70 of the longest celebrity relationships in Hollywood that prove that love can last

Shepard and Bell have been together since 2007. They got married in a low-key courthouse ceremony in 2013, and share two kids together.

They have no shortage of heartwarming quotes and advice about love, from never walking out on a fight to advocating for couples therapy, but Shepard's advice about keeping the spark alive is one of our favorites.

"Your lady wants to know that you're still very interested in her as a human being, that there are still questions that you haven't asked," Shepard said on "Ellen." He continued, "Go to dinner and ask questions and spend the time as if you just met this person at a bar. That's what's exciting I think."

Timberlake and Biel haven't always been on the strongest ground — they broke up for three months in 2011, before giving it another shot. Luckily, the second chance took and they've been together ever since.

Even though they went through a rough patch, Biel was never in doubt. She still keeps an email she sent to her producing partner early in their relationship that said, "I will marry this man."

After their wedding in 2012, Biel gave birth to their son Silas in 2015. In 2020, the two reportedly welcomed their second child after a secret pregnancy.

This power couple met on the set of Legend's music video for "Stereo" in 2006, and have been together ever since, give or take a 30-minute breakup in 2007.

Since then, they've gotten married, starred in another music video together, had two adorable kids, become Twitter's favorite clapback couple, and generally rule the world.

"There are some famous couples I look at and I'm like, 'Ugh, we get it. Stop trying so hard, you're so lame.' I think people definitely think that about us," Teigen joked to Vanity Fair in December 2019.

Ellen DeGeneres met Portia de Rossi in 2004 and the two later tied the knot in 2008.

In October 2016's issue of People magazine, where Ellen was featured on the cover, she opened up about being married to her "best friend."

"Portia and I constantly say to each other, 'We are so lucky.' Sometimes it's lying in bed at night before I go to sleep, and I just say thank you to whatever, whoever is out there," she said.

Prince William and Kate Middleton met as students at St. Andrews University in 2004. They parted ways in 2007 briefly, only to get back together later that year. They got engaged in 2010 and had a totally over-the-top royal wedding in 2011.

And though they are royals, Kate and William made it clear that they have a fun-loving relationship like everyone else.

"Obviously we both have a very fun time together, both have a very good sense of humor about things, we're down to earth, we take the mickey out of each other a lot, and she's got plenty of habits that make me laugh that I tease her about," Prince William said during their engagement.

They have three children together: George, Charlotte, and Louis.

The power couple have two very different recollections of their meeting on 9th Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets in NYC. Harris remembers meeting a "James Dean–type guy in a leather jacket" who barely gave him the time of day, while Burtka remembers being friendly and vaguely familiar with Harris's work, they later told Out magazine.

They later went on a date to see the film "Taking Lives" in 2004 and the rest is history. The pair welcomed twins Harper and Gideon in 2010 and were married in 2014.

Rogen and Miller's first date was straight out of a rom-com — they made grilled cheeses at 4 a.m. and played Spanish Scrabble until sunrise.

The couple has collaborated on a cause near and dear to their hearts by founding Hilarity for Charity, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about Alzheimer's disease among millennials.

Rogen's secret for their successful marriage? "We watch a lot of television."

Matt Damon met his wife in Miami while she was tending bar. They were married in 2005 and have been together since.

With him shooting movie scenes all around the world, you could imagine how difficult things could get. Luckily, they've got it all figured out.

"We have a two week rule," he said to Your Tango in 2015. "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."

Corbett and Derek have been together since 2002, after they met on a blind date. They live together on 130-acre ranch on the California coast — they moved in together that same year.

In 2010, Corbett told People that being with him takes "infinite patience and almost zero ego." And while they've been together for almost two decades, he insists that, "We're too old for soulmates. She's [63] and I'm [58]. Soulmates is for Romeo and Juliet. This is, 'Hey, I try not to fart too loud in your presence.'"

Derek, for her part, said that Corbett is "just fun, so much fun. I'm very happy now," in 2008.

With Cohen taking on notorious roles, such as Borat, their marriage is far from ordinary.

"Instead of asking, 'Are you going to pick up the dry cleaning?' I'd ask, 'Are we getting sued by somebody?' or 'Is there a warrant out for your arrest?'" Fisher told Square Mile magazine in 2016.

Despite her constant worries, she's still game for the wild adventures her husband takes them on. She even helped him sneak in his banned Ali G costume to the Oscars.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart may be two A-list actors, but that doesn't mean that Ford didn't need a little help winning her over. He apparently got some wingman help from actor James Marsden, who had dinner with the future couple first.

It didn't take long for Ford to be totally smitten.

"I'm in love," Ford told Hello! magazine in 2003. "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."

They married in 2009 in a casual ceremony.

The two actors began dating in 2002, and have been together ever since. They got married in 2009 and share two daughters. But besides that, not much is known about the couple — they like to keep things private.

However, the two did just give Architectural Digest a peek into their Brooklyn apartment, and it confirmed that these two seem like a couple we want to hang out with.

The NBA superstar and his wife began dating in 2002, while they were still teenagers — they had their first date at an Outback Steakhouse. They even went to prom together. "I guess you could say he was a pretty good date," Brinson said in a speech at YWCA's Circle 2017. "After all, we're still going on more dates, three kids, and 15 years later."

They were married in 2013, and now have three children: LeBron Jr., Bryce Maximus, and Zhuri.

The "SNL" star and the critically beloved director have been in a relationship since 2001, and have four kids together: Pearl, Lucille, Jack, and Minnie.

Though the two have never officially tied the knot, Rudolph considers Anderson her husband, because "people know what that means. It means he's the father of my child, and I live with him, and we are a couple, and we are not going anywhere."

The "SVU" actors have been together for 18 years and married for 15. They have three children together, two of whom are adopted.

The couple recently dished on their relationship to People, where Hermann gushed about his wife. "I never thought I would have this much laughter in my life. Not just actual laughter, but also the way that Mariska is just the embodiment of laughter — of joy."

Chip and Joanna have been married since 2003, after meeting for the first time in 2001. The mega-successful couple have five children together — plus a media/real estate/lifestyle empire in Waco, Texas.

""One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was ...We seem to give each other energy," Joanna wrote in their joint memoir "The Magnolia Story."

They met in 2001 and finally got hitched 15 years later.

"We always had the commitment but now he's stuck with me and I can really act out," Adams said during an interview with UK's The Times magazine. "I'm kidding. The truth is, I feel a stronger sense of family, a bigger sense of permanence, which is a nice thing for me."

Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias have kept their relationship under wraps since meeting in 2001. Some speculate that the two are married, but thanks to the couple's tight lips, no one may ever know.

"I don't believe you need a piece of paper to show you love someone," he said to E! Online. When asked about their plans to tie the knot he said, "Who knows what the future holds … or the past."

The happy couple welcomed twins in December 2017. In January 2020, they welcomed another daughter, Mary.

Davis and Tennon met in the early 2000s and married in 2003. They adopted a son together and are quite the power couple. She's an Oscar-nominated actress, and he acts too. He was actually the first African-American student to graduate from the University of Tulsa theater program.

It turns out she has prayer to thank for her dear husband.

"I was the loneliest woman in the world, and someone said, 'You should just pray for a husband.' I said I wanted a big black man from the South who looked like a football player, who already had children, who maybe had been married before," she told Us Weekly in 2013. "Three and a half weeks later, I met my husband."

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. met in 1997 on the set of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" but didn't start dating until 2000. They said "I do" one year later and have had two children together since.

At an AOL Build panel in June 2016, Freddie revealed how and why things have turned out so perfect for the pair.

"We were fortunate enough to be at the right times in our lives where we both wanted something serious and it worked," Prinze said. "So we're lucky, but we also work very hard at it. It's not just dumb luck, it's work."

Julia Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, met in 2000 on the set of "The Mexican." They married in 2002 after he divorced his first wife and have twins Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus "Finn" Walter, and a son, Henry Daniel Moder.

In November 2015, she sat down with Extra's Mario Lopez to divulge the secret to a happy marriage for entertainment couples.

"I don't think it's exclusive to entertainment couples. I wouldn't even think of us as an entertainment couple, but I don't know," she said. "Kissing."

Bey and Jay met around 1999 and he put a ring on it in 2008. The couple has three children, daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi, and son Sir.

The couple has always been pretty quiet about their relationship and personal lives, even after dropping songs about potential cheating scandals. The reason they've been quiet?

"What Jay and I have is real. It's not about interviews or getting the right photo op. It's real," she explained to Essence magazine back in 2008. She did sit down with Oprah in 2012 to shed a bit more light though.

"I would not be the woman I am if I did not go home to that man," she told Oprah. "It gives me such a foundation."

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas had a brief break in 2013, but made it work. They've been together since 1998. Jones's best piece of marriage advice?

"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," she told Good Housekeeping magazine in November 2015.

The Seinfelds have been married since Christmas Day, 1999. Their relationship had an inauspicious start — Jessica was still married to her first husband when she began dating the comedian.

But these two, who share three kids, have stood the test of time, and prove that rebounds can sometimes be more than just a quick fling.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford joked that she met her husband Rande while "on tequila" in a club.

"I definitely think [tequila is the secret to a happy marriage]," Crawford told US Weekly. "I mean, we met on tequila!"

The liquor has a special place in their marriage as Gerber started tequila brand Casamigos with actor George Clooney.

Crawford and Gerber were married in 1998 and have two children together, Kaia and Presley.

David and Victoria Beckham are Britain's It Couple. Posh Spice gave her number to Beckham back in 1997 and he still has the London-to-Manchester plane ticket she wrote it on. They got married in 1999 and the rest is history.

In a piece she wrote for British Vogue, she let everyone know that love at first sight really does exist.

"Yes, love at first sight does exist. It will happen to you in the Manchester United players' lounge — although you will get a little drunk, so exact details are hazy," she wrote.

This comedic power couple celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary in 2019. Apatow added a sweet caption to his Instagram, writing "Happy 22nd Anniversary Leslie! I love you! I am so excited for the next 88 plus!"

Fittingly, one of their two daughters, Iris, commented "Cute✨."

The country stars first met briefly backstage at the New Faces music festival in Nashville in 1994, according to CNN.

But things really heated up when they began touring together in 1996. Faith was engaged to producer Scott Hendricks, but she and McGraw kissed while on the tour, and she quickly called things off with Hendricks.

"I fought and I fought and I fought to stay away from her as long as I could," he later told People magazine. "I'm not going to go into detail, but it was a great tour, I can tell you that."

They were married in 1996 and have three children together, Audrey, Gracie, and Maggie.

Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, who's 13 years his senior, met on the set of his first job in 1995. They married a year later and have been tied at the hip since.

"I'm kind of really grateful that I met her before anything kind of happened," he said to Ellen DeGeneres when he stopped by her show. "Everything that's happened in my career and onscreen, offscreen, we've always done it together."

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith met in 1995 when she auditioned to play one of Will's girlfriends on "Fresh Prince." They married in 1997 and are parents to teen stars Jaden and Willow.

"Here's what I trust: The man that Will is ... is a man of integrity. He's got all the freedom in the world," Pinkett Smith told SiriusXM host Howard Stern. "As long as Will can look himself [in] the mirror and be okay? I'm good."

In 2020, the two revealed that, while Pinkett Smith had engaged in a relationship (or entanglement) with August Alsina, they had worked through their issues and were stronger than ever.

They met in 1995 when he was teaching an improv class at Chicago's Second City. The two got married that same year. They didn't exactly hit it off right away, but nerves are to blame for that.

"I thought she hated me because she was very quiet around me. I thought she for sure knew that I was full of it," he wrote in a piece for The Guardian. "I later found out that she was just as nervous as I was and trying to act cool."

The actors met when doing a screen test for "All My Children," which Ripa was starring on. They had such good chemistry that Consuelos got the job. They began dating in 1995 and about a year later, he popped the question and the two eloped to Las Vegas the next day.

Ripa said that it was fast, but the two are a match made in heaven.

"We're very lucky that we found each other, that's what I have to say," Ripa told AOL. "I would say to Mark, 'Who would we have married if not each other.'"

They have three children together, sons Michael and Joaquin and daughter Lola.

These two also have Second City to thank for their relationship. The couple met in 1994 and got married seven years later. She confirmed on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in 2009 that she was a virgin until 24.

"That's just good, Christian values ... or bein' homely," she said when the host pulled out an Us Weekly issue that called her out with several other stars who also waited until their 20s.

When Tina did end up doing the deed, she did so with her hubby Jeff.

The producer and the actress met on Banks' first day at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, but Banks told Allure magazine later that she didn't think she'd marry him then.

"I didn't meet my husband and think, I've met the man I'm going to marry," she told them. "I was like, He's cute. I'll f--- him, because I'm 18 and in college."

But of course, she eventually did, 10 years later, in 2003. They have two sons together, Felix and Magnus.

The late and legendary David Bowie met supermodel Iman in 1990, and, for him, it was love at first sight. Iman, on the other hand, was a bit hesitant.

"Definitely I didn't want to get into a relationship with somebody like him. But as I always said: I fell in love with David Jones," she told The Guardian in 2004. "I did not fall in love with David Bowie. Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met."

The two were married until Bowie's death in 2016.

Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen met when they were filming the movie "Pontiac Moon" in 1993. And although it may seem tough to make a 26-year old relationship work, Danson recently said they're happier than ever.

"I'm madly in love with Mary Steenburgen. She's a remarkable human being so I'm just incredibly blessed," Danson told Us Weekly. "It feels like heaven on Earth. If I were to die, I can say, I know what it's like to be loved and to love."

They were married in 1995.

Elton John and David Furnish have been together since 1993 and got married once England made gay marriage legal in 2014. They shared the details of their extremely lavish wedding on Instagram and recently opened up about a very special tradition of theirs.

"Every Saturday for 16 years, we've sent each other a card," he told Parade magazine in 2016. "No matter where we are in the world, to say how much we love each other."

Kudrow married the ad executive in 1995, but the two met in 1987 when he was dating one of her friends. It wasn't for another six years before they actually started dating.

Since then, their love has continued to change over the years.

"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 explained to Glamour magazine in 2014. "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."

The "Avengers" star and Coulter have been together since 1992, and share two kids. They reportedly tied the knot in 2016, after more than two decades together, and has since referred to her as his wife in interviews.

These two silver screen legends have been married since 1992, a move that shocked many due to their 21-year age difference. The two met while working together on gangster film "Bugsy."

When they met for lunch to prepare, Beatty recalled "losing interest in the garlic chicken I was eating within 20 seconds. And the garlic chicken had been very good."

They have four children together, who Beatty called "the biggest thing that's ever happened to me — and their mother."

Travolta and Preston tied the knot in 1991, and were together until Preston's death in 2020. During their marriage, they weathered their fair share of storms, including the tragic death of their son Jett in 2009.

On the couple's anniversary in 2019, Preston wrote on Instagram, "You're a dream Daddio and make life so much fun!! I trust my love with you implicitly... with you I know I will always be okay no matter what happens... I love you forever and completely."

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick met in 1991 through the actress' brother. They wed in 1997 and have three children together.

The high-profile couple usually keeps their relationship behind closed doors, but at the premiere of Parker's new HBO series "Divorce" Broderick offered advice to an Entertainment Tonight reporter who asked what their secret was.

"Communicating," Broderick said. "Don't go to bed mad."

Lowe married Berkoff, a makeup artist, in 1991. They share two sons: Edward and John. The "Parks and Recreation" star reflected on their relationship during a recent episode of his podcast.

"Thirty is a big number for any marriage, any relationship. That's a lot of consistency but, you know, I really attribute it to that we picked the right partners. She picked the right partner for her. I picked the right partner for me, and at the end of it, we're best friends. We don't try to change each other. We're very forgiving of each other's faults but the other thing is, each of us are really willing to work on our relationship when we need it and, listen, over 30 years there are times when we need it." he said.

The model and musician have been married since 1994, though they started dating three years prior. He's dedicated multiple songs to her, including "Jill" and "(I Do) Like We Do." They share three daughters.

"Jill's my best friend and I've known her now for 27 years. And for me, it's all about my maintaining interest in her. I mean, she's fascinating to me, she's still mysterious to me, I'm still very interested in her and everything that sort of makes her tick, and I think it's mutual," he told Fox News in 2018.

Snoop met his first (and technically second) wife in high school sometime in the late '80s. They divorced in 2004, but married again in 2008.

He gushed over her in a 2013 interview with Queen Latifah saying:

"Because you gotta understand the turmoil and stuff that I put her through, in my journey on becoming successful, because I had no understanding of how I was doing her, how I was hurting her, and how I was betraying myself, until I became a man and realized that I had to love this woman who loved me and had my kids, and put my life in perspective and let my music and my business be secondary."

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon met on the set of "Lemon Sky" in the late '80s and married shortly afterward in 1988. He later revealed that they actually met when Kyra was 12.

On "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," Bacon said he had just done a matinee performance of a play and was at a deli when they met.

"A little girl was in there who had just seen the matinee, and her brother said, 'You liked that actor, go tell him you liked him,' and it was Kyra," Bacon, who was seven years older, said. "She was a little girl, yeah, she was 12 years old."

The Oscar winning Tom Hanks met his wife Rita in 1988 on the set of "Volunteers." He had just divorced his first wife when they met and it only took one year for them to say "I do."

"I don't think I'll ever be lonely any more ... that's how I felt when I met my wife," Hanks recently said while talking to BBC host Kirsty Young.

Pullman has been married to Hurwitz since 1987. The two met while studying at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, when they were cast as husband and wife in the play "Impromptu at Versailles."

"The secret to a happy marriage is being able to share a perspective about what we want to do — and also supporting each other," Pullman told Good Housekeeping in 2011.

Cranston and Dearden had one interesting meeting: they first met on the CBS series Airwolf in 1986, when Cranston played a man who hijacked a sorority reunion cruise and Dearden played one of the sisters who was trapped.

"It was 30 years ago that we met on that terrible TV show," Cranston told People magazine in 2016. "It changed both of our lives."

They were both dating people at the time, but when they met again a year later, sparks started to fly. They were married in 1989 and have one daughter, Taylor, together.

TV personality Oprah Winfrey met her longtime partner back in 1986. The couple has never gotten married, but they were engaged back in 2012. Their reasoning for skipping the ceremony? Oprah says it's because marriage is too normal for their far from normal relationship.

"If you ever interviewed him, he would tell you that had we married, we would not be together today," Oprah said in an interview with Access Hollywood. "Because he's a traditional man and this is a very nontraditional relationship."

Oprah's friend, on the other hand, did tie the knot. Tina Turner walked down the aisle in 2013 after being with her now husband for 27 years.

Tina spoke to Hello! magazine a few days after they made things official, and she was happier than ever.

"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,'" she said. "It's a wonderful place to be."

Jamie Lee Curtis wrote in a piece for O magazine that she knew she wanted to marry actor Christopher Guest the moment she saw him.

"Debra and I were flipping through a Rolling Stone magazine when I turned to a photograph of three men," Curtis wrote. "I looked at the man on the right, wearing a plaid shirt and a waggish smirk. I'd never seen him before, but I pointed at him. 'I'm going to marry that man,' I said to my friend."

That was in 1984. Curtis's friend thankfully recognized Guest, and Curtis's agent to set up a date with him. He never called. But when she saw him later in a restaurant, he set up a date with her the next day. They were married in December of that year and have two children, Annie and Thomas, together.

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have been dating since 1983. They haven't said any vows, but are in it for the long haul, especially now that they have their son Wyatt.

"I would have been long divorced if I'd been married," she told the "Loose Women" panelists about her decision not to marry. "Marriage is an interesting, psychological thing. If you need to feel bound to someone then it's important to be married."

Last year's Golden Globes host has been with Fallon since 1982 — they're college sweethearts— but they are decidedly not married. "We are married for all intents and purposes, everything's shared and actually our fake marriage has lasted longer than a real one ... but there's no point in us having an actual ceremony before the eyes of God because there is no God," Gervais told The Sunday Times in 2010.

Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy met sometime in the early '80s and dated on and off for 15 years before deciding to tie the knot. Now they've been married for 20 years, but Hoffman still swoons.

"I totally adore him," Huffman said on "Ellen" back in 2015. "I just lucked out with that guy. He walks in a room and I go 'Ah!'"

They even stayed together through their extremely high-stress year, during which Huffman was arrested, and sent to prison for 14 days, as part of Operation Varsity Blues, aka the college admissions scandal.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus met her husband while she was at Northwestern in the early '80s. The couple got hitched in 1987 and have two sons together.

When discussing her marriage with The Week she said she was "lucky" to find him so early in life.

"I married the right guy for me, and that was lucky. But my marriage and my family have been a priority," she said. "That may sound stupid. Many people would say exactly that. But I worked very, very hard to keep us intact. And it's been my pleasure, because it's the only way I could have survived in this business — with my family unit in place."

The musician and the Bond girl met in 1980 when they co-starred in the film "Caveman" together. By the end of the shoot, Starr later told People magazine that he knew he loved her.

"Five days later — it's in me book, it was a Sunday afternoon — I was in love with the woman," he told them.

They were married in 1981.

"American Horror" star Angela Bassett met her actor husband, Courtney B. Vance, in 1980. They were married in 1997 and have a set of twins together, so they've been through a lot.

That didn't stop Bassett from keeping her sex scene with Lady Gaga in season five of "American Horror Story" a secret until the episode aired.

"I just, you know, waited until the night [the episode aired] and said, 'Come on, I want you to see something!' … And so I'm showing it, and I have the remote and he's like, 'Woah, woah, woah, what's about to happen?!' I was like, 'Well pause! What's going on with you, are you going to be all right?'" she explained on "Conan." "I just eased him into it."

The rocker and the model met in 1979, when Hansen was celebrating her 23rd birthday at Studio 54, according to a piece in Harper's Bazaar. Hansen convinced Richards to get her a bottle of champagne after last call, a meeting that Richards said involved him being "over the moon and peeing in my pants" with excitement.

They didn't connect, but nine months later, they met again, and Richards was smitten again, and it seems she was the same with him.

"Incredibly I've found a woman. A miracle," he later wrote, according to Harper's. "She is the most beautiful specimen in the WORLD. ... It certainly helps but it's her mind, her joy of life, and she thinks this battered junkie is the guy she loves."

The pair got married in 1983 and have two children, Theodora and Alexandra, together.

Sharon and Ozzy are a match made in heaven. The couple met back in 1979 and were married in 1982. They've been through some rough patches, but they renewed their wedding vows in 2017.

"It's really nice to watch. Everyone goes through hard times, but they're the definition of true love," said their daughter Kelly to celebrity site Wonderwall. "To see them fall so deeply in love with each other all over again time and time again, it makes me realize how special my family is."

The "Star Wars" star posted on Instagram in December 2018 to celebrate the couple's 40th wedding anniversary. He captioned the post with a Maya Angelou quote, "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." The couple got hitched in 1978, and have three kids together.

When asked on "Good Morning America" how they keep their relationship private after four decades, Marilou said, "We don't live in town, so we don't go in and do all the party circuits."

Meryl Streep, the most Oscar-nominated actor ever, met Don Gummer, in 1978 just six months after her first husband passed away from lung cancer.

Streep and Gummer have had four children together. They don't discuss their marriage too often, but he did get a special shout-out when Meryl took home the Oscar for best actress in 2012.

"First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives, you've given me," she said.

Denzel and Pauletta Washington met in 1977 and got hitched in 1983, but back in the '80s, Pauletta actually rejected his proposal three times.

He initially thought that he'd only asked twice, but his wife readily corrected him while they were chatting with Access Hollywood at the L.A. premiere of "2 Guns."

"You heard it here first," he said. "She turned me down, she said no. And since it was three times, that means she turned me down twice."

Jeff Bridges knew the moment he saw his future wife Susan, while he was filming "Rancho Deluxe" in Montana in 1975, even though she had a broken nose and black eyes from a car accident.

"We danced, and that was about it, man," Bridges told Oprah's Masterclass, according to The Huffington Post. "I mean, I was head over heels. I was head over heels the first time I saw her."

Though she turned him down at first, they crossed paths again a few days later and have been together ever since. They got married in 1977 and they have three daughters, Isabelle, Jessica, and Haley.

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner reportedly met in 1972 when Tomlin was looking for someone to help her develop the character of Edith Ann, a character on the show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

The pair finally married in 2014 after 42 years together, according to People magazine.

Who says high school sweethearts can't make it work? Ron Howard and Cheryl Howard met in high school and went on their first date when they were 16. They have been together ever since.

"I felt really lucky when we met," he told HuffPost Live. "It's crazy — we were teenagers, it shouldn't have worked. We got married young, that shouldn't have worked either, and yet it really and truly has."

They married in 1975 and have four children together, daughters Bryce Dallas, twins Jocelyn and Paige, and son Reed.

Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson were college sweethearts, having met when she was attending Spelman University and he was attending Morehouse University in 1970. They were married in 1980 and a daughter, Zoe.

Jackson has often spoken how Richardson challenges him to be a better actor and a better person.

"I've always had my wife LaTanya, who's my harshest critic," Jackson told The Guardian "She'd say, 'You're so intelligent that the first time you read something, you think you understand it intellectually and emotionally ... But there's no blood in it.'"

"It wasn't until I got sober that I knew fully what she meant," he continued. "Before, I used to do stuff on stage and kinda look for the reaction from the audience — 'Aha! I got 'em good that time!' And once I was able to ignore that, and focus on the relationships with the people I was onstage with, I was finally able to blossom into whatever I might think I am now."

The iconic comedian shared in 2018 that the key to a marriage that lasts five decades is, simply, laughter. "We laugh a lot. We've grown together, we've parented together, we've grandparented together. I'm lucky that I found the person when I was 18," he said.

While they've been together since they were teens, they made it legal in 1970 — which means they're celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.

Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Dean met in 1964 and were married two years later. The couple, who just celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary, isn't written about in the media very often. Dean has stayed out of the limelight, but that difference, among others, is what had kept them together.

"They say that opposites attract, and it's true," Parton told People. "We're completely opposite, but that's what makes it fun. I never know what he's gonna say or do. He's always surprising me."

Daniels, best known for his role as Mr. Feeny in "Boy Meets World," and Bartlett, who starred in "St. Elsewhere" alongside her husband, have been married since 1951.

Of his wife, Daniels told Salon that "She, I think, is a marvelous actress, and has won two Emmys, and I'm an actor, and she can look at my work and sometimes say, 'Bill, you know I don't think you're doing what you want to do there,' and she's absolutely right. So we help each other, and we respect each other, and that's the ingredients I think that makes a successful relationship."

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