Net Miles Of Smiles

Denzel and Pauletta Washington: Denzel met the former Pauletta Pearson on the set of the 1977 TV movie “Wilma,” about the athlete Wilma Rudolph. They married five years later, in 1982, and have four children. From all appearances they are as solid and as romantic as they were in their first years together. Pauletta attends most of her

husband’s film prescreenings, and while not often in the spotlight, is reportedly fiercely supportive of his career as well as his offscreen passions, like the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Of his marriage’s success, he has said, “She puts up with me. I think, also, in a way, the traveling helps. We’re able to travel together and also be apart sometimes. Not everybody gets to live like that.”