Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham Quietly Eloped

Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham quietly took a major step forward in their relationship.

During a recent interview with Esquire, Edwards, 59, revealed that he and Winningham, 62, privately eloped last year. The Inventing Anna actor said the intimate ceremony was "just the two of them and an old friend to officiate."

"We're too old to throw weddings," Edwards told the publication before praising Winningham. "She's just spectacular. She's an amazing singer and she's a wonderful actress and she's an incredible person."

Edwards and Winningham — both of whom starred in Miracle Mile in 1986 — had been friends for several years before eventually getting together. Their romance became serious in 2020 when they both began living in New York City at the same time.

Previously, Edwards opened up to Fox News about how the couple grew closer during the coronavirus lockdown period.

"We've been having incredible walks," he said in April 2020. "We have a family staying with us with a young child, our godson, who's only 19 months old, so we've formed this group for the last five weeks."

"It's been really nice to get into some different rhythms and also use technology as we're using today to connect with people," he added. "We're trying to prioritize what is important to this life when we're realizing how fragile it is when a pandemic can come in and take so many of us so quickly."

Edwards and Winningham are no strangers to married life. The ER alum has four children with now-ex-wife Jeanine Lobell, whom he was married to from 1994 to 2015.

As for Winningham, the Dopesick actress has three previous marriages: Jason Trucco (2008 - 2012), William Mapel (1982 - 1996) and A Martinez (1981 -1982). She also shares five children with Mapel.

Nice. I never heard a bad thing about either of these two.

Like two friends from high school who met up later in life and fell in love.

I've known many people like this.

They certainly look well matched.

That is such a sweet story. I love them in Miracle Mile.

No snark: that is very nice. I love that they acknowledge that they’re too old for some big shindig.

Fun fact: Mare Winningham starred as Maria in "The Sound of Music" in h.s. opposite Kevin Spacey as Captain von Trapp.

4th time’s the charm hopefully.

They look like nice people. I used to see Anthony Edwards at the local hardware store when I lived in CT years ago.

I sat next to her on a flight about 10 years ago, she was absolutely lovely. I don't think anyone else but me knew who she was. She was just so nice and upbeat, joking with the flight attendants, etc. I remember that I was reading David Sedaris "Naked" and kept laughing to myself. At one point she said, if you finish this book before this flight is over, I'm stealing it, because I am laughing just hearing you quietly giggle. I finished the book, and gave it to her. It was a fun exchange.

[quote]Fun fact: Mare Winningham starred as Maria in "The Sound of Music" in h.s. opposite Kevin Spacey as Captain von Trapp.

Jesus, maybe there is hope for G's Sunset.

[quote] Who? And who?

Well, his transformation over 30 years is more shocking than Val Kilmer's, Brendan Fraser's and James Spader's. I don't know who she is (or was).

They do have unfortunate names; his blandness made me think he could equally be 'Edward Anthony'; her name reminds me of a female horse whinny-ing.

Mare had a recurring role on E.R. in a "Fatal Attraction" type storyline, as a woman obsessed with Anthony Edwards character

That's really sweet.

They were both on ER. She played Susan's mess of a sister

And in real life, she's the one who is normal and the one who play Susan is a real mess

[quote] They were both on ER. She played Susan's mess of a sister

Mare did not play Susan's sister. Mare played a doctor obsessed with Anthony Edwards character in a "Fatal Attraction" type storyline

Dem dere Hollywood Hills are full of bobcats and pouncing cougars

A male celebrity who's pushing 60 marrying an age-appropriate woman? Because he actually, like, loves her? It truly is a Hollywood miracle!

Aww, that's nice. They seem like good folks.

She was the best damn thing in St. Elmo's Fire. A real actress.

Spacey was born to play "Uncle" Max.

She needed a better agent. She should have been THE star of the 80s. But she dropped out and had a bunch kids, then came back in mostly supporting roles and TV.

She really deserved that nomination for "Georgia"; Jennifer Jason Leigh should have snagged one too.

She was so heartbreakingly good in Dopesick.

It’s like high school all over again! Rotten for me, but good for them. I wish them the best.

I remember when ST. ELMO’S FIRE came out. She got the best reviews of the group I believe.

Anthony Edwards was so hot in Top Gun and Gotcha, what a horrible condition baldness is, can't someone find a cure.

Mazel tov....nice to see a couple around the same age, especially in Hollywood.

I remember when St. Elmo's Fire came out and Mare was the real outlier of the group as she was married with children while her Brat Pack peers were partying it up. I was with my mom at an ice cream parlour off Bleaker Street about tne years ago and we spotted Mare. My mom must have given it away with her facial expression that she recognized her, because Mare gave her a dirty look. I figure she was having a bad day, but my mom never forgave her. Though, to be fair, my mother had always had a crush on Tom Hanks and thought Mare wasn't attractive enough to be his love interest in Turner and Hooch.

Me too r10. I also saw him at My Place Pizza once.

Mare was married to A Martinez from Santa Barbara and She Devil?

More chins than a Chinese phone book!

That’s so great! I can totally see these two as perfect match .

Mare looks great but Anthony looks sickly to me.

R34 Yes - for less than a year!

I normally hate plastic surgery, but he needs to do something about that neck.

Mare was Val Kilmer’s girlfriend in high school.

I would never have thought him one to develop a double chin. And it's a whopper.

The OP's picture is appallingly unflattering to him.

They make a nice couple. I gained a new respect for him when he shared his story of childhood abuse a few years ago.

Oh good God. He could still do better than Mare! They were in Miracle Mile together, such a scary movie.

^ And the gay son has long flowing dangling tendrils waiting for the time he goes bald like his father.

R44 The person who molested Edwards was only 8 years older than him.

I wonder how much this person advanced Edwards' career (Edwards is now valued at $40 Million worth)?

I didn’t know he was divorced from the Stila lady.

I've heard great things about both of them.

Fuck you, r45. Mare Winningham is a lovely person. He’s lucky to have her, and she’s lucky to have him.

This website says he was previously dating a woman who had curtains of straw half-covering her face—

Wow, Edwards' son should just wait for the trust fund to kick in because that "web series" is painful.

They remind me of someone, but can't think who.

I bet her autobiography would be interesting.

That's a creel, like a pelican has, not a double chin

Datalounge really surprises me sometimes. I thought this thread would be full of snark about a "couple of old has-beens." To the contrary, it's mostly well wishes for the happy couple. Very cool. Carry on.

Perhaps Edwards is up for a role playing someone without any conscience, some truly evil scumbag, someone we all know and hate...

It's really wonderful to hear that these two reconnected after all these years and found love together.

"So you're saying there's a chance??!!"

The photo at r48 can't be that much older than the one at OP, right? Might Edwards have a medical condition causing neck inflammation? He looks like a guy who aged OK, albeit bald at r48, but with goiter, or something, in the OP's.

Love is wonderful, best wishes for the happy couple, I enjoy these reconnect stories.

In Australia, we have a saying that 'someone has a face like a dropped pie' and r58 is a dropped pie.

I always thought she’d end up with Kevin Spacey, retiring to Vermont and opening an Austrian themed family lodge?

Great actress. Mare Winningham deftly stole Mildred Pierce from Kate Winslet.

I was in a contest held by your station, r55! (For concert M&G. Lost.)

Mazel tov to the lovely couple! For some reason I always remember Mare from a movie where she was implanted with an alien chip in her calf. No one believed her UFO abduction story until there was physical proof.

That is a terrible picture of him at OP. He had a surprisingly tight body in Inventing Anna, which you got to see a lot of. He obviously stays in shape. It's a pity he aged so much in the face.

[quote]Like two friends from high school who met up later in life and fell in love. I've known many people like this.

Bestow this fate on me and Eric from the baseball team, R3.

No way they are fucking. Her vag must be wider than grand canyon, she's had 5 kids! No way he can come in that loose hole

r69 please go to one of the many stupid incel threads created tonight bashing women. Stay out of here. You're an uninformed asshole.

Their pelvic floor is fucked after a couple of kids, let alone 5. She probably wets herself while sneezing.

Jada p. Smith said she had to get her hole tightened by a doctor and she's only had 2 kids.

Do people ever noisily elope?

r71 so you've fucked pussy that has had 5 kids...this is personal experience as opposed to just some tired old trope? And since when is Jada Pinkett Smith considered some expert about all things vaginal? Are we also going to go by Dr. Gwyneth Vagina-Paltrow as well?

I love it when some guy who has probably never even had sex with a woman in his life thinks he knows it all instead of just sees a lovely story for what it is: people reconnecting and finding love in this shitty world.

Fuck off, dickhead. Let us just enjoy that two people from our teenage years have gotten back together amid all this shittiness that's going on.

R69 I’m sure she can afford surgery to fix that. Besides at their age, 95% of life’s fucking is probably behind them.

They seem nice. I’m pleasantly surprised to see lots of other people also remember them together in “Miracle Mile”. Good for them.

This coupling comes on the heels of Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl finding each other.

I went to high school with Val, Mare and Kevin. Our paths never crossed. They were the drama kids. We were the stoners.

How lovely; they seem very nice. Maybe Eric Stoltz will get married to Jason Jennifer Leigh and live next door & they can have an 80's teen idol golden years community

r77 i don't think JJL and Eric Stoltz were ever in a movie together...maybe you meant Mary Stuart Masterson?

R78, JJL and Eric Stoltz were a couple in the late 90s.

I would see her around Sonoma when I lived in the area. She was a supporter of the arts -- the Sebastiani theatre and local performance groups. No dirt, just would see here involved a lot.

i live in the Sonoma Country area, r80. She seems like she'd fit right in around here.

R78, Eric Stoltz was in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”! He played a stoner.

Miracle Mile was 1988, not 1986.

[quote]They were both on ER. She played Susan's mess of a sister

[quote]And in real life, she's the one who is normal and the one who play Susan is a real mess

No. Kathleen Wilhoite played Susan's sister. Winningham was on for 3 episodes playing an ER Chief and IIRC she faked her credentials.

Oh God, it’s like last call at the Hollywood Bar & Grill and everyone’s hooking up, even with their Exes!

JJL and Stoltz were in a terrible movie together with Judith Ivey in the late 80s called Sister, Sister.

Eric Stoltz, 60, looks good.

OMG Eric is still so cute. I'd love to be his cuddlemuffin!

I'd still rest my nose in Eric Stoltz's big red bush.

My lord. Anthony is so fucking homely!

Even though he's not exactly much of a looker himself, it warms my opinion of actors that someone who could get some 20-something nooky girl marries an older, stable woman. My guess is that for all his $$ and celebrity, Edwards is a happier guy than his former co-star, Tom Cruise.

[quote]Do people ever noisily elope?

YEP!!

R91 no young woman wants anything to do with that homely looking double or triple chin homely actor. No amount of money and fame would allow a hot young woman subject herself to that fugly looking mess.

. Women are not that interested in men’s looks. If they were the world would end since many men are ugly. Being rich will trump looks in most cases.

I think that neck waddle is hereditary, he should it corrected, but no other procedures...he would look 10 years younger and more slim.

[quote]Being rich will trump looks in most cases.

Vhich is vhy hees name ees "Trump"!

This is such wonderful news!!!

I wish they could make Miracle Mile 2!!!

[quote]I think that neck waddle is hereditary, he should it corrected, but no other procedures...he would look 10 years younger and more slim.

And his head wouldn't look like it belongs on Easter Island.

God, I needed some news to lift my spirits on this dire day—-this did the trick! How cute they are and I hope they’re very happy.

George Lucas has more money than God, yet he's never had his pelican neck corrected.

THAT’S what he looks like now?! Wow.

Awww.

Great couple! Very happy for them!

I’m surprised how many people here mention Miracle Mile. Long ago a friend told me it was his favorite movie so I watched it and I liked it as well. For a low budget movie, it was really effective.

R103 Yeah it's a great little film.

Former soon to be Falcon star Steve Hammond has a cameo in it!

Eric Stoltz can still get it.

Anthony Edwards & J.K. Simmons should play brothers in a film.

R94 wrong. Yes there are some hot women who will date or even marry a rich ugly man but they are not too happy they had to settle for an hideous creature. You think sex is fun for those women having to fuck a ugly man. Those women are miserable.

Good for Anthony for getting himself some Mare snatch!

R85 Love Christine Taylor - her Marcia Brady is so iconic.

Does he know about her time on the Minnesota Strip back in the ‘70s?

Christine Taylor is a fool to get back with Stiller.

r111, she's been very candid about that time in her life, she says she was groomed by the guy and later pimped out.

Eric Stoltz exposed his dick for all to see a couple of times. Nice red bush, and it's a nice dick, but it's not huge, at least soft.

R115 That red bush is now probably mainly white unless he dyes it.

I'm happy for them. I hope they have a nice life together!

Ginger bush is particularly pungent.

Unattractive people really shouldn't be happy.

I pray there's not a sex tape.

I had such a crush on him in the early 80s. Loved that beautiful blond hair.

“Gotcha” remains a guilty pleasure. His costar Nick Corri was hot!

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