LA, May 14: Actress Jennifer Garner, star of the ABC espionage drama "Alias," has filed for divorce from her husband, fellow television actor Scott Foley, according to court papers obtained on Tuesday. In a divorce petition entered in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 9, Garner, 31, cited irreconcilable differences in seeking to end her 2 1/2-year marriage to Foley, 30.
The petition says the couple, who married in October 2000, separated on March 23, the same day Garner raised eyebrows in Hollywood by attending the Academy Awards as a presenter without her husband.
Representatives for the couple could not immediately be reached for comment.
Garner and Foley met on the set of the WB network college drama "Felicity" while he was co-starring on the series and she was making a brief appearance.
Since then, Garner has catapulted to stardom as sexy secret agent Sydney Bristow on "Alias" and as the comic book heroine Elektra, opposite Ben Affleck, in the hit film "Daredevil."
Garner also has signed with movie studio 20th Century Fox to reprise her role as the knife-wielding, high-kicking superhero Elektra in an upcoming film of her own.
Meanwhile, Foley's own career has hit a slump as his new NBC comedy, "A.U.S.A.," failed to win renewal.
A representative for Garner has dismissed gossip of an off-screen romance between Garner and her "Alias" co-star, Michael Vartan, insisting in People magazine this week that they "have never had an affair and are not dating." Bureau Report