Wife cast in relationship with co-star not husband

[Little Nemo]

It's an awkward title but I couldn't think of a better way to summarize it.

I'm looking for examples of movies where a married couple are both in the movie but where the wife is cast as the love interest of somebody other than her husband.

Two examples I've thought of: The Man Who Would Be King had Michael and Shakira Caine in it but Shakira was cast as Sean Connery's love interest. Dodgeball had Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor in the movie but Tyler was cast as Vince Vaughn's love interest.

Other examples?

[Sue White]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding -Nia Vardalos's husband, Ian Gomez played her love interest's best friend, Mike.

[Munch]

One Tree Hill qualifies. Chad Michael Murray married Sophia Bush in real life, but ended up with Hilarie Burton's character on the show. Murray and Bush subsequently divorced.

[Acsenray]

This is not exactly the same as the situation posed in the OP, but in Blades of Glory, spouses Will Arnett and Amy Poehler portrayed siblings.

[WordMan]

In the old tv show thirtysomething, the characters played by Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig (who are married IRL) were married to other people (Mel Harris and Timothy Busfield) - and the two couples were best friends...

[Miss Mapp]

In Becket, Sian Phillips is Thomas Becket's (Richard Burton's) mistress and in love with him. Henry II (Peter O'Toole) wants her to come sleep with him, and eventually forces them both to give in and do what he wants, which begins the rift between Becket and his king.

Phillips's character commits suicide rather than be Henry's mistress.

O'Toole and Phillips were married at the time.

[singular1]

The mother of Ben(Michael Emerson) on Lost (Carrie Preston) is married to......Michael Emerson! Of course, she's only his mother in flashbacks, but it still counts, right?

Didn't Brad Pitt guest-star on Friends as a former fatty that Rachel hated in high school? They were married at the time.

[ivylass]

It's not a movie, but in Designing Women, Charlene (Jean Smart) is married to Richard Gilliland IRL. Richard played Mary Jo's love interest. I often wonder (because Charlene had her own husband) how they dealt with each other's canoodling other people on set. I'm sure it was all professional, but it wouldn't surprise me if there weren't some little twinge there.

[Skald the Rhymer]

It's not a movie, but in Designing Women, Charlene (Jean Smart) is married to Richard Gilliland IRL. Richard played Mary Jo's love interest. I often wonder (because Charlene had her own husband) how they dealt with each other's canoodling other people on set. I'm sure it was all professional, but it wouldn't surprise me if there weren't some little twinge there.

ivylass, your tendency to come into threads before me and say the exact thing I was about to is very, very disturbing, especially given our shared love of Sports Night and Pushing Daisies. If I discover that you also love The West Wing, I be forced to conclude that we're in a Tyler Durden situation.

[Dublin11]

Peter Falk's wife was in a few episodes of Columbo. She was never his love interest, of course. She played different characters in each episode and was in relationships in some of them.

[Paintcharge]

Not quite the same-they met on set, I believe-Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins in Bull Durham. They played lovers, but then Sarandon, in the film, ended up with Kevin Costner.

[Sigmagirl]

Fredric March played Christopher Columbus in the 1949 movie of the same name, and his wife Florence Eldridge played Queen Isabella. Some guy named Francis Lister played King Ferdinand. Never heard of him.

[chrisk]

Didn't Brad Pitt guest-star on Friends as a former fatty that Rachel hated in high school? They were married at the time.

More specifically, someone who hated Rachel. Rachel didn't have any particular feelings for the guy, but he was the President of the 'We hate Rachel Green club' ;)

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Kevin Smith cast his wife in Clerks II as Dante's fiancee (Smith, of course, played Silent Bob).

[Sean Factotum]

Kevin Smith cast his wife in Clerks II as Dante's fiancee (Smith, of course, played Silent Bob).

And in Chasing Amy had his at-the-time girlfriend Joey Lauren Adams as Ben Affleck's object of desire.

[gwendee]

Another TV one: Idina Menzel had a 2 or 3 episode guest part on Private Practice (yeah I know, but ...I watch it anyway). She was on as a potential love interest for Tim Daly's character. I don't even recall if she had any interaction with real life husband Taye Diggs.

[Acsenray]

And Jason Lee's wife Carmen played the role of an occasional lover of Joey Lauren Adams's character in Chasing Amy.

[RealityChuck]

In The Private Life of Henry VIII, Charles Laughton played romantically opposite four actresses -- Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Billie Barnes, and Everly Gregg -- in addition to his wife, Elsa Lanchester*. But since he was gay, Lanchester presumably was used to him with other people.

*Catherine of Aragon was evidently left out of the movie, for those of you scoring at home.

[MovieMogul]

Peter Falk's wife was in a few episodes of Columbo. She was never his love interest, of course. She played different characters in each episode and was in relationships in some of them.Ditto Tony Shaloub in Monk (with wife Brooke Adams) and Felilcity Huffman in Sports Night (with husband William H. Macy).

Other real life couples who appeared in the same movie but weren't each other's love interest:

Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins: Bob Roberts, The Player
Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson: Sleepless in Seattle, Bonfire of the Vanities, that thing you do!
Woody Allen & Mia Farrow: Broadway Danny Rose
Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones: Traffic
Bruce Willis & Demi Moore: Mortal Thoughts
Mel Brooks & Anne Bancroft: Silent Movie, Dracula: Dead and Loving It


I can't say I'm too familiar with the films of Eastwood & Locke or Bronson & Ireland, but they made enough together it wouldn't surprise me if at least one qualified.

[Trepa Mayfield]

ivylass, your tendency to come into threads before me and say the exact thing I was about to is very, very disturbing, especially given our shared love of Sports Night and Pushing Daisies. If I discover that you also love The West Wing, I be forced to conclude that we're in a Tyler Durden situation.

That would certainly be...interesting given that the two of you are different genders.

[Skald the Rhymer]

that would certainly be...interesting given that the two of you are different genders.

i know!

[Cowboy8467]

In Always Sunny in Philadelphia Charlie has an unrequited crush on the waitress who won't give him the time of day. They're married in real life.

Also, Sweet Dee and Mac are married in real life, but they've never hooked up in the show to my knowledge.

[foolsguinea]

Didn't Brad Pitt guest-star on Friends as a former fatty that Rachel hated in high school? They were married at the time.He hated her. He formed a club. That episode is still hilarious now they're broken up.

[MeanOldLady]

This is not exactly the same as the situation posed in the OP, but in Blades of Glory, spouses Will Arnett and Amy Poehler portrayed siblings.They did, however, play a married couple on a few episodes of Arrested Development, even if the marriage was short-lived and somewhat accidental. Or was that one episode only? Everything blends in my mind. The point is, I would like to go to one of their dinner parties.

[choie]

There's Emma Thompson and Kenneth Brannagh in Peter's Friends; married at the time, they did not play opposite one another. (Emma played a single woman, IIRC, and was paired up -- or tried to be -- with Stephen Fry's character Peter. Ken's character was married to a woman played by Rita Rudner.)

Though they weren't married, Emma Thompson later hooked up with Greg Wise, her co-star from Sense and Sensibility, although they did not play a romantic couple there either.

[Krokodil]

Alison Stern had a brief, blurry cameo as a switchboard operator in Howard Stern's Private Parts. She was portrayed by Mary McCormack.

Donna Dixon, Mrs. Dan Aykroyd, played Chevy Chase's hoochie mama in Spies Like Us.

[ivylass]

If I discover that you also love The West Wing, I be forced to conclude that we're in a Tyler Durden situation.

Yep, we are. :D

Now, to expose my ignorance...I've never seen Fight Club. Explain, please.

[Leiko]

The mother of Ben(Michael Emerson) on Lost (Carrie Preston) is married to......Michael Emerson! Of course, she's only his mother in flashbacks, but it still counts, right?

Similarly, on Due South, Martha Burns played the mother of her husband Paul Gross's character. (Earlier in the show, she played an evil Russian spy.)

[Martha Medea]

TV again - Fawlty Towers - IRL John Cleese (Basil) was married to Connie Booth (Polly) at the time, but his on-screen wife was Prunella Scales (Sybil).

[Mithrander]

Another TV example, Corner Gas's star Brent Butt cast his wife Nancy Robertson, as his employee at the gas station his character owned. I wonder how that one played out at home ...

[singular1]

They did, however, play a married couple on a few episodes of Arrested Development, even if the marriage was short-lived and somewhat accidental. Or was that one episode only? Everything blends in my mind. The point is, I would like to go to one of their dinner parties.
I think it was at least two, possibly three episodes - and yeah, I'd give up an arm to go to a Bluth dinner party!

[Mahna Mahna]

Not quite the same as the OP, since they weren't married when the show first started, but.... Dexter's Michael C. Hall married (http://www.usmagazine.com/news/dexters-michael-c-hall-marries-costar) co-star Jennifer Carpenter last year, shortly after the third season wrapped.

Considering they play brother and sister on the show, I doubt they'll ever end up playing lovers (though I can't totally rule it out, given how weird and creepy the plotlines can get).

[Katriona]

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Traffic.

[MeanOldLady]

I think it was at least two, possibly three episodes - and yeah, I'd give up an arm to go to a Bluth dinner party!Ha! I actually meant a Poehler/Arnett dinner party, but yes, the Bluths seem to be a lively bunch as well.

[Rucksinator]

In the wrestling world, Kevin Sullivan booked his wife to play alongside Chris Benoit. Nancy Sullivan and Benoit ended up getting married, and that ended badly.

[Gyrate]

From Heroes: Ashley Crow (Sandra Bennett, Noah/HRG's wife and Claire's mother) is in real life married to Matthew John Armstrong (the late Ted Sprague, he of the radioactive hands).

[sjc]

Not exactly what the OP was looking for, but in Knocked Up the writer/director Judd Apatow's wife, Leslie Mann, played Katherine Heigl's sister who was married to a character played by Paul Rudd (and the their children were played by Apatow and Mann's real life children).