From Oscar-winning actors to iconic musicians, today we look at celebrities who became fathers
later in life:
14.
Rod Stewart
This superstar is one of the best-selling musicians of all time and has sold over one
hundred million records internationally.
He is also a Grammy-winning artist; Stewart took home the award in 2004 for “Best Traditional
Pop Vocal Album” for Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III.
You probably wouldn’t have guessed that Stewart once had thyroid cancer and couldn’t
sing for nine months after getting the tumor removed.
But, the illness didn’t prevent him from going on to win that Grammy or becoming an
older father.
In 1963, when Rod Stewart was eighteen years old, he and his girlfriend had a daughter,
Sarah Steeler.
Sixteen years after that, he married Alana Stewart, and they had two kids, Sean and Kimberly.
In 1987, he and a model named Kelly Emberg had Ruby.
Stewart married Rachel Hunter in 1990, and he became a dad two more times to Renee and
Liam.
Then, in 2007, he remarried again to Penny Lancaster-Stewart, a model.
They have two kids, Alastair and Aiden, which made Rod Stewart a dad for the eighth time
at the age of sixty-six.
2 13.
Jack Nicholson
This three-time Oscar winner is also a five-time father.
Nicholson was born in April 1937, making him eighty-one years old.
His first daughter, Jennifer, was born in 1963.
He then had Caleb with Susan Anspach in 1970 and Honey with Winnie Hollman in 1981.
During his five-year relationship with Rebecca Broussard, he had two more children, Lorraine
and Raymond, when he was in his mid-fifties.
He spoke about having kids later on, stating, “[children] give your life a resonance that
it can’t have without them…
As a father, I’m there all the time.
I give unconditional love.”
But, he admitted, “[I] didn’t see enough of my eldest daughter because I was trying
to make a career.”
12.
Kevin Costner
This actor, producer, and director was born in January 1955 and is now sixty-three years
old.
He is known for movies like The Bodyguard, The Postman, and Dances with Wolves and has
won two Oscars.
Plus, he sings for the country group Kevin Costner & Modern West.
Costner is also known for having seven kids.
He had three children, Anne, Lily, and Joseph with now-ex-wife Cindy Silva.
He also has a son with Bridget Rooney named Liam, who was born in 1996.
In 2004, he tied the knot with Christine Baumgartner, and they had Cayden, Hayes, and Grace in 2007,
2009, and 2010 respectively.
That means that Costner was a father for the seventh time at fifty-five years old.
11.
Mel Gibson
This successful actor was born in January 1956 and is currently sixty-two years old.
He won two Oscars for his work in the film Braveheart in 1996 and has been in numerous
other successful films.
He is also the father of nine children.
Gibson has seven kids with his now-ex-wife Denise Moore, Hannah, Edward, Christian, William,
Louis, Milo, and Thomas.
They got divorced in 2006, and Mel had another child with Oksana Grigorieva, a Russian pianist,
named Lucia.
Several issues came out of his relationship with Oksana.
She accused him of foul play and leaked a tape of a heated argument they’d had, which
was edited to destroy Gibson’s reputation.
The agency dropped him, and he had to go to court.
He eventually pled no contest to a smaller charge to settle.
Gibson later noted, “I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based
on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.
I don’t blame people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked
tapes, which have been edited…
It’s one terribly awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day
and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.”
He started dating Rosalind Ross, a former equestrian vaulter champion and writer, in
2014, and she had their son Lars Gerard in 2017 when Gibson was sixty-one.
2 10.
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro came into the world in August 1943, which means he’s seventy-five years
old today.
He is a two-time Academy Award winner and has received another ninety-seven wins and
fifty-three nominations according to his IMDb profile.
He married Diahnne Abbott, an actress, in 1976, and they had their son Raphael.
Plus, Robert adopted her daughter from a previous relationship, Drena.
They got a divorce in 1988.
Then, De Niro had twin sons Aaron and Julian in 1995 via a surrogate with his then-girlfriend,
Toukie Smith.
Two years later, he tied the knot with Grace Hightower, and she gave birth to their son
Elliot in 1998.
In 2011, he had another child by surrogate named Helen Grace, which made him a six-time
father at the age of sixty-eight.
9.
Steve Martin
This star was born in August 1945 and is currently seventy-three years old.
He started his acting career in movies like Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Jerk in the 1970s.
Martin is also known for Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Father of the Bride, Cheaper by the Dozen,
and The Pink Panther.
He hosted the Academy Awards in 2001, 2003, and in 2010 alongside Alec Baldwin.
Something you might not have known about this comedian is that he’s been playing the banjo
since he was about seventeen years old and is actually a five-time Grammy winner.
Martin married Anne Stringfield in 2007, and she gave birth to their daughter in 2012;
he was sixty-seven years old at the time.
2 8.
Ronnie Wood
Ronald Wood is a rock star famous for being a member of The Rolling Stones since 1975.
He won a Grammy for the album Blue & Lonesome in 2017.
Wood was born in June 1947, making him seventy-one years old today.
He has a total of six kids, Jesse, Leah, Tyrone, Jamie, Gracie, and Alice.
The last two were born in May 2016 and are twins.
Wood was sixty-eight at the time.
7.
Elton John
There probably isn’t anybody out there that hasn’t heard of this famous musician.
He was born in England in March 1947, making him seventy-one years old.
He has won five Grammys throughout his career.
He started dating David Furnish, a Canadian filmmaker, in 1993.
They formed a civil partnership in the United Kingdom at the Windsor Guildhall in 2005.
They married in March 2014 after gay marriage was legalized in England.
Their son Zachary was born by surrogate in 2010, and their son Elijah was born in 2013
via the same surrogate.
Elton was sixty-five at the time.
He is also the godfather of ten, including Sean Lennon, Romeo and Brooklyn Beckham, Damian
Hurley, and Seymour Stein’s daughter.
John later said, “[Having children] makes all the difference because it’s about them,
not you…
And it’s the greatest thing you’ll ever know…
People say, ‘Well, I disagree, I don’t want children,’ and that’s fine - I would
have said the same thing, until I had them.
Then it was like, ‘Wow, this is it?
Are you kidding me?’
If I was fifteen years younger, I’d have two or three more.”
3 6.
Alec Baldwin
This actor was born in April 1958 and is currently sixty years old.
He is famous for starring in 30 Rock as Jack Donaghy from 2006 to 2013 and won two Emmys,
seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globes for his work on the show.
He is also recognized for his roles in films like The Departed, It’s Complicated, and
The Cooler.
Unfortunately, a lot of the attention he’s received over the years hasn’t been good.
In 1995, he punched a photographer in the nose.
In 2007, he told Kim Basinger in a voicemail that their daughter was a “rude, thoughtless
little pig.”
Four years after that, he got kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to quit
his “Words with Friends” game… it is addictive; we’ll give you that.
In 2013, he was arrested after riding his bike in the wrong direction on Fifth Avenue.
However, this bad boy is also known for his former relationship, current marriage, and
all the children that came out of them.
His now-ex-wife, Kim Basinger, had their daughter Ireland in 1995.
After they called it quits in 2002, he spent years trying to get his mind right and met
Hilaria Thomas, a yoga instructor, in 2011.
They tied the knot in 2012 and have four kids together, Carmen, Rafael, Leonardo, and Romeo.
The last was born in May 2018, meaning Baldwin was sixty years old at the time.
5.
Billy Joel
This “Piano Man” has been in the music business since the 1960s.
He came into the world in May 1949, making him sixty-nine years old today.
He has numerous albums, including Cold Spring Harbor, Turnstiles, Glass Houses, and River
of Dreams and has taken home five Grammy Awards for his work.
He was married the first time to Elizabeth Weber Small in September 1973, even though
their relationship had begun when she was still with Jon Small, Joel’s music partner
from their duo Attila.
But, they divorced in 1982.
He tied the knot a second time with Christie Brinkley in 1985, and she gave birth to their
daughter Alexa Ray in December of that year.
However, Brinkley and Joel separated in 1994.
Then, he got hitched a third time with Katie Lee, a chef and current co-host of The Kitchen,
in 2004.
But, they got divorced in 2010.
Five years later, Joel gave it another shot with then-girlfriend Alexis Roderick.
They got married in Long Island, and she gave birth to their daughter Della Rose in August
2015.
They had a second daughter, Remy Anne, in October 2017, when Joel was sixty-eight years
old.
2 4.
Bruce Willis
Another late-life father is Bruce Willis.
This actor was born in March 1955, making him sixty-three years old today.
He is famous for his work in various popular films, including Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, and
The Sixth Sense.
He has taken home one Golden Globe for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series
- Comedy or Musical” for Moonlighting, which he starred in from 1985 to 1989.
According to IMDb, he has received an additional twenty-one awards and thirty-seven nominations.
Willis has also gained recognition from his relationships.
He married Demi Moore in 1987, and they have three daughters together, Rumer, Scout, and
Tallulah.
They got divorced in 2000, and Willis got engaged to Brooke Burns.
However, their romance was short-lived, and they split up just ten months later.
In 2009, Willis tied the knot with Emma Heming, and they have two daughters together, Mabel
Ray and Evelyn Penn, who were born in 2012 and 2014.
Willis was fifty-nine at the time of his youngest daughter’s birth.
3.
Jeff Goldblum
This talented man was born in October 1952, which makes him sixty-six.
He is perhaps most well-known for his role as Malcolm in the Jurassic Park films.
I mean, who could forget the shirtless Goldblum scene when he’s recovering from his Tyrannosaurus
Rex-inflicted wounds?
However, people also know him from various other movies, including Independence Day,
The Fly, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
In 1980, he got married to Patricia Gaul, who he acted alongside in Silverado.
They divorced in 1986.
A year later, he tied the knot with Geena Davis, a co-star from three different films,
but they called it quits in 1990.
He married Emilie Livingston, a Canadian Olympic gymnast, in 2014.
She gave birth to their first son, Charlie Ocean, in 2015.
Their second son, River Joe, was born in April 2017, when Goldblum was sixty-four years old.
2 2.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere was born in August 1949, making him sixty-nine years old today.
He had relationships with several ladies throughout his younger years, including Penelope Milford,
Priscilla Presley, and Kim Basinger.
He tied the knot with Cindy Crawford in 1991, but they called it quits four years later.
In February 2000, Carey Lowell, a model and actress, gave birth to Gere’s son, Homer.
Two years later, he and Lowell got married.
The duo got divorced eleven years after that.
In April 2018, Gere got hitched again to the Spanish Activist Alejandra Silva.
She is thirty-four years his junior, and they wanted to start a family of their own despite
Gere’s older age.
Silva announced that she and Richard are expecting a baby in August 2018 with help from the Dalai
Lama.
She posted an Instagram photo of the religious leader sanctifying her baby bump with the
caption, “A very special moment just a few minutes ago…
Getting blessings for our precious to come.”
3 1.
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger was born in Dartford, England in 1943 and is seventy-five years old today.
He is most famous as the lead singer of The Rolling Stones, and is the second member on
our list… remember Ronnie Wood?
Jagger has won three Grammy Awards throughout his career, two in 1994 for Voodoo Lounge
and Love Is Strong and one in 2017 for Blue & Lonesome.
He also has eight kids with five women.
Jagger’s first daughter, Karis, was with Marsha Hunt.
He married Bianca De Macias in 1971, and she gave birth to their child, Jade.
Jagger also has four kids with Jerry Hall.
In 1999, Luciana Gimenez gave birth to his seventh child, Lucas.
He is currently dating Melanie Hamrick, who gave birth to their son Deveraux in December
2016 when Jagger was seventy-three years old.
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