Anna Holbrook husband Bruce Holbrook is a Captain at Delta Air Lines. Bruce Holbrook previously worked for the Air Force as a pilot.
Fairbanks, Alaska native Anna, is a Day Time Emmy Award-winning American actress. Her role as Sharlene Frame Hudson in the NBC soap opera, Another World, earned her the award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series.
The actress is also known for her multiple appearances on Law and Order and Law & Order: SVU. Since then, she has guest starred in popular TV shows such as The Blacklist, Homeland, Blue Bloods, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Bull.
Anna Holbrook Husband Bruce Holbrook is a Captain
Anna Holbrook husband Bruce Holbrook is a Captain with Delta Airlines. Bruce Holbrook signed with Delta after moving to New York, following his wife, Anna.
From Arizona, Bruce attended Santa Catalina High School in Tucson, where he met his wife, Anna, for the first time. He was a year ahead of Anna when she joined the high school.
The following year he graduated from the U.S. air force academy and remained in the military service for a long time. Bruce’s career in the air force made him travel from base to base as he became a pilot.
The pilot had already married his high school sweetheart, Anna, by the time his postings began. He was first posted in Enid, Oklahoma, and then for B-52 training, was sent to the military base at Merced, California, accompanied by his wife the whole time.
His posting at Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, Louisiana, remained as his last. Anna, his wife, had moved to New York to pursue her acting career while he still had two years left in the U.S. airforce.
Bruce was in a long-distance arrangement with his wife until he landed a pilot job for Delta Airlines in 1986. He left the military altogether to be with his wife in New York.
Anna Married her Husband Bruce In 1979
Anna and Bruce have been married for over forty years. Anna and Bruce are high school sweethearts from Tucson, Arizona.
Anna met her partner, Bruce, at Tucson’s Santa Catalina High School a year senior to her. Bruce then joined the US air force Academy while Anna entered the University of Arizona as a nursing major.
She later joined Trinity College in San Antonio to pursue journalism, broadcast, and film. Although she was unsure of the career path she wanted, Anna knew she would marry her beau Bruce Holbrook after he graduated from the academy.
The couple eventually married in June 1979 at the Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs. Bruce’s career as an aspiring pilot moved them to multiple military bases soon after their marriage.
A pivotal time in their relationship came when Bruce was posted in Shreveport, Louisiana. Anna discovered her likeness for being on camera and started doing local commercials, which led her to take acting classes in Dallas, Texas.
While working at the Shreveport community theater production of Crimes of the Heart, Anna came across a New York agent who suggested she try her hand in New York. Subsequently, In 1984, she left the town for the city of dreams.
The couple bought a house in Bronxville in a few months. However, her partner could not join as he still had two years remaining in the military. Bruce visited his wife every three weeks on the weekend until he became the captain of Delta Airlines.
As of 2022, Anna and her partner have spent 43 years in marital bliss and brought two children into this world.
Anna Holbrook Has Two Children With Bruce
Anna Holbrook and her partner, Bruce Holbrook, have two children, Johanna and Henry Holbrook. The couple had their first child after eleven years of marriage.
Holbrook pair’s daughter Johanna Holbrook was born on October 16, 1990, while the couple lived in their Bronxville house in New York. For Anna, bringing her daughter into this world was the most important thing ever.
Her daughter’s birth changed Anna’s world and her perspective of everything around her said the actress while speaking to LA Times. She then left her soap, Another World, after the arrival of Johanna.
Her son Henry Holbrook was born in 1996 after the couple had moved to a new house in New Canaan, Connecticut, with their pets, a dog and a cat.
The actress decided to put her acting career on hold to be home for her children, “my work really, really was not something I had to do,” said Anna in an interview with Moffly Media.
She worked as an acting coach to the fifth and sixth graders at the Performing Arts Conservatory of New Canaan in 2006, doing minor roles in TV shows here and there.