Guardians of the Galaxy’s Karen Gillan Welcomes 1st Baby: Photos

Karen Gillan is officially a mom to a baby girl!

The Guardians of the Galaxy actress, 37, took to Instagram on Thursday, January 2, to reveal that she welcomed her first child with husband Nick Kocher at the tail-end of 2024.

“2024 thank you for giving us Clementine 🍊,” Gillan shared alongside a series of cute photos revealing baby Clementine for the first time. In one pic, the Scotland-born actress is seen holding her newborn, who sweetly rests her head on her mom’s shoulder. Another photo shows Kocher holding Clementine. A third photo shows the new parents holding mugs that read, “Best Dad Ever” and “Best Mom Ever.”

Gillan continued in her caption, “Also as per the last slide – I shot a film called ‘Let’s Have Kids’ right as I got preggo in real life so take that Daniel Day-Lewis.” The last slide of Gillan’s post shows her on the set of the movie, sitting at the foot of the bed of a person about to give birth.

The former Doctor Who star debuted her baby bump last September during the red carpet premiere of her film, The Life of Chuck, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The actress wore a yellow bodycon dress and cradled her stomach as she posed for photographs at the Prince of Wales Theatre alongside her Life of Chuck costars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tom Hiddleston.

Gillan married Kocher in May 2022 when the couple secretly tied the knot at Castle Toward in Scotland.

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During a 2023 appearance on Live With Kelly and Mark, Gillan revealed that she met her husband through social media, saying that the “algorithm” brought them together after seeing him via Instagram’s recommended friends list.

“I DMed him on Twitter saying, ‘Hi, your tweets are really funny. I’m Karen, by the way,’” the Guardians of the Galaxy star shared at the time. “It wasn’t very interesting. I hadn’t really read his tweets.”

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For the most part, the couple has kept their relationship out of the public eye, though Gillan revealed in 2023 that she once attended a couples therapy appointment in her full Nebula makeup while filming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

“In honor of Guardians of the Galaxy in theaters Friday, here’s a screenshot of the time I forgot I had scheduled a COUPLES THERAPY session on a day we were shooting,” the actress, who portrays the gruff, blue cyborg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wrote via X at the time.