Robert Pattinson’s daughter can recognize him at any moment.
While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Batman star, 39, revealed that his toddler daughter, 2, clocked him right away despite his nearly unrecognizable look as the villain Scytale in Dune: Part Three.
“She immediately recognized me, which is really strange from the trailer,” he told host Jimmy Kimmel of his daughter, whom he welcomed with Suki Waterhouse, 34, in March 2024. “Yeah, but she like kind of looked at my head and pointed it, and she’s like ‘eggy on the top.’ I was like, ‘Are you saying I look the whole head looks like an egg or is it there’s an egg on top of my head?'”
Waterhouse announced that she and Pattinson were expecting their first baby together during a performance in November 2023. In the months that followed, the “OMG” singer made multiple red-carpet appearances where she was photographed caressing her baby bump. In March 2024, the couple privately welcomed their baby girl, with Waterhouse only announcing the birth weeks later.
Earlier this month, the actress shared a rare photo on her Instagram Stories from her daughter’s Elmo-themed birthday party. In the black-and-white snap, Waterhouse smiled as she crouched next to someone dressed up as Elmo, both looking in the distance at something. Elmo stood next to a large balloon arch decorated with faces of the Sesame Street character and a sign seemingly dedicated to the birthday girl, whose name has not been publicly announced.
“My princess is 2 she’s the light of my life 💘,” Waterhouse captioned the photo.
Back in January, Pattinson spoke with GQ for an interview and was asked when he would begin showing his daughter her parents’ movies.
“Oh, she has seen so many of them already,” he quipped in response.
“If I’m not getting any respect, I’ll be like, ‘Who’s this? Who’s that on the screen?’ And she’s like…[blank stare]. And I’m like, ‘It begins with a D! Ends with a Y!’ ” he told GQ. “She’s watching Mickey-17.”
The actors often keep their family life under wraps, preferring not to share many photos of their daughter, but the couple has shared a few sweet details about their lives as parents.
Speaking with at the premiere of Die My Love, which stars Jennifer Lawrence and Pattinson as new parents, the actor shared that the production of the film coincided with the birth of his daughter, and that allowed him to bring his real-life parenting skills into his new movie.
“My daughter was basically the same age as a child in the movie,” Pattinson said in November 2025. “So you’re kind of going through incredibly similar stuff.”
He added candidly: “You don’t know — no one knows how to do it correctly. I mean, you can just try your best.”
Pattinson also said that he found it “fascinating to be with the parents of the actor baby, actress baby — twins,” referring to the babies appearing in Die My Love. He and those parents had “an entirely different conversation that I would never — you just never think you’d be only talking about, I don’t know, nappies.”