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Legendary Sir Michael Caine celebrates 90th birthday

Sir Michael Caine and Tom Cruise celebrating his 90th birthday (Source : Instagram )


There was no quiet evening at home for the Oscar-winning actor as he celebrated becoming a nonagenarian yesterday, 14 March. Instead, he was the special guest at a star-studded dinner that included the likes of Tom Cruise, David Walliams, and Loose Women panelist Denise Welch.

Top London restaurant River Café in Hammersmith played host to the A-listers. The riverside eatery is famous for its Italian cuisine & fine wines and for having won a Michelin star in 1998, an accolade it has retained ever since.

The 60-year-old Mission: Impossible star has known Sir Michael for decades and the pair starred in Austin Powers in Goldmember together in 2002

Sir Michael's link to Walliams includes working together on the British crime drama film Twist while Welch has been friends with Sir Michael since her artist husband Lincoln Townley painted his portrait in 2016.

Among other famous faces present were Andrew Lloyd Webber and his wife Madeleine.

Caine’s last movie was the 2021 dramedy Best Sellers, in which he played a reclusive writer.

He has been happily married to 76-year-old Shakira Caine since 1972. He has two children, his eldest child, Dominique was born in 1956 with his then-wife Patricia Haines, whom he married in 1954. They were to part ways in 1962, he went on to have another daughter after marrying Shakira.