Spencer Garrett is an American actor and the current partner of Dana Ruth Bash, a CNN journalist, news anchor, Inside Politics host, and co-anchor of State of the Union.
The couple has been together for eight years. Garrett and Bash first met in 2013, during a break from House of Cards production, according to The Washington Post.
He was out shopping with entrepreneur Susanna Quinn, who also appeared in Garrett’s film Below The Beltway (2010) when he asked if she knew any single women.
A source told the Post that Quinn’s reply was, “Yes, the smartest single woman alive: Dana Bash.” Later, Quinn texted Bash, telling her to Google Garrett and then go over to her house.
They’ve been together ever since. Bash even called him her “celebrity crush” in a Q&A for The Hill. Spencer is a seasoned actor that has been featured in various projects that include Netflix’s 2022 film Blonde, the TV series For All Mankind from 2019 to 2021, and 2020’s Dirty John.
Star Trek fans may also recall him from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1991 and a two-episode arc on Star Trek: Voyager in 2000. In the franchise, he played two different characters.
He is the son of Kathleen Nolan, an actress, and personal manager Richard Heckenkamp. The pair are reportedly partial to privacy and very seldom post about one another on social media.