List of Famous Women Who Married Older Men ranked by fame and popularity. It is quite common for women to marry older men and several of Hollywood's most famous actresses have done just that. Some famous women marry wealthy older men for security, while others marry for true love. One famous lady even married a man 63 years her senior.
Who is the most famous woman who married an older man? Katie Holmes tops our list. The “Dawson's Creek” actress married Tom Cruise, after dating for about a year, on November 18, 2006 when she was 27 and he was 43. They divorced in 2012. This was Holmes' only marriage. Cruise was previously married to Mimi Rogers from 1987–1990 and Nicole Kidman from 1990-2001. More recently Holmes has been rumored to be dating “Ray” actor Jamie Foxx.
Anna Nicole Smith married J. Howard Marshall II on June 27, 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89. They were together until his death in 1995. Smith was previously married to Billy Smith from 1985–1993. She later married Howard K. Stern in 2006 and they were together until her death a year later.
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Amy Yasbeck
Amy Yasbeck married her "Problem Child" co-star John Ritter on September 18, 1999, when she was 37 and he was 51. When they met at a read-through for "Problem Child," Ritter joked that Yasbeck was too young to play his wife. They had a daughter, Stella, in 1999 and remained married until Ritter's death in 2003. Ritter was previously married to the actress Nancy Morgan from 1977 to 1996.
Calista Flockhart
Calista Flockhart began dating Harrison Ford in 2002, when he was 60 and she was 38. They married on June 15, 2010. This is Flockhart's first marriage, and Ford has been married twice before.
Julie Chen
"Big Brother" host Julie Chen married CBS CEO Les Moonves on December 23, 2004, when she was 34 and he was 54. The couple are still married today. This is the only marriage for Chen, but Moonves was still married to Nancy Wiesenfeld when he began dating Chen.
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes married Tom Cruise, after dating for about a year, on November 18, 2006, when she was 27 and he was 43. They divorced in 2012. This was Holmes's first marriage. Cruise was previously married to Mimi Rogers from 1987–1990 and Nicole Kidman from 1990-2001. Holmes and Cruise had one child, Suri, and parented his children with Kidman, Isabella and Connor.
Mena Suvari
Mena Suvari married Richard Brinkmann on March 4, 2000, when she was 21 and he was 37. They divorced in 2005. Suvari was later married to Simone Sestito from 2010-2012.
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich married Luc Besson in 1997 when she was 22 and he was 38. She was previously briefly married to Shawn Andrews, but the marriage was quickly annulled. Jovovich has been married to the director Paul W. S. Anderson since 2009. Besson was married twice before Jovovich, and he has been married to Virginie Silla since 2004.
Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Kerrigan married Jerry Solomon on September 9, 1995, when she was 25 and he was 40. This is Kerrigan's only marriage and Solomon's third. The couple is still married and has 3 children together.
Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova married Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, on August 23, 1989, when she was 24 and he was 40. The two met while filming a music video, when the model was 19 and Ocasek was already married. They have two children.
Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates married Kevin Kline in 1989, when she was 26 and he was 42. They originally met at a 1983 audition for "The Big Chill." This the first & only marriage for both, and the couple has two children.
Shania Twain
Shania Twain married Robert Lange on December 28, 1993, when she was 28 and he was 44. Though they had a son in 2001, the couple divorced in 2010 after Lange had an affair with Twain's best friend. Twain went on to marry her former best-friend's ex-husband Frédéric Thiébaud in 2011.