Public sources in the supplied corpus do not record when Gary Oldman and Lesley Manville first met. They married in 1987. Their son Alfie was born in 1988; they separated in 1989, three months after Alfie's birth, and divorced in 1990. Manville has said in later interviews that they are on good terms.
Kay Lenz and David Cassidy met on a blind date and married on April 3, 1977. Sources report they married about two and a half months after meeting. Their marriage ended in divorce on December 28, 1983. The cited biographical sources do not report any children from their marriage.
Sergio Ramos and Pilar Rubio began dating publicly in September 2012 and were seen together at the Ballon d'Or ceremony that year. The couple became engaged on 16 July 2018 and married in a religious ceremony in Seville on 15 June 2019. They have four sons together named Sergio, Marco, Alejandro, and Máximo Adriano. The couple remain married and have continued their family life together.
Madeleine Carroll and Sterling Hayden co-starred in Paramount films released in 1941, including Virginia and Bahama Passage, and they met while working together on those productions. They married in 1942. Their marriage ended with a divorce granted in Reno on May 8, 1946, and the Reno report cited grounds of cruelty. No children from the marriage are documented in the consulted biographical sources.
Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba were a married couple. They married in 1964, when Makeba was living among African exiles and émigrés in New York, and divorced two years later in 1966. Available sources do not document when or how they first met. They had no children together.
Jean Erdman met Joseph Campbell while she was a student at Sarah Lawrence College, where Campbell was her tutorial adviser. They married on May 5, 1938, and their marriage lasted 49 years. They had no children. Campbell died at home in Honolulu on October 30, 1987, and Erdman, his widow, died in 2020.
Helmut Kohl and Hannelore Renner first met in 1948, when Hannelore was 15 and Helmut was 18. They became engaged in 1953 and married on 27 June 1960. They had two sons, Walter Kohl, born in 1963, and Peter Kohl, born in 1965. Their marriage lasted until Hannelore's death on 5 July 2001.
Alvin Sargent and Laura Ziskin were life partners for about 25 years before marrying in 2010. Ziskin died in 2011 from complications of breast cancer, and their marriage ended with her death. No children together are documented. Ziskin had Julia Barry with Julian Barry, while Sargent had Amanda and Jennifer with Joan Camden.
Murat Yıldırım and Burçin Terzioğlu met in 2006 while starring in the television series Fırtına. They married in 2008. In July 2014, they announced that they had decided jointly to end their marriage, and they divorced that year. No children together are reported in the cited sources.
Yılmaz Güney and Nebahat Çehre met in connection with a film and began their relationship in 1964. They married on 30 January 1967 at the Hilton Hotel in Istanbul, in the first marriage for both. Their marriage ended after a violent incident described by Güney's close associate Abdurrahman Keskiner, and they officially divorced in April 1968 after about fifteen months. They had no children together, although Çehre's biography says she became pregnant during the marriage and later terminated the pregnancy.
Nana Akufo-Addo and Rebecca Akufo-Addo married in 1997, and Rebecca's biography says they marked their 20th wedding anniversary in 2017. Public biographies do not document when or how they first met, so their meeting or dating timeline cannot be established. They are described as having five daughters, but Nana's biography says four of his daughters are biological and one is Rebecca's daughter from a previous relationship. The sources do not report a separation or divorce.
Peter Geach met G. E. M. Anscombe in 1938 at a Corpus Christi procession. They married at Brompton Oratory in 1941 and had seven children, three sons and four daughters. They also collaborated philosophically, including on the 1961 book Three Philosophers. Their marriage ended with Anscombe’s death on 5 January 2001, and Geach survived her until his death in 2013.
Pedro and Ofelia became a couple around 1981, after Pedro's first marriage was ending; Wikipedia lists them as married in 1981 and divorced in 1996. Infobae describes their formal romance as lasting five years and says their union produced one son, Nicolás Armendáriz, although that account also says they did not believe in marriage, so sources differ in how they characterize the legal relationship. After separating, they continued to travel, spend time with their families, co-parent Nicolás, and maintain a close companionship. Ofelia accompanied Pedro during his cancer treatment in New York and remained with him until his death on December 26, 2011.
Banky W said they had crossed paths two or three times before he noticed Adesua again in June 2015 and contacted her by direct message. Their friendship developed into a romantic relationship, and their engagement was announced in May 2017. They held a traditional marriage on November 19, a court wedding on November 20, and a white wedding in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 25, 2017. They have two children, including son Hazaiah Wellington, born in early 2021, and they announced their second child in 2024.
Robert Badinter met Élisabeth Bleustein-Blanchet through her father, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, when Élisabeth was 12, which places their first meeting around 1956. They married on 1 July 1966 at the Synagogue de la Victoire in Paris, in a ceremony attended by nine people. They had three children, Judith, Simon, and Benjamin. Robert died in Paris on 9 February 2024, leaving Élisabeth widowed.
Walter Berry and Christa Ludwig were married from 1957 to 1970.
Renato Corsetti and Anna Löwenstein were married and stayed together until Renato's death in 2025.
Afrasiab Badalbeyli and Gamar Almaszadeh were married and stayed together until Afrasiab's death in 1976.
Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta were married from 1971 to 1991.
Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd were married from 1979 to 1989.
Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott were married and stayed together until Stanley's death in 2000.
♥♥♥♥♥ Opposites Attract
An Aries man and a Pisces woman are a more challenging blend (55/100, opposites attract), but the couples below show that friction and chemistry often go together.
Aries: Fire, Cardinal, ruled by Mars. Pisces: Water, Mutable, ruled by Neptune. Compatibility here is for entertainment.