​​Jeremy Renner Shares Photo Celebrating 53rd Birthday with Daughter Ava: 'Sending My Love and Gratitude'

The 'Mission: Impossible' actor shared a sweet photo with his daughter

Jeremy Renner’s daughter Ava Berlin is celebrating her dad!

On Sunday, the Avengers star celebrated his 53rd birthday alongside his 10-year-old daughter. He marked the occasion with Instagram photos shared the next day.

The Marvel actor was photographed beaming in his daughter’s direction as she presented him with his birthday cake. In the snapshot, Renner looks at his daughter as his hands hover below the cake plate.

“Thank you so much for the Birthday wishes! I am so grateful to be able to share this very special moment with you. Sending my love and gratitude ❤️," Renner captioned the post.

The Hurt Locker actor welcomed Ava with ex Sonni Pacheco in March 2013. He was 42 at the time and has shared how becoming a dad later on in life is “the best thing” he’s ever done.

“The only thing I think about when I’m not with my baby is, 'How do I get to my baby?'” he told Capitol File magazine in 2014. ”I’m very miserable when I don’t see her. I really love being a father.”

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Following Renner’s snowplow accident on New Year’s Day 2023, the actor revealed in a PEOPLE exclusive clip for his show Rennervations that his daughter inspired him to get better.

"She makes me the best version of me," he said. "She inspires me to be better."

Shortly after the accident, Renner shared a touching post for Ava’s 10th birthday in March. "I stand up for you, and I am stronger than before because of you," wrote the actor. "I am your father, I am your protector, and I am only yours. I love you."

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The actor's doctor, Dr. Christopher Vincent, added that Ava was “one of [Renner's] strongest motivators” to get up and moving again. "You really reflect on life when something like this happens. It's like, 'Okay, what's important?’” Vincent told PEOPLE exclusively.

On the one-year mark of the accident, Renner shared an Instagram post in which he called Ava "reason number one" for his recovery. The two are seen embracing one another as they ring in 2024 together.

"As I got better, she got better, less afraid,” he wrote in the caption. “There is simply no better motivator to recover than to heal your family and friends."

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