Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan’s 29-year-old daughter discovered the ideal way to celebrate her mother’s birthday.
Schuyler, Aquinnah’s twin sister, dressed up as a bride for her dream wedding in the Catskills and said her “I do’s” on June 22, the same day her mother turned 64.
Almost four decades ago, Michael J. Fox, 63, and Tracy Pollan, 64, were cast as on-screen lovers on the hit TV series Family Ties.
“He was very cocky,” Pollan recalls. “He was funny, but he was cocky.”
While the two were smitten with one another, Fox was dating Nancy McKeon, the star of the TV sitcom Facts of Life, and Pollan was with Kevin Bacon, who started dating Kyra Sedgwick in 1987, the same year he split with Pollan.
The Back to the Future star and his now-wife met again on the set of the 1988 film Bright Lights, Big City, and, both unmarried, seized the opportunity to marry that same year.
“It sounds really horrible, but it was one of those things,” Fox said in 1989. He jokes about their relationship statuses, saying, “Someone goes, ‘Did you hear that so-and-so aren’t together anymore?'” And you think, ‘Hmm, that’s too bad. “Where is the phone?”
Family
Shortly after Pollan and Fox married, they became new parents to Sam Michael, who was born on May 30, 1989.
Only two years later, Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and his doting wife willingly offered her unconditional support.
In early November 2023, the Teen Wolf star appeared on CBS Morning and recounted how his beloved wife has been his greatest supporter for 35 years.
“The hardest part of my diagnosis was grappling with the certainty of the diagnosis and the uncertainty of the situation,” Fox observed. “I simply knew things would get worse. The diagnosis was certain, but the progression was undefined and unknown. My wife made it obvious that she would be with me for the duration.
Despite the difficulties, the stars continued to expand their family, welcoming twins Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances on February 15, 1995, and Esmé Annabelle in November 2001.
Fox offers parenting advice to other parents, saying, “Always be available to your children.” Because if you say, “Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,” it will be fifteen, twenty. When you arrive, the luster of whatever they wished to impart with you will have faded.”
‘Picture perfect’
With their adult children now out of their home, Pollan and Fox are empty nesters, enjoying life as they started 36 years ago
“We get more food,” Fox jokes about the four children not being present to consume it all. He goes on to say, “They’re not taking it all.”
They are also starting families on their own.
Schuyler, 29, married her long-term lover on Saturday, June 22, in New York’s Catskill Mountains, according to People.
“The weather was absolutely perfect, despite the heat wave,” a source tells People of the luxury wedding held at Hayfield Catskills. “They dined under a tent, and it really looked like a picture-perfect garden party. They seemed like such an adorable, gentle family.”
‘Forever your Mike’
It was also Pollan’s 64th birthday.
Though the parents haven’t spoken publicly about Schuyler’s nuptials – and the daughters stay out of the spotlight – Sam, now 35, delivered an adorable birthday message to his mom with a shoutout to his sister.
“Happy birthday Teep!! I love you so much and I’m very excited that I actually get to spend the day with you!! ([Schuyler] don’t worry, your post is coming later),” he caption the photo where his mom is seen dancing with one of the twins.
And Fox shared the sweetest birthday message to his loving wife.
“In every beautiful way, it’s beautiful Tracy’s beautiful day. I love you and today will be magnificent,” the actor wrote via Instagram on Saturday alongside a black-and-white photo of Pollan. “Always forever your Mike with so much love. Happy birthday. It’s gonna be an epic day.”
