No word yet on who the godfather will be.
E! Online senior editor Marc Malkin has exclusively learned that Sofia Coppola gave birth Tuesday in Paris to a baby girl, her first child with her French musician boyfriend Thomas Mars. The creative couple have named their daughter Romy, after Sofia's brother, Roman.
Actually, the pair can thank each other's creative prowess for their couplehood status. Coppola met Mars when his band Phoenix contributed the tune "Too Young" to the Lost in Translation soundtrack.
Coppola and filmmaker Spike Jonze divorced in December 2003 after four and a half years of marriage. Soon after, Lost in Translation won Coppola the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Coppola's latest film, Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst as the part-reviled, part-misunderstood young queen, opened last month to generally positive reviews after getting booed at Cannes over the summer. Many U.S. critics, however, interpreted the director's decidedly modernist take on 18th-century France as a commentary on celebrity youth culture.
Not one to be discouraged by criticism, of course (The Godfather: Part III, anyone?), Coppola, 35, stood by her vision, which combines an '80s-era punk rock soundtrack with an intimate look at a decadent and hyperstylized Versailles circa 1770.
''I wanted to make a personal story and not a big epic historical biopic,'' she told the New York Times in September. ''I didn't want to get bogged down with history, but to focus on the personal relations between these people…I'm not a fetishist about historical accuracy. I'm just, like, making it my thing."
Babies, presumably, now included.