Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey has celebrated a momentous occasion, as his youngest twins have graduated high school.
"So proud of you boys and cannot wait to see where the next chapter of your lives will take you!" Patrick captioned a post on Instagram that featured a gorgeous family picture of his sons Sullivan and Darby in their caps and gowns, standing between their mom, Jillian, and dad.
© Patrick DempseyHigh school graduation
Darby also shared the picture, revealing that he "couldn’t have asked for a better senior year" alongside a carousel that included a picture with sister Talula and one of Darby receiving his diploma on stage.
The siblings graduated from the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, California.
Their older sister Talula, 22, was also in attendance and she commented on the post with a series of hand emojis, while mom Jillian wrote how "proud" she was of her "baby".
Sullivan took to Stories to reshare a post from a friend that showed Sullivan posing with a group of girlfriends standing on the steps of the school.
Unique qualities
"They all have unique qualities and they have their own goals that they need to develop and harvest themselves and we just try to model our behavior and hopefully they’ll pick up on that," he previously told People magazine of his children.
“They need to find out how they interact in the world, they need to learn those boundaries, they need to make mistakes. And you need to be there for them and allow them to learn from that,” the actor added.
© FilmMagic26 years of marriage
Patrick and Jillian married in 1999 but in 2015 she filed for divorce. They later reconciled and called the divorce off 22 months later.
Patrick was a teen star but found lasting fame when he starred alongside Reese Witherspoon as her fiance in the 2002 movie Sweet Home Alabama.
Grey's Anatomy
He joined the cast of Grey's Anatomy in 2005 as Dr Derek Shepherd – also known as McDreamy – alongside Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, T. R. Knight, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr and Isaiah Washington.
© Disney General Entertainment ConMcDreamy was the love interest for Dr. Meredith Grey (Pompeo), whom the show revolved around as it chronicled her progression from surgical intern to fully-qualified doctor to the hospital's chief of general surgery.
He was on the show for ten years before he was killed off in 2015 after marrying Meredith and welcoming two children together; she was pregnant with their third when he died in a car accident.
