RELATED: The 18 Most Secretive Celebrity Couples of the Past 40 Years. Married for almost 30 years now, actors Annette Bening and Warren Beatty have an age gap of 21 years between them. And it’s not something that they ignore. Bening told Parade in 2010 of being married to a much older person, that “there are times you just have to address it because you’re at different stages of life.” “You need a foundation of fundamental love and mutual respect and understanding,” she continued. “There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it’s sort of difficult to define what is considered normal. My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we’re years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.” Together for more than 14 years, Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet’s romance proves that age doesn’t matter—especially when you’re both incredibly good-looking and famous. The two first coupled up when Momoa was just 26 and Bonet was 38, and they had their first child together, Lola Iolani Momoa, later that year. Just over a year later, the couple had their second child, son Nakoa Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa. However, it wasn’t until 12 years into their relationship that the couple made things legal, walking down the aisle in October 2017. While the internet may be well-aware of this couple’s penchant for pranking one another, their age gap is a less publicized part of their relationship. Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds recently turned 44, while his wife Blake Lively celebrated 34. The pair married in 2012 and have three kids together—plus, it seems, a lot of fun. Senator Cory Booker is 52, and his girlfriend of three years, The Mandalorian actor Rosario Dawson, is 42. The pair started seeing each other quietly in 2018 and went public a year later. In spring of 2020, Dawson revealed that they were planning on moving in together and this past January, they stepped out together for one of the most high-profile Washington dates a couple can have: the presidential inauguration. Olivia Wilde is 10 years older than boyfriend Harry Styles, and they hit it off where many famous couples do: at work. Styles is continuing his burgeoning acting career by appearing in next year’s Don’t Worry Darling, which is directed by Wilde. While the pair haven’t spoken out publicly about their relationship—or the years between them—they don’t seem much bothered by it. Wilde has been spotted dancing throughout the pop star’s sets on his current tour. Forty-two-year-old Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has traded in a rock star lifestyle for a world of changing diapers. Levine tied the knot with now 33-year-old model Behati Prinsloo back in 2014. The couple welcomed first daughter Dusty Rose Levine in 2016 and second daughter Gio Grace Levine in 2018. How to Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis is 11 younger than her husband, producer and actor Julius Tennon. They met filming a TV show in 2000 and tied the knot three years later. In a 2017 interview with OWN, Davis shared her outlook on marriage and why she believes they’ve made theirs work for so long. “One of the things I understand about marriage is that it’s the everyday,” the Oscar winner said. “People don’t always marry the everyday, they marry the kind of now, kind of wow…Your marriage doesn’t start when you say ‘I do,’ your marriage starts when you look over at your partner and you wanna kill him…and the next minute you say, ‘I love him more than anything and I’m sticking with it.’” At 46, Stranger Things star David Harbour has 10 years on his singer wife, Lily Allen. But he had to catch up pretty quickly when it came to being a parent. Allen has two daughters, nine-year-old Ethel Mary and eight-year-old Marnie Rose, with her ex, Sam Cooper. During an appearance on the That Scene With Dan Patrick podcast, Harbour explained that playing a father on Stranger Things actually prepared him for parenting his own kids. “I feel like there’s something in Hopper that had this deep need for family and there was something in me that had it too but that I wasn’t even aware of,” he said. “The role allowed me to do that in my real life, it was a nice test run.” Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, now 51, tied the knot with 39-year-old Camila Alves, a model and designer, in 2012. The pair have three children together—two sons and a daughter. Both of Michael Douglas’s marriages have involved some pretty significant age gaps. At age 32, he wed 19-year-old Diandra Luker, with whom he had son Cameron Douglas. After that union ended, Douglas went on to marry actor Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000 after just a year of dating, despite their 25-year age difference. While they may have been born a generation apart, Douglas and Zeta-Jones share the same birthday, Sept. 25. For more celebrity trivia sent right to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra aren’t bothered by their 10-year age gap. The 29-year-old musician and 39-year-old actor first started talking in 2016, and by 2018, they were married—in two elaborate wedding ceremonies. A decade after 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin’s acrimonious divorce from Kim Basinger, he found love again with yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas. Baldwin, who’s 26 years Thomas’s senior, walked down the aisle with her in 2012. The couple have wasted no time expanding the Baldwin clan, having five children in seven years. George Clooney transformed from one of Hollywood’s most desirable bachelors to one of its most dashing married men when he wed human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in 2014. The now 60-year-old star and his 43-year-old wife welcomed twins Ella and Alexander in June 2017. Between their action-packed onscreen careers and smoldering good looks, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham’s coupling is a no-brainer. However, the pair’s major age gap might surprise some of their fans. The couple, parents to four-year-old Jack and expecting another child, have 20 years between them. While many 20-year-olds are still contemplating their college majors, Aaron Taylor-Johnson was making much bigger life decisions. The now 31-year-old Avengers: Age of Ultron star met his wife, Sam Taylor-Wood, when she directed him in Nowhere Boy when he was just 19. The couple wed just a year after the film’s release and have two daughters together. Despite their 23-year age difference, Taylor-Johnson told The Times that their coupling makes perfect sense to him. “I’m an old soul and she’s a young soul,” he said. Ellen DeGeneres is 15 years wife Portia de Rossi’s senior, but that doesn’t seem to faze the pair, who have been going strong since tying the knot more than a decade ago.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Portia de Rossi isn’t the only Arrested Development star in a May-December relationship. Funnyman David Cross is 19 years older than his wife, actor Amber Tamblyn, with whom he tied the knot in 2012. The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Marlow Alice, in 2017. RELATED: 15 Beloved, Long-Term Celebrity Couples, Then and Now. X-Men star Hugh Jackman may be known for his rock-hard abs, but an even greater accomplishment is his rock-solid marriage. The Australian action star has been married to wife Deborra-Lee Furness, 12 years his senior, for more than 25 years. Despite all the Lemonade she spilled about her marriage, Beyoncé and Jay-Z are still one of the music industry’s strongest and most likable pairs. They’re also proof positive that a major age difference can work. Beyoncé is 12 years younger than Jay, but the couple have made it work for over a decade, having three kids along the way. Despite achieving TV success with the show White Collar, Matt Bomer was able to keep his family life private for a few more years. In 2014, he revealed that he’d already been married for three years—to publicist Simon Halls, 13 years his senior. The couple have three children together. Actor Michael Fassbender’s relationship status has long been a source of tabloid fodder, but the intensely private star’s wedding to Swedish actor Alicia Vikander put a rest to the speculation for good. Vikander is 11 years her husband’s junior, and the two fell in love while starring together in 2017’s The Light Between Oceans. Ian Somerhalder played an ageless being on The Vampire Diaries, so what’s a little age difference in real life? The 42-year-old star is nearly a decade older than wife Nikki Reed, with whom he welcomed daughter Bodhi Soleil in 2017. Shameless star William H. Macy may be a reckless deviant on his hit show, but in real life, the actor has been happily married for 23 years. Macy, who is 13 years older than his wife Felicity Huffman, is just one of the many stars who embraced fatherhood late in life; he welcomed two daughters with Huffman after he turned 50. The couple also stayed by each other’s side throughout the so-called college admissions scandal, which saw Huffman pleading guilty to fraud and Macy writing a letter to the judge in support of her. Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer found love on the True Blood set, despite the 12-year age difference between them. Since tying the knot in 2010, the 39-year-old Oscar winner and her 51-year-old husband are still going strong, welcoming twins Charlie and Poppy in 2012. Harrison Ford has fought Nazis in Indiana Jones, Imperial forces in Star Wars, and the stigma of May-December relationships in real life. The veteran actor is 22 years older than his wife, Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart. The pair tied the knot in 2010 and have one son together. Actors Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor are still growing strong, never mind a 32-year age gap. The pair have been linked since 2015, though their love story wasn’t publicly reported until 2016. American Idol hopeful Katharine McPhee was just 21 when she met producer David Foster on the show. They started dating in 2017, when the singer/actor was 33 and Foster was 68, and by 2019, they were husband and wife. They welcomed son Rennie in 2021. Pierce Brosnan is 10 years older than his wife of almost 20 years, Keely Shaye Smith. The journalist and and actor met in Mexico in 1994 and sparks flew instantly. They welcomed two sons together (Brosnan also had kids from a previous marriage), and both are now working models. Elton John met his husband David Furnish through friends back in 1993, when the still newly sober star was hosting a dinner party at his home. They hit it off right away and married in 2014, as soon as it was legal in the U.K. John, 74, and Furnish, 58, have since welcomed two children and are still going strong. Now 55-year-old Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan and 39-year-old One Tree Hill star Hilarie Burton made it official in 2019, marrying after already spending 10 years together and welcoming two kids. “Standing up there with our children at our sides – celebrating all that has been – was bliss,” Burton wrote of the ceremony on Instagram. Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union may be separated by nine years, but it seems like nothing else can get between them. The now 48-year-old actor and 39-year-old former NBA player got married in 2014 and have since been gracing Instagram with their stylish family photos and unconditional support of transgender daughter Zaya. Fans were devastated when Marvel star Chris Pratt and Mom actor Anna Faris split in 2018. But the now 42-year-old Pratt found love again with 31-year-old Katherine Schwarzenegger, daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. They got married in 2019 and welcomed daughter Lyla Maria this past August. RELATED: 28 Celebrities Who Married Normal, Non-Famous People.
