Los Angeles: Two-time Oscar-winner Hillary Swank and her husband Chad Lowe have separated after more than eight years of marriage.
"Hilary and Chad have decided to separate, but they are hopeful they'll be able to get through this tough time," Swank's manager Troy Nankin said in a statement on Monday.
There was no elaboration on the reason for the split.
David Rose, Lowe's agent at Innovative Artists, said there would be no comment from Lowe.
Swank, 31, and Lowe, who turns 38 on Jan. 15, were married in September 1997 and have managed to keep their personal life mostly private. They have no children.
Swank came from nowhere to win her first best actress Oscar in 2000 for playing a transgender teen in the independent movie Boys Don't Cry.
Swank famously forgot to thank a tearful Lowe while accepting her best actress Oscar in 2000 for Boys Don't Cry. Last year, Swank won again for Million Dollar Baby — this time, thanking her husband in an effusive acceptance speech at the 2005 Academy awards ceremony, saying, "Chad, you're my everything."
Swank will next star in The Black Dahlia, a Brian DePalma adaptation of James Ellroy's novel of the same name.
In contrast to his wife's blockbuster successes, Lowe has worked on less critically acclaimed fare over the years, such as 2000's made-for-TV movie Take Me Home: The John Denver Story, in which he played the title character. (He does have a 1993 Emmy Award for his supporting role in ABC's Life Goes On series.)
One role he seemed to have mastered was that of proud and supportive partner, whether it entailed smiling his way through the aforementioned Oscar acceptance diss or offering up sound bite after sound bite about his admiration for his wife's talent.
After last year's Academy Awards, Lowe told People magazine he had advised Swank "to breathe it in and enjoy the moment. It is like when you get married: You wish it could last all night."
Unfortunately, this marriage's moment seems to have run its course.
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