Riley Keough left fans scratching their heads this week when she was spotted carrying a baby as she and her family left Venice’s Marco Polo Airport on Friday.
The 36-year-old actress — who was in town for the Venice Film Festival premiere of her new film Jay Kelly — was joined on the rare sighting by her husband Ben Smith-Petersen, as well as their three-year-old daughter Tupelo.
So far, the identity of the younger child in Riley’s arms is unknown.
The Daily Mail has contacted Keough’s representatives for comment but hasn’t yet received a response.
Riley looked cool and casual in a baggy brown velvet jacket, which she paired with flared black pants.
The Zola star accessorized with a black quilted Chanel handbag, and she added a touch of cool with brown-tinted round-frame sunglasses that complemented her dark brunette locks.
Riley Keough, 36, shocked her fans when she was seen carrying a baby while joined by her husband and three-year-old daughter Tupelo at the Venice airport on Friday. She is only known to have one child
Her husband Ben favored a sportier look with a purple graphic T-shirt and black North Face shorts, along with a purple baseball cap and a black backpack.
Their daughter Tupelo got a ride in his arms, and she looked cute in a thick purple ribbed sweater and pink pants.
The baby that Riley carried looked adorable in a white onesie.
The actress and her husband, who is a stuntman hailing from Australia, met around 2012 during the filming of Mad Max: Fury Road, in which Riley starred as Capable, one of the five slave wives of the villain Immortan Joe.
Riley and Ben later got engaged in 2014, and they tied the knot in February of the following year in a ceremony held in Napa, California.
The couple welcomed their first child, Tupelo, in August of 2022, but her birth wasn’t revealed until the following January, when Riley mentioned her daughter in her moving eulogy to her late mother Lisa Marie Presley.
A year after Tupelo’s birth, Riley admitted that the little girl was born via surrogate, which she chose to pursue after having been diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Although she clarified that she ‘can carry children,’ she hoped that having a surrogate carry her child would prevent the possibility of any autoimmune complications.
She carried the unidentified baby while wearing a casual brown velvet jacket with black pants and a black quilted Chanel handbag. Her husband Ben Smith-Petersen carried their daughter Tupelo
The couple met while filming Mad Max: Fury Road in 2012. Riley got engaged to the stunt man in 2014 and they married in February 2015 in California. They welcomed their daughter in August 2022 via a surrogate to avoid complications from Riley’s Lyme disease diagnosis; seen in January 2024 in Beverly Hills
Her new film Jay Kelly attracted a bevy of A-listers to the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday evening
It stars George Clooney as the title character, a famous actor, along with Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and many others; still from Jay Kelly
Riley joined Clooney, Sandler and costar and co-writer Emily Mortimer on the red carpet in Venice on Thursday evening
‘I think it’s a very cool, selfless, and incredible act that these women do to help other people,’ she said in a Vanity Fair profile.
‘I can carry children, but it felt like the best choice for what I had going on physically with the autoimmune stuff.’
When she’s not promoting her films, Riley and her husband tend to keep a low profile, and they are rarely spotted in public with their daughter.
Her new film Jay Kelly attracted a bevy of A-listers to the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday evening.
The film — which is directed by Barbie co-writer Noah Baumbach and written by him and the actress Emily Mortimer — stars George Clooney as the title character, a popular actor.
The film follows Kelly on a European trip with his manager (played by Adam Sandler) as they look back on their past choices and regrets.
In addition to its two leads, Jay Kelly features an impressive ensemble including Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Baumbach’s wife Greta Gerwig, Mortimer, Isla Fisher and Stacy Keach, among others.
So far, the film has an impressive 85 percent fresh rating from the most prestigious critics surveyed by Rotten Tomatoes.
