Who Is Michelle Pfeiffer's Husband, David E. Kelley?

David E. Kelley's original career aspirations weren't in show business. After earning his undergrad degree in Politics from Princeton University, he went on to get his law degree from Boston University (via The Los Angeles Times). Screenwriting was a hobby of Kelley's when he was practicing law. In the mid-1980s, he connected with Stephen Bochco who was in search of screenwriters with a background in law for his series L.A. Law.

Kelley told L.A. Times that, although he liked being a lawyer, he found the entertainment business more enjoyable. "I just stumbled into this other world," he recalled. "A make-believe world, it was just more fun."

Kelley and Pfeiffer met on a blind date in 1992 and married less than a year later (via People). Pfeiffer shared that part of the reason she knew Kelley was "the one" was because they immediately got to see each other as parents. She had begun her daughter Claudia Rose's adoption process right before meeting Kelley and it went through two months after their first date.

Although they're supportive of each other's careers, Pfeiffer said she and Kelley prefer not to work together. "I've seen a lot of couples where they seem to have a really great marriage," she told The New Yorker, "and then they work together and next year they're filing for divorce."