Becoming a father again at the age of 68, Robert De Niro and his wife have welcomed a baby girl via a surrogate mother.

Little Helen Grace is the second child for the legendary actor and Grace Hightower, with the couple also parents to 13-year-old son Elliot.

A representative for the Oscar winner confirmed the tot's birth to People on Friday (December 23), with Helen weighing in at 7 lbs., 2 oz.

The baby news comes after the couple wed in 1997, with Robert also having four other children - two grown up children from his first marriage to Diahnne Abbott, and 16-year-old twin boys with his ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith, also born via a surrogate mother.