Hallmark Star Who Got Her Start on ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Separates From Her Husband

Holly RiordanSat, April 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM UTC

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37-year-old Janel Parrish has starred in close to a dozen Hallmark movies. They include Coyote Creek Christmas, Christmas on Duty, Return to Office, and Two For Tee. However, her personal life has recently been making headlines.

According to TMZ, Parrish and her husband Chris Long have separated after seven years of marriage. The couple started dating in September 2016 and got engaged the next year. In 2018, they held their wedding ceremony at the Kualoa Ranche on Oahu, Hawaii. Parrish’s former costar from Pretty Little Liars, Brendan Robinson, and showrunner I. Marlene King both attended the ceremony.

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Parrish is an actress and a singer who came in third place on The Masked Singer. She also appeared on Dancing with the Stars in 2014 where she was partnered with Val Chmerkovskiy. The pair made it to finale night, coming in at third place.

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In addition to her Hallmark movies, Parrish also appeared in To All The Boys I've Loved Before, Heroes, Zoey 101, and The O.C. However, her breakout role was playing Mona Vanderwaal on Pretty Little Liars and its spin-off, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists.

When speaking to Pop-Culturalist about her newest Hallmark movie, Two For Tee, which follows “a Chinese American pottery artist who meets a new community center handyman,” she discussed the importance of representation and how nice it was to play a character who “already felt like her.”

She stated, “That’s what’s so beautiful about representation and having the platform to tell these stories. When people come up to me and say, ‘Thank you—Bratz was the first movie I saw where you played Jade, and seeing an Asian Bratz doll meant so much to me,’ or ‘Thank you for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, it’s amazing to see that kind of representation on screen,’—there’s nothing better than that. It makes me feel so happy and fulfilled, because representation is so important. Growing up, I didn’t see a lot of it. So anytime I get to do what I love and also be part of that representation for others, I feel very lucky and grateful.”

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