Hollywood‑style Family: A 48-year-long romance between Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman

Danny De 's Relationship Vito and Rhea Perlman have long been a byword in Hollywood. They have converged and diverged so many times, participated in so many projects that you can write a whole book about it! Let's look at the most interesting moments of their lives.

Danny De Vito was born on November 17, 1944 and since childhood dreamed of a career as an actor. But after graduating from high school, he was not accepted into acting college, and he was forced to work in a barber shop owned by his older sister. In 1966, he finally graduated and began working in theater in Connecticut.

Danny's assets include an Oscar nomination for the film "Erin Brockovich", as well as an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the TV series "Taxi".

Rhea Perlman is three years younger than Danny. She also studied acting, but in New York, and has been actively acting in TV movies since 1972. She is famous for the fact that for the same supporting role in the TV series "Merry Company" she received as many as four Emmys in different years!

The actors met on the set in 1971, where 27-year-old Danny played in a short film, and immediately began dating. Moreover, two weeks later they were already living together!

Rhea Perlman went down the aisle much later, in 1982, when she became pregnant. Both did not want to rush to legalize the relationship, although nothing prevented them from doing it before.

The couple has three children: daughter Lucy Chet (March 11, 1983), daughter Grace Feng (March 25, 1985) and son Jacob Daniel (October 30, 1987). Only the eldest daughter became an actress.

In 2012, Danny and Rhea decided to break up after living together for more than 40 years. They say the reason for this was the comedian's infidelities, but neither of them said a word about it. Here's what Danny said about it: "We are with The Reys are very close. We're still together, even though we live separately. We are working on a relationship."

A year later, they reunited... only to break up again in 2017 with approximately the same statements.

In May 2019, both actors confirmed that now their relationship is friendly, much warmer than before, but they do not plan to divorce or share property. Yes, they live separately, but they see each other often.

In an interview with Andy Cohen, the actress said that the separation was hard for them, but both accepted the new state of things: "45 years is a very long time, we should be able to do something else."

Danny and Rhea have been filmed together several times. The first job was the TV series Taxi (1978-1983), where Perlman played Xena, the object of interest of taxi dispatcher Louis De Palma, played by Danny. In 1981, Rhea left the project to star in one of the main roles in the TV series "Merry Company", which was shown for more than ten years.

In 1996, the couple starred together in Matilda, playing the parents of the main character. The performer of the role of Matilda, Mara Wilson, recalled in her autobiography that the warm attitude of the actors towards her in real life helped a lot during the difficult period when her mother died: "While she was in the hospital, they invited me to visit, took care and did everything to help me."