Bradley Cooper has often said: he loves Stanley Kubrick and Pedro Almodovar’s films. No doubt he saw and revised “everything about my mother” with hers, sitting comfortably in the living room of their house in Los Angeles … since they have lived together since 2011. The star proudly assumes him throughout the interview. He lives with his daughter Lea de Seine, the fruit of his relationship with the Russian model Irina Shayk from which he is now separated, his two dogs, and Gloria. Yes, you can be a quinqua, Hollywood play-boy, and sleep in a room contiguous to that of his mother.
Some make fun, others wonder about this unlisted cord. Bradley does not care. And pushes the nail. In 2023, the millions of viewers of the Super Bowl, the American football final discovered it, dumbfounded, in a pub for a mobile operator. Bradley appears there as a seller, iconic pink t-shirt of the brand, facing a slightly revised client … who is none other than her mother. “It looks like a pink flamingo, dressed as you are. And you are not very good in the role of a seller, ”she laughs. The actor defends himself: “I was still named nine times to the Oscars. »With a big smile, a cowhide, Gloria has fun:« Certainly, but you never had it! The scene says everything about this improbable duo, of an obvious bond.
All the attention of her son during a vacation in Sardinia with the top model Gigi Hadid, in August 2024.
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Bradley Cooper has always had a very strong link with his parents. He even tells that he owes their career to them. Charles, his father Trader, passionate about cinema, showed him very early on the great classics. And Gloria introduces her to the world of studios, those of the local NBC chain, Pennsylvania, where she presents the newspaper. Dad and mom are of Irish and Italian origin.
Heart Trophy for Bradley Cooper and his accomplice Leonardo DiCaprio, who came with their mothers, Gloria and Irmelin, to the After Party of the Golden Globes, in Beverly Hills, on January 12, 2014.
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She, born Campano, is rather mamma style. With his sister, Holly, Bradley grew up in a very united family, almost fusional. He tries to emancipate himself, left for a time in Switzerland and then finished his studies of literature in France. In Aix-en-Provence, where he lives in the inhabitant, he falls in love with our country, learns the language he handles today almost without accent. But the son quickly finds the nest and joined the famous actors studio in New York. He appears in a few series (“Sex and the City”, “alias”), before shining in the register of the film Potache with “Serial Noceurs” and especially “Very Bad Trip”, in 2009, comedy trash which triumphs around the world.
His beautiful mouth and his pleasant physique are wreaking havoc and earned him to be appointed, two years later, the sexiest man of the famous annual classification of the magazine “People”. Forgotten, her marriage to actress Jennifer Esposito who only lasted six months! The Serial Lover continues relations with the most beautiful women of the moment: Renée Zellweger alias Bridget Jones, Zoe Saldana and the singer JLO. Among others. Alcohol and cocaine are then there, addictions of which he will speak a few years later.
As a family at Tony Awards, New York, June 7, 2015. Gloria and Bradley with Holly Cooper, the star’s sister.
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But the trials of life will bring down the rising star. And family values remember your good memory. While completing the shooting of “Very Bad Trip 2” in Thailand, his father falls ill. Lung cancer. The actor immediately returns to Pennsylvania and reinstalls himself in the family home in Philadelphia. He helps his mother for five months, watches over his father until his death in 2011. “We were devastated,” he will confide in the magazine “Details”. It is like an earthquake that we never stop feeling the replicas and the tremors. Bradley then made a radical decision so as not to let Gloria sink: he offers to settle with him, in his house on the heights of Los Angeles, in order to overcome their mourning together. She never left. “My mother is a rather cool roommate. I wouldn’t say it’s easy every day, but we make sure everything is going well. She knows how to take the blows, “he will declare to” Los Angeles Times “.
With actor Milo Ventimiglia at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Los Angeles, January 27, 2019.
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In 2013, when he cooed with the model Suki Waterhouse, seventeen years younger, it was at the arm of Maman that Bradley appears on the red carpet of the Oscars, where he was named for the first time as the best actor for “Happiness Therapy”. Hand in hand, they pose for photographers, play their large difference in size – it measures 1.85 meters, it hardly exceeds 1.50 meters! The start of a long series: Gloria will become a regular price discounts. Last year again, she accompanied her son, appointed for her second film as a director, “Maestro”, at the Oscars. All evening, she was obviously sitting next to the one she tenderly calls Brad. And she followed it, after the high mass of cinema, in the holidays that swarm in Hollywood. Of which the famous Vanity Fair Oscar Party, one of the most popular. At 67, Gloria keeps the pace. And his boy assures him: “I love having it with me. It wouldn’t be the same without her. »»
Bradley at 3 years old, and already in the costume of the young first.
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Confainment in 2020 tightened their links. Bradley told him to “Interview Magazine”: “We ended up with my mother, daughter and two dogs, and no one has ever left the house during the pandemic. Mom suffered at the time of a problem in the colonist, which had weakened her, so it was forbidden to go out, for me too. If I had transmitted the virus to him, it would have been dramatic. He watches over her, and she on him. Even if the star admits that, on a professional level, Gloria is not necessarily the best of the advisers. He has fun: “I can tell her about any film project, each time, she tells me that she feels that it will be a huge success! »»
In the company of Renée Zellweger. In Los Angeles, in 2009.
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On the heart too, Gloria the cheek Maman cool. She lets him escape in Paris, where he has an apartment in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The star likes to frequent cafes and shops in the neighborhood, stroll in a charming company. For the past two years, it was with the Gigi Hadid model that he has been spinning perfect love. And for Gloria, there is no question of camping the nasty mother-in-law. After the Golden G Lobes ceremony in 2024, she found the couple in a restaurant in Los Angeles. It is even said that mom, a fan of fashion and teleshopping, adopted the dress style of her bru and her son.
With Irina Shayk, in 2016, the model with whom the actor will have a daughter.
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After two films behind the camera and a furtive appearance in the last “Superman”, the actor, who easily suffers from anxiety, sometimes from depression, slowed down the rhythm of the filming. And seems to have put, more than ever, the family at the center of their existence. He carries his father’s alliance in his right, spends his days with his mother and daughter. He had engaged in their links to Oprah Winfrey, the Popese of the Talk-Show in the United States, in 2017: “My daughter is incredible. And when I look at it, I often see the image of my father. My mother and I are survivors. I know that it is not necessarily easy for her to continue living with her son. But it’s life … “