As she and her husband Vincent Hughes get closer to celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary in 2025, Sheryl Lee Ralph feels “blessed and happy”.
At the 76th Emmy Awards Performers Nominee Celebration in Los Angeles on September 13, the 67-year-old actor of Abbott Elementary talked with PEOPLE about the couple’s plans for their milestone anniversary in 2025.
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Twenty years after being married in 2005, Ralph and the 67-year-old state lawmaker from Pennsylvania will commemorate the momentous milestone on July 30, 2025. “I’m married to the senator, and I’m so blessed and happy as we get ready to celebrate 20 years next year,” Ralph noted.
“Well, his state is Pennsylvania, his city is Philadelphia. Maybe [we’ll celebrate] in the courtyard of city hall or on the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. That would be wonderful,” she noted. “I don’t know, but it’ll be fabulous.”
When he asks if she plans to celebrate the anniversary in a bigger way, Ralph says, “Absolutely.” She delightfully remarked, “Why go small?” she says. “Big party.”
On September 13, 2024, Sheryl Lee Ralph is present at the 76th Emmys Performer Nominee Celebration held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.
The First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles hosted Ralph and Hughes’ wedding in 2005. Since her spouse works in Philadelphia, the Emmy winner previously discussed how she routinely travels there to spend time with him.
“First of all, 20 years, keeping this marriage together, you have to be together sometime,” In 2022, she told the publication. “Vincent is not able to leave the state the way I can leave the state. In fact, in 20 years of our being together, I’m going to say my husband has been in California maybe 25 times. That means I’m in Philadelphia every two weeks.”
“It’s always like, ‘What are you doing there?’ ‘Um, I’m married to Sen. Hughes. I live here,’ ” Regarding the commonly asked question by fans, the Dream Girls phenomenon remarked.
Costar Lisa Ann Walter of Abbott Elementary expressed her admiration for Ralph’s family and their bond with Hughes in a July 2024 interview with PEOPLE.
Walter, age sixty-one, commented. “Sheryl has a beautiful family and a beautiful support system in her entire family.” He added, “Her husband is a doll. He’s very smart, and she has a great relationship with him.”
