Glenn Shut’s daughter, Annie Starke, shared a photograph of herself recreating a heartwarming household being pregnant picture.
In an Instagram carousel shared in honor of Worldwide Ladies’s Day on Saturday, March 8, the 36-year-old actress posted a throwback picture of her mom and grandma. Within the picture, Shut is visibly pregnant, baring her stomach as she sits on a settee subsequent to her mom.
Within the subsequent picture, a pregnant Starke could be seen in a parallel picture — taken greater than 35 years later — sitting beside Shut, 77, on a settee.
“This #internationalwomensday hits a bit totally different this 12 months. 💙” she captioned the publish, earlier than telling followers to swipe to see her personal “monumental” child bump in “a recreation of a traditional household pic.”
She added: “To allllllll the Mamas… 😘.”
Starke, who’s married to businessman Marc Albu, introduced the delivery of their first little one in an Instagram publish on Feb. 14, revealing that they welcomed a son named Rory every week earlier.
“Rory Westaway Albu… born Feb. seventh, 2025… and we’ll by no means be the identical,” she captioned the publish, which featured a black-and-white picture of the new child. “We love you a lot, candy boy.”
Starke is the one little one of Shut and ex-partner, film producer John Starke. She was raised outdoors of the Hollywood limelight in Bedford, N.Y., about an hour north of Manhattan.
“I had a profoundly regular childhood,” Starke informed ipromiseyoumedia in August 2018. “I’m somewhat boring. I used to be a barefoot child, outdoorsy, by no means had siblings, however I had cats and canine, and actually surrounded by nature. I credit score my dad and mom for holding me grounded and holding it regular. I nonetheless have my oldest buddies since highschool. It was a beautiful place to develop up.”
After receiving her diploma in artwork historical past from Hamilton School, Starke determined to observe in her mom’s footsteps and pursue the performing arts — regardless of having reservations in regards to the movie trade.
“I went to school totally hoping I’d pursue one thing else as a result of I understand how robust [this industry] is. Not solely professionally but in addition personally — I knew the great and the unhealthy, the loopy and the ugly,” she informed Grumpy Journal in 2021. “However I knew what I wished to do my entire life. [Being an actress] was at all times one thing that I simply knew.”
Starke — who has since appeared in New York stage productions and on tv — has additionally labored alongside her mom, taking part in the youthful model of Shut within the Oscar-nominated movie The Spouse.
Shut revealed that she let her daughter take the artistic lead on the character whereas chatting with ipromiseyoumedia in regards to the challenge in 2018.
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“I truly mentioned [to Starke], ‘You’re the one who has to put down the character. You play the younger Joan,” Shut mentioned on the time. “So no matter you do within the flashbacks has every little thing to do with how I’m later.’ ”
Starke added: “We actually labored laborious on this character and put a variety of our souls into. I needed to go tremendous deep for this one.”
