Meet Nicola Peltz Beckham, the billionaire heiress, actor, and director who's married to Brooklyn Beckham

Nicola Peltz, now Nicola Peltz Beckham, grew up in New York as one of billionaire businessman Nelson Peltz's 10 children.

The founder of investment firm Trian Fund Management, 83-year-old Nelson Peltz is worth $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.

Trian Fund Management manages $8.5 billion worth of assets. In 2017, Nelson Peltz was ranked the 22nd highest-earning hedge fund manager, Forbes reported.

He has contributed millions of dollars to politically conservative causes. During the 2020 election cycle, he donated $200,000 to the Republican National Committee, CNBC reported. In 2018, he donated $650,000 to Citizens for a Strong America, a political organization supporting conservative candidates.

Nicola Peltz Beckham has nine siblings through her father.

He has two children with his first wife, Cynthia Abrams, whom he married in 1964. They divorced in 1981.

In 1985, he married model Claudia Heffner Peltz, and they have eight children, including Nicola, who was born in 1995. She grew up in Westchester County in New York.

Since starting her acting career in 2006, she has appeared in films, TV shows, and music videos.

Peltz Beckham's first acting role was in 2006, in the film "Deck the Halls." She has also appeared in "Bates Motel," "The Last Airbender," "Transformers: The Age of Extinction," and "Holidate."

In 2014, she was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for breakout star for her role in "Transformers: Age of Extinction," and a Young Hollywood Award for breakthrough actress. That same year, she won a rising star CinemaCon Award.

Peltz Beckham has also acted in music videos. Most notably, she was featured in Miley Cyrus's "7 Things" music video, which has been viewed over 290 million times on YouTube since its 2008 premiere. In 2016, she was featured in Zayn Malik's music video for his song "iT's YoU."

She starred in Hulu's Emmy-nominated miniseries "Welcome to Chippendales" as Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten.

Peltz Beckham acted alongside Kumail Nanjiani and Murray Bartlett in Hulu's "Welcome to Chippendales," which was released in 2022.

In a 2023 interview with Elle, she told the magazine about one of her favorite memories from the show.

"Finding Dorothy's look for the first time ... like, putting it all together — the makeup, the wig, the costume," she said. "When I got into the costume I really felt changed," she continued.

The show picked up five Emmy nominations in 2023.

"Lola," which Peltz Beckham wrote, directed, and starred in, was released in 2024.

In a 2024 interview with Women's Wear Daily, Peltz Beckham said she wrote "Lola" when she was 23 years old. It focuses on the life of a teenage girl named Lola who works at a drugstore and strip club to save enough money to move herself and her brother away from their toxic mother.

"I did not sleep for three days. I have screenshots of 4:50 a.m., just me writing. When I started putting my thoughts down, they just wouldn't stop," she said.

"I wanted to write a flawed character, but also someone where their heart's in the right place. I just think that's life, and imperfection in life will always inspire me," Peltz Beckham added.

Although the film was released in February 2024, it garnered attention in April 2024 due to negative reviews from critics, with The Guardian's Kady Ruth Ashcraft describing the film as a "vanity project."

"In film, that means the exploitation of the conditions of poverty for entertainment and artistic recognition," she wrote.

In her interview with WWD, Peltz Beckham acknowledged that she didn't grow up like Lola at all and was prepared for the criticism.

"I wanted to write a story from a person's perspective and another point of view that was not my personal view and not my upbringing. I am an actress and my dream is to get to look at the world from different perspectives," she said.

Next, she appears in Ryan Murphy's new thriller, "The Beauty," which premieres January 21.

The thriller, which drops on FX and Hulu on January 21, has a star-studded cast including Ashton Kutcher, Rebecca Hall, Anthony Ramos, Bella Hadid, Isabella Rossellini, Meghan Trainor, and Peter Gallagher, among others.

Peltz Beckham also plays the lead in the upcoming "Prima" which is in production, Deadline reported.

One of her brothers is also an actor. Will Peltz appeared in an episode of "Euphoria."

In addition to having played Luke Kasten in "Euphoria," Will Peltz is known for his role in "Unfriended," a 2014 horror film.

In 2024, he appeared in "Lola" as a member of a Narcotics Anonymous group, and in "Off the Record" and "Somnium."

The siblings have matching tattoos that honor their family history.

The siblings have almost-matching tattoos that pay homage to their family's Eastern European Jewish roots. Their tattoos are written in Yiddish. Nicola's tattoo means "family first" while Will's reads "family."

"I love big families, I love being around my family and all my siblings, it's like, my happy place for me," Peltz Beckham told Elle in 2023.

She met Brooklyn Beckham at Coachella music festival in 2017, although they didn't start dating until a couple of years later.

Coachella is known to be stacked with celebrities, so it's no wonder the couple met at the annual California music festival. But they didn't have an instant connection, according to Peltz Beckham.

"We didn't get along, we just didn't click … I had a boyfriend, he had a girlfriend," she told Tatler in 2022.

It took Beckham — a former model, photographer, chef, and the oldest child of David and Victoria Beckham — and Peltz years to finally get together. They reunited at Leonardo DiCaprio's Halloween party in 2019, Glamour reported, and they were later spotted having a late-night dinner together after the event.

"I can't tell you what happened [at the party] but from then on we were inseparable," Peltz Beckham told Tatler.

In 2020, she and Beckham announced their engagement.

Beckham, now 26, and Peltz announced their engagement via Instagram in July 2020. "Two weeks ago I asked my soulmate to marry me and she said yes," he wrote in his caption.

"I am the luckiest man in the world. I promise to be the best husband and the best daddy one day," he continued.

In January 2021, Beckham debuted a tattoo dedicated to his fiancée — a transcript of a love letter Peltz had written. She signed the letter as "your future wifey."

The couple married at her father's $79 million estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in April 2022.

In April 2022, the couple got married at the Peltz's family estate in Palm Beach, Florida. At their wedding, they took photos exclusively on flip phones, according to the couple. Elle reported the wedding cost almost $4 million.

British Vogue shared photos on Instagram of the bride and groom in their wedding attire. Nicola Peltz Beckham wore a custom Valentino gown for the occasion. She initially hoped to wear a design by her mother-in-law, Victoria Beckham, but ultimately the designer's "atelier couldn't do it," Peltz Beckham told Variety in 2022.

Their 500-strong guest list included celebrities such as Serena Williams, Eva Longoria, and Gordon Ramsay, People reported.

In an interview with Elle, Peltz Beckham described newlywed life as "amazing" and described Brooklyn as her "best friend."

"Being able to live life by his side has been amazing, because I feel like even if I'm going through something bad, I have him by my side," she said.

The couple chose to take each other's last names after their wedding, becoming Nicola and Brooklyn Peltz Beckham.

The couple reportedly lives in Los Angeles.

In 2025, the Peltz Beckhams renewed their vows.

Peltz Beckham's father officiated the ceremony in August 2025.

"this day meant so much to us," she wrote on Instagram.

As part of his January 2026 Instagram post about his relationship with his parents, Brooklyn Beckham wrote, "We wanted to renew our vows so we could create new memories of our wedding day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment."

"I see myself being a mom in five years," she told Elle in 2023.

"Brooklyn wants a lot of kids," she said, adding, "Yeah, I would love a big family, really."

Since meeting her husband, she has been photographed supporting her in-laws at events.

Peltz Beckham attended her mother-in-law, Victoria Beckham's, Paris Fashion Week show in March 2024. She attended with Brooklyn Beckham, David Beckham, and two of Brooklyn's siblings, Cruz and Harper.

"congratulations on another beautiful collection @victoriabeckham [red heart emoji] i love watching your vision come to life! love you so much," Peltz Beckham wrote on Instagram following the event.

The family also previously attended the October 2023 premiere of David Beckham's Netflix documentary and the February 2024 premiere of "Lola."

However, in January 2026, Brooklyn Beckham said his parents "have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship."

In a lengthy post on Instagram Stories on January 19, Brooklyn Beckham spoke out amid reports of a rift with his parents, which surfaced after he did not attend his father's 50th birthday in London last year.

While Brooklyn Beckham said he has "made every effort to keep these matters private," he said his parents "and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself."

In his post, he wrote, "My parents have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship since before my wedding, and it hasn't stopped."

He said his mother backed out of making Peltz Beckham's wedding dress at the last minute. (Vogue reported in 2022 that the dress Peltz Beckham wore on her wedding day was the result of "a year's worth of conversations with Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli's team," as well as two meetings in Rome and two fittings in the US.)

Beckham also said in his post that his mother "hijacked" his first dance with his wife, which he said left him feeling "humiliated."

He added, "The night before our wedding, members of my family told me that Nicola was 'not blood' and 'not family'."

"My wife has been consistently disrespected by my family, no matter how hard we've tried to come together as one," he wrote.

Neither couple has responded to requests for comment from Business Insider.