Highlights
- Damon prioritizes giving his daughters a normal upbringing despite his fame, believing travel helps mitigate the challenges of privilege.
- The Damon family made rare red-carpet appearances, with Damon and Luciana instilling values of gratitude and humility in their daughters.
- Damon’s daughters grew up on film sets, with personal anecdotes revealing the family’s close bond and unique experiences in Hollywood.
Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso, are parents to four daughters: Alexia, Isabella, Gia, and Stella. Three of his daughters are from his marriage to Luciana, while Alexia was four when her mother met the actor.
Despite being famous for nearly thirty years, Damon likes to keep his family life away from the press. He and his wife Luciana explained how hard they worked to give the four girls a normal upbringing. “They’re growing up with so much more s**t than we have,” he mused. “I do feel like travel does mitigate that.”
Recently, the Damon family has made rare red-carpet appearances, including appearing at the March 2023 Los Angeles premiere of Air and a July 2023 screening of Oppenheimer.
In the following, we take a look at how Matt Damon raises his daughters, Gia, Isabella and Stella out of the spotlight. We also cover how he met his wife and gained a stepdaughter, Alexia, and what Matt Damon’s daughters think about his acting career.
Matt Damon’s Daughters Aren’t Often Exposed To The Perks Hollywood
Matt Damon And His Wife, Luciana, Want To Instill Gratitude Into Their Daughters
Matt Damon explained in 2017 how he deals with the free gifts his daughters have received over the years. “They don’t need anything. So we send everything on to people who need it.”
“This is the life we’re giving them. It’s hard to figure out how to try to give them perspective.”
He also believed it was important for his daughters to express gratitude for their lavish lifestyle, but admitted it was not always the easiest. “My kids are growing up with so much more privilege than I had. And I don’t think — I’m not sure how to get that across,”
The Talented Mr Ripley star said, “In terms of awareness of the environment, they do get a lot of that in school. That’s in the consciousness of the generations coming behind us.”
Matt Damon’s Daughters Grew Up On Sets Of His Movies, Though
Matt Damon’s three daughters and stepdaughter grew up on film sets around him. Although he wants to shield them from the press, he wants them to experience life on set. “Every decision to make a movie is really up to the family,” Damon told the “Kyle & Jackie O Show.” “If it’s going to be too disruptive, I just can’t do it.”
His daughter was a baby when he started to film The Bourne Ultimatum in Europe. The actor found himself hanging out in his trailer, because his daughter kept him awake in the hotel. In the end, it helped the role, as director Paul Greengrass liked Damon’s “characterization of Bourne” being haggard and tired as it looked like he was in “some kind of existential pain.”
Gia was a toddler when she joined her famous Dad on the set of True Grit in New Mexico, where she loved to see the horses. The whole family also traveled to South Africa, where Damon filmed the biopic Invictus. They got to meet the late leader, Nelson Mandela, who bounced the children on his knee.
“Isabella and Gia couldn’t take their eyes off him,” he explained. “They just were looking at each other, completely locked on each other the entire time.”
How Matt Damon Met His Wife, Luciana and Stepdaughter Alexia
Matt Damon met his wife Luciana Barroso in 2003, when filming Stuck on You in Miami. “I literally saw her across a crowded room, literally,” he recalled. “Eight years and four kids later, that’s my life.”
Though she said the couple “definitely had a connection right away,” she turned him down because she was the mother of a four-year-old daughter.
“He said: ‘I love that you’re a mum and that’s your priority.’ Some guys might have been different, they might think it’s complicated, but for him it wasn’t.”
Barroso was working at the time as a bartender, and when fans began swarming Damon for photos and autographs, he hid behind the bar. She explained to Australian Vogue. “He says, ‘Oh I saw you and I really wanted to talk to you.’” Rather than being starstruck, she “put him to work with me,” forcing the actor to mix drinks with her.
In a 2011 interview with Parade, Damon said he “jumped into the deep end” with his wife and new stepdaughter. “I mean, Alexia was already 4. I was an extra dad,” the actor explained.
“The only way I can describe it — it sounds stupid, but — at the end of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas,’ you know how his heart grows, like, five times its size? Everything is full; it’s just full all the time.”
What Matt Damon’s Daughters Think Of His Career
Matt Damon’s teenage daughter Isabella refuses to watch her famous father’s films just in case they are “good.” Despite being in some of the most successful movies of all time, his family is not so keen on watching them.
While her digs at his filmography are all done in jest, the Oppenheimer actor admits they help him stay grounded. “She keeps my feet firmly on the ground.”
Damon describes his eldest biological daughter as “one of the funniest” people he has ever met. “If the reviews come out, and they’re terrible, then she’ll watch it,” Matt told E! News in 2021. “If they come out, and they’re good, she’s going to pass … She’s looking for ammunition all the time.”
“It’s total resistance,” the Ford v Ferrari actor explained in 2019 in regards to sharing his work with his children. “I am kind of trying to force them, it’s not working. I’m like, ‘Are you sure you don’t want to see Good Will Hunting? You know your dad and Uncle Ben [Affleck] wrote it, right?’ ‘Yeah, Dad, I know.’ It’s like, ‘Nope.’ “
He did explain his shock at the movies his daughters choose to watch. “You know what they did see is The Martian, which was odd, I never was going to show it to them because I felt like it was kind of a movie for [adults],” The Great Wall actor explained. “But their classmates had seen it and so other parents at the school were saying, ‘Oh my daughter loved it.’”
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