Sylvester Stallone's Daughter, Scarlet, Is All Grown Up And Following In His Footsteps

Scarlet Stallone is the youngest of the three daughters "Rocky" actor Sylvester Stallone shares with his wife, Jennifer Flavin. She's also one of the stars of the Paramount+ docuseries, "The Family Stallone."

In a video on the show's TikTok page, Sylvester's oldest daughter, Sistine Stallone, revealed that Scarlet was a tomboy growing up. "Putting on a dress for Scarlet was like you're asking her to get a root canal. She would never do it," she said. Scarlet chimed in to confess, "It's still kind of hard today." Fans of the Stallones' docuseries have also learned that Scarlet was acting in a school play when she first understood that Sylvester was a huge star. She recalled delivering her single line and her classmates losing their minds after her supportive dad said in his instantly recognizable thick baritone, "Hey, attagirl!" Afterward, the actor was mobbed by parents who wanted photos with him. "That's when I realized dad's really famous," Scarlet said on "The Family Stallone." Her father responded, "And now it's your turn."

She's not quite as famous as her father just yet, but Scarlet spent a little time in the spotlight growing up. In addition to making red carpet appearances, she scored a starring role on her pop's Instagram page. In a 2017 video, Sylvester admitted that she makes his stature seem less impressive, quipping, "My daughter has blossomed into a beautiful giraffe." But there's more to Scarlet Stallone's transformation than a few inches and a few dresses in her closet.

Scarlet Stallone enjoyed experimenting with her hair as a child, but she wasn't always thrilled with the results. Sylvester Stallone's family joined him in Thailand when he filmed the 2008 movie "Rambo" there, and Scarlet decided to get her hair cut short during the trip. Unfortunately, she hated how it looked so much that she started crying. In an effort to make her feel better, Sistine Stallone sweetly decided to get her hair cut short, too. It also gave Sistine something to hold over her younger sibling during future disagreements. "I still use that. 'I cut off all my hair for you,'" Sistine told Harper's Bazaar in 2017.

On the "Unwaxed" podcast, Scarlet said that she also gave herself a chaotic haircut when she was 10 years old. "I cut my hair with my dad's cigar cutter, to the point I was literally bald," she recalled. Her mom freaked out when she saw what Scarlet had done — so Scarlet tried lying about the identity of the stylist responsible for her wild new 'do. "I go, 'The coyotes attacked me, and they cut my hair,'" she said.

While the state of her pate made it impossible for Scarlet to get away with her crime against keratin, according to Sistine, her younger sister attempted to hide the rest of the evidence. "She stuffed all of the hair into the air vent, so when the vent turned on, it was snowing hair," she recalled.

In 2017, Scarlet Stallone was bestowed with the ultimate nepo baby honor: being named Miss Golden Globe. She also made history, as she and her sisters were the first siblings to share the title. Its recipients are always children of Hollywood heavyweights, and some past honorees have become stars in their own right, such as Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter, Rumer Willis, and Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's daughter, Dakota Johnson. 

As part of her duties, Scarlet had to escort celebs to and from the podium at the Golden Globes, and the then-14-year-old's dad wanted to make sure she was prepared to do all that walking in formal wear. "He makes me train in heels for an hour every day so I don't fall!" Scarlet confessed to People. We don't know if Sylvester Stallone played the "Rocky" theme song or "Eye of the Tiger" while Scarlet was teetering around, but Sophia Stallone seemed to think that the training was worth her sister's while. When speaking about Scarlet's stiletto skills, the animal Sophia compared her to was not the graceful tiger. "I think out of everyone, Scarlet will trip. ... We call her the baby giraffe," she said. 

Despite her inexperience with high heels, Scarlet wasn't too nervous ahead of the Golden Globes ceremony. "I feel a lot more calm since my sisters are here with me," she explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "It's less attention directly on me."

It's not uncommon for a younger sibling to crush on the romantic partner of an older sibling, but Scarlet Stallone likely turned, well, scarlet, when Sophia Stallone dated one of her younger sister's crushes and brought him home. 

On "Unwaxed," Scarlet recounted how she found a photo of three University of Southern California football players and made it her phone's screensaver when she was in eighth grade. She didn't know who the players were; it was just an image that had been making the rounds on Tumblr, and she thought the guys were cute. "They were looking out into the football field in like a sexy manner," Scarlet recalled. "... They had the football paint on them."

Sophia was attending USC at the time, and she had gotten serious enough with a guy she was seeing that she decided to introduce him to her family. And guess who her boyfriend was? "He walks in, and I just click my phone on, and I look at my screensaver for a second," Scarlet recalled. "And then I look up. Bam! Same man on my phone is staring at me right now." Scarlet was so dumbstruck that it made dinner with the fam awkward; her silence was freaking out Sophia, who had no clue that Scarlet was seeing her boyfriend every time she turned her phone on. Of Scarlet's uncharacteristic speechlessness, Sistine Stallone quipped, "It's because so much drool was falling out of her mouth."

On "Unwaxed," Scarlet Stallone occasionally mentioned the guy she'd been in a long-term relationship with since age 16. "That's what my boyfriend loves about me, how goofy and weird I am," she said in a 2020 episode. She later shared that they were proof that opposites attract, saying, "We do balance each other out. ... It's also good to date someone that is not exactly like you." In another episode, she revealed that the relationship lasted as long as it did because her boyfriend let her dictate the pace that it progressed. "I liked to get to know him and take it slow," she said.

When she appeared on "Unwaxed" again in April 2021, Scarlet revealed that her relationship had ended. "I wasn't only losing my boyfriend; I was also losing my best friend," she said. Scarlet also shared that she found it a lot more difficult to open up about the breakup than she thought it would be. However, she was eventually able to describe how she nursed her broken heart. "Yes, I did cry for two days straight," she said. "... I listened to Lana Del Rey, and I got over it."

Still, an emotional Scarlet confessed that she was finding it a struggle to not contact her ex. Sistine Stallone discouraged her from doing so, and Scarlet decided to give him his space until she felt like he was ready to speak to her. "You have to learn how to live without each other," she said.

Scarlet Stallone took a big leap forward in her acting career when she landed a role on her dad's Paramount+ series "Tulsa King." On "Unwaxed," Scarlet said of the gig, "This is kind of like a dream come true for me." But it wasn't just because she'd wanted to be an actor since she was a child; it was also a goal of hers to share the screen with Sylvester Stallone. "I kind of manifested it a little bit," Scarlet said, recalling how she would write out the words, "I'm going to star in a movie with dad," as a teen. However, she said that Sly was somewhat challenging to work with because he liked to improvise. This made it impossible for her to stick to the script, but when she deviated from it in an effort to keep their conversation comprehensible, she would get reprimanded. "No one's going to correct him; they're going to correct me," she said.

When viewers first met Scarlet's character, she was working as a barista. However, Sly's mafia boss character, Dwight "The General" Manfredi, later hired her as a caretaker for his horse. In an interview with "JoBlo," Scarlet revealed that she has a lot of experience working with horses and even rode competitively when she was younger.

Speaking with USA Today, Sylvester praised his youngest daughter's screen presence, saying, "There's a thing she has with the camera, even with still shots, that is unique."

In February 2023, Scarlet Stallone put her acting skills to use in a Paramount+ Super Bowl ad that featured her dad climbing his own chiseled features on the side of a mountain. The commercial was a splashy way to promote "The Family Stallone" and a few other Paramount+ offerings. While Scarlet seemed comfortable having the reality show's cameras around, she admitted that it took some time for her to get accustomed to their presence. "It was really hard because we're not growing up in the spotlight, so having to be so raw and so honest, especially in front of the camera, was a big step," she told Collider. She suggested that Sistine and Sophia Stallone were more at ease from the beginning because they'd been filming their podcast for years.

However, Sylvester Stallone apparently knew that Scarlet had a Kardashian hiding inside of her somewhere."There's not a shy bone in your body, girl," he told her. Still, being outgoing didn't help when Scarlet had to film those tricky confessionals. "Oh my God, I am so bad at it. They're asking me stuff from so long ago ... I'm like, 'I don't remember how I felt three months ago!'" she said.

On "Unwaxed," Scarlet revealed that it's her dream to spend more time in front of the camera as Catwoman or Spider-Woman — and it doesn't seem like much of a stretch for one of Sly's daughters to play a superhero.