Actress Toukie Smith who shares twins with Robert De Niro passes away

Celebrity

By Linda Ikeji
10 November 2026, 8:30 am

Toukie Smith, the actress greatest identified for starring in 227 and Miami Vice, has handed away.

She handed away in New York after a “long, courageous battle” with a number of sclerosis as confirmed by her twins Airyn and Julian, whom she shared with former accomplice Robert De Niro.

Her kids instructed The Hollywood Reporter that the 74-year-old handed away on Wednesday 4 November.

The actress joined NBC’s 227 in 1989, first as a visitor star earlier than she landed the character Eva Rawley. 

Toukie was born Dorris Smith again in 1952, however selected the stage title Toukie from her grandmother.

Back in 1990 she defined to Los Angeles Times: “It was a nickname my grandmother gave me that came from a children’s record about a little red fire engine with lots of energy. I’ve always had lots of energy.”

She started relationship Robert De Niro again in 1988 though it has not been confirmed how they met. They welcomed twins into their lives through surrogate after he divorced Diahnne Abbott.

They had been allegedly in an on-off relationship for years earlier than calling it quits again in 1996.

She additionally modelled and appeared in campaigns for Yves St. Laurent, and was seen in magazines like Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Ebony and Redbook.

Toukie was additionally topped Bloomingdale’s first mannequin of the 12 months in 1978.