Harrison Ford has joined the list of presenters at Sunday’s Oscars alongside the likes of Samuel E Jackson, Gal Gador and Margaret Qualley,
The 82 year actor was nominated for an Academy Award in 1985 for his role in crime thriller Witness. He lost out to White Lotus star F Murray Abraham. However he has maintained longevity and relevance in Hollywood for decades which is no mean feat.
Recently the Indiana Jones star made headlines after his appearance at the SAG awards for distracting his Shrinking co-star Jessica Williams as she opened with its annual “I Am An Actor” introduction.
Jessica who was seated next to Harrison, looked earnestly at the camera and began: “Los Angeles is known as the city of dreams and sure enough all my dreams have come true here.”
He was seen putting a chip in his mouth in the background, before realizing he was on camera and slowly removing it with a look of mock-horror.
Afterwards Jessica turned to Ford and jokingly jabbed him, as the actor laughed and embraced his screen colleague as guests - and viewers chuckled.
The I Am An Actor monologue features stars talking about how they got their big breaks. Harrison's own big break was pretty unique.
After years of struggle - only winning small parts in films, Harrison became a carpenter in a bid to support his then wife, childhood sweetheart Mary Marquardt and sons Ben and Willard.
Self taught, he was building movie sets - rather than acting on them - when a producer friend secured him an audition for 1973 movie American Graffiti. The films's director George Lucas was impressed and cast him. But George changed Harrison's fortunes forever when he cast him as Hans Solo in the Stars Wars franchise in 1977.
His personal life changed drastically too and his marriage to Mary, who he wed in 1964 after meeting at High School, fell apart.
The couple divorced in 1979 after rumours of infidelity.
One of Harrison's affairs - confirmed decades later - was with his Star Wars co star Carrie Fisher. Carrie then 19, played Princess Leia and embarked on a three month with the actor.
In Carrie's memoir, The Princess Diarist released in 2016, she revealed how she was "shocked" that the 35 year old actor fancied her, with her revealing that they stayed together "for the remainder of the film".
"It was never going to be more than that. I didn’t think it was going to be even that," she added in her chat with The Guardian.
She described their raunchy romance as a "three-month one-night stand" that started when he started kissing her in the back of a car one night - after a cast and crew party.
Carrie revealed in her memoir that she fantasised about her hunky co-star leaving his wife for her.
She and Harrison even turned up drunk together on set after a wild night of drinking . They decided to avoid falling asleep in an attempt to avoid any kind of hangover, as they had Star Wars filming the next morning.
Unsurprisingly, this plan didn't go well.
Reportedly, it was the Cloud City portion of Empire Strikes Back that had the two actors playing drunk throughout filming.
Carrie revealed one key giveaway: "We don’t really smile a lot in the movie, but there, we’re smiling."
When Carrie passed away in 2016, Harrison led tributes describing the actress as "one of a kind."
He said: "Carrie was one-of-a-kind … brilliant, original. Funny and emotionally fearless. She lived her life, bravely""
Harrison met his second wife Melissa while he was still married to Mary.
Meeting on the set of Apocalypse Now in 1976, Melissa worked as a production assistant while Harrison played the role of Colonel Lucas.
Harrison met Melissa while he was still married to his high school sweetheart Mary. There's nothing to suggest that anything happened between the pair before his 1970 divorce to Mary, but three years after his divorce he began dating Melissa.
After Harrison had divorced from Mary in 1979 he was busy with work before starting to date again, with him and Melissa starting their relationship in 1982.
The couple separated in 2000 and divorced in 2004, with a three-year-long battle to reach a settlement.
According to Forbes, their settlement ultimately landed at $85million (£71million) in 2004.
Sadly Melissa died in 2015 aged 65, from neuroendocrine cancer.
In 2001 a year after his separation, Harrison was romantically linked to British actress Minnie Driver after the pair were spotted together. There was a 28 year age gap between the two.
Previously Minne had commented: "I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him. "
In 2020 Minnie hinted at the relationship revealing in a tweet how Harrison "drove me around one evening showing me houses he’d helped build when he was a carpenter."
Harrison met his third wife Calista in 2002 at the Golden Globe Awards, with them then getting married eight years later in an intimate ceremony in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Calista is 22 years Harrison's junior but she has said it doesn't make a difference. In 2017, Flockhart told FOX News that she feels like the older one.
She said: “Harrison and I laugh a lot, and humour is everything to me. The truth is, I sometimes feel very much older than Harrison.”
She also revealed to Hello! Magazine in 2003: “Sometimes I even say, ‘Wow, I keep forgetting that he’s 22 years older than me.’
“It doesn’t factor into our relationship at all. I like the way he looks first thing in the morning. It’s not handsome, it’s more cute. He looks like a little boy.”
She has also described her beau as 'so immature', though she added that they've "had their ups and downs like everyone else".
"We've had to work," she said.
The pair live a quiet life far away from the chaos of Hollywood in Wyoming, calling a massive ranch with over 800 acres of land home. .
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