Hunger Games actress Jena Malone recently took to Instagram on February 11 to announce her engagement to actor Jack Buckley. This happened years after the actress announced that she is pansexual in 2022. The couple took to Instagram and shared the happy news with their fans.Jack Buckley is an actor and model born in Santa Monica. He is known for acting in projects like The Sex Lives of College Girls, Dead Voices, and The Dropout. Besides, he is also an outreach manager and admissions liaison for a mental health program for teens called Visions Teen.According to Backstage, Buckley was raised in Wellington, New Zealand. At the age of eight, he moved to Malibu, where he started participating in movie sets and acting in plays. He also had a floristry business but later returned to acting.About Jena Malone and Jack Buckley's engagementJena Malone and Jack Buckley announced their engagement via a joint social media post. The couple shared a carousel of photographs of them post hiking, while the two stood at the top of the mountain. It was the same place where Buckley had proposed to Jena.Malone, 41, shared pictures from their romantic country retreat with a long, poetic message that read,"It was always you." View this post on Instagram Instagram Post"Even in those long, dim places when I was younger Where I discovered how to keep my heart intact You were constantly present, giving these little glimpses of a child's heart vitality.Love... Soulmate...Marriage: She commented, "Jack, you are a dream come true," before mentioning that her "soulmate asked me to marry him."Jena also revealed that Jack sought permission from every family member before proposing to her.She revealed,"He first asked those who have long guarded and taken care of my heart."My sister, my son, both of my mothers, and I always said "yes" to every opportunity that presented itself. I will always love you, @jacktbuckley!Their carousel post featured pictures of the couple partying with champagne after their climb and of them grinning together at the summit of a viewing point. The two were wearing casual clothing in the pictures, with Malone looking effortlessly chic in a black sweater, brown pants, leather boots, and a bright red beret.The couple keeps their relationship private, and no information about how Jena and Jack met or started dating is known.About Jena Malone and her coming out as a pansexualMalone began her career as a child actor in the mid 1990s. Although she still frequently stars in higher-budget productions, Malone concentrated primarily on critically acclaimed independent and art films after gaining an early start in well-known movies like Contact, Stepmom, and the cult classic Donnie Darko.In more recent years, she has collaborated with filmmaker Zack Snyder on Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Sucker Punch. She recently starred in Horizon: An American Saga, a Western epic directed by Kevin Costner.She is best known for playing the role of Johanna in the hit movie The Hunger Games alongside Jennifer Lawrence.In August 2022, Jena came out as a pansexual. With a video of herself dancing to the song Book of Bringhi, the Hunger Games star claimed to feel like a:"heterosexual man in a woman's body."In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Malone said coming out:"felt so nice." "I've been thinking about it for a while,"For more stories about your favorite celebrities, follow Soap Central.