Robert De Niro looked like he was on cloud nine in a sweet new photo of himself with his daughter Gia.
The 80-year-old acting legend snuggled up to his adorable 10-month-old daughter in a new photo taken at home.
The Taxi Driver star even realized that he sees “a lot of similarity” between his youngest daughter and himself when he was her age, he said People on Wednesday.
The connection was undeniable when compared to photographs of himself as a young child with his father, the abstract expressionist painter Robert De Niro Sr., of whom he would later be the spitting image.
He was clearly taking it easy for some quality family time with the child he shares with partner Tiffany Chen, 45.
Robert De Niro looked like he was on cloud nine in a sweet new photo of himself with his daughter Gia. The 80-year-old acting legend snuggled up to his adorable 10-month-old daughter in a new photo taken at home
He shares Gia with his partner Tiffany Chen, 45. The couple keeps a low profile and only made their public debut in 2021; seen on January 4 in Palm Springs, California.
And despite some critics who have slammed De Niro and other longtime dads, like his friend Al Pacino, for having children so late in life, the Goodfellas actor chose to enjoy the “joy” his daughter brings him.
‘He’s such a cute baby. So sweet,” he said of the adorable toddler. “(When I) look at her, everything else disappears. So it’s a great joy and relief to just be with her in the moment.”
He added that his other children “all get a kick out of her.”
‘The grandchildren even. She’s their aunt – (and) they’re about to become teenagers!’ he joked.
De Niro moved on with his current love Tiffany in the wake of his 2018 divorce from his second wife, Grace Hightower.
The two had met years earlier, in 2015, when Chen, a martial arts instructor, had filmed a small role for his comedy The Intern, starring Anne Hathaway.
However, it wasn’t until 2021 that Robert and Tiffany were spotted together in public.
The couple has been noticeably quiet, saying almost nothing about their relationship, possibly in hopes of avoiding the publicity that followed his latest divorce.
When he revealed he had welcomed his new daughter last May, he didn’t even reveal who her mother was.
De Niro wasn’t even the first person to reveal Gia’s mother; instead, it was his About My Father costar Kim Cattrall who spilled the beans in an interview.
Despite their secretive ways, all seems to be going well between the Casino star and his latest love, who is regularly by his side at film festivals and high-profile public events.
The Taxi Driver star realized he sees “a lot of similarity” between his youngest daughter and himself when he was her age, he told People on Wednesday; pictured with his father, Robert De Niro Sr.
He and Chen met in 2015 when Chen, a martial arts instructor, had a small role in his comedy The Intern; seen in May 2023 in Cap d’Antibes, France
De Niro now has seven children. His eldest daughter, Drena, whom he adopted from his first wife Diahnne Abbott’s previous marriage, is old enough at 52 to be Gia’s grandmother; seen in 2016
He and Abbott later welcomed son Raphael, 47, who became a successful real estate agent; pictured with second wife Grace Hightower in 2004 in New York
De Niro shares twins Julian and Aaron, 28, with girlfriend Toukie Smith, and he and Hightower later welcomed their son Elliot, 25, and daughter Helen Grace, 12 (pictured in 2019)
Gia is the seventh child for De Niro, whose eldest, daughter Drena, is old enough to be Gia’s grandmother.
Drena, 52, was born in 1971 and is the eldest child of Diahnne Abbott, the actor’s first wife and her previous husband, but De Niro adopted her when he married Abbott in 1976.
De Niro’s family suffered tragedy when Leandro, the son of his model and film producer, died of an accidental overdose in 2023 at just 19 years old.
Robert and his wife Diahnne later welcomed their son Raphael, 47, who has become a successful real estate agent and has given his parents three grandchildren.
Following his divorce from Abbott in 1988, De Niro began dating Toukie Smith that same year, and in 1995 they welcomed twin sons, Julian and Aaron, 28.
Julian was the public face of the sons by making a name for himself as an actor in recent years, but Aaron was much more reclusive and little is known about him.
De Niro then married his second wife Grace Hightower in 1997, and the following year they welcomed their son Elliot, 25, who the actor later revealed had autism.
Before baby Gia arrived, De Niro’s youngest daughter was 12-year-old Helen Grace, whom he and Hightower welcomed via surrogate in 2011.
He shared with People that although Helen, he bore an especially strong resemblance to him as a child.
De Niro is doing his best to remain an active father, and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down on the acting front either.
His latest reunion with his long-time collaborator Martin Scorsese for Killers Of The Flower Moon earned the film star an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Just as De Niro hasn’t slowed down with his family, he’s keeping busy after receiving critical acclaim for his role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon
De Niro won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing a corrupt cattle baron who schemes to kill Osage Nation members to steal their oil money; pictured with Leonardo DiCaprio
The film, based on the non-fiction book of the same name, tells about a crime wave in the 1920s and 1930s in which numerous members of the Osage Nation were murdered.
The tribe had discovered oil on land it had been pushed onto by white settlers decades earlier, making its members extravagantly wealthy, but their white neighbors then began a campaign to intermarry with the Osage before killing them to gain their wealth inherit.
Other tribe members were placed under corrupt conservatorship, allowing the white people who oversaw their finances to skim from them.
De Niro stars as cattle baron William King Hale, a major mastermind behind the criminal plot.
