One daughter, two twin sons, and a toddler in front of a television set who redirected twenty years of her mother’s working life

Geena Davis’ 3 Kids: Alizeh, Kaiis and Kian Jarrahy

Abstract KidsCo editorial graphic showing three named panels for Geena Davis’s children with birth dates and dated ages, drawn without using likenesses.
Alizeh, Kaiis and Kian Jarrahy in birth order, with the two birth dates that fix every age on this page. Original KidsCo graphic; no likenesses used.

Quick answer: Geena Davis has three children, all with the surgeon Reza Jarrahy: daughter Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy, born 10 April 2002, and fraternal twin sons Kaiis Steven and Kian William Davis Jarrahy, born 6 May 2004. On 20 August 2026 they are 24, 22 and 22. Davis was 46 at the first birth and 48 at the twins’, and turned 70 herself in January 2026.

Evidence date: Facts and ages checked 20 August 2026. Dated roles are not treated as permanent current jobs.

Two birth dates cover all three children, because the boys are twins. Alizeh arrived on 10 April 2002; Kaiis and Kian followed two years and 26 days later, on 6 May 2004. All three were given both parents’ names, and all three come from Davis’s fourth marriage, to Reza Jarrahy — the only one of the four that produced children.

The number that sends people to a search box is their mother’s. Davis was 46 when her daughter was born and 48 when her sons were, and those figures get repeated so often that they end up attached to the wrong people. They are her ages at each birth, not the children’s ages now. On 20 August 2026 the children are 24, 22 and 22.

All three are adults, so this guide uses the same test it uses for any adult: a filed record, a credited job, an institution naming them, or a dated interview in their own words. Where the public file is thin — and for two of the three it deliberately is — the page says what is established, dates it, and stops there rather than filling the gap with guesswork.

Geena Davis’s children at a glance

ChildBornAge on 20 August 2026Place in the family
Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy10 April 200224Eldest and only daughter; born when Davis was 46
Kaiis Steven Davis Jarrahy6 May 200422Joint second; fraternal twin, born when Davis was 48
Kian William Davis Jarrahy6 May 200422Joint second; Kaiis’s fraternal twin, not identical

Only two dates run this whole page, which makes the ages unusually easy to keep honest. Alizeh turns 25 on 10 April 2027. The twins turned 22 on 6 May 2026, three and a half months before this check, so they hold that number until May next year. Any profile still calling them teenagers was written before May 2023 or never recalculated.

The full names are worth reading rather than skipping, because a court order sits inside two of them. All three children were given both parents’ names, but the December 2021 divorce settlement moved Davis out of the twins’ surname and into their middle names. Kaiis and Kian are Jarrahy on paper now; Alizeh, already an adult, was not part of that agreement.

Who is the father of Geena Davis’s children

Reza Jarrahy, a surgeon, is the father of all three. He and Davis married on 1 September 2001, seven months before Alizeh was born, and the marriage lasted longer than her three previous ones combined. It is also the only one of the four that produced children, which is the single fact that resolves most of the confusion around her family.

MarriageReported datesChildren
Richard EmmoloMarried 1981, separated 1983, divorced 1984None
Jeff GoldblumMarried November 1987, divorce finalised 1991None
Renny HarlinMarried 1993, filed 1997, finalised 1998None
Reza JarrahyMarried 1 September 2001; divorce finalised 3 December 2021Alizeh, Kaiis and Kian

Those first three rows explain a disagreement you will meet elsewhere. One widely syndicated news report dates the Emmolo marriage 1982 to 1983 and ends the Goldblum marriage in 1990, because it counts from separations; the dates above count from decrees, which is why they run a year wider at each edge. Neither version changes the answer readers actually want: none of the first three marriages produced a child, a stepchild or a second family branch.

The fourth ending was slower and stranger. Jarrahy filed in May 2018, citing irreconcilable differences and giving 15 November 2017 as the date of separation. Davis then argued in her response that the two had never been legally married at all, which turned an ordinary divorce into an argument about whether there was a marriage to dissolve. It was finalised on 3 December 2021, three and a half years after the filing.

One clause of that settlement is the reason the children’s names look inconsistent online. Davis and Jarrahy agreed to change the twins’ surname from Davis-Jarrahy to Jarrahy, with Davis kept as a second middle name for both. Kaiis and Kian were 17 at the time. Alizeh was 19 and legally an adult, so her name was not part of the agreement.

Two points survive from all of that for a reader looking up the children. Their parents were together from 2001 until November 2017, and all three children were born well inside that period. The legal argument was about paperwork between two adults; nothing in the filings unsettles who the father is.

KidsCo evidence map setting Geena Davis’s two birth dates against her own age at each birth and the family timeline, illustrated without using likenesses.
Two birth dates, one father and the arithmetic behind the numbers 46 and 48, mapped against the record as checked on 20 August 2026. Open the full-size evidence map.

Alizeh Jarrahy, 24: the eldest, and the reason for an institute

Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy was born on 10 April 2002 and is 24. She is the eldest, the only daughter, and the child whose ordinary toddler television habit turned into her mother’s second career. Davis has told that story in her own words on the institute she founded: watching pre-school programmes with her daughter, she was “stunned by the lack of female characters and diversity”.

Her own public record is a study record rather than a performing one. Reporting places her at the University of Southern California reading music industry and cinematic arts, with an internship at a music company on the way through. That is a dated education entry, not a job title, and this guide keeps it in that box until something with a credit on it says otherwise.

It is worth saying plainly what that means. A 24-year-old who has studied the music industry is not automatically a musician, an executive or a future star, and the honest version of her file is short. What is solid is that Alizeh is the eldest of three, that she was born when her mother was 46, and that a research organisation still running in 2026 exists because of what her mother noticed while sitting next to her.

Kaiis and Kian Jarrahy, both 22: fraternal twins with two different profiles

Kaiis Steven Davis Jarrahy and Kian William Davis Jarrahy were born on 6 May 2004 and are 22. They are fraternal twins, so they share a birthday rather than a face, and the public record on the two of them is markedly uneven. That unevenness is itself the fact, not a mystery waiting to be solved.

Kaiis has the fuller record of the two. He has been reported at the University of Washington and on the board of his fraternity chapter there, which is a dated student affiliation and a reasonable thing to state. Kian has stayed almost entirely off the record, surfacing mainly beside his mother at a small number of dated events, including the Bentonville Film Festival she co-founded.

An appearance at a festival is attendance at a dated event. It is not a career, a residence, a course of study or a personality, and treating it as any of those is how family profiles start inventing people. Equal family status does not require equal biography length: Kian’s section is short because the verified material is short, and lengthening it would mean making something up.

That asymmetry is normal in families where the parent is famous and the children are not, and it turns up again in Joan Collins’s three children, one of whom has a public career and two of whom do not. The useful move is to explain the difference rather than to paper over it.

46 and 48: the arithmetic people are actually searching for

Geena Davis was born on 21 January 1956. Alizeh arrived on 10 April 2002, when Davis was 46 years and nearly three months old. The twins arrived on 6 May 2004, when she was 48 years and three and a half months. Those two numbers are the most-searched thing about this family, and they are simple subtraction rather than anything more dramatic.

Reader questionSupported answerWhat KidsCo does not claim
How old was she at each birth?46 in April 2002 and 48 in May 2004, calculated from her 21 January 1956 birth dateThat either figure is an age any of the children have ever been
Are the twins identical?They are fraternal twins, consistently reported as suchAny medical detail about the pregnancies or the births
Did she have children with anyone else?No. All three came from her fourth marriage, to Reza JarrahyThat her earlier marriages involved children, stepchildren or losses
Is she the oldest first-time mother in Hollywood?She is one of a well-documented group who first gave birth in their mid-fortiesA record claim; ranking mothers by age is a tabloid exercise, not a fact

There is a reason the numbers stick. Davis had spent the 1980s and 1990s as a leading actor, won an Academy Award for The Accidental Tourist, carried Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own, and reached the semi-finals of the United States Olympic archery trials in 1999 at the age of 43. Motherhood arrived after all of that rather than before it.

Twins in a mother’s forties are not a curiosity either. Céline Dion’s twin sons arrived when she was 42, and the two families field the same misdirected question for the same reason: a number attached to a parent gets repeated until somebody assumes it belongs to a child.

The shape of this family is not rare either. Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky had a daughter in 2012 and twin sons in 2014, the same one-then-two sequence inside roughly two years, which is why their ages come in a pair and a single rather than three separate numbers.

The toddler, the television and the research institute

In 2004, the year her twins were born, Davis founded what is now the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The origin story is not a press release: she has said she started it because of what she saw watching children’s programmes with Alizeh, then a toddler, and it has spent two decades counting who actually appears on screen in family entertainment.

The institute’s line is “If they can see it, they can be it”, and its method is measurement rather than opinion — counting speaking characters, screen time and job titles across children’s television and film. The festival it partners with describes it as the only global research-based organisation working collaboratively inside the entertainment industry on that question, and it was still publishing in 2026.

Davis co-founded the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas in 2015 as the other half of the same project, and the institute is its research partner. The 2026 edition ran from 15 to 21 June. Between the two, a piece of ordinary parenting from 2002 became a working infrastructure that outlasted the marriage it started in.

This is the part of the family story with the strongest paper trail, and it is the reason a guide about three young adults keeps circling back to their mother’s job. The eldest child is not a footnote to the institute; she is the documented reason it exists, in the founder’s own account.

What is verifiably established about the three on 20 August 2026

The test is the same for all three: a record beats a sighting. A university naming a student, an institution naming a founder, a filed court date and a dated interview are records. A photograph on a festival carpet is an event. Here is the family through that filter.

PeriodVerified recordAccurate wording on 20 August 2026
April 2002 onwardsBirth date of 10 April 2002 and both parents namedAlizeh is 24 and the eldest of three; her age changes on 10 April each year
Reported through 2024University of Southern California, music industry and cinematic arts, plus an internshipA dated study record, not a current job title or an industry role
May 2004 onwardsShared birth date of 6 May 2004 for both sonsKaiis and Kian are 22 and are fraternal twins
Reported through 2024University of Washington and a fraternity board seat for KaiisA dated student affiliation for that reporting period, not a permanent position
2023 onwardsKian at dated public events with his mother, including the Bentonville Film FestivalAttendance at dated events; no career, residence or relationship status follows from it
2004 to 2026The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, founded by their mother and still publishingAn active organisation whose founding account names the eldest child as its trigger

Two of those rows are deliberately smaller than the internet’s version. Alizeh’s stops at a course of study because a degree subject is not a job, and Kian’s stops at attendance because a red carpet with a parent tells you where somebody stood on one evening and nothing else.

What most Geena Davis children pages still get wrong

Weak or harmful shortcutReader-first correctionWhy it matters
Ages copied from an older profile, so the twins are still teenagersOn 20 August 2026 Alizeh is 24 and Kaiis and Kian are 22Two birth dates run this whole family, so there is no excuse for a stale number
Attaching 46 and 48 to the childrenThose are Davis’s ages at each birth, calculated from 21 January 1956Mixing a parent’s age with a child’s is the single commonest error on this search term
Calling Kaiis and Kian identical twinsThey are consistently reported as fraternal twinsFraternal and identical are different facts, and only one of them is supported here
“Geena Davis’s children with Jeff Goldblum”She had no children with Goldblum, Renny Harlin or Richard Emmolo; all three are Reza Jarrahy’sFour marriages invite the assumption of several family branches when there is only one
Turning a course of study into a careerA university subject and an internship are a dated education record and stop thereBuilding a job title out of a degree subject is how young adults acquire biographies they never had
“Kaiis and Kian Davis-Jarrahy”Since the December 2021 settlement their surname is Jarrahy, with Davis kept as a second middle nameOne clause of a divorce is why the same two people are filed under three different name forms online

One further habit deserves naming: writing the three as a single unit because two of them are twins. Alizeh is two years older, has a different birthday and has a different public footprint from her brothers. Reading three children as one block is the same flattening that turns Meryl Streep’s four children into a chorus line, and it is avoidable with two dates and a calendar. The wider KidsCo celebrity family index applies the same rule to every profile in it.

The family timeline, and what each date proves

DateMilestoneWhat it establishes
1 September 2001Davis marries Reza JarrahyThe only one of her four marriages that produced children
10 April 2002Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy bornThe eldest child, and Davis at 46
2004The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is foundedA research organisation created out of watching children’s television with a toddler
6 May 2004Fraternal twins Kaiis and Kian bornThe completed family of three, and Davis at 48
15 November 2017 to 3 December 2021Separation, filing, a disputed marriage and a finalised divorceA four-year legal process that changed two surnames and never touched the parentage of any of the three
15 to 21 June 2026The Bentonville Film Festival Davis co-founded runs its 2026 editionThe second half of the project the eldest child set off, still operating

Read down that column and the family stops being a list of names. A marriage in 2001, a daughter in 2002, an institute in 2004 built out of what that daughter was watching, twins the same year, and a festival in 2015 that gives the research somewhere to land. The children did not become the story; they changed what their mother spent the next two decades doing.

Davis turned 70 on 21 January 2026 and is still working, which is why an undated profile of this family ages so badly in both directions. Her children’s ages move every April and May, and her own record keeps adding entries alongside the screen-family profiles KidsCo keeps beside it.

Questions people ask about Geena Davis’s three children

How many children does Geena Davis have?

Geena Davis has three children: a daughter, Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy, born on 10 April 2002, and fraternal twin sons, Kaiis Steven and Kian William Davis Jarrahy, born on 6 May 2004. On 20 August 2026 they are 24, 22 and 22. All three have the same father.

How old was Geena Davis when she had her children?

She was 46 when Alizeh was born in April 2002 and 48 when the twins arrived in May 2004. Davis was born on 21 January 1956, so the arithmetic is straightforward, and it is her age at each birth rather than any age her children are now.

Who is the father of Geena Davis’s children?

The surgeon Reza Jarrahy, Davis’s fourth husband. They married on 1 September 2001, separated in November 2017 and their divorce was finalised on 3 December 2021. He is the father of all three children and the only one of her four husbands with whom she had children.

What are the names and birth dates of Geena Davis’s children?

Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy was born on 10 April 2002. Her twin brothers, Kaiis Steven Davis Jarrahy and Kian William Davis Jarrahy, were born on 6 May 2004. They are fraternal twins, not identical. A December 2021 settlement made Jarrahy the twins’ surname and Davis a second middle name.

Are Geena Davis and Reza Jarrahy still married?

No. Jarrahy filed for divorce in May 2018 after the couple separated in November 2017. Davis responded with a petition arguing they had never been legally married. It was finalised on 3 December 2021, and the settlement changed the twin sons’ surname to Jarrahy.

What do Geena Davis’s children do now?

The dated record places Alizeh at the University of Southern California studying music industry and cinematic arts, and Kaiis at the University of Washington. Kian keeps a private profile and appears occasionally at family events. None of the three has a public performing career.

Sources and further reading

  1. PEOPLE, 2 April 2024: the guide to all three children, with both birth dates, Alizeh’s University of Southern California degree subject and internship, Kaiis at the University of Washington and on his fraternity board, and Kian on the Bentonville carpet.
  2. PEOPLE on the judgment filed 3 December 2021: the clause changing the twins’ surname from Davis-Jarrahy to Jarrahy with Davis kept as a second middle name, and the 15 November 2017 separation date.
  3. UPI: the contemporaneous report that the divorce was finalised in Los Angeles in December 2021.
  4. Fox News: Davis’s response arguing that no marriage licence was ever filed and the ceremony was not legally binding.
  5. Bar Association of San Francisco: a lawyer’s reading of why a disputed marriage validity turns an ordinary dissolution into a four-year case.
  6. Wikipedia: the collected record of her 21 January 1956 birth in Wareham, Massachusetts, the four marriages, the 1989 Academy Award for The Accidental Tourist and the 1999 archery placing.
  7. HELLO: the four marriages set out in order, and Davis turning 70 on 21 January 2026.
  8. Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: the organisation itself, its registered “If they can see it, they can be it” line and its 2026 research output.
  9. Geena Davis Institute: the 2026 Bentonville Film Festival dates, 15 to 21 June, with digital screenings through 28 June.
  10. Forbes, August 2025: Davis on founding the institute after watching children’s programmes with her daughter, and on counting rather than complaining.
  11. Davis in her own words on the first pre-school show she watched with her toddler daughter, and on training children “from minute one to have unconscious gender bias”.
  12. Wikipedia: the institute’s 2004 founding, its counting method and the research programme that followed.
  13. Variety: the announcement of the 2026 festival dates and programme.
  14. Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: local coverage of the 12th edition, its opening film and the Arkansas run.
  15. Bentonville Film Festival: the festival Davis co-founded in 2015, and its own description of the institute as its research partner.
  16. Deseret News, 10 August 1999: Davis at the Olympic archery trials two years after her first lesson.
  17. CBS News: the trials result, 24th of 28 in the semi-finals, and the miss on the Sydney team.
  18. Las Vegas Review-Journal: Davis at 70, still working and still running the count.
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By Kristine Bowman and KidsCo Editorial Team

KidsCo family profiles use direct interviews, institutional records and attributable reporting. Counts are dated, source conflicts are visible, and a private life is not treated as a missing-data problem.

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