Sidney Poitier & Joanna Shimkus

For more than four decades, award-winning actor Sidney Potier and Joanna Shimkus have been breaking the odds of Hollywood and became one of the most successful marriages in the coaster. Born to Bahamian parents, Poiter got listed among the Greatest Actors of Classic Hollywood films following his performances in movies To Sir with Love and In the Heat of the Night. Sidney first met his future wife in Paris back in 1969. Shimkus was born in Nova Scotia to a Lithuanian father and an Irish mother. She earned a certain degree of fame through modeling before entering the spotlight as an actress.

The couple has been married since 1976 and gotten blessed with two children. Though they choose to keep their lives private, the pair managed to find happiness, and their flames of love were just too strong to keep their romance burning.