United Kingdom, March 21 -- Jane Kaczmarek has married her high school sweetheart, 50 years after they first dated.

The 70-year-old actress - who was previously married to West Wing and Handmaid's Tale star Bradley Whitford from 1992 to 2010 - reconnected with Rusty Long when she returned to their hometown for her 50th high school reunion in 2024.

When they went out to dinner with a group of friends, "it was just immediate", according to Malcolm in the Middle star Kaczmarek and they got engaged in February 2025.

She told PEOPLE: "There's one Linda Ronstadt song, 'I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time'. I mean, for 50 years that song always took me back to Rusty Long."

After dinner, the pair went back to Kaczmarek's childhood...