- Jude Law, 53, is the father of seven children: Rafferty, Iris and Rudy from his marriage to Sadie Frost, Sophia from a brief relationship with model Samantha Burke, Ada with singer-songwriter Catherine Harding, and two unnamed children with his current wife, psychologist Phillipa Coan
- Iris Law made her Victoria’s Secret runway debut at the brand’s 2025 Fashion Show in Brooklyn, walking in a confident, sporty look that stopped the show and confirmed she is no longer just her father’s daughter but a star entirely in her own right
- Rafferty Law appeared in the Apple TV+ miniseries Masters of the Air in 2024, and has further projects lined up, including the Amazon series Kill Jackie, slated for 2026, rapidly building a Hollywood career that goes well beyond trading on his famous surname
Jude Law has played a hitman, a con artist, a young Dumbledore, a Watson, and a pirate captain. He has been one of the most talked-about actors in Hollywood for three decades. But the most complicated, most layered, most quietly dramatic role of his entire life has nothing to do with any screenplay. It is the one he has been playing since 1996, when a baby boy named Rafferty was placed in his arms, and everything changed.
Seven children. Four different women. One marriage he is still in. Two kids whose names he has never told the public. And a family tree so sprawling, so genuinely interesting, that you could follow any single branch of it and find a story worth telling.
So let us tell all of them.
The Three Who Started It All: Rafferty, Iris and Rudy
Jude Law and actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost met on the set of the 1994 film Shopping, married in 1997, and divorced in 2003, having three children during the course of their relationship. Three children in six years. Three children who grew up in North London, with famous parents, famous friends, and the whole of British celebrity culture swirling around them from birth.
Rafferty “Raff” Jellicoe Frost Law was born on October 6, 1996, in Westminster, London. He is the eldest, the one everyone talks about when they want to discuss how good-looking Jude Law’s genes are, and the one who has quietly and determinedly built something of his own. He walked for DKNY while still a teenager, landed his first magazine cover at 19, and walked for Dolce and Gabbana during Milan Fashion Week. And then he acted. He landed a starring role in the Apple TV+ miniseries Masters of the Air in 2024, playing Sgt. Ken Lemmons in the World War II drama alongside Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan. He has further work in post-production, including the Amazon series Kill Jackie, and appeared in the 2026 film How to Make a Killing.
In an interview about Masters of the Air, Raff said of his dad, “He’s just happy to see me becoming a young man that he’s proud to call his son.” Seven words that quietly say everything about what it costs to grow up as the son of a global film star, and what it means to finally earn that pride on your own terms.
Then there is Iris. Iris Tallulah Elizabeth Law was born on October 25, 2000, in Santa Monica and grew up between her parents’ North London houses in Primrose Hill and Highgate. Her godmother is British supermodel Kate Moss. Read that again. Her godmother is Kate Moss. And somehow, Iris has managed to carve a career that does not lean on that detail nearly as much as it could.
Her modelling career began with a photoshoot for a brand called Illustrated People, after which she was contacted by an agent and chosen by Christopher Bailey to be the face of Burberry’s beauty campaign. She has since appeared in campaigns for Marc Jacobs, La Perla, Stella McCartney, Lacoste, Calvin Klein, and Versace. In October 2025, she walked in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Brooklyn, making her debut as a VS Angel in a confident, sporty look that included boyshorts with silver trim and a cropped tee, with her platinum blonde pixie cut turning every head on the runway.
She also acts. Iris has taped auditions with her father, telling the Evening Standard, “He gives me great tips. But more generally, I’ve been brought up with morals, not necessarily to do with acting, but for life. I’ve always been told to be polite, to be on time, to be attentive, to work really hard.” She appeared in the Hulu miniseries Pistol and the film I’ve Been Trying to Tell You. With a range of new projects on the slate for 2026, she has stepped into a new era entirely.
And then there is Rudy. Rudy Indiana Otis Law was born on September 10, 2002, and is the youngest of Jude’s children with Sadie Frost. He rarely posts on social media, but in January 2025, he shared a series of photos on Instagram with the caption “Keep your head up,” two of which showed his siblings Iris and Raff. “Legend,” Iris commented on the post. A single word. But from Iris, it landed like a whole paragraph. He took a small acting step with a role in the 2023 short film Into the Pass. Quietly, on his own schedule, he is finding his way.
Sophia: The Daughter Growing Up in Florida
Here is where the story gets more complicated, and more human.
Jude Law and model Samantha Burke met in 2008 while he was filming Sherlock Holmes in New York City. They were never officially a couple. When news of Samantha’s pregnancy surfaced, Jude’s representative issued a statement confirming he was to be the father, and that while he was no longer in a relationship with the individual concerned, he intended to be a fully supportive part of the child’s life. It was the kind of statement that is technically fine and yet somehow says so much.
Sophia Law was born on September 22, 2009. Burke’s representative told PEOPLE at the time, “Samantha Burke is overwhelmed with joy at the arrival of her beautiful and healthy baby girl. The baby and mom are doing wonderful.” Jude met Sophia when she was five months old, after a paternity test, and agreed to pay $6,000 per month in child support until she turns 18. Sophia and her mother live in Florida, and Jude reportedly does not see them often, but friends say she greatly resembles her father. She is 16 years old now, growing up largely out of the public eye, in a sunshine state far from the North London world her older siblings inhabit.
Ada: The One Who Looks Exactly Like Him
Ada Law was born on March 15, 2015, to Jude and singer-songwriter Catherine Harding, who dated for around seven months before their separation. Catherine told The Mirror shortly after Ada was born, “She looks like Jude massively, she doesn’t look like me.” She also said, with the kind of warmth that makes you exhale with relief, that Jude is a great dad. “Jude is really funny and sweet,” she told The Mirror. “I remember last week he came over and he had to change her on the park bench. He cleaned her all up.”
Something is endearing about the image of one of Hollywood’s most debonair leading men on a park bench, sorting out a napkin. Catherine has also described Ada as a “born performer” from a young age. Given her parents, nobody is remotely surprised.
In April 2025, Ada stepped out at the premiere of the Amazon reality series Married to the Game alongside her mother, Catherine’s footballer husband Jorginho, and her younger half-brother Jax. She is ten years old and already walking red carpets. The performer in her is clearly not waiting around.
The Two We Will Probably Never Know
And finally, the two children nobody knows anything about. Not their names. Not their genders. Not a single public detail beyond the fact that they exist and that their parents love them fiercely and privately.
Jude married psychologist Phillipa Coan in April 2019 in a surprise London ceremony. They have since welcomed two children, the first in 2020 and the second in early 2023. Jude announced the birth of his sixth child during a virtual Tonight Show appearance in September 2020, saying casually, “Oh, on top of gardening, I had a baby, so there you go.” He later added, “We feel pretty blessed that we were in a time where we could, as a family, just nest and enjoy each other’s company every day as it came.”
That is it. That is all anyone has ever been told. Jude and Phillipa have kept their children entirely out of the spotlight, and their deliberate efforts to maintain privacy highlight their shared commitment to safeguarding family life away from the media glare. In a world where celebrity children are photographed from birth and have Instagram accounts before they can walk, these two are simply children, living quietly, known only to the people who love them most.
There is something quietly radical about that.
Jude Law is 53 years old, a father seven times over, married to a woman who has helped him build something steady and private after years of very public messiness. Rafferty is building a Hollywood career on his own merit. Iris is walking Victoria’s Secret runways and stepping into new acting eras. Rudy is keeping his head up, on his own timeline. Sophia is 16 in Florida, looking like her dad. Ada is ten years old and already a born performer. And somewhere in London, two children are growing up with no idea how famous their father is, which is precisely the point.
Seven children. One family. And a story that is still very much being written.
