Who is Penn Badgley’s Wife? All About Domino Kirke

Following in her dad’s musical footsteps, Kirke is a singer who once fronted the eponymous band Domino.

She’s released several EPs, as well as two full-length studio albums, “Adults Only” (2010) and “Beyond Waves” (2017).

Her other passion is being a doula and birthing advocate

Kirke’s labor of love is her other profession, that of doula and assisted birthing advocate. It’s a role she took on after experiencing a traumatic delivery with the birth of her first child, son Cassius, whom she shares with her ex, musician Morgan O’Kane.

“I came out of it feeling like I wanted to give back to people that didn’t have support,” she explained in an interview with Spin.

“But back in 2008, 2009, doulas were not abundant the way they are now. My doula work was born out of this void of care in my life. At the time, I didn’t have a lot of women in my life. I was surrounded by men. I think that was also the music world, so male-dominated. I became trained as a doula six months after I gave birth, and I started taking clients. It happened seamlessly,” she said.

She’s the co-founder of Carriage House Birth and the doula support group The Space and Time Mentorship. 

How she met Penn Badgley

Badgley and Kirke met in early 2014, thanks to a mutual friend who invited both to go out for drinks without telling either of them anyone else would be there.

“It was nice to meet him, but I was really there to see her,” Kirke recalled during a 2022 visit to “Podcrushed.” “I didn’t know he was going to be there, so, at first, I was a little annoyed.”

Soon, however, she found herself enjoying the company of the man she called “a third wheel,” so much so that, after finding out he was couch surfing with friends, she offered to rent him her spare room.

He didn’t accept the offer. He was, however, attracted to her from the very beginning.

“From the first moment I heard Domino’s name, to be honest, I was enchanted,” he said in that same episode of the podcast. “I even said the words, ‘I feel like I could fall in love with that person.’”

Weeks later, they started dating. And on one of those early dates, Kirke, as a single mom of a toddler at the time, was sharing a snack with her child when she and Badgley shared an early milestone moment.   

As she said, “When we did finally kissed, it was with a mouthful of baby carrots.”

In a post for Badgley’s birthday in 2024, Kirke wrote a tribute to him which said, in part, “I have no words for what we’re doing in this life together. I’ve never had it before; I’ve barely seen it before! Thank you for hanging in as a 3lb premature baby and staying alive so we could meet … you are so loved.”