Steve Howey and Sarah Shahi met while working together, and it was Steve's father, Bill Howey, who played an integral role in bringing the once-happy couple together. Shahi met her future husband when she had a guest-spot in 2004 on "Reba," where Steve played Reba McIntyre's son-in-law, per Backstage. After filming, he told Shahi about an incredible acting coach she should try, who just so happened to be his father. The "Person of Interest" star had trepidations. "I just thought it was a bad idea," she told Backstage in 2012. "We were too close."
In the end, she decided to attend, and Bill's lessons had an immediate impact on Shahi's chops. "He was the only coach that really pushed me to make it personal," she recalled. The renowned acting coach, who wrote the acting book "The Actor's Menu," was always impressed with Shahi's fearless approach. "From the beginning, she's been interested in exploring and not afraid to discover herself and her craft," Bill told Backstage. "I've always said she's arguably the hardest working woman in show business." Shahi referred to working with her future father-in-law as her "best-kept secret."
In time, the couple became serious, and a few years after they met on the set of "Reba," Steve proposed in 2007 while they were vacationing in Hawaii, per the Daily Mail. They eloped in February 2009, just five months before the birth of their first child, via People.
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