Surprising Celebrity Connections

Ronan Farrow and Woody Allen. RF looks so much like Frank Sinatra I was shocked when Woody Allen fans(neurotic sycophants) insisted that Ronan was Woody's........

Really? You just found out? DUH!

Well, I barely even know Mariska. I don't watch Law & Order.

Broadway (and sometimes film) actress Joanna Gleason is the daughter of "Let's Make a Deal" host Monty Hall. When I first heard that years ago it was more strange than a surprise.

Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was Max Born, a Nobel Prize winner for Physics and the best friend of Albert Einstein.

Jamie Dornan (from The Fall & Fifty Shades of Gray) is first cousins once removed with Greer Garson.

Don't let the names fool you, but Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Roosevelt were all related to each other.

Elle King ("Exes and Ohs") is the daughter of Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigalo). I don't see the resemblance at all, fortunately for her.

Monty Hall was hot as hell. I had a major crush on him. Nice hair and a total muscle stud.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's grandfather was Michael Gordon who directed many films including Pillow Talk, Portrait in Black, Move Over Darling, and Cyrano de Bergerac.

R2 No you fool I was being sarcastic. Who uses Duh anymore. You actlike a brain addled baby gay from 1988.

Rosemary Clooney is George's aunt. Talk about surprising!

R11 forgot his NoCunt pill this morning.

Christ, OP! Are you 12? Posting from a cave? Newly come out of a coma??

MacKenzie Phillips was not only John Phillips daughter but his lover too.

Bunny Campione, one of the appraisers on the English version of Antiques Road Show, is the niece of British actor Stewart Granger.

Lupita Nyongo is Robert DeNiro's niece by marriage.

What surprises me is how little many under 40s know about the relations of celebrities:

WARREN BEATTY and SHIRLEY MacLAINE are of course brother & sister

JOAN FONTAINE and OLIVIA deHAVILLAND, sisters

JAMES ARNESS (Gunsmoke) and PETER GRAVES (Mission Impossible), brothers

DANA ANDREWS and STEVE FORREST (Mommie Dearest), brothers

EDIE SEDGEWICK (Andy Warhol muse) and KYRA SEDGEWICK, cousins

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA and NICHOLAS CAGE, cousins

SISSY SPACEK and RIP TORN, cousins

* * * * Also some forgotten celebrity marriages:

AVA GARDNER and MiCKEY ROONEY

ETHEL MERMAN and ERNEST BORGNINE

CARY GRANT and BARBARA HUTTON (Woolworth heiress)

JILL ST. JOHN and LANCE REVENTLOW (son of BARBARA HUTTON)

JILL ST. JOHN and JACK JONES

LANCE REVENTLOW and CHERYL HOLDRIDGE (former Mouseketeer)

CONRAD HILTON and Zsa Zsa GABOR (who would've been PARIS HILTON' step great grandmama)

NICKY HILTON and ELIZABETH TAYLOR (would've been PARIS HILTON' great aunt)

GENE TIERNEY and OLEG CASSINI

HENRY FONDA and MARGARET SULLAVAN

BETTY GRABLE and JACKIE COOGAN (Uncle Fester)

Carrie Fisher is the daughter of a faded movie star named Debbie Reynolds.

Helen Lawson and Gloria Swanson were distant cousins.

Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers actually were distant cousins, confirmed by Lucie Arnaz.

The only celebrity name I recognized in the list provided by R18 was Paris Hilton.

Speaking of which, I want to deny the unfounded accusations that Jessica CHASTAIN is RON HOWARD'S DAUGHTER!

Andy Garcia and Nina Garcia are siblings.

James Hewitt is Prince Harry's father. But, shhh. Even the royal family doesn't know.

Luc Robitaille and Steven R. McQueen: more than step-?

Not a celeb connection, but a celeb fact I recently found out. Merle Oberon's grandmother was 14 when she gave birth to Merle's mother, and Merle's mother was 12 when she gave birth to Merle. Both Merle and her mother were fathered by white men. Merle's grandmother raised her as her mother's sister.

Merle's mother lived with her in Hollywood and Merle told everyone she was her maid.

Poor native girls. White men could have whatever they wanted.

[quote] Merle told everyone she was her maid.

Dirk Bogarde pretended his man (as in "I got me a man") was the gardner.

Jason Sudeikis is George Wendt's nephew (mother's brother)

I never thought they were similar looking but looking at this pic, I can see it. Pity that Mariska didn't inherit her mother's charisma.

Mariska must be doing something right, having survived Dick Wolf this long. The man lives to fire people.

Here's a brunette Jayne. You can see the resemblance to her daughter, the actress Mariska Hargitay, quite clearly.

Here's a phot of Mariska looking a bit more feminine than she usually does. Beside her is her father, the beefcake performer Mickey Hargitay.

Rip Torn and Sissy Spacek are cousins.

Jessica Capshaw is the stepdaughter to Steven Spielberg.

Kyra Sedgwick was the cousin of Edie Sedgwick.

Patty Duke is the mother of Sean Astin. John Astin is not the father of Sean Astin, a man named Michael Tell is the dad and PD 2nd husband.

WE KNOW, R34! Christ! Learn to read.

Butterfly McQueen was Steve McQueen's great-aunt

Sissy Spacek is Rip Torn's cousin.

Anderson Cooper is Gloria Vanderbilt’s son.

Melissa McCarthy is Jennie McCarthy’s cousin.

James Cromwell is the son of Golden Age Hollywood director John Cromwell ("SInce You Went Away") and actress Kay Johnson ("Of Human Bondage")

Drew Barrymore's grandmother was silent-film star Dolores Costello ("The Magnificent Ambersons")

Frances Ford Coppola is the uncle of Nicolas Cage and Jason and Robert Schwartzman

Kristen Stewart and Alicia Cargile are cousins.

R7 grammatically incorrect sentence. logic?

Contemporary Art star Paul McCarthy is not Paul McCartney the former Beatle.

I read somewhere that Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon are related

Kevin Bacon doesn't eat his namesake. He's vegan.

Tom Cruise's cousin William Mapother is the father of his daughter, Suri.

show biz families

R44 — Kevin and Kyra are married. Or are you just dicking with us?

Sissi Empress of Austria is no relation to Sissi Spacek abut is not the inspiration for Flora Sissy Goforth, Elizabeth's Taylor's character in Boom.

When Rip Torn was making a war movie and in desperate need of relief, he let Rip Taylor suck him off. Apparently his climax gave Taylor an idea for his act.

Rumpelstiltskin is Peter Pan's father and his son is Emma Swan's baby daddy ((and said baby is also Snow White's grandson).

Caitlyn Jenner and Cindy Crawford. They are sisters !!

[quote]Poor native girls. White men could have whatever they wanted.

And let's thank God a white an took an interest in her, otherwise she'd have been a domestic.

Shiela E (prince's protege) is Nicole Richie's biological aunt. Maya Rudolph is Minnie Ripertons daughter.

Madonna, Céline Dion, and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall are distant cousins.

Brooke Shields and Glenn Close are second cousins once removed.

Denis Leary and Conan O'Brien are cousins.

Jerry Falwell, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley are cousins to each other.

Singer Brandy and Snoop Dogg are first cousins.

Ralph & Joseph Fiennes are cousins to the British Royal Family.

I'm more surprised when someone in showbiz doesn't have famous relatives.

Liev Schrieber and Pablo Schieber are half-brothers.

Actress Taryn Manning is cousin to and NFL QBs Payton & Eli Manning

Beach Boy Mike Love is uncle to Cleveland Cavs player Kevin Love.

NASCAR drivers Carl Edwards and Kenny Schrader are first cousins.

Lupita is not De Niro's niece nor related to him in any way r17. And Nic Cage is FF Coppola's nephew, not cousin.

r27 mentions Merle Oberon being raised as her birth mother's sister, by her grandparents. Much like Jack Nicholson and Eric Clapton, both born out of wedlock to young mothers who gave them to their parents to raise, who then told them as boys that their mothers were their 'sisters'. Both found out the truth as adults.

Christian Bale is Gloria Steinem's stepson. Courtney Cox is a step-cousin of Stewart Copeland (drummer for The Police) and his record exec brother Miles, the latter whom she briefly shacked up with.

Someone needs to unravel the tangled family tree of Brooke Shields, Glenn Close (cousins), Gore Vidal, Jackie O, and filmmaker Burr Steers (Igby Went Down) and artist Hugh Steers. All related along with a host of royalty, politicians, business titans and society folk.

Halle Berry is a distant relative of Sarah Palin.

Tom Hanks is a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln.

R46 I've told the Church of Clamatology about that claim and the clams deny it. Suri is Tom's, Mapother's spawn is the reincarnation of The Laughable Ron Hubbard.

Yes r60 but those relations are very distant, like 9 or 10 times removed or more. Tom Hanks I believe is related to other US Presidents the same way, and to UK royalty. But it's like 14 times removed; many of us are related like that to the same people and to each other in this country.

What's interesting is the closer relations, like the fact that Brooke Shields's super-rich paternal grandmother is Italian nobility who's brother married a daughter of the King of Spain. Or that she's 2nd cousins with Glenn Close through this same grandmother.

Through her grandmother, Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, Brooke Shields is the 5x great granddaughter of Princess Leopoldina of Savoy-Carignano, whose family ruled the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which later became the Kingdom of Italy. Leopoldina's more famous sister, the Princess de Lamballe, was Marie Antoinette's friend and lady-in-waiting, who was torn to bits by an angry Parisian mob.

That's -Donna- Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi, r63. Titles count!

Nancy Reagan is a distant cousin of Jane Fonda's.

Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle are sisters, and Patty Loveless is one of their cousins.

Ken "The White Shadow" Howard was the son-in-law of the late Ann Landers.

Vivica A. Fox is the auntie of Madame.

Keith Morrison, the sort of creepy host of Dateline NBC, is the step-father of Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing).

Keith Morrison is to "sort of creepy" as Chris Christie is to "sort of fat."

Keith Morrison looks very Jawish.

I was initially shocked that Lester was Lilly's brother, but then I saw the resemblance in Eddie... who was biting his nails.

I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle being sisters. Cousins, maybe.

Do you have the same difficulty with Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd? Or Wynonna and her mother, for that matter?

Maybe r71 is referring to their voices, which sound nothing alike -Gayle is much blusier in tone and style. Or in the lack of physical resemblance and age gap (Loretta is several years older).

Wynonna Judd actually doesn't look much like Ashley, and given they're only half sisters that would make sense.

Jane Curtin (SNL) is cousins with Valerie Curtin, an actress/writer best known for starring in the TV version of 9 to 5.

Valerie also starred along with John Ritter and Suzanne Somers in the pilot for Three's Company, but got pushed aside for Joyce DeWitt (a sentence you don't read every day).

Actress Dina Merrill, socialite Barbara Hutton and gay socialite and frequent escort to the Duchess of Windsor Jimmy Donahue were cousins

All persons of Caucasian European descent are related to Charlemagne.

Charlemagne?!

Jimmy Donahue used to boast that he once ate a shit sandwich. He also once became so enraged with the Duchess of Windsor that he kicked her in the shins.

Roger Mudd is a descendant of Doctor Mudd, who provided medical treatment to John Wilkes Booth after he murdered Lincoln.

The singer Rita Coolidge was the former sister-in-law of Ed Bradley (60 Minutes), who was married to her sister Priscilla.

By the way, Priscilla later divorced Ed, and married another guy who killed her before committing suicide.

R71, a big difference in their ages (close to 20 years), lifestyle (moved to town from the hills) and education. Loretta was straight from the hills, uneducated and married in her mid-teens. And, I'm sure Loretta helped Crystal get started in music. Both are successful.

Apparently my darling mummy and dad had jobs in show business. Nothing as major as my godfather, Steve Spielberg, or myself, of course .

Namaste.

These aren't connections to other celebrities, per se, but connections to people with some level of fame (or infamy):

Matt Dillon's great uncle is the creator of Flash Gordon.

Brendan Frsaer's uncle won an Olympic gold medal.

And my favorite odd fact: Alex Kapp Horner, the actress who played Lindsay in The New Adventures of Old Christine (one of the meanie moms) was dating Robert Chambers when he killed Jennifer Levin in Central Park, the crime known as "The Preppie Murder".

Kelly Clarkson is Reba McEntire's daughter-in-law.

Jason Sudeikis' uncle is Cheers star George Wendt (his mother's brother).

[R49] Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon ARE very distantly related. It was revealed on one of those geneaology shows. Crazy, huh, especially because their facial features are so alike.

R56, Jimmy Swaggert, not Jerry Falwell, is the televangelist cousin to Jerry Lee and Mickey.

And his voice has held up better than his secular cousins'. Don't care for his religious philosophy, but damn, the man can sing and play piano!

India Eisley is the daughter of Olivia Hussey and the granddaughter of TV hunk Anthony Eisley ('Hawaiian Eye'). Looks like she hit the genetic lottery.

Eve Hewson of "The Knick" is the daughter of Bono.

Disney girl Piper Curda is the daughter of United States Army Brigadier General Stephen K. Curda.

Gwyneth Paltrow is second cousin to Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Steven Spielberg is godfather to Gwyneth Paltrow and Drew Barrymore

Dolly Parton is the godmother of Miley Cyrus

[quote]Matt Dillon's great uncle is the creator of Flash Gordon.

Thanks, R83.

[quote]Steven Spielberg is godfather to Gwyneth Paltrow and Drew Barrymore

The Godsisters

Americana singers Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer are sisters.

And when they were kids, they were both watching as their father shot their mother to death, and then committed suicide with the same gun.

R83 Chapin grad, Alex Kapp Horner. Also, she was on the Old Christine show with fellow prep Emily Rutherfurd (related to the Roosevelts and James Polk). And of course billionairess JLD.

“Dancing With the Stars” professional dancer Mark Ballas’ grandfather invented the Weed Whacker, and I guess made a lot of $$$ in the process.

Jeanette McDonald and Blossom Rock were sisters.

Brian d'Arcy James' uncle was Brian Kelly, the father on "Flipper".

[quote]Liev Schrieber and Pablo Schieber are half-brothers.

Now this is a three way!

That chick with the ear muffs from "Scream Queens" is Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie. Get it? The ear muff? Leia buns? Oh Ryan, you're so clever. Unlike most of your shows.

Is this the dumbest OP of the month?

I think so.

Maybe she'll discover about Olivia and Joan!

Marilyn and Shirley Manson are brother and sister but don't like to talk about their dad, Charlie.

Diane Kruger and her uncle, Freddy. She is also the cousin of gay porn's Tim Kruger.

Lynda Carter is the illegitimate daughter of Jimmy from an affair he had with his ex-wife, Nell. Lynda's son Nick can currently be seen competing on this season's Dancing With The Stars.

Then there are the Voorhees siblings...Lark and Jason.

Viola Davis comes from a line of great actors in her family. Her sister Gina won her Oscar in 1988 and their grandmother Bette had several of her own.

I hear Wentworth Miller is jealous that his little brother Ezra has been cast in the film version of the Flash while he slums it on the tv show. They both snicker behind the back of their middle sister, Sienna.

Nigella Lawson loathes her aunt Helen and her boozy ways.

The Stewart twins, Kristen and BooBoo, are following in the footsteps of their dad, Patrick...who, incidentally followed his own dad, Jimmy, into a career in front of the camera.

R101 Funny

Penelope Ann Miller's Mother was Aristotle Onassis' god daughter.

[quote]Then there are the Voorhees siblings...Lark and Jason.

I was wondering about this. Quite an age difference. She must've been an "accident" as they.

say.^^

Yes, R104. You called it correctly.

Pamela Voorhees had a one-night stand and got knocked up by Lark's father and namesake...Meadowlark Lemon.

Lark was about 6 years old when her mom was killed.

[quote]Viola Davis comes from a line of great actors in her family. Her sister Gina won her Oscar in 1988...

What?! No one commented on that last bit? You bitches are slipping.

Roxie Roket, Helen of The Jeffersons, was in a real life mixed marriage and mother of Lennie Kravitz and cousin of Al Roker.

Make that Roxie Roker. Darn iPhone and spellcorrect.

I like "Roxie Roket" better, to be honest.

[quote] Actress Dina Merrill

And her mother was Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereal fortune. Her father was E.F. Hutton.

If you're a Doctor Who and Harry Potter fan, there are a couple of connections.

Dean Thomas is played by the son of William Russell (Ian, companion to the first Doctor).

Dudley Dursely is played by the grandson of Patrick Troughton (Doctor #2).

And Sean Pertwee (aka the Silver fox) who plays Alfred on "Gotham" is the son of my favorite Doctor, #3 Jon Pertwee

Okay, R108: G-e-e-n-a.

These are sort of minor, but Alexa Davalos, who's in the new Amazon series "The Man in the High Castle," is the daughter of Elyssa Davalos, who was in a lot of TV shows in the '70s and '80s.

R116 ...whose father was Richard Davalos, whose signature role was as Aaron in EAST OF EDEN.

... whose father IS Richard Davalos

James Best (Dukes of Hazzard) is first cousin to Phil and Don, the Everly Brothers.

[quote] Monty Hall was hot as hell. I had a major crush on him. Nice hair and a total muscle stud.

Say what?

Jessica Alba is married to Hill St Blues actor Micheal Warren's son Cash.

Singer Elle King is the daughter of Rob Schneider.

Actress Christa Miller is the niece of Susan Saint James

Rosanna and Patricia Arquette are the granddaughters of Cliff Arquette, aka Charlie Weaver

"surprised of"

Jesus Christ. What is happening in our schools?

It's 'bored of' that makes me want to scream. I feel your pain.

ANNE BAXTER was the granddaughter of FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.

DENNIS QUAID and the late SHARON TATE were cousins.

MARK HARMON'S brother in law was RICKY NELSON.

JOAN BENNETT was the aunt of pig MORTON DOWNEY JR.

GERALDINE FITZGERALD was a distant cousin to JAMES JOYCE.

LANI O'GRADY from EIGHT IS ENOUGH was the sister of actor DON GRADY from MY THREE SONS.

Actor GEORGE SANDERS was married to ZSA ZSA GABOR as well as her sister MAGDA.

R132 And George Sanders' brother was fellow actor Tom Conway, who took over the part of "The Falcon" in that series of movies after George moved on.

Jason Patric is the son of actor/playwright Jason Miller who played Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist.

His grandfather on his mother's side was Jackie Gleason.

There's a solid chance Courtney Love is Marlon Brando's granddaughter. It's hard to verify because Courtney was disowned by her mother (novelist Linda Carroll), and Linda herself was disowned by the grandmother (much more successful novelist Paula Fox). 9 months before Linda was born, Paula Fox was living with Brando and the two were romantically involved. He had a whole bunch of illegitimate children (and by the same token, grandchildren).

I wonder if a test has been taken or something. I'm sure Crazy Courtney would have alerted the presses immediately, so maybe it's not proven after all.

My niece Janel Moloney plays the vegetable on The Leftovers.

Beyonce and actress Bianca Lawson are stepsisters. Bianca's mother is the niece of Motown founder Berry Gordy. Bianca's father Richard Lawson has done acting work on TV and movies.

R33 Thank You! And thank YOU Nature!

Papa Hargitay, apparently

John Lithgow is Brad Pitt's uncle.

Bonnie Bedelia is Macaulay Culkin's aunt.

I guess you really DO have to know somebody to get ahead in Hollywood. It's one big family.

Saoirse Ronan is the niece of Kree judicial officer Ronan the Accuser.

Kate & Oliver Hudson have a strained relationship with their father, Ghostbuster's Ernie.

Imprisoned child killer Susan Smith is the cousin of actor/rapper Will.

Bailey Chase is the son of Chevy Chase.

Hollywood has been very good to the Moore sisters. Demi, Julianne, Kendra and Mandy. They credit their father, Roger.

Roy Cohn had a famous daughter...Mindy.

Ryan Guzman certainly did NOT get his good looks from dear old dad, Luis.

LORETTA YOUNG'S brother in law was actor RICARDO MONTALBAN

Using my imagination:

Diane Keaton and Michael Keaton, siblings. Their grandfather was Buster Keaton.

Warren Beatty and Ned Beatty, siblings.

Charlie Sheen and Michael Sheen, cousins.

The late 'Muppets' creator Jim Henson was the father of actress Taraji P. Henson.

Ken Howard is the biological father of Terrence Howard.

George C. Scott was the late father of the late Debralee Scott.

The 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee and current speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, is the grandson of actor Robert Ryan.

Melissa McCarthy is the granddaughter of the late U.S. senator Eugene McCarthy.

James Bond icon Roger Moore and TV comedy legend Mary Tyler Moore are siblings.

'Survivor's' first-ever winner Richard Hatch was a lead cast member on the 1970s ABC drama series "Battlestar Gallactica." His uncle, Orrin Hatch, is the senior United States senator from Utah.

Julia and Patrick Duffy are siblings

Someone asked about Jackie O. and Gore Vidal: both their mothers had second marriages to Hugh D. Auchincloss, making him at separate points in time a stepfather to each.

No apparently about it r138, that's Mariska's father Mickey. He's Hungarian and was Mr Universe in 1955.

Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are siblings. If I didn't know it already, it would be surprising.

Congratulations on emerging from your coma, R141.

TV C-list actress Mamie Gummer is daughter of worldly renowned, three times Oscar winner Meryl Streep.

Who knew, R150?

Meryl Streep had a teen pregnancy and gave the child up for adoption. The child eventually became an actress and got some notice in the 80s. Meryl helped her with connections behind the scenes. Someone here will know the name.

Chaz Bono has a mother named Shit or something like that. She used to play Vegas a lot.

King Kong and Mighty Joe Young are second cousins on their mothers side.

Sad celebrity connection

Jesse Tyler Ferguson's husband accidentally killed a man who was engaged to Kirstie Alley's daughter.

I don't think this was mentioned yet - Norah Jones is Ravi Shankar's daughter

Norah Jones is also UK director Joe Wright's sister-in-law, since he's married to her half-sister Anoushka Shankar. (which also makes him Ravi's son-in-law).

A non-relative celebrity connection

Matt Bomer and Lee Pace were high school classmates and did community theatre. I wonder if they ever hooked up.

Does anyone know if Susan Weaver is related to Charlie Weaver? Which if so would make Sigourney related to the Arquettes.

Michael Weatherly is the uncle of actress Alexandra Breckenridge.

Alla Nazimova was Nancy Regan's godmother.

Here's an obscure one but here goes. Colin Powell is cousins with singer Marcia Hines, an American singer who has had a successful career in Australia. Her daughter Deni, also a singer, was briefly married to Kirk Pengilly from INXS.

Gladys Knight is Aaliyah's aunt by marriage.

Alice Cooper was Keanu's babysitter. Lou Reed played Chess with Keanu , when Keanu was a kid, that's a connection.

Bronson Pinchot was Hamish Linklater's babysitter at one time.

R158 too much beauty for one school. I envy their schoolmates.

Bump, please.

Calista Flockhart and Jane Krakowski first met when they were students at Rutgers University.

Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake used to live together when they were little kids.

60's singer Donovan (Mellow Yellow) is Daddy to actress Ione Skye and sometime actor Donovan Leitch which is Donovan's family name.

Leitch & Skye pictured below.

Jon Hamm and Sarah Clarke dated in high school. Hamm also taught drama at his high school years later. Ellie Kemper was one of his students.

R162, Colin Powell is also the uncle of Pete Wentz

Mia Sara (Ferris Buellers Day Off) was married to Jason Connery, son of Sean, and is now married to Brian Henson, son of Jim "The Muppets" Henson.

[quote]Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake used to live together when they were little kids.

...

O.o

You left out a key piece of information, R169. HOW did they live together as little kids?

James MacArthur (original Hawaii Five -O) was the adopted son of actress Helen Hayes.

Film legend Jeanette MacDonald was the younger sister of Blossom Rock who played the eccentric aunt in "The Addams Family".

Taram Killam (SNL) is the great nephew of Robert Stack.

Lauren Graham and Connie Britton were roommates in NYC in the mid 90s.

Dennis Quaid is not only the younger brother of Randy Quaid but the two are cousins of the late Sharon Tate.

whats most interesting is ppl who have no relations or contacts and still made it. I can only think of Gerard Butler. He also takes little interest in having famous friends. weird

Oliver Hudson & Kate Hudson are siblings & Goldie Hawn is their mother.

Shirley McClain & Warren Beatty are siblings.

Tim McGraw & Dylan McDermott are 1st cousins. Their Italian American moms are sisters.

PAT PRIEST (Marilyn on THE MuNSTERS) is the daughter of IVY BAKER PRIEST, Treasurer Of The United States from 1953-61.

R176 Blossom Rock was Grand Mama' Addams, not an aunt. Also she was in the scene in 1939s The Women, where they are in the dressing room, after the fashion show.

ANNE BAXTER was the granddaughter of FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.

NINA WAYNE had a daughter of JOHN BLYTHE BARRYMORE. Their daughter JESSICA who died several years ago was the half sister of DREW BARRYMORE.

Josh Brolin is James Brolins son. James is Streisands long time partner.

Early 80s tv trash-mouth MORTON DOWNEY JR was the nephew of actresses JOAN BENNETT (Dark Shadows) and CONSTANCE BENNETT.

It's true and I NEVER GOT ALONG WITH THE LITTLE SHIT either !!!

MICKEY ROONEY'S first wife was a then unknown starlet named AVA GARDNER.

The marriage dissolved because he kept cheating on her.

Odder still, BETTY GRABLE'S first husband was JACKIE COOGAN who played Uncle Fester on TV's THE ADDAMS FAMILY.

SHELLEY FABARES (The Donna Reed Show & ELVIS'S most frequent co-star) is the niece of NANETTE FABRAY.

Here she is pictured below before she started dyeing her hair pink & looking half crazed.

JAYE P. MORGAN was the one time sister in law of YVONNE de CARLO.

[quote]Shirley McClain

Oh, dear.

R193 autocorrect. Sorry, Your Majesty.

Ariel Winter ('Modern Family') is the sister of Jimmy Workman (Pugsley in 'The Addams Family' movies).

Sigourney Weaver's father was the head of NBC for many years and her uncle, Doodles, was a comedian/character actor (who eventually shot himself).

Carly Simon's dad as Simon as in "and Shuster."

Sheryl Lee from Twin Peaks fame was married to Neil Diamond's son for several years.

Turn Off Autocorrect.

John Ritter was the son of country-western singer and cowboy movie star Tex Ritter.

RICARDO MONTALBAN was the brother in law of LORETTA YOUNG.

CAROLYN JONES was the first wife of AARON SPELLING. His acting career was going nowhere and he decided to try working behind the camera. It was CAROLYN who thought up the idea of hiring well known but not particularly in demand 'stars' to guest star on his television series BURKE'S LAW. SPELLING used the same formula later on with FANTASY ISLAND and THE LOVE BOAT.

Chris Elliot is the son of Bob Elliot of Bob and Ray

When I was in the 4th Grade, Steve Andrews was in my class. He's the son of Steve Forrest and the nephew of the late Dana Andrews. I went to his house once and had no clue. Very normal household. I think he's in the biz, but behind the camera. He was a really nice kid.

Also in my 4th Grade class was Kathy Richards. She would grow up to marry a Hilton and have a daughter named Paris. Kathy was sort of snooty (maybe just shy), but told a small group of us one afternoon that she was doing some FAMILY AFFAIR episodes as a friend of little Buffy's. Years later, when I wasn't in school when FAMILY AFFAIR re-runs always aired, I saw little Kathy in the same type of little '60s outfits she'd wear to school. She still looks like she does in our class picture.

And doesn't that same Kathy Richards have 2 sisters Kim and Kyle, the former from the Witch Mountain Disney movies and both from Real Housewives "fame?"

Both are plastic surgery nightmares too.

I guess they all used K like the Kartrashians.

Anderson Cooper and Timothy Olyphant are third cousins, once removed.

The share an ancestor in William Henry Vanderbilt, eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

[quote] Chris Elliot is the son of Bob Elliot of Bob and Ray

Bob Elliot just died two days ago.

And SNL's Abby Elliott is the daughter of Chris; granddaughter of Bob.

John Goodman, Tess Harper, and Kathleen Turner performed in plays together in college.

Andrew Koenig who played Boner on Growing Pains was the son of Walter Koenig who was Pavel Chekov in Star Trek and Alfred Bester in the Babylon 5 series.

I say was because apparently he committed suicide in 2010.

Eddie Redmayne and Prince William both attended Eton, a prestigious English boarding school.

Chastity Bono and Jennifer Aniston hung out together at New York City's High School of Performing Arts.

[quote]Early 80s tv trash-mouth MORTON DOWNEY JR was the nephew of actresses JOAN BENNETT (Dark Shadows) and CONSTANCE BENNETT.

That makes him a cousin of a Datalounger, no?

Chris Evans' beard Jenny Slate acted in a play with SNL dyke Kate McKinnon at Columbia.

Francis ford coppola is Talia Shire's uncle

R214 She's his sister.

On the Coppolas - Carmine Coppola, his son Francis and his granddaughter Sofia have all won Academy Awards. I believe they are the only family with such an achievement.

Russell Crowe is a first cousin of Martin and Jeff Crowe, both former members of NZ's national cricket team. Martin Crowe is considered one of NZ's greatest ever batsman, Jeff Crowe in now an international match referee.

Russell Crowe was a pallbearer at Martin Crowe's funeral earlier this year.

Elisabeth Montgomery (Bewitched) was the daughter of classic Hollywood actor Robert Montgomery.

Winona Ryder's god father was LSD guru Timothy Leary.

This one's sure to genuinely shock everyone here. Liza Minnelli is ... wait for it... Judy Garland's daughter.

Thesse may be repeats, apologize ahead:

Roxie Roker, Helen on Jefferson is mother of Lenny Kravitz, cousin of Al Roker

Marjorie Lord of Make Room for Daddy, mother of Anne Archer.

Whitney Blake, wife on Hazel, mother of Meredith Baxter

R216 The Huston's (Anjlica, John, Walter) also are 3 generations of Oscar winners.

Loretta Young is godmother to DL fave and uber-bitch Marlo Thomas.

Erin Gray (BUCK ROGER SILVER SPOONS) is Brie Larson's aunt.

Perry King's grandfather was the greatest book editor of all time, Maxwell Perkins.

Marisa Berenson is Elsa Schiaparelli´s granddaughter.

Before he became the most successful head writer in soap opera history, Douglas Marland worked regularly in regional theater with choreographer (later actress) Edie Cowan and music director (later writer) Ethan Mordden.

Loretta Young's brother-in-law was....Ricardo Montalban!

Former Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn) was the baby sitter for former Miss America and television broadcaster Gretchen Carlson.

Congressman and Senator-in-waiting Jason Chaffetz i(R-Utah) is the biological half-brother of John Dukakis. Chaffetz's father was Kitty Dukakis' first husband and the biological father of John Dukakis. After their divorce, Kitty married Michael, who subsequently adopted John. Her ex-husband re-married and fathered Jason

Andy Cohen is friends with Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelly Ripa- and he wont let you forget. Just in case you want a signed copy of Hope and Faith on Dvd.

Did he ever get Ethan a job writing on one of his soaps, R227?

R18, gee, how many people under 40 give a damn about Olivia DeHavilland? How is that surprising in any way?

Martha Plimpton is the daughter of Keith Carradine.

Paul Thomas Anderson is the son of famous ABC "The Love Boat" announcer Ernie Anderson. He was GREAT.

No, R231. Marland was notoriously difficult with everyone, and he and Mordden parted ways early on.

Also, Marland hadn't yet become the king of soap writers when he and Mordden were friends. He started gradually, writing Nick Carter paperbacks under the publishing house pseudonym for the series. I know this one tidbit: in one of these thrillers, Marland needed an eye-catching name for a European mountain, and Mordden suggested calling it the Hexensitze, meaning the Witch's Tit. Marland used it.

I didn't realise till recently that Jessica Tandy was married to Jack Hawkins in the 1930s.

Blossom Rock and Jeanette MacDonald were sisters.

Bill Dana and Irving Szathmary, composer of the "Get Smart" theme, were brothers.

I just found out Joely Fisher was half-sisters with Carrie Fisher.

Cutie Ben Feldman ("Superstore") is the nephew of famous chef and restaurateur Susan Feniger ("Two Hot Tamales").

Celeb marriages

Rita Hayworth Orson Welles

Ginger Rogers. LEW Ayers

Glenn Ford. Eleanor Powell

Alice Faye. Tony Martin

Joan Fontaine. Brian Aherne

Rita, Ginger, Eleanor and Joan were all in movies with Fred Astaire!

John Krasinski & BJ Novak were high school buddies in Newton, MA; they both ended up on THE OFFICE

Jennifer Aniston & Kim Walker (aka 'Heather Chandler' ) were besties at LaGuardia High in NYC

Jason Priestley & Brad Pitt were roommates in LA when they were both struggling actors

Actor Rene Auberjonois is the great-great-great-grandson of Joachim Murat, King of Naples and Napoleonic Marshal, who was married to Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon.

Treat Williams is a descendant of Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Stark Sands (born Stark Bunker Sands) is the great-grandson of eccentric oil billionaire H. L. Hunt and great-nephew of silver speculators Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt.

Anderson Cooper's grandfather, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, was the model for Jackie Gleason's rich wastrel character "Reginald Van Gleason III."

Furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank was a first cousin, once removed, of Anne Frank.

Thomas Pynchon is married to Teddy Roosevelt's great-granddaughter, Melanie Jackson. Another one of Teddy Roosevelt's great-granddaughters, Susan Roosevelt, used to be married to former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, who was a descendant of William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Armie Hammer's great-grandfather was his namesake, oil tycoon Armand Hammer. His great-grandmother was a Russian singer/actress who was also the daughter of a tsarist general.

The late Kate Spade was David Spade's sister-in-law.

Scott Wolf and Josh Wolf are first cousins.

Suzi Quatro is Sherilyn Fenn’s aunt.

Albert Brooks is the brother of Bob "Super Dave Osborne" Einstein. They are the sons of Harry Einstein, who, back in the 1930s, was a comedian called Parkyakarkus on the Eddie Cantor radio show.

I was surprised to learn that the girl in “Wizard of Oz” is the mother of Liza Minnelli.

Lorenzo Llamas was the one time stepson of Esther Williams. One of his ten daughter was the Bachelorette one season. His father is the greatest man alive from those beer commercials.

[quote]Lorenzo Llamas was the one time stepson of Esther Williams. One of his ten daughter was the Bachelorette one season. His father is the greatest man alive from those beer commercials.

Actually not. Lorenzo Lamas' father was actor Fernando Lamas, who died in 1982. He was never that guy in the beer commercials.

Topher Grace and Kate Bosworth were classmates, and Chloë Sevigny used to babysit him.

Lauryn Hill and Zach Braff also went to school together.

Matthew Perry's ("Friends") father was the actor in the "Old Spice" (men's cologne) ads/commercials.

Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis ("Great Balls of Fire") married his 13 year old first cousin. It created a scandal that killed his career for several years but was legal according to state law at the time because he had her parents' consent.

His pay went from $10,000 a night to $250 a night and he was banned from radio play when the news came out. This was in the 1950s.

R253 I was just watching a video on YouTube about child brides in America, and how that's still a thing.

Elizabeth Montgomery was married to the only Oscar-winning murderer, Gig Young.

Glenn Ford was married to Kathryn Hays, of As The World Turns and Star Trek fame.

Joan Crawford was a distant cousin of Michael Crawford.

Jerry Lewis was the grandfather of Juliette Lewis.

Brad Pitt is the great great grand nephew of William Pitt, of Pittsburgh fame.

Carly Simon and Paul Simon are second cousins once removed.

Before Buddy Rogers was married to Mary Pickford, he was married to Ginger Rogers.

R256 Pickford was Buddy's first wife. He was never married to Ginger.

r256 Jerry and Juliette Lewis at not related. Her father was actor Geoffrey Lewis, who starred in several Clint Eastwood films. Brad Pitt is also not related to William, the 18th century English Earl whom Pittsburgh is named after.

There's also no evidence that Carly Simon and Paul Simon are related in any way. Same last name, same age bracket but that appears to be it.

Someone upthread said that Dylan McDermott and Tim McGraw were first cousins via their Italian mothers. Not true, no relation. Brie Larson and tv actress Erin Gray are not related either, unless its distantly by marriage.

LIAR!!^^^

R19 you shut your goddamn mouth. Debbie's star will always shine brightly.

Michael Oliver (Junior from the Problem Child ,movies) is the half-brother of Danny Ponce (twin Willie from Valerie/Hogan Family). I just now learned that and was flabbergasted.