Forest Whitaker is one dynamic dad!
The Godfather of Harlem star, 63, attended the 2024 Faces of Hope Gala on Friday, Sept. 27, when he was joined by his two daughters, Sonnet, 27, and True, 26, whom he shared together with his late ex-wife, Keisha Nash.
Whitaker had an identical second with True, because the father-daughter pair each donned modern black outfits. The actor wore a tuxedo with a bow tie, whereas True wore a silk robe with a lace bodice. She matched the gown with a black purse, black heels and a darkish crimson lip.
As for Sonnet, she opted for a softer look in a pink gown with silver sequins and feather sleeves. She held a silver purse to match and wore pink eyeshadow and a light-weight crimson lip.
Whitaker posed for images with an arm round every of his daughters. Sonnet and her look-a-like father could possibly be seen grinning broadly, whereas True shot a small smile on the digital camera.
The household’s look on the occasion got here a number of months after Nash’s funeral in January. Whitaker, Sonnet and True beforehand attended the celebration of life ceremony alongside Nash’s elder daughter Autumn, whom she had from a earlier relationship.
A number of celebrities together with John Travolta and Stevie Wonder additionally stopped by to pay their respects.
True confirmed her mother’s death on the age of 51 on Dec. 6 by an Instagram Tales submit that featured a black-and-white photograph of Nash. It was later decided that Nash died resulting from alcoholic liver illness.
“Goodbye mommy. I really like you 4ever and past,” she wrote. “Probably the most stunning girl on this planet … thanks for instructing me each single factor I do know. I will see you in my goals and I will really feel you in my coronary heart.”
Whitaker and Nash first met on the set of the 1994 movie Blown Away after she was forged to play his character’s girlfriend, in line with CBS News. Whitaker proposed the next 12 months, and the couple married in 1996 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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The pair finally divorced in 2018 after 22 years of marriage, with Whitaker citing irreconcilable variations on the time.