50 Coolest Celebrity Dads
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Just in time for Father’s Day, here’s the companion list to last week’s 50 Coolest Celebrity Moms. And of course, you can check in with all the celebrity parents you love (and love to hate) every day at FameCrawler. – Catherine Connors
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Ben Stiller
Because even though I’ve never been a super-big fan of his movies – Starsky and Hutch really should never have been made – he’s indisputably funny, and I just can’t help imagining him pulling a Derek Zoolander with his kids and teaching them the fine art of the Blue Steel pose.
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Snoop Dogg
Because he’s confusing in the most interesting ways. Is he a bad-ass rapper? Is he a family man? Is he an urban cowboy with a talent for slipper design and ambitions to write childrens’ books? He is an enigma, wrapped in a contradiction, and you gotta love that.
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Guy Ritchie
Because he shares parenting duties with Madonna, and that can’t be easy. How many men out there have to defend the size of their balls against those of the mother of their children? He gets points just for trying.
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Christian Bale
Because he’s Batman, and the new Terminator, and is there really anything cooler than a dad who’s both a superhero and a cyborg?
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Matt Damon
Because he somehow managed to pull off being both sexiest man of the year and a live-action version of Ned Flanders and make the two seem totally compatible.
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Patrick Dempsey
Because even though he’s a pretty big star, he is still every inch the Geeky Dad in day-to-day life.
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David Beckham
Because he’s a world-class soccer player who tattoos his kids’ names on his back. So what if he married a Spice Girl? He’s David Beckham; he can do whatever he wants.
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Brad Pitt
Because, as a couple, he and Angelina really do seem committed to saving the world through globally inclusive parenting, and also because you almost never see an off-red-carpet picture of him without a kid on his shoulders. Who’d have thought that Tyler Durden would ever become a serious contender for Father of the Year?
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Because big strong tough-guy men with perpetual scowls on their faces look adorable with teeny weeny babies in their arms.
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David Boreanaz
Because he made the transition from 500-year-old vampire-with-a-soul to onscreen cop and doting father without losing an ounce of broodiness.
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Vin Diesel
See entry for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (no. 42)
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Tim Burton
Because if “cool” in a parent is defined according to a lack of concern with what other people think – and, perhaps, access to Johnny Depp – Tim Burton has got to be one of the coolest parents ever.
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Eminem
An odd choice, maybe, given all those songs in which he curses out the mother of his daughter. But for every one of those songs, there’re two that parse the challenges of fatherhood and the intensity of his love for his kids, and that’s pretty great.
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Colin Farrell
Because I’d bet a half dozen pints of Guinness that fatherhood hasn’t made him any less likely to be able to drink men twice his size under the table.
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Naveen Andrews
Because he’s one of the best characters on one of the best TV shows in the history of the universe, ever, and his kids are gonna be mad proud of that someday.
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Chris Noth
Because he’s Mr. Big. Do I need a better reason than that?
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Tobey Maguire
Because having Spiderman as a dad is just as cool, if not more cool, than having Batman for a dad.
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Harrison Ford
Because you gotta give a guy props for being able to crack a whip, defeat bad guys, find hidden treasure and sling small children around as a step-parent in his AARP years.
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David Letterman
Because becoming a father didn’t soften his edges any more than heart surgery did.
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Hugh Jackman
Because when he tosses his kids in the air, you just know that he’s gonna catch them.
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Seal
Because Heidi Klum told the world that she wanted to bear his children after seeing him in a pair of bicycle shorts, and it occurred to nobody to mock him for, you know, wearing bicycle shorts in front of Heidi Klum.
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Travis Barker
A rock-star drummer with more tattoos than David Beckham, his own reality show and his own fish taco joint. It doesn’t get much more bad-ass than that.
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David Arquette
Because I’m willing to bet that he’s more fun on a playdate than Courtney Cox.
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Matthew Fox
Because I’m guessing that even though he tends to play characters with destructive hero complexes, he’s probably one of those super-grounded dads who spends a lot of time playing softball with his kids.
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Will Smith
Because he’s probably the biggest star in Hollywood and yet has still managed to avoid a) divorce, and b) Scientology, neither of which is an easy feat.
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Total agree about Bourdain
I always wonder how he can stay so incredibly cool. I read Kitchen Confidential, and it’s incredible how his life used to be compared to how it is now. I think what he chose as his top books on BN.com says a lot about him. My bf sent me this link yesterday: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/guestbooks/index.asp?cds2Pid=21817&linkid=1183062Totally badass selection. And the reruns of Cook’s Tour on the Food Network have been awesome. So glad he’s #5 on your list.
Sorry, this is real trash. Well below Enquirer standards. There is not one justifiable reason for any of this nonsense.Find Dads who do something, not because they play people. How about a reason like, oh for say, he takes commercial air travel to lesses his carbon footprint.I work in entertainment, and happen to know many of these people and yes they are good dads, in the sense they love their kids and treat them with respect but would be insulted if this is how they are judged. Babble actually has a chance to do something interesting and informative why waste pixels with garbage.who ever wrote this keep your Access Hollywood mentality to yourself.
Did you read the title, LA Dad? It’s the 50 “Coolest” Celeb dads, not the best, greatest, or most wise. It called itself a fluff piece from the beginning, and it lived up to being a fun article. I actually learned something–I had missed the piece about Willie Garson, so I’m glad I read it.I would add Joel McHale to the list (from E’s celeb round-up show The Soup) because he frequently discusses all the diapers he changes and he makes fun of Tyra bravely.
most of these guys are douchebags. I remember when babble actually tried to be cool. sigh.
These celebrity dads might enjoy the new book from Judith Walzer Leavitt titled Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. The critically acclaimed book (The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal) combines history and pop culture.http://www.facebook.com/pages/Make-Room-for-Daddy-The-Journey-from-Waiting-Room-to-Birthing-Room/89485928150http://www.amazon.com/Make-Room-Daddy-Journey-Birthing/dp/0807832553
lmao will smith – some of these are great dads others im thinking wtf are they doing on this list – toby maguire!
Left off Russell Crowe in 1-50 because he is above and beyond #1 DAD!! (AND #1 awesome husband – masculine, sensitive, and intelligent – very seldom find all 3 in one romantic, sexy man)
They forgot Mark Wahlberg