Ava Phillippe is once again proving that Hollywood’s strongest gene pool might belong to Reese Witherspoon. The 26-year-old stepped onto the red carpet for the Scream 7 premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and she looked like a mini Reese.
© GettyAva channeled the ’90s, wearing a slinky snake-print slip dress with red pointed-toe pumps and gold earrings. She looked like a red carpet professional as she smiled for the cameras, glowing just like her mom.
© GettyShe posed solo for photos before cozying up alongside her boyfriend, Dakota Brubaker.
© GettyThey kept their relationship mostly low-key, confirming their romance in December 2024 with matching photo booth pictures. The couple later revealed they’d moved in together and often share playful TikToks and glimpses of their life with their rescue dogs Benji and Birdie.
© GettyBrubaker is a musician who performs as Vindigo, and they both attended UC Berkeley. He wrote on Instagram that he "fell in love in a way I didn’t know was possible." They made their red carpet debut together in 2025 at the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project 2025 Block Party.
The appearance marks another step in Ava’s slow but steady move into the entertainment world herself. Over the past year, she’s quietly started building credits, landing roles in episodes of Doctor Odyssey and Random Canyon.
According to IMDb, she completed the short film The Sisters of Scott County, in which she plays Roxy Reedy, and is currently in post-production on Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, where she takes on the title role.
© GettyReese has never been shy about embracing their uncanny resemblance. She’s openly said she loves it. “I love being mistaken for her because it makes me feel so young,” she told InStyle in 2021.
She added that she is "so proud of her” and said that Ava handles the comparisons with grace, even though “I’m sure it’s not easy looking exactly like your mother.”
She’s also joked that when Ava gets frustrated about the constant twin comments, she tells her to call Zoë Kravitz - because Zoë and Lisa Bonet are another famous mother-daughter duo who look like “identical twins.”
© Eric CharbonneauReese shares Ava and son Deacon with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, and she’s also mom to Tennessee, her youngest, with Jim Toth. She’s said her kids are “living an experience” she never had growing up outside Hollywood, explaining that Ava is “so down-to-earth” and focused on learning, growing, and figuring out her own path.
