Meet Clint Eastwood’s handsome actor-director son, Scott Eastwood: the Suicide Squad star once got into a spat with Shia LaBeouf and Brad Pitt on set and outed Ashton Kutcher for having an affair
- Scott Eastwood isn’t your typical nepo baby, opting to use his mother’s surname when starting out as an actor and taking jobs in construction to make ends meet while auditioning
- Scott is one of eight children fathered by Clint Eastwood – star of iconic American Westerns The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and Rawhide – and describes his dad as an ‘old school’ disciplinarian
If Scott Eastwood’s smouldering stare looks familiar, that’s because it is.
The son of Clint Eastwood – one of Hollywood’s most enduring cultural icons – Scott is the spitting image of a young Clint, and has followed his father onto the big screen too.
After a bumpy start where he admits he almost gave up acting to become a firefighter, the 37-year-old finally got his first lead role in 2015 romcom The Longest Ride, and has since gone on to star in numerous blockbusters – from Suicide Squad and Fast and Furious 8 to Pacific Rim: Uprising. He has also appeared in two films with his famous dad, Invictus and Gran Torino.
Here’s what else you need to know about the actor.
Scott Eastwood has seven siblings
Scott Eastwood is the son of veteran actor-director Clint Eastwood and flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves. The two had an affair while Eastwood was still with another woman, Sondra Locke. Reeves and Eastwood nevertheless had two children together – Scott in 1986, and his younger sister Kathryn in 1988, per People magazine. However, by 1990 the pair had gone their separate ways. In total, Eastwood has fathered eight children with six different women.
As a result, Scott and his sister grew up in Hawaii with Reeves and, according to Esquire, didn’t spend any real time with his dad until he moved to California to live with him during high school.