The Wives Of Famous Actors With Millions Of Female Fans

Nov 15, 2020 by apost team

They say that "behind every great man is a great woman." It’s an old saying, sure, but here are five women who have proved to be valuable additions to their famous actor partners, from Woody Harrelson to Patrick Dempsey.

Mark Ruffalo credits his wife Sunrise Coigney for the success of his acting career.

He told Closer Weekly in 2014, “I don’t know if I would have made it without her.”

Ruffalo and Coigney met in 1998. At that time, Ruffalo was “living in a dump  and didn’t even have a driver’s license or a credit card.”

“She thought I was a mess,” he added. “But she believed in me and kept encouraging me.”

According to purewow.com, the 47-year-old is an actress in her own right, having worked in a few small roles like In the Cut and Campfire Stories back in the early 2000s. Her acting career came to a halt when she gave precedence to raising her and Ruffalo’s three children, son Keen, 18, and two daughters, Bella Noche, 14 and Odette, 12.

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The fact that Joanne Tucker introduced Adam Driver to Gouda cheese should be reason enough for him to marry her (at least that’s what we think). According to Marie Claire, Driver told Broadway.com that his New Yorker wife was responsible for converting him from a not-so-city boy to a city boy. Tucker also taught her husband that “you shouldn't talk with your mouth full and spit on the sidewalk."

The couple is low-key—they got married in a secret ceremony back in 2013 and they both are not users of social media. They have also managed to keep their three-year-old son out of the spotlight. 

The husband and wife are co-founders of Arts in the Armed Forces, an organization that provides artsy activities to active duty service members and veterans all for free. "Its [aim is] to bring thought-provoking theater-based troop entertainment to an audience that wouldn't normally be associated with theater," Driver, who is a former marine, told The Guardian in 2015.

Willem Dafoe and Giada Colagrande have been married since March 25th, 2005. Their secret to a blissful marital life? Vogue reports that it is a strong sense of complicity. Oh, and their shared passion for cinema (Colagrande is an actor, too, by the way.). 

"The collaboration I've got with Willem is ideal," the 45-year-old Italian says of her husband. "Intense, pure, without interference."

Dafoe recalls having lunch with Colagrande when he asked her if she wanted to get married the next day. By the next afternoon, in the presence of their two close friends as witnesses, they had wed.

In an interview with The Guardian back in 2009, Dafoe talks about what he has learned about women, having grown up with five women, spending 27 years with his first wife, and then marrying Colagrande:

“Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth. It's our bodies that color how we function in society.”

Woody Harrelson first met his wife Laura Louie in 1987 when she worked as his personal assistant on the sitcom Cheers, according to the Associated Press. Louie, 55, is the co-founder of Yoganics, an organic food delivery system. Everyone knows Harrelson has thrived in the film industry—but what about his other projects?

Inspired by his wife’s passion for health, wellness, sustainability, and being a diehard environmentalist himself, Harrelson launched Voice Yourself in 2001, an organization that works to educate the public on the importance of purchasing and growing organic produce, patronizing eco-friendly businesses (as opposed to not-so eco-friendly ones), and so on. The website provides tips and advice from everything to interesting uses for overripe bananas to news about how using toilet paper contributes to deforestation.

Married Wiki writes that the couple’s relationship has remained strong despite enduring a few bumps throughout their 12 years of marriage. The husband and wife live with their three daughters in Maui, Hawaii.

Legendary Hollywood director Woody Allen is most known for his professional life—he's worked in film and television since the 1950s and has gone on to garner high acclaim for his films, as well as win many awards including four Oscars, two Golden Globes, and a whopping 10 BAFTAs. However, Allen's private life has also been noteworthy too.

Married a total of three times, Allen also had high profile relationships with star actresses Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow, before he eventually married his third wife Soon-Yi Previn in 1997. But their union didn't come without complications—the couple met as Previn was the adopted daughter of Allen's then-girlfriend Mia Farrow. But a romantic relationship had formed between Allen and Previn, whose age difference is 35 years, and eventually, they moved in together and got married. They have two adopted children together. Speaking to the Daily Mail about his marriage to Previn, Allen said:

“I admit, it didn’t make sense when our relationship started. On the surface, we looked like an irrational match. I was much older and she was an adopted kid."

He goes on to discuss how he had mostly dated actresses before then, "but for whatever inexplicable reason, with Soon-Yi it worked.” He also discussed his views on fidelity in marriage, saying:

"My view was always that most relationships don’t work, which is why people have affairs. But then you can marry, divorce, marry, divorce, or you can go out with 56 people and if you are lucky you might find the right one, and that happened to me."

Another cinema giant, Steven Spielberg might be best known for his movies, but in his personal life, he has a large blended family with his wife Kate Capshaw. Incidentally, the couple actually met on the set of one of his films! Appearing as Indiana Jones' love interest in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Capshaw met the Hollywood hotshot in 1984 and they've been together ever since, marrying in 1991.

Spielberg had already fathered a son with his first wife Amy Irving, while Capshaw had two children of her own—a daughter from a previous marriage and an adopted son. When they got together, Spielberg and Capshaw ended up having five kids of their own, making theirs a large and happy blended family. Spielberg opened up about his commitment to his children, as Closer Weekly reports:

“I will always drop everything and go meet those needs. That’s the priority. They always need mom and dad, and I am either there with my kids or my wife is, but they’re never without us.”

The couple is still going strong, with their commitment to their family and one another no doubt what's helped them make it through. In 2018, they were spotted strolling the streets of Paris arm-in-arm, appearing just as in love as when they first met. 

Quentin Tarantino isn't really known for his love life, but rather his movies that have only gained him more fans as the years have gone on. But that doesn't mean he hasn't had an active romantic life—he's actually dated multiple celebrities including director Sofia Coppola, who's the daughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, actress Mira Sorvino, and comedians Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin. 

But in the last few years, Tarantino has found his true soul mate in Israeli singer and model Daniella Pick. Initially meeting in Israel in 2009 while he was promoting his movie Inglorious Basterds, the pair finally became a romantic item nearly a decade later. They became engaged in June 2017, having dated for about a year, and then wed in Los Angeles in November 2018. The couple even welcomed their first child together, a son, in February 2020.

The daughter of Israeli singer-songwriter Svika Pick, Daniella Pick is a celebrity in her own right, working as a model and once part of a pop duo with her sister. She even had a small role in his 2019 movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. When the famed director won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Screenplay in January 2020, he said a very special few words to Pick in his acceptance speech. As reported by O Magazine, Tarantino said, “And to my wife who’s watching from Tel Aviv, who’s pregnant with my very first child, Toda, geveret, I love you." The words "Toda, geveret" translate to "Thanks, Mrs." in Hebrew.

In April, Jillian Fink took to Instagram to commemorate her and her husband Patrick Dempsey’s 18th wedding anniversary by posting a photo of Dempsey planting a kiss on Fink’s cheek. But their marriage was always smooth-sailing. The couple had announced their plans for divorce back in January 2015 but reconciled and retracted their decision months later.

The Grey’s Anatomy star told Entertainment Tonight:

"The support my wife has given me has allowed us to blossom as a couple and a family. Without her, my career would not be where it is today. My heart told me [not to give up]."

The couple has three children, Tallula, 15, and 10-year-old twins Darby and Sullivan.

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