Matt Damon he is a proud father his four daughters with the woman Luciana Barroso.
“I used to be a true (believer) in this nature-nature argument, but now I’m like nature (is) a thing,” Damon said in “New Heights.” podcast in January 2026. “Your children appear (with) this spirit, this soul is there and will do what it will do.”
He continued: “The parenting part is so important, you’re going to help with that, but they really are who they are, like, right away. As they get older, you still see in their childish phrase, you still see them as them (young people).”
Damon married Barroso, who was already mother of daughter Alexia from a previous relationship, in 2005 when Alexia was 6 years old. Damon and Barroso welcomed three daughters together: Isabella, Gia and Stella.
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Luciana Barroso
The Oscar winner he met his wife nowLuciana Barroso, in 2003 while filming stuck to you.
“I was working as a bartender in South Beach, and he was shooting a movie there and the crew ended up at the bar on a Saturday night,” Barroso recalled. Vogue in 2018. “Matt’s story is that he saw me across the room and there was a light on me. And I was like, ‘Yeah, it was a nightclub, there were lights everywhere!’
She continued: “He’s like, ‘Oh, I saw you and I really wanted to talk to you.’ I put him to work with me. I said, ‘You know, if you’re going to come back here, you can’t stay there!’ He had trained as a bartender for a movie years before, so he started making drinks and made me a lot of money in tips that night, because of course everyone wanted to go see him.”
Alexia Barroso
Damon met his wife’s eldest daughter, Alexia Barroso, when she was a child.
“I jumped in at the deep end. I mean, Alexia was already 4 (when we met). I was an extra parent,” he said. Rip said the star parade in 2011. “The only way I can describe it: It sounds stupid, but in the end How the Grinch Stole Christmasdo you know how his heart grows, five times its size? Everything is full. It’s full all the time.”
Alexia even made a cameo in Damon’s 2011 film We bought a zoo.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 31: (L-R) Alexia Barroso, Isabella Damon, Gia Damon, Matt Damon, Luciana Barroso and Stella Damon attend the New York premiere of Apple Original Films’ “The Instigators” at Jazz at Lincoln Center on July 31, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesIsabella Damon
Matt and Barroso welcomed daughter Isabella Damon in June 2011. He graduated from high school in 2024, and later enrolled at New York University.
“It’s a surreal moment and how it works in your life, the older you get, because it feels like I was taking it yesterday,” Damon said. And! news in September 2024 to prepare for Isabella to leave home. “She’s like one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. She’s so cute.”
Gia Damon
Barroso gave birth to daughter Gia Damon in August 2008.
“My daughter broke her collarbone and she was getting ready for school this morning. She’s 17 years old and she asked me to brush her hair,” Matt recalled on the “New Heights” podcast in January 2026. “I brushed her hair and, man, I haven’t brushed her hair in … eight (or) nine years.”
Stella Damon
Matt and Barroso completed their family when daughter Stella Damon arrived in October 2010.