The Bear star Abby Elliott has filed for divorce from her husband, Bill Kennedy, after 10 years of marriage.
According to court documents filed in Los Angeles on Friday, July 17, and obtained by Us Weekly, Elliott, 39, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the couple’s split. The official date of the former pair’s separation was listed as July 8.
TMZ was the first to report the news.
Elliott — who plays Natalie in the hit Hulu series — is also seeking joint legal and physical custody of the pair’s two children, Edith, 5, and William, 3, in addition to spousal support. She is also requesting that the court’s authority to grant her estranged husband spousal support be terminated, and that he cover all of her legal fees pertaining to their divorce.
Neither Elliott or Kennedy have publicly addressed their separation. Us reached out to representatives for both for comment.
The pair, who said “I do” on September 8, 2016, met on the set of Sex Ed, written by Kennedy, a producer and has worked on various hit shows including House of Cards and The Morning Show.
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News of the pair’s split comes less than a year after Elliott opened up about the chemical pregnancy loss she suffered while undergoing IVF in the hopes of expanding the former couple’s family. (A chemical pregnancy occurs in the first five weeks of gestation, when an embryo successfully attaches to the uterine wall and produces enough of the pregnancy hormone to trigger a positive pregnancy test, but stops developing before the embryo is visible via ultrasound, per the Cleveland Clinic.)
“It was very early, and it was still devastating,” she told Parents in December 2025 of her pregnancy loss experience. “I had a difficult time talking about it with people because the voice in my head was saying, ‘Well, it was early!’ or, ‘At least you weren’t further along!”
She continued at the time, “And then the term ‘chemical’ on top of it makes you feel almost like it was just the wrong formula in a test tube.”
It has been a difficult road to parenthood for many celebrity parents, including Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. After in vitro fertilization didn’t work on the first try, Teigen wondered if she had done something wrong. “You just look for anything to blame, especially yourself,” Teigen explained to New York Magazine’s The Cut in April […]
After several attempts to expand her family without medical assistance, Elliott explained that the decision to pursue IVF was almost a no-brainer.
“It wasn’t working. We never got pregnant naturally,” she revealed. “So we went to a clinic, and they told us, ‘After all the tests, you guys have to go straight to IVF.’ Specifically ICSI, which is where sperm is directly injected into the egg. Because we had that information, that saved us a lot of time, blood, sweat and tears.”
While it was a relief to have a clear plan on how to potentially get pregnant, Elliott said that undergoing IVF was a “full-time” job.
“I kind of let everything about it dictate my happiness,” she continued. “You’re hopeful that it’s going to work out, especially when you hear the positive news, but you never know because you also hear stories of it not working out.”
