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Lucifer Actor Tom Ellis and Wife Meaghan Oppenheimer Welcome First Child Together Via Surrogate

"Dolly Ellis-Oppenheimer, born on November 8th, is Ellis’s first child with Oppenheimer and his fourth daughter overall, Ellis adds additional dad humor to announcement suggesting newborn swiftly ended recent SAG strike."

  • Lucifer actor Tom Ellis, 44, and his wife, screenwriter Meaghan Oppenheimer, 37, recently welcomed their first child together, a baby girl named Dolly Ellis-Oppenheimer, who was born via a surrogate mother.
  • Ellis humorously suggested in his Instagram announcement that their newborn daughter played a role in ending the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike, as it ended the same day of her birth.
  • Ellis and Oppenheimer have been together since 2015, got engaged in 2017, and tied the knot in a lakeside ceremony in 2019, which was attended by multiple Lucifer co-stars.
  • Apart from Dolly, Ellis is also a father to daughters Nora, 18, from a previous relationship, and Florenece, 15 and Marnie, 11, with his ex-wife Tamzin Outhwaite. This marks Dolly as Oppenheimer's first child and Ellis' fourth daughter.
  • Despite his success as an actor, Ellis' children are not particularly interested in his career, he finds this amusing and affirms they are his biggest fans when he's their father, not the actor.
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