De Niro a dad again at 68

Christmas arrived early on for De Niro and Grace Hightower as they started to be parents to little Helen Grace - a younger sister for their 13-year-old son Elliot.

A adviser for the Oscar winner proved the tot's birth to People.com on Friday (23Dec11), however further details were hard to get at as WENN went to press.

The couple wed in 1997.

The Taxi Driver star has four other children - two geared up children from his first marriage to Diahnne Abbott, and 16-year-old twin boys with his ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith, in addition born thru a surrogate mother.