Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen have kept showing up together in public, and by June 2025 they were doing it as a couple at the Tribeca Film Festival. The pair were also seen together at Cannes in May 2025, where their appearances offered a clear look at a relationship that has moved from private connection to repeated red-carpet presence.
At De Niro’s photocall in Cannes, Chen wore a striped strapless dress with a white cardigan, a thin black belt and white crochet flats, while he chose a dark-gray cardigan, a light-gray polo, earth-toned pants and dark-brown loafers. After that, they walked the opening ceremony red carpet, where Chen wore a sparkly black dress with thin straps and a necklace with two black gems, and De Niro wore a black suit with a bow tie. In June, at Tribeca opening night, he wore a black polo shirt under a gray blazer and Chen wore a black dress with lace detailing along the midriff, neckline and straps.
The public timeline around them stretches back to 2021, when De Niro had already been seen with Chen, and the relationship became clearer after the actor announced in May 2023 that he had welcomed his seventh child, Gia, at 79. Chen later said in July 2023 that she and De Niro got back in touch a couple years after working together on The Intern, and that after reconnecting they realized they got along and then got along very well. That explanation has remained the simplest account of how a work relationship turned into a long-running romance.
De Niro has been unusually open about the practical side of fatherhood. In a later 2023 interview, he said he does not do the heavy lifting, and in a 2025 interview he said he spends his mornings watching Ms Rachel with Gia and giving her her bottle. Chen, described as 35 years younger than De Niro, has been visible beside him at major events including the Chanel pre-Oscar dinner in March 2024, where she wore a black lace bra under a black velvet blazer and he wore a black polo under a navy-blue blazer. The pattern is hard to miss: the relationship is no longer a rumor trail from a set or a single appearance, but an established part of De Niro’s public life, with Cannes and Tribeca in 2025 underscoring that it is still very much in view.