Of course one of Hollywood's biggest, coolest and most effortless stars is also a member of one of its most thoroughly modern families too.
Dakota Johnson, the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, swung by Malaga at the weekend to spend time with her mother's former husband, Antonio Banderas, who she affectionately called 'Paponio' as a child, and to mark the occasion, the Mask of Zorro star shared a photograph of the pair of them together.
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He captioned the post, 'Happiness: Dakota in Malaga!' while also sharing photographs of Johnson visiting with him and other actors at his theatre, the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank, in Malaga, where he is now based.
The Puss in Boots star is stepfather to Johnson from his marriage to Griffith, whom he married in 1996 and separated from in 2015. Griffith and Banderas share one daughter together, Stella, as well as Griffith's son Alexander Bauer, whom she shares with her second husband, Steven Bauer.
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Despite being photographed in June 2024 with Jeremy Allen White on the beach in Malibu (she is godmother to one of his daughters), the Madame Web star has been enjoying quite the European sojourn. She was photographed just a few days later supporting her partner Chris Martin and his band Coldplay at Glastonbury with his two children from his marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow, Apple and Moses, before jetting off to visit Banderas in his new Spanish base.
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