Looks like double trouble for Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance.
The camera-ready couple are the proud parents of twins, a boy and a girl, who made their grand entrance Friday, according to publicist Alex Dubee. The children, the first for the couple, were born to a surrogate mother.
The newborns' names and vital statistics were not released.
Bassett, 47, and Vance, 45, met while enrolled in the drama program at Yale University in the late '80s, but didn't begin dating until both were cast in a play in Los Angeles in the fall of 1996.
"We're like old friends who all of a sudden looked up and said, 'Hmmm...,' " Vance told People magazine at the time. "Gradually, it dawned on us that we like each other."
The couple announced their engagement in December of the same year and tied the knot Oct. 12, 1997, the first marriage for both actors.
Bassett hit the big time following her 1993 portrayal of Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It, for which she won a Golden Globe and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She went on to star in Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. She was last heard, but not seen, on the big screen as Brad Pitt's faceless boss in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Next up is a role in Akeelah and the Bee, a drama following a young inner-city girl who makes it to the National Spelling Bee due out Apr. 28.
Bassett, who was a presenter at Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards, also serves as CIA director on ABC's Alias, which ends its run in May.
Vance's small-screen day job--as assistant district attorney Ron Carver on Law & Order: Criminal Intent--does not appear to be similarly imperiled. The show is a consistent top 30 player for NBC, averaging 11.5 million viewers this season, and appears on track for renewal.