‘Star Wars’ Actress Finds the ‘Cool Nerd’ She Sought. A ‘Bridgerton’ Wedding Followed.

“I’m literally a walking nerd billboard.” That’s how Jordan Alexander Wilson describes himself.

A few of the reasons he cited: There’s a tattoo of a ninja from a Japanese manga series that stretches across his shoulders and down to the small of his back. Four Nintendo video game characters are inked on his left shin, and a quote from a “Batman” comic covers his right rib cage.

But until a Friday afternoon in March 2022, Philicia Shamira Jean Saunders didn’t know this side of her co-worker at Bad Robot, the Los Angeles film and television production house of which the “Lost” co-creator J.J. Abrams is a founder.

That afternoon, she took Mr. Wilson to lunch as a thank you for remotely fixing her iPad ahead of an acting audition. It was two years into the pandemic, and because Mr. Wilson had just recently moved to Los Angeles to join Bad Robot’s technology support team, the two had only interacted through virtual office meetings.

Mr. Wilson showed up to lunch wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an anime character that Ms. Saunders, an anime fan herself, recognized right away. Over noodles at Kotoya Ramen in West Los Angeles, Ms. Saunders — a human resources professional and an actor with two “Star Wars” films to her name — was surprised and delighted to discover how many other passions she shared with the former Apple Genius Bar technician.

They discovered a mutual love of anime, video games, cosplay and acting. He’s a voice actor who has been featured in commercials for Starbucks, Xfinity and the cognac maker Hennessy. She, in addition to playing the Resistance base fighter Tabala Zo in “The Force Awakens” and “The Rise of Skywalker,” has appeared in TV series including “9-1-1” on ABC and “How I Met Your Father,” on Hulu/FX. She has also performed onstage, currently appearing in “I, Daniel Blake” at the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles.