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Cancer Man & Libra Woman Famous Couples

We have found 19 famous Cancer man and Libra woman couples. Here are their real stories: how they met, whether they married, the kids, and how it played out.

Elon Musk
Cancer
Talulah Riley
Libra

Talulah Riley and Elon Musk began a relationship in 2008 and married in 2010 at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland. They divorced in 2012, remarried in July 2013, and after a series of separations and a briefly withdrawn filing in 2014, Riley filed for divorce in March 2016. The second divorce was finalized in October 2016. The two have no children together.

Billy Crudup
Cancer
Naomi Watts
Libra

Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup met on the set of the Netflix drama series Gypsy and began dating in 2017. They married in New York City in June 2023, a wedding announcement and photos were reported in mainstream entertainment press. According to the same sources, they held a second celebration in Mexico in June 2024. The available sources do not report any children born to Watts and Crudup together.

How they met
They met on the set of the Netflix drama series Gypsy and began dating in 2017.
Corey Feldman
Cancer
VM
Libra

Corey Feldman and Vanessa Marcil were married in 1989 and divorced in 1993. Both of their Wikipedia articles list the marriage and the end year. The cited articles attribute Vanessa Marcil's known son to a later relationship with Brian Austin Green and do not document any children from the Feldman–Marcil marriage. The consulted sources do not provide a sourced account of when or how they met.

Children
No documented children from the Feldman–Marcil marriage in the cited sources.
Alessandro Nivola
Cancer
Emily Mortimer
Libra

They met in 2000 while both were cast in Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost. They married in the village of Turville in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, on 3 January 2003. They have two children: son Sam (born 26 September 2003) and a daughter, May (born 2010). Alessandro Nivola has publicly recounted that he obtained Mortimer's number from his neighbor Adam Cohen and asked her out during rehearsals.

How they met
They met in 2000 while both were cast in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost. Nivola later recounted that he had obtained Mortimer's phone number from his neighbor Adam Cohen and approached her on the first day of rehearsal.
Children
Two children: son Sam Nivola (born 26 September 2003) and a daughter, May (born 2010).
Richie Sambora
Cancer
Heather Locklear
Libra

Richie Sambora and Heather Locklear were married in Paris on December 17, 1994. They had one daughter, Ava Elizabeth Sambora, born October 4, 1997. Heather Locklear filed for divorce in February 2006 and their divorce was finalized on April 11, 2007. Contemporary news coverage reported that Sambora was blindsided when the filing became public.

Children
One daughter: Ava Elizabeth Sambora (born October 4, 1997).
Willem Dafoe
Cancer
Giada Colagrande
Libra

They met in Rome during the filming of Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. They married on 25 March 2005 in a small ceremony. They have collaborated professionally on Colagrande's films, including Before It Had a Name (2005) and A Woman (2010). They split their time between Rome and New York and Dafoe acquired Italian citizenship through the marriage.

How they met
They met in Rome during the filming of Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
Children
No publicly documented children together; Willem Dafoe has one son, Jack (born 1982), from a prior relationship.
Nelson Mandela
Cancer
Graça Machel
Libra

They first met in July 1990 and their friendship developed into a partnership during the 1990s. Mandela publicly acknowledged his feelings in early 1998 and they were married in Johannesburg on 18 July 1998, Mandela's 80th birthday. Graça Machel accompanied Mandela on many foreign visits and became First Lady of South Africa during their marriage. The marriage ended with Nelson Mandela's death on 5 December 2013, after which Graça Machel was his widow.

How they met
They first met in July 1990, when Graça Machel was still in mourning for her first husband.
Children
No children together.
David Hasselhoff
Cancer
Pamela Bach
Libra

They met on the set of a Knight Rider episode in 1985 and married in December 1989. The couple had two daughters, Taylor Ann (born May 5, 1990) and Hayley (born August 26, 1992). In January 2006 Hasselhoff filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences and their divorce was finalized in August 2006. Custody was initially split with Bach given one daughter and Hasselhoff the other, and Hasselhoff later obtained custody of both.

How they met
They met on the set of a Knight Rider episode in 1985.
Children
Two daughters: Taylor Ann Hasselhoff (born May 5, 1990) and Hayley Hasselhoff (born August 26, 1992).
BE
Cancer
Jenna Elfman
Libra

Jenna Elfman and Bodhi Elfman met in February 1991 during an audition for a Sprite commercial and they married on February 18, 1995. They have two sons together: Story Elias, born July 23, 2007, and Easton Quinn Monroe, born March 2, 2010. The marriage and children are reported in public biographical sources and contemporary press.

How they met
They met in February 1991 during an audition for a Sprite commercial.
Children
Two sons: Story Elias (born July 23, 2007) and Easton Quinn Monroe (born March 2, 2010).
Nelson Mandela
Cancer
WM
Libra

Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela met in 1957 and married in 1958. Mandela was arrested in 1963 and spent 27 years in prison; during that time Winnie became his public face and a prominent anti-apartheid activist. They separated in 1992 and their divorce was finalised in March 1996. Their marriage produced two daughters, Zenani and Zindziswa.

How they met
They met in 1957 when Nelson Mandela saw Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela standing at a bus stop in Soweto and arranged a lunch date the following week.
Children
Two daughters: Zenani (born 1959) and Zindziswa (Zindzi, born 1960)
RB
Cancer
SP
Libra

They met on the sets of the 1982 film Bheegi Palkein. Raj Babbar left his then-wife Nadira Babbar and the two were married in 1983. Their son, Prateik Babbar, was born on 28 November 1986. Smita Patil died from childbirth complications on 13 December 1986, and the relationship ended with her death.

How they met
They first met on the sets of the 1982 film Bheegi Palkein.
Children
One son, Prateik Babbar (born 28 November 1986).
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei
Cancer
QS
Libra

Saleha and Hassanal Bolkiah, who were first cousins, were married on 29 July 1965 with the akad nikah performed at Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque and celebrations at Istana Darul Hana. Three days of royal events followed. The marriage produced two sons and four daughters, who are listed in official biographical records and who have lived with the family at Istana Nurul Iman. The sultan later took additional wives who were divorced, and Saleha remains his first and continuing wife.

How they met
They were first cousins and members of the Bruneian royal family and are recorded as participants in palace education and social life; contemporaneous records show both were in palace institutions. They married on 29 July 1965.
Children
They had six children together (two sons and four daughters): Princess Rashidah Sa'adatul Bolkiah (b. 26 July 1969), Princess Muta-Wakkilah Hayatul Bolkiah (b. 12 October 1971), Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah (b. 17 February 1974), Princess Majeedah Nuurul Bolkiah (b. 16 March 1976), Princess Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah (b. 12 March 1980), and Prince Abdul Malik (b. 30 June 1983).
Paul Schrader
Cancer
Mary Beth Hurt
Libra

Mary Beth Hurt married filmmaker Paul Schrader in 1983 and the couple had a daughter and a son. Hurt appeared in roles in several of Schrader's films and collaborated with him on films including Light Sleeper (1992) and Affliction (1997). In January 2023 Schrader announced Hurt had been placed in memory care because of advancing Alzheimer’s and the couple moved to assisted-living care. Mary Beth Hurt died on March 28, 2026.

Children
They had two children, a daughter and a son; individual names are not listed in the cited sources.
Andre Gray
Cancer
Leigh Anne Pinnock
Libra

Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Andre Gray met in Marbella and began dating in 2016. They moved in together in December 2018 and were engaged in May 2020. Leigh-Anne announced a pregnancy in May 2021 and gave birth to twins on 16 August 2021. The couple married on 3 June 2023 in Jamaica.

How they met
They met in Marbella and began a relationship in 2016.
Children
Twin daughters, born 16 August 2021 (no public names listed in the cited sources).
Günther Anders
Cancer
Hannah Arendt
Libra

Hannah Arendt and Günther Stern (who used the pen name Günther Anders) reconnected in Berlin at a New Year's masked ball in 1929 and Arendt moved in with him within a month. They were married in Nowawes on 26 September 1929. Anders fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and later emigrated to the United States in 1936, while Arendt and Stern lived increasingly separate lives. Their marriage was legally ended by divorce in 1937.

How they met
They met in Berlin at a New Year's masked ball in 1929, when Hannah Arendt encountered Günther Stern (who wrote as Günther Anders), and they began a relationship.
Evan Stone
Cancer
Jessica Drake
Libra

Evan Stone and Jessica Drake were married in 2002. Jessica Drake's Wikipedia entry lists Evan Stone as a spouse with the marriage dated 2002 and a divorce dated 2004. Industry biographies such as IMDb list Evan Stone as married to Jessica Drake from June 2002 to 2004 (divorced). The consulted public biographies do not document how they met and do not list any children from the marriage.

How they met
No reliable source in the consulted documents states how Evan Stone and Jessica Drake first met.
Children
No publicly documented children from this marriage were found in the consulted sources.
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Are Cancer men and Libra women compatible?

Opposites Attract

A Cancer man and a Libra woman are a more challenging blend (54/100, opposites attract), but the couples below show that friction and chemistry often go together.

Cancer: Water, Cardinal, ruled by Moon. Libra: Air, Cardinal, ruled by Venus. Compatibility here is for entertainment.