Actor Patrick Dempsey is a father of three kids with his wife Jillian Fink, whom he has been married to since 1999. Let’s meet his sons and daughter.
Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey was voted People magazine’s sexiest man alive for 2023, taking the title from 2022’s winner Chris Evans.
“I’m glad it’s happening at this point in my life,” says the ‘Ferrari’ actor. “It’s nice to have the recognition, but gives me the platform to use it for something positive.”
After he was named Sexiest Man Alive, he shared that his children would continue to keep him humble, despite the flattering moniker.
“They’re just going to make fun of me and pick on me and figure out every reason why I shouldn’t be,” he told PEOPLE. “Which is good, they keep me young.”
Since he gave his kids a tribute in this honor, fans want to know more about them and who their mother is. Here’s a look inside Patrick Dempsey’s personal life and family.
How many children does Patrick Dempsey have?
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Patrick Dempsey is a proud father.
He has three children; a grown-up daughter and two teenage twin sons.
The names of his children are Talula Fyfe Dempsey, 21, Darby Galen, and Sullivan Patrick Dempsey, 16.
He shares his kids with his wife of close to two decades, Jillian Fink.
They first gained the title of Mom and Dad back in 2002 with the arrival of their daughter Talula, 21. Just a few years later, the couple went on to welcome their twin boys, Darby and Sullivan, 16.
After welcoming the twins, Dempsey said that he thought parenting got easier the bigger his family grew — and added that his children had improved his life in so many ways.
“I love having a big family. I think it’s easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one. And it’s been great for my relationship with my wife and our life and everything,” the Grey’s Anatomy alum said in 2008.
He shares no kids with his first wife, the late actress Rocky Parker, whom he dated in his teens and got married to her at a young age.
What is known about Patrick Dempsey’s wife and the mother of his kids, Jillian Fink?
Jillian Fink is a professional makeup artist, a celebrated hairstylist with an A-list client roster, and a beauty entrepreneur.
She broke into the industry in the early ’90s.
Is through her work that she met her actor Patrick Dempsey who visited her salon.
Apart from running her Los Angeles hair salon (which she sold in 1998), Jillian’s résumé includes creating a signature lip gloss for the Charlie’s Angels cast and having her products used on the 2002 rom-com Sweet Home Alabama.
She also has a star-studded clientele. Her Instagram features photos of her work with Kristen Stewart, Kate Winslet, Emma Roberts, and more. Equally as impressive, Jillian became Avon’s first Global Creative Color Director in 2007.
As a businesswoman, she is the founder of the makeup brands Delux Beauty and Jillian’s Clean beauty line – a cruelty-free, organic, and vegan makeup line, which was launched in 2014.
In 2020, Jillian launched her beauty app, FYFE Beauty. In the app, subscribers have access to a giant library of tutorials, all of which are conducted by Jillian and her renowned colleagues. Users can browse videos having to do with hair, makeup, nails, men’s grooming, and more.
Who is Talula Fyfe Dempsey?
Talula Fyfe Dempsey is a celebrity kid and the daughter of actor Patrick Dempsey and hairstylist-makeup artist, Jillian Fink.
Talula Fyfe was born on February 20, 2002.
The now 21-year-old attends college in Washington D.C. Before heading back to college for her junior year, she even spent her summer in Paris.
Growing up, Talula and Dempsey had a tight-knit relationship and were often spotted spending time together — from horseback riding to hanging out on movie sets. He said the little girl especially loved when he got the chance to drive her to school.
Talula’s childhood was spent out of the spotlight, Dempsey admitted that watching his daughter grow up went by in the blink of an eye. Although time passed quickly, he said that the transition from a “baby girl” to a high schooler was a lot for him to handle.
As a high schooler, Dempsey called Talula “incredibly creative” and shared that she was a big fan of cooking. She even spent some time studying in London during one of her summer breaks. Talula graduated in 2020 and had to spend the last few months of her high school career in quarantine.
Who are Darby Galen and Sullivan Patrick Dempsey?
Darby Galen and Sullivan Patrick Dempsey are fraternal twin sons of actor Patrick Dempsey. They were born on February 1, 2007, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
The couple selected the little boys’ names before they were born but their daughter Talula helped determine which baby got which name.
Despite being twins, they have different personalities. Per their father, Darby, who shares a middle name with his famous dad, is “reserved and quiet”, and Suvillian is “very funny and has funny expressions in the way he’s taking things in”.
Darby, who shares a middle name with his famous dad, was already distinctly different from his fraternal twin as an infant. He was born with a head full of blond hair while Sullivan had “Sid Vicious black, punk-rock hair.”
Now at 16 years old, Dempsey says Darby has developed a passion for soccer — and the actor even coaches his soccer team. Sullivan on the other hand has taken an interest in following in his father’s footsteps as an actor.
“I think with your kids, whatever their passion is, you give your support. You give them the opportunity to try what they want to try,” Dempsey shared.
Patrick Dempsey has an impressive career in acting and car racing
Patrick Dempsey is an American actor, producer, and race car driver who was born January 13, 1966, under the name Patrick Galen Dempsey, in Lewiston, Maine, where he grew up alongside his two older sisters.
He began his acting career in the 1980s after having dropped out of high school, with his first acting gig being in Harvey Fierstein’s touring production “Torch Song Trilogy”, with not many knowing the heights that he would reach as an actor.
Among his most famous movie appearances we can find: “Scream 3”, “Sweet Home Alabama”, “Enchanted”, “Outbreak”, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”, among many others but undoubtedly he’s worldwide known for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd “McDreamy” in the hit TV series “Grey’s Anatomy”.
Dempsey loves to race cars and is often seen at pro-am events. He has a huge collection of cars, including vintage and sports cars.
Dempsey co-owns the Vision Racing IndyCar Series team and owns Dempsey Racing as well.
Among the pro-am events that he has competed in, we can find the Rolex 24, Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, and even the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Dempsey Racing earned second place in the 2015 24 Hours of Le Man’s race in the GTE Am class, as well as third place in 2012 in the American Le Mans Series, under the LMP2 class.