Surprising Hollywood Celebrity Relations
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OK, I think even the most casual of film fans realizes Michael Douglas is Kirk's son and Jane Fonda is Henry's daughter, but what are some of those less obvious familial relations in Hollywood. And not marriages, as those shift so darn often even the people involved have a hard time keeping 'em straight. Who are some blood relations you maybe didn't realize for years (or until you read this thread)?
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Beautiful thread!
I knew some but I didn't know (and was thereby surprised by) about: Melanie Griffith is the daughter of Tippi Hedren. Jennifer Jason Leigh is the daughter of Vic Morrow. Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini. I was surprised when I found about George Clooney & Miguel Ferrer several years ago. ** Griffin, around the chin and mouth, is really looking like his dad these days. |
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What I found out that is NOT surprising, is that I am a jack ass. How I missed the connection between Dominique Dunne and my pal Griffin, I don't know, but I did. Not that it was obvious at all. Oh wait...It was completely obvious. I also didn't know Jennifer Jason Leigh was related to Vic Morrow (RIP).
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By the way, just to add to one of the relationships established herein, if you caught the summer release of
Nancy Drew http://www.movieforums.com/community...7a515988ce.jpg You would have been face to face for a few hours with Eric Robert's daughter Emma (niece of Julia Roberts). I remember the first time I saw her on a show called "Unfabulous" (which my daughter loves) that her smile looked very familiar to me. It didn't take long to register that she looks a whole lot like her aunt Julia and I had to go ferret her out on IMDB to verify. |
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Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People) is the son of James Hutton (Ellery Queen)
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Oh, and I know this one because my mom told me years ago.
James Arness and Peter Graves are brothers. http://images-partners-tbn.google.co...e_284074520/xl |
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I may be stating an obvious one here, but just in case;
There is Martin Sheen - father to Emilio Estevez (and Charlie Sheen of course) |
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I had no idea that the brilliant Jason Schwartzman is apart of the brilliant Coppola family. That's very cool.
I didn't know about all the others either, to be honest. That is, of course, apart from the obvious one that Memnon listed... ;) |
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Here are a bunch that seem fairly well known to me, but you never know what people have missed in connecting the celebrity dots, so I'll run them down anyway...
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"He is such a Baldwin!"
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One family that is so obvious they are commonly referred to and grouped together as siblings are the Baldwin Brothers: Alec (The Hunt for Red October, "30 Rock"), Daniel ("Homicide: Life on the Street"), Stephen (The Usual Suspects, Bio-Dome) and Billy (Backdraft, Sliver, The Squid & the Whale). But in case anyone was confused over the years, actor Adam Baldwin (My Bodyguard, Full Metal Jacket, "Firefly") is not a "Baldwin Brother". Same last name, completely different family. http://www.movieforums.com/community...1&d=1410872207 |
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I still like the Larry Hagman (son) http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/i-dream...annie-2366.jpg/
Mary Martin (mom) http://www.jmbarrie.net/photos/20mmPPpic1.jpg connection. Plus, everybody knows that Olivia de Havilland http://www.nndb.com/people/741/00002...-havilland.jpg and Joan Fontaine http://www.movieactors.com/photos/gunga93.jpeg are sisters (and still alive and over 90.) |
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Fun thread, Holden!
I'mna go against the grain and point out two I would have sworn were related, but it turns out they aren't: Lauren Graham http://barnard.edu/images/newnews/gilmore08.jpg and Anne Miller http://www.skylighters.org/sweethearts/ann/miller1.jpg I just caught You Can't Take It With You a couple of weeks ago and noticed they have many of the same mannerisms. It's uncanny. |
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Some new links coming to theaters recently...
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Great thread! But why, oh why anyone would change their name when they were born Albert Einstein is beyond me. :D
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Stella Keitel is Harvey Keitel and Lorraine Bracco's daughter.
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David Cassidy (Partridge Family) and Shaun Cassidy (The Hardy Boys) are half brothers. Shirley Jones is Sean's mother, and David's step-mom (I think you need to be *ahem* mature to remember these two fellas. They were popular awhile ago...). They have another brother, Patrick, also.
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I can see this thread becoming one of my favorites rather quickly.
I was surprised to find sometime shortly after watching The Sure Thing, that Joan Cusack http://www.movieforums.com/community...878cf1ef9d.jpg who I loved a few years before in My Bodyguard, is the sister of John Cusack http://www.movieforums.com/community...878cf15f12.jpg ..who everyone knows from one movie or another. |
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And more Cusacks (and Pivens, too)...
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Originally Posted by Sir Toose
I was surprised to find sometime shortly after watching The Sure Thing that Joan Cusack, who I loved a few years before in My Bodyguard, is the sister of John Cusack, who everyone knows from one movie or another.
Yes, Joan and John are brother and sister, both started as child actors, and they have three other siblings in the business: Ann, Susie and Bill. Though none of them has had anywhere near the kind of success that Joan and John have enjoyed. Ann gets the most work of the other three, mostly TV guest stuff, and the first time I noticed her and said, 'Oh, GOD, she's a Cusack, too' was in Grosse Pointe Blank: she plays the drunken classmate who comes up to John and Minnie Driver in the bar (the night before the reunion). Their father, Dick Cusack, was a Chicago-based actor, playwright, and filmmaker. The Jack Bull, an HBO movie that John starred in, was written by his Dad. In the picture in the bottom left corner above, he's the guy in the glasses. The fella next to him, pointing with the beard, is Byrne Piven. He is an actor and teacher who is of course the father of Jeremy Piven ("Entourage"). The Cusack brood all studied at the Piven Theatre Workshop, in Evanston, Illinois. So in case you didn't know, that's why John and Jeremy are (or were, if the tabloid rumors of their recent tiff are true) such good friends, and why Jeremy appeared in so many of John's films over the years. Jeremy's sister, Shira, has dabbled in acting and is married to writer/director Adam McKay, a former improv actor who has gone on to success as the head writer of "SNL" before hitting the movies with Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and those "controversial" short films for the internet with Will Ferrell being terrorized by a foul-mouthed toddler. That little girl is Pearl McKay, Adam and Shira Piven's daughter and (duh) Jeremy's niece. |
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