Meet Rachael Leigh Cook's 2 Kids! All About Charlotte and Theodore

Mar. 15, 2025

Rachael Leigh Cook and her children.Photo:Anna Webber/Getty

Anna Webber/Getty

Rachael Leigh Cookis all that when it comes to parenting her two children: Charlotte and Theodore.

TheShe’s All Thatstar and her ex-husband,The Vampire DiariesactorDaniel Gillies, became parents almost a decade after tying the knot.

Upon becoming a mom, Cook shared how her life had changed, including that because she naturally prioritized her children, she missed “feeling like a good friend.”

“I feel like I’mpretty flaky right nowbecause my kids come first, second, third, everything,” Cook told PEOPLE in 2017. She also opened up about the struggle she experienced when it came to being a working mother.

“My kids make me want to almost cry every time I leave because they’re now old enough to say, ‘No, Mom, don’t go, don’t do work,’ ” she previously told PEOPLE. “‘Work’ is a very bad buzzword around our house, because they know that it means that Mom or Dad is leaving.”

Cook and Gillies — whodivorcedin 2021 — co-parent their children, coming together as a family for key events including celebrating Halloween together.

Here is everything to know about Rachael Leigh Cook’s two kids:  Charlotte and Theodore.

Charlotte Easton Gillies, 11

Rachael Leigh Cook and her daughter Charlotte Easton Gillies.Amy Sussman/Getty

Amy Sussman/Getty

Cook and Gillies welcomed their daughter, Charlotte Easton, on Sept. 28, 2013.

“it’s a girl. the tiny new empress of my everything. she’s immaculate. we’re delirious,” Gillies posted onX (formerly Twitter)shortly after her birth.

Four months earlier, shortly before the pair’s nine-year wedding anniversary, Cook and Gillies announced they wereexpecting their first child. Cook — who played the role of special agent Kate Moretti on TNT’sPerception— was filming the second season of the show while pregnant with her daughter.

When Charlotte was a toddler, Cook opened up about motherhood and revealed some hilarious yet unexpected moments that accompanied parenting a child that age.

“We were in an Uber, going to the airport, and Charlotte, my daughter, goes ‘Mom, can I see your breasts?’ I’m like, ‘Definitely not. Definitely not, especially right now,’ ” Cook told PEOPLE in 2017. “I didn’t say ‘Please don’t say that again,’ but I was really thinking it. Man, would that have been an interesting ride.”

At 7 years old, Charlotte made herred carpet debutfor the 2021 premiere of Netflix’sHe’s All That, the gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1999 rom-com that catapulted Cook’s career.

In addition to watching movies together, Cook has also opened up about some of her preteen’s hobbies and interests. For her 9th birthday, Charlotte celebrated with a limousine ride and trip to the Cheesecake Factory with friends, and for Halloween that same year, she wanted to dress up as “something scary” — Roblox character Jenna the Killer.

“I was like, ‘That sounds aggressive. You just turned 9, but okay. I’m not getting in trouble around here. Be a nice kid,’ " Cook told PEOPLE jokingly in 2022, adding, “But no, it’s funny.”

Theodore Vigo Sullivan Gillies, 9

Rachael Leigh Cook and her son Theodore Vigo Sullivan Gillies.Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

Cook and Gillies welcomed their son, Theodore Vigo, on April 4, 2015.

After his birth, it took the second-time parents several days to choose their newborn’s moniker.

“We just couldn’tsettle on a namebecause it’s such an important decision,” Gillies told PEOPLE. He added that he used the nicknames “sweetheart,” “raisin” and even “calcified alien” for their son in the meantime.

“Even after he was born we couldn’t determine whether or not he was Theodore or Vigo, because he was just so beat up from [being born],” he added. “Some might say he should be Vigo because of Viggo Mortensen, kind of battle-scarred. But there was something so adorable about him.”

“In the end, he got both names: Theodore, Vigo, and my wife likes Sullivan,” he shared. “He was born on the fourth [day] of the fourth [month], and I said, ‘Let’s give him four names. Four seems to be his number.’ ”

Theodore’s arrival made a then-18-month-old Charlotte a big sister.

“She’ll be really sweet to my son and be like, ‘Look, Daddy! Look at how great I’m being,’ so that she can receive the reward later on, which is inevitably that I have to play her episodes ofDora the Explorer,“he added.

Even though Cook and Gillies had experience under their belt with the newborn phase, Gillies admitted that each child brought different challenges. “You think theexperience is going to be identical, but it’s just not,” Gillies told PEOPLE in 2015 of their son, who was nearly 3 months old at the time.

Cook has shared glimpses of Theodore’s life over the years,posting snapsof his handiwork in 2021, including a multi-use craft he worked on for his mom when he was 6 years old that doubled as a purse or a helmet.

“I was really excited to show it to them because they really wanted me to do the movie,” she told PEOPLE in 2022. “And I know that every actor, [like] myself, in their 40s is like, ‘I made this one for the kids.’ But this is my first ‘I made one for the kids’ moment.”

While her daughter thought the film “was awesome,” Theodore “said it was a little scary, but he’s 7,” Cook shared at the time.

source: people.com