When two celebrities go their separate ways after a lengthy, red carpet-filled relationship, their careers rarely take a hit. That’s perhaps a sliver of good news for Anna Faris and Chris Pratt, who announced their split on Aug. 6 after eight years of marriage. Ahead, a look at what was happening before and in the year after some of Hollywood’s biggest splits of the last 20 years.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (1990-2001)
BEFORE THEY SPLIT: Kidman and Cruise first connected on the set of Days of Thunder, still early on in both their blockbuster careers. The duration of their relationship saw Cruise star in films like A Few Good Men and Jerry Maguire while also kickstarting his successful Mission: Impossible franchise, and Kidman made her name in films like To Die For and Batman Forever. The two appeared together in Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut.
YEAR AFTER SPLIT: Kidman won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as author Virginia Woolf in The Hours. Cruise starred in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and made a cameo in Austin Powers in Goldmember.
Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas (1996-2014)
BEFORE THEY SPLIT: Griffith and Banderas were both established stars by the time they connected on the set of Two Much, thanks to Banderas’ starring roles in popular Pedro Almodovar films and Griffith’s award-winning performance in Working Girl. Over the span of their relationship, Banderas became a crossover mainstream movie star in America, with roles in blockbusters like The Mask of Zorro and family-friendly franchises like Spy Kids and Shreksequels. Griffith starred as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lyne’s 1997 adaptation of Lolita.
YEAR AFTER SPLIT: 2015 saw Banderas voice Burger-Beard the Pirate in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. Griffith appeared in Zoe Cassavetes’ indie film Day Out of Days, and famously got awkward at the Oscars over her daughter Dakota Johnsons starring role in Fifty Shades of Grey.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (2014-2016)
BEFORE THEY SPLIT: In the months leading up to their separation in September, both were busy in postproduction on their upcoming movie projects: Jolie was working on her third directorial effort, First They Killed My Father, and had also led an honorary committee for the 2016 Cambodian International Film Festival; Pitt was gearing up to promote Allied, which opened in November. The year prior, they costarred in the Jolie-directed romance drama By the Sea.
YEAR AFTER SPLIT: September marks the one year anniversary of Brangelina’s separation announcement. In the past year, Pitt starred in Netflix’s satire War Machine and his production company, Plan B Entertainment, won a best picture Oscar this year for Mooonlight. Meanwhile, Jolie has begun promoting her new film, which opens Sept. 15, 2017. In July, Jolie’s new movie became the subject of controversy after details of the casting processwere revealed in a Vanity Fair story.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin (2003-2014)
BEFORE THEY SPLIT: Martin was working on Coldplay’s sixth album Ghost Stories, and Paltrow had wrapped up production on her film Mortdecai and reprised her role as Holly Holliday in the final season of Fox’s Glee.
YEAR AFTER SPLIT: The “conscious uncoupling” proved fruitful for the pair: Paltrow lent her voice to “Everglow,” which was featured on Coldplay’s 2015 album A Head Full of Dreams.
