The Real Life Partners Of The Cast Of F9

She's the great Dame of the "Fast and Furious" franchise with a long and illustrious career behind her, so it's only fitting that Helen Mirren has enjoyed a grand and happy marriage to American filmmaker Taylor Hackford since 1997.

Long before they tied the knot, they crossed paths in a way that Hackford described as "not exactly what you would call positive" to The Guardian. Hackford had called Mirren in for a casting opportunity, but he was out "getting a sandwich" when she arrived. "When we got back, she was piping mad," he explained, and added that his future wife "got the part" but joked that "she certainly wasn't courteous" about it. Naturally, he was smitten. "The fact that Helen is a great actress was an important part of my attraction to her," he added, " That she's a very sexy woman wasn't lost on me either."

Mirren has likewise described Hackford as "the greatest love of her life" according to AARP, and as being someone who changed her long-held views that marriage wasn't "to [her] taste." She told the publication, "I was 38 when I met Taylor, pretty late in life ... We got married in the end because we realized that we were going to be together forever." And they have been.

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