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* Since their marriage, recording artist/actress Rebecca Pidgeon has appeared in most of [[David Mamet]]'s movies (and some plays), and he has written or co-written lyrics to some of her songs.
* [[Beastie Boys|Mike D]] and director Tamra Davis, who, if memory serves right, directed one of their videos.
* [[U 2U2|Bono]] and his wife Ali, who is a fashion designer and political activist.
* [[Julia Child]]'s husband Paul did the photography for most of her cookbooks and was heavily involved in her television shows. Among other activities, he was the one who selected the wines to pair with Julia's meals.
* Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of ''[[XXXenophile]]'', ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire (Comic Book)|Buck Godot Zap Gun for Hire]]'', ''What's New with Phil and Dixie'', and ''[[Girl Genius]]'', among others.
* Writer [[Shigesato Itoi]] is married to actress Kanako Higuchi.
 
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Director Mitsuo Fukuda has his wife Chiaki Morosawa serve as the story writer for [[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|many]] [[GEAR Fighter Dendoh (Anime)|of]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|his]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|series]]. She's not too popular with the fans, though.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' creator [[Naoko Takeuchi]] is married to ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' and ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' creator [[Yoshihiro Togashi]].
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' creator Gosho Aoyama used to be married to Detective Conan voice-actress [[Minami Takayama]].
** Similarly, ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'' creator Mamoru Nagano is married to voice actress [[Maria Kawamura]] and ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' creator Yoichi Takahashi was once married to [[Yoko Ogai]].
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== [[Comics]] ==
* The ''[[Elf Quest]]'' creators, Wendy and Richard Pini, are a married couple.
* Marian Churchland, creator of Beast and one of the artists for ''[[Elephantmen (Comic Book)|Elephantmen]]'', and Brandon Graham, creator of Multiple Warheadz and King City. They will sometimes make covers and backup material for each other's comics.
* Though they're divorced now Lynn Varley did some amazing color work for many of [[Frank Miller]]'s best comics.
* Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Marcia Lucas, [[George Lucas]]' former wife, was a film editor who [http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/marcialucas.html played a significant role] in the production of the first three ''[[Star Wars]]'' films. To summarise: She edited ''[[A New Hope]]'', advised George during the script-writing stage of all three films, was present throughout production and generally acted as [[The Heart]], emphasising characters and emotions and nicely balancing George's fixation on the technical and visual. [[Mark Hamill]] himself admitted that Marcia was the only person who could get George to listen to suggestions or drop an idea. Not for nothing did one biographer call her "George Lucas' secret weapon". After their divorce, George suffered the same fate as Ray Davies. Maybe George Lucas, Marvin Gaye and [[Phil Collins]] could get together and start a club sometime...
* Gale Anne Hurd, [[James Cameron]]'s first wife, was the producer for ''[[The Terminator]]'', ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Aliens]]'', ''[[The Abyss]]'', and ''Terminator 2''.
** Then he was briefly married to ''Terminator 2'' star Linda Hamilton.
*** And after that he was married to [[The Hurt Locker|Kathryn]] [[Point Break|Bigelow]].
* [[Peter Jackson]] and Fran Walsh.
* [[Fritz Lang]] and his second wife Thea von Harbou, who wrote the screenplays for the majority of his early films including ''[[Metropolis (Film)|Metropolis]]'' and ''[[M (Film)|M]]''.
* [[Helena Bonham Carter]] frequently stars in domestic partner [[Tim Burton]]'s movies.
** Before that, Burton used to cast girlfriend Lisa Marie.
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* [[Zack Snyder]] has stated that [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|he couldn't imagine making his films without the help of his wife, Deborah Johnson]].
* ''[[Drones]]'' was directed by [[Amber Benson]] and her guy, [[Adam Busch]].
* Married couple [[Milla Jovovich]] and [[Paul WSW. S. Anderson]] often work together, with her starring and him directing and/or producing.
** Same goes for [[Len Wiseman]] and his wife, [[Kate Beckinsale]].
 
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* [[David Eddings|David and Leigh Eddings]]: ''[[The Belgariad]]'' and ''The Malloreon'' were credited only to David, but in his later work he acknowledged his wife's input, giving her co-author status.
* Stanley and Janice Berenstain are most famous for their [[The Berenstain Bears|series of children's books about a family of bears]].
* [[Robert Louis Stevenson (Creator)|Robert Louis Stevenson]] relied heavily on his wife's advice when writing. The story about ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' goes that after she read his first draft and told him to rewrite it as an allegory, he burned the manuscript so that he wouldn't be tempted to keep any of what he had.
* Several married authors (such as the above listed and DJ MacHale) often have their spouses read their material as beta readers and for creative advice. In several instances, this pays off well.
** An example of this is [[Stephen King]]. His wife, Tabitha, is a published novelist in her own right, and he frequently credits her critiques for improving his work.
*** Possibly the most notable example was when she pulled the first pages of ''[[Carrie]]'' ''out of the trash'' and persuaded him to finish it by promising to fill in what he didn't know about teenage girls.
** Ditto [[Vladimir Nabokov (Creator)|Vladimir Nabokov]] and his wife, Vera, to whom he often dedicated his books.
* An unusual example is [[Nicci French]], who is/are actually a husband and wife writing team (real names: Nicci Gerrard and Sean French). They write alternate chapters and then rewrite each other's texts.
* ''[[Frankenstein (Literaturenovel)|Frankenstein]]'' by [[Mary Shelley (Creator)|Mary Shelley]] was edited by her husband, renowned poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley (Creator)|Percy Bysshe Shelley]].
* [[F. Scott Fitzgerald|F. Scott]] and Zelda Fitzgerald were each [[The Roaring Twenties|Jazz Age]] authors, though not at the same time. As [http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=197 Kate Beaton notes], they each contributed to one another's [[Creator Breakdown|Creator Breakdowns]].
* [[Gone|Michael Grant]] and [[KAK. A. Applegate]] developed and wrote the ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', ''[[Everworld]]'', and ''[[Remnants]]'' series together, though Applegate's name appears on the covers alone for simplicity reasons. They now mostly work on their own separate YA series.
 
 
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'''s resident vocalist, Raya Yarbrough, has been involved with the resident composer, [[Bear McCreary]], since the two were in college at USC, and McCreary credits her as being a guiding influence in his life. The two collaborated on all four seasons of ''Galactica'', and married in 2010.
* [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s second wife, Majel Barrett, played several roles in the various ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' series, most notably Nurse Christine Chapel in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|The Original Series]]'' and Lwaxana Troi in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|The Next Generation]]'', and provided the voice of the onboard computers in all series and movies until her death in 2008 - she also provided the computer's voice in [[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|the 2009 movie]], having recorded her lines before dying. Notably, she was cast as first officer Number One in the original pilot, but NBC torpedoed the entire idea - they weren't really enthusiastic about the idea of having a woman in an important role, but were mostly pissed at Roddenberry for casting his girlfriend in the role.
* Francesca Buller, Ben Browder's wife, played four different characters on ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]''.
* [[John Cleese (Creator)|John Cleese]] and his then-wife Connie Booth created and wrote ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' together. By the time of the second season, they divorced, but still could work together effectively.
* Gerry and Sylvia Anderson married and then divorced during the decade-and-a-bit they were producing shows together.
* Jed Whedon (younger brother to [[Joss Whedon]]) and his wife Maurissa Tancharoen not only co-wrote ''[[Dr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog]]'' with Joss, but also wrote several episodes of ''[[Dollhouse]]'' together (which are considered by fandom to be some of the best) and are currently writing season 2 episodes of ''[[Main/Ptitlelr 67 penz|Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]''. Several tracks of Jed's first album, History of Forgotten Things, also features Maurissa on vocals.
** Similarly, Joss' wife Kai Cole did female vocals for the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|"Once More With Feeling"]] demo.
* Sue Vertue has served as producer on several of [[Steven Moffat|her husband's]] shows. Their courtship was of course [[Life Embellished|fictionalized]] in the show ''[[Coupling]]''.
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* Christa Miller has had roles in two of her husband Bill Lawrence's shows: a guest role that became recurring on ''[[Scrubs]]'' and a starring role on ''[[Cougar Town]]''.
** Also, ''[[Clone High]]''.
* Will Arnett and [[Amy Poehler]] frequently end up working on the same projects, frequently in a romantic pairing. Their first appearance together was on ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' (where she played the girl that GOB married while drunk), and the most recent in the American dub of ''[[The Secret Worldof Arrietty]]'' (as the title character's parents). Perhaps the most [[Squick]]-worthy was in ''[[Blades of Glory]]'', where they played a brother and sister... [[Brother-Sister Incest|and still were romantic partners]].
* [[Tina Fey]] met her husband when they were both at Second City, she as an improv-er and he as a pianist. Since then they've worked together in some capacity at both ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and ''[[Thirty30 Rock]]''.
 
== [[Music]] ==
* This trope is [[Older Than They Think|older than many think:]] opera composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s second wife was Giuseppina Strepponi, a popular soprano who had worked with him before.
** Similarly, [[Richard Wagner (Creator)|Richard Wagner]]'s first wife was also an opera singer, [[wikipedia:Minna Planer|Minna Planer]]. [[The Masochism Tango|It started and then ended badly, though.]]
** A more recent classical composer/singer couple: a great deal of Benjamin Britten's vocal repertoire was composed for his partner, tenor Peter Pears (which is why Britten's operas consistently avert the [[Tenor Boy]] trope).
* Sharon Osbourne has served as [[Ozzy Osbourne (Music)|Ozzy's]] manager since [[The Eighties]], helping him get over his substance abuse and gain continued success.
* Rasa Davies contributed backing vocals to several songs by [[The Kinks]], including their widely-acclaimed "Waterloo Sunset", and generally served as a peacemaker during conflicts between Ray Davies and the rest of the band. Oh, and after Ray divorced her The Kinks put out their worst albums.
* Gaby "Deaffy" Hauke, married to [[Accept (Music)|Accept]] guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, used to manage the band and wrote the lyrics to most of their songs between ''Balls to the Wall'' and ''Predator''.
* Famous [[Record Producer]] Steve Lillywhite's wife was Kirsty MacColl. Apart from being a musician in her own right with reasonable critical acclaim, MacColl would frequently drop by the studio when Lillywhite was producing some band and add backing vocals. Two of the most famous examples of this are her backing vocals for "Ask" by [[The Smiths]] and her lead vocal on "Fairytale of New York" by [[The Pogues]]. Additionally, while Lillywhite was mixing [[U 2U2]]'s ''The Joshua Tree'', MacColl was brought into the studio to come up with the album's sequencing. She simply placed the songs in order of her favourites, but the sequence ended up on the final product.
* [[Marvin Gaye]]'s first, and famously troubled, marriage was to Anna Gordy, the elder sister of Motown Records' founder Berry Gordy. While it was a reasonable assumption that Gaye did it in order to get signed as a recording artist, especially considering Anna was 17 years older than him when they married, Anna did help him gain a contract with Motown and helped him work in the studio when he was "[[Brilliant but Lazy|too lazy]]". So, what did Marvin do next? [[Jerkass|Openly had an affair with a woman 17 years younger than him which resulted in two children, dragged out the divorce proceedings for two years and proceeded to whine and bitch about how his wife was evil and shit on]] ''[[Jerkass|Here, My Dear]]'' (note: this doesn't necessarily mean that ''Here, My Dear'' is a bad album). [[What the Hell, Hero?|What the fuck, hero?]]
* [[Sonic Youth]]'s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon got married in 1984, and have been [[Happily Married]] ever since.
** Sadly, they've [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/44318-kim-gordon-thurston-moore-separate/ recently separated.]
* Eric Rosse produced [[Tori Amos (Music)|Tori Amos]]' albums ''Little Earthquakes'' and ''Under the Pink'', coincidentally her most critically acclaimed albums.
** When they broke up, Tori released ''[[Creator Breakdown|Boys for Pele]]'', which is considered one of her best works by fans.
* [[Tom Waits]]' wife Kathleen Brennan helped him quit drinking and has co-written a majority of his songs starting with ''[[Growing the Beard|Swordfishtrombones]]''.
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* Alt-country duo The Handsome Family are married couple Bret and Rennie Sparks.
* Keyboardist Keith Godchaux and lead singer Donna Godchaux of the [[Grateful Dead]] were a married couple until Keith's death.
* [[Paul McCartney]] and his wife Linda from [[Wings (Musicband)|Wings]] count as a rare example of both this trope and [[Yoko Oh No]].
** In some ways, so does ''How To Destroy Angels'', featuring Mariqueen Maandig of [[West Indian Girl]] and [[Nine Inch Nails|Trent Reznor]].
* Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser of [[Cocteau Twins]].
* [[Blues]] musicians Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. You might know them as the writers of "[[Led Zeppelin (Music)|When the Levee Breaks]]".
* Brody Dalle, of The Distillers and Spinnerette, is married to Josh "[[Badass]] [[Queens of the Stone Age]] frontman" Homme. She sometimes sings backing vocals on QOTSA albums.
* Natasha Shneider and Alain Johannes of Eleven. All the sources about them can't seem to agree whether they were married or just partners, but they were awesome. Also worked as producers and session musicians for a lot of alt-rock bands ([[Soundgarden (Music)|Soundgarden]], [[Queens of the Stone Age]], etc.)
* And back to the [[Beastie Boys]], Ad-Rock is married to Kathleen Hanna from [[Bikini Kill]]. Sadly she hasn't showed up to drop science on any albums so far...
* Ryan Lum and Suzanne Perry of [[Love Spirals Downwards]].
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* Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel of ''Mates of State'' are married. And it makes their music [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|ADORABLE]].
* Singer Tracy Thorn and DJ/remixer Ben Watt got married shortly after forming Everything But the Girl. As of 2000, however, they've taken a hiatus from working as EBTG to raise their children and pursue other musical endeavors.
* [[Stereolab (Music)|Stereolab]]'s two founding members, Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, became a couple at about the same time they started the band. They separated in 2004, but continued working together until 2009, when they put Stereolab on hiatus.
* [[Reba McEntire]] is managed by longtime husband Narvel Blackstock.
* Patty Loveless is married to her producer, Emory Gordy Jr., who also plays bass for her.
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** Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's first wife was a cellist; until his death in 2012 he was married to the soprano Julia Varady
** Tenor-soprano couples are also frequent: Montserrat Caballe & Bernabe Martì, Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu, Fabio Armiliato & Daniela Dessì, etc, etc.
* Annie Lennox and David Stewart became romantically involved while in the punk bands "The Catch" and "The Tourists". The romantic relationship ended, but they still went on to become [[Eurythmics (Music)|Eurythmics]].
* Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker of [[Sleater Kinney]] for a while, although they later split up. Their bandmate, Janet Weiss, was in Quasi and Elliot Smith's backing band with her now ex-husband, Sam Coombes.
* Azam Ali and Loga Ramin Torkian, respectively the singer and instrumentalist in the group Niyaz, are married and have a son.
* [[Pat Benatar (Music)|Pat Benatar]] is married to her long-time lead guitarist Neil Giraldo.
* Jim "#4" Root of [[Slipknot]] and Cristina Scabbia of [[Lacuna Coil]] have been dating since 2008.
* [[Low (Music)|Low]]'s only constant members have been married couple Alan Sparhawk (guitar and vocals) and Mimi Parker (drums and vocals).
* Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, known as Ashford & Simpson, wrote many [[R and B]]/ Disco hits throughout the 60s and 70s. Their most famous songs include "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", sung by [[Marvin Gaye]] and Tammi Terrell and "I'm Every Woman", sung by Chaka Khan. They were married for over 40 years until Nickolas Ashford's death of throat cancer in 2011.
* Subverted by the [[Silversun Pickups]]. They ''used'' to be this, as indicated by the original name "A Couple of Couples," but a lineup change made the monicker a [[Non-Indicative Name]].
* [[The Pixies|Frank Black]] and his wife Violet Clark have made music as a duo under the name Grand Duchy, where they act as a [[Vocal Tag Team]]. She's also contributed bass and backing vocals on Frank Black solo material, and designed the cover of his album ''Honeycomb''.
* [[Elvis Costello (Music)|Elvis Costello]]'s second wife Cait O'Riordan, formerly of [[The Pogues]], also appears on some of his records. His third wife, jazz singer/pianist Diana Krall, has covered his song "Almost Blue."
 
 
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Yan "Kern" Gagne and Mary "Kite" Garren of ''[[Drow TalesDrowtales]]'' work on the series together, and originally met through the roleplay section of the site.
* DeBray and Tracy Bailey of ''[[Catena]]''.
* Mel Hynes and James Grant of ''[[Two Lumps]]''.
* ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse]]'' was all but dead until Jennifer Kirk pushed its creator, Zoe Robinson, into resurrecting it. Now they both work on the comic and have created ''[[All Over the House]]'' together, too.
* Yuko and Ananth of [[Johnny Wander]], though their relationship seems so downplayed you'd think they were [[Platonic Life Partners]]
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'''s Jeph Jacques' business manager is his wife, Cristi.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* John and Faith Hubley have done animation for ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' and the National Film Board of Canada.
* Paul and Sandra Fierlinger created the Teeny Little Super Guy for ''Sesame Street''.
* Bill and Susan Kroyer, the people behind ''Technological Threat'' and ''[[Fern Gully]]''.
* [[Lauren Faust]] and [[Craig McCracken]], who met during the production of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' and worked together on ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.
** Also an interesting note, while Craig wasn't officially involved with Lauren's mega-popular ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', he did help design the Season 2 villain Discord and was there for her to bounce ideas off of.
* [[Klasky Csupo]]. The two divorced in 1995 but are still working together on projects.
* Some of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episodes were written by wives of the showrunners
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Tropes Are Not Good|On a bit darker]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|case]], Stevie "KillCreek" Case did some level design for [[John Romero|her then-husband's]] ''[[Daikatana (Video Game)|Daikatana]]''.
* Designers/writers Tetsuya Takahashi and Kaori Tanaka (better known as Soraya Saga) got married while working at [[Square Soft]] in the 90s and have since collaborated on ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'', the first two episodes of ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'' and the [[No Export for You]] DS game ''[[Soma Bringer]]''.
* Corey and Lori Ann Cole, the creators of the ''[[Quest for Glory (Video Game)|Quest for Glory]]'' adventure game/RPG series.
* Ken and Roberta Williams, the founders of ''[[Sierra]]''.
 
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