How long were Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman married to each other?”
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer. Joanne had been briefly engaged to author Gore Vidal prior to marrying Paul Newman. She shared a house with Vidal in Los Angeles for a short time and remained friends. Woodward married Paul Newman on January 29, 1958. They had three daughters: Elinor Teresa (1959; known on screen as Nell Potts and generally as Nell Newman), Melissa “Lissy” Stewart (1961), and Claire “Clea” Olivia (1965). She lives in Westport, Connecticut, but, along with her late husband, has been extremely private about her personal life. Newman occasionally ventured to California, but Woodward refused to go west for many years. Her husband died of cancer on September 26, 2008, aged 83.
