All About Lewis Pullman, Kaia Gerber’s Rumored Boyfriend

Kaia Gerber has a new love interest following her split from Austin Butler. The model was recently spotted with actor Lewis Pullman at a Broadway show, The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Succession’s Sarah Snook.

An eyewitness told Page Six, “They are definitely together. Kaia sat resting her head on Lewis’s shoulder throughout the performance.”

Before their Broadway relationship debut, Gerber was seen at Pullman’s birthday celebration in Los Angeles in January, sparking the first rumors of a budding romance. “They’ve been spending time together the last few weeks,” a source told People. “They’re a cute couple and very low-key,” the insider added. In the photos, Gerber is seen closely holding onto Pullman’s arm.

Neither Gerber nor Pullman has officially confirmed their relationship.

So, who is Lewis Pullman? Here’s everything to know about the actor and his reported connection to Gerber.

Pullman comes from a creative family.

Pullman, 32, is the son of actor Bill Pullman and contemporary dancer and choreographer Tamara Hurwitz. His father is well-known for his roles in films like Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, and Spaceballs. Though Pullman grew up living in both Los Angeles and Montana, his family largely kept him away from the entertainment industry.

Pullman has opened up about how his father tried to keep his work as an actor away from their family’s life at home, and how he didn’t watch much TV growing up. Instead, his family focused on music and the arts, with Pullman eventually discovering acting in high school. “My dad kept his career very separate so that we could have a somewhat normal upbringing,” Pullman said in a January 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “There was always an element of mystery behind his career. We were a very creative family, everyone is in the arts to some degree, but we weren’t allowed to watch TV.”

In a September 2023 interview with Vanity Fair, Pullman joked, “None of us can do our taxes worth shit, but we can put on a nice, decent performance.”

Pullman has steadily built a strong career in the entertainment industry. He gained widespread recognition for his role as Robert Floyd in Top Gun: Maverick (2022), alongside Tom Cruise. The success of the film was major for Pullman’s career, but he had already made a name for himself in previous projects such as Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) and The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018).

More recently, he starred in the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry, playing Calvin Evans, a highly intelligent but timid chemist, opposite Brie Larson. His performance secured him his first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in 2024, as well as his first Critics Choice nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television in 2024.

“It was such a good working experience. I didn’t come home feeling like I was dragging any sort of demons with me. It was a very warm and loving experience for me that I was excited to keep going,” he said of his role as Calvin in an August 2024 interview with The Wrap.

Pullman has also starred in the Western sci-fi series Outer Range and is set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the superhero Sentry in Thunderbolts this year.

He appeared in the 2024 thriller Skincare, too. In an August 2024 video interview with MovieWeb, he described his character, Jordan, as “a Russian doll of all sorts of different reveals.”

“I just was really drawn to this idea of a person who is sort of a drifter. There’s a lot you can’t tell whether it’s true or not. And there are parts where he’s very successful at his game that he’s running. And then there are parts that he’s not so successful. But I think it was interesting to try and identify,” he added.

In 2023, Pullman spoke with People about his early decision to become an actor and how his father’s advice helped him through it—although he wanted to “do it his own way” at first. “Once I decided that's what I wanted to do, my dad was never like, ‘You’ve got to do it,’ or ‘You shouldn’t do this,’” Pullman said. “He was just like ‘Give it a shot. Whatever kaleidoscope you want to look at life through, if it feels good, do it.’”

“He knows what gets me excited, what makes me nervous, what scares me,” Pullman added. “And then he also has so much experience in the business and with the craft. So all of his advice is catered towards me. I don’t know where I’d be at without it.”

Outside of acting, Pullman is a drummer for the band Atta Boy. The indie group has been together for over a decade, releasing multiple albums. In 2020, the band members regrouped for the first time in eight years. “We were curious to get back together and see what our sound was because it had been eight years since we were in the same room together,” Pullman said in an interview with AudioFemme. “My personal goal was to refine what our sound was and reintegrate and just kind of challenge ourselves to push each other into new realms.”

Before being linked to Gerber, Pullman was in a relationship with Delilah star Rainey Qualley, the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell and Margaret Qualley’s sister. The two reportedly dated from 2020 to 2023, making one of their first public appearances as a couple at the Top Gun: Maverick premiere in May 2022. However, by late 2023, they had seemingly separated, per PopSugar.

Pullman and Qualley’s parents were also co-stars in the past. “And then actually we realized when we had started dating our parents had done a movie together, and we watched it together one night,” Qualley said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

Pullman won an award for Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking, Ensemble Cast, for his role in Them That Follow alongside his co-stars Kaitlyn Dever, Olivia Colman, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann, and Jim Gaffigan.

Pullman attended his first Academy Awards in 2023 following the success of Top Gun: Maverick, as it became 2022’s “biggest-grossing film.”

“I’m a little excited, but also terrified,” he admitted to GQ UK ahead of the event. He stepped out in a custom Thom Browne tuxedo, finished with grosgrain edge detailing and a Kentucky bow tie, a nod to his Montana roots. “I want my clothes to reflect where I come from. I don’t want to feel like I’m just a mannequin,” he added.

Pullman presented the award for Excellence in Contemporary Television at the 2023 Costume Designer Guild Awards alongside his Top Gun: Maverick co-stars, Greg Tarzan Davis and Monica Barbaro. He stepped out in a Saint Laurent suit for the show.

Unlike many other Hollywood actors, Pullman prefers to keep a low profile. He doesn’t appear to have a public Instagram account and seldom addresses his dating history during interviews. In a January 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the interviewer said to him, “This is why you need social media—to announce things like this,” when talking about Pullman’s podcast idea.

In his interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pullman shared that he wanted to start a podcast with his Top Gun: Maverick co-stars Danny Ramirez and Greg Tarzan Davis. “We wanted to call it Knowledge Heist but that title was taken,” he said. “Basically, we all have a really strong rapport but are very different guys, so the idea was to sit down together with great minds we’ve had the chance to meet over the years and steal all their golden nuggets of wisdom. It’s like Smartless, but less smart. And less funny.”