They quietly had one of the longest-running unions in Hollywood.
November 21 Western world star Ed Harris (73) and Amy Madigan (73), who is best known for her role in field of dreams along with Kevin Costner and Ray Liotto celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.
“It was like something you see in a movie or hear in a song,” Madigan said Life In 1985, when we first saw Harris starring in the Sam Shepard drama Cowboy in Los Angeles in 1980. “I just thought — ‘Well, there it is.’ It was obvious to me that I would see him again.”
Ed Harris and Amy Madigan at the 70th Annual Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
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The couple married in 1983, while they were starring in a movie together Places in the heart. During their 40-year marriage, they starred opposite each other in at least nine films and multiple Broadway plays.
“Acting is so intimate and personal,” Harris told The Chicago Tribune in 1985, working with his wife. ”If we don’t work together… you can’t really talk about your day. However, when you work together, there is so much that is shared, so many unspoken thoughts and emotions go into the work, that it really brings you together.”
Of their occasional romantic scenes on screen, Madigan said that “‘the closeness of marriage gives us the ability and the freedom to do things like that. I mean, with another actor, you’d have to spend a lot of time and energy getting to know them first.”
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James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan Field of Dreams 1989
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Harris eventually became a four-time Academy Award-nominated star for roles in films such as Apollo 13 and The Truman Showas well as Pollock and Hours. He also made a splash playing Julia Roberts’ husband Foster mother, and was nominated for an Emmy for his role in Western world.
Meanwhile, Madigan became a national sensation after playing Annie Kinsella in 1989. Field of dreamsand opposite John Candy in Uncle Buck, also in 1989. She also had a starring role in the HBO hit Carnival. She was also nominated for an Emmy for her role in the 1989 TV movie Roe v. Wade.
In 1993, the couple welcomed their only child, Lily Dolores Harris, 30.
About their marriage, Madigan said that everyone had long assumed they tied the knot after a whirlwind affair on the set of their first film, but she denied it, saying they had been together two years before.
“It’s a nice Hollywood story, but it’s not true,” she told Chicago Tribune.
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