The couple have been red carpet mainstays for years, posing together at the Oscars, at Broadway events and at the Met Gala, including the most recent edition in May. They attended Wimbledon together in July.

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In April, Jackman celebrated their 27th anniversary with a tribute on Instagram.

“I love you so much. Together we have created a beautiful family. And life,” he wrote. “Your laughter, your spirit, generosity, humour, cheekiness, courage and loyalty is an incredible gift to me.”

Australian actor Rachael Beck, who starred with Jackman in an Australian production of Beauty and The Beast in 1995 and 1996, recalled how Jackman was smitten with Furness at the time.

“All the girls would be swooning,” Beck said in 2019. “He was bonkers over Deborra-lee at that stage, they’d just met while filming Correlli. ”

The couple listed their three-storey condo in New York’s West Village for sale last year, with an asking price of $US38.9 million ($60 million), and bought a different apartment in Chelsea for $21.1 million ($33 million).

A portrait of the couple by Paul Newton made the final of the 2022 Archibald Prize.

Furness, 67, is an advocate for orphans and adoption, especially in Australia, and one of the founding members of National Adoption Awareness Week.