A Star Is Born actor Sam Elliott is celebrating his 81st birthday on August 9, and no doubt he’ll be celebrating with his longtime wife, The Graduate alum Katharine Ross. The couple has been married for more than 40 years, a rarity among Hollywood stars.
“We’re in the minority for sure,” Elliott said on NPR’s Fresh Air in 2017. “I think really what it boils down to is, we love each other, and we work at it. And I think more importantly than anything, it takes wanting to be married. The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it’s an embarrassment of riches that I’ve got both.”