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  Gabriel Byrne
  • Faith: Atheism, raised in Christianity (Roman Catholicism with 5 years of seminary)
  • Birth name: Gabriel James Byrne
  • Wife: Hannah Beth King
  • Ex-Wife: Ellen Barkin (resulting in 2 children)
  • Ex-Partner: Aine O'Connor
  
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  Gabriel Macht
  • Faith: Unclear, parents Jewish
  • Worldview: Green living, Veganism
  • Birth name: Gabriel Stephen Macht
  • Father: Stephen Macht (actor)
  • Wife: Jacinda Barrett (actress, resulting in children Satine and Luca)
  
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  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Faith: self-described “Pagan”
  • Husband: Shareef Malnik
  • Ex-Husband: John Verea (resulting in a son and a daughter)
  • Ex-Partner: Craig Sheffer (actor, resulting in a daughter)
  
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  Gabrielle Union
  • Faith: Liberal Christianity
  • Worldview: Leftism, Progressive Liberalism (activist); has demanded the abolition of police and prisons; LGBTQ advocacy
  • Birth name: Gabrielle Monique Union
  • Step-Son: Zion Wade (transgender, identifies as female and changed name to Zaya in 2022)
  • Husband: Dwyane Wade (resulting in daughter Kaavia)
  • Ex-Husband: Chris Howard
  
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  Gael García Bernal
  • Faith: Agnosticism
  • Father: José Ángel García (actor)
  • Mother: Patricia Bernal (actress)
  • Partner: Fernanda Aragonés (resulting in a child)
  • Ex-Partner: Dolores Fonzi (actress, resulting in a son and daughter)
  
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  Gal Gadot
  • Faith: Judaism
  • Worldview: Zionism
  • Birth name: Gal Gadot-Varsano
  • Husband: Jaron Varsano (resulting in 4 daughters)
  
• Garret Dillahunt
  • Birth name: Garret Lee Dillahunt
  • Wife: Michelle Hurd (actress, daughter of actor Hugh Hurd)
  
• Garrett Hedlund
  • Birth name: Garrett John Hedlund
  • Ex-Partner/Fiancée: Kirsten Dunst
  • Ex-Partner: Emma Roberts (resulting in son Rhodes Hedlund)
  
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  Garry Shandling …DIED age 66 (2016)—Blood clot in his lungs following deep vein thrombosis in his legs
  • Faith: Buddhism, culturally Jewish; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Garry Emmanuel Shandling
  • Children: none
  • Ex-Partner: Linda Doucett (actress, model)
  
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  Gary Busey
  • Faith: Christianity convert (1996), “I am proud to tell Hollywood I am a Christian.”
  • Worldview: Conservatism
  • Birth name: William Gary Busey
  • Wife: Steffanie Sampson (resulting in son Luke)
  • Ex-Wife: Tracy Hutchinson (actress, resulting in daughter Alectra Busey, a photographer) Judy Helkenberg (Judy Lynn Busey, actress, resulting in son Jake Busey (actor)
  and Tiani Warden (actress)
  
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  Gary Cole
  • Faith: Christianity
  • Birth name: Gary Michael Cole
  • Wife: Michelle Knapp
  • Ex-Wife: Teddi Siddall (resulting in daughter Mary)
  
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  Gary Cooper …DIED age 60 (1961)—Prostate cancer
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism convert), raised in Episcopal church
  • Worldview: Conservatism
  • Birth name: Frank James Cooper
  • Wife: Veronica Balfe (resulting in daughter Maria Veronica Cooper)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Clara Bow
  —Evelyn Brent
  —Lupe Vélez
  —Marlene Dietrich
  —Carole Lombard
  —Countess Dorothy di Frasso
  —Ingrid Bergman
  —Patricia Neal
  —Grace Kelly
  —Lorraine Chanel
  —Gisèle Pascal
  —Anderson Lawler
  —Irene Maud Lentz
  —others
  
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  Gary Oldman
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Worldview: Libertarianism
  • Birth name: Gary Leonard Oldman
  • Sister: Laila Morse (aka Maureen L. Bass, actress)
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Gisele Schmidt (writer, art curator)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Lesley Manville (actress, resulting in son Alfie)
  —Uma Thurman (begun in adultery)
  —Donya Fiorentino (model, resulting in sons Gulliver and Charlie)
  —Alexandra Edenborough (singer, actress)
  • Ex-Partner/Fiancée: Isabella Rossellini
  
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  Gary Sinise
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism convert)
  • Worldview: Conservatism leaning
  • Birth name: Gary Alan Sinise
  • Wife: Moira Harris (actress, resulting in son McCanna “Mac” Anthony Sinise and daughters Sophie and Ella)
  
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  Gemma Chan
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: 陈静
  • Partner: Dominic Cooper
  • Ex-Partner: Jack Whitehall (actor, comedian)
  
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  Geena Davis
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Christianity (Protestant)
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism, Feminism (activist)
  • Birth name: Virginia Elizabeth Davis
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Jeff Goldblum
  —Renny Harlin (director, producer, writer)
  —Richard Emmolo
  • Ex-Fiancé: Christopher McDonald
  • Ex-Partner: Reza Jarrahy (resulting in a daughter and twin sons)
  
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  Gena Rowlands …DIED age 94 (2024)—complications of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Faith: apparently Secularism
  • Birth name: Virginia Cathryn Rowlands
  • Mother: Lady Rowlands (actress)
  • Son: Nick Cassavetes (actor, director, writer)
  • Daughters: Alexandra “Xan” Cassavetes (actress, director), and Zoe Rowlands Cassavetes (director, screenwriter, actress)
  • Husbands:
  —Robert Forrest
  —John Cassavetes (director, resulting in a son and 2 daughters / John died in 1989.)
  
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  Gene Hackman
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: Eugene Allen Hackman
  • Wife: Betsy Arakawa
  • Ex-Wife: Faye Maltese (resulting in son Christopher Allen Hackman and daughters Elizabeth Jean Hackman and Leslie Anne Hackman)
  
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  Gene Wilder …DIED age 83 (2016)—Complications from Alzheimer’s disease
  • Faith: Atheism, raised in Judaism; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism
  • Birth name: Jerome Silberman
  • Nephew: Jordan Walker-Pearlman (director, producer)
  • Children: 1 adopted
  • Wives:
  —Karen Webb (née Boyer)
  —Gilda Radner (died 1989)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Mary Mercier
  —Mary Joan Schutz
  
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  Geoffrey Lewis …DIED age 79 (2015)—Heart attack, Parkinson’s disease and dementia
  • Faith: Scientology; apparently rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Geoffrey Bond Lewis
  • Children: 9
  • Sons: Peter, Lightfield, Miles, and Matthew
  • Daughters: Juliette Lewis, Brandy, Hannah and Dierdre Lewis, and Emily Colombier
  • Wife: Paula Hochhalter
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Glenis Batley
  —Tracy Darroll
  
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  Geoffrey Rush
  • Birth name: Geoffrey Roy Rush
  • Wife: Jane Menelaus (actress, resulting in a daughter and son)
  
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  George C. Scott …DIED age 71 (1999)—Abdominal aortic aneurysm
  • Faith: Atheism; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Moderate Conservatism
  • Birth name: George Campbell Scott
  • Children: 6 biological, 1 adopted
  • Wife: Trish Van Devere (actress, resulting in adopted son George Dressell)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Carolyn Hughes (resulting in daughter Victoria)
  —Patricia Reed (resulting in son Matthew Scott and daughter Devon Scott)
  —Colleen Dewhurst (actress, resulting in sons Alexander Scott and Campbell Scott)
  • Ex-Partner: Karen Truesdell (resulting in daughter Michelle)
  
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  George Clooney
  • Faith: Agnosticism, raised in Roman Catholicism
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist, major fundraiser), LGBTQ ally and activist
  • Birth name: George Timothy Clooney
  • Father: Nick Clooney (journalist, anchorman)
  • Aunt: Rosemary Clooney (singer/actress)
  • Wife: Amal Alamuddin (aka (أمل علم الدين, Amal Clooney, أمل كلوني‎)(Lebanese-British international human rights lawyer; co-founder with George of the Clooney Foundation for Justice) (marriage resulting in twins Ella and Alexander)
  • Ex-Wife: Talia Balsam
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Ginger Lynn Allen
  —Lisa Snowdon
  —Elisabetta Canalis (actress)
  —others
  
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  George Lopez
  • Faith: Secularism, but says he believes there is a God; raised in Roman Catholicism
  • Worldview: Leftism, Socialism
  • Birth name: George Edward Lopez
  • Ex-Wife: Ann Serrano (resulting in daughter Mayan)
  
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  George Peppard …DIED age 65—Pneumonia, while battling lung cancer (1964)
  • Faith: Secularism; apparently rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Conservatism-leaning
  • Birth name: George Peppard Jr.
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Laura Taylor
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Helen Davies (resulting in son Bradford and daughter Julie)
  —Elizabeth Ashley (actress, resulting in son Christian Peppard)
  —Sherry Boucher (former actress)
  —Alexis Adams
  
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  George Segal …DIED age 87 (2021)—Complications from bypass surgery; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Birth name: George Segal Jr.
  • Children: 2
  • Wives:
  —Linda Rogoff (died 1996)
  —Sonia Schultz Greenbaum
  • Ex-Wife: Marion Segal Freed (editor, producer, screenwriter —resulting in 2 daughters)
  
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  Gerard Butler
  • Faith: apparently Secularism, raised in a Roman Catholic family
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: Gerard James Butler
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Morgan Brown
  —Lizzie Cundy
  —Madalina Ghenea
  —Brandi Glanville
  —Martina Rajic
  —Goga Ashkenazi
  —Jennifer Aniston
  —Shanna Moakler
  —others
  
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  Gérard Depardieu (Gerard Depardieu)
  • Faith: Convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, previously Roman Catholic
  • Birth name: Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu
  • Partner: Magda Vavrusova
  • Ex-Wife: Élisabeth Guignot (actress, resulting in son Guillaume Depardieu and daughter Julie Depardieu)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Karine Silla (model, resulting in daughter Roxanne)
  —Carole Bouquet (actress)
  —Hélène Bizot (resulting in son Jean)
  —Clémentine Igou
  
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  Giancarlo Esposito
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Roman Catholicism and considered becoming a priest / Has said “I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.”
  • Birth name: Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito
  • Ex-Wife: Joy McManigal (resulting in 4 daughters)
  
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  Gillian Anderson
  • Faith: New Age and Psychics; married in a Buddhist ceremony
  • Worldview: Liberal Feminism, Bisexualism
  • Birth name: Gillian Leigh Anderson
  • Children: 3
  
  • Faith: Unclear; raised in Protestant Christianity; graduated from Trinity Christian High School (Las Vegas, Nevada)
  • Worldview: Conservatism (outspoken)
  • Birth name: Gina Joy Carano
  
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  Gina Torres
  • Faith: reportedly Christianity, graduated from Trinity Christian High School
  • Ex-Husband: Laurence Fishburne (resulting in daughter Delilah)
  • Ex-Partner: Kevin Wright
  
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  Ginger Rogers …DIED age 83 (1995)—Hear attack
  • Faith: Christian-Scientism practitioner (Church of Christ, Scientist); rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Conservatism
  • Birth name: Virginia Katherine McMath
  • Children: none
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Jack Pepper
  —Lew Ayres III (actor)
  —Jack Briggs (actor)
  —Jacques Bergerac (actor)
  —William Marshall (director, producer)
  
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  Ginnifer Goodwin
  • Faith: Judaism, raised in Judaism and Unitarianism; rejects the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Jennifer Michelle Goodwin
  • Husband: Josh Dallas (resulting in 2 sons)
  • Ex-Partner/Fiancé: Joey Kern
  
• Giovanni Ribisi
  • Faith: Scientology
  • Birth name: Antonino Giovanni Ribisi
  • Twin Sister: Marissa Ribisi
  • Partner: Emily Ward (resulting in twin children)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Mariah O'Brien (resulting in a daughter)
  —Agyness Deyn (model)
  • Ex-Partner: Cat Power
  
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  Glen Campbell …DIED age 81 (2017)—Alzheimer’s disease
  • Faith: Christianity, raised in Church of Christ, later became a Baptist (attended church in Phoenix), and late in life became devoted to Christian Messianic Judaism
  • Worldview: Democratic Party, but with Conservative leaning
  • Birth name: Glen Travis Campbell
  • Children: 9
  • Wife: Kimberly Woollen (resulting in children Cal, Shannon, and Ashley)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Diane Marie Kirk (resulting in son Glen Travis Campbell Jr. and daughter Deborah Kay Campbell)
  —Billie Jean Nunley (resulting in children Kelli Glen, William Travis, and Wesley Kane)
  —Sarah Jan Davis (née Barg, resulting in son Dillon)
  • Ex-Partner: Tanya Tucker
  
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  Glenn Close
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism, LGBT activism, Pro-Abortion (activist)
  • Birth name: Glenda Veronica Close
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Cabot Wade
  —James Marlas
  —David Shaw
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Len Cariou
  —John Starke (resulting in daughter Annie Starke)
  —Steve Beers
  
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  Glenn Ford …DIED age 90 (2006)—Natural causes after a series of minor strokes
  • Faith: Unknown, but appears to have been Secularism; apparently rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Conservatism (in later years)
  • Birth name: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Eleanor Powell (actress, resulting in son Peter Ford)
  —Kathryn Hays (actress)
  —Cynthia Hayward
  —Jeanne Baus
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Rita Hayworth (adultery, resulting in an aborted child)
  —Maria Schell
  —Geraldine Brooks
  —Stella Stevens
  —Gloria Grahame
  —Gene Tierney
  —Eva Gabor
  —Barbara Stanwyck
  —and others
  
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  Glenn Quinn …DIED age 32 (2002)—Heroin overdose
  • Birth name: Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn
  
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  Goldie Hawn
  • Faith: Confused combination—Buddhism, New Age, Judaism, Christianity, raised Jewish / “I don’t think of myself as a Buddhist. I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion.” “It’s not the idea of a particular religion that’s important; it’s the development of a spiritual life.”
  • Worldview: Liberalism, LGBT supporter
  • Birth name: Goldie Jeanne Hawn
  • Children: 3
  • Partner: Kurt Russell (resulting in son Wyatt Russell)
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Gus Trikonis
  —Bill Hudson (resulting in son Oliver Hudson and daughter Kate Hudson)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Yves Rénier
  —and others
  
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  Gore Vidal …DIED age 86 (2012)—Pneumonia, while suffering from Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (neurological disorder caused by his years of alcohol abuse)
  • aka Eugene Luther Vidal Jr.
  • Faith: Rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ; raised in Liberal Christianity (Episcopalian); attended a Quaker school (Friends)
  • Worldview: Liberalism (activist); Postmodernism; Bisexualism. Upon his death, he gave his millions to Harvard University.
  • Birth name: Eugene Louis Vidal
  • Ex-Partner/Fiancée: Joanne Woodward (actress)
  • Other Ex-Partners:
  —Howard Austen
  —Anaïs Nin
  —Diana Lynn (actress)
  —and many others; Vidal’s memoir says he cruised the streets and bars of New York City and other locales and by age 25 he had more than a thousand sexual encounters, including many men. He reportedly “enjoyed telling his sexual exploits to friends.”
  
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  Grace Kelly …DIED age 52 (1982)—Cerebral hemorrhage caused fatal car crash
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Birth name: Grace Patricia Kelly
  • Husband: Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (resulting in daughters Princess Caroline and Princess Stéphanie, and son Prince Albert)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Don Richardson (drama teacher, adultery)
  —Claudius Charles Phillipe
  —Prince Aly Khan
  —Gary Cooper
  —Clark Gable
  
• Greg Grunberg
  • Faith: Judaism
  • Birth name: Gregory Phillip Grunberg
  • Wife: Elizabeth Dawn Wershow (resulting in 3 children)
  
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  Greg Kinnear
  • Birth name: Gregory Buck Kinnear
  • Wife: Helen Labdon (model, resulting in 3 daughters)
  
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  Gregory Itzin …DIED age 74 (2022)—Complications during an emergency surgery following a major heart attack
  • Faith: Apparently Secularism; apparently rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: Gregory Martin Itzin
  • Wife: Judie Itzin (resulting in 2 children)
  
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  Gregory Peck …DIED age 87 (2003)—Bronchopneumonia
  • Faith: Liberal Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Worldview: Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Eldred Gregory Peck
  • Grandson: Ethan Peck (actor)
  • Wife: Veronique Passani (reporter, resulting in son Anthony Peck and daughter Cecilia Peck)
  • Ex-Wife: Greta Kukkonen (resulting in sons Jonathan, Stephen, and Carey Paul)
  • Ex-Partner: Ingrid Bergman (adultery)
  
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  Greta Gerwig
  • Faith: Unitarian Universalism; rejects the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, Normalizing LGBTQ
  • Birth name: Greta Celeste Gerwig
  • Husband: Noah Baumbach (resulting in 2 sons)
  
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  Gretchen Mol
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Birth name: Gretchen Mol
  • Husband: Tod Williams (director, resulting in a son and daughter)
  
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  Groucho Marx …DIED age 86 (1977)—Pneumonia
  • Faith: Atheism, of Jewish descent; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: Julius Henry Marx
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Ruth Johnson (chorus girl, resulting in son Arthur Marx and daughter Miriam Marx)
  —Kay Marvis Gorcey (née Catherine Dittig, resulting in daughter Melinda Marx)
  —Eden Hartford (actress)
  
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  Guy Pearce
  • Faith: Atheism
  • Birth name: Guy Edward Pearce
  • Partner: Carice van Houten (actress, resulting in a son)
  • Ex-Wife: Kate Mestitz
  
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  Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Faith: New Age, Transcendental Meditation, and Kabbalah, raised by a Pennsylvania Dutch Quaker and a Jew from a long line of influential rabbis. She has indicated she wants to raise her children in some Jewish traditions.
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
  • Mother: Blythe Danner
  • Father: Bruce Paltrow (producer, director)
  • Husband: Brad Falchuk (TV writer, director, producer)
  • Ex-Husband: Chris Martin (resulting in son Moses and daughter Apple)
  • Ex-Fiancé: Brad Pitt
  • Ex-Partner: Ben Affleck