The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach is well-known for his comedic role as Richie, a Chicagoan who is constantly struggling with family life. Offscreen, the actor appears to have figured out a happy family life with artist Yelena Yemchuk and their two children. The couple has been together for roughly 30 years, and they still seem to be having a great time.Kevin Mazur//Getty ImagesHere’s everything to know about Yelena Yemchuk and her relationship with Ebon Moss-Bachrach.Who is Yelena Yemchuk?Yelena Yemchuk was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to the United States when she was only 11 years old. Like her husband, she’s a passionate creative, working as a painter, photographer, and filmmaker. She also worked for a number of years in fashion, per an interview with the magazine Fondazione Imago Mundi in July 2023. In the ’90s, she even directed videos for The Smashing Pumpkins. In 2022, she published a book of her photography titled Odessa, and in 2023, her book УYY won the PHotoEspaña book award in the International category.She spoke to Fondazione about her creative process, saying, “Photographs come first in my mind. I seem to always work in series. I find a subject or project and stick with it for a while. When I start a painting, it’s very organic: I just sit down and start working. Most of my ideas come from dreams or something I read and it triggers something in me. Films are a bit more complicated. It’s a longer process. First the idea, then the research, then the preproduction. You have to be much more prepared.”Regarding her photography specifically, she said, “I love my female protagonists, both in my work that is more conceptual and fictional or the women I see on the streets. I think I am drawn to these women and I want to show them as they are, powerful yet vulnerable. The images have to be honest yet not necessarily of this world, I always look for dreamy elements to add to the stories.”She also shared a bit about growing up in Kyiv when it was part of the Soviet Union.“I grew up speaking Russian as I grew up in Kyiv when it was part of the Soviet Union. Even my parents spoke Russian,” she explained. “If you lived in the major cities, that was the first language. Unfortunately, my Ukrainian is terrible....Even in third grade, they introduced Ukrainian as like a third language since the foreign language to study at school was German. I was exempt from my Ukrainian class because I was a professional gymnast and so I never learned the language.”Now, Yemchuk lives with Moss-Bachrach in Brooklyn Heights and her parents are based in Los Angeles. In 2023, the actor told Sharp that their lives “work well together,” in part because they take turns when it comes to their careers.“For example, I’ve been in Chicago for the last three months, and as this work is winding down, she has the potential to do more on her end,” he explained. “This is her time.”He shared that his parents live close by, saying, “They don’t work anymore, and they help take care of our two daughters, bridging times when neither Yelena and I are here. If I was living with another actor, I think that would be harder.”In a July 2024 interview with Mr Porter, he also mentioned the couple shares a cat named Sonny: “As in Sonny Corleone [from The Godfather] or Sonny from Dog Day Afternoon.”View full post on InstagramHow did Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Yelena Yemchuk meet?The couple has not shared the specific date they met or the date they got married, only sharing in a dual interview with The New Yorker in 2022 that their first encounter was at a dinner party in the ’90s, and they were both in other relationships.“When I saw Ebon, I was, like, ‘Oh, my God, he’s cute. Who is this guy?’” Yemchuk shared. “My friend was like, ‘Forget it, he has a girlfriend and he’s an actor.’ And I was, like, ‘Ugh!’ When you think of an actor as a boyfriend, that’s not where you want to go. They just seem like such a pain in the ass.”Rodin Eckenroth//Getty ImagesThey connected romantically a year and a half later and have seemingly been together ever since.“Ebon is the least actor-y actor I’ve ever met,” Yemchuk added. “You’re just not obsessed with yourself.”Do they have any children?Their first daughter, Sasha, was born in 2007, and their second daughter, Maribelle, arrived in 2010.View full post on InstagramView full post on InstagramMoss-Bachrach told The New Yorker about how he has learned to love cooking through having a family.“You know how it is: you have a baby, and it’s like you’re the first person to have a baby in the history of the world,” he said. “And the world is full of poison, and you’re trying not to screw up. So I started making her baby food.”Yemchuk added, “I used to cook, before I met Ebon. I’m just not as good. He has a real gift.”View full post on InstagramIn a May 2024 interview with GQ, Moss-Bachrach got nostalgic about living in Williamsburg in 2007, when he was a new father with Yemchuk.“That’s where we had our first kid,” he said, after pointing out the building. “It was a strange kind of formation, where you kept going through one room to another, then another, and another. We were on the top floor.”He then explained how being a dad changed his career outlook.View full post on Instagram“I had my first kid when I was 28 or 29,” Moss-Bachrach said. “So in my 30s, when it’s supposed to be all career, career, career, it wasn’t, for me. I think that perspective really helps...I was providing for my family and was around. It was the joy of discovery, of fatherhood, and being around my little girls.”View full post on Instagram