17 Actors Who Are Married Or Long-Time Partners With Directors, Former Assistants, And More, But It's Not Super Well-Known

Posted 4 minutes agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down17 Actors Who Are Married Or Long-Time Partners With Directors, Former Assistants, And More, But It's Not Super Well-KnownJulie Andrews met her late husband, director Blake Edwards, in the parking lot of a therapist's office in 1969. They were married for 41 years.by Nora DominickBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. First, Christian Bale and Sibi Blažić have been married since 2000. The duo reportedly met while she was Winona Ryder's assistant on films like Girl, Interrupted and Lost Souls. Since then, she's become a stunt performer who has worked on Christian's films, The Dark Knight Rises and Ford v Ferrari. In 2014, Christian told the Wall Street Journal, "My wife was a stunt driver; she was chasing me through the city in Batman. She was driving one of the cop cars. She can do 180s and stunts and all that. She terrifies me. My wife terrifies me." Frank Trapper / Corbis / Getty Images, Justin Goff Photos / Justin Goff Photos/Getty Images Meeting Sibi changed Christian's entire outlook on marriage. In 2012 he said, "I never planned to marry. Everyone was divorced in my family so I didn't have very healthy ideas about marriage. Then I met Sibi and suddenly it seemed a fantastic idea."In Interview Magazine in 2001, Christian talked about getting married at a young age, saying he thought he'd be in his mid-30s before he got married, "But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, 'Screw it.' I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on, and the possibility of not having this person around." 2. Maya Rudolph has been with director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson since 2001, when they met at a Saturday Night Live afterparty. Paul is best known for directing Boogie Nights, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, One Battle After Another, and more. "He said he saw me in a sketch and said, 'That's the girl I'm going to marry.' But I don't know. I wasn't there. Maybe he just told me that to be sweet," Maya said in an interview with Town & Country. Dimitrios Kambouris / WireImage / Getty Images, David Livingston / Getty Images While still a cast member on SNL, Maya said she always believed she and Paul would live in NYC; however, Paul was set to move back to LA to continue making movies. So, after the birth of their first child in 2005, Maya made the commute between NYC and LA but realized it would be too much. Maya recalled how wild it was to commute between NYC and LA, saying, "It was crazy. I don't think I slept for two years." After leaving SNL in 2007, she moved full-time to Los Angeles, and she and Paul now have four children. 3. Julie Andrews married director/writer Blake Edwards in 1969, after they first met in the parking lot of a therapist's office. Blake is probably best known for directing Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, and more. They continued to run into each other while driving on Sunset Boulevard in LA, with Blake calling it "wonderfully Hollywood." In an interview in 2015, Julie said, "We would stop in the middle lane on Sunset waiting for traffic and then go on. I kept looking over, two or three mornings a week...eventually I said 'hi.'" They were married until his death in 2010. Archive Photos / Getty Images, Frank Trapper / Corbis / Getty Images Julie notably starred in Blake's Victor/Victoria in 1982, which he wrote and directed. The duo also brought it to Broadway in 1995.

In total, they made six films together, including Darling Lili, 10, S.O.B., That's Life, and more. 4. Tony Goldwyn and production designer Jane Musky have been married since 1987, after they met while working at a summer theater camp when Tony's friend initially had a crush on her. Jane is best known for being the designer on When Harry Met Sally..., Raising Arizona, Glengarry Glen Ross, and more. In an interview with The Tonight Show in 2024, Tony revealed how Jane was actually the one who helped him get his breakout role as Carl Bruner in Ghost, a movie that she was doing the production design for. Barry King / Alamy, M. Von Holden / FilmMagic / Getty Images "Jane's career kind of took off well before mine did," Tony began. "Ghost was a big movie she was doing, and I was an unemployed actor having a tough time. She would come home and say, 'You know, there's this role they haven't cast in this movie.' I was like, 'That's one of the lead roles! They're never gonna cast me in this part.' She just kept on me. I finally harassed my agent so much that the assistant in my agent's office said, 'I'm going to get you in on that.'" 5. Daniel Day-Lewis met Rebecca Miller in 1995 when he was invited to her home to meet her father, famed playwright Arthur Miller, before Daniel was set to star in the film adaptation of The Crucible. They got married a year later. Rebecca is a director who is best known for Maggie's Plan, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and the upcoming Mr. Scorsese documentary. In a 2008 interview, D