Actress Minnie Driver gave birth on Friday to her first child at the age of 38.

The child, a baby boy that she named Henry Story Driver, was born in Los Angeles and surprised everybody, weighing 9 pounds, 12 ounces, the actress’ rep, Jessica Kolstad, said.

Driver has not revealed the name of the baby’s father, but she told People in June that the dad would certainly be involved in the baby’s life.

“He’s going to be a dad so yeah he’s going to be there for the kid.  I’m not getting married to this person and I don’t know what’s going to happen but everyone is cool about the situation,” she said earlier in the summer.

During an interview with The Independent in U.K, while she was promoting her second album, “Seastories,” Driver gave some vague clues about her baby’s daddy: he’s English, he’s “sort of in the same business.” But that’s pretty much all.

Driver, who has previously been in romantic relationships with Matt Damon, John Cusack and Josh Brolin, and other celebrities, revealed the news about her pregnancy during a Tonight Show appearance, when Jay Leno noticed her curviness. She then said that she enjoyed pregnancy “more than anything else.”

However, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated British actress also pointed out that pregnancy was not at all easy.

“I don't know why they call it morning sickness,” she told Leno during the show. “I am sick morning, noon and night, but it's a fair trade-off.”

But she has now escaped the hardships, and said she was looking forward to spending a lot of time with her baby, most probably at the seaside, as she loves the ocean.