But did you know that Hewson, 33, is already familiar with international superstardom ... at least, by proxy?
Eve Hewson shared on TODAY on Sept. 9 what it was like having Bono as her dad growing up.
"He's all about it, just a huge, huge fan," she added. "He's always like, 'So this is what you gotta do: You gotta call up this person, you gotta do this,' and I'm like, 'Oh my God, calm down.'"
TODAY's Craig Melvin asked if Bono acts like this, even now?
"Oh even now, you can't stop him," Hewson said with a smile.
The Backstory of Bono and His Wife
Like Bono, Ali was born in Dublin, Ireland; her family is from the northern suburb of Raheny. According to the Irish Independent, her “first real boyfriend” was Bono, the two connecting when she was 15 and he 16, around the time U2 formed in 1976.
She has a degree in politics and sociology from University College Dublin, and she shares four children with the musician: Eve (born in 1991), Jordan (born in 1989), John (born in 2001) and Elijah (born in 1999). Elijah is the front man and guitarist for the band Inhaler.
Ali, now 63, has also been the inspiration for several U2 songs, most prominently “Sweetest Thing,” which was originally written when the band was recording the 1987 album “The Joshua Tree.”
Bono wrote the song as an apology for being so absent in their lives during the recording of the album. “It was Ali’s birthday, and I didn’t make it for the birthday,” he told Rolling Stone in 1998.
The song was ultimately included in the band’s “Best of 1980-1990/The B-Sides” compilation and released as a single in 1998 that hit the charts around the world. Ali even appeared in the music video, on the condition proceeds from the song went to the Chernobyl Children’s Project.
An activist for many years, Ali got involved in anti-nuclear activism in the ’90s. In 1993, she produced “Black Wind, White Land: Living With Chernobyl,” a documentary about the ongoing effects of the nuclear disaster, according to IMDb.
Also a businesswoman, she co-founded fair trade clothing company Edun with her husband, per WWD, and the ethical skin care company Nude (the reverse of ““Edun”), per another story in WWD.
In 2020, Hewson spoke with the Irish Daily Mirror about her children, noting, “I am just so happy for them, each one of them, you just hope they find their way.”
As for her relationship with Bono, that’s the sweetest thing, too.
“It is a grand madness about us,” Bono said at the New Yorker Festival in 2022, per People. “There’s something about knowing that you’re going against the odds. But I would say if you ask me seriously, friendship can outpace romantic love, sometimes. And friendship is what myself and Ali have. When you have romantic love and friendship, that’s really something special.”
Bono's Journey to Stardom
Paul David Hewson became Bono when he was a teenager.
According to the 2005 book “Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas,” as well as a 2022 interview on BBC Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs,” the moniker was inspired by the name of a hearing aid shop in Dublin called Bonavox (which means “good voice” in Latin) and given to Paul by and his friend Guggi.
Bono first achieved success with U2, which began releasing music in 1979. Since then, Bono has won 22 Grammys, been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, was named one of Time’s Persons of the Year in 2005 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007.
He also has continued to contribute to the industry over the years outside of his band, including co-writing the soundtrack to the musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” with bandmate the Edge.
Off the stage, Bono advocates for causes including poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa, according to the Irish Times. His Christian faith is often a driving force behind his philanthropy, as well as his lyrics (in 2022, he told NPR that “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” is a “gospel song”).
In the 1990s, Bono was diagnosed with glaucoma, making flash photography difficult for him. Explaining to The Guardian in 2014 why he wears tinted or dark sunglasses in public, he said, “I have good treatments and I am going to be fine.”
As for family life, Bono and his wife have been married for more than four decades. Parents of four children, the pair weren’t sure early on if they could be good parents with Dad in a rock band.
As Bono wrote in his 2022 memoir, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” “I was not sure I could be so ambidextrous as to be band leader and father. I was frightened of such responsibilities and of blowing them. As Ali and I walked back from Quincy (Jones)’s one night, an invisible switch got flicked. We were talking about kids and how the conventional life is not the only route to parenting, how people who live in their imagination can also live in the real world of parent-teacher meetings, school drops, and being there for birthdays. A month later and Ali was pregnant.”
Staying close to his family has been critical. “I’m never away from Ali and the kids for more than three weeks,” he said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, giving credit to Ali for keeping the family strong. “She is just really so cool.”
What's Next For Eve Hewson?
Meanwhile, the “Bad Sisters” actress has continued her rise to stardom, starring in the Netflix hit “The Perfect Couple” alongside Nicole Kidman, Meghann Fahy, Dakota Fanning and Liev Schreiber.
“Halfway through [the shoot], everyone started twitching [because] we needed to get out of Cape Cod,” she said. “We knew each other too well by this point. So, the axe-throwing was very therapeutic.”
