Matt Damon Brings His Wife Luciana and Their Four Daughters to the Odyssey Premiere, a Rare Star Move That Keeps His Family a Secret
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By Jerome London
All four daughters came out with him: Alexia, 26, Isabella, 19, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15, and his wife Luciana.
Damon attended the London premiere of “The Odyssey” on July 6 with his entire family lined up next to him on the carpet: Luciana, 49, and their daughters Alexia, Isabella, Gia, and Stella. He was wearing a gray three-piece suit with a blue shirt and tie; Luciana went with a black gown with piping detail and a chic updo, and the girls appeared in floor-length dresses.
The story of how they got here is the part Damon likes to tell. Luciana was a divorced single mother living in Miami in 2003 when she came out from behind her bar to hide from fans during the shooting of Stuck on You. He immediately put the movie star to work and washed the glasses. He once called her his “citizen” wife and credited her for keeping their lives grounded.
“I jumped at the end with Lucy. I mean, Alexia was four years old already. I was more of a dad,” he told Parade. He welcomed Alexia, Luciana’s daughter from his first marriage, when the couple married in 2005, and had Isabella, Gia and Stella. All four daughters’ names are tattooed on her upper right arm, next to “Lucy.”
Luciana, who was born in Salta, Argentina, has taken producer credits on her projects, including “The Rip” earlier this year. The couple has a rule that they cannot be separated for more than two weeks when he is working.
Full family rugs are rare for a reason. Damon is very protective of the girls’ privacy, and the last time all six went out together was the premiere of “The Rip” in January. His feelings about how fast it all happened came out on the New Heights podcast that month. “Don’t blink,” he told Jason Kelce, describing brushing 17-year-old Gia’s hair one morning for the first time in eight or nine years after she broke her collarbone.
Damon plays Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s film, a Greek king whose long journey home from the Trojan War is a battle to return to his wife and son.
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