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"I had this plan of introducing Ella to the world as an adult in this very Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly kind of way," the beret-clad 72-year-old, whose directorial debut was based on his 1997 children's book, said on Today May 20, "and so I did everything I could to really set the scene for this kind of introduction and it’s made a big impact so far. I’m so proud of her."

Ella is one of three children John welcomed with his late wife Kelly Preston, who died in 2020 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. The Saturday Night Fever alum and the Jerry Maguire actress became parents for the first time in 1992 with the arrival of their son Jett, who passed away in 2009 at the age of 16, and their now 15-year-old son Benjamin entered the world in 2010.

Given her parents' careers, it should come as no surprise that Ella caught the acting bug. She appeared alongside her mom and dad in the 2009 film Old Dogs and co-starred in his 2019 movie The Poison Rose.

"My first job I ever did acting was with him when I was 7, so I love working with my dad," the 26-year-old shared on Today in 2024. "If I could always do it, I would."

And while Ella is following in her family’s famous footsteps, John has made it clear she’s still carving her own path.

"She is her own person,” the Pulp Fiction actor told People in 2019. "She is gracious, generous, poised, graceful and gorgeous. I don't know how she came to be, and I don't take any credit other than just adoring her. And maybe that's a valid contribution."

"I think it’s different for each person going through loss, but for me personally it was just this pure message that I wanted to give to my mom," Ella explained to Today in 2024. "Because even though there can be so much support from everyone, it can also sometimes get in the way of how you truly feel and how you want to communicate those last words to that person."

And the song, she continued, was "my message from a baby bird to a mama bird and also to yourself too because you will always know what’s right and trust yourself.”

Look who’s talking baking. Both Ella and John have posted videos of her whipping up some tasty treats, including his 2023 clip of her "recreating the famous Tom Cruise gift cake."

"We’re a big food family," she added on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2019. "We do bake-offs at home too—like Chopped competitions or Bake-Off—but he wins every single time."

John and Ella’s familial bond proves they go together like ramma-lamma-lamma-ka-dingity-da-dinga-dong.

"He’s my biggest fan and I’m his biggest fan," she told Parade in 2023, "so there’s a lot of support going on, which is—it’s amazing. I learn so much from him all the time."

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