Robert De Niro looked as if he was on cloud nine in a sweet new photo of himself with his baby daughter Gia.
The 80-year-old acting legend nuzzled up against his adorable 10-month-old daughter in a new picture snapped 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 told People on Wednesday.
The connection was undeniable when compared with photos of himself as a young child with his father, the abstract expressionist painter Robert De Niro Sr., whom he would later be the spitting image of.
He was clearly taking it easy for some quality family time with the child he shares with his partner Tiffany Chen, 45.
Robert De Niro looked as if he was on cloud nine in a sweet new photo of himself with his baby daughter Gia. The 80-year-old acting legend nuzzled up against his adorable 10-month-old daughter in a new picture snapped at home
He shares Gia with his partner Tiffany Chen, 45. The couple keep a low profile and only made their public debut in 2021; seen January 4 in Palm Springs, Calif.
And despite some critics who have lambasted De Niro and other old fathers like his friend Al Pacino for having children so late in life, the Goodfellas actor was choosing to revel in the ‘joy’ that his daughter brings him.
‘She’s such an adorable baby. So sweet,’ he said of the cute tot. ‘[When I] look at her, everything else goes away. 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 grandkids even. She’s their aunt — [and] they’re about to be teenagers!’ he joked.
The two had met years before in 2015, when Chen, who is a martial arts instructor, had filmed a small part for his comedy The Intern, which costarred Anne Hathaway.
However, it wasn’t until 2021 that Robert and Tiffany were spotted together in public.
The couple have been remarkably muted and have said almost nothing about their relationship, possibly in hopes of avoiding the publicity that followed with his latest divorce.
In fact, when he revealed in May of last year that he had welcomed his new daughter, he didn’t even share 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, things seem 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 that 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 part in his comedy The Intern; seen in May 2023 in Cap d’Antibes, France
De Niro now has seven children. His oldest daughter, Drena, whom he adopted from his first wife Diahnne Abbott’s previous marriage, is old enough to be Gia’s grandmother at 52; 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 NYC
De Niro shares twins Julian and Aaron, 28, with his 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 oldest, daughter Drena, is old enough to be Gia’s grandmother.
Drena, 52, was born in 1971 and is the oldest child of the actor’s first wife Diahnne Abbott and her previous husband, but De Niro adopted her when he married Abbott in 1976.
De Niro’s family suffered a tragedy when his model-turned-film producer daughter’s son Leandro died in 2023 at just 19 from an accidental overdose.
Robert and his wife Diahnne later welcomed their son Raphael, 47, who has become a successful real estate agent and gave his parents three grandchildren.
Following his 1988 divorce from Abbott, De Niro began dating Toukie Smith the same year, and they welcomed twin sons, Julian and Aaron, 28, in 1995.
Julian has been the public face of the sons by making a name for himself as an actor in recent years, but Aaron has been far more reclusive and little is known about him.
De Niro subsequently married his second wife Grace Hightower in 1997, and the following year they welcomed their son Elliot, 25, whom the actor later revealed had autism.
Prior to baby Gia’s arrival, De Niro’s youngest daughter was 12-year-old Helen Grace, whom he and and Hightower welcomed via surrogate in 2011.
He shared with People that he also though Helen bore a particularly 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 when it comes to acting either.
His latest reunion with his longtime collaborator Martin Scorsese for Killers Of The Flower Moon earned the screen star an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor.
Just as De Niro hasn’t slowed down with his family, he’s staying busy after earning acclaim for his role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon
De Niro earned a best supporting actor Oscar nod for playing a corrupt cattle baron who schemes to murder Osage Nation members to steal their oil money; pictured with Leonardo DiCaprio
The film, based on the non-fiction book of the same name, recounts a crime spree in the 1920s and ’30s when numerous members of the Osage Nation were murdered.
The tribe had discovered oil on the land it was pushed onto by white settlers decades earlier, making its members extravagantly wealthy, but their white neighbors then began a campaign to marry the Osage before murdering them to inherit their riches.
Other tribe members were put under corrupt conservatorships, allowing the white people overseeing their finances to skim from them.
De Niro stars as the cattle baron William King Hale, who is a major mastermind of the criminal plot.
