Danny Moder was born in Los Angeles and started working in the Hollywood film industry in the year 1992. The first movie he worked on as a production assistant is “Crimson Tide,” an action thriller directed by Tony Scoot and it was released in 1995.
From there, he climbed through the ranks of backstage odd jobs. As a camera and electric team member, he worked on films like “Enemy of the State” (1998) and eventually started creating his own movies. Some of the films he created include “Fireflies in the Garden” (2008) and “Secret in Their Eyes” (2015), starring Roberts.
Meeting Moder
In 2000, Roberts acted in the film "The Mexican" alongside Brad Pitt. They supposedly had a slight fling and dated at the time. While Bratt and Roberts had a pretty steady relationship, it apparently wasn't true love in the long run. The two split up in 2001, but Roberts met her one true love a little before that happened.
The man in question was an interesting cinematographer — Danny Moder. Back then, they both had significant others — Roberts had Bratt, and Moder was still married to film makeup artist Vera Steinberg. By 2001, they broke up with their spouses, and in 2002, they made things official and married.
Chatting on Set
You're probably wondering how on earth a non-celebrity might even consider approaching a Hollywood A-lister in the first place. We were wondering the same thing. Well, interestingly, chatting with Roberts on set wasn't all that complicated for Moder according to him.
Roberts states that she is quite relaxed on set and that the crew not only gets to see her most professional side but also her most frazzled one. Seeing the entirety of someone's personality makes them pretty approachable, and that was no different when Moder approached her on the set of the film he was involved in making – “The Mexican.”
The Wedding
Despite her flashy career, Roberts is a pretty modest person, and it has been said that she is effortlessly easy to work with. When she married Moder in 2002, it was in a low-key ceremony held in New Mexico at a ranch owned by the actress (thanks to all the wealth she’d built up from her Hollywood career). The guest list totaled sixty people, which is rare for a Hollywood-style venue.
The couple kept things simple, exchanging handwritten vows and wearing non-traditional clothes. Instead of the usual gown and tux, the two opted for a pink floral gown for the bride and a red/tan ensemble for the groom.
Let the Babies Come
Despite both of them being previously married, neither Roberts nor Moder had children when they met. It was as if they were each other's first-ever crush, with no history behind them or no strings attached from previous relationships.
All of that changed though when the two wedded and decided to welcome kids of their own shortly after marriage. Today, they are a much bigger family with a total of five members in the Roberts-Moder family. Today, however, the two have three children of their own. First came the twins — Phinnaeus and Hazel-Patricia, born in 2004. In 2007, the twins were joined by a younger brother named Henry Daniel.