{"id":8645,"date":"2026-07-13T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/how-sam-neill-reconnected-with-son-25-years-after-placing-him-for-adoption\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:03:05","slug":"how-sam-neill-reconnected-with-son-25-years-after-placing-him-for-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/how-sam-neill-reconnected-with-son-25-years-after-placing-him-for-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sam Neill reconnected with son 25 years after placing him for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F07%2Fsam-neill-adopted-son.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sam Neill detailed his \u201cunusual\u201d family and how he reconnected with his son Andrew 25 years after placing him up for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Over a decade before <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/13\/celebrity-news\/sam-neill-dead-at-78-starred-in-jurassic-park\/\">Neill\u2019s death<\/a>, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/article\/what-ive-learnt-sam-neill-m7dkrlbdt6p\">told the Sunday Times<\/a> in a rare comment about his family that they\u2019re \u201cmore extended than most.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cJurassic Park\u201d actor explained Andrew was adopted when his eldest child \u201cwas very small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was quite small, too \u2013 in my early twenties,\u201d the actor noted during the 2014 interview. \u201cI didn\u2019t see him for 25 years and then we went looking for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Sam Neill (seen above in 2012) placed his son Andrew for adoption and then reconnected with him 25 years later.  <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill (seen above) opened up about his \u201cslightly unusual family\u201d in a 2014 Sunday Times story. <span class=\"credit\">MediaPunch \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Neill said while most reunions \u201care portrayed as sentimental and grisly,\u201d there was \u201cnothing sentimental\u201d about his and Andrew\u2019s reconciliation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one sobs in anyone\u2019s arms; it\u2019s much more grown-up,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Neill said the advice he\u2019d give to his 20-year-old self is that \u201cyou\u2019re more capable than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cJurassic Park\u201d actor (seen above in 1989) said he and Andrew \u201cwent looking for each other\u201d after 25 years.  <span class=\"credit\">Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill (seen above in 1981) noted the pair\u2019s reunion was not \u201csentimental\u201d. <span class=\"credit\">Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Neill \u2014 who died Monday at age 78 \u2014 had three other children in addition to Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>He welcomed his second son, Tim, in 1983 with actress Lisa Harrow. They met on the set of the 1981 film \u201cOmen III: The Final Conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neill had a daughter, Elena, with his ex-wife, Japanese make-up artist Noriko Watanabe, whom he was married to from 1989 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d star also adopted Watanabe\u2019s daughter, Maiko, from a previous relationship. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill had three other children including son Tim, whom he welcomed with ex LIsa Harrow (both pictured above in 1981\u2019s \u201cOmen III: The Final Conflict\u201d). <span class=\"credit\">INSTARimages<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill also had two daughters, one biological and one adopted, with ex-wife Noriko Watanabe. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Neill was mostly private about his family life, though he did announce the birth of his grandson Nahlo on Instagram in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Love. I don\u2019t put family on media stuff. Except when they\u2019re brand new. This is my brand new grandson Nahlo, the bestest boy, 2 weeks old,\u201d Neill wrote alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CWcLvSZPrG2\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=APiT99zP8g-_iIXYr3unK3m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a photo of him holding the newborn.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo chilled, no fuss. Just eats, sleeps and thinks about things,\u201d Neill continued. \u201cParents blissed out, and everybody happy. Me particularly. The love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2023, Neill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/mar\/17\/sam-neill-cancer-memoir-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told The Guardian<\/a> that watching his \u201clovely little grandchildren\u201d grow up was one of the reasons he\u2019d be \u201cannoyed\u201d if he died.<\/p>\n<p>But Neill also said at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/13\/celebrity-news\/jurassic-park-star-sam-neill-made-eerie-comments-about-dying-3-years-before-death\/\">he was \u201cnot afraid to die.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill and Watanabe (pictured above in 1993) separated in 2017 after over 25 years of marriage. <span class=\"credit\">Ralph Dominguez\/MediaPunch\/INSTARimages<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill was mostly private about his kids, though he did post his grandson Nahlo on Instagram in 2021 (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/samneilltheprop<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Neill\u2019s family announced his \u201csudden and unexpected\u201d death two months after the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/28\/celebrity-news\/jurassic-park-star-sam-neill-reveals-hes-now-cancer-free\/\">confirmed he was cancer-free <\/a>following a battle with angioimmunoblastic\u00a0T-cell lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with immense sadness that the wh\u0101nau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia,\u201d the family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Neill \u201cpassed with the dignity that has characterized his whole life,\u201d his loved ones noted.<\/p>\n<p>They also promised that \u201cmore details will be shared later.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/13\/celebrity-news\/how-sam-neill-reconnected-with-son-25-years-after-placing-him-for-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Neill detailed his \u201cunusual\u201d family and how he reconnected with his son Andrew 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sam-neill-adopted-son.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}