Kim finally found Mr. Right in January 1998 when in New York (she lived in L.A. at the time) to close on an apartment. On a rare solo venture one night to catch Chick Corea at The Blue Note, “this very attractive man approached me and said, ‘I saw you moving to the music and wondered if you were a musician.’ I told him I was an actress. Then Mark introduced himself and was so sweet and asked if I was married or seeing someone. Usually in that situation I’d say I am, but for some reason I felt very drawn in.”

"It takes a very secure man to be with a woman who has an appetite for growth and change."

Discovering a mutual love of jazz, the two talked all night and spent almost every minute of the next week together. Three months later, Levinson proposed and the couple married at Cattrall’s East Hampton digs in October. Hubby served as the chef at the couple’s wedding. “We decided the day before we were going to get married,” says Catrall. “Mark went into town and bought shrimp and scallops for dinner and got a pie from a local bakery.” Kim slipped into a floral sundress she’d worn on Sex, minutes before a Justice of the Peace presided over the ceremony as Levinson’s mother and daughter Amber looked on.

Now food is the centerpiece of intimate meals the couple share at their East Hampton and Manhattan homes. “Mark wants me to eat really good, nourishing food. It’s really a very loving and caring thing to do—and that kind of support really makes a difference in my life. He cooks the food and I clean up afterwards. It’s a good time for us to have a conversation about our day. It’s become a wonderful ritual for us.” Levinson learned to cook by whipping up meals for clients as a “starving jazz musician” who couldn’t afford pricey dinners out.

Cattrall enjoys the bucolic beauty of the Hamptons by puttering in her garden among sunflowers and hydrangeas, playing with her Dalmatian Dot and pixie-bob cats (half domestic cat, half bobcat) Giacomo and Kobe. She also pens short works of fiction. And she seems ecstatic with their low-key lifestyle—after all, she’d never expected to find Mr. Right: “I found in my relationships and in dating that men didn’t know how to deal with the fact I was still growing and changing. They wanted to know what I was and keep me in that box to make them feel comfortable. It takes a very secure man to be with a woman who has an appetite for growth and change.”

Sounds like Kim Cattrall finally found the kind of satisfaction Samantha Jones can only dream about.

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