Matt Damon Celebrates Daughter Gia's 18th Birthday at Disneyland
Matt Damon Celebrates Daughter Gia’s 18th Birthday With Family Disneyland Trip
You odyssey how Matt Damon rang in his daughter Gia's 18th birthday.
The Oscar winner and his wife Luciana Barroso Damon brought their entire brood—including kids Alexia, 27, Isabella, 20, and Stella, 15—to Disneyland to mark the special milestone.
And like many families vacationing at the Happiest Place on Earth, the couple matched with their daughters in custom Disney-themed T-shirts reading "Birthday Crew," while Gia donned a special tee featuring Minnie Mouse ears that read "Birthday Girl."
Sporting baseball caps and sunglasses, the group was all smiles as they checked out the new Halloween Time decorations in the theme park's Main Street, U.S.A.
And the magical trip was a well-deserved break for Damon, who had largely spent the last month journeying across the globe to promote The Odyssey. Luckily, he was accompanied by family at some of the events.
“It’s great because they had to sacrifice a lot, too, for this," he told People at the Christopher Nolan epic's July 7 premiere. “I went away for a while, they came and visited, but it was a lot. It was a very long movie, very grueling shoot."
Especially since his oldest now also has a busy schedule due to her work as a cinematographer.
"She's done about 12 movies,” Damon raved to E! News last month "[She’s] worked on the camera team all over the world.”
So, does that mean his younger girls are planning to follow his footsteps into the film industry? “The other three might," the 55-year-old shared. "I have one who's at NYU now, who's a fantastic writer, so I could see her following me into screenwriting. And we have two still in high school, so we'll see."
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Damon is a pretty relaxed dad when it comes to his daughters' dating life as well. As he told E! in a separate interview in July, "I'm pretty kind."
But while his kids have "very wonderful tastes" in partners, the Jason Bourne alum noted that he will wage war if needed. In fact, he has the same approach as Sean Penn, who once made a veiled threat to his daughter Dylan Penn's childhood boyfriend before their date.
"My favorite line that I've ever seen was Sean Penn's," Damon quipped, before quoting the One Battle After Another star's 2015 interview on The Graham Norton Show, "'Whatever you do to her, I'm gonna do to you when you get home.'"
For a closer look at Damon's family through the years, read on.
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July 2004
Of course proud Bostonite Matt Damon took his future wife Luciana Barroso out to a ball game while they were dating.
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December 2005
Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Damon as the newlyweds stepped out in New York City.
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March 2010
Barroso didn't know him when (he and Ben Affleck won Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting in 1998), but they've had plenty of date nights at the Oscars since.
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July 2021
The NYC Stillwater premiere was a multigenerational affair, Damon bringing Alexia, mom Nancy Carlsson-Paige and her husband Doug Kline as his guests.
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March 2023
Don't worry, Damon, your dad jokes at the Air premiere are nothing but net.
July 2023
Stella, Gia and Alexia enjoyed a très chic outing to the Oppenheimer premiere in Paris.
May 2025
So long as Damon came home from shooting The Odyssey, Barroso didn't mind that he came home with Odysseus' beard.
February 2026
Ben Affleck's family too and of course he and Barroso get along famously, here at the L.A. premiere of Crime 101.
May 2024
In lieu of retro wedding photos, may we present Damon and Barroso enjoying a fairy tale night at the Met Gala.
January 2026
Alexia and Isabella huddled up with Mom and Dad at the premiere of Netflix's The Rip.
July 2026
Damon beamed with pride surrounded by his favorite women in the world at The Odyssey premiere in London July 6.
July 2026
With two kids having left the nest so far, Damon knows not to take father-daughter moments like this, as he and Isabella head to the NYC premiere of The Odyssey on July 14, for granted.
July 2026
What a journey, but Damon was officially the happiest guy at Lincoln Center.
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