Naomi Watts Shares Snap of Daughter Kai, 15, as She Leaves for First Day of Junior Year: 'Here Comes 11th Grade'

Mar. 15, 2025

Naomi Watts and daughter Kai.Photo:ANDREA RENAULT/AFP via Getty Images

ANDREA RENAULT/AFP via Getty Images

Naomi Watts’daughter is heading back to the classroom!

On Thursday, Sept. 5 the actress, 55, shared a photo onher Instagram Storiesas her daughter Kai, 15, left for her first day of junior year of high school. Watts captured her daughter walking to school, wearing a pink tank top and denim skirt, carrying a tan Longchamp bag.

“Here comes 11th grade!!” Watts wrote across the picture.

Watts shares her daughter and son Sasha, 17, with exLiev Schreiber, 56.

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Naomi Watts shares photo of Kai on her first day of junior year.Naomi Watts/Instagram

Naomi Watts/Instagram

In July, Schreiber posted onInstagraminhonor of his son Sasha turning 17. “Happy Birthday Handsome!” the proud dad captioned a photo of the father-son duo posing together in front of a step and repeat.

Watts,who split from Schreiber in 2016, also shared asweet birthday tributefor Sasha on her Instagram. The actress posted two shots of the mother-son duo from hersecond wedding to husband Billy Crudupin June.

“Happy Birthday to my darling Sasha- you have a heart of gold. I’m so very proud of you,” the mom of two wrote in her caption. “17 years ago you shot into the world with your arms reaching for the sky. You are a force but with the most gentle soul.”

Naomi Watts and Kai.ANDREA RENAULT/AFP via Getty Images

While appearing onLive with Kelly and Markon Monday, April 15, Schreiber shared, “They’re amazing. Sasha and Kai, you know them.”

“I just talked to Sasha, who’s up at this terrific school in Vermont called The Mountain School, where he’s taking care of animals, and he just said that he’s bummed out because he’s missing being with her,” he told Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos of his kids.

“And it’s just, so sweet. My god. Such a sweetheart. And he did this little film for his class that he just sent me last night which was a short film. He made an adaptation of Doris Lessing’sThrough the Tunnel, which is basically about a kid who doesn’t want to grow up because he loves being a kid so much.”

“You know when your kids do things like that that just…you know, because they’re such monsters 99% of the time. And then they do something so profoundly sweet and you’re just like, ‘Wow,’ " the star joked.

source: people.com