Antonio Banderas
Prior to their separation in 2014, Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas had been married for nearly two decades. During their marriage, the couple had a daughter, and they also shared two children, Dakota and Alexander, from Melanie’s previous marriages. In a 2020 interview, Antonio expressed that Dakota “was, and she is and she will be very important to me.”

Conversely, Dakota has remarked that Antonio’s love for her and her siblings was “so loud that it would change all of our lives.”