Meet Hugh Jackman’s 18-year-old adopted daughter, Ava Jackman: the Wolverine actor and his ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness share 2 kids – and low-key Ava just went on a rare public outing with dad
Hugh Jackman was just spotted with his rarely seen daughter Ava in New York City, according to British media.
The Aussie actor, 55, and his 18-year-old daughter wore matching blue outfits and trainers for their outing over the weekend, writes the source.
Here’s what we do know about her.
Hugh Jackman adopted Ava Jackman in 2005
After welcoming Oscar into their lives, Jackman and Furness decided to grow their family by adopting a baby girl, Ava, in 2005, per People.
Per Jackman’s interview with the publication, the couple always knew they were going to adopt. “Our motivation behind adopting was, ‘Where is the need?’” he said. “And we just knew from talking with people in that space, when we were looking around, that the biggest need is in mixed-race kids.”
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She has Mexican lineage
According to Furness’ interview with People, their daughter has Mexican roots.
“My daughter has a Mexican lineage, so we’ve been to Mexico,” she said. “What I’m very interested in is epigenetics, and it’s even more so when you have adopted children because I’m coming from my lineage of my mother, how she parented me, how her mother parented her, and I’m translating that to my children,” she added. “But my children also have a separate lineage. So it’s almost like we have more players at the table.”
Furness added, “We completely embrace the ancestors and the extended family; they’re family to us. And it’s in there, even though it’s generational. It may be subtle, but it’s in there.”
Her dad has some “strict dating rules”
The Wolverine actor is a protective papa! In 2023, a source told Woman’s Day that Jackman had set some “strict dating rules” as his daughter entered her last year of high school.
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Why did Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness get divorced?
After being together for nearly three decades, Jackman and Furness announced their shock split last year. ET reports that there was “no animosity” between the pair and that they were simply “both on different pages and in separate chapters of their lives”.
- Jackman was just spotted with his rarely seen daughter Ava in New York City – they wore matching blue outfits and sneakers for their outing over the weekend
- The Hollywood actor and his now-former-wife Deborra-Lee Furness, who he was married to for 27 years, have long kept their 2 children – Ava and Oscar – away from the public eye