Julia Stiles Expecting First Child

Julia Stiles Expecting First Child

There’s 10 things to love about this — Julia Stiles is pregnant!

The Save the Last Dance actress and her fiancé Preston J. Cook will welcome their first child later this year, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

Since the couple’s engagement on Christmas Eve 2015 at a private residence in Isla Grande, Colombia, the two have been in no rush when it comes to saying, “I do.”

“I’m not getting a ton of marital advice,” Stiles, 36, told PEOPLE in 2016. “We’re really slow on the wedding planning so I haven’t really been soliciting advice….