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Anna Paquin is engaged to her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, it has been confirmed.
The 27-year-old X-Men star - who won an Oscar for her role in The Piano aged 12 - has been working with the 39-year-old English actor for over a year on the HBO vampire series in which they play lovers.
Representatives for both actors confirmed the engagement to People.com.
Anna, who was brought up in New Zealand, plays telepathic Sookie Stackhouse inn True Blood, while Stephen plays vampire Bill Compton.
The Essex actor has two children from previous relationships: a son, Billy, born in 2000, and a daughter, Lilac, born in 2002.
Last month, Anna said of her nude love scenes with Stephen: "Obviously, if you're already with that person then you're not having to sort of get over the 'Wow, I'm naked with someone that I don't even know the middle name of!'"
Stephen has said of Anna: "My girl is hardcore."
Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany first met on the set of the Academy Award winning "A Beautiful Mind" back in 2001 and sparks flew. They have since worked together in 2008's "Inkheart" and in the recently completed "Creation," which is about the life of Charles Darwin. After getting the chance to chat with both at San Diego Comic-Con, it was immediately apparent to me that they couldn't be happier than when working with each other.
We first saw their onscreen chemistry in 1997's "I Know What You Do Last Summer," but the 90s stars didn't officially start dating until 2000. Sarah and Freddie got married just about three months after their second picture together, "Scooby Doo," hit theaters in 2002. They're expecting their first child later this year.
Everyone was so sick of Bennifer from Ben Affleck's J.Lo years that when he started dating a new Jennifer, in this case the lovely Jennifer Garner, everyone waited for the worst. But the twosome tied the knot after working together on the rather lackluster "Daredevil" and have remained low on the radar every since. Every once in a while you can catch them at a Sox or Celtics game in Boston with their two daughters, but the pair has otherwise remained relatively tabloid free. Apparently good things can come out of bad movies.
When the news was announced that Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were engaged, I couldn't help but feel my heart swell in happiness for the absolutely adorable "True Blood" couple. Even though I am a "True Blood" virgin (or was until yesterday, at ironically about the same time the news was released) I've still been following the couple through the tabloids and everything I've witnessed — from them playing with penguins at Sea World to Anna's admission that it is easier to do a sex scene with someone you know the middle name of (lets rephrase that to are in love with) — won me over. Sure, Anna and Stephen aren't the first celeb couple to meet on set and fall in love, but we at Hollywood Crush have the feeling they have the stuff to make it last. So, in order to give them continued hope, we've come up with a list of five of Tinseltown's royal couples that met on set and have made it work ever since. (Hint! Our list includes: a vampire, a daredevil and a former flute player.)
American writer-director John Hughes who directed movies like The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink and produced popular child comedy Home Alone, has died after suffering a heart attack. Hughes was 59.
The Brat Pack director collapsed while taking a morning walk on the streets of Manhattan on Thursday, according to his spokeswoman.
Hughes' first directorial effort, Sixteen Candles, had won almost unanimous praise when it was released in 1984, due to its realistic depiction of middle-class high school life. The film was the first of his string of comedies centered around high school life and teenagers.
Hughes' greatest commercial success was Home Alone, a film he wrote and produced about a child accidentally left behind when his family goes away for Christmas, forcing him to protect himself and his house from a pair of inept burglars.
Home Alone would be the top grossing film of 1990, and remains his most successful live-action comedy of all time. His last film as a director was Curly Sue in 1991.
A father of two, Hughes stepped away from the limelight in the 1990s to run a farm in his native Illinois. He later penned the screenplays for Jennifer Lopez [ Images ] starrer rom-com Maid In Manhattan in 2002.
John Hughes, whose coming-of-age movies captured an American teenage generation between Elvis Presley and Britney Spears, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack while walking on a Manhattan street.
He was 59.
Hughes, a Michigan native who lived in Illinois, was visiting his family in New York, according to a spokeswoman.
Matthew Broderick, who starred in Hughes' 1986 hit "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," said he was "truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend. ... He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family."
Hughes' 1985 film "The Breakfast Club" established him as the signature teen filmmaker of that decade, and made "John Hughes movie" into shorthand for a sometimes agonizing but ultimately upbeat look at teenage years.
"The Breakfast Club" made a star of Molly Ringwald, and he directed her again in two subsequent films, "Sixteen Candles" and "Pretty in Pink."
Ringwald said she was "stunned and incredibly sad" to hear about Hughes' death.
"He will be missed - by me and by everyone that he has touched," she said in a statement on People.com.
Some of the actors in his films, including Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson, became known as the Brat Pack.
In contrast to raucous 1980s teen comedies like the "Porky's" series, Hughes films were sweet, often sentimental. Their heroes and heroines, who started out feeling like misfits, were rewarded for the basic virtues of good hearts and decency.
He kept them from being simply throwbacks to some romanticized earlier age by effective use of realistic teen dialogue.
Hughes was working as an ad copywriter when he broke into showbiz by selling jokes to comedians like Rodney Dangerfield. He went to work for the National Lampoon and scored his breakthrough by writing the screenplay for the 1983 hit film "National Lampoon's Vacation," which starred Chevy Chase.
That film showcased Hughes' ear for droll absurdity. When the dimwitted brother-in-law of Chase's character is grilling dinner and says he's using Hamburger Helper, Chase mutters that yeah, that's good with a little meat. The brother-in-law says, "You add meat?"
His high school movies centered on the girl who doesn't feel pretty enough, the guy who feels like an idiot, the arrogant bullies who pick on them, and the awkward moments they endure before it all works out.
Hughes' movies also featured lavish and smart use of music.
Hughes did a few more teen movies, including "Weird Science" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," then scored with "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" in 1987 and even bigger with "Home Alone" in 1990.
After that, however, he headed for the exits. The last film he directed was "Curly Sue," in 1991. In 1994, he retired from both the film business and the public eye - which he had never enjoyed.
His last public project was writing an independent film, "Reach the Rock," in 1999.
Hughes is survived by his wife, Nancy, to whom he was married for 39 years, and two sons, James and John.
