For decades, Academy Award-winning actressLaura Dernhas beguiled fans and critics alike with her mesmerizing Hollywood performances.

Offscreen, Dern takes her mother role just as seriously.

The actress shares two children with her ex-husband Ben Harper, Ellery and Jaya.

Laura Dern with Ellery and Jaya at “Little Women” premiere

For seven years, Dern has tackled the challenges of motherhood without a partner by her side.

Her divorce to musician Ben Harper, according toCountry Living, became final in 2013.

With children who are not only similarlygorgeous(those genes!)

Laura Dern’s son, Ellery

Dern confirmed that her ex-husband “wanted him to wait a little bit more.”

The outfit perhaps symbolized Ellery’s rite-of-passage into the grown-up world of high fashion.

She named it “Mom Takeover.”

Jaya Harper

Like her mother, Harper is committed to seeing social change in Hollywood, and among fellow U.S. teens.