Meet Dakota Johnson’s Siblings: Stella Banderas, Alexander Bauer, Grace, Jesse, Deacon, & Jasper Breckinridge Johnson

Dakota Johnson comes from one of Hollywood’s most tangled and talked-about blended families, and her six half-siblings are proof of just how far that family tree stretches. Before meeting them one by one, here is a quick look at the actress herself.

Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and model, born on October 4, 1989, in Austin, Texas, while her father was on location filming The Hot Spot. She is an American of mixed European descent, with roots tracing to her father’s side in Missouri and her mother’s side to Sweden and Norway through her grandmother, Tippi Hedren. Her religious background is not publicly documented.

Her parents are actor Don Johnson and Academy Award-nominated actress Melanie Griffith, whose on-and-off relationship produced two marriages and one divorce before a final split.

Dakota has six half-siblings in total: Stella Banderas, Alexander Bauer, and Jesse Johnson on the older side, and Grace Johnson, Jasper Breckinridge Johnson, and Deacon Johnson from her father’s marriage to Kelley Phleger.

Dakota attended the Aspen Community School in Colorado, followed by the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, before graduating from New Roads School in Santa Monica.

She later applied to the Juilliard School for acting but was turned down, choosing instead to build her career through modeling and small film roles before landing her breakout part as Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey. She is 36 years old and stands 1.70 m (5 feet 7 inches) tall.

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Dakota has never been married and has no children. She was engaged to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, whom she dated on and off between 2017 and 2025, before the couple confirmed their split in June 2025.

Earlier in her dating history, she was linked to actor Jordan Masterson and Drowners frontman Matthew Hitt. Since her split from Martin, she has been reported to be spending time with musician Tucker Pillsbury, known professionally as Role Model. Her net worth is $14 million.

Jesse Johnson

Jesse Wayne Johnson is Dakota Johnson’s eldest half-brother, born on December 7, 1982, in Los Angeles. He is the son of Don Johnson and former model and actress Patti D’Arbanville, who were never married.

Jesse was raised largely in Aspen, Colorado, and has built his own career as an actor, singer, and screenwriter, with credits including NCIS and the Twin Peaks revival. He and Dakota share the same father and have maintained a close relationship over the years, frequently appearing together at family gatherings and industry events.

Alexander Bauer

Alexander Bauer is Dakota Johnson’s half-brother through their mother, Melanie Griffith. He was born in August 1985 to Griffith and her second husband, actor Steven Bauer.

Unlike much of his family, Alexander stayed largely out of the entertainment spotlight, working instead as a screenwriter and businessman. He is the oldest of Griffith’s three biological children and shares a close bond with both Dakota and their younger half-sister, Stella Banderas.

Stella Banderas

Stella del Carmen Banderas is Dakota Johnson’s half-sister through Melanie Griffith, born in 1996 during Griffith’s marriage to Spanish actor Antonio Banderas.

She originally carried the surname Banderas Griffith before legally dropping “Griffith” from her name in her mid-twenties. Stella has worked as a model and actress but has said she prefers working behind the camera, having studied acting while gravitating toward a more intellectual approach to filmmaking.

In October 2025, she married her longtime partner, Alex Gruszynski, in a ceremony in Spain, where Dakota served as one of her bridesmaids.

Grace Johnson

Atherton Grace Johnson is Dakota Johnson’s half-sister through their father, Don Johnson, and his wife Kelley Phleger. Born on December 28, 1999, Grace is the eldest of the three children from that marriage.

She works as a professional model, signed with IMG Models, and made her runway debut in 2019. She has also taken small acting roles, including appearances in short films and music videos, and has walked in shows for major fashion houses.

Jasper Breckinridge Johnson

Jasper Breckinridge Johnson is another of Dakota Johnson’s half-siblings from their father’s marriage to Kelley Phleger, born in the early 2000s as the couple’s second child.

He has kept a much lower public profile than several of his siblings, with limited details shared about his career or personal life beyond family appearances alongside his father.

Deacon Johnson

Deacon James Johnson is the youngest of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger’s children and the youngest of all six of Dakota Johnson’s half-siblings, born in 2006.

Don Johnson has spoken about becoming an empty nester once Deacon left for college at the University of Southern California. Like Jasper, Deacon has largely stayed away from the public eye, appearing mainly in family photos shared for milestone occasions like his father’s birthday celebrations.

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