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Celebrities Who Married Non-Celebrities


Celebrities Who Married Non-Celebrities
Little-known celebrity spouses, When megastar Paul McCartney marries fiancee Nancy Shevell, an executive of a New Jersey-Little-known celebrity spouses based transportation company, they'll join a long list of celebrities who marry lesser-known people.

Eric Bana

The hunky actor and his publicist wife have been married for 14 years and have two children.
Joe Biden

The vice president married the English professor in 1977 after losing his first wife and infant daughter in a tragic car accident. The Bidens have two sons from his first marriage and a daughter, born in 1981.
Cate Blanchett

While acting in a stage production of this play, the Australian actress met a playwright, and they married the following year. The couple work together as artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company.
Jeff Bridges

While shooting this Western, Jeff Bridges met his future wife, who was working as a maid on the ranch where the film was set.
Kobe Bryant

The Los Angeles Lakers star became engaged to his future wife in 2000 while she was still a senior in high school. The couple married in 2001 and has two daughters. A 2003 sexual assault charge by a Colorado hotel employee strained Bryant’s public and private life.
Russell Crowe

The award-winning actor met his actress wife while filming a 1990 romance. The couple has been married for eight years and has two sons.
Matt Damon

Though Matt Damon dated celebrities such Winona Ryder and this British actress, he eventually settled down with an Argentine-born woman who worked in a bar near his film set
Patrick Dempsey

Though the man known as "McDreamy" from this hit TV drama (watch clips) could have had his pick of famous Hollywood women, he married his hairdresser in 1999. The couple has three children together.
Brett Favre

The retired NFL quarterback and his wife were childhood friends.At the age of 20, she became pregnant with Favre’s daughter, who was born in 1989. She put herself through college while working as a single mother. She and Favre eventually married in 1996 and had a second daughter in 1999.
Will Ferrell

The "SNL" alum met his wife in an acting class 16 years ago. The couple has three children.
Tina Fey

In addition to being a successful actress, writer and author, Tina Fey is also happily married to a composer.The couple has one daughter and is expecting another child.
Salma Hayek

The voluptuous actress is married to the CEO of an international luxury company.The couple has been married for two years and has one daughter. Before their wedding, he fathered a child with a supermodel ? Get the details.
Hugh Jackman

The man behind "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has been married to his actress wife for 15 years. The couple has a son named Oscar and a daughter named Ava
Samuel L. Jackson

The critically acclaimed actor met his wife during college, and they have been married for 21 years. His wife works as a producer for a major TV network.
John Kerry

The Massachusetts senator married his Mozambique-born wife in 1995. Kerry was divorced from his first wife in 1988.

Dennis Kucinich

The congressman and former presidential candidate married his much younger wife in 2005. It was the first marriage for Elizabeth, but the third for the congressman. They were married in his home state. He has a daughter from a previous marriage.
Joe Lieberman

The Connecticut congressman met his second wife in 1982 while campaigning. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, her former husband was a rabbi. She has a son from her first marriage, and a daughter with the Congressman. He has two children from his first.
Tobey Maguire

Tobey Maguire met his jewelry-designer wife while shooting this 2003 film. The couple has a 4-year-old girl named Ruby Sweetheart and a 2-year-old boy named Otis Tobias.
John McCain

The U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate met his wife in 1979 at a military reception, and were married in 1980 after he divorced his first wife. The couple has four children.
Matthew McConaughey

In the movies, the attractive Texan has starred next to several of Hollywood's hottest ladies, but in real life he married a lesser-known model and actress from this South American country.
Ewan McGregor

Almost 16 years ago, the Scottish actor married his production-designer wife in a small village in her home country. The couple has four daughters.
Debra Messing

While they were both attending graduate school at this university, Debra Messing met her screenwriter husband. The couple has been married for more than 10 years and has a 7-year-old son.
Conan O'Brien

The late-night talk show host and his wife, an advertising executive, have been married for nine years and have two children.
Chris O'Donnell

When Chris O'Donnell was attending this New England college, he met his future wife, and they were married in 1997. The couple has five children together, ranging in age from 3 to 11.
Ron Paul

The U.S. Congressman and candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination and his wife were married in 1957, while he was a senior in college. They have five children, eighteen grandchildren and four great-granchildren.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is one of the most recognizable women in politics today. She and her husband have been married for nearly 50 years and have five children. She's one of the wealthiest politicians on politics. What is her net worth estimated to be?
Gov. Rick Perry

Another Republican presidential candidate is governor of Texas. He and his wife have been married for nearly three decades and have two children. A nursing school was named in her honor. Which school?
Ellen Pompeo

The "Grey's Anatomy" star married her record-producer husband in 2007. In 2009 the couple welcomed their first child, a girl they named Stella Luna.
John C. Reilly

While filming in this exotic location, the Chicago-born actor met his future wife, a producer whose recent Sundance hit stars O'Reilly
Mitt Romney

The Republican presidential candidate and former governor of this state, has been married for more than 40 years. The couple has five children.He is one of the wealthiest U.S. politicians. What is his estimated net worth?
Keri Russell

The "Felicity" actress met her carpenter husband through friends. The couple married on this holiday in 2007. They live in this New York borough and have a 4-year-old son.
Rene Russo

Rene Russo and her screenwriter husband have been married for 19 years and have one daughter. The two worked together on the set of this film.
Clarence Thomas

The longtime associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States has been married for 24 years. Thomas' wife, the founder of a conservative group, recently made headlines when she admitted calling Anita Hill – the woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment during his appoint hearings 20 years ago – and requesting an apology.

Denzel Washington

As part of one of a few enduring Hollywood marriages, Denzel Washington has been married to his wife for 28 years, and they have four children. In 1995, the pair renewed their vows in this African country.

Actors and historical characters


Actors and historical characters
Stars who portrayed historical figures
We’re all intrigued by the lives of history’s most famous people, and so is Hollywood. John Travolta is the latest star to take on a historical role as a notorious American mobster. Check out this list of actors and actresses who dared to imitate real-life characters.

John Travolta
The former greaser won’t have to extend his acting range much to inhabit the character of a man nicknamed “Dapper Don” Gotti (check out his mug shot), not to mention the most powerful crime boss in America during the 1980s.
Johnny Depp
In 2009, Depp captivated audiences when he played a Depression-era gangster  who rose to “Public Enemy No. 1” status for his dozens of bank heists.
Cate Blanchett
Sixteenth-century England was the setting for this 2007 film, in which Cate Blanchett depicts the rise of a young queen. The film earned the actress international attention and lead to many major movie parts.
Elizabeth Taylor
In this 1963 classic, Elizabeth Taylor was said to be completely immersed in the role of the alluring Queen of Egypt that many said she was born to play. Though, the $44 million dollar film nearly bankrupt the studio.
Joaquin Phoenix
Phoenix portrays a troubled and legendary country singer in this biopic. Did he actually sing those famous tunes? Watch his famous prison performance.
Meryl Streep
In the City of Light with her husband in the 1950s, Streep’s boisterous character struggles to find something useful to do. After a go at hat-making and bridge, she stumbles upon a vocation that changes the eating strategies of millions of Americans.
Tom Hanks
The year is 1970, the mission is dangerous, and an unlucky number seems to be sending three men to their demise in outer space. It’s a story of survival, heroism, and faith and Hanks shines as the captain.
Robert Redford
Jason Robards and Hal Holbrook played alongside Redford as a crusading reporter in this riveting drama set in the nation’s capital. This true story had all the makings of box office gold: crooks, cold trails and a mysterious whistle blower
David Strathairn
Strathairn played a crusading broadcast journalist in the 1950s whose series of TV news reports lead to the censure of a certain Wisconsin senator . The film was written by a Hollywood leading man.
Helen Mirren
As the monarch the Commonwealth realms, Mirren’s character refuses to honor the death of her son’s very popular ex-wife.The resulting turmoil causes friction with a politician played by Michael Sheen
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx  won an Oscar for his moving portrayal of a singing legend who suffered an impairment since the age of 7. Listen to one of his most famous songs
Henry Fonda
An American director famous for his westerns directed Fonda in this tale of a future president’s salad days in an Illinois city.
Kirk Douglas
Douglas won a Golden Globe for this 1956 biopic of one of the world’s most talented–and impoverished–artists. It’s directed by the father of a famous female singer and actress
James Stewart
A famous American director both wrote and directed this 1957 film about one of aviation’s greatest heroes.Stewart’s character had a fitting nickname.
George C. Scott
Francis Ford Coppola had a hand in crafting the story behind this 1970 classic, in which Scott portrayed a World War II Army officer. Much of it was set in the second-largest continent.
Anthony Hopkins
A legendary scandal brought down the embattled 37th President of the United States, portrayed by Hopkins in this 1995 film, which was nominated for four Oscars
Denzel Washington
In an Oscar-nominated role directed by Spike Lee, Washington plays a troubled youth who becomes a controversial human rights leader, and later assumes the name El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz.
Robert Downey, Jr.
This 1992 movie also starred Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd and Kevin Kline, who played one of the most famous actors of his day.A blood relative of the tragicomic figure Downey portrayed was also included.
Madonna
Andrew Lloyd Webber won an Oscar for best original song  in this 1996 musical about the famous wife of an Argentinian president, played by Madonna
 
Sean Penn
Penn won the top acting prize for his role as the first openly gay man elected top public office in this 2008 biopic.