Nicholas Braun has gone Instagram official with his girlfriend Hyunji Ward as he wished her a happy birthday. 

The Succession star, 36, shared rare pH๏τos with his partner who he called the ‘absolute joy’ of his life. 

Sharing several loved-up snaps of the couple, he wrote: ‘HBD to my sweet sweet DARLING of a girlfriend!!! You are the absolute joy of my life. 

‘You make me my best self!! Like when you said that I could pull off this shirt full of forks. You were right. Love you dearly ❤️’. 

The snaps included one of the couple out on a romantic evening walk and another of them in a car with their pet dog.  

The couple were first spotted together attending the HBO & Max Post Emmys party in January 2024 but have kept a low profile since. 

Nicholas Braun has gone Instagram official with his girlfriend Hyunji Ward as he wished her a happy birthday

The Succession star, 36, shared rare pH๏τos with his partner who he called the ‘absolute joy’ of his life

Hyunji works as a creative executive for the production company TeaTime Pictures which was founded by Dakota Johnson and Ro Donnelly.

Prior to his relationship with Hyungi, Nicholas told The New York Post he was ‘fascinated by romance and courting another human’ because he hadn’t ‘really been in a long-term relationship ever’ at the time. 

He said: ‘I do yearn for it and yet I’m incapable of it. I go toward it and then I hit a wall where I’m like, ‘I can’t go farther into this. I’ve got to exit.’  

‘I do believe it’ll happen at the right time with the right person. Until then, it’s fun to meet people and see what works.’

Nicholas, who played Greg Hirsch on Succession, previously discussed detailed his battle with anxiety and self-esteem.  

He told British GQ: ‘I guess I’m one of those people who is not, like, instantly comfortable with people; it takes me a while to know what version of myself I’m going to be with somebody.’ 

‘I do love when people love the show, but if it makes me feel so much better about myself that someone said this to me, I think I need to work on my self-esteem more.’

He also discussed struggling with romantic relationships, adding: ‘[My relationships that came closest to that] didn’t go on very long. 

The couple were first spotted together attending the HBO & Max Post Emmys party in January 2024 but have kept a low profile since

The snaps included one of the couple out on a romantic evening walk and another of them enjoying a meal 

Hyunji works as a creative executive for the production company TeaTime Pictures which was founded by Dakota Johnson and Ro Donnelly

‘You make me my best self!! Like when you said that I could pull off this shirt full of forks. You were right. Love you dearly ❤️’

Nicholas portrayed played Greg Hirsch on hit HBO series Succession

‘You know, it would be a few weeks of obsession and, like…I don’t like feeling that powerless.

‘I kind of run away from relationships where I know, “OK, I care too much about this. They don’t care as much as me. I gotta get out”.’

Nicholas has a slew of film projects coming up including a comedy called Splitsville and a thriller called Famous.