Celebrities Whose Significant Others We Rarely See

Stephanie SengweTue, August 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM UTC

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Their careers may be larger than life, but these celebrities have chosen to keep their love lives away from the spotlight.

Recently, Oprah Winfrey made headlines after she shared photos of her long-term partner, Stedman Graham, who hasn’t made a public appearance with the media mogul since 2019. But Oprah is hardly the only celebrity who has opted to keep their love life under the radar. Other stars such as Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Hiddleston and Emma Stone have also managed to get married and start families without the masses knowing a thing.

In a 2018 interview with Gwyneth Paltrow, Oprah opened up about why she chose to keep her relationship private, revealing that she was often bothered by the number of false stories that would come out every time she and Stedman were seen together. “It’s why I stopped making as many public appearances with Stedman, because I realized that every time there’s a new photograph, there’s a new story,” she stated.

Ahead, see the celebrities whose significant others we rarely see.

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Oprah’s Partner: Stedman Graham

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Of the four decades they have been together, Oprah Winfrey’s partner, Stedman Graham has only made a handful of public appearances with the media mogul.

The pair first met at a charity event in 1986 and became friends before they started dating the same year. They were engaged in 1992, but called it off the following year, and still remained a couple.

Over the years, Oprah has opened up about their decision not to get married, telling Vogue, “Nobody believes it, but it’s true. The only time I brought it up was when I said to Stedman, ‘What would have happened if we had actually gotten married?’ And the answer is: ‘We wouldn’t be together.’ We would not have stayed together, because marriage requires a different way of being in this world.”

Winfrey added, “His interpretation of what it means to be a husband and what it would mean for me to be a wife would have been pretty traditional, and I would not have been able to fit into that.”

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Regé-Jean Page’s Girlfriend: Emily Brown

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Regé-Jean Page keeps a tight lid on his relationship with long-term girlfriend, Emily Brown.

The two sparked romance rumors when they were seen kissing in February 2021, though the relationship dates back to 2019. They have attend high-visibility events such as the 2021 GQ Men of the Year Awards, the Venice International Film Festival in 2023, the BAFTA Gala in 2024 and they were together at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party back March 2025.

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Kate Winslet’s Husband: Edward Abel Smith

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Kate Winslet began dating husband Edward Abel Smith back in 2011 and the two said, “I do,” just a year later.

Still, majority of their 15-year love story has been kept away from the limelight with the Oscar-winning actress only sharing snippets about their home life.

In 2021, Winslet raved about how supportive Smith is of her career, telling The New York Times, “He is an absolutely extraordinary life partner. I’m so, so, so lucky. For a man who is severely dyslexic, as he is, he’s great at testing me on lines. It’s so hard for him to read out loud, but he still does it.”

The couple share a son named Bear Blaze, whom they welcomed in 2013, in addition to her older kids Mia Honey Threapleton and Joe Anders who she welcomed in previous relationships.

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Elizabeth Olsen’s Husband: Robbie Arnett

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WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen and her beau Robbie Arnett first sparked dating rumors in March 2017. The two, however, didn’t make their official public debut until September that year and Arnett has accompanied her to several events since then.

The low-key couple were engaged in 2019. At the time, a source confirmed to PEOPLE that the engagement followed three years of dating. The actress inadvertently revealed they had tied the knot when she referred to the Milo Greene vocalist as “my husband” during a virtual taping of Variety’s Actors on Actors back in 2021.

In June, news broke that the pair were expecting their first baby together when Olsen was spotted out to lunch in Los Angeles wearing a white button-down shirt that was left open at the bottom to reveal her baby bump.

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Steve Martin’s Wife: Anne Stringfield

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When Steve Martin is not making the masses laugh, he shares a quiet life away from Hollywood with wife Anne Stringfield. The couple met sometime in the 2000s when Stringfield was working as a fact-checker for The New Yorker, before tying the knot in a surprise 2007 ceremony where guests had been told they were attending a party.

Approximately 75 attendees were present and former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, who is also a friend of Martin’s, officiated the ceremony. Other familiar faces included Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton and Lorne Michaels, who served as the best man.

The lovebirds welcomed a daughter together in 2012.

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Tom Hiddleston Partner: Zawe Ashton

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Tom Hiddleston plays a god as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Off screen, however, his life is pretty grounded. The actor shares two kids with partner Zawe Ashton, whom he met while they were working on the 2019 play Betrayal.

News of their engagement first broke in March 2022, when Ashton was spotted wearing a diamond ring on her left finger in a photo shared by AJ Odudu from the BAFTAs that year. Hiddleston coyly confirmed the engagement in June 2022, telling The Los Angeles Times, “I’m very happy.”

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Kerry Washington’s Husband: Nnamdi Asomugha

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Kerry Washington stunned Gladiators across the nation when news broke that she had married former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha in an intimate ceremony in Idaho during the summer of 2013.

With 13 years of marriage under their belts, the Little Fires Everywhere has begun to open up slightly about what makes her marriage work.

“One of the things that I really love about our relationship is that very early on, we started couples therapy. Like, we started couples therapy before anything was wrong … kind of preventatively,” she told Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddypodcast in March.

“We were like, we should just, like, start having these conversations so that if something does get hard, we already have a culture of knowing how to talk about stuff,” she added.

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Elizabeth Banks’ Husband: Max Handelman

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Elizabeth Banks and her husband Max Handelman met on their first day of college at the University of Pennsylvania and have since been inseparable.

However, fans of the Pitch Perfect 2 director have most likely seen her hubby only a handful of times given that he keeps quite the low profile. The two were married in 2003 and share two sons, Felix and Magnus.

While promoting Charlie’s Angels in 2019, Banks opened up about her decades-long marriage, telling PORTER, “Twenty-seven years. It’s the thing I’m most proud of. I do think people grow together or they grow apart. We definitely grew together. We were constantly making decisions that kept us close.”

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Jennifer Lawrence’s Husband: Cooke Maroney

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The American Hustle actress did not have marriage on her radar when a mutual friend introduced her to Cooke Maroney in 2018.

However, after dating for less than a year, the art gallery director popped the question and Lawrence knew she couldn’t say no.

“He’s my best friend, so I want to legally bind him to me forever,” Lawrence joked while on Naked with Catt Sadler. “And fortunately the paperwork exists for such a thing. It’s the greatest. You find your favorite person on the planet and you’re like, ‘You can’t leave!’ So I wanted to take that offer.”

The two welcomed their son Cy in February 2022 and another boy in 2025.

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Margot Robbie’s Husband: Tom Ackerley

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Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley were such good friends that even though she was in love with him, she thought expressing those feelings would ruin their friendship.

“We were friends for so long. I was always in love with him, but I thought, ‘Oh, he would never love me back. Don’t make it weird, Margot. Don’t be stupid and tell him that you like him,’ “ she told Vogue in 2016.

It turned out the feelings were mutual, however. “Then it happened, and I was like, ‘Of course we’re together. This makes so much sense, the way nothing has ever made sense before.’ “

They quietly tied the knot in a private ceremony on Australia’s Gold Coast in 2016 and welcomed a baby boy in 2024.

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Emma Stone’s Husband: Dave McCary

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The Easy A actress met her future hubby Dave McCary for the first time when she hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time in 2016. She performed one of the sketches he wrote for the show and it seems like sparks flew from then.

The two got engaged in 2019 and quietly wed in 2020. They welcomed their first child together, a girl named Louise Jean McCray, in 2021.

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Tina Fey’s Husband: Jeff Richmond

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Long before we knew Tina Fey as a comedy genius, her husband Jeff Richmond saw her talent as it was budding.

The couple met while working at Second City in Chicago sometime in the mid-‘90s. At the time, Fey was still crafting her comedy chops, but her future husband could already tell she was something special.

“I don’t want to say she was funny ‘for a woman,’ but there were so many talented men there at the time, and then suddenly there was Tina, who was so funny — and she was at home with all those boys on the stage,” he told The New Yorker.

The two got married in 2001 after seven years of dating. They welcomed two girls — Alice Zenobia in 2005 and Penelope Athena in 2011.

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Dolly Parton’s Husband: Carl Thomas Dean

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When it comes keeping their private relationships under the radar, Dolly Parton had everyone beat. The country legend married her husband Carl Dean Thomas back in 1966 and were together for nearly 60 years until his death in 2025. For the duration of their marriage, the only images people saw were those the “Jolene” singer posted herself.

“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years,” Parton wrote in part, in the Instagram post announcing his death. “Thank you for your prayers and sympathy.”

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Cate Blanchett’s Husband: Andrew Upton

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The union of an actress and a playwright sounds ideal, but it wasn’t love at first sight for Cate Blanchett and her husband of 26 years, Andrew Upton.

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The two met while she was working on a Chekov play and their first reviews of each other were less than stellar. “He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant,” she told Vanity Fair in 1999.

However, the tide quickly turned and their dislike morphed into a whirlwind romance. “It just shows how wrong you can be,” Blanchett recalled. “Once he kissed me, that was that.”

The pair were engaged three weeks into their relationship and tied the knot in 1997. Blanchett and Upton have four kids — sons Dashiell, Roman and Ignatius, and daughter Edith.

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Issa Rae’s Husband: Louis Diame

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Between the multiple hit TV shows she creates, produces and writes, various business ventures she fronts and honors she collects, Issa Rae is almost always in the spotlight.

What she keeps hidden away, however, is her relationship with hubby Louis Diame. Up until she got married in 2021, there was no real confirmation of their relationship, save for some engagement rumors that were corroborated by her Insecure costars Yvonne Orji and Jay Ellis.

And even though she gave us a small peek into her wedding day, the actress didn’t divulge much about her nuptials aside from the fact that it was a day to remember.

“It was just a beautiful experience,” the Lovebirds actress later toldTamron Hall. “People tell you that it goes by fast, and they’re right. But my thing was, it was a party. At the end of the day, it was just a big party. And it was a lot of fun. I feel so blessed to be surrounded by people who took the time out to just come and celebrate, and that’s something that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.”

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Ed Sheeran’s Wife: Cherry Seaborn

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Ed Sheeran and his wife Cherry Seaborn knew each from when they were just teens in high school.

Though they lost touch in their early 20s — Sheeran went on tour, Seaborn went to pursue her master’s at Duke University — fate reconnected the two friends in 2015 and the rest was history.

In January 2018, Sheeran and Seaborn secretly got married in an intimate ceremony.

During an appearance on the Table Manners with Jessie Ware podcast, Sheeran called their big day a “tiny, tiny event,” saying, “We did it at night on a random day in the middle of January in the middle of nowhere. No one knew, no one came to it. We lit candles, we got married, we went back [and] had a curry.”

The pair have two daughters, Lyra Antarctica, born in 2020, and Jupiter, born in 2022.

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Will Ferrell’s Wife: Viveca Paulin

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Will Ferrell met his wife Viveca Paulin in an acting class and got married in 2000 after separating for a short while.

But it seems the connection was undeniable, as Ferrell told ELLEshe understood his quirkiness.

“What I love most about Viv is very simple. She totally got my sense of humor,” he said. “I sent her flowers every day for a week with a card, like, ‘You’re the fifth-prettiest woman in the office.’ She loved it. We had a shorthand with each other.”

The two share three sons together — Magnus, Mattias and Axel, whom they welcomed in 2004, 2007 and 2010, respectively.

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Paul Rudd’s Wife: Julie Yaeger

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Paul Rudd and his wife Julie Yaeger‘s meet-cute is straight out of a rom-com.

Following the success of Clueless, the actor went to New York City seeking a publicist. It was at one office where he met his would-be bride, and the rest was history.

“She was the first person I met in New York,” he told Marie Claire UK in 2018. “We started talking and there was a maturity with her – she had experienced some tragedy in her life, I had too, and the impression I got was, wow, this is a woman. This isn’t a girl.”

The two were hitched in 2003 and have two children together, son Jack Sullivan, who was born in 2006, and daughter Darby, who they welcomed in 2010.

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Jamie Lee Curtis’ Husband: Christopher Guest

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Jamie Lee Curtis has been married to acclaimed screenwriter/director Christopher Guest for over 40 years.

And though you rarely see them at Hollywood events together — she joked about having to force him to be her date to the Academy Awards in 2024 — the two have maintained a solid foundation over the course of their long marriage.

In fact, she revealed he is still very much her happy place all these years later.

“I feel safe when I drive up and see that [he is] home,” Curtis told AARP The Magazine in 2021. “That’s the long marriage. It’s the safety of knowing his car is in the garage, that I’m not alone.”

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Snoop Dogg’s Wife: Shante Broadus

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Snoop Dogg may be the top dog when it comes to the rap game, but his wife Shante Broadus is the real power behind the machine.

The two met while in high school, and even though she’s been officially managing the California legend since 2021, Broadus has been around for the whole journey.

“I was there with him when he started all this,” she told W Magazine. “Even before he came out [as a musician], our friends and I were his fans. We would always listen to his songs and give our opinions. When he became popular, I was still helping them with deals and offers.”

Snoop and Shante have three children — Corde, Cordell and Cori. (Snoop also has another son, Julian, from a different relationship.)

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Julia Roberts’ Husband: Danny Moder

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Julia Roberts and Danny Moder met on the set of The Mexican in 2000. The actress was starring opposite Brad Pitt, while Moder was serving as the cameraman.

Though they both were in relationships at the time, they would later reconnect and were married on July 4, 2002.

Two decades and three kids later, Roberts still believes that marrying Moder is the greatest choice she’s ever made.

“Getting married to Danny. That was the first, like, my life will never be the same in the most incredible, indescribable way,” she said while on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop podcast in 2018.

“The best decision I ever made in my entire life was to hitch my wagon to Danny Moder.”

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Christina Aguilera’s Fiancé: Matthew Rutler

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Christina Aguilera also met the love of her life on a movie set — 2010’s Burlesque.

The two got engaged in 2014 and have remained affianced since.

“Our love is secure enough that we don’t need a wedding to prove our love or commitment,” Aguilera told PEOPLE. “We are enjoying our daughter, our family and our work for now.”

The two share a daughter, Summer Rain and Aguilera also has a son, Max, from a previous relationship.

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Lisa Kudrow’s Husband: Michael Stern

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Though Lisa Kudrow‘s stint as Phoebe Buffay on Friends was — and still is — high profile, her marriage to advertising executive Michael Stern is the exact opposite.

The two met in France in the ‘80s and married in 1995, just as Kudrow’s star was rising.

They welcomed son Julian in 1998, with Kudrow’s pregnancy written into the famed show.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Wife: Tasha McCauley

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“I have a girlfriend but I tend not to really like to talk about it in public. The girl that I’m with, she really doesn’t want to be a part of that,” Joseph Gordon-Levittonce told Howard Stern of his relationship.

And it seems he’s stuck to his guns. The actor has been married to Tasha McCauley — an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Fellow Robots, a robotics company based at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley — since 2014, but they have only made a few of public appearances together over the years.

The pair share two sons and keep their children’s identities low-key as well.

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Maya Rudolph’s Partner: Paul Thomas Anderson

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Despite never having married, Maya Rudolph and director Paul Thomas Anderson have more than two decades of commitment to each other under their belts.

The couple have reportedly been together since 2001 and refuse to divulge details of their courtship to the press. “No, It’s a sweet thing … Too personal. I don’t want to share it,” Rudolph told The Guardian in a 2015 interview after being asked how they met.

They have four kids — daughters Pearl, Lucille and Minnie, as well as a son, Jack.

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Rashida Jones’ Partner: Ezra Koenig

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News that Rashida Jones and Vampire Weekend’s lead vocalist, Ezra Koenig, were an item first broke when the two were spotted getting cozy at Sundance in 2017. That’s pretty much all we know about the super-private pair’s courtship.

They went on to welcome a son named Isaiah Jones Koenig on Aug. 22, 2018.

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