Michelle Pfeiffer has marked her 33rd wedding anniversary with husband David E Kelley by sharing a photograph of the couple together at a New York event.
The actress posted the image on Friday, showing the pair smiling and leaning towards one another at the Museum of Modern Art’s 18th Annual Film Benefit, held the previous evening in honour of Steven Spielberg.
“33 years around the sun with this beautiful man. And 33 years of being the luckiest girl in the room,” Pfeiffer wrote alongside the photograph.
Pfeiffer, 68, wore a black glittering Chanel dress with dangling emerald-green earrings, while her blonde hair fell in loose waves. Kelley, 70, wore a black suit, white shirt and dark tie.
The couple first met in January 1993 on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend. Pfeiffer had previously decided against blind dates after several disappointing experiences, but agreed to one final meeting.
“I was kind of nervous… and I’d had a couple of bad blind dates and I had sworn off of them, and my best friend said, ‘Please, just this last time, meet this guy, David Kelley,’ and I said, ‘OK,’” she recalled during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
She suggested a bowling party for the meeting, but later said the evening proved awkward and that the pair barely spoke. Kelley nevertheless called her two days later to ask her out, and their relationship soon developed.
Two months after they met, Pfeiffer finalised the adoption of her daughter Claudia. She said the experience gave her an early opportunity to see how Kelley responded to family life.
“So, we had this child with us right away, and most people don’t have that,” Pfeiffer said in a 2007 interview. “But I really got to see [Kelley] in a situation that certainly would separate the boys from the men. Obviously, he really rose to the occasion.”
Pfeiffer and Kelley married in a small private ceremony in Santa Barbara, California, on November 13, 1993. Kelley later formally adopted Claudia, now 33, and the couple welcomed their son John Henry, now 32, in August 1994.
The actress has previously described motherhood as a profound influence on her life, saying it helped her find balance and offered “a different level of meaning” beyond her work.
Pfeiffer recently reunited with her Tequila Sunrise co-star Kurt Russell in The Madison, a six-part series created by Taylor Sheridan. The second season has been completed and is expected to premiere on Paramount+ in early 2027.
