Riley Keough will be in the national spotlight this week amid the release of her late mother Lisa Marie Presley‘s posthumous memoir, which she helped complete after her mom passed away. The actress is sitting down with Oprah Winfrey for an interview special, airing on CBS.
Audiences who aren’t familiar with Riley might be curious to know more about her, including details on her husband Ben Smith-Petersen.
Let’s fill you in!
Keep reading to find out more…
Riley and Ben were first linked as a couple back in January 2014 and we actually broke the news right here on JustJared.com.
“Ben worked as a stuntman alongside Riley on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. They’ve become inseparable,” a source told us at the time.
Ben has continued his work as a stunt performer throughout the years, most recently appearing in the FX series Grotesquerie and movies like Furiosa, Barbie, and The Suicide Squad. He has been doing stunt work since 2011!
Riley and Ben got married in Napa Valley, California in February 2015 and have been happily together ever since. They welcomed their daughter Tupelo Storm Smith-Petersen together in 2022.
Tupelo was named after the city where her great-grandfather Elvis Presley was born and Storm is a nod to Riley‘s late brother Benjamin Storm Keough.
Riley has opened up about her love story with Ben, revealing that they fell in love while doing Mad Max re-shoots in Australia in 2013.
“We had a couple of drinks and I remember we had a connection. He started salsa dancing with me and teaching me, because he grew up dancing. It was such a fun night. A few of us went to one of the bays for a swim and it was really magic,” she told Vogue Australia. “We ended up kissing that night and the next day we went to Camp Cove and got in the water and I hugged him and it felt like I didn’t want to be away from him. I just felt so comfortable.”
Riley has said that she knew Ben was her person just weeks into their relationship.
“Two weeks into dating him, we were at a gas station and I was like, ‘I could see myself having kids with this person.’ It was kind of like I knew I was meeting my husband. It was very cool,” she told USA Today in 2016.
Riley and Ben actually filmed a scene for a project together recently!
