Natalie Portman is a mother of three. The 45-year-old actress quietly gave birth last month in Paris, a source close to the family told PEOPLE, welcoming her first child with partner Tanguy Destable — a French musician and producer who performs under the stage name Tepr. Portman and Destable haven't released a name, a birth date, or even confirmed the baby's sex, which tracks with how carefully the couple has guarded this relationship from the moment it became public.

Key Points

  • The Oscar winner gave birth in Paris last month, PEOPLE confirms, five months after she told Harper's Bazaar the pregnancy felt like "a privilege and a miracle." It's her first baby with French musician Tanguy Destable, and her third overall.
  • Natalie Portman is a mother of three.
  • The 45-year-old actress quietly gave birth last month in Paris, a source close to the family told PEOPLE, welcoming her first child with partner Tanguy Destable — a French musician and producer who performs under the stage name Tepr.

A pregnancy she called "a privilege and a miracle"

Portman first spoke about the pregnancy in April, telling Harper's Bazaar that "Tanguy and I are very excited," and that she felt grateful, aware of how many people close to her had struggled to get to this point. She's the daughter of a fertility doctor, and she made a point of saying she wanted to be respectful of that history rather than treat her own pregnancy as something ordinary. It was a rare bit of candor from someone who, by her own admission, has "no desire" to feed the speculation that tends to follow her personal life — a line she used in a 2024 Vanity Fair interview when asked directly about her divorce.

How the relationship became public

Portman's romance with Destable first surfaced in March 2025, when the French outlet Voici linked the two, roughly a year after Portman's divorce from choreographer Benjamin Millepied was finalized. The split followed reports of an affair on Millepied's part and had been years in the making by the time it was official; the two had married in 2012 after meeting on the set of "Black Swan" and share son Aleph, now 15, and daughter Amalia, 9. Destable, for his part, was previously married to French actress Louise Bourgoin, with whom he has two sons. He's spent two decades in the French electronic scene — first with the group Abstrackt Keal Agram, later as part of Yelle, and since 2015 as a solo artist — and picked up a film-scoring credit on "I'm Still Here," the drama that won the Oscar for Best International Feature in 2025.

Sightings of the couple have been rare and mostly incidental. In one, from June, paparazzi caught Destable carrying a suitcase through Paris in an Angel City FC jacket — a nod to the NWSL club Portman co-founded in 2020, whose ownership group also includes Eva Longoria, Jessica Chastain, and Jennifer Garner. It was a small detail, but it said more about the relationship than either of them had said publicly at that point: this wasn't a fling, it was someone folding himself into her life.

Coverage of the birth also draws on reporting from TMZ, Just Jared, and The Express Tribune.