It would be difficult to find someone who does not know Ron Howard. He has been a part of our lives for some seven decades and has been part of some of the greatest television shows and movies of all time.
Over the years, Ron Howard has built up an impressive career but it isn’t just his work in movies and on TV that makes a difference. He also has a longtime relationship with his wife, Cheryl, and they have been married for almost 50 years.
Ron Howard was born on March 1, 1954 in Oklahoma. When he was 18 months old, he appeared in Frontier Woman and then was in The Seven Year Itch when he was two years old.
Most of us know him from his role on The Andy Griffith Show, which he was on from 1960 until 1968. He played the character of Opie, and his parents supported him 100%.
Eventually, he moved on to playing Richie Cunningham in Happy Days. He had played in a few movies between then, including American Graffiti, but Happy Days made him a household name.
In 1970, before he was winning awards for his performances, he met a woman named Cheryl Alley. They were high school sweethearts and eventually, they would get married in 1975.
Ron fondly remembers the day that he and Cheryl went down on their first date and he posted a picture on Instagram along with socks that showed her picture.
He also said what they would be doing that day. We are so happy that they are happy together.
Ron considers Cheryl to be his good luck charm. She also is quite an individual on her own, as she is a published author and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology along with a master’s degree in screenwriting.
They are parents of four children and grandparents to six children.
When a couple is married for this long, one of the obvious questions is, what is the secret of a lasting relationship? Ron Howard feels that communication is the key to the love that they have.
He said: “People say, ‘How’d you do it?’ There’s no technique. There’s no tactic, other than communication is really important. You have to learn to communicate and have difficult conversations in constructive ways. Beyond that, there’s an element of luck because people either grow together or they don’t and I don’t think you can force that.”
Good advice, indeed!