Irish actor Barry Keoghan has been in the business since 2011, when he debuted in the film Between the Canals. Though he worked steadily for the next decade, his profile skyrocketed after several huge roles, including one in 2021’s Eternals, which is part of the MCU. He then received an Academy Award nomination for his work as Dominic Kearney in The Banshees of Inisherin. Soon after, he had a hugely viral moment in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.
As Keoghan’s star continues to rise, fans have only grown more curious about who he is off camera. Here is Keoghan’s complete known dating history so far.
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Shóna Guerin Dated from 2017 to 2021
Alyson Sandro Dated from 2021 to 2023
Sabrina Carpenter Started dating in 2023
Shóna Guerin
Dated from 2017 to 2021
Keoghan met his former girlfriend, photographer Shóna Guerin, while out on the town in 2017. In 2019, he gushed to Irish TV host Lucy Kennedy about Guerin’s influence on his life.
“I’d be lost without her, I’m telling you that. I wouldn’t be the man I am now without her,” Keoghan said. “With this game, rejection comes as well and that can be hard. Flying away, almost getting a part and then losing it. It’s draining. I’d be down on myself, and she’d pick me right up and remind me what I’m doing. She’s made me a man.”
He added, “Any of the lads I work with, Colin [Farrell], Cillian [Murphy], they’re always like, ‘Don’t mess this up. They see how important she is.’”
Guerin told Evoke in 2020, “We met on Good Friday in a pub in Kerry, when we shouldn’t have been in a pub. I was working in the pub at the time, and he was actually there with another girl, which is a debate we have quite a lot, because I wasn’t aware and then I was aware, and it was too late. But yeah, he just wouldn’t take no for an answer—and now I’m still stuck with him!”
But in 202o, they seemed to unfollow one another on Instagram, and previous posts of the two of them together appear to be deleted. Guerin, however, does still have some photos of Keoghan on her page.
Alyson Sandro
Dated from 2021 to 2023; welcomed a son in 2022
Scottish orthodontist Alyson Sandro met Keoghan in February 2021, according to his British GQ profile from 2022. He stated that “she didn’t care” about his acting.
“He was saying he plays a superhero in a film,” Sandro told the publication. “I went, ‘Who, Spider-Man?’”
At the time of the interview, Sandro was pregnant, and their son, Brando, arrived in August 2022. They were together for about two-and-a-half years before The Sun reported they broke up in July 2023. A source said at the time that they are “determined to do the best for their son....They’ve grown apart over recent months, and things have finally come to a head….As far as she’s concerned, it’s over.”
In January 2024, after it was rumored Keoghan might debut his new relationship with Sabrina Carpenter on the Golden Globes red carpet, another source told The Sun that he had warned Sandro ahead of time.
“Barry thought it was best that Alyson was the first to know about him and Sabrina so she wouldn’t be hurt if she found out on social media,” the source alleged. “He is spending a lot of time in the States and has invited Sabrina to be his ‘plus one’ at the Golden Globes. Alyson and Barry still communicate for the sake of Brando, and he has been open about his new relationship.”
He has also spoken warmly of Sandro since their breakup, telling GQ in January 2024, “She’s done a great job, and she’s an incredible mother.”
Sabrina Carpenter
Started dating in 2023
In September 2023, both Keoghan and pop star Sabrina Carpenter attended Givenchy’s spring/summer 2024 show during Paris Fashion Week, where they supposedly met for the first time. In December 2023, they were photographed out and about in Los Angeles together. The Daily Mail ran pics of the excursion.
Their first official photos together were taken at the Vanity Fair Oscar after-party in March 2024.
In May, they were photographed together again at the Met Gala.
The couple continued to go out and about with one another. A few moments have circulated online, like when Keoghan was seen filming Carpenter’s Coachella set.
He also appeared in Carpenter’s “Please, Please, Please” music video, in which they play a romantic couple. In it, she sings, “I beg you don’t embarrass me / Mother fucker,” and “I heard that you’re an actor / So act like a stand-up guy.”
But in August 2024, it was rumored the pair might have split. In an interview at the time with The Guardian, Carpenter further sparked breakup speculation. She complimented his acting in her music video, then talked about living in the public eye when it comes to relationships.
“It’s not what I signed up for, but I can’t really help when I was born,” she said. “I want to be honest—I want to just write about what’s happening in my life as a 25-year-old girl. But it comes with the territory and I just have to be like…‘OK!’”
In September, however, she and Keoghan were seen getting dinner together in New York City at Torrisi, captured by by TikToker @ellie_gil. A source told People the month before that their relationship is “on and off.”
Aimée Lutkin
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and more. Her first book, The Lonely Hunter, will be released by Dial Press in February 2022.