FANTASTIC FOUR star IOAN GRUFFUDD is a father of a baby girl – his wife ALICE EVANS has given birth to the couple’s first child.

The Welsh actor welcomed little Ella Betsi Evans Gruffudd into the world on 6 September (09). She weighed six pounds, three ounces (2.8 kilograms).

But the baby’s sex didn’t come as a shock for the couple – the pair knew they were expecting a little girl, but kept the news secret.

Gruffudd recently revealed how he is planning on having three kids – but his dream of his daughter being born in August like Evans came short by just a month.

He said, “I have my eyes on a brood of three. Ideally I would love a little daughter born in the same month as Alice, because then she would be this strong-headed, fun-loving young thing and it would be great to have two women with that kind of energy in the house.”