A romance with a rocky start. Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford have been together for more than 30 years, but their first encounter didn't go smoothly. The Oscar winner and the Ray director met in 1985 while Hackford was working on the movie White Nights, but Mirren wasn't impressed when her future husband kept her waiting for an audition. "It was a strange way to meet Helen, because she is a lovely person," the California native told AARP The Magazine in September 2006. "But she didn't hold back her fury.