Gene Hackman wife: Meet Betsy Arakawa and Faye Maltese
Gene Hackman is an American actor and novelist, born on January 30, 1930, in San Bernardino, California.
He is known for his versatile roles in films like “The French Connection,” “Unforgiven,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” and “Hoosiers,” among others. Hackman started his career in the 1960s and has won numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and one Screen Actors Guild Award.
Hackman has had two Academy Award nominations and has won one for his performance as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s famous thriller The French Connection (1971) and the other for his portrayal of “Tiny” Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s Western movie Unforgiven (1992). His previous Oscar-nominated performances came from Mississippi Burning (1970), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
The Poseidon Adventure, The Conversation, A Bridge Too Far, Superman, Superman II, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Hoosiers, No Way Out, Another Woman, Bat*21, The Firm, The Quick and the Dead, Get Shorty, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Antz, Absolute Power, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, and Run Lola Run were among Hackman’s other notable film roles (2004).
Son of Eugene Ezra Hackman and Anna Lyda Elizabeth, Eugene Allen Hackman was born on January 30, 1930 in San Bernardino, California.
His only sibling is Richard. His mother was Canadian and was born in Sarnia, Ontario; he is of Pennsylvania Dutch, English, and Scottish descent.
His family relocated repeatedly before landing in Danville, Illinois, where they occupied the home of his maternal grandmother, Beatrice, who was born in England. The printing press for the neighborhood newspaper Commercial-News was run by Hackman’s father.
When he was 13 years old, his parents got divorced, and his father later left the household.
When he was ten years old, Hackman made the decision that he wanted to be an actor.
Gene Hackman wife: Meet Betsy Arakawa and Faye Maltese
Hackman was married twice. His first marriage was to Faye Maltese, whom he married in 1956. The couple had three children together: Christopher, Elizabeth, and Leslie. Hackman and Maltese divorced in 1986 after 30 years of marriage.
In 1991, Hackman married his second wife, Betsy Arakawa, who was his former assistant. The couple met while Hackman was filming “Mississippi Burning” in 1988. They have been married for over 30 years, and Betsy has been a supportive partner for Hackman’s writing career. In 2011, Hackman published his first novel, “Payback at Morning Peak,” and has since written several other novels. Hackman and Arakawa currently reside in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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