Who is Donald Glover’s wife, Michelle White?
ALTHOUGH Donald Glover has had a successful career in the spotlight, he has chosen to keep many details about his personal life private.
Now, fans want to know more about the actor's family life with his wife and kids.
Who is Donald Glover's wife, Michelle White?
Michelle White is the longtime partner of Hollywood star Donald Glover.
40-year-old Glover is an American actor, singer, rapper, comedian, and writer who has succeeded as a director and producer during his glittering career.
Under the name Childish Gambino, Glover is a successful hip-hop artist.
He has also starred in many films and television shows.
According to his , he is most known for his roles in Solo: A Star Wars Story, Guava Island, Community, and Atlanta.
He is now starring alongside Maya Erskine in the TV series Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video on February 2, 2024.
The show is inspired by the 2005 movie of the same name which stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
While Glover and White have been very private about the details of their union, the actor revealed to that parts of the series are based on his relationship with White.
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"I think there's a lot of little things where I took them from my own life. I felt like what made this show sexy is intimacy so I wanted to do that," he said at the New York City premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith on January 31, 2024.
"There's a lot of scenes that are kind of just taken from my life — you know my wife's hair is like, it's not kinky, it's long and I was in the shower and I was like, ‘What the h**l is this?'
"Because she likes to take it and put it on the shower walls. I was like I really did not know what was going on.
"I was like, 'Yeah I think we have rats or something.' I said that to her as a joke but like I really didn't know," Glover continued, laughing.
"When you're living together you just kind of don't realize these things are super normal to me but they're not normal for you. I feel like there's a ton of that in the show."
While little personal information is known about White, she has supported her husband at events and behind the scenes.
Glover and White made their red carpet debut at the Los Angeles premiere of Swarm on March 14, 2023, and the latter later joined him on the red carpet for the New York City premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
In January 2023, Glover spoke with the outlet about the support his wife has provided to him and their kids.
"I think my partner, she does all the hard stuff, to be honest. She’s just very supportive. I haven’t really had to change anything. But it’s given me definitely another perception on what life is. It gives me a lot of context," he said.
Glover has also thanked White in his acceptance speeches.
According to People, after receiving the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy for his role in Atlanta in January 2017, the star honored his wife and son in his speech.
"I really want to say thank you to my son, and the mother of my son, for making me believe in people again and things being possible. So, thank you," he said.
"I want to thank Michelle, my partner. You love me even with how crazy I get," Glover said during his Emmy acceptance speech in 2017.
"I want to thank my baby, my son, for just being the joy in my life. I want to thank my unborn son, we're listening to Stevie tonight."
When did Donald Glover and Michelle White get married?
In a 2024 interview with , Glover — who previously expressed his doubts about marriage in an August 2017 interview with — revealed that he and White wed while he was making Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
He and Erskine were "asked whether the show’s realistically romantic portrayal of marriage made the actors more optimistic about the institution."
"Yeah I do, actually," Glover responded.
"We both got married to our partners, respectively. Donald got married during the show and I got married right after the show, so definitely it had an impact on us," Erskine said.
Glover previously revealed that he and White were married during his red-carpet appearance for the Mr. & Mrs. Smith premiere, per People.
At the July 2019 Lion King premiere, he referred to White as his "wife" during an interview with .
"When I came on screen he was like [looking back and forth, confused]. He gave me the double take a couple of times. He kept looking and my wife was like, 'Oh, he's getting it. He's getting it,'" he said while speaking of his son's reactions to the movie upon learning Glover voiced Simba.
While it is also unclear exactly when the pair began dating, they have been together since at least 2016.
As reported, in January of that year, Glover was "photographed alongside a very pregnant woman" while on vacation in Hawaii.
At the time, the woman's identity was unknown, but we now know her to be White.
How many children do Donald Glover and Michelle White have?
Glover and White have three children together, including sons Legend, Drake, and Donald Glover III, per .
The couple welcomed Legend in 2016, Drake in 2018, and Donald Glover III during the coronavirus pandemic.
Glover that Michelle had given birth to their third child during the tragedy of George Floyd, the black man who died after a Minneapolis officer held his knee for eight minutes to his neck.
"I was in the hospital bed. My son had just been born, like, an hour before and I was watching the George Floyd video," Glover said:
"It was such a weird moment.
"It was such an intense, weird moment, because I’m watching that video and it’s like eight minutes long, so you’re sitting there and I had just had this amazing, joyful, expanding moment …"
Glover said he and White named their son after the star’s late father, Donald Glover Sr.
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"I don’t even know what, really, the word is to describe it," he said.
"It was just expanding: the empathy and compassion and the terror and the joy of it."