Jimmy Fallon have a wife Nancy Juvonen by his side for almost twenty years.
The couple met in 2005 when Juvonen visited the set of Saturday Night Live and old friend Drew Barrymore. However, Fallon and Juvonen didn’t start dating until they met again on the set of Fever Pitch about one year later.
“[Nancy] he just stood out in this gray [background]almost like a painting,” Fallon shared on the episode The Tonight Show in April 2020. “He shone like neon [person].”
The couple tied the knot in December 2007 and welcomed daughters Winnie and Frances in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Fallon has been open throughout the years about how fatherhood has changed for him.
Jimmy Fallon, his wife Nancy Juvonen and daughters Winnie and Frances in 2017.
Gerardo Mora/Getty Images“What I highlight the most is how I ended up taking care of other people’s children if that makes sense. You get more,” he said It’s my father’s in October 2020. “When I didn’t have kids, if I heard a baby crying in a restaurant, I’d think, ‘Can you shut up and walk around the block?’ Now I’ll be like, ‘Give me a baby – how can I help? I’ve been there.”
Keep scrolling to reminisce about Fallon and Juvonen’s romance:
2004
The couple was introduced by Barrymore when Juvonen visited the set of Saturday Night Live.
“I walked in quietly, and suddenly Jimmy said, ‘Hey, Nancy! Are you Nancy? Hello, it’s very nice to meet you, welcome!’” Juvonen recalled in the episode The Tonight Show in April 2020. “And I felt a hug and a cool, like, ‘Thank you! Thank you for accepting me. Very good, very scary [here].’”
2005
Fallon and Juvonen reunited on the set of Fever Pitchtalk show host on which he starred and Juvonen co-produced with Barrymore’s production company, Flower Films.
“He was just friendly and fun and welcoming and loved music,” Juvonen shared The Tonight Show in April 2020. “When did I really get obsessed [producer] Bradley Thomas’ the kids came to play and he had a little girl named Lucy and Jimmy played with Charlie and they really, like, really played [got] so, as if they were going to visit us about it, I think that’s when my heart just melted even more.”
August 2007
Fallon asked Juvonen the question while the two visited his family’s home in New Hampshire.
Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen in 2009.
Jeffrey Mayer/WireImageDecember 2007
They exchanged vows at a ceremony hosted by a billionaire Richard Branson a private island, Necker Island.
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July 2013
The two adopted their daughter Winnie through a surrogate.
December 2014
Their daughter Frances was also born via surrogate.
Nancy Juvonen and Jimmy Fallon in 2007.
ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty ImagesDecember 2021
Fallon took to social media to address his wife.
“Here’s to many more years of crying and laughing,” he wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of Juvonen laughing. “You will never read this because you are not on social media, but as we all know that these books will be around forever so I am sure that children will see this one day and say ‘Gosh, my father was loving.’ “
August 2023
When asked about the best gift he ever gave Juvonen, Fallon boasted that he “crushed us for one year” — and explained exactly how. “It’s his birthday. … I get funny glasses and wigs to wear because I think that would be funny,” he recalled Mike Birbiglia‘s “Working It Out” podcast. “We wear wigs and hang out. I got a driver. We had a cocktail before we went to dinner. We go to a sushi restaurant … and all of a sudden, this woman stands up and says, ‘Why do birds always appear?’ And I go, ‘Huh?'”
More people from the restaurant started joining in, but it was all part of Fallon’s plan. “They were all paid actors,” he said. “They were all in the local choir. … And I look at Nancy and I just say, ‘Happy birthday.’”
September 2024
Juvonen went all out for Fallon’s 50th birthday, as he recalled at the time The Tonight Show. His special day began with a “Pee-wee Herman breakfast” hosted by Fallon’s wife and children. “It was a cake with two fried eggs for eyes and bacon for lips and it was very cool. My mother used to do that for me, it was the best,” she said.
The emotional celebration continued when Juvonen presented Fallon with a refurbished jukebox from his childhood. “This is the jukebox,” he said. “It has my father’s handwriting. … I remember him writing it and putting it in there. The one I grew up with is crazy.”
Fallon said he’s “never felt more loved,” revealing another sweet detail about the gift. “There’s a song on there called ‘Oh Babe What Would You Say’ by Hurricane Smith, which I love, and I remember playing it when we were filming. Fever Pitch,” he continued. “They put it in the movie, on the radio. That’s where I met my wife, he produced that movie, and one of our wedding songs was ‘Oh Babe Ungathini’ — which was on this jukebox!”