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Home • Black Celeb Couples

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors

From Empire's Grace Gealey and Trai Byers to Underground's DeWanda Wise and Alano Miller, here are a few of our favorite offscreen Hollywood couples.
By Lauren Porter · Updated October 26, 2020
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Ryan Michelle Bathe and Sterling K. Brown

The darlings of Red Carpet season 2017 Ryan Michelle Bathe and Sterling K. Brown are a Hollywood couple we are totally smitten with. The pair met while they were students at Stanford and acted alongside each other in two tv series, Lifetime’s Army Wives and the hit NBC show, This Is Us.

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Jeffrey Mayer
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DeWanda Wise and Alano Miller

DeWanda Wise and Alano Miller are a husband and wife duo we definitely can’t get enough of. The two tied the knot and the Shots Fired actress said that she knew he was the one after just three months. Miller, who appears on the hit series, Underground has said the same of his better half because when you know, you know!

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
J. Countess
03
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance

Academy Award nominee Angela Bassett and her Emmy winning husband Courtney B. Vance have come a long way since their days as Yale Drama club students. The pair married in October of 1997 and have been inseparable ever since.

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Venturelli
04
Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith

Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith met on set of the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1994. Jada auditioned to play his love interest on the show but the role went to fellow actress Nia Long. The couple have never acted together on-screen but their love is definitely worth more than a motion picture.

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Jerod Harris
05
Grace Gealey and Trai Byers

A love empire literally blossomed on the set of Empire between cast mates Grace Gealey and Trai Gyers. The two became one in an intimate ceremony in the Grand Cayman Island.

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Paul Archuleta
06
Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe

Soul Food brought Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe together and nearly 12 years later, the love birds are still all about the love and happiness.

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Imeh Akpanudosen
07
LaTanya Richardson and Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson and his wife LaTanya Richardson have been longtime Hollywood big names and the two are proud to be in love and collecting their coins at the same time.
Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Walter McBride
08
Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict
Tia Mowry and her hubby fellow actor Cory Hardrict have had a strong bond since they met and they said “I do!” 9 years ago.
Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Jason LaVeris
09
Gina Torres and Laurence Fishburne

Former Suits actress and Black-ish star Laurence Fishburne swapped vows in 2001. The couple took their real life love on-screen in Hannibal and it was divine!

Hollywood Love Stories! 9 Actors Married To Fellow Actors
Kevork Djansezian
TOPICS:  Black Love