Amanda Seyfried's 2 Kids: All About Nina and Thomas

Mar. 15, 2025

Thomas Sadoski and Amanda Seyfried with their daughter Nina.Photo: Amanda Seyfried/Instagram

Amanda Seyfriedhas taken on the role of a lifetime – being a mom to her two children,Nina and Thomas.

TheMamma Mia!actress and her husband,Thomas Sadoski, whom she met in 2015 while starring in the off-Broadway playThe Way We Get By, have two children together: daughter Nina and son Thomas.

Seyfried — who became a first-time mother in 2017 with the arrival of their daughter — found giving birth to be such an incredible experience that she contemplatedbecoming a doulaherself.

Though Seyfried didn’t move forward with obtaining the necessary certifications to make it official, she did venture into another job involving children — creating a line of durable, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing playhouses calledMake It Cute. When it came time to test out the prototype, the actress enlisted her children’s help.

“My kids love playing in it. They just want to go and explore and make their own space,” she told PEOPLE in April 2023. “Sometimes I’ll look away and I’ll come out in the living room and I’ll be like, where are they? And they’re both in the house … and they’re playing nicely.”

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AlthoughThe Dropoutactress admits that juggling her busy career while raising her two kids can be “chaotic” at times, she’s grateful to have the support of those around her, including her own mother.

“I have a full-time career and two kids,” she previously told PEOPLE. “It’s a lot of work, but I love it. My family is very supportive of it … For sure it sounds like it’s chaotic, and it is in some ways, but I’ve also found so much peace in where I live. Plus,my mom lives with mewhich helps.”

From the films she’s looking forward to showing her children to how she’s raising them on a farm away from the spotlight, here’s everything to know about Amanda Seyfried’s two kids.

Nina, 7

Amanda Seyfried and her daughter Nina.Amanda Seyfried Instagram

Seyfried and Sadoski welcomed their daughter, Nina, on March 24, 2017. Her arrival came just weeks afterthe pair elopedwhen Seyfried was nine months pregnant.

“I really wanted to have rings on in the hospital, you know? And what if something goes wrong, and he’s not legally my husband?” she toldPorterEdit.

The actress also revealed that shewas in labor for 24 hoursbut that her daughter’s arrival made it all worth it. “It was just perfect,” she said. “It was quiet and beautiful, and it was the best moment of my life for sure. And I would do it again in a heartbeat.”

After Nina’s birth, the familymoved from California to a farmin New York’s Catskill Mountains. “It was very conscious,” she said of the move during an interview on ​​Sunday TODAYwithhostWillie Geist.“I’ve always wanted to live on a farm. I justneed to feel groundedsomewhere that I can trust will always be there.”

Amanda Seyfried’s kids celebrate Easter.Amanda Seyfried Instagram

While Seyfried maintains a private life for her children, she does share glimpses into life on the farm, including her daughter helping out.

“She’s hired,” shecaptioned the videoof Nina scooping food into bowls, opening the barn doors and calling for the goats to come inside.

In addition to her passion for animals, Nina also shares a similar interest with her parents – performing. “She’s not working, but I know in my bones that this is what she is.She’s a performer,” she told PEOPLE in 2023. “Will she do it as a career? Who knows?”

Seyfried said she would be supportive if her daughter followed in her famous mom’s footsteps. “Totally,” Seyfried told PEOPLE at the 2022Emmy Awardswhen asked whether she wouldsupport her daughter pursuing acting. “My husband’s like, ‘I’m terrified.’ "

“And I was like, ‘Let her do what she’s going to do. She’s a f—— child of actors. What do you expect?’ " she joked.

Amanda Seyfried’s daughter Nina.Amanda Seyfried Instagram

Seyfried tries to include her daughter in certain aspects of her career, including when she’s getting ready for red carpet events. For the2021 Golden Globes, she shared the sweet way sheinvolved her daughter in her glam squad.

“I wouldn’t let her do my makeup tonight so she brushed my hand,” Seyfried captioned an Instagram Story of Nina applying makeup to her hand.

“I want her to seeLetters to Julietbecause so many young girls — girls of all ages, really — come up to me and say, ‘I lovedLetters to Juliet. It was so beautiful.’ ”

There’s no word on whether or not Nina has seen that particular movie yet, but shehasseenMamma Mia!, and according to what Seyfried told PEOPLE in September 2024, her daughter is “obsessed.”

“My mom showed my daughter, and my daughter is now obsessed, and so she’s 7, so she’s in second grade, and all her friends are obsessed. So now they’re starting to recognize me as Sophie, which is a little weird, but how beautiful,” she said. “I don’t think she quite understands it, but she loves it. She loves it!”

Thomas, 4

Amanda Seyfried and her son Thomas kissing.Amanda Seyfried Instagram

On Sept. 28, 2020, Seyfried and Sadoski revealed they had welcomed their second child,son Thomas, after keeping the pregnancy under wraps.

While speaking with E!’sGiuliana Rancicfor the red carpet, Seyfried glanced at Thomas off-camera and told her, “I’ve got my son, who is 5 months old, laying against a pillow in a tux. I wish I could show you,he’s in a tux. Actually we haven’t put the bow-tie on. I was just feeding him. … It’s really a wonderful time, isn’t it for everybody?”

Amanda Seyfried and her son Thomas.Amanda Seyfried Instagram

“Say hi. Look at that nice man,” she said to Thomas.

“Hi buddy. Oh my God, what a cute guy. Come on,” Geist said of the then-7-month-old.

Seyfried told Geist that even though she has to “squeeze in so much more work” doing press from home, “The benefits outweigh everything.”

Despite her son being around cameras from a young age, Seyfried revealed he doesn’t understand what she does for a living.

source: people.com