Philadelphia native credits his late father, John Corenswet, with passing down good parenting genes. The older Corenswet, an attorney, died of cancer in 2019.
'My dad was an enthusiastic father and stayed home with my sister for a period when she was very little, and was very good with kids. And so I think I just inherited that,' Corenswet said in his People cover story. 'I liked being a camp counselor, and I have terrible jokes that nobody laughs at,' he added.
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