20 A-List Actresses Who Surprisingly Married Total Plain Dudes

Hollywood doesn't have the best track record when it comes to lasting romances, and the constant breakups and new relationships are what makes A-listers' love lives so fascinating --and the subject of much tabloid fodder.

Many celebrities seem to get particularly close to other people in the industry, whether it's their co-star or director, which makes sense because this person can understand their demanding work schedules, the invasion of the paparazzi, and the team of stylists that are always on the sidelines.

But then, there are others who prefer to date guys who are what we would consider totally normal. Actually, some of these stars have even gone on to fall in love and marry men who have nothing to do with the entertainment industry.

Take Julianna Margulies as an example, who fell in love with a lawyer (which is especially interesting since she portrayed one onscreen for The Good Wife), and Jessica Chastain, who is married to a handsome Italian fashion executive. What this suggests is that there is hope for civilians who want to end up with a big star.

Below are 20 A-list actresses who married normal, non-celebrities--although, not all of their romances were the lasting kind.

20 Julianna Margulies And Keith Lieberthal Had An Instant Connection

Julianna Margulies was a lawyer on the hit TV series The Good Wife and interestingly, she's married to a lawyer in real life, Keith Lieberthal.

The couple has been married since 2007, and when they first met, Margulies knew this man was special.

They met at a friend's dinner party, and Margulies previously told Ellen DeGeneres the conversation went like this: "When he came over to me, I said, 'Look, I just think you are so handsome. Are you a model or an actor and are you 12 [years old]?'" Her pickup line obviously worked, and the pair has been inseparable since.

19 Gal Gadot Found Yaron Varsano At A Strange Desert Party

You know her as Wonder Woman, and Gal Gadot is fast becoming a household name. But the man she chose to marry has nothing to do with the entertainment industry.

According to PopSugar, in 2008 Gadot married Israeli businessman Yaron Varsano. The pair had met two years earlier at what Gadot told Cosmopolitan was a "very strange party in the Israeli desert.” She also revealed how Varsano realized early on she was the woman he wanted to spend forever with, saying, "He told me on our second date he was serious and wasn't going to wait more than two years to ask me to marry him. Fast forward two years: he proposed.”

18 Stacy Keibler Married Jared Pobre After Just Six Months Of Dating

When it was revealed that Stacy Keibler was married in a beautiful beach wedding in 2014, everyone wanted to know more about her husband, Jared Pobre.

After all, the couple had a pretty whirlwind romance and after just six months of dating, they tied the knot, E! News reported.

What we can tell you is that Pobre is a successful businessman and according to the publication, before he and Keibler became romantically involved they were good friends. That's understandable, as it's often thought that a relationship founded on friendship is one that lasts. So how do we make friends with a celeb??

17 Julie Bowen Married Real Estate Investor Scott Phillips

Modern Family's Julie Bowen found love with Scott Phillips, a real estate investor. The couple married in 2004 and in 2016, Bowen discussed Hollywood's romances (and constant breakups) with Us Weekly, telling the publication that she and her husband “watch all these people get married and split up and go, 'Wait, did they get married after us or before us?'" She continued, "We outlast all these people. The answer: We're too tired to do anything else!”

But unfortunately her statement did not remain true forever, and in 2018, the couple announced that they too were splitting after 13 years of marriage.

16 Marcia Cross Left Her Number For Tom Mahoney At A Flower Shop

Marcia Cross has found happiness with a financial advisor named Tom Mahoney and they have quite the romantic story. According to People, Cross saw Mahoney outside a flower shop in Los Angeles and left her number with the shopkeeper.

He ended up calling her, the pair arranged a date, and the rest is pretty much history.

In 2006 the couple got married and it was a moment that was truly unforgettable for the bride. According to InStyle, Cross reflected on her big day, saying, "Walking up the aisle was a glorious moment. I was just so happy."

15 Ellen Pompeo's Greatest Romance Is Her Real-Life One With Chris Ivery

Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has had some interesting onscreen romances, but the best romance is with her real-life husband, Chris Ivery. Ivery is a music producer, and he and Pompeo married in 2007.

In 2018, Pompeo spoke to the Us Weekly podcast In Case You Missed Us and revealed that one of the reasons she feels she's been lucky in love is because she accepts her husband for who he is. She said, “Just don't try to change people. They are who they are, and they were fine when you married them, so don't expect them to change.”

14 Zoë Saldana Found Love With A Handsome And Humble Artist

Actress Zoë Saldana is married to an Italian artist by the name of Marco Perego. In the summer of 2013, the couple exchanged vows in a secret ceremony just outside of London, England, E! News reported.

At the time, it was unlikely anyone in the US would have heard of Perego.

Perego was first a soccer player but an injury ended his career. After, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming an artist, moving to New York City to make it happen. He is an interesting man and according to E! News, despite his success in the art world, he remains humble.

13 Lisa Kudrow And Michel Stern Have Been Married For Over 20 Years

Lisa Kudrow and French advertising executive Michel Stern are among the select few when it comes to Hollywood's long-lasting relationships--and the couple has been married for more than 20 years (they married in 1995).

Perhaps one of the reasons for their strong marriage is Kudrow's approach to it, as she told Glamour, “When [Michel and I] decided to get married, we understood: We're not promising to love each other forever, because you can't do that, but we are promising to work on whatever problems come up. We're committed to our marriage working. It turns out, after you have a history, there's such a bond, and love takes another shape… ”

12 Elizabeth Banks Met Max Handelman On Her First Day Of College

Before Elizabeth Banks became the popular actress she is today, she was just another college student at the University of Pennsylvania. But college brought more than just education to Banks' life. In fact, that's where she met her husband, Max Handelman.

The pair is believed to have met on Banks' first day of college.

According to InStyle, ten years later, Max surprised Elizabeth with a proposal. They walked down the aisle in 2003. Rather than having traditional vows, they decided to read letters that they had written to each other during their first year of dating.

11 Jessica Chastain Fell For An Italian Fashion Executive

Jessica Chastain is not married to another actor--instead, she found herself an Italian fashion executive named Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo.

Although Gian Luca is not an actor, he has rubbed shoulders with many famous people over the years. In fact, Bustle notes that he previously worked as the director of public relations at Armani, where he met George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Leonardo DiCaprio. No word on how the pair ultimately connected, however. Still, the most memorable person Gian Luca ever met was obviously Chastain, whom he married in Italy in 2017.

10 Scarlett Johansson And French Journalist Romain Dauriac Had A Whirlwind Marriage

There was a time when Scarlett Johansson declared she was “deeply in love” with French journalist Romain Dauriac. After their engagement in 2014, she told People about her happiness, adding, "He's my buddy I'm very happy. He's someone I can always rely on." Though it was a surprise to many of her fans, Scarlett didn't leave room for doubt.

The pair married at the end of 2014 at The Ranch at Rock Creek in Philipsburg.

According to E! News, at the time, the couple were the picture of bliss. But that happiness didn't last, and in 2017, Johansson and Dauriac finalized their divorce.

9 Julianne Moore And Bart Freundlich's Love Has Withstood The Test Of Time

In 2003, Julianne Moore married writer-director Bart Freundlich at their friend's Greenwich Village home. By this stage, they already had their two children together, their son, Caleb, and daughter, Liv, and family appears to be very important to Moore.

During an interview with The Telegraph in 2017, the journalist noted how she showed them a funny photo of her husband, a man she clearly loves. As for their secret to a lasting marriage? Moore revealed that “humor” has played a part in their successful relationship, which is evident in most photographs of the happy couple.

8 Julia Stiles And Preston J. Cook Didn't Have A Long Engagement

Julia Stiles and Preston J. Cook announced their engagement on Christmas Day in 2016 when she took to Instagram to share a photo of her ring. And in June of 2017, the couple married in an intimate beach ceremony with just two friends, E! News reports.

Stiles was pregnant at the time, and four months later, the couple announced the birth of their first child, a son they named Strummer Newcomb Cook.

As for what Cook does for a living? Well, according to Romper, he has had a successful career behind the scenes with his camera work.

7 Tina Fey Met Jeff Richmond At A Theater In Chicago

Tina Fey is a goddess in the comedy world but her husband, Jeff Richmond, is more into music. In fact, he is a talented music director who has worked on Saturday Night Live. Of course, he likely has a penchant for humor, too.

The pair has known each other since 1994 when they met at The Second City theater in Chicago, Female First reports. They have also been married since 2001, and have mixed their business and personal lives on more than one occasion by working together, most recently on the Broadway show Mean Girls.

6 Julia Roberts And Daniel Moder Are Notoriously Private And Deeply In Love

She's a beautiful actress and he's a charming cameraman, and together Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder have found a relationship that's able to withstand the test of time. The pair met on the set of the film The Mexican in 2000 and according to PopSugar, two years later the couple were married.

The couple is very private, but Roberts has occasionally publicly declared her love for Molder.

One such declaration came in a Harper's Bazaar interview (via Daily Mail) in which she praised him for the ways he has changed her life. She said, “When I think about what makes my life my life, and make sense and just shine inside of me, it's him. Everything has come from that.”

5 Keri Russell And Contractor Shane Deary Share Two Children

Keri Russell is now in a relationship with her The Americans co-star Matthew Rhys. But years ago, before she got involved with her fellow actor, her heart belonged to a Brooklyn-based contractor named Shane Deary. Plenty of her fans never even knew about the relatively long relationship.

Russell and Deary married on Valentine's Day in 2007 and later welcomed two children into the world. The first, their son River, was born the same year the couple got married, and their second, a daughter named Willa, was born in 2011. However, the romance was not to be and ended in divorce in 2013, E! News reports.

4 Alison Sweeney And David Sanov Have A Tradition That Helps Keep Their Relationship Strong

Days of Our Lives star Alison Sweeney met and fell in love with a California highway patrol officer, David Sanov, and after three years of dating, they married in 2000.

Fast forward 18 years and the couple is now celebrating an impressive milestone, which is in part thanks to the tradition they have every year.

Sweeney opened up to Health about their tradition, saying, “Every year on our anniversary, we have a dinner date and talk about how our relationship is going. We kind of give each other a job evaluation, which sounds a little embarrassing! We talk about our three favorite things about the other person and then three things that we could work on.”

3 Reese Witherspoon Met Talent Agent Jim Toth When He Rescued Her From An Awkward Situation

Actress Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe married when they were young, and after their marriage ended in 2007, it took some time before Witherspoon found the man she would ultimately end up with. But she found her now-husband Jim Toth when he rescued her from an uncomfortable situation during a night out--another man had been hitting on her.

Toth is a Hollywood talent agent, and in 2011, he became Witherspoon's husband when they married at her beautiful Californian ranch. Now the two share a son, Tennessee, and show no signs of letting up on the romance.

2 Anne Hathaway's Husband, Adam Shulman, Has Changed Her Life Completely

Anne Hathaway is an incredibly talented actress who has found the love of her life in Adam Shulman. Shulman is a jewelry designer and the father of Hathaway's son, and it seems the pair are very happy together. Hathaway revealed that and more during an interview with Elle magazine. She spoke with the publication about the love that her husband brings her, saying,

“He changed my ability to be in the world comfortably.

I think the accepted narrative now is that we, as women, don't need anybody. But I need my husband. His unique and specific love has changed me.”

1 Jennifer Lopez Proved To Cris Judd Her Love Don't Cost A Thing

Jennifer Lopez is a woman who can do it all; she can sing, she can dance, and she can act, having starred in several romcoms. But she is also a woman who has married someone who many of us would consider a “normal guy,” and that man is the dancer and choreographer, Cris Judd.

Judd married Lopez in 2001, after meeting her earlier that year when he directed the music video for her track, “Love Don't Cost a Thing,” The Mirror reports. But ultimately, it wasn't meant to be, and the couple split after nine months of marriage.