66 Of The Longest Celebrity Marriages And Relationships
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66 Of The Longest Celebrity Marriages And Relationships
There's a certain stereotype in Hollywood when it comes to famous couples.
Essentially, it's that their relationships don't last very long. Celebrity marriages have been known to end after a mere 72 days after all and, all too often, relationships that people look to as examples of love (like Channing and Jenna Dewan Tatum and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) dissolve, leaving fans questioning if love exists.
However, there are some who have survived, couples who have made it last in Hollywood - where your relationship is open for all to see and air their opinions on, where punishing tour and film production schedules can see you living apart on different continents for months on end and where you have to watch what you say about each other in public before they're turned into news snippets.
Who are these couples, you ask?
Take a look at these 70 couples for inspiration and reassurance that romance is not dead.
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Kate Middleton And Prince William
Middleton and Prince William started a romance nine years before the Duke popped the question in 2010, during a trip to Kenya with friends.
He presented the now Duchess of Cambridge with his late mother Princess Diana's sapphire and diamond engagement ring.
Of the engagement ring, Prince William told ITV: I had been carrying [the ring] around in my rucksack for about three weeks before [the proposal].
'Everywhere I went, I was keeping ahold of it, cause I knew if this thing disappeared, I'd be in a lot of trouble.'
The pair married in 2011 at Westminster Abbey, with Middleton donning an ivory silk tulle Alexander McQueen wedding dress.
They are now parents-of-three to Prince George, who they welcomed in 2013, Princess Charlotte, who was born in 2015 and Prince Louis, born in 2018.
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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
Timberlake and Biel may have had a brief break up for three months back in 2011, but the pair have been going strong since rekindling their romance over a decade ago.
And there appears to be no doubt in Biel's mind that the two's relationship will continue to go the distance. She keeps an email she sent to her producing partner early on in their relationship, which read: 'I will marry this man.'
After the couple married in in 2012, Biel gave birth to their son Silas in 2015, and in 2020, following a private pregnancy, they welcomed their second child, Phineas.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard
Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard started dating in 2002 and married in 2009.
The couple share two daughters together, Gloria and Ramona.
While relatively private about their relationship, the pair have worked together - recently on Gyllenhaal's psychological thriller The Lost Daughter, where, as director, she cast her husband in the film.
The pair also gave Architectural Digest a glimpse into their Brooklyn apartment.
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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar
The couple met in 1997 on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer, but only started dating in 2000.
They said their nuptials the following year and have two children together.
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Tina Turner and Erwin Bach
Turner married Bach in 2013, after being with him for 27 years.
Speaking to Hello! after their nuptials, she gushed: 'It's that happiness that people talk about, when you wish for nothing, when you can finally take a deep breath and say, "Everything is good."'
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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Douglas and Zeta-Jones have been together since 1998 despite a brief split in 2013.
Sharing her best piece of advice with Good Housekeeping in November 2015, she said: 'It's a long road and I think people today are so quick to throw in the towel on marriage.
'You have to give it your best shot and not give up when the first problem arises, because that won't be the last problem.
'There will be many more down the road.'
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Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman
They met on Banks' first day at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, though she told Allure that she didn't think marriage was on the cards for them.
She said: 'I didn't meet my husband and think, I've met the man I'm going to marry.
'I was like, He's cute. I'll f--- him, because I'm 18 and in college.'
She did, however, marry him in 2003 and they have two sons together, Felix and Magnus.
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Lisa Kudrow And Michael Stern
The pair met in 1987 and married in 1995.
In 2014, Kudrow told Glamour: 'When [Michel and I] decided to get married, we understood: We're not promising to love each other forever, because you can't do that, but we are promising to work on whatever problems come up.'
She added: 'We're committed to our marriage working. It turns out, after you have a history, there's such a bond, and love takes another shape.'
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Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso
Damon met Barroso while she was working as a bartender. They married in 2005 and the rest is history.
To keep their relationship afloat while he's busy filming shooting scenes, they have a 'two week rule', he revealed to Your Tango in 2015.
He said: 'I'm not away for more than two weeks.
'I think you need to be with the person you love as much as possible. My wife is my soul mate.
'I don't like being apart from her.'
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Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart
Ford and Flockhart tied the knot in 2019, opting for a casual ceremony.
According to People, to win Flockhart over The Age of Adaline star had help from James Marsden, who had dinner with the couple first.
In 2003, Ford told Hello!: 'I'm in love.'
He added: 'Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is a potential for it at any stage of your life. I was not surprised that I was able to fall in love, and I wasn't surprised that I did.'
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
Having been engaged (to Alanis Morissette) and married (to Scarlett Johansson) Reynolds met Lively in 2010 on the set of Green Lantern and they married in 2012. The couple have three daughters together, Inez, James and Betty.
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Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault
The Oscar-nominated actor and Kering CEO welcomed their daughter, Valentina together in 2007 and married two years later in 2009.
In February 2021, Hayek opened up about her marriage while appearing on Dax Shepard's podcast Armchair Expert, explaining how she responds when people have made unwarranted assumptions and accusations about her relationship.
'When I married him, everybody said, "it's an arranged marriage, she's marrying him for the money". I'm like, "yeah whatever b*tch, think what you want". Fifteen years together and we are strong in love and I don't even get offended.'
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Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling
The private couple met on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines, in 2011 and have two daughters together.
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Julia Roberts & Daniel Mode
Roberts and Mode married in 2002. They have three children together with their daughter Hazel recently making her red carpet debut, with her father, at Cannes Film Festival.
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z
The power couple - who are estimated to be worth $1.4 billion - started dating in 2002 and married in a secret ceremony in 2008 choosing not to confirm their relationship or marriage for years. The couple have three children together, Blue Ivy and twins Sir and Rumi.
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Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem
The Spaniards began dating in 2007 though they first met in 1992 on the set of Spanish film Jamón Jamón. They have since starred alongside each other in numerous films includingVicky Cristina Barcelona - for which Cruz won an Oscar in 2008.
The couple married in 2010 and have two children, Leo and Luna.
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Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell
The funny couple began dating in 2007 and became engaged in 2010. They refused to get married until same-sex marriage became legal in California and tied the knot four months after the legislation passed in 2013. They have two daughters.
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Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber
The supermodel married the businessman and former model in 1998. They have two children together, Kaia and Presley - both successful models too.
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Chrissy Teigen and John Legend
Fan favourite couple, Teigen and Legend, met in 2007 on the set of his music video and married in 2013. They now have a daughter called Luna and a son called Miles.
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Emily Blunt and Joh Krasinski
The couple - who most recently have worked together on A Quiet Place 2 - married in Italy in 2010. The parents of two will celebrate their 10 year wedding anniversary this summer.
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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves
After six years of dating, the couple married in 2012 in Texas. Alves, a former model, and McConaughey have three children together.
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Adam Brody and Leighton Meester
The OC and Gossip Girl alumni are believed to have met in 2010 while starring in romantic comedy The Oranges. They married in 2014 and have two children together having welcomed their son in 2020.
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Dame Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford
The British actor and American director began their relationship in 1986, marrying on New Year's Eve in 1997.
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Alicia Keys and Swiss Beatz
The singer and producer knew each other since they were teenagers, but didn't enter a relationship with each other until the late noughties with Swiss proposing in 2009. The couple married in 2010 and they have two sons Egypt and Genesis together.
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Dave Franco and Alison Brie
The Bad Neighbours actor and GLOW star were set up by friends at New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebrations in 2011. The couple have been married since 2017.
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Chistopher Guest
The scream queen of horror movies married the actor and director in 1984. In 2019 Curtis recounted to the New Yorker how 35 years before, she had seen Guest's picture of him in Rolling Stone magazine, told her friend, 'I'm going to marry that guy,' figured out they had the same agent and working her magic.
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Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth
The Big Little Lies star married her talent agent beau in California in 2011, after dating for just over a year. They have a son, Tennessee together, with Witherspoon also being mum to lookalike daughter Ava and son Deacon from her first marriage to Ryan Phillippe.
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
The Australian actor married country singer Keith Urban in 2006.
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RuPaul and Georges LeBar
The Drag Race host has been with partner LeBar since 1994, with the couple tying the knot in 2017.
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Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann
The comedic director and actor have been together since 1996, marrying in 1997. The couple regularly work together on films like Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Freaks and Geeks and have two children Maude and Iris. Maude is following in her parent's footsteps, having had a breakout role in the hit 2019 teen drama Euphoria.
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Viola Davis and Julius Tennon
The How To Get Away With Murder actor has been married to her husband Julius since 2003.
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Ellen De Generes & Portia De Rossi
De Generes and De Rossi met in 2004 and married in 2008.
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Denzel and Pauletta Washington
The actors have been married for a (virtually unheard of in Hollywood) 37 years after tying the knot in 1983. They renewed their vows with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating in 1995, and are parents to four children - the eldest John David had a star role in last year's Oscar-winning film BlacKkKlansman.
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Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka
Harris and Burtka started dating in 2004 and married in 2014. They have a daughter and a son together.
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Cobie Smulders and Taran Killam
Patrick Harris' How I Met Your Mother co-star Smulders has been in a relationship with Saturday Night Live alum Killam since 2005. The couple married in 2012 and have two children together.
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Victoria and David Beckham
The Beckhams met in 1997 and were married by 1999, they have four children together; Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.
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Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher
Baron Cohen and Fisher met in 2002 and married in 2010 after Fisher converted to Judaism. They have three children together.
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Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
The Honey actor met her future husband - an assistant to the director - on the set of the 2004 film Fantastic Four. They have now been married for 12 years and have three children together.
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Pink and Carey Hart
The singer has been married to her motorcycle racer beau since 2006, and have two children together a daughter Willow and son Jameson.
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Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias
Kournikova and Iglesias started dating in 2001 and have two children together.
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Meryl Streep and Don Gummer
After Streep's boyfriend, John Cazale, tragically died in 1978 her brother's friend, Don Gummer lent her his apartment. They married later that year and have four children, Henry, Mamie, Grace and Louisa together.
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Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo
Adams and Le Gallo met in 2001, got married in 2015 and have one child together.
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Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond
The Mean Girls writer has been married to her composer other half since 2001 with the couple then working together on 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. They have two daughters, Alice and Penelope.
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Shakira and Gerard Piqué
The couple first met on the set of Shakira's 2010 music video for her world cup anthem 'Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)'. Since then, the singer and FC Barcelona footballer have had two children together.
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Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell
Hawn was married twice and has two children (Kate and Oliver Hudson) with her second husband. She has been with Russell since 1984 and they have a son Wyat Russell. Plus they're really cute on Instagram, you should follow them.
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Oprah Winfrey & Stedman Graham
Winfrey began dating Graham in 1986, the same year her namesake show launched, after meeting him at a charity event. The pair got engaged in 1992, but decided against marriage.
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Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson
Hanks met Wilson whilst he was already married (and with two children) on the set of the 1985 film Volunteers. He got divorced and they married in 1988, they have two sons together.
While receiving the Cecil B. De Mille awards at the 2020 Golden Globes, Hanks became emotional thanking his wife and family telling the audience: 'A man is blessed with a family sitting down front like that. A wife who is fantastic in every way, who has taught me what love is.... I can't tell you how much your love means to me. That's the wife and kids.'
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick
Parker and Broderick had a surprise wedding in 1997 and now have three children together.
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Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness
The couple met on the set of the Australian drama Correlli in 1995 and have two kids together, Oscar and Ava.
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Will Smith & Jada Pinkett
After meeting for Pinkett's audition for The Fresh Prince of Bel Air in 1995 the couple married in 1997. They have two children, Jaden and Willow.
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Elton John & David Furnish
John and Furnish met in 1993 and were one of the first same-sex couples to be wed in the UK, in 2005. They have two children together.
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Michelle Pfeiffer & David E. Kelley
The Scarface actor and the Big Little Lies writer met and married in 1993.
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Annette Bening & Warren Beatty
The pair met when Beatty cast Bening in his 1991 film Bugsy and they were married a year later. The have four children together, Stephen Ira, Benjamin, Isabel and Ella.
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Justin Mikita and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson became engaged to his lawyer boyfriend Justin Mikita in 2012 after dating for two years. They married in 2013 and are currently expecting their first child together.
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Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick
Bacon and Sedgwick married in 1988 and have two children together.
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Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford
In a full circle story, the Promising Young Woman actor and Mumford and Sons frontman were pen pals as children. The very private couple married in 2012 and have two children together.
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Kevin and Danielle Jonas
The eldest Jonas brother, Kevin married Danielle in 2009 where his two brothers and bandmates Joe and Nick Jonas served as co-best men. The couple have two daughters Alena and Valentina and Danielle, a former hairdresser, is regularly seen backstage and in videos with her 'Jonas sisters', Priyanka Chopra and Sophie Turner.
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Samuel L Jackson and LaTanya
After meeting at nearby colleges they married in 1980 and have one daughter named Zoe together.
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Bono & Alison Hewson
Meeting at school in Dublin the Hewsons began dating in 1976 and married in 1982. They have four children together.
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Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson
The Bridesmaids actor and Boogie Nights director have been in a relationship since 2001 and have four children together.
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Christopher and Georgianne Walken
The couple married in 1969 and have no children together.
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Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz
The British actors married in 2011 - having been friends for years before - in a small ceremony, welcoming their first child together in 2018 (both have children from previous relationships).
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Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet
The actors have been together since 2005, but did not marry until 2017. They have two children together, and Momoa is also a stepfather to Bonet's daughter, Zoe Kravitz, from her marriage to Lenny Kravitz.
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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen
The American Football player and supermodel have been together ever since they were set up by a mutual friend on a blind date at the end of 2006. They married in 2009 and have two children together.
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Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley
The British actors met in 2009 after starring in Wuthering Heights together. Since then they've also co-starred in Peaky Blinders. Off screen, they have two children together.
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Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth
The Spanish actress has been with the Australian actor since 2010, with the couple marrying in December that year and then welcoming their first child in 2012 and twin boys two years later in 2014.
In 2017, Hemsworth was frank about the sacrifices Pataky has had to make for their family. 'In terms of work, she's certainly given up more than I have,' he told GQ Australia. 'She'd like me to step back and be at home with the kids more and, of course, I want that too.'
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