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1. Anthony Hopkins had two wives over the course of "Howards End" (not at the same time, of course). His wife at the end of the movie was played by Emma Thompson. Who portrayed his wife at the beginning?

Answer: Vanessa Redgrave

After meeting Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) sees the same spunk in Margaret that she had as a young woman. The two become friends, and Ruth invites Margaret to her cottage, Howards End, for a visit sometime. Ruth dies and her family finds a handwritten note stating that she wants to leave Howards End to Margaret. Ruth's husband, Henry (Anthony Hopkins), destroys the note, but after meeting Margaret, decides to marry her. Emma Thompson won a Best Actress Oscar for her role, and Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Vanessa Redgrave also appears in "Julia", "Agatha", "Mission: Impossible" and "The Bostonians".

2. Which actress played the wife of Tommy Lee Jones in "Blue Sky" and Liam Neeson in "Rob Roy"?

Answer: Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange portrayed wife Carly Marshall to Tommy Lee Jones in "Blue Sky" (1994), winning an Oscar for Best Actress for her performance. In "Rob Roy" (1995), Lange played Mary MacGregor, wife of Robert Roy MacGregor, played by Liam Neeson.

3. Which two actors did Sissy Spacek play the wives of in "JFK" and "The River"?

Answer: Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson

Sissy Spacek played Liz Garrison, wife of Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) in "JFK". She actually appeared in "JFK" with two of her "husbands", Tommy Lee Jones, who played Clay Shaw in "JFK", played Spacek's husband in "Coal Miner's Daughter". In "The River", Spacek played Mae Garvey, wife of Tom Garvey, played by Mel Gibson.

4. Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, and builds a baseball diamond in the middle of his corn field, in "Field of Dreams". Soon after, members of the Chicago Black Sox appear and begin using Ray's field to play, although only he, his wife Annie, and his daughter can see them. Ray sets out to find the meaning of all of this with the help of a reclusive writer and a baseball player who decided to become a doctor. Through it all, Annie remains supportive, even when foreclosure of their farm is imminent. Who played Ray's wife Annie?

Answer: Amy Madigan

"Field of Dreams" also starred Burt Lancaster, Ray Liotta, Gaby Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Frank Whaley and Timothy Busfield. Amy Madigan has been the real-life wife to actor Ed Harris for over 20 years (Oct. 2004), they were married while they were filming "Places in the Heart".

She has also appeared in "Love Child", "Uncle Buck", "Pollock", and "Twice in a Lifetime", for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

5. Which actress portrayed the wife of Kevin Kline in "Violets Are Blue" and Bruce Willis in "Die Hard"?

Answer: Bonnie Bedelia

"Violets Are Blue" also starred Sissy Spacek as Henry's (Kline) high school sweetheart, who had left after graduation to see the world while he ended up running the town newspaper and marrying Ruth (Bedelia) after she became pregnant. "Die Hard" pits New York Cop Bruce Willis against a group of terrorists in L.A. who are holding hostages, one of whom is his wife, Holly. Bonnie Bedelia has also appeared in "Presumed Innocent", "The Boy Who Could Fly", "Needful Things" and "Heart Like a Wheel", for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress.

6. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) doesn't know it, but his whole life has been a TV show. His co-workers, his best friend, his neighbors, even his wife, Meryl, are all actors playing their parts in "The Truman Show". Who played the part of Meryl?

Answer: Laura Linney

"The Truman Show" also starred Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Holland Taylor and Harry Shearer. Carrey and Harris won Golden Globe awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, and the movie was nominated for three Oscars. Laura Linney also appears in "The House of Mirth", "Mystic River", "Love Actually", and "You Can Count On Me", for which she was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Actress.

7. Which actress did NOT portray one of Richard Gere's wives in "Intersection", "Sommersby" or "Unfaithful"?

Answer: Julia Ormond

Sharon Stone portrayed Gere's wife Sally Eastman in "Intersection" (1994); Jodie Foster played Gere's wife Laurel in "Sommersby" (1993); and Diane Lane played Gere's unfaithful wife Connie in "Unfaithful" (2002), which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the Academy Awards. Julia Ormond and Richard Gere appeared together in "First Knight" (1995).

8. In which movie did Tara Fitzgerald play the wife of Hugh Grant?

Answer: Sirens

"Sirens" is the story of a minister and his wife (Grant and Fitzgerald) sent to visit an artist in Australia, whose paintings are a bit unconventional, to show him the error of his ways. Hugh Grant and Tara Fitzgerald also appeared together in "The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain" in 1995.

9. In "The Right Stuff", "The Rookie", "Something to Talk About" and "Everybody's All-American", Pamela Reed, Rachel Griffiths, Julia Roberts and Jessica Lange all portrayed the wives of which actor?

Answer: Dennis Quaid

Pamela Reed played wife Trudi to Quaid's Gordo Cooper in "The Right Stuff" (1983); Rachel Griffiths played wife Lorri to Jimmy Morris in "The Rookie" (2002); Julia Roberts played wife Grace to Eddie Bichon in "Something to Talk About" (1995); and Jessica Lange played wife Babs to Gavin Grey in "Everybody's All-American" (1988).

10. Which actress did NOT portray Harrison Ford's wife in "Regarding Henry", "The Fugitive" or "The Mosquito Coast"?

Answer: Kathleen Quinlan

Annette Bening played Ford's wife Sarah in "Regarding Henry". Ford played Henry Turner, an arrogant attorney who is cheating on his wife. After he is shot in the head during a holdup at a convenience store, Henry has no memory of his previous life and becomes a much kinder person than he was before. Sela Ward played Ford's wife Helen in "The Fugitive" (1993).

Helen Mirren played Ford's wife in "The Mosquito Coast" (1986). Harrison Ford and Kathleen Quinlan appeared together in "American Graffiti" (1973).

Source: Author Polaris101

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