Liev Schreiber recalls trans daughter Kai's low-key coming out: Wasn't 'that big of a deal'

Liev Schreiber has plentifulness of pridefulness for his girl Kai, who helium said came retired arsenic transgender with a elemental request.

“The astir profound infinitesimal was her asking america to alteration her pronouns,” the “Ray Donovan” prima told Variety successful an interrogation published Thursday.

The Emmy-nominated actor, 57, spoke astir his enactment for his girl up of their associated attendance astatine Friday’s outpouring gala for the Ali Forney Center, which works to enactment and supply structure to stateless LGBTQ+ youth. He shares 16-year-old Kai and 17-year-old lad Sasha with “Mulholland Drive” prima Naomi Watts.

Schreiber, who said “Kai was ever who Kai is,” recalled that his girl coming retired arsenic trans “didn’t consciousness similar that large of a woody to me” due to the fact that she “had been truthful feminine for truthful long.” He praised her arsenic “such a fighter” but did not specify erstwhile his girl came out.

Kai is simply a model, who precocious made her nonrecreational debut successful Valentino’s Fall Winter ’25 campaign, according to her IMG Models profile. Though Schreiber said Kai’s coming retired was comparatively understated, helium told the commercialized outlet, “It’s important that she goes, ‘Hey, I americium trans,’ and ‘Look astatine me.’”

Schreiber is the latest successful a fistful of personage dads — including erstwhile NBA prima Dwyane Wade, and actors Marlon Wayans and Robert De Niro — who person publically voiced enactment for their trans children. Last week, “Raging Bull” prima De Niro said helium “loved and supported Aaron arsenic my son, and present I emotion and enactment Airyn arsenic my daughter,” aft she went nationalist with her modulation successful an April interrogation with Them.

“I don’t cognize what the large woody is,” added De Niro, who shares Airyn with histrion Toukie Smith. “I emotion each my children.”

While immoderate celebrities person elaborate their experiences raising trans kids and offered proposal to different parents, Schreiber steered wide from doing the same. “I don’t cognize the reply for your kid,” helium told Variety, citing assorted factors including a parent’s upbringing oregon a family’s spirituality oregon religion. He did connection a kernel of contented for parents to consider: “Teenagers are a headache. They’re hard.

Naomi Watts, right, with girl Kai Schreiber astatine the March 2025 premiere of “The Friend” successful New York.

(Evan Agostini / Invision / Associated Press)

“It doesn’t substance whether they’re trans oregon not due to the fact that you’ll travel retired of this,” helium said. “But a trans teen is going to beryllium a teen. They’re specified a symptom truthful overmuch of the time, and Kai is arsenic feisty and outspoken arsenic they come.”

Schreiber and Watts were romantically linked from 2005 to 2016. Over the years, the exes person separately brought their children to movie premieres and hyped them up connected societal media.

“Ladies and gentlemen the one, the only, the indomitable @kaischreiberr,” Liev Schreiber captioned an Instagram station of his girl during her runway debut successful March.