Hayden Christensen and his daughter, Briar Rose Christensen, enjoy watching baseball together. On Aug. 15, the Star Wars alum brought Briar to a Chicago Cubs game, where during the 7th-inning stretch, they serenaded the stadium by singing the classic "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." The performance was a rare public outing for Christensen and Briar, whom he shares with his ex, Rachel Bilson. The couple welcomed their child on Oct. 29, 2014, six years after meeting on the set of the 2008 film Jumper. Since then, Christensen and Bilson have opened up about co-parenting after splitting in 2017, including why they’ve been able to do it successfully. “Communication is key and just being on the same page, so everything's about the kid," Bilson told PEOPLE in July 2021. "As long as you put the kid first, everything will be okay." Christensen and Bilson have revealed a few of Briar’s interests, like Taylor Swift, cooking and wanting to be an actor like her parents. But at the same time, the O.C. star and Star Wars actors have been careful to protect their child’s privacy, including not posting photos of her face on social media. Here's everything to know about Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson's daughter, Briar Rose Christensen. She was born in October 2014 Christensen and Bilson welcomed their daughter Briar Rose Christensen on Oct. 29, 2014. Bilson’s rep confirmed the news to PEOPLE with a statement that read, “Both mother and baby are healthy and doing well.” A source had previously confirmed to PEOPLE in May 2014 that the couple were expecting a baby. At the time, Christensen and Bilson had been together for about six years, though they did take a short break from their relationship at one point. The couple got engaged in late 2009, but broke up in the summer of 2010. Despite reconciling, the pair eventually split for good in 2017, after nearly 10 years together. She has a fairy tale-inspired name If Briar Rose’s name sounds familiar, that’s because she’s named after a Disney princess — or, more specifically, the original Brothers Grimm story that inspired her. Briar Rose is the name of Sleeping Beauty in the Brothers Grimm version of the folktale, and in the Disney version, the character Aurora is referred to as Briar Rose as a child. “There’s a Disney reference there, I suppose,” Christensen said on Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family in 2015. “The original Sleeping Beauty is called Briar Rose.” He added, “We both love all things Disney — but Rachel especially was very keen on the name. We have Disney songs playing around the house 24/7 right now.” She made her Instagram debut at 9 months old When Briar was 9 months old, Bilson shared a photo of her on Instagram for the first time — but she was sure to keep her baby’s face hidden. The picture shows Briar and Christensen sitting on a blanket in a park while the actor blows bubbles for his daughter. Since then, while the parents have shared rare snaps of Briar without showing her face, they generally choose to keep her life as private as they can. “They don’t choose to be in the limelight, you know, themselves. When they’re old enough and they want to pursue it and that’s what they do then that’s fine. But it’s not like I want to promote my kid or put her out there,” Bilson said on The Viall Files. But, she recognized that keeping her daughter out of the public eye as much as possible is particularly hard due to the paparazzi. “They don’t care,” the Hart of Dixie actress said. “I saw a picture the other day of my daughter somewhere and she’s looking at the camera smiling because she has no idea. She thinks someone is just taking her picture … it’s so innocent but it crushed me. Like, ‘No! You don’t know what they’re doing!’ " Bilson also shared a couple of rare photos of her daughter in honor of her 10th birthday in October 2024. "Happy Birthday my sweet, loving, kind, beautiful girl. You’re my reason. TEN!" she wrote in the caption. She’s a Swiftie Briar got the chance to attend Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, but she was not happy when she had to go home before the last song. "We left early," Bilson said on her podcast Broad Ideas in August 2023. "Briar's friend Aria danced her a-- off to 'I Knew You Were Trouble' — she was feeling it — and then just turned around, sat in her seat and passed out." The problem was: Briar wasn’t as tired as her concert buddies. Bilson continued, "Everyone around us was laughing because it was so cute. Briar wanted to stay until the end, but her two friends were just done. So we left early. Briar was so mad about that. She was so mad." Despite Briar’s annoyance, The Last Kiss star is pleased that Swift was her daughter’s first concert. "It was a really cool experience except that it was Briar's first concert and I'm like, 'Where do you go from here?' " Bilson said about Swift's show. "For my daughter to see this, I think it's so rad. It's one woman, she writes her own s---, she's really talented and she does it and like, look at what she's done." She wants to be an actor like her parents With two parents who are actors, it’s no surprise that Briar is intrigued by their careers. But, Bilson shared that she didn’t expect Briar to want to be an actor herself quite so soon. "She's already said she wants to act, and I'm like, 'How do we handle this?' " Bilson said on the podcast Betches Moms in 2021. "I think to keep that away from her as long as possible is our top choice … It's not what I would want for her at this age." Bilson also shared the extent to which her then-6-year-old daughter understood her and Christensen’s jobs. "I think she knows that her mom — and her dad's an actor too — so she kind of knows that we are in that world," she explained. "But she's not aware of that level." Bilson added, "I think she knows he was in Star Wars, but she has no idea what that even means because she hasn't seen anything. She has an idea, but not really. I'd like to keep it that way." She hasn’t seen Star Wars yet Christensen has revealed what Briar knows about the Star Wars franchise in which he famously plays Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. "She knows that I'm in Star Wars and that I play this character, but she's never seen it yet. So, I'm getting to that. I'm trying to figure out my best point of entry,” Christensen said during an episode of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series in June 2023. “There's some disturbing scenes I'm reluctant for her to see at this age.” Christensen said that he was able to introduce Briar to more of Star Wars when he appeared on the spinoff TV series Obi-Wan Kenobi. “It was really nice getting to do the Obi-Wan show and actually bring her to set,” he continued. “Not when I was in the Darth Vader outfit, but we did the flashback sequence and I got to play Anakin, and so I brought her to set for that, and she got to see me swing a lightsaber with Ewan [McGregor].” He added, “She was very concerned for my well-being. She was afraid that one of us were gonna get hurt." Briar might not have seen the movies, but she did get to travel to a galaxy far, far away when she visited Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland with her father for her fifth birthday in 2019. A series of photos from Christensen and his daughter’s visit were released, including one that shows Briar — photographed from behind — holding a purple lightsaber. “We have a couple lightsabers kicking around the house, and actually, she was my first lightsaber training partner when I came back to the Obi-Wan show,” Christensen shared during a 2022 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She hasn’t seen The O.C. yet, either While talking about her The O.C. rewatch podcast Welcome to the OC, Bitches! during her episode of Betches Moms, Bilson shared that she hopes it is a long time before Briar watches the show — she wants her to be “at least 35.” Still, she thinks that her character, Summer Roberts, becomes a good role model by the series finale and could possibly take on motherhood. In the episode, Bilson was asked if she’d rather parent Summer or let Summer raise Briar, and she said, “I would rather have Summer parent my daughter … because by the end of the show, she did like a 180, and I feel like she was kind of a responsible person.” She added, “It was, like, a full arc … She'll know how to hug a tree!” She is close with her mom Bilson and Briar have a close relationship. "It's so crazy, we're pretty inseparable," the Take Two star told PEOPLE in July 2024. "And she talks to me. She is very open and will talk to me about things or what kids say at school. It's just really nice that we have that dialogue." Briar is also pretty even-keeled, making her a "different kid" than her mom was, as Bilson explained during an August 2024 episode of her podcast Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen. "I almost feel weird talking about it with other parents because she doesn't throw fits," she said. "It's just ... it's not how she is. So if there's ever a time where she's off or gets kind of upset about something, it totally disregulates [sic] me." Bilson added, "But she really is that way and she's so kind and it's just her inner being."