Luke Perry's 2 Kids: All About the Late Actor's Son Jack and Daughter Sophie (and the Subtle Ways They've Honored the90210Star 6 Years After His Death)

Mar. 15, 2025

Luke Perry with his two kids, son Jack Perry and daughter Sophie Perry.Photo:Sophie Perry/ Instagram

Sophie Perry/ Instagram

Luke Perrymay have played bad boy Dylan McKay onBeverly Hills: 90210— but in real life, he was a doting dad to his two kids: Jack and Sophie.

Though Perry and Sharp split in 2003, the couple shared joint custody of their children — and Perry remained aninvolved and dedicated father, according to those closest to him.

Perry’s pride in his kids only grew as they got older and embarked on their careers, with Sophie volunteering in Africa and Jack pursuing professional wrestling.

“Both my parents were very coolabout just letting me do what I wanted and figure it out myself,” Jack told PEOPLE in 2023. “And they never pressured me into going into any direction I didn’t want to go.”

From their upbringing with their famous father to how they’re keeping Perry’s memory alive, here’s everything to know about Luke Perry’s two kids, Jack and Sophie.

Jack Perry, 27

Jack Perry, son of Luke Perry arrives at the premiere of Sony Pictures' “Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood” at the Chinese Theatre on July 22, 2019 in Hollywood, California.Getty

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Perry and Sharp welcomed their son, Jack Perry, on June 16, 1997.

“I really haven’t watched a ton of him acting,” Jack admitted to PEOPLE in 2019.

Despite Perry’s demanding career in Hollywood, he always managed to be a “very hands-on dad” for Jack and his younger sister Sophie — even helping his son construct a makeshift wrestling ring in their backyard to support his love of the sport.

“When I was a kid and got back into wrestling, I went around the town … [finding] sandbags at a construction site … or like pieces of wood or whatever, to construct this ring,” Jack recalled to PEOPLE in 2023. “AndI asked my dad to help meput it together.”

That “garbage heap of a wrestling ring” became a full-blown career for Jack, who began pursuing professional wrestling as a high school senior. While he welcomed his parents’ support, Jack (who wrestled under the persona “Jungle Boy”) has been determined to pave his own path in the wrestling world — outside his dad’s fame.

“My family is a part of who I am, but I’m trying to make my own way. I don’t want to use [my father’s fame] to be successful, I want to have my own success,” Jack toldSports Illustrated.

Luke Perry with his son Jack Perry.Jack Perry/Instagram

Jack has done just that: The wrestling professional signed with All Elite Wrestling in January 2019 and has won multiple championship titles since, including the FTW Championship in 2022 and the AEW TNT Championship in 2024.

The same year, Jack also changed his wrestling persona from “Jungle Boy” to “Scapegoat.”

Both of Jack’s parents have been supportive of his career, with Perryattending Jack’s wrestling eventswhile he was still alive and later inspired a storyline in the ring after his death.

Though Jack’s primary focus is wrestling, he did have the opportunity toact with his fatherprior to his death in 2019. Jack appeared with Perry inQuentin Tarantino’s2019 filmOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood, which also starredLeonardo DiCaprioandBrad Pitt.

“My dad was so excited about that,” Jack said on theTalk is Jerichopodcast about acting with his father. “That kind of reinvigorated him and reenergized him. He said, ‘If I never work again, I’m happy with this.’ ”

“My dad really just taught me to be as nice as you can to everyone you can,” Jack told PEOPLE in May 2019, two months after Perry’s tragic death. “He was from Ohio and he grew up with not a lot of money and I think he never really lost touch with who he was.He was always just a really good guyabove everything else.”

Sophie Perry, 24

Luke Perry with his daughter Sophie Perry.Sophie Perry/Instagram

Perry and Sharp’s daughter, Sophie Perry, was born on June 7, 2000.

While her father may have been a teenage heartthrob, to Sophie, he was just “Dad” growing up.

“I think people forget or don’t realizethat in my lifetime he wasn’t famous the way he was during the90210era,” Sophie wrote on Instagram Stories in June 2019. “By the time I was old enough to understand all that, he wasn’t as in the spotlight as he is now. And I wasn’t at all public or looked at.”

Though Sophieattended a handful of red carpet eventswith her famous father as a toddler, it wasn’t until Perry died in May 2019 that she earned more widespread attention —particularly from online trolls.

“Since my dad died I have received a lot of attention online. And most of it has been positive but of course, some people just can’t be nice,” Sophie wrote on Instagram to her 82,000 followers one week after her father’s death.

She continued, “I’m here to say that I did not ask for this attention, I did not ask to be thrown into some virtual spotlight, and while I don’t mean to offend anybody, I’m also not going to cater to any one else’s needs and beliefs … I am going to laugh and smile and live my normal life.”

For Sophie, that “normal life” meantreturning to Malawi, Africa, where she had been living and working prior to Perry’s death in March 2019.  (She hadrushed back hometo the U.S. to be with her father after learning about his massive stroke.)

In Malawi, Sophie and two friends served as development instructors who helped build preschools in rural communities — and when they completed their first school in April 2019,she named it after her late dad.

The school wasn’t the only way Sophie has honored Perry since his tragic 2019 death: She’s shared sentimental posts on social media, includingchildhood photos,birthday messagesandFather’s Day tributes.

She also got amushroom tattooin his memory. The ink is a nod to theeco-friendly mushroom suitPerry was buried in after he died, which is said to “return your body to the earth without harming the environment,” per the company.

“The mushroom is symbolic of my dad,” Sophie explained in her Instagram Stories in May 2019.

In the years since her father’s death, Sophie has spent most of her time traveling the world, according to herInstagram page— visiting places such as Thailand, Italy andScotland.

source: people.com