Taylor Swift’s journey to becoming a pop superstar started with her family’s support. Swift’s parents, Scott and Andrea Swift, and her brother, Austin Swift, have been there for the “Cruel Summer” singer-songwriter since day one.

When Taylor got a development deal with RCA Records at just 13 years old, the family uprooted themselves from Pennsylvania to the Nashville area for her career. “My parents were unbelievable,” she recalled in a 2019 interview on CBS Sunday Morning. “I will never forget that. And my brother [Austin]. My brother’s a real bro for doing that.”

“I buy them lots of presents,” the artist added with a laugh.

It all began with a love story: Scott Swift, a stockbroker (and later, vice president at Merrill Lynch) married former mutual fund marketing executive Andrea Swift in February 1988. The couple welcomed their first child, Taylor Alison Swift, on December 13, 1989. They expanded their family a little over two years later, welcoming son Austin Kingsley Swift on March 11, 1992.

The family initially raised Taylor and Austin in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania before moving to just outside Nashville for their daughter’s music career. Taylor’s 2021 song “Christmas Tree Farm” reflects on her early years in the Keystone State. “It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid,” she told Philadelphia magazine of her childhood home in a 2008 interview.

Although she’s gone from everyday girl to global sensation, the 14-time Grammy winner remains close to her family. Her parents attended several shows on her sold-out Eras Tour, while her brother Austin collaborated with Taylor as a producer for her ACM-nominated “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version)” music video.

Below, here’s everything to know about Taylor Swift’s family.

Scott Swift

Before he was known to Swifties as Taylor’s dad, Scott Swift was a stockbroker and Vice President of Merrill Lynch. Per the financial firm’s website, he joined the company in 1980.

As shown in the 2020 Netflix documentary Miss Americana, Scott didn’t leave his strategic background behind as Taylor’s career took off—he actually played a major part in her business management team.

He’s also held the role of typical embarrassing dad, as the singer revealed in a 2009 MySpace post. “My dad is along the ride for this trip. He’s a social butterfly, and loves being on tour,” she wrote. “He loves it so much, he thinks it’s absolutely hilarious to embarrass me as much as possible. For example, walking into the hotel lobby after returning from dinner[…] from out of nowhere: ‘HEY! THAT’S TAYLOR SWIFT!!’ Me: ‘Dad. Please stop doing that.’ ”

In 2023, Scott attended the opening night of the Eras Tour, with Taylor sharing pictures to her Instagram Stories of the backstage pass she created for him. The DIY card read “D.O.H. Pass (Dad of Headliner),” an adorable memento for one of her biggest cheerleaders. “Made my Dad’s tour credential,” the Midnights singer captioned the picture, adding, “We are a small family business.”

Besides the obvious ways he’s encouraged his daughter, the former finance executive has also made subtler shifts—like going from a lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan to a Kansas City Chiefs fan after some convincing from Taylor’s boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

“What are we doing, Scott?” Travis’s brother Jason Kelce, a former Eagles player, joked on the brothers’ New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce podcast in 2023. “You’re gonna let this man’s devilishly good looks and relationship with your daughter sway you from a lifetime of fandom, Scott? This is ridiculous.”

Taylor’s also been there for her father when he needed it most. After the 73-year-old underwent quintuple bypass surgery in the summer of 2025, People reported that Taylor, her brother Austin, and their mom Andrea were by his side throughout the surgery and the recovery process.

Andrea Swift

Taylor Swift’s mom, Andrea Swift, was the subject of one of the country-turned-pop icon’s earliest songs.

In the 2008 track “The Best Day,” Taylor references various happy memories she made with Andrea and their family growing up. During one Eras Tour show, the artist told the audience about how she created the song without her mom’s knowledge to surprise her. The first time Andrea, 67, heard it, she didn’t realize it was about their relationship.

When Taylor signed with then-indie label Big Machine, per a 2008 Entertainment Weekly profile, there weren’t many employees yet—so Andrea stepped up to help. “[W]hen they were releasing my first single, my mom and I came in to help stuff the CD singles into envelopes to send to radio. We sat out on the floor and did it because there wasn’t furniture at the label yet.”

In 2015, The Life of a Showgirl artist revealed that her mother had been diagnosed with cancer in an emotional Tumblr post. “I’d like to keep the details of her condition and treatment plans private, but she wanted you to know,” Taylor wrote to her fans, per People. While she ultimately recovered, her cancer returned in 2019, Swift shared in an essay for Elle. “It’s taught me that there are real problems and then there’s everything else. My mom’s cancer is a real problem,” Taylor, then 29, explained.

Swift’s 2019 Lover song, “Soon You’ll Get Better,” chronicles Andrea’s experience with the devastating illness. The track features country act The Chicks. “Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom,” Taylor told Variety in January 2020, revealing in the same interview that her mother had been diagnosed with a brain tumor during her cancer treatment.

“But for me, she’s really the guiding force,” she continued. “Almost every decision I make, I talk to her about it first. So obviously it was a really big deal to ever speak about her illness.”

Alongside husband Scott, Andrea attended several shows on the Eras Tour, including one of the final concerts in December 2024. The proud parents were spotted hugging in the crowd at that show as Taylor performed a mashup of songs “Never Grow Up” and “The Best Day,” according to a video captured by a fan.

Austin Swift

Scott and Andrea Swift welcomed their second child, son Austin Kingsley Swift, on March 11, 1992. He was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Along with his big sister, he grew up on the family Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania until the early 2000s, when the family moved to Tennessee.

Austin graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2015, receiving a bachelor’s degree in film studies, per People. Like Taylor, he was drawn to a career in entertainment—not making music, but movies. The younger Swift sibling told Vanity Fair in 2017 that his love of acting came from taking solace in films as an outcast child who “didn’t have a lot of friends.”

“I would go to the movies, and Daniel Craig was my friend, and Christian Bale was my friend, and Clive Owen was my friend, and Viggo Mortensen was my friend,” he explained to the outlet.

His feature film debut came one year post-grad, when he acted alongside Pierce Brosnan in the crime thriller I.T. His other acting credits include Live By Night, a 2016 gangster epic starring Ben Affleck, and 2019 indie dramedy Braking for Whales, according to his IMDB profile.

Behind the camera, the 33-year-old has produced several projects with his A-list sister over the years. The siblings teamed up on her music videos for “You Belong with Me,” “Mean,” and “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version),” as well as the 2020 special “Taylor Swift: Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions.”

On Swift’s 29th birthday in 2018, Austin penned a heartfelt tribute to his older sibling on his Instagram account. “It is a singularly beautiful thing to see magic right in front of your eyes. After nearly three decades of that happening time and time again, the effect hasn’t worn off.

“I have always had a best friend, a role model, and a caring, tireless, dedicated champion in my corner,” he continued. “You have pulled me out of fires and carried me up mountains. The gift of getting to witness you become the wonderful person you are today has been the greatest privilege and honor of my life.”

As for Austin’s personal life, the actor-producer has been romantically linked to model Sydney Ness since 2022. According to People, the couple were spotted rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs at the 2024 Super Bowl alongside Taylor, Andrea, and Scott Swift.