Spy Kids star Daryl Sabara announced on Friday that his father Roland, who was absent throughout his childhood, has died.Sabara, 34, was only a year old when his father walked out on the family, leaving him to be raised by his single mother Sandra ‘Sandy’ Sabara.He shot to fame at eight years old when he and Alexa Vega played the titular leads in Robert Rodriguez’s smash hit comedy caper Spy Kids.Later on, Sabara married pop star Meghan Trainor and welcomed three children with her, an experience he described as ‘cathartic’ given his own fatherless upbringing.On Friday, Sabara marked Roland’s death by posting an Instagram selfie of the two of them together on one of the few occasions they met.’My Dad, Roland Sabara, passed away last night,’ Sabara wrote. ‘We only saw each other a couple of times, and I will cherish those memories forever. I know he did the best he could, and I know he’s in a better place now.’ Spy Kids star Daryl Sabara announced on Friday that his father Roland, who was absent throughout his childhood, has died Sabara (right) is pictured in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams with Alexa Vega (second from right), Carla Gugino (left) and Antonio Banderas (second from left)With his father out of the picture, Sabara entered showbiz during his early childhood along with his fraternal twin, who was then known as Evan but has since undergone a gender transition and now goes by the name of Eva.In 2001, Sabara and Alexa Vega achieved international stardom as the brother-sister team of Juni and Carmen Cortez in Spy Kids, which featured Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as their parents and spawned a major franchise.He exchanged vows with Trainor in 2018 and they then brought three children into the world together – Riley, five, Barry, two, and Mikey, born this January via surrogate.When Trainor was pregnant with Barry, Sabara posted a TikTok montage of himself playing with his firstborn and reflected on his own father’s absence in his life.’Growing up without a Dad…I didn’t know what starting a family would mean to me. But I get to be the Dad I always wanted, and I’m loving every second [of] it,’ he wrote.Shortly thereafter, he gave an interview describing fatherhood as ‘cathartic’ and an ‘existential experience’ because he had grown up without Roland, via People.Sabara’s bereavement this week comes two months after Trainor sensationally canceled her planned two-month summer tour.’Balancing the release of a new album, preparing for a nationwide tour, and welcoming our new baby girl to our growing family of five has just been more than I can take on right now, and I need to be home and present for each and all of them at this time,’ explained the All About That Bass hitmaker. Later on, Sabara married pop star Meghan Trainor and welcomed three children with her; they are pictured with their youngest daughter Mikey in January Sabara, pictured with his firstborn son Riley, has described the experience of having children as ‘cathartic’ given his own fatherless childhood Trainor recently revealed she was in ‘heavy therapy’ and that she and Sabara had undergone ‘marriage counseling,’ in an interview with Us Weekly; the couple are pictured last year’I know this will come as a disappointment to my fans, and I am so sorry to let you down. But I know this is the right decision for my family and me right now.’ The day she announced she had scuttled the concert dates, she also closed a deal to sell her sprawling seven-bedroom Los Angeles house for $6,835,000, per TMZ.Trainor had recently revealed she was in ‘heavy therapy’ and that she and Sabara had undergone ‘marriage counseling,’ in an interview with Us Weekly.She raved about the results of her sessions, saying that her relationship with her husband was ‘so good now that I recommend it to everyone.’Trainor noted that with ‘young kids,’ the ‘marriage gets pushed to the side, and then you’re like: “Why are we fighting? We’re on the same team.”‘Before counseling, she and Sabara were ‘living in full different realities,’ to the point they would ‘say in our fights: “Hey, we’re not even fighting about the same thing.”‘