# On screen couples who are (or were) real couples too. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2015, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872 "2015-11-18T07:27:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/101 "2015-11-29T16:08:31Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Well, he kind of gave it away how he kissed her at the end; it looked like a real marital kiss instead of a stage kiss. What, a peck on the cheek so quick that it could only be measured by sports finish-line equipment? ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/102 "2015-11-30T03:01:16Z")
I didn’t see this mentioned: Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass are married in real life, but on “The League” she is married to Stephen Rannazzisi. Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig are married in real life, but were married to different people on “Thirtysomething” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/103 "2015-11-30T15:31:35Z")
John Astin & Patty Duke and James Taylor & Carly Simon were all guests on the first episode of the 45 minute The Music Scene. The first two and the second two couples married and subsequently divorced. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/104 "2015-12-01T15:11:46Z")
Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett appeared together on **The Six Million Dollar Man** in 4 episodes (maybe some other shows). Farrah Fawcett also was in a TV Movie with Ryan O’Neal in 1989 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/105 "2015-12-01T15:15:52Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett appeared together on **The Six Million Dollar Man** in 4 episodes (maybe some other shows). She chatted with him in the first episode of **The Fall Guy** , to show there were no hard feelings. (With, y’know, bonus points for making it into the theme song.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/106 "2015-12-01T17:56:00Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > A quick look shows that Johnson supposedly started dating Griffith when he was working on _Harrad Experiment_ with her mother. [This](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2973022/PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Don-Johnson-Melanie-Griffith-reunite-eight-years-depart-NYC-daughter-Dakota-make-SNL-debut.html) says she was 14. > > Griffith and Johnson worked together in [_Paradise_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102631/) which I don’t remember at all. Griffith and Johnson were also in a 1985 episode of _Miami Vice_ together. This was in between their two marriages to each other. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/107 "2015-12-01T18:44:30Z")
Shirley Temple and her first husband John Agar made two movies together: “Fort Apache” (first of John Ford’s acclaimed “cavalry trilogy”) and the less successful “Adventure in Baltimore”. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/108 "2015-12-02T16:01:16Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, in **L.A. Law** and about another dozen TV and stage productions. > > Tom Cruise and and Nicole Kidman, in **Far and Away** and **Eyes Wide Shut** , not being very convincing as a couple in either. Also were Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz a couple in Vanilla Sky? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/109 "2015-12-02T16:20:24Z")
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have appeared together as a married couple in several Target commercials – does that count? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/110 "2015-12-02T22:36:50Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have appeared together as a married couple in several Target commercials – does that count? 🙂 Playing fictionalized characters of themselves… I’ll allow it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/111 "2015-12-03T04:58:28Z")
I remember seeing Bacon and Sedgwick together in a little early 90s film called (I think) Singles. Shortly thereafter they were married, as I recall. I think Johnny Galecki got tagged with the “maybe he’s gay” when he had a couple of gay film roles prior to Big Bang Theory - Bounce is the one that comes to mind, but I think there was a couple more. Much like the guy who played Lex Luthor on Smallville - he played a cross-dresser in a number of films prior to that and of course the whispers started. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/112 "2015-12-03T21:43:16Z")
FX’s - The Americans - Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Married on-screen Dating off-screen (she actually left her real husband, for him) ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/113 "2015-12-03T23:26:24Z")
In the animated classic “Cars” the voices of Strip “The King” Weathers and his wife Lynda “Mrs The King” Weathers are done by Richard and Lynda Petty. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/114 "2015-12-04T00:48:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Kinda sorta here, but Charlie Day, of _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ is real-life married to Mary Elizabeth Ellis, who plays his unreciprocated love interest, The Waitress, in the show. Mac and Dee are married (or were) in real life I believe. Real names, Rob McElhenny and Kaitlen Olsen. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/115 "2015-12-04T01:15:11Z")
Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen made _Time After Time_ (playing H.G. Wells and his love interest) and were subsequently married for several years. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/116 "2015-12-04T01:32:16Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen made _Time After Time_ (playing H.G. Wells and his love interest) and were subsequently married for several years. Steenburgen and her current husband Ted Danson met on the set of _Pontiac Moon_ in 1994, got married a year later, and co-starred in the short-lived series _Ink_ in 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/117 "2015-12-04T02:30:57Z")
Bollywood actors have a very high incidence of RL married couples playing onscreen married couples. I’ll just mention a few of the real famous ones: Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Ajay Devgn and Kajol Hema Malini and Dharmendra ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/118 "2015-12-04T05:12:27Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > What, a peck on the cheek so quick that it could only be measured by sports finish-line equipment? On the lips. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/119 "2015-12-05T01:03:42Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Also were Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz a couple in Vanilla Sky? Yes. The plot revolves around that relationship. > [@Petey](#): > > Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig are married in real life, but were married to different people on “Thirtysomething” They were a couple on Brothers & Sisters. Speaking of which… > [@Omar\_Little](#): > > FX’s - The Americans - Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys > > Married on-screen > Dating off-screen (she actually left her real husband, for him) I thought he was gay, and not just because of his character on B&S, I swear I read an article while the show was on about him and his character both being gay. And can I just give a hearty BOO to anyone mentioned in this thread as dumping their spouses for costars? Fuckin hollywood… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872.md?page=5)