The actor, who has been married four times, including to Meg Ryan, now lives with his wife, 40 years his junior, in Tennessee
Dennis Quaid turned 70 on April 9, and this celebration will bear little resemblance to the one in the 1980s, when his then-partner Meg Ryan chartered a small plane and put up a large sign that read: “Happy Birthday Dennis” and it flew over a concert where Quaid and his band, the Eclectics, were playing.
This year, the actor, producer and now, above all, musician, away from the excesses of Hollywood, rising fame and cocaine, will celebrate in Nashville, Tennessee, where he decided to settle and live with his fourth wife (40 years his junior), focusing on what he loves most: Christian country-rock.
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Quaid’s life has been a journey over the past 70 years. The son of Juanita, a realtor, and Will, an electrician, Dennis studied dance and theater in high school and had a clear idea of ​​his path at the university in his hometown of Houston, which he eventually dropped out to move to Los Angeles.
He has worked on more than 100 films, series, projects of all kinds (albeit with few nominations for major awards) and has plans for the future – this year the long-awaited biography about Ronald Reagan is expected to be released. In his latest film, directed by Sean McNamara, more than five years in the making, he plays the famous actor and former US president, alongside names such as Penelope Ann Miller, Jon Voight and Mena Suvari. However, cinema – where he has starred in films such as ‘Postcards from the Edge’, ‘Something to Talk About’, ‘Frequency’, ‘Dragonheart’, ‘Far From Heaven’ and the popular ‘The Parent Trap’ – is no longer the his greatest passion. Now he is devoted to music and, above all, to religion.
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Although Quaid grew up in a Catholic family, he was not close to God for many years. The 1980s and 1990s were wild times for him and by the age of 29, he was already divorced for the first time, from fellow actress PJ Soles.
In the 1980s he became a heartthrob among actors and celebrities and, while dating Lea Thompson, bumped into Meg Ryan on the street and fell madly in love with her. When they met on the set of the movie ‘Innerspace’, the rest was history. After falling in love, they married on Valentine’s Day in 1991 and had their son Jack, who is now an actor. Together they became the poster couple of Hollywood, but the marriage did not last long. He cheated on her several times during their marriage and in 2001 their relationship finally ended after she had an affair with Russell Crowe, her co-star at the time.
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And then came the drugs… Another chapter that marked the actor’s life. “I spent many, many nights screaming at God, ‘Please take this away from me – I’ll never do it again. Because I only have an hour before I have to go to work.’ And then, around 4 p.m., I was like, ‘It’s not that bad.'” He was looking for the joy of life and drugs were ‘fun’, ‘then they’re fun with problems and then they’re just problems’as he himself has revealed in an interview.
Then he suddenly had a strange experience. This happened in 1990. “I remember going home and having a kind of white light experience where I saw myself either dead, or in jail, or losing everything I had and I didn’t want that”he said last summer during an interview with “People.”
“I was in a band and we had a concert… Things didn’t go well because of me because I wasn’t reliable and sober”he confessed. “That’s when I realized that if I didn’t change, I’d be dead in five years. The next day I entered rehab”explained.
The actor believes that addictions cause people to “fill a hole inside us”: “When you’re done with addiction, you need something to fill that hole, something that really works, right?” And the divine call led him to music.
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Quaid wrote the song “On My Way to Heaven” in honor of his mother, Juanita, to let her know that he was well, that he had found his way again. He returned to reading the Bible, but also began reading the Koran and other religious texts. “That’s when I started to develop a personal relationship. Before that, I had none, even though I was raised as a Christian.”, she said in that “People” interview. As a result, he has now released a self-titled album “Fallen: A Gospel Record For Sinners”.
His relationship with God helped him overcome his three divorces (from Soles in 1983, Ryan in 2001, and Kimberly Buffington, whom he married in 2004 and divorced in 2018), as well as times of distress, such as illness of his young children, that in the end everything went well.
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In his interviews, the actor always says that he believes that he is a good father and that he enjoys raising his children, although now, after his divorces, he is not so close to them. The actor secretly remarried in June 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Although they had only been dating for a year, he had planned a wedding in Hawaii that April to his girlfriend, businesswoman Laura Savoie (now 31), but the pandemic scuppered their plans and they decided to get a pastor’s blessing in Santa Barbara, California, by the sea and without other witnesses. Now they’ve decided to move south to Nashville, where Quaid has produced his album and feels at home.
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