Nepo baby makes rare red carpet appearance with Oscar winner mom

She is the daughter of a showbiz icon who has left her own mark on Hollywood yet rejects the nepo baby label. 

A true mother-daughter team, she has worked with her mom in front of the camera, including the wildly-popular musical Sister Act 2.

Yet she is adamant she didn’t get the role just because of her mother – insisting she had to audition to be in the film. 

The family may now be rich and famous but are now stranger to struggle; they endured poverty before finding success. 

On Monday, she was seen supporting her Oscar-winning mother at a Broadway show inspired by her mom’s work.  

Can you guess who this star is? 

She is the daughter of a showbiz icon who has left her own mark on Hollywood yet rejects the nepo baby label – can you guess who?

If you guessed Whoopi Goldberg’s daughter Alex Martin, you are correct!

On Monday, Martin walked the red carpet alongside her mother at the premiere of The Whoopi Monologues, the new Broadway show which reimagines Goldberg’s 1984 one-woman show. 

Born in May 1974, Martin is the beloved Hollywood actress and presenter’s only child and has worked as an actress and producer in her own right.

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Over the years, she produced two works and also appeared in several films  including three featuring her mother, The Color Purple, Sister Act 2, and Call Me Claus. 

Sister Act star Goldberg, 70, was just 18 when she welcomed her daughter with her first husband, Alvin Martin, whom she married in 1973. They divorced in 1979.

Life was very different for the mother and daughter in the beginning and Martin has spoken about the struggles they faced before Goldberg’s career took off.

‘I know what it’s like with the food stamps, because my mom has her [welfare] cards framed,’ she told TheGrio.com.

‘I remember we had the one room space, and we slept in the bed together.’

Goldberg got her big break in the early ’80s after she caught the attention of Steven Spielberg during her Broadway spell and he went on to cast her as the lead role in his critically acclaimed 1985 film, The Color Purple.

As her mother’s career skyrocketed, Martin welcomed her first child, daughter Amara Skye Dean, in 1989 when she was just 16.

If you guessed Whoopi Goldberg’s daughter Alex Martin, you are correct! 

Martin also had a small part in her mother’s 1993 Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, playing one of the school kids. 

Yet she didn’t get the part just because her famous mother was the film’s star.

During an appearance on The View in celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary, Martin shut down nepo baby claims and insisted she had to audition for the role just like anyone else. 

‘You’ve heard all these people talking about your mom… so, you may be Whoopi’s daughter but you say there was no nepo baby situation when you got this role?’ co-host Sunny Hostin asked Martin. 

The actress attended the opening night of her mother’s Broadway show, The Whoopi Monologues

Martin fired back: ‘No, there wasn’t!’ before adding: ‘I’ve heard you guys talk about this nepo baby stuff… I have yet to experience that, how about that?’ as the cast and the hosts burst out laughing. 

Referring to the film’s music supervisor Marc Shaiman, Martin then confirmed: ‘Yes, I auditioned like everybody else. I’m glad Marc wasn’t there because I don’t sound like them when I sing!

‘But it was a very interesting experience and I realized that I’m not good at auditions, that’s what I know, but other than that, I got the job!’ she added.

Martin is also a mom-of-three. After making Goldberg a grandmother at 34, she went on to welcome two children – Jerzey, born in 1995, and Mason, born in 1998 – with her husband, Bernard Dean.

Interestingly, Martin married her husband Dean, three times. The couple divorced twice before tying the knot again in 2011.

She became a grandmother in 2014 when her eldest daughter gave birth to her first child, Charli Rose Burr-Reynaud.

In her words memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother And Me, Goldberg claimed her daughter became pregnant at age 15 in order to get ‘revenge’ on her for being away so much once her movie career took off.

She penned: ‘Years later, Alex told me that she thinks she got pregnant as a teenager because she wanted one person in her life who didn’t know who Whoopi Goldberg was.

‘I thought she was getting her revenge on me for being gone so much. I got it.’

She went on to add that when she initially asked her daughter if she was certain about keeping her baby and claimed Martin said, ‘Yes I want to have this baby. And this baby will love me, and she won’t know you.’

‘Now to some that may sound harsh, but I understood,’ Goldberg added.

Born in May 1974, Martin, 51, is the beloved Hollywood actress and presenter’s only child and has worked as an actress and producer in her own right

Life was very different for the mother and daughter in the beginning and Martin has spoken about the struggles they faced before Goldberg’s career took off

‘See, people would move my kid out of the way and not even realize they had done it. After a while, it really p**sed her off.’

Goldberg previously said that she chose her acting career over her daughter because she felt her sH๏τ at fame ‘would never happen again.’

Goldberg and her daughter have an incredibly close bond and over the years they have both publicly heaped praise on each other.

During Martin’s appearance on The View in 2016, Goldberg proudly described her as ‘one of the most trustworthy and loyal people I know.’

As she continued to compliment on her daughter, she continued: ‘She is somebody who makes me laugh.

‘We can talk to each other any time during the day or night. I just like her a lot.’

The pair have made numerous public appearances together too, having recently stepped out for a joint appearance at the Oscars in March.