With just a few days left to celebrate what will surely be the strangest Valentine's Day due to the health crisis the world is experiencing, we review the longest-lasting couples in Hollywood who show for another year that love can even triumph in the movie industry.
Dolly Parton and Carl Thomas Dean, 55
Although Carl Thomas Dean has always been Dolly Parton's side man, the
country
singer and actress
has always boasted of an open relationship in her marriage.
So much so that in a book that collected his interviews, he revealed that at the end of the eighties, he came to contemplate taking his life after a romance ended up breaking his heart.
A lover whose name he never revealed.
From her relationship with the composer Carl Thomas Dean, whom she married in 1966, she highlights that it is a marriage that has remained "solid as a rock."
Meryl Streep and Don Gummer, 43
The relationship between Meryl Streep and her husband, the sculptor Don Gummer was a true crush.
The three-time Oscar winner was in the throes of depression after her first boyfriend, whom she dated for three years, passed away from cancer when her brother introduced her to Don Gummer.
After knowing each other for a few months, they decided to go through the altar that same year, in 1978 and, since then, they have become one of the most solid and real marriages in the world of Hollywood.
The fruit of this 40-year relationship are their four children: musician Henry Wolfe, actresses Mamie and Grace, and model Louisa.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel, 38
Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell form another of Hollywood's longest-lived and most respected couples.
Hawn was previously married to actor and director Gus Trikonis between 1969 and 1974, and then to musician Bill Hudson between 1976 and 1980, with whom she had two children, both actors, Oliver and Kate Hudson.
In 1983 Hawn and Russell began dating after meeting on several shoots.
Perhaps the secret of their success after almost 38 years together and a son in common, Wyatt Russell, is not to have gone through the altar and to continue in love as the first day.
"To you, Goldie, I owe my wonderful life," Russell said after both receiving his star on the Hollywood walk of fame in 2018.
Denzel Washington and Pauletta Pearson, 38
Denzel Washington and Pauletta Pearson met on the set of the television movie 'Wilma' in 1977 and married in June 1983. The result of these almost 38 years of marriage are their four children, who have followed in the footsteps of their parents and they all work in the film industry, in front of or behind the cameras.
The actors, who have overcome rumors of infidelity and separation, admit that they have also had their ups and downs.
“There is no secret to the perfect marriage.
Everyone has their ups and downs, we've had ours.
It's hard work, you know, but we got engaged, ”the two-time Oscar winner told
The Guardian
in 2010.
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, 33
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are known to be one of the happiest couples in Hollywood.
The actors have been married for 33 years and have two children: Chester and Truman.
In addition, the actor is the father of Colin and Elizabeth, born from his previous relationship with the late Samantha Lewes.
Although the marriage has on occasion been on the tightrope and has temporarily separated, together they have fought for love and have managed to get out of any situation, no matter how complicated it was, such as the breast cancer that the woman fought against. actress at the beginning of 2015 and that she overcame at the end of that same year or the covid from which both were infected at the beginning of the pandemic.
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, 32
The actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick met and fell in love on the set of the movie
Lemon Sky
, 1987. They married a year later and the fruit of these 32 years of marriage are their two children, Travis, 27, and Rosie, 25 .
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, 26
Hugh Jackman is another Hollywood star who can boast of being married for almost half his life to the same woman, actress, director and producer Deborra-Lee Furness, and feeling as happy as the first day.
The
X-Men
protagonist
and his wife met in 1995, when they participated together in the Australian series
Corelli
.
The actor has revealed on occasion that when they began the relationship he was already clear that she was the woman of his life.
“I decided that I would not ask for marriage until six months, but four months passed and I thought it was a ridiculous rule,” he said in an interview.
The couple, who married in 1996, have two adopted children, Oscar, 19, and Ava, 17.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, 24
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has been married for almost 24 years with fellow actor Matthew Broderick and the key to their success is none other than being separated, as the protagonist of 'Sex in New York' confessed a few years ago in an interview.
"I know this seems crazy, but we have lives that allow us to be far away and get back together without causing any problems," said the interpreter.
The couple of actors are the parents of three children, James, 17, and the twins Marion Loretta and Tabitha, born by surrogacy ten years ago.
Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy, 24
Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy's romance has stood the test of time amid personal struggles and triumphs, including the 14 days the actress spent in prison after being implicated in the college bribery scheme.
The couple married more than 20 years after dating on and off for 15 years and are also the parents of two daughters, Sophia and Georgia.
The
Shameless
star
and the
Desperate Housewives
actress
have talked about their relationship and family life on occasion.
"What is the secret?
I don't think there are any, "Macy told
Us Weekly
about her marriage in 2017." Above all, I'm lucky.
I met her, she said yes, we grew up together in the theater, we share interests and she is a good woman in her essence and in constant evolution.
And nobody has ever seen me as she sees me. "
Victoria and David Beckham, 22 years old
They met when he was a footballer and she was a member of the group Spice Girls.
David and Victoria Beckham have been married for more than two decades, have four children - Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper - and together they make up one of the longest-lasting families on the social scene.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, 23
Will Smith and Jada met at the tapes of the series
The Prince of Bel-Air
.
She auditioned for the role of Will's girlfriend, but was ruled out for being shorter than the producers wanted.
But he didn't let her get away.
They got married in 1998 and, 23 years old and several rumors of separation and infidelities later, they know how to maintain success in the relationship.
The actors have two children, Jaden and Willow, aged 22 and 20 respectively.
To these must be added Trey Smith, 28, the son of Will Smith's first marriage to actress Sheere Zampino.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, 22 years old
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones met at the Deauville film festival in France in 1998. They began dating the following year and were married in 2000. Their age difference, 25 years, made many not to bet on their relation.
However, they have become one of the most stable couples on the current Hollywood scene.
The actors have two children, Dylan and Carys, in addition to the older Cameron, the result of Douglas's first marriage.
Christian Bale and Sibi Blazic, 21
They make up one of the most discreet marriages in Hollywood that is only seen on the red carpets, but there is hardly any information about the Oscar winner and Winona Ryder's former assistant beyond the fact that they were married in Las Vegas in 2000. shortly after meeting and falling in love and having two children.
"Everyone was divorced in my family, so I didn't have very healthy ideas about marriage," Christian Bale told the
Sydney Morning Herald
in 2012. "Then I met Sibi and suddenly it seemed like a fantastic idea."
In addition to being one of Winona Ryder's companions, Blazic has worked as a model, makeup artist, and actress, playing extra roles in risky and dangerous scenes.
Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo, 20 years old.
After 14 years of relationship and seven years of commitment with fellow actor Darren Le Gallo, in 2015 they finally decided to take the plunge and say "yes I want" in a private and intimate ceremony that was held in California and which did not lack the daughter of both Aviana, then four years old.
Paz vega and Orson Salazar, 19 years old
Paz Vega and Orson Salazar maintain one of the longest and most stable relationships on the national and international scene.
After saying "yes, I do" in 2002, the couple welcomed their first child, Orson, 13 years ago.
Then Ava and Lennon came and together they have formed a very special family, which she affectionately calls her "tribe."
After a few years living in Los Angeles, the Andalusian has settled with her family again in Spain.
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, 19
The actors met at the 2002 Golden Globes, when he was collecting an award and she was nominated for best actress for her role as Ally McBeal.
She accidentally spilled wine on him.
They were married eight years later in a ceremony in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For him, it was her second marriage, and for her, her first.
"I was 60 when I fell in love with Calista," said the actor.
"What surprised me the most was that he was still able to establish a lasting relationship and make a serious commitment."
Almost 11 years married (19 in relationship), Ford is clear about the secret of a lasting marriage: “Don't talk, just nod your head. Another secret?
Do your homework, "he laughed last year to
Parade
magazine
.
Julia Roberts and Danny Moder, 19 years old
The couple met during the filming of
The Mexican
, a film that Julia Roberts starred in with Brad Pitt in 2000. At that time the actress was still dating Benjamin Bratt and Danny Moder was married to Argentine make-up artist Vera Steimberg, but connoisseurs of his history say that what happened between them was a real crush.
The director of photography asked for a divorce from his wife and when they both regained their single status, they began a courtship that was formalized two years later, when they said "yes, I do" on their ranch in New Mexico in 2002. In 2004, they had twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, and in 2007 Henry, the couple's youngest son, was born
Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso, 18 years old
The couple met in 2003, when the actor was filming the movie
Pegado a ti in
front of the Miami bar where the Argentine worked.
“When I was twenty I thought I would never settle down.
But I found Luciana and it was as if I was struck by lightning.
It literally changed my life, ”Damon, who married Barroso in 2005, has confessed on occasion, two years after they met.
The couple, who have three daughters in common, have come up with the formula to have been in a healthy relationship for almost 18 years: “We don't spend more than fifteen days without seeing each other, when Luciana can't travel with me I go to see her, and when we're at home every week we have an appointment ”, explained the actor.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, 17 years old
They had been in a relationship for four years when in 2008, the television presenter Ellen DeGeneres announced on her television program that she intended to marry in May of that year, as soon as she learned of the legalization of homosexual marriages in the State of California.
Almost 17 years later, DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi make one of the longest-lasting marriages in Hollywood.
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves, 15 years old
Once one of Hollywood's golden singles and a lover of many well-known faces, he has spent 15 years dedicated to a single woman and mother of her children.
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves met in 2006 and after six years together and two children together, the Brazilian actor and model walked down the aisle in 2012 in an intimate ceremony held on a farm in Austin (Texas) that lasted three days. .
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, 14 years old
They were married in 2006 in Sydney, a year after meeting.
Nicole Kidman had separated in 2001 from her first husband, actor Tom Cruise, to whom she was married for more than a decade.
Almost 14 years and two children later (she is the mother of two other children she adopted with Cruise), today they make up another of the most stable couples in the industry.
“It was my birthday and he met me outside with some gardenias at five in the morning.
That's when I knew 'this is the man I hope to marry, ”the actress told a few years ago how she knew that the musician would soon become her husband.
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, 13 years old
In July 2020, Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz celebrated their first ten years of marriage, in a secret wedding held on the private island of the Bahamas of their friend Johnny Depp.
Their connection began, however, much earlier, in the 1992 filming of the Spanish
Jamón, jamón
.
After this film, each one made their lives until fate brought them together again in
Woody Allen's
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
(2008).
Then they no longer separated and together with their two children they make up one of the most durable and discreet couples on the national and international scene.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, 14 years old
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake keep their private lives quite secret to such an extent that last July they became parents of their second child after having carried the pregnancy in absolute secrecy.
The couple began dating in 2007 and married in October 2012 in Naples, Italy, and little was known about their wedding.
“She is everything,” the singer has said of his wife in his memoir,
Hindsight
, which he released in 2019. “She constantly amazes me with the way she is and the person she is becoming.
I really hope she thinks the same of me.
I'm very excited to see what he will do next.
Every time I wake up and see her lying next to me, I feel inspired, "he said.
In April 2015, the couple welcomed their only son, a boy named Silas, who became the older brother for seven months.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, 10 years old
They met on the set of the movie
Green Lantern
in 2011 and a year later they said "yes, I do."
After a decade together and three children in common, the actor couple is just as in love as the first day, and this is demonstrated in their publications on social networks, where jokes and romantic messages are continuous.
Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth, 10 years old
Ten years ago they established themselves as one of the most internationally acclaimed couples.
His presence on the red carpets is one of the most desired by photographers and his jokes on Instagram the most followed and commented on by Internet users.
They enjoy an idyllic life in Australia with their children, Indian Rose, eight years old, and the twins Tristán and Sasha, six, but for Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth it is very important to continue to water their marriage every day as if it were the first .
Both have acknowledged having suffered ups and downs and also having put their profession aside to focus on their family.
