Liev Schreiber is very proud of his daughter Kai, who, according to him, came out as a transgender with a simple request.
“The deepest moment was that he asked us to change his pronouns,” said “Ray Donovan” to Variety in an interview published Thursday.
The 57 -year -old Emmy -nominated actor spoke about his support for his daughter before his joint assistance at Friday's spring gala for the Ali Forney Center, who works to support and provide refuge to young LGBTQ+ homeless. Share Kai, 16, and his son Sasha, 17, with the star of “Mulholland Drive” Naomi Watts.
Schreiber, who said that “Kai was always the one who is Kai,” recalled that his daughter came out as Trans “did not feel so important to me” because “he had been so feminine for so long.” He praised her as “such a fighter,” but did not specify when his daughter came out.
Kai is a model, which recently made his professional debut in the Autumn Campaign of Winter '25 of Valentino, according to his IMG Models profile. Although Schreiber said that Kai's departure was relatively underestimated, he told him at the start of the store: “It is important that she goes, 'Hello, I'm trans' and 'look at me'.”
Schreiber is the last one of a handful of famous parents, including former NBA star Dwyane Wade, and actors Marlon Wayans and Robert De Niro, who have expressed their support publicly for their trans children. Last week, the “Raging Bull” star of Niro said that “he loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter”, after she became public with her transition in an April interview with them.
“I don't know what the big problem is,” added De Niro, who shares Airyn with actor Toukie Smith. “I love all my children.”
While some celebrities have detailed their experiences that raise trans children and offered advice to other parents, Schreiber became clear to do the same. “I don't know the answer for your child,” he told Variety, citing several factors that include the education of parents or the spirituality or religion of a family. He offered a nucleus of wisdom for parents to consider: “Teenagers are a headache. They are difficult.
Naomi Watts, right, with his daughter Kai Schreiber at the premiere of March 2025 of “The Friend” in New York.
(Evan Agostini / Invision / Associated Press)
“It doesn't matter if they are trans or not because you get out of this,” he said. “But a trans teenager is going to be a teenager. They are such painful pain most of the time, and Kai is as fighter and openly as it seems.”
Schreiber and Watts were romantically linked from 2005 to 2016. Over the years, they have taken their children separately to the film premieres and promoted them on social networks.
“Ladies and Knights the only one, the only one, the indomitable @kaischreiberr”, Liev Schreiber subtitled an Instagram post of his daughter during his debut on the track in March.
