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Some celebs are celebrated for their nepo babe presumption — deliberation Gwyneth Paltrow, Laura Dern, Lily-Rose Depp, and Maya Hawke. But determination are galore celebs who aren't arsenic celebrated for having benefited from nepotism, contempt their almighty household members. Here's a look astatine immoderate who mightiness astonishment you...
Their mother, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director, with credits including Running connected Empty and Bee Season. Their father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is simply a writer and director, who has worked connected shows similar Twin Peaks and movies similar A Dangerous Woman. Many of Jake and Maggie's aboriginal acting roles were successful their father's movies.
2. Timothée Chalamet is celebrated for roles successful Little Women, Dune, Marty Supreme and more, portion his older sister Pauline has starred successful The Sex Lives of College Girls and volition look successful The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Their mother, Nicole Flender, is simply a erstwhile Broadway dancer. Their uncle, Rodman Flender, is simply a manager who has worked connected Party of Five, Ugly Betty, The Office, and Idle Hands. Pauline and Timothée's grandparents besides worked successful entertainment: Enid Rodman Flender was a broadway dancer, and Harold Flender was a writer whose publication Paris Blues was adapted into the 1961 Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman movie of the aforesaid name.
3. New Girl icon Zooey Deschanel and Bones prima Emily Deschanel are different brace of celebrated acting sisters with strong nepo ties.
Their dad, Caleb Deschanel, is simply a cinematographer and manager who has been nominated six times astatine the Academy Awards, including for The Right Stuff, Fly Away Home, and The Passion of the Christ. Zooey and Emily's mother, meanwhile, is histrion Mary Jo Deschanel, known for The Right Stuff andTwin Peaks.
4. George Clooney has respective famous relatives, with the astir celebrated possibly being his aunt, vocalist and histrion Rosemary Clooney, who had deed songs similar "Come On-a My House" and starred successful White Christmas.
Rosemary was joined to Puerto Rican histrion and manager José Ferrer, who won an Oscar for his relation successful Cyrano de Bergerac. George's relative Miguel Ferrer is besides an actor, known for roles successful RoboCop, Twin Peaks and Iron Man 3. Meanwhile, George's father, Nicholas Clooney is simply a celebrated writer and TV host. George's different aunt, Betty Clooney, besides had a singing vocation successful the 1940s and 1950s, portion Betty's husband, Pupi Campo, was a notable Cuban entertainer.
5. Margaret Qualley started her vocation successful modelling and became a respected histrion successful her ain close acknowledgment to roles successful shows similar Maid and movies similar The Substance, but her mother, Andie MacDowell, was celebrated agelong earlier her.
Annie starred successful iconic movies similar Four Weddings and a Funeral and Groundhog Day. Her father, Paul Qualley, was besides a model. But Margaret's first acting role was really successful Palo Alto, alongside her then-boyfriend Nat Wolff.
6. Jennifer Aniston became 1 of the astir celebrated women successful the satellite erstwhile Friends started airing successful 1994, but her parents were already actors themselves.
Her father, John Aniston, was well-known for his enactment connected Days of Our Lives, portion her mother, Nancy Dow, had roles successful The Beverly Hillbillies and The Ice House successful the '60s.
7. Whitney Houston is 1 of the astir iconic singers of each time, but she did person immoderate nepo connections.
Her mother, Cissy Houston, was a gospel vocalist who besides performed backup vocals for galore celebrated artists, including Aretha Franklin, and Cissy's nieces (and Whitney's cousins) Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick. Notable opera vocalist Leontyne Price was besides a cousin of Whitney's.
8. Emma Thompson is an histrion and screenwriter with a prolific career, possibly astir celebrated for Howards End, Sense and Sensibility, and Love Actually. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is besides an actor, champion known for Four Weddings and a Funeral, Emma, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Their mother, Phyllida Law, is besides an actor, and has really worked with some her daughters successful movies similar Much Ado About Nothing, Emma, and Nanny McPhee. Meanwhile, their begetter Eric Thompson was an actor, screenwriter and director, champion known for penning and narrating classical kids' amusement The Magic Roundabout.
9. Matty Healy didn't travel his parents into acting, but the brace were progressive successful immoderate notable personage circles.
His begetter Tim Healy and parent Denise Welch some acted successful Coronation Street and Waterloo Road, amongst galore different roles. This meant that Matty was surrounded by celebrated musicians increasing up, with Brian Johnson of AC/DC becoming his godfather.
10. Devon Bostick is astir known for his roles successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Okja, FUBAR, and The 100.
Devon's mother, Stephanie Gorin, whitethorn not beryllium famous, but she is well-connected — she's a casting manager and has really worked on immoderate of the movies and shows Devon has been formed in. His dad, Joe Bostick, is besides an histrion arsenic good arsenic a combat coordinator.
11. Daniel Radcliffe is different casting cause babe — his mother, Marcia Jeannine Gresham, is one, portion his dad, Alan George Radcliffe, is simply a literate agent.
He landed his archetypal relation successful David Copperfield done a person and fellow casting agent of his mom's, portion Harry Potter shaper David Heyman was a friend of his dad's.
12. Jennifer Grey, champion known for starring successful '80s hits Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Dirty Dancing, is besides a nepo baby.
She's the girl of vocalist and histrion Jo Wilder and Academy Award-winning actor, singer, and manager Joel Grey. Joel's begetter and Jennifer's grandfather, Mickey Katz, was besides a notable instrumentalist and comedian.
13. Jason Sudeikis, champion known for Saturday Night Live and Ted Lasso, is not the archetypal celebrated idiosyncratic successful his family.
14. Actor and rockstar Lenny Kravitz whitethorn person celebrated offspring of his ain successful Zoe Kravitz, but what's possibly little well-known is that he's a nepo babe himself.
His dada was NBC shaper and jazz promoter Sy Kravitz, and his ma was Roxie Rocker, prima of classical sitcom The Jeffersons. Weather presenter Al Roker is besides Lenny's second cousin.
15. His sanction astir apt should person fixed it distant but successful lawsuit it didn't — yes, Scandal prima Tony Goldwyn is of THE Goldwyns of accumulation institution Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
His dada is Samuel Goldwyn Jr, shaper of movies similar Mystic Pizza and Master and Commander, who himself is the lad of histrion Frances Howard and Samuel Goldwyn, 1 of the founders of Goldwyn Pictures which was aboriginal merged into MGM. Tony's mother, Jennifer Howard, was besides an actor, and the girl of award-winning dramatist and screenwriter Sidney Howard and signifier manager and histrion Clare Eames. Tony's brother, John Goldwyn, was antecedently a studio executive who worked connected movies similar Forrest Gump and Titanic, and has gone connected to nutrient movie and TV himself, including Baby Mama, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and Dopesick.
16. Not lone are actors Jason and Robert Schwartzman the sons of movie shaper Jack Schwartzman, but done their mother, Talia Shire, they're members of the celebrated Coppola household and portion of pretty ample nepo network.
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