Meet Geena Davis’ Kids: Alizeh Keshvar Davis, Kaiis Steven and Kian William Jarrahy

Geena Davis is an American actress, producer, and gender-equality advocate best known for her roles in Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, The Accidental Tourist, and Beetlejuice.

Born Virginia Elizabeth Davis on January 21, 1956, in Wareham, Massachusetts, she is 70 years old and stands 183 cm (6 feet) tall, a trait that once made her the tallest girl in her high school.

Davis grew up in a modest, intellectually driven household in a small New England town. Her father, William F. Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon, while her mother, Lucille Davis (née Cook), worked as a teacher’s assistant.

Both parents hailed from small towns in Vermont, giving Davis English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry, and she was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. She has an older brother, Dan Davis, with whom she shared a close-knit upbringing centred on academics and the arts.

Davis attended Wareham High School, graduating in 1974, before enrolling at New England College. She later transferred to Boston University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in drama in 1979. Before her acting breakthrough, she worked as a window mannequin for Ann Taylor and modelled with New York’s Zoli agency.

Romantically, Davis has been married four times. Her first marriage was to restaurateur Richard Emmolo (m. 1982-1983). She then married actor Jeff Goldblum (m. 1987-1990) following a courtship that began on the set of Transylvania 6-5000.

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Her third marriage, to director Renny Harlin (m. 1993-1998), began after a whirlwind five-month courtship and ended amid a highly publicized split. In 2001, she entered a relationship with craniofacial surgeon Reza Jarrahy, whom she allegedly married that September (m. 2001-2021), though the union’s legal status was later disputed in court filings.

Davis and Jarrahy separated in November 2017 and finalized their divorce in December 2021, closing out a nearly two-decade partnership.

Together, Davis and Jarrahy welcomed three children, all born when Davis was in her forties, a timing she has described feeling grateful for. Her personal fortune, built through a decades-long acting and producing career alongside her advocacy work through the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, sits at $30 million.

Below is a closer look at each of her three children.

Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy

Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy is Geena Davis’ firstborn child and only daughter, born on April 10, 2002, in Los Angeles, California. She is 24 years old and the eldest of the three children Davis shares with ex-husband Reza Jarrahy.

Growing up largely out of the spotlight, Alizeh went on to study at the University of Southern California, pursuing a degree in Music Industry and Cinematic Arts, and has since worked behind the scenes in entertainment.

Alizeh holds a particularly significant place in her mother’s public work. Davis has repeatedly credited her daughter with launching the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004, explaining in a 2016 interview with The New York Times that watching children’s programming with Alizeh made her acutely aware of how underrepresented women and girls were on screen.

She has also written publicly, including in an essay for Parade, about wanting to shield Alizeh from damaging cultural messaging while teaching her to recognize and challenge it.

Kaiis Steven Jarrahy

Kaiis Steven Jarrahy is one of Geena Davis’ twin sons and her second child overall, born on May 6, 2004, roughly 26 days premature. He is 22 years old, the fraternal twin brother of Kian William Jarrahy, and the younger brother of Alizeh.

Davis has spoken candidly about the challenge of suddenly having three children under the age of three once the twins arrived, calling the adjustment daunting but ultimately rewarding.

Kaiis has occasionally appeared alongside his father on social media, including a widely shared 2020 post in which Reza Jarrahy noted that Kaiis and his twin brother had observed the Islamic fasting tradition during Ramadan, a nod to their father’s Iranian heritage. Like his siblings, he has largely kept his personal and academic life private.

Kian William Jarrahy

Kian William Jarrahy is Geena Davis’ youngest child alongside his twin brother, Kaiis, born on May 6, 2004.

He is 22 years old. He has appeared publicly with his mother on several occasions in recent years, including at the Bentonville Film Festival Awards in June 2025 and the Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2022. These moments offer rare glimpses into the family’s private life.

Raised in a household that blended his mother’s American, English, Scottish, and Welsh roots with his father’s Iranian-American background, Kian grew up alongside Alizeh and Kaiis in a home Davis has described as creative and intellectually engaged.

Despite his mother’s fame, he has maintained a relatively low public profile, surfacing mainly at select red-carpet or charity events tied to Davis’ career.

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