Emily V. Gordon

She met Kumail Nanjiani at a comedy show in Chicago where he was performing; she lightly heckled him, an encounter depicted in The Big Sick - Il matrimonio si può evitare... l'amore no (2017). In the ensuing months, they began dating but Gordon fell seriously ill and was put into a medically induced coma before being diagnosed with Still's disease. Gordon recovered and three months later - twelve months after meeting - they married.