CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 21: Daniella Tarantino (L) and Quentin Tarantino attend the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood After Party at JW Marriott on May 21, 2019 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Antony Jones/Getty Images for Sony Pictures)
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Quentin Tarantino and Wife Daniella Are Parents of a Baby Girl!
The couple welcomed their second child together over the holiday weekend, PEOPLE has exclusively learned.
“Daniella and Quentin Tarantino are pleased to announce that on July 2, 2022, Daniella gave birth to their baby girl, a baby sister to Leo, their first child,” they said in a statement.
The 59-year-old Hollywood director of Once Upon a Time in… and his 38-year-old singer/model wife announced they are expecting their second child in February.
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Daniella, the daughter of Israeli singer-songwriter Tzvika Pick, began dating Quentin after meeting him in 2009 while he was promoting his film Inglorious Basterds. The couple got engaged in June 2017 and married in November 2018. Their son Leo was born in February 2020.
Last year, Quentin spoke during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! He reveals how he and his wife came up with his son’s name – which doesn’t stem from his close friendship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom he worked on Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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“We almost didn’t name him that because people would assume I named him after Leonardo DiCaprio,” he said at the time. “There’s nothing wrong with that, but … he’s named after my wife’s grandfather, but also because he was our little lion in our hearts.”
“So he’s a lion. That’s how we felt about him,” added the Oscar winner.