Exes Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith share one daughter, Juno Rose Diana Jackson.
After they were first linked in 2018, the pair secretly wed in 2019, which PEOPLE confirmed that December. The following month, they were spotted in Los Angeles together with Turner-Smith proudly displaying a baby bump.
In April 2020, the couple welcomed their baby girl. Although they kept the details private, reps confirmed to PEOPLE that “both mother and baby are happy and healthy.”
After four years of marriage, Turner-Smith filed for divorce in October 2023. At the time, the pair settled on joint custody of their daughter, with neither paying child support.
However, in December 2024, Turner-Smith requested that Jackson pay her for retroactive child and spousal support, claiming that while they were together, she acted as Juno’s primary caretaker while Jackson “continued to advance in his acting career.” Reps for Jackson and Turner-Smith did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Still, the former couple remain dedicated to prioritizing their daughter.
In October 2024, Turner-Smith opened up in an interview with Glamour U.K. about the “adjustment period” that comes with co-parenting.
“Nobody hands you a manual. Everyone’s trying to figure it out,” she shared. She went on to gush about Juno, saying, “I said I wanted a brilliant, intelligent, sassy daughter, and here she is.”
Jackson, meanwhile, opened up about how fatherhood has changed his life in “every possible way” during a 2021 interview with MR. PORTER magazine.
“It’s 100 percent changed how I approach my work and my life. That has been made so clear to me in this past year. For me to feel good about what I’m doing day to day, my family has to be the central focus,” he said.
Here’s everything to know about Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith’s daughter, Juno.
She was born at home
Jackson and Turner-Smith welcomed their daughter, Juno, in April 2020, at their home in Los Angeles.
The Queen & Slim actress opened up about her experience giving birth at home during the COVID-19 pandemic in an essay for British Vogue. “It was intense and powerful, often overwhelming in its magnitude,” she wrote of her nearly four-day labor.
Prior to the pandemic, the couple had already opted for a home birth, and with COVID creating more hospital restrictions, that decision was even more important. “Delivering at home ensured that I had what every single woman deserves to have: full agency in determining my birth support,” she wrote.
“I will never, ever forget the moment when my husband, Josh, placed her in my arms for the first time, this tiny little person I had been imagining for nearly 10 months,” she continued. “All I could do was look at her face and keep repeating, ‘It’s really you.’ ”
Her name was kept secret for three years
Although Jackson and Turner-Smith spoke publicly about the joy of becoming parents, the pair kept the details about their baby girl to themselves. In fact, her name wasn’t revealed until October 2023 when Turner-Smith filed for divorce and joint custody.
Initial reports cited her name as “Janie,” which Turner-Smith was quick to refute. “I really like that people don’t know what her name is, because that belongs to her,” she told ELLE in June 2023. “But I was absolutely incensed when it was reported, as fact, that her name is Janie. No offense to anyone named Janie; that’s great, that’s lovely. It’s just not what we would name our daughter! It’s not Janie!”
Court documents obtained by PEOPLE later that year revealed her full name as Juno Rose Diana Jackson.
She was named after Juno Sospita, the Roman goddess of war and protection, the actress later revealed. Turner-Smith chose the name after a trip to Rome where she saw the statue of the goddess at the Vatican.
“I look at that picture [of the statue] often and remind myself that this is the energy I named her after,” she told The Cut in June 2024. “So I shouldn’t be surprised that I literally have a warrior.”
Jackson and Turner-Smith have been co-parenting since their split in October 2023
Following their split in October 2023, the couple agreed to joint physical and legal custody of Juno with neither side paying child support.
That same month, Jackson sparked romance rumors with actress Lupita Nyong’o, whom he dated for nearly a year. Despite the timing, Turner-Smith remained unbothered by their relationship. “We need happiness in order to peacefully co-parent,” she told The Cut.
“I just have to do everything that I can to set Juno up to win and to peacefully co-parent with someone whom I once loved very, very much,” she continued.
However, in December 2024, Turner-Smith requested that Jackson pay her $8,543 per month since October 2023 in retroactive child support, as well as $28,641 per month since October 2023 of spousal support.
“Josh promised to always support me and ensured me that I would not have to worry about financial security for our daughter if we ever separated because he said he understood how difficult life can be as a Black woman and a single mother,” Turner-Smith alleged in the court documents.
Juno has helped her mother “heal”
Born in England to Jamaican parents, Turner-Smith has been an outspoken advocate for Black representation in Hollywood for as long as she’s been in the public eye. She’s also openly pushed for gender equality and motherhood has only made her fight more.
Speaking to PEOPLE in April 2021, the actress shared that she learned “to advocate even harder for myself” during pregnancy. “You see the ways in which you’re discriminated against as a pregnant person in the workforce,” she said. “People treat you different.”
Having a daughter of her own, Turner-Smith is even more inclined to push for justice. “I have to, in my ways, show her how to be a person that loves themselves,” she said. “Loving yourself means having boundaries, means standing up for yourself, means standing up for what’s right in the world.”
Juno has also helped her “heal” when it comes to her own feelings and issues around colorism. In a March 2023 interview with ELLE UK, the Anne Boleyn star opened up about raising a biracial child. “She is going to have a completely different experience in the world than I did, because I have given birth to a mixed-race girl,” she explained.
She went on to say that she “had a lot of resistance to becoming a mother” before meeting Jackson, and certainly never expected to have kids with a White man.
“I always said if I were to have children, I wanted to have Black, Black babies so that I could affirm them as children with the love that I felt I needed to have been affirmed with by the outside world,” Turner-Smith explained.
She continued, “Now that I’ve got this little, tiny, light-skinned boss, I feel like it’s the universe teaching me lessons. I’ve been given a daughter who looks this way to heal my own conversations around colourism.”
Jackson was raising his daughter in his childhood home before it burned down
Jackson bought back his childhood home in Topanga, Calif., in 2001 so that he could one day raise his kids there.
“I bought this house for my daughter,” Jackson shared during an Instagram Live with his Dawson’s Creek costar, Sasha Alexander, in September 2024. “I never got to experience the love of a father. And I’m getting to experience it now. And that’s what this house is for.”
The family lived there through January 2025, when his home burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. Two months later, Jackson opened up about losing the house during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, sharing that when he went to go see it after it was destroyed, he found that it was no longer the special place he envision himself raising his daughter in.
“In some ways, I’m actually excited for the opportunity … that house has given me so much over the years, right? And I have loved it, and it has loved me. It has everything: the heartbreak, the baby, just life. All of life is in there,” Jackson said.
“Every floorboard is a piece of my story. And I’m excited to build a new house that doesn’t have all of Daddy’s history in it, that is for her and I,” he continued. “So when she grows up, every floorboard has her story in it. And so in some ways, it’s not how I would have chosen to do a remodel, but in some ways I’m actually excited about the process.”
She travels the world with her mother
As an actress, Turner-Smith frequently travels the world, but whenever possible, she likes to have her daughter with her.
During an interview with PEOPLE in November 2024, she opened up about balancing work with motherhood. “I’m very fortunate in that I’m really supported by my mom in looking after my daughter,” she said. “Whenever I have to work, my mum travels with me and helps me to look after her.”
Although she experiences a certain level of internal guilt for being a working mother, she also uses it as an opportunity to set a good example for her daughter.
“My hope is always, and I’ve said this many times: that I’m modeling fulfillment for my daughter,” she said. “I really love my job. I love to do it. It makes me very happy.”
“I hope my daughter sees my work ethic and sees my drive, sees the love I give to my job and is inspired by that,” she continued. “And then you know all that you can do is then when I’m not working, I give her all of me.”
Her parents keep her out of the spotlight
Since Juno’s birth, both Jackson and Turner-Smith have worked hard to protect her privacy. While they have each shared glimpses of her and her life on social media, they have been cognizant about not showing her face.
“The biggest boundary I set is I don’t share photos of my daughter for multiple reasons,” Turner-Smith told Refinery 29 in March 2022. “I feel the need to protect her from the world. I think anybody feels that for their child.”
The actress further expressed a need to keep her daughter away from the negativity that social media can bring. “For as long as I can shield her from social media … I have to try. Also, she’s young, and she doesn’t have her own agency and what is put out there about her. I don’t want to take that from her.”
In her own career, Turner-Smith has always felt the need to keep certain aspects of her life to herself. While she has come to terms with the fact that she’s a public figure, the actress expressed a need to protect her daughter from that same publicity, she told Bustle in December 2022.
“I think the bottom line is, I accept the thorns that come with the rose,” Turner-Smith said. “I accept them for me. I don’t accept them for my daughter.”
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