Helen Hunt joined by musician daughter for first public appearance together in 6 years at Paris Fashion Week

Makena, 21, is Helen’s only child, who she shares with her ex Matthew Carnahan. Helen began a relationship with the producer, 65, back in 2001, welcoming Makena in May of 2004. They split in 2017 after nearly two decades together.

Since 2022, the As Good as It Gets actress has been dating fellow actor Jeffrey Nordling. The pair first dated in 1988 before reconnecting and restarting a relationship in 2022. She was previously married for 17 months between 1999 and 2000 to Hank Azaria.

While Makena is active on social media, and proud mom Helen occasionally shares photos of her on her Instagram page as well, this is their first public appearance together in just over six years. Their last appearance together was in June of 2019 at the Working: A Musical Opening Night in New York City.

The 21-year-old studied at Northwestern University and has made a few on-screen appearances like her mom, including a 2019 episode of the Mad About You reboot. But she has since pivoted to music.

Makena now is a guitarist and vocalist for the band Widemouth, primarily based in Chicago. Per their website, they “play indie music of the folk/rock variety” and have been playing “around the bars and houses and venues of Chicago for a little more than two years, interspersed by a few self-booked tours around the Midwest and East Coast.”

Their bio also explains that it was Makena who got the group started, adding: “Mak gets the lion’s share of credit for the band’s beginnings. She put up a flyer in a Northwestern building that said something like ‘Wanna be in a super awesome band?’ which Jamie responded to, even though there wasn’t much time left before he graduated and went to some other metropolitan area to be a yuppy.”

“They started singing together, beginning with Paul Simon and Big Thief songs, and quickly discovered that it was a lot of fun. After about 6 months of playing duo – open mics, house shows, etc. – Lily miraculously responded to the same flyer that had netted Jamie. Within about 20 seconds of playing Scott Street in a dark practice room at the Northwestern music school, the band version of Widemouth was born.”