Celebrity Couples You Totally Forgot (or Never Knew) Were Married
Wait, she was married to WHO?
Wait, she was married to WHO?

Uma Thurman & Gary Oldman
The Kill Bill actress married Oldman, who is 12 years her senior, back in 1990. They divorced two years later, and Oldman is now on wife number five, Gisele Schmidt. Thurman wed Ethan Hawke in 1998, but they split in 2005.

Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Esposito
These days Cooper cozies up with Irina Shayk, but for a very brief time, he was married to Crash actress Jennifer Esposito. They tied the knot in late December 2006, but called it quits just four months later. “It was just something that happened,” Cooper told Howard Stern in 2011. “The good thing is, we both realized it… Sometimes you just realize it.”

Helen Hunt & Hank Azaria
Hunt, who you should never forget starred in Twister, wed Simpsons voice actor in 1999 after dating for five years. They split in 2000 following 17 months of marriage. “Getting over someone is a grieving process,” Azaria told Elle in 2012. “You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that’s only expedited by ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It’s a high-class problem, but it’s real.”

Nicolas Cage & Patricia Arquette
The action star said “I do” with the Oscar-winning actress back in 1995, following a strange courtship that supposedly included a proposal from Cage the same day they met. After five years, they announced their separation, and the divorce was finalized in 2001.

Nicolas Cage & Lisa Marie Presley
Not long after the ink on his divorce papers from Arquette was dry, Cage wed Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, who had previously been married to Michael Jackson. Cage filed for divorce in 2002 after three months of marriage. “I’m sad about this, but we shouldn’t have been married in the first place,” Presley said in a statement at the time.

Angelina Jolie & Jonny Lee Miller
Jolie’s marriages to Brad Pitt and Billy Bob Thornton are well-documented, but often forgotten is that her first husband was Jonny Lee Miller, who currently stars as Sherlock Holmes on the CBS procedural Elementary. After appearing in the 1995 movie Hackers together, they got hitched in 1996.They divorced in 2000, but in May 2014, Jolie called him “still a great friend.”

Jennifer Garner & Scott Foley
Long before Garner and Ben Affleck’s #Nannygate, Garner was married to Scandal star Scott Foley. They met on the set of Felicity and wed in October 2000, but by March 2003, they had separated. “We didn’t have a shot,” Garner later told Allure. “He’s a really good guy, and we just imploded.”

Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis
The Jurassic Park actor and Thelma & Louise star met on the set of their movie Transylvania 6-5000 and went on to appear in two more flicks together: The Fly and Earth Girls Are Easy. They made things official with a Vegas wedding in 1987, but parted ways in 1990 after Davis filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.”

Sandra Oh & Alexander Payne
The Grey’s Anatomy star married her Sideways director (also known for The Descendants and Nebraska) in 2003, but they called it quits in 2005. According to People, it took them more than two years to settle their finances.

Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett
Back in 1993, Roberts and country singer Lyle Lovett had a surprise wedding, with Lovett’s manager telling The Washington Post at the time that “it happened rapidly, very rapidly.” “I feel liberated in a way,” Roberts reportedly told Premiere magazine while married. “I feel like this really pleasant calm has descended upon my life.” The calm didn’t last—the couple split after 21 months together.

Kim Kardashian & Damon Thomas
It’s hard to forget Kardashian’s splashy wedding to Kris Humphries (followed by a splashy wedding to Kanye West), but her first husband came into the picture before every Kardashian move was tracked. She and Damon Thomas, a music producer, eloped in 2000, and divorced in 2004.

Will Arnett & Penelope Ann Miller
We’re all still mourning the demise of Will Arnett’s marriage to Amy Poehler, but the Parks & Rec star was actually his second wife. He and Adventures in Babysitting actress Penelope Ann Miller were married for less than a month after getting hitched in December 1994.

Jennifer Lopez & Ojani Noa
Before J. Lo was married to Marc Anthony, and before that, dancer-choreographer Cris Judd. But first came Ojani Noa, then a model/actor, who Lopez wed in 1997 and divorced in 1998. In 2016, Noa appeared on Patti Stanger’s show Million Dollar Matchmaker.

Heidi Klum & Ric Pipino
The supermodel’s marriage to Seal didn’t work out, and neither did her nuptials with celebrity hairstylist Ric Pipino back in 1997. They split after five years, but Klum has since called him “a good guy” and said they’re “still friends.”

Richard Gere & Cindy Crawford
Wedding bells rang for the actor and the model in 1991, but by 1995, they were officially in splitsville. Crawford opened up about their dynamic in 2014: “I think part of the problem in our relationship was that we were a lot of other things, but I don’t know if we were ever friends—like peers, because I was young, and he was Richard Gere.”

Chad Michael Murray & Sophia Bush
The One Tree Hill co-stars tied the knot in a Santa Monica ceremony with handwritten vows in April 2005. Only five months later, they announced their separation. In a 2017 essay for Cosmo, Bush wrote that the “trauma of it was amplified by how public it became, which was incredibly foreign and bizarre to a girl who’d been just another college kid 24 months before her life blew up.”

Will Smith & Sheree Zampino
Smith and Zampino were married from 1992 to 1995, and they share a son, Trey. Smith, of course, went on to marry Jada Pinkett, while Zampino has since married and divorced San Diego Charger Terrell Fletcher.

Tom Cruise & Mimi Rogers
Cruise’s marriages to Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes provided plenty of tabloid fodder, but before any of that, the action star was married to Lost in Space actress Mimi Rogers. They wed in a secret ceremony in 1987 and announced their intent to divorce in 1990.

Eva Longoria & Tyler Christopher
Pre-Desperate Housewives, Longoria walked down the aisle with soap star Tyler Christopher in 2002, but they went their separate ways in 2004. Since then, Longoria married and divorced basketball-er Tony Parker and is now wed to José Antonio Bastón, president of a Latin America media company.

Zooey Deschanel & Ben Gibbard
Deschanel and the Death Cab for Cutie frontman got married in September 2009 after being introduced by their mutual music manager. “I’d seen her movies and obviously I thought she was very beautiful,” Gibbard told New York magazine. “I was just awestruck that she was even talking to me.” Alas, it didn’t last. The couple announced their separation in November 2011.
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