Harrison Ford isn’t just an award-winning actor but a five-time father.
The “Indiana Jones” star welcomed two children each with Mary Marquardt and Melissa Mathison between 1966 and 1990.
After marrying Calista Flockhart in 2010, Ford adopted her son, Liam.
In May 2023, the Oscar nominee admitted that he has not been the best parent to his brood as he has been “out of town” and “up [his] own ass” during his career.
“If I’d been less successful, I’d probably be a better parent,” he told Esquire at the time. “Certainly the more constant gardener is the better parent.”
Find out more about Ford’s children — and his exes — below.
Mary Marquardt
Ford met Marquardt while both of them were attending Ripon College in Wisconsin.
Four years after Ford’s 1960 graduation, he and the chef got married. They welcomed sons Benjamin and Willard in 1966 and 1969, respectively.
Ford’s career took off during their marriage, with Carrie Fisher alleging in her “Princess Diarist” memoir in 2016 that she had an affair with him while co-starring in “Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope” in 1977.
By 1979, Marquardt and Ford were divorced.
The licensed pilot broke his silence on the book in 2017, telling GQ that “it was strange for” him.
Ford noted that he had been “warned … to a degree” that the late actress, who died the previous year, was writing about him.
Benjamin Ford
Like his mother, Marquardt and Harrison’s eldest son, Benjamin, is a chef who owns the Ford’s Filling Station restaurant and wrote a “Taming the Feast” cookbook.
“There was freedom to explore in my family, and my parents had amazing friends: writers, musicians, all great conversationalists,” Benjamin told the Daily Mail in 2014. “To this day, I still try to surround myself with artists rather than just chefs.”
As for his personal life, the cook shares two sons, Ethan and…
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