Actors that should have been cast as siblings or parent/child

Katie Holmes and Wagner Moura

Timmy Shalimar and the anorexic chick from Stranger Things

Adam Scott and Anna Kendrick

I've got two mother/daughter:

Bebe Neuwirth/Alicia Witt

Helen Hunt/Leelee Sobiesky

Julia Stiles, Leelee Sobieski, and Kirsten Dunst could star in My Shiksa Goddesses.

It's been mentioned previously. Donald Trump and any random orangutan. Now more than ever.

Michelle Fairley + Joan Allen

I've always thought Frances Fisher and Judy Greer could very believably play mother and daughter.

Kim Catrall and Natasha Richardson

Mark Rylance and Ben Whishaw. It's not so much a facial resemblance as an aura the two share.

Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway could play mother and son.

Nicola Pagett (of the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs) should have played Emily Blunt's mother at some point.

Alyson Stoner and Christina Ricci

Benicio del Torro and Brad Pitt

Kelly MacDonald and David Thewis

Robert Redford and William Katt as father/son

Brad Pitt and Brad Rowe as brothers

[Quote]Brad Pitt and Brad Rowe as brothers

Good one.

Paul Michael Glaser and Chris Meloni.

Parker Posey + Elizabeth Banks

R18 Holy crap, that's eerie!

Chris Meloni and Elias Koteas as brothers

Ellen Barkin and Samantha Mathis as mother/daughter

Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard

Gene Wilder could (have) played Jeremy Allen White's dad/grandfather

Monica Potter and Julia Roberts.

Rob McInerney and Nico Coopa

Jamie Lee Curtis and Christian Slater as father and son.

*Rob Mac from It's Always Sunny.

Jennifer Aniston and Maura Tierney as sisters.

Geoffrey Palmer and Nicholas Farrell as father and son

You cannot cast people as patent /child if they are similar in age. Otherwise, this is just a thread of who sorta looks likes who—much less fun.

Tom Hardy and Logan Marshall-Green as brothers

Incestuous brothers preferably, r32

Julie Kavner as Natasha Lyonne’s mother in anything.

Um, hello...

Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Hartnett.

I truly thought TLJ must have been Harnett's father.

Paul Newman as Patrick Wilson's dad

Ian Somerhalder and Robe Lowe as brothers

r31 Unclench, sweetheart. OP says "siblings OR parent/child"

And very few of the parent/child posts make a lick of sense.

But you knew that…😘

respectively, r11.

r38 You doing ok?

R29 Ooh, that's good! I was trying to think of who could believably be paired with Aniston as a sister because she has such a unique face, and the best I could come up with is Kristin Wiig. Tierney is much better because of the voice.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Cole Sprouse as father and son.

Julia Gardner and James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) as father and daughter.

Clea Duvall and Burn Gorman as weirdo siblings

D.B. Sweeney and Kyle Secor

Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie.

I know. BUT, OP doesn't speculate they can't already be genetically related. And having recently seen Midnight Cowboy, it was quite alarming to me how much they do actually look alike. I hadn't previously noticed the resemblance,

No, r19, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Elizabeth Banks and Rachel McAdams look like a “separated at birth?” Insert in Spy Magazine.

Also Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen could be cast as siblings!!!

Separated at Birth would have made for a much better thread topic — frankly I’m not sure why DL never had one…that would be thread #158 by now.

R49 With family casting you also have to keep in mind age, similar speech patterns/accents, and comparable acting abilities which makes for a more interesting challenge.

CATE BLANCHETT (mother) and TYE SHERIDAN (son)

^ Not that most casting directors can ever be assed to do that (for example, the truly inspired casting of twinsies, Claire Danes and SJP).

Rory Culkin should play the son of Emilio Estevez. I think there is a resemblance.

R51 and Tom Hardy can be the way older brother or uncle of Tye. They look like they could come from the same family.

Christoph Waltz and Connor Jessup as father and son.

R53 Wow...there really is.

Lynda Carter and Vanessa Williams as sistas from another mista!

Fun fact: they were in an episode of Lynda's short-lived series "Partners in Crime" together.

Robert Redford and Brad Pitt

Dustin Hoffman and Griffin Dunne

I really would love to see Peter Capaldi and John Turturro play brothers or cousins.

Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressly and Jaime King as sisters.

MERYL STREEP (mother) and JENNIFER EHLE (daughter)

Dennis Hopper and Owen Wilson

R60, throw in Samara Weaving.

Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt could be brother and sister.

Matt Damon and Christine Elise

Mae West could be Natasha Lyonne's grandmother

Nicole Beharie and Megan Good (sisters)

Mary J Blige and Cynthia Eviro

Robin Thicke and Michael Jackson

Lisa Bonet and Zoe Kravitz

John Travolta and Austin Butler as father and son

Jessica Lange and Leslie Bibb as mother and daughter.

[quote][R60], throw in Samara Weaving

And Emma Mackey; I sat through all of Death on the Nile thinking I was watching Margot Robbie.

[quote]Dominique Swain and Kirsten Dunst (sisters)

Dominique's sister Chelsea actually did play Kirsten's sister in The Virgin Suicides.

Jennifer Garner and Rachel McAdams as sisters.

Barbra Streisand and Sarah Jessica Parker

Cate Blanchett and Vera Farmiga as sisters.

Julia Gardner and Justin Timberlake

JD Vance and a cabbage patch kid

Vera Farmiga has an asymmetrical face...Cate Blanchett does not.

R78 ok and?

Vera Farmiga and Patricia Arquette have David Bowie's teeth.

I don't think they look alike at all (Farmiga and Blanchett).

It would be helpful for people to show their work.

What -siblings can’t have asymmetrical faces?

Asymmetrical facial features usually assert themselves in most or all of the offspring.

Here ya go:

Thanks - however, there are eyes are different shaped, their noses are not the same and their face shapes are different as well.

They are both blonde, though.

Actually, upon looking at your comparison, it occurs to me that Farmiga looks far more similar to Glenn Close.

And Blanchett looks more like Tilda Swinton.

Here's a weird one. I always thought that Sarah Joy Brown, the original Carly on GH, looked like Mariah Carey.

I still think so.

Tilda Swinton looks like a goddamn alien.

I was pretty disappointed Margaret Qualley wasn't cast as Jennifer Connelly's daughter in that Snowpiercer series. Seemed a missed opportunity.

R88 Just Googled. Yeah, they could definitely believably play sisters.

Julianne Moore in The Parent Trap alongside Lindsey Lohan. NOT Jamie Lee Curtis.

I've been trying to think of who could have been a more plausible casting choice as sister of SJP in The Family Stone, and I seriously can't think of anyone--even a male actor that has a face even remotely similar to her.

Mayyybe Daryl Hannah?

Matt Bomer could have been the son of Jeffrey Hunter

I actually think a younger Sigourney Weaver could have played the mother of Jenny Ortega.

*Jenna Ortega

Joey Lauren Adams and Renee Zellweger as sisters.

Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels as brothers

Margot Robbie and Emma Stone as sisters

Jessica Walter and Judge Judy

Maxine Peake and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Johnny Depp and Nancy McKeon

Elizabeth Dennehy should have played Glenn Close's younger sister or daughter at some point in their careers. I don't know if Dennehy still acts, but there's still a chance.

Charlotte Rampling played Judy Davis's mother in The Eye of the Storm, which I thought pretty perfect.

Me and Charlie Kirk?

Frankie Grande and Ethan Slater

Arianna is dating a dude who looks just like her brother. Ew.

I know it’s not the subject of this thread, but BAD sibling casting in On Swift Horses, with Will Poulter and Jacob Elordi as brothers…WTF?

Lauren Bacall could play Charlotte Rampling's mother.

Katharine Hepburn could have been Judy Davis's mother, (or grandmother?)

Jeremy Allen White does look a lot like Gene Wilder, as mentioned, but since he’s dead, I think William Fichtner could play his father convincingly.

Nina Foch and Neva Patterson probably could have played sisters. They didn't look alike but even so.

Ava Gardner and Ruth Roman could have played very believable sisters.

It would have been a hoot.

Call me weird (my sister certainly does), but I have always thought Richard Roundtree and Mark Goddard could have been black-white blood brothers.

Helen Lawson and Neely O'Hara, silly!

R110 Well they’re certainly both very handsome, but-

Skin color aside, I still don’t see it.

r112 me either.

Vivien Leigh and Hedy Lamarr back in the day.

Constance Smith resembled Hedy Lamarr, too

Mother-daughter: Marie Windsor and Illyana Douglas.

Siblings:

Eve Plumb/Laurie Metcalf

Eve Plumb/Cynthia Nixon

Marie

Illeana

Laurie Metcalf and British actress Janet McTeer

R116 Wow! That is an incredible likeness.

I always thought Cyd Charisse and Ava Gardner resembled each other

r120 who is your (very small) picture of - Laurie or Janet McTeer?

And if it's Laurie, it would have been helpful to see a picture of McTeer as many of us have probably never heard of her (I haven't heard of her, so maybe others haven't either).

Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain.

The lovely Margot Kidder as Courtney Coxs mom in Friends. (Loved the casting of Audra Lindley and Terri Garr as Phoebe's grandma and mom). Elliot Gould was great casting as Ross's dad. Meg Ryan and Melanie Griffith.

Javier Bardem and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as half-brothers.

Clark Gable (dad), David Janssen (son). (There used to be rumors Janssen was Gable illegit. son.)

Sisters: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Wynter.

Mother, daughter: Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor.

I’m going to ignore the obvious comparison with Matt Damon- I think Jesse Plemmons should play Jared Harris’ son in something. They’re both good actors and have similar, unique looks. Both have wide, round faces with fair skin and blond hair. I’d like to see it.

I always thought Barbara Rush and Dana Wynter were similar-looking

Mark Harmon, Tom Cruise. (Brothers, I guess.)

R130 True as well.

Father (or grandfather)/son: Orson Welles, Oliver Platt

I have a crush on Jared Harris.

Re: R114, when Vivien was selected to play Scarlett in "Gone with the Wind," Hedy had already been a star for a year after her successful US debut in "Algiers." Fans pointed out how Vivien looked very much like Hedy, albeit a miniature version, what with Vivien only being a petite 5'3 to statuesque Hedy's 5'7".

After GWTW, Vivien quickly surpassed Hedy in stature, not physically, but in prominence.

Other than their having had dark hair parted in the middle, for a while, I don't see much resemblance between Leigh and Lamarr.

R133 and Dan Byrd should play the grandson. I always thought he resembled Platt.

Mother-daughter: Charlotte Rampling and Eva Green

Charlotte:

Eva:

R122, IIRC Van Johnson talked about how when he first saw Cyd Charisse on the MGM lot, he turned to Robert Alton and asked, "Who's the girl who looks like Ava Gardner?"

Picture Play cover

Cyd Charisse became middle-aged rather quickly. Not unattractive or matronly, just older. Granted she still looked that way and seemed younger when she was an old bag

Before he died, Lance Hendrickson as Walton Goggin's father.

Or Matt Frewer as Walton Goggin's brother.

CYBIL SHEPHERD and clementine ford as SISTERS!

Gardner and Charisse had similar features but when they were in the same film together (East Side, West Side) Cyd looked plain.

(I coulkd click on the photo to enlarge, it, I don't know if that'll work with everyone.)

R144 Lance is still alive! He could still do it.

[quote]Lance Hendrickson

Who's he?

Rock Hudson and John Gavin as brothers.

Kirk Douglas and Arthur Kennedy did believably play brothers in the movie Champion.

(The caption misidenties Ruth Roman as Marilyn Maxwell, who was alsao in the film.)

Susan Sarandon and Christina Ricci.

Carolyn Jones had "Bette Davis Eyes," probably could have played her daughter.

Ginger Rogers and Hildegarde Neff (aka Knef), as sisters. If one could be from Germany.

I think Mai Zetterling resembled Hildegard Knef, too

One time I was watching a movie and asked my mom, who was passing through, who the leading actress was. "Oh, that's Mai Zetterling," she said. I was impressed.

Richard Chamberlain and James Franciscus

Sisters- Allison Janney & Laurie Metcalf

In Pauline Karl's review of "King Kong" (1976), she described newcomer Jessica Lange as "languorous and polymorphous, like a taller Tuesday Weld or a more slightly built Margaux Hemingway, she has the sensuousness of a kitten."

Weld and Lange should've played off-kilter sisters some time in the 1970s-'80s.

Judy Parfitt mother/ Reba McEntire daughter.

Pauline Kael was weird.

Grace Kelly and Martha Hyer.

Father-son: Spencer Tracy, James Whitmore.

Ursula Andress and Bo Derek

Mary Castle and Rita Hayworth

R164 and Linda Evans.

John Derek had a type

R166, he also stuck to a specific style or motif when photographing his wives.

Frances McDormand and Bess Armstrong as sisters.