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Robert De Niro, father again at 79: What other actors have had children at an old age?
In a recent interview for an upcoming film, the not-so spring chicken revealed the birth of his seventh child but he’s not the oldest new dad in Hollywood.
Robert De Niro has a huge number of accomplishments in his life. He has won oscars, starred in over 100 films, and received medals from presidents. And now he might have added another; becoming the oldest father in Hollywood right now.
De Niro was speaking to ET Canada in an interview for his new film, ‘About My Father’, and the interviewer Brittnee Blair asked him about fatherhood.
At one point Blair said, “I know you have six kids-,” before De Niro corrected her, saying, “Seven, actually. I just had a baby.”
The identity of the mother is currently unknown. Likewise, the name of the baby is not yet known, though they will join siblings as old as 51.
The oldest celebrity fathers
British singer Mick Jagger was 73 when he had his eighth child, Deveraux Octavian Basil, with ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick back in 2016..
Alec Baldwin has had eight children with his wife Hilaria with Ilaria Catalina Irena the youngest. She was born in September 2022 in the midst of her father’s manslaughter trial at the age of 64.
Rod Stewart is a Scottish singer who has had eight children over a 48-year period. His most recent is Aiden Patrick, born in 2011 when Sir Rod was 66.
Charlie Chaplin was well known for dating women much younger than himself, meeting his last wife Oona O’Neill when he was 54 and she was 18.
They had eight children together with the last, Christopher, being born when Charlie was 73 years old.