A ;Adams-Beaver • Actor
Don Adams was the father of actress
Cecily Adams. Cecily Adams was married to actor
Jim Beaver. Adams'
Get Smart series co-star
Robert Karvelas was his cousin. ;Aday • Musician and part-time actor Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday), better known by his stage name of
Meat Loaf, was the father of singer
Pearl Aday and actress
Amanda Aday. ;Affleck • Actor, director, writer and producer
Ben Affleck was married to actress
Jennifer Garner. He later married and divorced actress and singer
Jennifer Lopez. His younger brother is fellow actor
Casey Affleck, whose former wife is actress
Summer Phoenix (see
Phoenix siblings). ;Alba/Warren • Actress
Jessica Alba is the daughter-in-law of actor
Michael Warren. Her younger brother, Joshua Alba, is also an actor. ;Alda • Actor
Robert Alda was the father of actor and director
Alan Alda and actor
Antony Alda. • Alan is married to photographer and writer
Arlene Alda; their children include actresses
Beatrice and
Elizabeth Alda. ;Aldridge • Artist
Alan Aldridge, with his first wife, is the father of photographer
Miles Aldridge and model
Saffron Aldridge. With his second wife,
Playboy Playmate
Laura Lyons, he is the father of models
Lily and
Ruby Aldridge. • Lily is married to the frontman of
Kings of Leon,
Caleb Followill (see
Followill). • Miles was formerly married to model
Kristen McMenamy. ;Allen • Actress
Martha-Bryan Allen is sister of actress Elizabeth Bryan Allen, wife of actor
Robert Montgomery (see
Montgomery), by whom she had a daughter, actress
Elizabeth Montgomery. ;Allen • Actor and director
Kevin Allen is the older brother of actor and musician
Keith Allen. • Keith was married to film producer
Alison Owen, with whom he has two children, musician and actress
Lily Allen and actor
Alfie Allen. He has also been married to film producer
Nira Park and has a daughter with actress
Tamzin Malleson. • Lily is married to actor
David Harbour. ;Allen/Rashād • Actress, director and singer
Phylicia Rashad is the older sister of performer
Debbie Allen, who is married to former
NBA basketball player,
Norm Nixon. • Phylicia Rashad is the former spouse of both
Victor Willis, former lead singer of the group
Village People, and former
NFL football player turned sportscaster,
Ahmad Rashad. Phylicia and Ahmad Rashad are the parents of actress
Condola Rashad. ;Allman • Brothers
Gregg Allman and
Duane Allman made up the band
The Allman Brothers Band, and Gregg later created
The Gregg Allman Band (see also
Trippy). • Gregg was once married to
Cher (see
Bono). With her he has musician son,
Elijah Blue Allman. He also has son musician
Devon Allman through a previous marriage. From another marriage he is also the father of
Layla Allman, musician and lead singer of the band,
Picture Me Broken. • Elijah is married to German musician
Marieangela "Queenie" King, of the family pop band
King, formed with her siblings (see
King). ;Alvarado-Page • Mexican-American actor
Don Alvarado was the father of actress
Joy Page ;Aniston-Theroux • Actor
John Aniston and actress
Nancy Dow are the parents of
Jennifer Aniston, who was married to actor
Brad Pitt (see
Pitt-Jolie) and also married to actor
Justin Theroux (see
Theroux). • His cousin is documentary filmmaker
Louis Theroux.
Apatow • Filmmaker
Judd Apatow and actress
Leslie Mann are the parents of actresses
Maude Apatow and
Iris Apatow. ;Appleton •
Nicole Appleton and older sister
Natalie perform together in
All Saints and
Appleton. ;Arden-Osbourne • Music manager and agent
Don Arden was the father of
Sharon Osbourne (see
Osbourne), the wife and manager of heavy metal icon
Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon entered the public consciousness for the first time with the success of the reality TV show
The Osbournes. • The oldest of Ozzy and Sharon's children,
Aimee Osbourne, chose not to appear on
The Osbournes; she is an actress, singer, and writer. Her two younger siblings did appear on the show;
Kelly is an actress and singer, and
Jack is a director and producer. ;Arkin • Actor and composer
Alan Arkin, father of actors
Adam,
Matthew, and Anthony Arkin. • Adam is the father of Molly Arkin. ;Armendáriz-Marín • Mexican actor
Pedro Armendáriz and wife Carmelita, herself an actress, were the parents of fellow actor
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. The father was a cousin of Mexican actress
Gloria Marín.
Arnold-Jones • Singer
Monica is the cousin of record producer
Polow da Don. ;Arquette-Cox • Actor, comedian, pianist and songwriter
Cliff Arquette was the father of actor
Lewis Arquette, who was the father of five actors: •
Patricia Arquette, formerly married to actors
Nicolas Cage and
Thomas Jane. •
Rosanna Arquette, formerly married to film composer
James Newton Howard; she lived with, but never married, musician
Peter Gabriel. •
Alexis Arquette •
David Arquette, who was married to actress
Courteney Cox. ;Asher • Musician
Peter Asher and actress
Jane Asher are siblings. Peter is the father of musician
Victoria Asher.
(This family has no relation to actor William Asher below) ;Asher-Bulifant •
William Asher, television actor, was born to stage actress Lillian Bonner and producer Ephraim M. Asher. His sister, Betty Asher, was an
MGM publicist for
Judy Garland. William was married to actress
Danny Sue Nolan. Later he was married to actress
Elizabeth Montgomery (see
Montgomery) and they have daughter, Rebecca Asher, a film editor, and son and guitar maker,
Bill Asher. Finally he married actress
Joyce Bulifant (see
Bulifant). He adopted Bulifant's son, actor
John Asher, born to actor
Edward Mallory (see
Mallory). • John first married actress
Vanessa Lee Asher. John later married actress
Jenny McCarthy (see
McCarthy). ;Astin/Duke • Actors and former spouses
John Astin and
Patty Duke are the parents of actors
Sean and
Mackenzie Astin. ;Auberjonois • Actor
René Auberjonois is the father of actor
Remy Auberjonois, who is married to actress Kate Nowlin. • His daughter Tessa, an actress, married Adrian LaTourelle, who voiced Unalaq in Book 2
The Legend of Korra.
B ;Baio • Actor-brothers
Jimmy and Joey Baio are the cousins of actor-director
Scott Baio. ;Bacon • Character Actor and Playwright
Frank Bacon was the father of Actor
Lloyd Bacon ;Baker • Actress
Carroll Baker is the mother of
Blanche Baker. ;Balcon/Day-Lewis • Film producer Sir
Michael Balcon was the father of actress
Jill Balcon who was married to poet and writer
Cecil Day-Lewis. They are parents of documentary maker and television chef
Tamasin Day-Lewis and actor
Daniel Day-Lewis. • Daniel is married to director
Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright
Arthur Miller. ;Baldwin • Brothers and actors
Alec Baldwin,
William Baldwin,
Stephen Baldwin and
Daniel Baldwin • Alec was married to actress
Kim Basinger. Together they are the parents of model
Ireland Baldwin. • William is currently married to singer
Chynna Phillips (see Phillips). • Stephen is the father of model
Hailey Baldwin who is married to
Justin Bieber.
Note: Actor Adam Baldwin is not related to the preceding Baldwins. ;Ball • Presenter
Johnny Ball is the father of broadcaster
Zoe Ball. • Zoe is separated from her husband Norman Cook, better known as
Fatboy Slim. The couple have two children. ;Ball-Arnaz-Luckinbill • Actress
Lucille Ball and her first husband, musician and actor
Desi Arnaz, are the parents of actors
Lucie Arnaz and
Desi Arnaz Jr. Lucille Ball later married comedian
Gary Morton. • Lucie is married to actor
Laurence Luckinbill. Luckinbill was previously married to actress
Robin Strasser. • Desi Jr. was married to actress
Linda Purl. ;Banai •
Yossi,
Gavri, Ya'akov and
Chaim Banai were Israeli brothers who were all singers and actors. • Among Ya'akov's children was singer-songwriter
Ehud Banai. • Among Yossi's children was Yuval Banai, lead singer of rock band
Mashina. Yuval was formerly married to singer and actress
Orly Silbersatz Banai. • One of Yuval and Orly's children is singer and musician
Elisha Banai. • Another brother, Yitzhak, a judge, had among his children singer-songwriters
Meir and
Eviatar Banai, and actress
Orna Banai. ;Banquells-Pinal-Pasquel-Alatriste-Guzman-Salas • Actress and producer
Silvia Pinal was married first to actor
Rafael Banquells, and then to actor and producer
Gustavo Alatriste, and later to actor and singer
Enrique Guzman. • Pinal and Banquells gave birth to actress
Silvia Pasquel. Pasquel's younger sister by means of her father's remarriage is actress and singer
Rocio Banquells. Pinal and Alatriste were the parents of actress
Viridiana Alatriste, and Pinal and Guzman gave birth to Luis Enrique Guzman and singer
Alejandra Guzman. • Actress
Stephanie Salas is the daughter of Silvia Pasquel. ;Bannon-Benaderet • Actor
Jim Bannon and actress
Bea Benaderet were the parents of actor
Jack Bannon, who is married to retired actress
Ellen Travolta, older sister of actor
John Travolta. ;Bardem-Cruz • Actors
Rafael Bardem and
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro were the parents of actress
Pilar Bardem and screenwriter and director
Juan Antonio Bardem. • Pilar is the mother of actors
Carlos,
Mónica and
Javier Bardem. • Javier is married to actress
Penélope Cruz, whose sister is actress
Mónica Cruz. ; Barry • Actor
Raymond J. Barry was the son of actress
B. Constance Barry (born Beatrice Constance Duffy). ;
Barrymore-Costello • 19th century stage actors
Maurice Barrymore and
Georgiana Drew were the parents of actors
Lionel,
Ethel and
John Barrymore. • John was the father of actor
John Drew Barrymore by his third wife, actress
Dolores Costello, and actress
Diana Barrymore by his second wife, actress
Blanche Oelrichs. • Actor
John Drew Barrymore first married actress
Cara Williams. From his subsequent marriage to actress and manager Jaid Barrymore (née Ildiko Jaid Mako), he was the father of actress
Drew Barrymore. Drew was briefly married to MTV host and comedian
Tom Green. His last marriage was to actress
Nina Wayne. • Lionel married silent film actresses
Irene Fenwick and
Doris Rankin. • Diana married actors
Bramwell Fletcher and
Robert Wilcox. ;Basehart • Actor
Richard Basehart was the father of actor
Jackie Basehart. ;Bateman-Anka • Producer
Kent Bateman is the father of actors
Jason and
Justine Bateman. • Jason is married to actress Amanda Anka, daughter of singer
Paul Anka. ;Beatty-MacLaine-Bening •
Warren Beatty, brother of
Shirley MacLaine and husband of
Annette Bening. • Shirley is the mother of actress
Sachi Parker. ;Beery • Actors
Wallace,
Noah, and
William Beery are brothers. • Noah's son
Noah Beery Jr. became a film and television star. • Wallace was married to actress
Gloria Swanson. • Gloria's daughter from another marriage,
Gloria Swanson Somborn, is also an actress. ;Begley • Academy Award-winning actor
Ed Begley's son is actor and environmental activist
Ed Begley Jr. ;Bellisario • Producer and screenwriter
Donald P. Bellisario was married four times. His children include: • Television producers David and Julie Bellisario Watson by his first wife, Margaret Schaffran. • Actor Michael Bellisario by his second wife, Lynn Halpern. • Actress
Troian Bellisario by his third wife, actress and producer
Deborah Pratt. Troian is married to actor
Patrick J. Adams. • Two stepsons – actor
Sean Murray and producer Chad W. Murray, from the first marriage of his current wife, Vivienne. ;Bergen • Ventriloquist
Edgar Bergen and his wife, model and actress
Frances Bergen (née Westerman), are the parents of actress
Candice Bergen. • Candice was married to French director
Louis Malle. ;Berggren • Musician
Jonas Berggren and his younger sisters,
Malin (better known as Linn) and
Jenny, are founding members of
Ace of Base. • Jenny married musician
Jakob Petrén. ;Bettany • Actor, dancer, and drama teacher
Thane Bettany is the father of actor
Paul Bettany. • Paul married actress
Jennifer Connelly. ;Bilson • Director and producer
George Bilson is the father of
Bruce Bilson, also a director, and acclaimed
fortepianist Malcolm Bilson with his wife, screenwriter
Hattie Bilson. • Bruce is the father of writer, director and producer
Danny Bilson and film producer
Julie Ahlberg. He also married actress
Renne Jarrett. • Danny is the father of actress
Rachel Bilson, from his first marriage. He also married actress
Heather Medway. • Renne previously married actor
Jack Stauffer (see
Stauffer). • Rachel married actor
Hayden Christensen. ;Blandon •
Roberto Blandon, his second wife
Rebeca Mankita, and daughter
Regina Blandon are actors. ;Blocker • Actor
Dan Blocker is the father of actor
Dirk Blocker and producer
David Blocker. ;Bono • Actor, singer, producer, and politician
Sonny Bono was married to singer, director, producer, and actress
Cher; they are the parents of actor and activist
Chaz Bono. ;Booth • Actor
Junius Brutus Booth was the father of actor
Junius Brutus Booth Jr., actor Sydney Barton Booth, actor-producer
Edwin Booth, actor
John Wilkes Booth and writer
Asia Booth. • Junius Jr. was married to actress
Agnes Booth. • Asia Booth was married to actor-comedian and manager
John Sleeper Clarke, and their sons were actors Creston and Wilfred Clarke. ;Booth • Actor
Antony Booth married four times and fathered eight children. He is the father of
Cherie Booth, a
King's Counsel, with his first wife, actress Gale Howard (née Joyce Smith). With another partner, he is the father of
Lauren Booth, an English broadcaster and journalist. The second of his four wives was the actress
Pat Phoenix. • Pat was first married to actor Peter Marsh, and later married actor Alan Browning until his death.
Booth families are unrelated. ;Boreanaz (Roberts) • Broadcaster and presenter
Dave Roberts (née David Thomas Boreanaz) is the father of actor
David Boreanaz, who is married to former
Playmate and actress
Jaime Bergman. ;Bracco • Sisters
Elizabeth and
Lorraine Bracco are actresses. ;Braga • Brazilian Actress
Alice Braga is daughter to Ana Braga and niece to
Sônia Braga. ;Bridges • Actor
Lloyd Bridges and his actress wife
Dorothy (née Simpson) were the parents of actors
Jeff and
Beau Bridges. • Beau is father of actor
Jordan Bridges. ;Bridgewater/Moses • Singer
Dee Dee Bridgewater and former husband director
Gilbert Moses are the parents of singer
China Moses. ;Brando Actor
Marlon Brando was the father of
Christian Devi Brando and
Cheyenne Brando. ;Britton • Actor
Tony Britton was the father of presenter
Fern Britton. ;Broadus-Norwood • Rapper
Snoop Dogg is the first cousin of singers
Brandy and
Ray J, who are the children of gospel singer
Willie Norwood, and of professional wrestler and actress
Sasha Banks. ;Broderick • Actor
Matthew Broderick is the son of actor
James Broderick. Matthew is married to actress
Sarah Jessica Parker. ;Brolin •
see Streisand-Gould-Brolin. ;Bronson • Actor
Charles Bronson was the father of
Katrina Holden Bronson. Her mother was
Jill Ireland, ex-wife of
David McCallum. ;Brooks-Bancroft • Hollywood comedian-director
Mel Brooks married actress
Anne Bancroft. ;Brosnan-Harris • Actor
Pierce Brosnan first wife was actress
Cassandra Harris. Together, they were parents of actor
Sean Brosnan. • Cassandra's first husband was Dermot Harris (a younger brother of Irish actor
Richard Harris), with whom she had two children:
Chris Brosnan and late Charlotte. After Harris' death, both were adopted by Brosnan. ;Bulifant • Actress
Joyce Bulifant was married first to actor
James MacArthur (see
MacArthur), then to actor
Edward Mallory, then to actor
William Asher (see
Asher-Bulifant), and finally to actor
Roger Perry. She is the mother of actor
John Mallory Asher (biological son of Edward Mallory). • Perry was once married to actress
Jo Anne Worley for many years. • Mallory later married actress
Susanne Zenor. ;Burnett-Hamilton • Actress and comedian
Carol Burnett and her one-time husband, TV producer
Joe Hamilton, are the parents of recording artist
Erin Hamilton and actress
Carrie Hamilton. ;Busey •
Gary Busey is the father of
Jake Busey. (Their legal names are William Gareth Jacob Busey Sr. and William Gareth Jacob Busey Jr., respectively.) ;Butterworth • Actor and comedian
Peter Butterworth was married to the actress and impressionist
Janet Brown. Peter and Janet were the parents of actor
Tyler Butterworth; Tyler is married to actress
Janet Dibley.
C ;Caan • Actor
James Caan is the father of actor
Scott Caan. ;Cameron • Actors
Kirk and
Candace Cameron are brother and sister. Kirk's wife is actress
Chelsea Noble. ;Capra • Film director
Frank Capra was the father of movie studio executive
Frank Capra Jr. • Frank Jr. was in turn father to film director Frank Capra III. ;Carey-Baskauskas • Actor
Macdonald Carey was the father of singer and actress
Lynn Carey. • Another daughter, Theresa, is the mother of
reality television personality
Aras Baskauskas. ;
Carradine/Bowen/Plimpton • Actor
John Carradine was the father of four actors.
Bruce Carradine, whom John adopted, was the son of his first wife Ardanelle McCool from a previous marriage, and
David Carradine was his son by Ardanelle.
Keith and
Robert Carradine are John's sons from his second marriage to Sonia Sorel. She later had a son by artist
Michael Bowen; their son is actor
Michael Bowen. • Keith is the father of actress
Martha Plimpton from a relationship with actress
Shelley Plimpton. • Robert is the father of actress
Ever Carradine. ;Carpio • Singer
Teresa Carpio is the mother of actress and singer
T.V. Carpio. ;
Carter-Cash • The original Carter Family, a seminal
country music group, consisted of
A. P. Carter, his wife,
Sara Carter, and his sister-in-law and Sara's cousin,
Maybelle Carter. • Two of A. P. and Sara's children, Joe Carter and
Janette Carter, followed in their parents' footsteps. • Maybelle had three daughters who entered the country music business, and performed with her for a time—
Anita Carter,
June Carter Cash, and
Helen Carter. • June and her first husband, country singer
Carl Smith, were the parents of country singer
Carlene Carter. Carlene was married to singer-songwriter-producer
Nick Lowe from 1979 to 1990. • June was the mother of country singer-songwriter
Rosie Nix Adams by her second husband, Edwin "Rip" Nix. • June's third husband was singer
Johnny Cash. They were the parents of singer, songwriter, and producer
John Carter Cash. • Johnny was the father of country singer
Rosanne Cash from his first marriage to Vivian Liberto. Rosanne was married to country superstar
Rodney Crowell from 1979 to 1992. She then married musician
John Leventhal. ; • Patriarch
Luis Casadesus and matriarch
Mathilde Senechal began the prominent French family. They are the parents of composer , . • Francis is the father of pianist
Rose Casadesus. • Rose is the mother of violist
Henri Casadesus, violinist
Marius Casadesus, and composer
Robert-Guillaume Casadesus (known as Robert Casa). • Henri is the father of actor
Christian Casadesus and actress
Gisèle Casadesus with harpist
Marie-Louise Beetz. • Gisèle married the actor
Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), with whom she had four children: conductor
Jean-Claude Casadesus, actress
Martine Pascal, artist
Béatrice Casadesus, and composer
Dominique Probst. • Jean-Claude has a daughter, opera singer
Caroline Casadesus, and a son, film director
Sebastian Copeland, with his first wife. With his second wife, he has a son, actor
Olivier Casadesus. • Caroline was married to the violinist and composer
Didier Lockwood. They are the parents of violinist and composer
Thomas Enhco. • Didier is now married to opera singer
Patricia Petibon. She was previously married to composer
Eric Tanguy. • Sebastian was married to model and actress
Brigitte Nielsen. He is also the cousin of actor
Orlando Bloom. • Nielsen has been married five times. She was first married to composer
Kasper Winding (see
Winding). Their son is television personality,
Julian Winding. She has also been married to actor
Sylvester Stallone (see
Stallone), television writer
Raoul Meyer and producer
Mattia Dessi. • Orlando was married to supermodel
Miranda Kerr. • Martine was married to art director
Willy Holt. • Robert-Guillaume is the father of the classical pianist
Robert Casadesus. • Robert married pianist
Gaby Casadesus. They have son and pianist,
Jean Casadesus. • Jean married Evie Girard (see
Girard). ;Cassavetes • Actress
Katherine Cassavetes was the mother of director
John Cassavetes. • John and his wife, actress
Gena Rowlands, were parents to filmmakers
Nick Cassavetes director of
The Notebook,
Zoe Cassavetes director of
Broken English, and
Alexandra Cassavetes. ;Cassidy-Jones • Actor
Jack Cassidy was the father of singer and actor
David Cassidy by his first wife, actress Evelyn Ward. He and his second wife, singer and actress
Shirley Jones, had three sons—singer and actor
Shaun Cassidy, and actors
Patrick and Ryan Cassidy. • David's first wife was actress
Kay Lenz. He is the father of actress and singer
Katie Cassidy from a relationship with model Sherry Benedon. • Shaun was married to model
Ann Pennington and actress
Susan Diol. His current wife is producer Tracey Turner. ;Chambers • Singer
Lester Chambers is the brother of Willie, George and Joe Chambers and like them a former member of 1960s group
The Chambers Brothers. ;Chan • Actor
Jaycee is the son of actors
Joan Lin and
Jackie Chan (a famous martial artist). ;Chaney •
Lon Chaney Sr. is the father of actor
Lon Chaney Jr. ;Chapin • Jazz drummer
Jim Chapin is the father of musicians
Harry,
Tom, and
Steve Chapin. • Harry was the father of singer
Jen Chapin. • Tom is the father of Abigail and Lily Chapin, two-thirds of the
Chapin Sisters folk music group. He is the stepfather of the third member, Jessica Craven, daughter of film director
Wes Craven. ;Chaplin • Comedian
Charlie Chaplin was the half-brother of actor
Sydney Chaplin • Charlie was the father of actors
Charles Jr.,
Sydney,
Geraldine,
Michael,
Josephine,
Victoria,
Eugene, and
Christopher • His granddaughter is actress
Oona Chaplin. ;Chong • Actor-comedian
Tommy Chong is the father of fellow actors
Marcus,
Robbi and
Rae Dawn Chong. ;Cheng • Actress
Joyce Cheng is the daughter of actors
Adam Cheng and
Lydia Shum. ;Chuckle-Patton • Paul and Barry Chuckle, known as the
Chuckle Brothers, and their elder brothers,
The Patton Brothers, are the son of James Patton Elliott, a
Gang Show performer known as Gene Patton. The brothers appear together on
ChuckleVision. ;Cleese • Comedian, actor and screenwriter
John Cleese was married to
Connie Booth and their daughter is actress
Cynthia Cleese, who is married to producer and director
Ed Solomon. ;Clooney-Ferrer-Boone • News anchor and politician
Nick Clooney is the father of actor, producer and director
George Clooney; George was married to actress
Talia Balsam, daughter of
Joyce Van Patten and
Martin Balsam. • Nick Clooney's sisters were Elizabeth ("Betty") Clooney and actress and singer
Rosemary Clooney. Rosemary Clooney was married to actor
José Ferrer, who in turn was previously married to actress and acting teacher
Uta Hagen. Clooney and Ferrer were the parents of actor
Miguel Ferrer and Gabriel Ferrer. • Gabriel married singer and actress
Debby Boone; their twin daughters are Dustin and Gabi. • Debby is a member of the singing Boone Sisters, cousins of actor
Randy Boone and the daughters of singer
Pat Boone. :
Note: Actor Mel Ferrer is unrelated to this family. ;Clunes • Actor and producer
Alec Clunes was the father of actor
Martin Clunes. • Martin's second wife is producer Phillipa Braithwaite. ;Coen-McDormand • Director and producer brothers
Ethan and
Joel Coen; Joel is married to Oscar-winning actress
Frances McDormand. ;Cole • The brothers
Nat King Cole,
Ike Cole and
Freddy Cole were all jazz singers and pianists. • Nat King Cole was the father of singer-songwriter
Natalie Cole. • Freddy Cole is the father of musician and songwriter
Lionel Cole. ;Collier American actor
William Collier Sr. was the adopted father of
William Collier Jr. ;Compton-Pelissier-Reed • Actress
Fay Compton (whose brother was the writer Sir
Compton Mackenzie) married the producer
H. G. Pelissier; their son was producer and director
Anthony Pelissier who married actor
Penelope Dudley-Ward; their daughter being actor
Tracy Reed who adopted the surname Reed following her mother's second marriage – to film director Sir
Carol Reed, Tracy married actor
Edward Fox (see
Fox acting family below). ;Connery • Actor Sir
Sean Connery, whose first wife was Australian actress
Diane Cilento; brother of actor
Neil Connery. • Sean's son is actor
Jason Connery, who was married to actress
Mia Sara. ;Conte • Guitarist
Bruce Conte of
Tower of Power is the cousin of bassist
Victor Conte. ;Conti • Actors
Tom Conti and Kara Wilson are parents of actress and ventriloquist
Nina Conti. ;Contostavlos •
Mungo Jerry bassist Byron Contostavlos is the father of
Dino "Dappy" Contostavlos and uncle of
Tula "Tulisa" Contostavlos, both of
N-Dubz. ;
Coppola-Shire-Schwartzman-Vogelsang-Cage • Composers
Anton Coppola and
Carmine Coppola are brothers. • Carmine was the father of director
Francis Ford Coppola and actress
Talia Shire, as well as literature professor
August Coppola. • Talia's first marriage was to composer
David Shire. She is the widow of producer
Jack Schwartzman. Shire and Schwartzman are the parents of actors and musicians
Jason Schwartzman and
Robert Carmine. Jack was the father of cinematographer
John Schwartzman by an earlier marriage. • Francis and his wife, set decorator and artist
Eleanor Neal Coppola, are the parents of film producer
Gian-Carlo Coppola, director
Roman Coppola, and film multihyphenate
Sofia Coppola. Sofia was married to director
Spike Jonze. • August and his former wife, dancer and choreographer Joy Vogelsang, are parents of actor and radio DJ
Marc Coppola, director-producer
Christopher Coppola, and actor Nicolas Coppola (
Nicolas Cage). Nicolas was married to both actress
Patricia Arquette (see
Arquette-Cox) and singer
Lisa Marie Presley (see
Presley). ;Corbett •
Harry Corbett, creator of the
Sooty glove puppet and its TV shows, is the father of
Matthew Corbett. ;Coren • Broadcaster, satirist and journalist
Alan Coren is the father
Victoria Coren, married to comedian and actor
David Mitchell. ;Corfixen • Cinematographer
Teit Jørgensen and actress and editor
Lizzie Corfixen are the parents of actress
Liv Corfixen. • Liv is married to actor
Nicolas Winding Refn (see
Winding). ;Corr •
Jim,
Andrea,
Caroline and
Sharon Corr are members of the Irish-based folk group
The Corrs ;Costello • Actor
Maurice Costello and daughters
Dolores Costello and
Helene Costello. Great-granddaughter
Drew Barrymore (granddaughter of Dolores). ;Crosby-Edwards • Singer-actor
Bing Crosby was the father of:
Gary;
Dennis;
Phillip;
Harry;
Lindsay;
Mary and
Nathaniel. Dennis was the father of actress
Denise Crosby, who was married to
Blake Edwards' son, Geoff. Geoff's sister is actress
Jennifer Edwards. ;Crosby-Raymond •
Oscar-winning
cinematographer Floyd Crosby was the father of musician
David Crosby (
The Byrds,
CSNY). • David is part of the jazz-rock band
CPR with his biological son James Raymond. ;Cruise-Mapother • Actor
Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV) is the cousin of actor
William Mapother, and actress Amy Mapother, William's sister. • Tom has been married to actresses
Mimi Rogers,
Nicole Kidman (see
Kidman) and
Katie Holmes. ;Cruttwell • The son of theatre director
Hugh Cruttwell and actress
Geraldine McEwan is screenwriter and producer
Greg Cruttwell. ;Culkin •
Bonnie Bedelia Culkin is the sister of
Kit Culkin who is the father of actors
Macaulay Culkin,
Kieran Culkin, Dakota Culkin,
Rory Culkin, Shane Culkin, Christian Culkin and Quinn Culkin. Macaulay was married to actress
Rachel Miner. ;Cumberbatch-Ventham • Actors
Timothy Carlton (full name Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch) and
Wanda Ventham are the parents of actor
Benedict Cumberbatch. ;Curtis-Leigh-Guest • Actors
Tony Curtis and
Janet Leigh were the parents of actresses
Jamie Lee and
Kelly Curtis; the girls' half-sister is actress Allegra Curtis. • Jamie Lee is married to comedian and actor
Christopher Guest. His brother
Nicholas Guest is also an actor, and their older half-brother
Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer. ;Cusack (Ireland) • The actress Alice Violet Cole Cusack was the mother of actor
Cyril Cusack. • Cyril is the father of six children, five of whom are actors.
Niamh,
Pádraig, Paul,
Sorcha and
Sinéad are his children with his first wife, actress
Mary Margaret "Maureen" Kiely. His youngest daughter
Catherine is his daughter by his second wife. • Niamh Cusack is married to actor
Finbar Lynch. • Paul Cusack is a television producer. • Sinéad Cusack is married to the actor
Jeremy Irons (see
Irons). Their sons, Samuel and
Max Irons, are also actors. Sinéad has another biological son, the politician
Richard Boyd Barrett, who was given up for adoption. ;Cusack (USA) • Dick Cusack took to acting late in life. He is the father of actors,
John,
Joan,
Ann, Bill and Susie Cusack. ;Cyrus • Politician
Ron Cyrus is the father of singer and actor
Billy Ray Cyrus. • Billy Ray was first married to songwriter, Cindy Smith. He is the father of singer and actress
Miley Cyrus. Billy Ray's adopted son and Miley's half-brother,
Trace Cyrus, is a member of pop band
Metro Station. The youngest member of the family,
Noah, is an actress.
D ;d'Abo • Actress
Maryam d'Abo and singer-songwriter
Mike d'Abo are first cousins. Among Mike's children is actress
Olivia d'Abo. ;Daly • Actor
James Daly was father of actress
Tyne Daly and actor
Tim Daly. Tyne was married to actor and director
Georg Stanford Brown, and one of their daughters, Kathryne Dora Brown, is an actress. Tim is married to actress
Amy Van Nostrand, their son
Sam is an actor. ;Daly • Television presenter
Tess Daly is married to fellow presenter
Vernon Kay. ;Davis (Robert) • Comedian
Jasper Carrott (born Robert Davis)is the father of actress
Lucy Davis. • Lucy was previously married to Welsh actor
Owain Yeoman. ;Davis (Sammy) • Vaudeville dancers,
Sammy Davis Sr. and
Elvera Sánchez, are the parents of entertainer,
Sammy Davis Jr. • Sammy Davis Jr. was married to Swedish actress
May Britt. ;Davison–Dickinson–Moffett-Tennant • English actor
Peter Davison and his former wife, American actress
Sandra Dickinson, are the parents of English actress
Georgia Tennant (née Moffett). • Georgia's husband is actor
David Tennant. • Actor
Ty Tennant is Georgia's son and David's adoptive son. ;Day-Lewis • Poet and writer
Cecil Day-Lewis and actress
Jill Balcon are the parents of actor
Daniel and
Tamasin Day-Lewis, a documentary maker and television chef. • Daniel is married to director and screenwriter
Rebecca Miller (see
Miller). ;DeGeneres • Television host and comedian
Ellen DeGeneres and actor
Vance DeGeneres are siblings. • Ellen is married to actress and model
Portia de Rossi. ;del Toro • Actor
Benicio del Toro has a
Puerto Rican cousin, basketball player
Carlos Arroyo; and a
Spanish cousin, pop-eurodance singer
Rebeca Pous Del Toro. He has a daughter with model
Kimberly Stewart (see
Stewart). • Rebeca is the daughter of singer Franciska and painter José María Pous. She is the niece of Puerto Rican singer
Eliseo Del Toro. ;DeLuise • Actor
Dominick "Dom" DeLuise is the father of actors
Peter,
David, and
Michael DeLuise. ;De Laurentiis • Motion picture-producer
Dino De Laurentiis is the brother of fellow producer Luigi De Laurentiis, whose son (Dino's nephew) is fellow producer
Aurelio De Laurentiis. Dino's son and daughters are fellow producers
Federico,
Francesca and Rafaella De Laurentiis. Dino's daughter,
Veronica is an author and actress; Veronica's daughter, Dino's granddaughter, is
Giada De Laurentiis, a celebrity chef, author, and television personality. ;De Llano–Macedo • Actors
Luis de Llano Palmer and
Rita Macedo were the parents of actress and singer
Julissa and telenovela producer
Luis de Llano Macedo. Julissa was married to musician
Benny Ibarra. ;de Mille • Playwright Henry C. de Mille was the father of playwright film director
William de Mille and film director
Cecil B. DeMille. William was the father of dancer choreographer
Agnes de Mille. ;Demme • Film director
Jonathan Demme was the uncle of film director
Ted Demme. ;Dennehy •
Brian Dennehy is the father of actresses
Elizabeth and
Kathleen Dennehy. ;Depardieu •
Gérard and
Élisabeth Depardieu are the parents of actors
Guillaume and
Julie Depardieu. ;Dern • Actor Director
Bruce Dern and actress
Diane Ladd are the parents of actress
Laura Dern ;Deschanel • Cinematographer
Caleb Deschanel and his wife, actress
Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir), are the father and mother of actresses
Zooey and
Emily Deschanel. • Emily is married to actor
David Hornsby • Zooey was married to indie rock musician
Ben Gibbard ;Dickens–Napier–Raine–Forster • Author
Charles Dickens was the great-great-great-grandfather of actors
Harry Lloyd and
Gerald Dickens. Dickens' great-granddaughter Aileen Dickens Hawksley, who went by Gypsy, was the wife of British actor
Alan Napier. Alan's daughter, actress
Jennifer Raine, was the mother of actor
Brian Forster. ;Dillon–Raymond • Actors
Matt and
Kevin Dillon are the great-nephews of cartoonist
Alex Raymond, who created
Flash Gordon. ;Disney • Animation pioneer
Walt Disney was brother of
Roy O. Disney; the two founded
The Walt Disney Company. Roy's son
Roy E. Disney was once head of
Walt Disney Feature Animation before resigning. They are cousins to voice artist
Melissa Disney. ;Dolenz–Johnson–Juste–Trimble • Italian-born Slovenian film actor
George Dolenz and his wife, stage actress and singer
Janelle Johnson, were the parents of musician and actor
Micky Dolenz, best known as a member of
The Monkees. • Micky and his former wife, British model and TV presenter
Samantha Juste, are the parents of actress
Ami Dolenz, who is married to kickboxer-actor
Jerry Trimble. ;Dosamantes–Rubio • Actress
Susana Dosamantes and her husband, Enrique Rubio, have been the parents of actress and singer
Paulina Rubio. ;Dotrice • Actor
Roy Dotrice and late wife actress
Kay Dotrice (née Newman) are the parents of actresses
Karen and
Michele Dotrice; Michele is the widow of actor
Edward Woodward. ;Douglas • Actor
Kirk Douglas is the father of actor
Michael Douglas and producer
Joel Douglas by his first wife, actress
Diana (née Dill); and of producer
Peter Douglas and comic and the late actor
Eric Douglas by his second wife, actress Anne Buydens. • Michael is the father of actor
Cameron Douglas by his first wife, Diandra Luker, and is currently married to actress
Catherine Zeta-Jones. ;Dragon–Tennille • Composer
Carmen Dragon is the father of composer and musician
Daryl "the Captain" Dragon, partner and former husband of singer
Toni Tennille. ;Draper–Wolff–Mulligan • Actress and writer
Polly Draper was the star of ABC's television series
Thirtysomething. She served as creator, executive producer, writer and director of Nickelodeon's
The Naked Brothers Band TV show, starring her singer-songwriting musician sons
Nat Wolff and
Alex Wolff. Her husband and the siblings' father is jazz pianist and recording artist
Michael Wolff, who was the bandleader for
The Arsenio Hall Show. He was cast in the Nickelodeon series. • Actress
Jesse Draper was a star on
The Naked Brothers Band and is the producer and host of the web series
The Valley Girl Show. She is the daughter of venture capitalist
Tim Draper, a recurring star and consulting producer for
The Naked Brothers Band. Her aunt is
Polly Draper and her cousins are Nat and Alex Wolff. • Jesse Draper's brothers, Billy and Adam, are recurring stars on
The Naked Brothers Band. • Coulter Mulligan, a recurring star on
The Naked Brothers Band, is a nephew of Polly Draper, and cousin of Jesse, Billy and Adam Draper, and Nat and Alex Wolff. ;Drucker • The husband-and-wife classical clarinetists
Stanley and Naomi Drucker are the parents of
rockabilly double bassist Leon Drucker, better known as
Lee Rocker, and
alt-country singer-songwriter Rosanne Drucker. ;Duclon–Johnson • Actress
Cherie Johnson, who starred on
Punky Brewster, is the niece of that show's creator and producer
David W. Duclon. ;Dulfer • Saxophonist
Hans Dulfer is the father of fellow saxophonist
Candy Dulfer. ;Dunne–Didion • Writer
John Gregory Dunne was the husband of writer
Joan Didion and brother of journalist
Dominick Dunne; Dominick was the father of actor-director
Griffin Dunne and actress
Dominique Dunne. ;Durcal–Morales •
Júnior Morales,
Rocío Dúrcal and their daughter
Shaila Dúrcal are singers. ;Dussauge-Duval • Actress
Maria Duval is the aunt of actress-comedienne
Consuelo Duval. They share the same birth surname, Dussauge. ;Duvitski–Bentall • Actress
Janine Duvitski is the mother of actress
Ruby Bentall. ;Dylan • Musician
Bob Dylan and his first wife, former model
Sara Dylan, are the parents of film director
Jesse Dylan and musician
Jakob Dylan. Jesse's wife Susan Traylor and Jakob's wife Paige Dylan are both actresses.
E ;Eastwood • Actor, composer, director and producer
Clint Eastwood is the father of actress and director
Alison Eastwood, actor and jazz musician
Kyle Eastwood, and actor
Scott Eastwood. Eastwood has one daughter with
Frances Fisher, actress and model
Francesca Fisher-Eastwood. ;Ebsen • Actor and dancer
Buddy Ebsen, who performed with his sister,
Vilma Ebsen, was the father of musician
Kiki Ebsen. ;Ecclestone •
Formula One billionaire
Bernie Ecclestone and former
Armani model
Slavica Ecclestone are the parents of socialite and billionaire
Petra Ecclestone. Their other daughter,
Tamara Ecclestone, is also a model and socialite. • Petra is married to businessman
James Stunt. ;Edmondson • Comedian, actor and singer
Ade Edmondson and comedian and actress
Jennifer Saunders are the parents of singer-songwriter
Ella Edmondson. ;Einstein • Comedian
Harry Parke (born Harry Einstein) and his wife and actress
Thelma Leeds are the parents of actor and comedy writer
Bob Einstein and entertainer
Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein). ;Eisley • Actor
Anthony Eisley was the father of singer and actor
David Glen Eisley. • David is married to actress
Olivia Hussey, and they are the parents of actress
India Eisley. ;Elfman •
Danny Elfman, musician and film composer, married to actress
Bridget Fonda, his younger brother Eddie Elfman (see below, "Fonda acting family"); brother of film director
Richard Elfman, Richard is father of actor
Bodhi Elfman, who married actress
Jenna Elfman; Jenna is niece of singer
Tony Butala of
The Lettermen. ;Elliott •
Bob Elliott married
Bob and Ray writer,
Raymond Knight's widow, Lee. Their son is comedian,
Chris Elliott. • Chris's daughter is comedian,
Abby Elliott, who has sometimes performed with her younger sister, Bridey. ;Elwes • Producer
Cassian Elwes and his brother, actor
Cary Elwes. ;Emmanuel • Australian guitar master
Tommy Emmanuel has a brother
Phil Emmanuel who often plays with him on-stage. ;Escovedo • Musicians
Pete,
Coke,
Alejandro, Mario (of
The Dragons) and Javier Escovedo (of
The Zeros) are all brothers. • Pete is the father of musicians
Sheila E. and
Peter Michael Escovedo. • Peter Michael is the biological father of designer and television personality
Nicole Richie. ;
Estevez • Actors
Martin Sheen (born Ramón Estévez) and
Joe Estevez are brothers. Martin is married to actress Janet Templeton. • Martin and Janet are the parents of four children, all actors:
Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Estévez),
Emilio Estevez,
Ramon Estevez Jr., and
Renée Estevez. Charlie was married to actress
Denise Richards. Emilio was married to singer
Paula Abdul.
F ;Fabray/Fabares-Farrell • Actress
Nanette Fabray is the aunt of fellow actress
Shelley Fabares (Fabares is the actual family name). Shelley is the wife of actor
Mike Farrell. ;Fairbanks • Actor and producer
Douglas Fairbanks married actress
Mary Pickford; father of actor
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who was the first husband of actress
Joan Crawford. ;Fan • Actor
Louis Fan is the son of Fan Mei-Sheng, a martial arts actor of the 1970s. ;Farnum • Actor
William Farnum and his brother
Dustin were actors on stage and screen ;Farrow-Previn-Allen • Director
John Farrow and actress
Maureen O'Sullivan are the parents of actresses
Mia and
Tisa Farrow and film producer
Prudence Farrow. • Mia was married to both
Frank Sinatra and musician
André Previn. After her divorce from Previn, she was in a long-term relationship with entertainment multihyphenate
Woody Allen that ended when Allen became romantically involved with (and ultimately married)
Soon-Yi Previn, Mia's adoptive daughter with Previn. With Allen, she also had a son,
Ronan Farrow, an investigative journalist. ;Fields • Actress
Chip Fields is the mother of actresses
Kim,
Jere and Alexis Fields. ;Fields/Lander • Bandleader
Shep Fields was an elder brother of theatrical agent and film producer
Freddie Fields who was married firstly to former child star
Edith Fellows and secondly to actress
Polly Bergen; by his first wife he is the father of actress
Kathy Fields who is married to actor
David Lander, they are the parents of actress and singer Natalie Lander. ;Fiennes • Photographer
Mark Fiennes was married to novelist and painter
Jennifer Lash had six children, among them actors
Ralph and
Joseph, film-makers
Martha and
Sophie and composer
Magnus. Mark is part of the
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family which includes his third cousin adventurer and writer
Ranulph Fiennes. • Ralph was married to actress
Alex Kingston and long-time partner of actress
Francesca Annis. • Martha is married to director George Tiffin and their son is child actor
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin. ;Figueroa/Sebastian •
Joan Sebastian and his son
José Manuel Figueroa (Figueroa is the actual family name) are singers, as is Sebastian's ex-wife,
Maribel Guardia, who is also an actress. ;Fisher-Reynolds-Taylor • Singer
Eddie Fisher married actress and singer
Debbie Reynolds, by whom he fathered actress and writer
Carrie Fisher and a son, producer
Todd Fisher; he later married actress
Elizabeth Taylor, and later still singer
Connie Stevens, which produced actress
Joely Fisher. Carrie Fisher had a daughter with talent agent
Bryan Lourd,
Billie Lourd, who is also an actress. ;Fitzalan-Howard • While the third one was not a show business figure, TV personality
David Frost and actor
Patrick Ryecart married daughters of
Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, whose granddaughter is playwright
Kinvara Balfour. ;Fleeshman • Actor
David Fleeshman and actress
Sue Jenkins are the parents of actors
Richard,
Emily and
Rosie Fleeshman. ;Fleischer • Cartoonists
Dave and
Max Fleischer were brothers; Max's son was director
Richard Fleischer. ;Flowerton-Foch • Actress
Consuelo Flowerton was the mother of actress
Nina Foch. ;Flynn • Actor
Errol Flynn was the father of actor and journalist
Sean Leslie Flynn and grandfather of actor
Sean Flynn (born Sean Rio Amir) through his daughter, Rory Flynn. ;Fogerty • Musicians
John and
Tom Fogerty are brothers and members of
Creedence Clearwater Revival. ;Followill • The alternative rock band
Kings of Leon is made up of brothers
Nathan,
Caleb, and
Jared Followill, alongside their first cousin
Matthew Followill. • Nathan is married to singer-songwriter
Jessie Baylin. • Caleb is married to model
Lily Aldridge (see
Aldridge). • Matthew is married to singer-songwriter
Johanna Bennett. She was once the partner of
Alex Turner of the band
Arctic Monkeys. ;Fonda • Actor
Henry Fonda was father of actress
Jane Fonda and actor
Peter Fonda. • Jane was married to director
Roger Vadim, political activist
Tom Hayden and media mogul
Ted Turner; she and Hayden are parents of actor
Troy Garity. • Peter is father of actress
Bridget Fonda, who married musician
Danny Elfman (see
Elfman). ;Ford •
Glenn Ford was married to
Eleanor Powell (1943–1959), and was the father of actor
Peter Ford. ;
Fox • Theatrical agent
Robin Fox married actress Angela Worthington, daughter of playwright
Frederick Lonsdale. Their children were actors
Edward and
James Fox, and producer
Robert Fox. • Edward was married to actress
Tracy Reed, and later to actress
Joanna David. Edward and Joanna are the parents of actors
Emilia and
Freddie Fox. • Emilia was married to actor
Jared Harris, son of actor
Richard Harris. • Robert was married to actress
Natasha Richardson (see
Redgrave). • James is the father of actors
Laurence,
Jack and Lydia Fox. • Laurence was married to actress
Billie Piper. • Lydia is married to actor and comedian
Richard Ayoade. ;Foxworth • Actor
Robert Foxworth is the son of Erna Beth (née Seaman), a writer. Robert was married to Marilyn McCormick, who had a son, actor Bo Foxworth, and a daughter, actress Kristyn Foxworth. Robert was then married to actress
Elizabeth Montgomery (see
Montgomery). • Bo is married to actress
Wendy Kaplan. ;Foy American actor
Eddie Foy was the father of actors
Charley Foy,
Eddie Foy, Jr. and Producer and directer
Bryan Foy •
Eddie Foy, Jr. was the father
Eddie Foy III ;Furtwängler/Ackermann • Archaeologist
Adolf Furtwängler, son of philologist and teacher Wilhelm Furtwängler, was married to Adelheid Wendt, daughter of philologist Gustav Wendt, whose sister Mathilde Wendt was a well known pianist, and Anna Dohrn, daughter of entomologist
Carl August Dohrn. • One son was conductor and composer
Wilhelm Furtwängler; he married writer Elisabeth Albert, widowed Elisabeth Ackermann, daughter of politician
Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb and chemist and entrepreneur Heinrich Albert. • Their son
Andreas Furtwängler is a well known archaeologist, too. • The daughter of the first marriage of Elisabeth Furtwängler was actress
Kathrin Ackermann. • The third grade nephew to Wilhelm Furtwängler was physician and translator Hubert Furtwängler; he was married to pianist, painter and translator
Margarete Furtwängler-Knittel, who was daughter of writer
John Knittel and sister-in-law of
Luise Rainer. • Another son, mountaineer
Walter Furtwängler, is father to director
Florian Furtwängler and architect Bernhard Furtwängler. • Kathrin Ackermann was married to Bernhard Furtwängler; their daughter is actress and physician
Maria Furtwängler. • Maria Furtwängler was married to publisher
Hubert Burda; their daughter is entrepreneur and musician Elisabeth Furtwängler. • Daughter Märit Furtwängler was married to philosopher
Max Scheler. • Their son
Max Scheler was a photographer. ;Francis-Frakes • Actor and director
Jonathan Frakes is married to soap opera star
Genie Francis, who is the daughter of
Ivor Francis. ;Francks • Actor and musician
Don Francks and wife Lili Francks are the parents of actress
Cree Summer and actor
Rainbow Sun Francks. ;Franklin • Musician
Aretha Franklin often recorded her music with her two sisters
Erma Franklin and
Carolyn Franklin, who were solo singers in their own right; brother Cecil Franklin was a singer as was their father, the Reverend C.L. Franklin. ;
Freud • Late politician, broadcaster and writer Sir
Clement Freud, grandson of
Sigmund Freud, was married to director and actress
June Flewett and had five children, including public relations executive
Matthew and broadcaster and presenter
Emma Freud. Sir Clement's niece, novelist and screenwriter
Esther Freud, is married to actor
David Morrissey. • Matthew was married to
Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media magnate
Rupert Murdoch. • Emma is the partner of screenwriter and producer
Richard Curtis. ;Frith • Musicians
Mishka and Heather Frith (aka
Heather Nova) are brother and sister. ;Froese • Composer and musician
Edgar Froese is the father of fellow performer
Jerome Froese, who works with him as part of
Tangerine Dream. ;Frye-Peluce-Goldberg • Actor
Virgil Frye was the father of actors
Sean Frye and
Soleil Moon Frye (the latter married TV producer
Jason Goldberg) and stepfather of actor
Meeno Peluce, whose mother
Sondra Peluce Londy is Sean and Soleil's mother.
G ;Gaillard-Gaye •
Cuban jazz musician
Slim Gaillard is the father of singer and actress Janis Hunter, later to be known as
Janis Gaye upon her marriage to singer
Marvin Gaye. • Before they married, Marvin and Janis became the parents of future singer and actress
Nona Gaye. • Marvin has a musical brother in singer
Frankie Gaye. ;Gainsbourg • French singer, songwriter, composer, actor and director
Serge Gainsbourg was the father of English-French singer and actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg. ;Garcia • Actor
Andy García is the father of
Dominik Garcia-Lorido, an actress. Both starred as father and daughter in
City Island. ;Garland-Minnelli •
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm) married film director
Vincente Minnelli as her second husband, and they were the parents of actress
Liza Minnelli; Garland's third husband was producer
Sidney Luft, and by him was mother of cabaret singer
Lorna Luft. ;Gastineau •
NFL football player
Mark Gastineau was formerly married to reality star
Lisa Gastineau. They are the parents of model and reality star
Brittny Gastineau. ;Gauguin • Sculptor
Paul Gauguin is the father of footballer
Emil Gauguin, artist
Jean Gauguin, and painter
Pola Gauguin. • Jean's second wife was cartoonist
Sys Poulsen. Their daughter is television writer and author
Lulu Gauguin. • Lulu was married to jazz pianist
Adrian Bentzon. With him, she is the mother of jazz musician
Aske Bentzon. She is also the mother of singer
Alberte Winding (see
Winding) with actor
Thomas Winding. • Alberte was married to musician
Jan Rørdam. She is now married to musician
Andreas Fuglebæk. • Pola is the father of painter
Paul Rene Gauguin. • Paul's second wife was actress
Bonne Winther-Hjelm Jelstrup. ;Geldof-Yates • Singer-songwriter
Bob Geldof is the father of broadcaster, journalist and model
Peaches Geldof and model
Pixie Geldof by his ex-wife, music journalist and presenter
Paula Yates, who subsequently was the partner of singer
Michael Hutchence. Yates is the biological daughter of television host
Hughie Green but was raised by presenter and producer
Jess Yates and his wife actress Elaine Smith as their own. • Peaches was married to
S.C.U.M lead singer Thomas Cohen. She was married to
Chester French musician Max Drummey. ;Gélin • French actor
Daniel Gélin married actress
Danièle Delorme (born Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard) (see
Girard). They have a son, actor
Xavier Gélin. Daniel had an affair with model
Marie Christine Schneider, which produced a daughter, actress
Maria Schneider. He also has a daughter, actress
Fiona Gélin (born Bénédicte), from a later marriage. ;George-De Mornay-O'Neal • TV host
Wally George was the father of actress
Rebecca De Mornay, who is married to sportscaster
Patrick O'Neal, son of actor
Ryan O'Neal. ;George-White •
Rat Patrol star
Christopher George was the uncle of
Wheel of Fortune co-hostess
Vanna White and was the husband of actress- TV personality Linda Day- George. ;Gibb • The
Bee Gees were brothers
Barry,
Robin and
Maurice Gibb. Their younger brother
Andy Gibb was a successful recording artist in his own right. • Barry's son
Steve Gibb is a rock guitarist and singer. • Maurice was married to singer
Lulu. ;Gibbs-Garrett •
Marla Gibbs and
Susie Garrett, both television actresses, were sisters. ;Gilbert • Actresses
Melissa and
Sara are sisters. Melissa was married to actor
Bruce Boxleitner. ;Girard • Painter
André Girard was the father of actress
Danièle Delorme (born Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard) and three other daughters. • Delorme married actor
Daniel Gélin (see
Gélin), with whom she had a son, actor
Xavier Gélin. She then married actor and filmmaker
Yves Robert (see
Robert). • André's daughter, Evie, married pianist
Jean Casadesus (see
Casadesus). ;Gish • Actresses
Lillian and
Dorothy Gish were famous sisters in Hollywood's early days. Dorothy married actor
James Rennie. ;Gallagher •
Noel and younger brother
Liam are members of rock band
Oasis.
Nicole Appleton and
Patsy Kensit have had children by Liam. ;Glass • Composer
Philip Glass's cousin
Ira Glass is radio host and creator of
This American Life. ;Gleason-Miller • Actor
Jackie Gleason's daughter Linda married actor
Jason Miller; their son, Jackie's grandson, is actor
Jason Patric (full name:
Jason Patrick Miller Junior). ;Gleeson • Actor
Brendan Gleeson is the father of actors
Domnhall and
Brian Gleeson. ;Glenister • Director
John Glenister is the father of actors
Philip Glenister and
Robert Glenister. ;Gold • Actor-turned-talent agent Harry Gold is the father of actresses
Tracey,
Missy, Brandy and Jessie Gold. ;Gold-Nixon • Oscar-winning composer
Ernest Gold and his first wife, singer
Marni Nixon, are the parents of singer-songwriter and producer
Andrew Gold. ;Goldwyn (Howard-Goldwyn) •
Samuel Goldwyn's son,
Samuel Goldwyn Jr., was married to
Jennifer Howard (daughter of
Sidney Howard). Sam Jr. and Jennifer's sons are actors
John and
Tony Goldwyn. ;Gomez • Producer
Roberto Gomez Fernandez is the son of actor, comedian and director
Roberto Gomez Bolanos and nephew of actor and producer
Horacio Gomez Bolanos. ;Gooding • Singer
Cuba Gooding is father of actors
Cuba Gooding Jr. and
Omar Gooding. ;Gordy-Ross • Music producer and
Motown founder
Berry Gordy is the younger brother of songwriter and composer
Anna Gordy Gaye, the first wife of singer
Marvin Gaye. • Gordy is the father of musician Kennedy Gordy (
Rockwell), from a relationship with Margaret Norton, actress
Rhonda Ross Kendrick from another relationship with singer
Diana Ross, and rapper and musician Stefan Gordy (
Redfoo) from a relationship with writer and producer Nancy Leiviska. • Ross is the mother of actress
Tracee Ellis Ross from her marriage to Robert Ellis Silberstein, and actor
Evan Ross (see Ross). ;Gould • Actors
Alexander,
Emma and
Kelly Gould are siblings. ;Gray •
Beatrice Gray was the mother of
Father Knows Best star (and motorcyclist)
Billy Gray. ;Griffin-Haid • Actor
Charles Haid and talk show-host and TV producer
Merv Griffin are cousins. ;Grimes • Actress
Camryn Grimes of
The Young and the Restless is the niece of actor
Scott Grimes. ;Groves-Roper • Victorian stage actor
Charles Groves was a father to
Fred Groves, a leading actor of British silent films, and a brother to
Walter Groves of the Fred Karno Company. Henry Groves, a brother to Charles and Walter, is the great-grandfather of Linda Groves, who married the comedian
George Roper. Roper himself was the great-nephew of the Music Hall comedians
Johnnie Cullen and
George Sanford and a first cousin once removed of the wartime singer
Jeannie Bradbury. His son
Matt Roper is an actor and comedian. ;Gunn •
James Gunn, film director, screenwriter and novelist is brothers with actor
Sean, screen and television writer
Brian, political entertainer
Matt, and film executive
Patrick Gunn. They are cousins with television and screenwriter
Mark Gunn. In 2000, James Gunn married actress
Jenna Fischer; the couple later divorced. :
Note the family is not related to television personality Tim Gunn ;Guthrie-Irion •
Folk singer-songwriter
Woody Guthrie was the father of fellow folk singer-songwriter
Arlo Guthrie. • Arlo in turn is the father of singer-songwriter
Sarah Lee Guthrie, who performs with her husband as
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion. ;Gwynne-Gilford-Pine • Actress
Anne Gwynne was the mother of
Gwynne Gilford. • Actress
Gwynne Gilford married actor
Robert Pine, and they are the parents of actor
Chris Pine. ;Gyllenhaal-Foner • Actors
Maggie Gyllenhaal and
Jake Gyllenhaal are the children of director
Stephen Gyllenhaal and writer
Naomi Foner. Maggie is married to actor
Peter Sarsgaard.
H ;Hagen • Scriptwriter
Hans Hagen (also known as Hans Oliva), and actress
Eva-Maria Hagen are the parents of punk rock singer
Nina Hagen. Eva-Maria was later married to
Wolf Biermann, a singer-songwriter. • Nina's daughter
Cosma Shiva Hagen is an actress. ;Hale •
Alan Hale Sr. married actress Gretchen Hartmann and they were the parents of
Alan Hale Jr. ;Hall • Sir
Peter Hall is a theatre and film director. His children are Emma Hall (from his fourth marriage to theatre publicist Nichola Frei); actress
Rebecca (from his third marriage to opera singer
Maria Ewing); director
Edward and theatre designer Lucy Hall (both from his second marriage to his assistant Jacqueline Taylor); and producer
Christopher and painter, actress and singer-songwriter
Jennifer (both from his first marriage to actress
Leslie Caron. Caron was previously married to musician
Geordie Hormel and subsequently to American producer/director
Michael Laughlin). • Edward is married to comedian
Issy van Randwyck. • Jennifer is married to producer and screenwriter
Glenn Wilhide. • Christopher is married to the Hon. Jane Studd, formerly a third assistant director, and their son Freddie Hall is a second assistant director, while his younger brother Ben Hall is training to become an actor. ;Hallyday/Smet-Vartan-Scotti • French singer and actor Jean-Philippe Smet, better known by his stage name of
Johnny Hallyday, and his first wife, French singer
Sylvie Vartan, are the parents of singer
David Hallyday (born David Smet). Johnny is the father of actress
Laura Smet from a later relationship with actress
Nathalie Baye. • David was married to French supermodel
Estelle Lefébure. • Sylvie's current husband is American actor and music producer
Tony Scotti, co-founder of
Scotti Brothers Records Ben Scotti. • Sylvie's brother Eddie Vartan, a music producer, is the father of French-American actor
Michael Vartan. ;Hamilton-Stewart • Actor
George Hamilton is the son of musician
George Hamilton. His elder half-brother,
William Potter, became an interior decorator for such prestigious firms as
Eva Gabor Interiors. • George Jr. was married to actress and model
Alana Stewart (see
Stewart). They are the parents of fellow actor
Ashley Hamilton. • Ashely was married to actresses
Shannen Doherty and
Angie Everhart. • Joe Pesci was also once married to
Claudia Haro, a model and actress. • Alana Stewart later married singer
Rod Stewart. They are the parents of model
Kimberly Stewart and reality TV personality
Sean Stewart. • Kimberly Stewart has a daughter with actor
Benicio del Toro (see
del Toro). ;Hammerstein • Theatrical impresario
Oscar Hammerstein I is the grandfather of lyricist
Oscar Hammerstein II. ;Hanks-Wilson • Actor
Tom Hanks's son by his first marriage, to actress Samantha Lewes, is actor
Colin Hanks. Tom Hanks's second wife is actress and producer
Rita Wilson, with whom he has a son,
Chet Hanks, actor and musician. ;Hanley • Actor
Jimmy Hanley married actress
Dinah Sheridan, with whom he has three children. Their children include actress
Jenny Hanley and politician Sir
Jeremy Hanley. • Dinah later married business executive
John Davis. She then married actor
John Merivale (see
Merivale). • Jeremy married Verna, Viscountess Villiers. • Verna was previously married to the royal
George Henry Child Villiers, Viscount Villiers (see
Villiers). ;Hanson •
Hanson is an American pop-rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma formed by brothers Isaac (guitar, piano, vocals), Taylor (keyboards, piano, guitar, drums, vocals), and Zac Hanson (drums, piano, guitar, vocals). ;Hardin • Actor
Jerry Hardin is the father of fellow actress
Melora Hardin. ; Hardwicke • Actor
Cedric Hardwicke was the father of actor
Edward Hardwicke. ;Hargitay/Mansfield • Actor
Mickey Hargitay and wife
Jayne Mansfield are the parents of actress
Mariska Hargitay, who is married to actor
Peter Hermann. • Actor
Eddie Hargitay is Mickey's nephew. ;Harmon/Currie • Actress
Marie Harmon is the mother of actress
Sondra Currie, singer and actress
Cherie Currie, and singer and actress
Marie Currie. ;Harmon • Football player and sports broadcaster
Tom Harmon and actress
Elyse Knox are the parents of painter and actress
Kristin, actress and model
Kelly, and actor
Mark Harmon. • Kristin was previously married to singer and musician
Ricky Nelson, son of
Ozzie and
Harriet Nelson (see
Nelson family). They have four three children: actress
Tracy, twins and members of
Nelson Gunnar and
Matthew, and musician Sam. • Tracy was married to actor
William R. Moses. • Mark is married to actress
Pam Dawber and they have two sons. ;Harper-Schaal • Actress
Valerie Harper was the second wife of actor
Richard Schaal, whose daughter by his first wife is actress
Wendy Schaal. ;Harrison •
Beatle George Harrison is the father of musician
Dhani Harrison. ;Harrison • Actor
Rex Harrison was the father of actor and singer
Noel Harrison, and (with actress and writer
Lilli Palmer) novelist and dramatist
Carey Harrison. • Noel was the father of actress
Cathryn Harrison. ;
Hart • This Canadian
professional wrestling family was founded by wrestler, trainer, and promoter
Stu Hart and his wife, promoter
Helen Hart. They had 12 children:
Smith,
Bruce,
Keith, Wayne,
Dean, Ellie, Georgia,
Bret, Alison,
Ross,
Diana, and
Owen. All of their sons were mainly wrestlers except for Wayne, who was mainly a
referee. • Smith has two sons who are pro wrestlers, Mike and Matt. • Bruce also has two sons who have wrestled at some point, Torrin and Bruce Jr. • Keith has a son named Conor who pursued amateur wrestling in high school. • Ellie and her former husband, wrestler
Jim Neidhart, have three daughters. One of them,
Nattie Neidhart, is a wrestler and is married to wrestler
TJ Wilson. • Georgia and her husband, wrestler
B. J. Annis, have four children. One of them, Teddy Annis, wrestles as
Teddy Hart. • Bret's former sister-in-law was married to wrestler Tom Billington, better known as
Dynamite Kid. Billington was also the first cousin of
Davey Boy Smith. • Alison's former husband is wrestler
Ben Bassarab. One of their daughters, Brook, is married to pro wrestler Pete Wilson. Their other daughter, Lindsay, has dated wrestler Randy Myers and does make-up for the wrestling reality show
Total Divas. • Diana and her former husband
Davey Boy Smith, Dynamite Kid's cousin and a wrestler, had two children. One of them,
Harry Smith, is a wrestler, also. ;Hauser • see
Warner-Hauser-Sperling ;Hawks • Director
Howard Hawks's first wife, Athole Shearer, was a sister of actress
Norma Shearer, wife of producer
Irving Thalberg. Hawks's second wife,
Slim Keith, later married theatrical producer
Leland Hayward. Hawks's third wife,
Dee Hartford, had a sister,
Eden Hartford, who married
Groucho Marx of the
Marx Brothers. Hawks's brother, Kenneth Neil Hawks, was the first husband of actress
Mary Astor. Howard Hawks's daughter, Kitty Hawks, was the former wife of
Ned Tanen. ;Hawkes • Len "Chip" Hawkes, bassist from
The Tremeloes, is the father of singer
Chesney. ;Hawn-Russell-Hudson •
Goldie Hawn and longtime partner
Kurt Russell; from her second marriage to
Hudson Brothers's
Bill Hudson, Goldie is mother of actors
Kate Hudson, who was married to
Black Crowes' frontman
Chris Robinson, and
Oliver Hudson, who is married to actress
Erinn Bartlett. Kurt Russell was married to actress
Season Hubley, whose brother is actor
Whip Hubley. William Hudson was married to actress
Cindy Williams. ;Haworth •
Joseph Haworth, 19th century actor, and
William Haworth, 19th–20th century writer, actor and director;
Ted Haworth (son of William Haworth), production designer and art director;
Sean Haworth (son Ted Haworth), art director;
Martha Haworth (daughter of William Howarth) was married to actor
Wallace Ford. ;Hawtrey • Sir
Charles Hawtrey was the father of actor and director
Anthony Hawtrey. Other theatrical members are actors
Nicholas and
Kay Hawtrey, who was married to actor and director
John Clark. ;Hemingway • Author
Ernest Hemingway was the grandfather of actresses
Mariel Hemingway and
Margaux Hemingway. • Mariel is the mother of model and actress
Dree Hemingway. ;Hemsworth • Brothers and actors
Luke Hemsworth,
Chris Hemsworth and
Liam Hemsworth. Chris Hemsworth is married to Spanish actress
Elsa Pataky, and Liam Hemsworth was married to American singer
Miley Cyrus. ;Henson (I) •
Muppets creator
Jim Henson was the father of filmmakers
Brian,
Cheryl,
Heather and
Lisa Henson. :
Note: No relation to Henson (II) ;Henson (II) • Comedian
Leslie Henson was the father of actor
Nicky Henson and farmer and TV presenter Joseph Henson. Nicky was married to actress
Una Stubbs; their sons were composers Christian Henson, best known as the composer of the themes to
Top Gear and
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Joe Henson. Their cousin is
Adam Henson, whose father was Joseph Henson. ;Hester • Singer-songwriter
Benny Hester is the father of film and television composer
Eric Hester. ;Hewlett • Actor
David Hewlett is the brother of actress
Kate Hewlett. David was married to actress
Soo Garay. ;Hepburn-Ferrer • Actors
Audrey Hepburn and
Mel Ferrer were the parents of film producer
Sean Hepburn Ferrer. ;Hilton • Socialite
Kathy Hilton is the mother of socialites and celebutantes
Paris Hilton and
Nicky Hilton. Kathy's half-sisters,
Kim Richards and
Kyle Richards, are actresses. ;Ho (Tai-Loy) • Impresario
Don Ho was the father of fellow singer-musician
Hoku (full name:
Hoku Christianne Tai-Loy). ; Holland • Comedian and writer
Dominic Holland is the father of actor
Tom Holland. ; Holloway • Actor and singer
Stanley Holloway was the father of actor
Julian Holloway. • Julian is the father of former model and author
Sophie Dahl, whose maternal grandfather was children's author
Roald Dahl. ;Houghton-Hepburn-Grant • Actress
Katharine Hepburn was the aunt of actress
Katharine Houghton, who is the aunt of actress
Schuyler Grant. ;Houston-Drinkard-Warwick-Brown • Singers
Cissy Houston and Lee Drinkard (members of
the Drinkard Singers), aunts of singers
Dionne Warwick and
Dee Dee Warwick, Cissy's daughter was pop diva
Whitney Houston, who was married to singer
Bobby Brown. ;Howard (Horowitz) • Actor brothers
Moe,
Shemp (real name: Samuel) and
Curly Howard (real name: Jerome) were all members of the
Three Stooges. ;Howard • Actor-director
Rance Howard and his wife, actress
Jean Speegle Howard, are the parents of actor-director
Ron Howard and character actor
Clint Howard. • Ron is the father of actresses
Paige and
Bryce Dallas Howard. • Bryce is married to actor Seth Gabel. ;Howes • Comedian, actor, singer and variety star
Bobby Howes, and actress and singer
Patricia Malone are the parents of actor
Sally Ann Howes and clarinettist
Peter Howes. ;Hulbert • Actors
Claude Hulbert and
Jack Hulbert were brothers. Jack Hulbert was married to actress
Cicely Courtneidge for 62 years. ;Humperdinck-Hues • Martial arts actor Matthias Hues is the great-grandson of opera-composer
Engelbert Humperdinck, who authored (among others)
Hansel and Gretel. ;Huston • Actor
Walter Huston was the father of actor and director
John Huston. • John in turn was the father of actress
Anjelica Huston and actor and director
Danny Huston. Danny was previously married to
Virginia Madsen, sister of
Michael Madsen. ;Hutton •
Timothy Hutton is the son of actor
Jim Hutton, who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His first wife was actress
Debra Winger, with whom he has one son, Noah. His second wife was Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, niece of former president of the French Republic
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and with whom he has one son, Milo.
I ;Ifans • Actors
Rhys Ifans and
Llŷr Ifans are brothers. Llŷr is married to TV presenter
Lisa Gwilym. ;Iglesias • Singer
Julio Iglesias is the father of journalist
Chabeli Iglesias, model and singer
Julio Iglesias Jr., and singer
Enrique Iglesias. ;Inoue • Seiyū
Kikuko Inoue is the mother of seiyū,
Honoka Inoue. ;Irons • Actor
Jeremy Irons is married to actress
Sinéad Cusack (see
Cusack), and they have two sons, actor
Max and photographer and former actor
Samuel. • Sinéad also has a son, politician
Richard Boyd Barrett, who was given up for adoption. ;Irving • Actress
Priscilla Pointer and director
Jules Irving are the parents of actress
Amy, director
David and singer
Katie Irving. • Amy was married to film director
Steven Spielberg (see
Spielberg). ;Irving • Actor Sir
Henry Irving was the father of actors
Harry Brodribb Irving and
Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving. • Harry was the father of
set designer and
art director Laurence Irving and actress
Elizabeth Irving. ;
Isley • Brothers, musicians and singers
O'Kelly Isley,
Rudolph Isley,
Ronald Isley,
Ernie Isley and
Marvin Isley, and brother-in-law
Chris Jasper were the members of the singing group
The Isley Brothers. Some members of the family still perform under that name. Another brother,
Vernon Isley, was originally a member, but was killed in a bicycle accident at age 13, before the group was known outside of their hometown of
Cincinnati. ;Iwamatsu • Actor
Mako and his sister,
Momo Yashima, an actress, are children of artist and author parents
Taro Yashima (Jun Atsushi Iwamatsu) and
Mitsu Yashima. • Mako was married to actress
Shizuko Hoshi. Their daughters, Mimosa and
Sala Iwamatsu, are also actresses.
J ;
Jackson •
Joseph Jackson, who had a brief and unsuccessful music career, and his wife
Katherine Jackson founded an extremely successful musical family. • Their first five sons (their second, third, fourth, sixth, and eighth children in all)—
Jackie,
Tito,
Jermaine,
Marlon and
Michael—formed the singing group
The Jackson 5. Michael went on to even greater success as a solo artist, and was briefly married to
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of musical icon
Elvis Presley. Jermaine is linked to the Gordy family through his former marriage to Hazel Gordy, the daughter of
Motown founder
Berry Gordy. • Jackie is the father of rapper
DealZ. • The R&B vocal group
3T is made up of Tito's three sons (Tariano "Taj", Taryll, and Tito Joe "TJ" Jackson). • Michael's son Prince Jackson began an acting career in 2013. • Their oldest child,
Rebbie Jackson, had a moderately successful career as a solo artist. • Rebbie is the mother of singer
Austin Brown. • Marlon is the father of rapper Chye Beats. • Their fifth child and second daughter,
La Toya Jackson, had modest success as a recording artist; she received major publicity in 1988 when she landed a nude layout in
Playboy. • Their last son,
Randy, replaced Jermaine in the Jackson 5 when it became The Jacksons. • Their third son,
Jermaine Jackson, was a solo artist at Motown. • Their youngest child,
Janet, began as a child actress and went on to a hugely successful career as a recording artist. ;Jarre • Composer
Maurice Jarre is the father of screenwriter
Kevin Jarre and musician
Jean Michel Jarre. The latter was married to actress
Charlotte Rampling – their son is the magician
David Jarre – and is now married to actress
Anne Parillaud. ;Jenkins • Writer and director Horace Jenkins was the father of filmmaker and artist
Sacha Jenkins. ;Jiminez-McCann-Brown • Mexican voice artist
Celia Jiminez was the mother of movie extra Celia McCann and film editor David McCann. David McCann is married to actress
Leonell McCann. • Celia McCann is the mother of screenwriter Paul Brown and actress/comedian/singer
Julie Brown. ;Johnson-Griffith •
Dakota Johnson is the daughter of actor
Don Johnson and actress
Melanie Griffith. •
Melanie Griffith is the daughter of actress
Tippi Hedren and half-sister of actress
Tracy Griffith. • Don Johnson's son
Jesse Johnson, from his previous marriage to actress
Patti D'Arbanville, is also an actor. • Melanie was later married with actor
Steven Bauer. She then married actor
Antonio Banderas. ;Jonas •
Kevin Jonas,
Joe Jonas, and
Nick Jonas are brothers who have performed together as the band the
Jonas Brothers as well as separately. Their youngest brother,
Frankie Jonas, is an actor. Their father,
Paul Kevin Jonas Sr., is a songwriter. ;Jones • British rock icon
David Bowie (born David Jones) was the father of British film director and producer Duncan Jones, with his first wife
Angela Bowie. • Duncan Jones and his wife, photographer Rodene Ronquillo, have an infant son. • David Bowie also fathered a daughter, Lexi, with his second wife, Somali supermodel and activist
Iman. • Iman was formerly married to
NBA basketball player
Spencer Haywood; they have a daughter, Zulekha Haywood. • Angela Bowie also has a daughter, Stacia Larranna Celeste Lipka, from her relationship with musician Drew Blood (real name Andrew Lipka). ;Jones-Gretzky-Johnson • Actress Janet Jones and NHL legend
Wayne Gretzky are the parents of singer Paulina Gretzky, who is married to golfer
Dustin Johnson. ;Jones-Hervey • American tenor and actor
Allan Jones and his wife actress
Irene Hervey were the parents of singer and actor
Jack Jones. ;Jones-Lipton • Musician and producer
Quincy Jones Jr. with ex-wife actress
Peggy Lipton (see
Lipton) have two daughters: actress
Rashida Jones and stylist
Kidada Jones. • Quincy also has a son named
Quincy Jones, III, who is a composer and music producer with Swedish actress
Ulla Andersson. • Quincy also has a daughter with the actress
Nastassja Kinski (see
Kinski). • Quincy's younger brother,
Lloyd Jones, was a radio engineer for the
Seattle station
KOMO-TV. ;Judd • The country music vocal duo
The Judds were made up of mother
Naomi Judd and daughter
Wynonna Judd. Naomi is the mother of actress
Ashley Judd. Jugnot • Gérard Jugnot; his son, Arthur Jugnot; and his step-daughter, actress Flavie Péan, are actors.
K ;Kaplan-Kaye-Starr • Organist Harvey Kaye of the
Spiral Starecase was the father of singer
Brenda K. Starr. They share the same birth surname, Kaplan. ;Kardashian-Jenner • Reality stars
Kim Kardashian,
Kourtney Kardashian,
Khloe Kardashian and
Rob Kardashian are the children of reality star
Kris Jenner and attorney
Robert Kardashian. They also have two half-sisters, model
Kendall Jenner and reality star
Kylie Jenner, from their mother's second marriage to Olympic gold medalist
Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner). • Caitlyn Jenner is also father to reality star
Brody Jenner and musician
Brandon Jenner, from her second marriage to actress
Linda Thompson. • Kim Kardashian-West was first married to songwriter
Damon Thomas, then professional basketball player
Kris Humphries, then rapper
Kanye West, with whom she has four children. ;Karns • Actor
Roscoe Karns was the father of actor
Todd Karns. ;Kasem • TV presenter and voice actor
Casey Kasem is the father of TV presenter and voice actor
Mike and television and radio hostess
Kerri. ;Katz-Grey • Comedian and musician
Mickey Katz was the father of actor
Joel Grey. • Joel Grey is the father of actress
Jennifer Grey. ;Keaton • Actor
Joe Keaton married actress
Myra Keaton. Their children were actors
Buster Keaton, Harry Keaton, and Louise Keaton. • Buster was married to actress
Natalie Talmadge (see
Talmadge).
Not related to actress Diane Keaton (the stage name for Diane Hall). ;Keitel • Actor
Harvey Keitel is the father of fellow actress Stella Keitel. ;Keith • Actor
Robert Keith was the father of actor
Brian Keith. ;Kemp • Actor and musician
Martin Kemp is the brother of
Gary Kemp (both members of
Spandau Ballet); the husband of Shirlie Holliman, one half of
Pepsi & Shirlie; and the father of broadcaster
Roman Kemp. ;Kendal • Actor and manager
Geoffrey Kendal is the father of actresses
Jennifer and
Felicity Kendal. ;Kensit • Jamie Kensit, founder-member of
Eighth Wonder, is a sister of
Patsy, who was married to
Liam Gallagher of (
Oasis,
Jim Kerr of (
Simple Minds) and
Dan Donovan of (
Big Audio Dynamite). ;Kidman • Psychologist and biochemist
Antony Kidman is the father of actress
Nicole Kidman and television journalist
Antonia Kidman. • Nicole was married to actor
Tom Cruise (see
Mapother), and to country singer
Keith Urban. ;King • Pop band
King is made up of four siblings. It began with five King siblings: Trillion, Marieangela "Queenie", Jazzy, Ruby and Lucius. Jazzy and Ruby left in 2013 to form band
Blonde Electra; eventually, sister Jemima joined them. • Marieangela "Queenie" married musician
Elijah Blue Allman (see
Allman), son of
Gregg Allman and
Cher (see
Bono). ;Kinski • Actor
Klaus Kinski was married three times and has a child with each wife: • With singer
Gislinde Kühlbeck, he has a daughter, actress
Pola Kinski. • With actress
Ruth Brigitte Tocki, he has a daughter, actress
Nastassja Kinski. • Nastassja married Egyptian filmmaker
Ibrahim Moussa and they have two children together, including daughter
Sonja Kinski, who works as a model and actress. Nastassja then lived with musician
Quincy Jones (see
Jones-Lipton), with whom she has a daughter. • With Minhoi Geneviève Loanic, he has a son, actor
Nikolai Kinski. ;Kirby • Actor
Bruce Kirby was father of late actor
Bruno Kirby. (Their real names are Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Sr. and Jr.) ;Kirkwood • Actor
James Kirkwood Sr. was married to film actress
Lila Lee. Their son,
James Kirkwood Jr., was an actor and playwright. ;Klemperer • Composer and conductor
Otto Klemperer and singer
Johanna Geisler were the parents of actor and musician
Werner Klemperer. Philologist and diarist
Victor Klemperer is a relative. ;Knowles •
Beyoncé and
Solange Knowles are the daughters of
Mathew Knowles, who manages their careers. Beyoncé is married to producer
Jay-Z. ;Köfer • Actor
Herbert Köfer was married three times • His son from his first marriage is cinematographer
Andreas Köfer. • From his second marriage, to actress
Ute Boeden, he has daughters
Mirjam Köfer and
Geertje Boeden, who are actresses, too. • His third marriage is to singer and actress
Heike Köfer. ;Kohan-Noxon • Comedy writer Buz Kohan and novelist Rhea Kohan are the parents of television writers and producers
Jenji Kohan and
David Kohan. Jenji Kohan is the creator, showrunner and executive producer for
Showtime's television series
Weeds. She is married to
Christopher Noxon, a non-show business writer. His sister is
Marti Noxon, another TV writer and producer. ;Koppel • Danish musicians, singers and composers
Anders Koppel,
Annisette Koppel,
Herman David Koppel,
Lone Koppel,
Naja Rosa,
Nikolaj Koppel and
Thomas Koppel are closely related. ;Kosugi • Ninjitsu master-actor
Sho Kosugi is the father of fellow martial arts-actors
Kane and
Shane Kosugi. ;Kravitz-Roker-Bonet • Filmmaker and TV news producer Sy Kravitz and actress
Roxie Roker were the parents of musician
Lenny Kravitz. • Lenny and his former wife
Lisa Bonet are the parents of actress
Zoë Kravitz. Bonet is now married to actor
Jason Momoa. ;Krabbé • Dutch actor
Jeroen Krabbé is the father of radio and television presenter
Martijn Krabbé. ;Kubrick • Screenwriter, producer and director
Stanley Kubrick was the father of composera and filmmaker
Vivian Kubrick, who scored his movie
Full Metal Jacket under the pseudonym
Abigail Mead. Moreover, Christianne Harlan-Kubrick (Stanley's widow and Vivian's mother) is the sister of film producer
Jan Harlan.
L ;Lacey • Actor
Ronald Lacey was the father of fellow actors
Jonathan and
Rebecca Lacey. ;Lachey • Singer
Nick Lachey is the brother of singer and actor
Drew Lachey. • Nick was married to singer
Jessica Simpson (see
Simpson). He then married television personality, television host, fashion model, and actress
Vanessa Minnillo. • Drew married high school sweetheart and dancer and choreographer
Lea Lachey. ;Lai • Actress
Gigi Lai is the granddaughter of Hong Kong movie pioneer
Lai Man-Wai. ;Lamas • Actors
Fernando Lamas and
Arlene Dahl are the parents of fellow actor (and martial artist)
Lorenzo Lamas. ;Lamb • Actors, TV and radio personalities
Sandy,
Jan and
Jerry Lamb are the nephew and nieces of fellow actor
Ti Lung. Jan is married to singer
Cass Phang. ;Lancaster • Actor
Burt Lancaster was the father of actor
Bill Lancaster. ;Landau-Bain-Finch • Actors
Martin Landau and
Barbara Bain are the parents of fellow actress
Juliet Landau, and of producer
Susan Finch. ;Landis • Movie writer
Max Landis is the son of director
John Landis. ;Lawford • Actor
Peter Lawford was the father of actor
Christopher Lawford. ;Lawrence • Actors
Joey Lawrence,
Matthew Lawrence, and
Andrew Lawrence are all brothers. ;Lawrence • Guy and Howard Lawrence are brothers who perform together as
Disclosure. ;Lee (Chinese) • Cantonese opera singer and actor
Lee Hoi-Chuen was the father of actor and martial arts expert
Bruce Lee. • Bruce was the father of fellow actors
Brandon and
Shannon Lee.
No relation to musician Tommy Lee or to soap opera actress Anna Lee. ;Lee (American) •
Tommy Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass, is the son of Vassiliki Papadimitriou (Greek: Βασιλική Παπαδημητρίου), a 1957
Miss Greece contestant. His younger sister is musician
Athena Lee (Athena Michelle Bass). Tommy's second wife was actress
Heather Locklear (see
Sambora). He then married actress and
Playboy Playmate Pamela Anderson. They have two sons, model and musician
Dylan Jagger Lee, and actor, model and reality star
Brandon Thomas Lee. Tommy was engaged to singer
Sofia Toufa and is now married to social media personality
Brittany Furlan. • Athena was married to
James Kottak, the drummer for the band
Scorpions, and she was also the drummer of his solo band,
KrunK.
No relation to martial artist Lee Hoi-Chuen or to soap opera actress Anna Lee. ;Lee (American) • Musician
Bill Lee is the father of filmmakers
Spike,
David,
Joie and
Cinqué Lee. He is also the uncle of filmmaker
Malcolm D. Lee. ;Lee (English) • Soap opera actress
Anna Lee was the adopted daughter of Sherlock Holmes creator
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. • Anna's children are fellow actors
Tim Stafford (AKA
Jeffrey Byron) and
Venetia Stevenson, the latter of whom was married to singer
Don Everly. • Venetia and Don have three children:
Stacy,
Erin and
Edan Everly.
No relation to martial artist Lee Hoi-Chuen, or to musician Tommy Lee. ;Lee-Field •
American Civil War general
Robert E. Lee is the distant relative of actress
Auriol Lee. • Auriol is the aunt of actress
Virginia Field. • Virginia married actor
Paul Douglas. She then married actor
Willard Parker. Finally, she married composer
Howard Grode. • Paul later married actress
Jan Sterling. • Jan was previously married to actor
John Merivale (see
Merivale). Jan's sister, Ann "Mimi" Adriance, was a model and businesswoman. ;Leitch • Impresario
Donovan Leitch is the father of actors
Donovan Leitch and
Ione Skye (Leitch). Skye's first husband was
Adam Horovitz of the
Beastie Boys. ;Lennon •
John Lennon was the father of musician
Julian Lennon by his first marriage, and musician
Sean Lennon by his second marriage to artist and singer
Yoko Ono. ;
Lennon Sisters • Sisters
Dianne Lennon,
Peggy Lennon,
Kathy Lennon and
Janet Lennon were featured performers on
The Lawrence Welk Show. ;Leonetti-Robbins-Beck-Hilton • Actors
Tommy Leonetti and
Cindy Robbins are the parents of actress
Kimberly Beck, who was married to hotel-heir
William Barron Hilton, Jr. (Kim's current husband, since 1988, is producer and fellow actor Jason Clark.) ;Lewis-Gilley-Swaggart-Brown • Rock pioneer
Jerry Lee Lewis is the brother of singer and pianist
Linda Gail Lewis. They are cousins of country musician
Mickey Gilley and disgraced televangelist
Jimmy Swaggart. Another first cousin to the Lewis siblings, J.W. Brown, was the bass guitarist in Lewis's band. • Brown's daughter
Myra Gale Brown became Jerry Lee's third wife. Their daughter, Phoebe Lewis, is a musician and her father's manager. ;Lipton • Model
Peggy Lipton is the sister of actor
Robert Lipton. She married
Quincy Jones (see
Jones) and has actress daughters,
Rashida Jones and
Kidada Jones. ;Lithgow • Sarah and
Arthur Lithgow are the parents of actor
John Lithgow, who is the father of actor
Ian Lithgow. ;Livesey • Actor
Sam Livesey was the father of actors
Jack Livesey and
Barry Livesey. His nephew and stepson was actor
Roger Livesey who were also their cousins and stepbrothers. ;Lloyd-Pack • Actor
Charles Lloyd-Pack was the father of actor
Roger Lloyd-Pack and grandfather of actress
Emily Lloyd. ;Lloyd Webber •
William Lloyd Webber is the father of
Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of musical theatre, and
Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist. Andrew is the father of
Imogen Lloyd Webber, theatre producer; he was formerly married to singer and actress
Sarah Brightman. ;Lockhart • Actors
Gene and
Kathleen Lockhart are the parents of actress
June Lockhart, who is the mother of fellow actress
Anne Lockhart. ;Loggins • Singer-songwriters
Dave Loggins and
Kenny Loggins are cousins. • Kenny is the father of singer
Crosby Loggins. ;López • Cuban musicians
Orestes López and
Israel "Cachao" López were brothers. • Orestes's son, bassist
Cachaito López, became famous in his last years for his work with
Buena Vista Social Club. ;Lowe-Swank • Actor
Rob Lowe is the brother of
Chad Lowe, who was married to fellow actress
Hilary Swank. •
Rob Lowe is also the father of actor
John Owen Lowe. ;Lupino • Actor and director
Ida Lupino was a member of the
Lupino family. ;Lynch (Shane) •
Shane,
Keavy,
Edele, Tara, and
Naomi Lynch are siblings who have all had singing careers – Shane as part of the Irish boy band
Boyzone, twins Keavy and Edele as part of the Irish girl group
B*Witched, Tara as part of the Irish girl group
Fab!, and Naomi as part of the Irish girl group
Buffalo G. • Shane married
Easther Bennett, lead singer of
Eternal. He then married singer
Sheena White. • B*Witched bandmate and actress
Lindsay Armaou was married to
911 lead singer
Lee Brennan.
Unrelated to screenwriter David Lynch. ;Lynch (David) • Screenwriter and director
David Lynch is the father of writer
Jennifer, who authored
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to tie in with his hit series
Twin Peaks.
Unrelated to the Irish Lynch musicians. ;Lyte • Anglican divine, hymn-writer and poet
Henry Francis Lyte is the father of chemist and photographer
Farnham Maxwell-Lyte. • Henry's daughters are Emily Jeanette Maxwell-Lyte and Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell Lyte. • Farnham's son is Cecil Henry Maxwell-Lyte. • Emily's son is English historian and archivist
Henry Maxwell Lyte. • Phillippa's son is British newspaper magnate and publisher
Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet (see
Pearson). • Cecil married the Hon. Mary Lucy Agnes Stourton, daughter of
Alfred Stourton, 23rd Baron Mowbray (see
Stourton), 24th Baron Segrave. • Arthur's second wife is humanitarian
Ethel Pearson. Their son is newspaper publisher
Neville Pearson. • Neville first married Mary Angela Mond (see
Mond). He later married actress
Gladys Cooper. His daughter with Gladys is Sally Pearson (also known as Sally Cooper), who was married to actor
Robert Hardy. • Gladys's daughter from her first marriage is Joan. After Neville, Gladys married actor
Philip Merivale (see
Merivale). • Joan married actor
Robert Morley (see
Morley). Their daughter is writer and critic
Sheridan Morley. • Sheridan's cousin is actress
Joanna Lumley. His godparents are dramatist
Sewell Stokes (see
Stokes), and actor
Peter Bull (see
Bull). Sheridan's son is Hugo. • Hugo is one of actor
Noël Coward's (see
Coward) many godchildren.
M ;MacArthur • Playwright
Charles MacArthur was married to actress
Helen Hayes. Their adopted son was actor
James MacArthur. • James married actress
Joyce Bulifant (see
Bulifant). He later married actress
Melody Patterson (see
Patterson). His third and last wife was former
LPGA golfer
Helen Beth Duntz. ;MacMillan-Arngrim •
Thor and
Norma MacMillan are the parents of actors
Alison and
Stefan Arngrim. ;Madden •
Good Charlotte's lead singer,
Joel Madden, is the twin brother of the band's lead guitarist,
Benji Madden. • Joel is married to reality star
Nicole Richie (see
Richie). • Nicole is the adoptive daughter of R&B and soul singer
Lionel Richie. •
Benji Madden is married to actress
Cameron Diaz. ;Mailer • Novelist
Norman Mailer has five sons, including producer and screenwriter
Michael Mailer, actor
Stephen Mailer, and actor and screenwriter
John Buffalo Mailer. Michael is the son of his fourth wife, actress
Beverly Bentley. John is the son of his sixth wife, actress and novelist
Norris Church Mailer. ;Mamet-Crouse • Playwright, screenwriter and author
David Mamet was married to actress
Lindsay Crouse, daughter of playwright
Russel Crouse. They are the parents of actress
Zosia Mamet. Mamet is now married to singer-songwriter
Rebecca Pidgeon, and Crouse to television director and editor Rick Blue. ;Mansfield-Duane •
NBC radio personality
Ronnie Mansfield is the father of actress
Maureen Mansfield. • Maureen is the mother of singer-songwriters
Christina Duane and
Erik Carlson. ;Mansfield • Actress
Jayne Mansfield was the mother of
Mariska Hargitay and
Jayne Marie Mansfield, who are both also actresses. ;Mantegna • Actor
Joe Mantegna is the father of actress
Gia Mantegna. ;Marin • Actor and comedian
Cheech Marin is the father of actress
Rikki Marin. ;Markham • Actor
David Markham was married to dramatist Olive Dehn, and their children include actresses
Kika and
Petra Markham, and poet and dramatist
Jehane Markham. • Kika was married to the late
Corin Redgrave (see
Redgrave family) and is stepmother of actress
Jemma Redgrave. • Jehane was married to actor
Roger Lloyd-Pack, and her stepdaughter is actress
Emily Lloyd. ;Marley-Hill • Musician
Bob Marley was the father of
Ziggy,
Julian,
Ky-Mani,
Stephen,
Damian and
Rohan Marley. Rohan is in a long-term relationship with musician
Lauryn Hill. ;Marsh • Actresses
Mae Marsh and her older sister
Marguerite Marsh were sisters. ;Marshall • Director
Garry Marshall is brother of actress and director
Penny Marshall, who was married to
Rob Reiner, son of
Carl Reiner. He is uncle of Rob and Penny's daughter
Tracy Reiner. ;Martin-Halliday-Hagman • Actress
Mary Martin was the mother of actor
Larry Hagman, whose daughter
Heidi Hagman is an actress. Martin was married at one time to theatrical director
Richard Halliday. ;Masekela • South African jazz musician
Hugh Masekela is the father of American TV host
Sal Masekela. ;Mason • Actress
Pamela Mason first married cinematographer
Roy Kellino; she later married actor
James Mason. They are the parents of child actress
Portland Mason and
Morgan Mason, a politician and film producer, who is married to
Belinda Carlisle of
the Go-Go's. James later remarried, to Australian actress
Clarissa Kaye. ;Massey • Actors
Raymond Massey and
Adrianne Allen were the parents of actors
Daniel Massey and
Anna Massey, former wife of actor
Jeremy Brett, with whom she had two children. ;McCarthy-Wahlberg • Actress
Melissa McCarthy married actor
Ben Falcone (see
Falcone), and is the cousin of actress and model
Jenny McCarthy and her sister, professional basketball player
Joanne McCarthy. • Jenny was married to actor
John Asher, son of actor
Edward Mallory (see
Mallory); actress
Joyce Bulifant lived with comedian and actor
Jim Carrey (see
Carrey), and is now married to former
New Kids on the Block band member and actor
Donnie Wahlberg. (See
Wahlberg siblings.) ;McCartney •
The Beatles' member
Paul McCartney is the father of photographer
Mary McCartney, fashion designer
Stella McCartney and musician
James McCartney. ;McGann • Actors
Joe,
Paul,
Mark and
Stephen McGann are brothers. • Stephen is married to screenwriter
Heidi Thomas. • Paul's children include musician
Joseph McGann and actor
Jake McGann. ;McGarrigle •
See Wainwright/McGarrigle singing family. ;
McMahon / McMahon-Levesque •
Roderick "Jess" McMahon was co-founder of Capitol Wrestling Corporation, the company that eventually became today's
World Wrestling Entertainment. • His son
Vincent J. McMahon, who succeeded Jess as the company's manager in 1953, took over ownership after Jess's death in 1954. • WWE is currently run by Vincent J.'s son
Vincent K. McMahon, who serves as chairman and CEO of the company. His wife
Linda served as CEO from 1993 until 2009. • Their son
Shane McMahon served as WWE's Executive Vice President, Global Media until he left in 2010. Their daughter
Stephanie McMahon-Levesque is WWE's Executive Vice President, Creative. Shane's wife
Marissa Mazzola-McMahon is WWE's Director of National Public Relations and owns a film production company. Stephanie's husband is current WWE wrestler Paul Levesque, better known as
Triple H. ;McMillan • Actor
Kenneth McMillan was the father of actress
Alison McMillan. ;McQueen • Actor
Steve McQueen was the father of actor, martial artist and producer
Chad McQueen. Chad's son is actor
Steven R. McQueen (born
Terence Steven McQueen II). ;Mendelssohn-Itzig-Isserles-Meyerbeer • Early Romantic composer
Felix Mendelssohn was, on his father's side, a descendant of
Haskalah Jewish philosopher
Moses Mendelssohn, and, on his mother's side, a descendant of the
Itzig family, which itself traced its ancestry to medieval
Rabbi and
talmudist Moses Isserles of
Kraków, who himself was also a distant ancestor of
grand opera composer
Giacomo Meyerbeer. ;Mercurio • Actor
Gus Mercurio was the father of dancer and actor
Paul Mercurio. ;Merivale • Actor
Philip Merivale was married to actress
Viva Birkett, with whom he has a son, actor
John Merivale. Philip later married actress
Gladys Cooper. • John married actress
Jan Sterling. He later married actress
Dinah Sheridan (see
Hanley). He lived with actress
Vivien Leigh (see
Olivier) until her death. • Jan later married actor
Paul Douglas. Jan's sister, Ann "Mimi" Adriance, was a model and businesswoman. • Paul was also married to actress
Virginia Field (see
Lee). • Gladys was first married to Captain Herbert Buckmaster, with whom she has a daughter, Joan. Gladys then married Sir
Neville Pearson (see
Pearson), a British newspaper publisher. Together, they have one daughter, Sally Pearson (aka Sally Cooper). • Joan married actor
Robert Morley. Their elder son,
Sheridan Morley, became a writer and critic. • Sally married actor
Robert Hardy. • Sheridan's godparents are dramatist
Sewell Stokes (see
Stokes) and actor
Peter Bull (see
Bull). Sheridan has a son, Hugo. Ruth Leon, the critic and television producer, became Sheridan's second wife. Actress
Joanna Lumley is a cousin of Sheridan. • Hugo is one of
Noël Coward's (see
Coward) many godchildren. ;Merrill • Singer
Helen Merrill is the mother of singer-songwriter
Alan Merrill. ;Michalka • Carrie Michalka is a Christian musician and the mother of actresses and singers
Aly Michalka and
AJ Michalka. • Aly married independent film producer
Stephen Ringer. ;Middleton • Actor
Keith Middleton married actress, model and singer-songwriter
Toni Seawright, the first African-American crowned
Miss Mississippi. They are the parents of actors and singer-songwriters
Qaasim Middleton and Khalil Middleton (born Zuhri Khalil Ayele Mandara Middleton). ;Miles •
Bernard Miles, actor, was the father of actress Sally Miles. ;Miller (Arthur) • Playwright
Arthur Miller is the father of director and screenwriter
Rebecca Miller. • Rebecca is married to actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (see
Day-Lewis).
No relation to actors Brian Miller or Jason Miller. ;Miller (Brian) • Actor
Brian Miller and his late wife and actress
Elisabeth Sladen are the parents of actress
Sadie Miller.
No relation to writer Arthur Miller or actor Jason Miller. ;Miller (Jason) •
Jason Miller, actor and playwright, was the father of actor
Jason Patric, by Linda, the daughter of actor and director
Jackie Gleason.
No relation to actor Brian Miller or playwright Arthur Miller. ;Miller (Mark) •
Mark Miller was the father of
Penelope Ann Miller •
Penelope Ann Miller was married to actor
Will Arnett No relation to writer Arthur Miller, actors Jason Miller or Brian Miller. ;Miller (hip hop) • Rapper, actor and entrepreneur
Master P, and rappers and actors
C-Murder and
Silkk the Shocker (real names Percy, Corey and Vyshonne Miller) are all brothers. Their cousin is producer and rapper
Mo B. Dick. • Among Master P's children are rapper and actor
Romeo Miller, and singer and actress
Cymphonique Miller. ;Mills • Actor Sir
John Mills and his wife, playwright
Mary Hayley Bell, are parents of actresses
Hayley Mills and
Juliet Mills, and director Jonathan Mills. Sir John's sister is actress
Annette Mills. • Hayley Mills was married to director
Roy Boulting (see
Boulting). Their son,
Crispian Mills, leads the band
Kula Shaker. She has another son with British actor
Leigh Lawson (see
Lawson). Her partner since 1997 is actor and writer
Firdous Bamji. • Juliet Mills married actor
Maxwell Caulfield (see
Caulfield). Their daughter is actress
Melissa Caulfield (born Melissa Miklenda from Juliet's first marriage). Juliet's godmother is actress
Vivien Leigh (see
Olivier-Leigh) and her godfather is playwright
Noël Coward (see
Veitch-Coward). • Annette's granddaughter is actress
Susie Blake. • Susie married actor
Martin Potter. ;Mitchum-Van Dien • Actors
Robert and
Dorothy Mitchum are the parents of actors
James,
Chris, and
Trini Mitchum. Robert's siblings,
John and
Julie Mitchum, are actors, also. • Chris is the father of actors
Bentley and
Carrie Mitchum. • Carrie was married to actor
Casper Van Dien, who is the great-great-great nephew of author
Mark Twain. Casper and Carrie's children are actors
Cappy (born Casper Robert Van Dien 3rd) and
Grace Van Dien. Casper is now married to actress
Catherine Oxenberg, who is the daughter of
Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. • Catherine was previously married to film producer
Robert Evans (see
Evans). ;Mitte-Carriere • Actor
RJ Mitte is the brother of fellow actress
Lacianne Carriere. ;Miyazaki • Animator and filmmaker and
Hayao Miyazaki is the father of
Gorō, also an animator and filmmaker. ;Moffatt •
Scott,
Dave, Clint and Bob Moffatt were a successful
boy band from the 1990s to 2001. ;Morahan • Director
Christopher Morahan is married to actress
Anna Carteret. They have two daughters: Rebecca, a theatre director, and
Hattie, an actress. ;Montalbán-Young • Actors
Ricardo Montalbán and
Carlos Montalbán are brothers. Ricardo Montalbán was married to Georgiana Young, half-sister of actresses
Loretta Young,
Polly Ann Young and
Sally Blane. ;Montgomery •
Robert Montgomery, actor and director, married actress
Elizabeth Bryan Allen (see
Allen). They are the parents of actress
Elizabeth Montgomery and actor
Robert Montgomery Jr. • Robert was born Henry Montgomery Jr. to Henry Montgomery Sr., the president of the
New York Rubber Company. • Elizabeth Montgomery's first marriage was to New York City socialite Frederick Gallatin Cammann. She was later married to
Academy Award winning actor
Gig Young (see
Young). She then married producer
William Asher (see
Asher), the son of producer E.M. Asher. Film editor Rebecca Asher is their daughter. Her last husband was actor
Robert Foxworth. • William Asher later married
Joyce Bulifant (see
Bulifant). He adopted actor
John Mallory Asher, Joyce's son with actor
Edward Mallory, as his own. • Elizabeth Bryan Allen's sister is actress
Martha-Bryan Allen. ;Moore •
Owen Moore was an early silent star alongside his brothers
Tom,
Matt and
Joe Moore. Tom Moore was married at one time to actress
Alice Joyce. ;Morales-Zerecero-Pierce • Mexican actor
Ruben Morales was married for most of the 1980s to actress and comedian
Aida Pierce. Their son is actor
Ruben Morales Zerecero (Zerecero is the family's actual name on his mother's side). Actress
Lucia Zerecero is a relative of Pierce and Morales Zerecero. ;Morrow • Actor and director
Vic Morrow was the father of producer
Carrie Morrow and her younger sister, actress Jennifer Lee Morrow (better known as
Jennifer Jason Leigh). Jennifer was formerly married to director and filmmaker
Noah Baumbach. ;Mortimer • Barrister and creator of
Rumpole of the Bailey Sir
John Mortimer KC, and his first wife, journalist and novelist
Penelope Mortimer (née Fletcher), are the parents of radio producer
Jeremy Mortimer. Through Penelope's first marriage, John Mortimer is also stepfather to actress
Caroline Mortimer. He later remarried Penelope Gollop, and their daughter is actress
Emily Mortimer. • Emily is married to actor
Alessandro Nivola. ;Mumy • Actor
Bill Mumy is the father of actors Seth and
Liliana Mumy. ;Muñoz • Spanish flamenco guitarist Juan Muñoz is the father of
Pilar, Lola Muñoz and Lucía Muñoz, the founding three members of the vocal group
Las Ketchup, and Rocío Muñoz, who later joined her sisters in the group. ;Murray • Actor and comedian
Bill Murray, and actors John,
Joel and
Brian Doyle-Murray are brothers.
N ;Narz-Kennedy • Game show host
Jack Narz is the older brother of fellow game show host
Tom Kennedy (born James Narz). Jack and another game show host,
Bill Cullen, went on to marry daughters of Oscar-winning composer
Heinz Eric Roemheld. ;Neame-Close • Late actress
Ivy Close and her first husband, photographer Elwin Neame, had two sons: producer and screenwriter
Ronald Neame, and author Derek Neame. • Ronald's son is producer and screenwriter
Christopher Neame. • Christopher's only son is award-winning producer
Gareth Neame. ;Nelson • Bandleader and actor
Ozzie Nelson, and singer and actress
Harriet Nelson (of
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet fame) were the parents of actor and producer
David Nelson and actor and singer
Rick(y) Nelson. • Rick married artist
Kristin Harmon, who is the daughter of former
Heisman Trophy winner and sports broadcaster
Tom Harmon, and actress
Elyse Knox. Kristin's younger brother is actor
Mark Harmon, who is married to actress
Pam Dawber. • Rick and Kristin are the parents of actress
Tracy Nelson, who was married to actor
Bill Moses; twins
Gunnar and
Matthew Nelson (of the band
Nelson), and actor and musician Sam Nelson. ;Neville • The jazz-R&B group
The Neville Brothers originally consisted of brothers
Art,
Aaron, Charles, and
Cyril Neville. • Aaron's son
Ivan Neville has regularly appeared with The Neville Brothers, as well as having his own solo career. ;Newman • Film composers
Alfred,
Emil, and
Lionel Newman were brothers. • Alfred's sons
David and
Thomas Newman are film composers, and his daughter Maria Newman is a musician and composer. •
Randy Newman, a film composer who is better known as a popular singer and songwriter, is the son of another Newman brother, Irving Newman. •
Joey Newman, a film composer, is the son of Lionel's daughter Jenifer Newman, a classical ballerina, and
Joe Frank Carollo, a bass guitarist, best known as a member of
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds. ;Nichols • Actress
Nichelle Nichols is the mother of actor
Kyle Johnson. ;Niven •
David Niven was the father of
David Niven Jr. ;Nolan •
The Nolans were a successful singing act in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band's lineup changed through the years, but the members were all sisters. They included Anne, Denise, Maureen, Linda,
Bernadette and
Coleen. ;Norris • Martial artist, actor and producer
Chuck Norris is the brother of producer and director
Aaron Norris. Chuck's sons are actors
Eric and
Mike Norris; he has a daughter, Dina, who is mother of actress
Gabi Di Ciolli. ;Norwood •
Willie Norwood is the father of R&B artists and actors
Brandy and
Ray J.
O ;O'Herlihy • Actor
Dan O'Herlihy was the brother of television director
Michael O'Herlihy. • Dan's children are architect
Lorcan O'Herlihy, fellow actors
Patricia and
Cormac, and
Gavan O'Herlihy, who is also an accomplished
tennis player. • Patricia's children are
Eilis O'Herlihy, fellow actor
Colin O'Herlihy, and artist, director and photographer
Micaela O'Herlihy. ;O'Neal • Actors
Ryan and
Kevin O'Neal are brothers. Ryan is the father of Oscar-winning actress
Tatum O'Neal and actor
Griffin O'Neal by his first wife,
Joanna Moore. He is the father of former actor and current sports anchor
Patrick by former wife
Leigh Taylor-Young. ;Olivier • Writer
Edith Olivier is the sister of
Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, a British civil servant, and
Herbert Arnould Olivier, an artist. They are the aunt and uncles of actor
Laurence Olivier. • Sydney is the father of the Hon.
Margery Olivier, the Hon.
Brynhild Olivier, the Hon.
Daphne Olivier, and the Hon.
Noël Olivier, a socialite and doctor. • Noël's daughter is author
Angela Richards. • Laurence first married actress
Jill Esmond (see
Esmond). Later, he married actress
Vivien Leigh. Finally, he married actress
Joan Plowright (see
Plowright). With Esmond, he has a son, director
Tarquin Olivier. With Plowright, he has a son, director
Richard Olivier, and actresses
Tamsin Olivier and
Julie Kate Olivier. • Tamsin married actor
Simon Dutton. • Simon was first married to actress
Betsy Brantley (see
Brantley). • Vivien's daughter from her first marriage is actress
Suzanne Farrington. Vivien later was the romantic partner of actor
John Merivale (see
Merivale) for many years until her death. ;Olsen • Actress
Ashley Olsen is the twin sister of actress
Mary-Kate Olsen, and sister of actress
Elizabeth Olsen. ;Origliasso •
Lisa Origliasso and identical twin sister
Jessica Origliasso are actresses, musicians and fashion designers. They make up the duo pop group
The Veronicas. Their older brother,
Julian Origliasso, is their manager and producer. ;Orowitz-O'Neill-Landon • American actor and movie theatre manager Eli Orowitz and his wife, American actress and comedian Peggy O'Neill, were the parents of Eugene Orowitz, who achieved television fame under his stage name of
Michael Landon. • Michael had children in show business from each of his three marriages. Michael adopted the son of his first wife, who went on to become actor
Mark Landon. TV multihyphenate
Michael Landon Jr. and television screenwriter
Christopher B. Landon are Michael's sons from his second marriage. Actress
Jennifer Landon is from Michael's final marriage. ;Orr-Page • American actor
William T. Orr and American actress
Joy Page were the parents of directer
Gregory Orr ;Ortiz de Pinedo • Actor
Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo was the father of actor, comedian, producer and director
Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo, and comedian and writer Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo. Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo's second wife was producer Luigina Tuccio, and Jorge's eldest son, Pedro, is also a producer. ;Osbourne • Rock and roller and "heavy metal" pioneer
Ozzy Osbourne and wife, television personality and agent
Sharon Osbourne, are the parents of actress Aimee Osbourne;
Fashion Police star, singer and actress
Kelly Osbourne; and producer and director
Jack Osbourne. • From a previous marriage, Ozzy is the father of actress Jessica Starshine Osbourne. • Sharon is the daughter of music manager
Don Arden (see
Arden-Osbourne). ;Osment • Former child actor
Haley Joel Osment is the older brother of actress and singer
Emily Osment. Their father is actor
Michael Eugene Osment. ;Osmond • Actors, singers and television hosts
Donny Osmond and
Marie Osmond are brother and sister. Donny formerly sang with his brothers
Alan,
Wayne,
Merrill and
Jay as
The Osmonds; younger brother "Little"
Jimmy Osmond later joined the group as well as having solo success. Some of the brothers still perform together as "The Osmond Brothers" while Alan's sons perform as "The Osmonds Second Generation". • Those sons include Michael Alan, Nathan George, Douglas Kenneth, David Levi, Scott Merrill, Jonathon Pinegar, Alexander Thomas and Tyler James. • Marie's daughter, Rachael Blosil, married
Gabriel Krueger, a fashion designer. ;Oswalt • Comedian
Patton Oswalt was married to writer
Michelle Eileen McNamara until her death in 2016. His brother is YouTube comedy writer
Matthew Oswalt. ;Owens-Haggard-Alan • Country singers
Buck Owens and
Bonnie Owens were the parents of another country singer, Alvis Alan Owens, professionally known as
Buddy Alan. After Buck and Bonnie divorced while their son was growing up, she married another country singer,
Merle Haggard; Alan stayed with his mother.
P ;Paich • Composer and musician
Marty Paich is the father of musician, songwriter and session player
David Paich, a founding member of
Toto. ;Palance • Actor
Jack Palance was the father of actress
Holly Palance. ;Palmer • Actor
Geoffrey Palmer was father of director
Charles Palmer, who was married to actress
Claire Skinner. ;Paltrow • Producer
Bruce Paltrow and his wife, actress
Blythe Danner, are parents of actress
Gwyneth Paltrow. • Gwyneth was married to musician
Chris Martin of
Coldplay. • Blythe is the aunt and Gwyneth the cousin of
The L Word actress
Katherine Moennig. ;Pantoja • Singer
Chiquetete was the cousin of singer
Isabel Pantoja. ;Parks • Photographer and director
Gordon Parks was the father of director
Gordon Parks Jr. ;Patterson • Actress
Melody Patterson is the daughter of Rosemary Wilson, an official in the
Miss Universe contest and a dancer with
Warner Bros., who doubled for
Joan Crawford in several films. Melody was married to actor
James MacArthur (see
MacArthur). Later, she married musician
Vern Miller. ;Patton •
see Chuckle-Patton ;Peck • Actor
Gregory Peck was the father of actors
Cecilia and
Tony Peck, and grandfather of
Ethan Peck. ;Peckinpah • Screenwriter and director
Sam Peckinpah was the uncle of producer
David Peckinpah. Their real names were
David Edward Samuel Ernest Peckinpah Jr. and III, respectively. ;Penhaligon-Munro • British actress
Susan Penhaligon is the mother of fellow actor
Truan Munro. ;Penn • Actress
Eileen Ryan, and writer and director
Leo Penn were the parents of two actors,
Sean and
Chris Penn, and a musician,
Michael Penn. Sean was married first to
Madonna and later to
Robin Wright Penn. • Michael is married to musician
Aimee Mann. ;Penry-Jones • Actor
Peter Penry-Jones was married to actress
Angela Thorne. They have two children, actors Laurence and
Rupert. • Laurence is married to actress
Polly Walker. • Rupert is married to actress
Dervla Kirwan. ;Perkins (Berenson-Perkins) • Actor
Osgood Perkins (born
James Ripley Osgood Robert Perkins Sr.) was the father of actor
Anthony Perkins. • Anthony is the father of actor
Osgood "Oz" Perkins (born
James Ripley Osgood Robert Perkins Jr.) and musician
Elvis Perkins; their mother (Anthony's widow) is
Berry Berenson. Her sister is actress
Marisa Berenson of
Barry Lyndon fame. ;Perry •
The Band Perry consists of three siblings: Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry. They are the niece and nephews of baseball author and journalist
Dayn Perry. • Kimberly is married to baseball player
J. P. Arencibia. ;Pertwee • Playwright, screenwriter and director
Roland Pertwee is the cousin of comedy actor
Bill Pertwee, and father of actor
Jon Pertwee and screenwriter
Michael Pertwee. • Jon's first wife was actress
Jean Marsh. His son from his second marriage is actor
Sean Pertwee. ;Phillips •
John Phillips, most famous as a member of
The Mamas & the Papas, was the father of actress
Mackenzie Phillips by his first wife, Susan Adams; singer
Chynna Phillips by his bandmate and second wife,
Michelle Phillips; and actress and model
Bijou Phillips by his third wife, actress
Geneviève Waïte. Chynna is currently the wife of actor
William Baldwin (
see Baldwin). ;Phoenix • Actors
River,
Joaquin,
Rain, Liberty and
Summer Phoenix are siblings. Summer Phoenix is married to actor
Casey Affleck (
see Affleck family). ;Pine • Actors
Robert Pine and
Gwynne Gilford are the parents of fellow actor
Chris Pine.
Anne Gwynne was the mother of Gwynne Gilford. ;Pleasence • Sir
Donald Pleasence was the father of Miranda, Polly Jo and
Angela Pleasence. ;Plummer-Grimes • Actor
Christopher Plummer and actress
Tammy Grimes were the parents of actress
Amanda Plummer. ;Poole • Brian Poole, the
frontman of
Brian Poole and The Tremeloes, is the father of singer
Karen and
Shelly, who had hits together as
Alisha's Attic. Shelly is married to Ally McErlaine, guitarist from the band
Texas. ;Porcaro • Jazz drummer
Joe Porcaro is the father of musicians, songwriters and session players
Jeff,
Mike and
Steve Porcaro, all members of
Toto. ;Potts • La Tanya Potts is fourth-generation American film pedigree; her relatives include Nyanza Potts Sr., Nyanza Potts Jr. (
The Little Colonel, 1935), Arvert Potts (
Title Big Shot), Mahlon Potts (
King Kong) and Malcolm Potts (''Uncle Tom's Cabin''), who serves as cinema historian, exhibitor and the administrator of the Potts' family motion picture legacy. The family's cinema career began in 1929. Malcolm Potts has dedicated twenty years behind the scenes in casting and producing; he is the Executive Chair of Go2 Studios West. ;Power • Actor
Tyrone Power was the father of
Romina Power,
Taryn Power and
Tyrone Power Jr. ;Presley • Singer
Elvis Presley and wife
Priscilla Presley were parents of pop singer
Lisa Marie Presley; she was the former wife of pop star
Michael Jackson and actor
Nicolas Cage. ;Prinze-Gellar • Comedian and actor
Freddie Prinze was the father of actor
Freddie Prinze Jr., who married actress
Sarah Michelle Gellar. ;Pryor • Comic actor
Richard Pryor was the father of actress
Rain Pryor.
Q ;Quaid •
Dennis Quaid and
Randy Quaid are brothers. Dennis was formerly married to actress
Meg Ryan; they are the parents of fellow actor
Jack Quaid. ;Quinn • Actor
Anthony Quinn was the father of fellow actors
Alex,
Danny,
Francesco,
Lorenzo and
Valentina Quinn. Danny was married to actress
Lauren Holly, who, in turn, was married to comedian and actor
Jim Carrey. ;Quintanilla-Pérez • Musician and producer
A.B. Quintanilla is the older brother of
Tejano music superstar
Selena. Their sister,
Suzette Quintanilla, was the drummer for their band
Selena y Los Dinos. Selena's widower,
Chris Pérez, is a
Grammy-winning guitarist, playing in Selena y Los Dinos.
R ;Reddy • Australian actor Max Reddy is the father of singer
Helen Reddy. Helen's nephew is musical theatre performer
Tony Sheldon. ;Redford • American actor and director
Robert Redford is the father of actress and director
Amy Redford. ;
Redgrave-Richardson-Nero •
Roy Redgrave was the father of
Sir Michael Redgrave. • Sir Michael was the father of siblings
Vanessa,
Lynn and
Corin Redgrave. • Vanessa was married to director
Tony Richardson. Their daughters are
Natasha and
Joely Richardson. Vanessa and Italian actor
Franco Nero's son is screenwriter and director
Carlo Nero. • Natasha was first married to producer
Robert Fox; her widower is actor
Liam Neeson, with whom she had two sons. • Joely was previously married to producer
Tim Bevan. • Lynn was married to actor and director
John Clark. • Corin's widow is actress
Kika Markham and his daughter is actress
Jemma Redgrave. ;Refn • Painter Holger Refn is the father of film editor
Anders Refn and director Peter Refn. • Anders married cinematographer Vibeke Winding (see
Winding); their son is director
Nicolas Winding Refn. • Nicolas married actress
Liv Corfixen (see
Corfixen). ;Reiner • Comedian
Carl Reiner was the father of actor and director
Rob Reiner, who was married to
Penny Marshall, sister of
Garry Marshall. Carl's daughter is author and playwright
Annie Reiner. Rob Reiner's and Penny Marshall's daughter is actress
Tracy Reiner, who is Carl Reiner's eldest grandchild. ;Richie • R&B and soul singer
Lionel Richie is the adoptive father of reality star
Nicole Richie and biological father of model
Sofia Richie. • Nicole is married to
Good Charlotte's lead singer,
Joel Madden (see
Madden). • Joel's twin brother,
Benji Madden, is the lead guitarist of Good Charlotte. He is married to actress
Cameron Diaz. ;Ritchie •
Kid Rock (born Robert James Ritchie) is a musician. His sister,
Jill Ritchie, is an actress. • Kid Rock was once married to actress and
Playboy model
Pamela Anderson. ;Ring • James H. Ring was a leading comedian of the Boston Museum company. •
Blanche Ring, his granddaughter, was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions. Four generations of her ancestors were Shakespearean actors. She married an American stage and film actor,
Charles Winninger. • Her sister, Julie, is a stage actress who married actor Al Sutherland (see
Sutherland). Their son is
A. Edward Sutherland, who became a film director. • Their sister, Frances, married
Thomas Meighan, the popular stage and later silent film actor. • Their brother,
Cyril Ring, was a silent film actor and husband of actress and dancer,
Charlotte Greenwood. •
Jane Ring Frank, their great-niece, is a conductor. ;Riperton-Rudolph-Marie • Singer
Minnie Riperton and musician
Richard Rudolph are the parents of actress and comedian
Maya Rudolph. Maya has a child with director and producer
Paul Thomas Anderson. ;Ritter • Country singer
Tex Ritter was the father of actor
John Ritter. • John and his first wife, actress
Nancy Morgan, are the parents of actor
Jason Ritter. John's widow is actress
Amy Yasbeck. ;Robards • Actor
Jason Robards Sr. is the father of
Jason Robards Jr. • Jason Jr. was once married to actress
Lauren Bacall (see
Bacall). He is the father of actors Jason Robards III with his first wife, Eleanor Pittman, and actor
Sam Robards with Bacall. • Lauren was the wife of actor
Humphrey Bogart. ;Robert • Actor
Yves Robert was first married to actress
Rosy Varte, and, with her, has a son, actor Jean-Denis Robert. He then married actress
Danièle Delorme (born Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard; see
Girard). • Rosy later married actor and director Pierre Badel. ;Roberts • Siblings
Julia Roberts,
Lisa Roberts Gillan and
Eric Roberts are all actors. • Eric is the father of actress
Emma Roberts. ;Robinson • Actor
Matt Robinson was the father of fellow actress
Holly Robinson. Holly is married to former football player turned broadcaster
Rodney Peete. ;Robinson-Clark •
We the Kings lead singer and YouTube personality
Travis Robinson-Clark is married to actress and model Jenny Robinson-Clark. Travis's brother, musician
Taylor Clark, is the former We the Kings drummer. ;Rocco • Actor
Alex Rocco is the adoptive father of motion picture director
Marc Rocco. ;Rodgers-Guettel • Composer
Richard Rodgers was the father of author
Mary Rodgers, who was the mother of composer
Adam Guettel. ;Ronson-Jones •
Mick Jones of
Foreigner is the stepfather of producer and DJ
Mark Ronson, fashion designer
Charlotte Ronson, and DJ and singer
Samantha Ronson. ;Ross-Gordy-Naess •
Motown diva
Diana Ross of
The Supremes is the mother of singer
Rhonda Ross Kendrick (through her marriage to
Berry Gordy); actress
Tracee Ellis Ross and model Chudney Ross (via
Robert Ellis Silberstein); and later married and divorced
Arne Næss Jr., with whom she had actor
Evan Ross, and was the stepmother of pop singer
Leona Naess. ;Rossellini-Lindström-Bergman • Actress
Isabella Rossellini is the child of film director
Roberto Rossellini and actress
Ingrid Bergman. News anchorwoman
Pia Lindström, the daughter of Ingrid from her first marriage, is the half-sister of Isabella. ;Rosson • Actress
Helene Rosson was a noted silent screen actress. Her brothers were cinematographer
Harold Rosson (also known as Hal Rosson), and directors
Arthur Rosson and
Richard Rosson. ;Rouse-Michaels • Screenwriter and director
Russell Rouse and his wife actress
Beverly Michaels were the parents of editor
Christopher Rouse.
S ;Sagal • Director
Boris Sagal was the father of actors
Jean,
Joe,
Katey and
Liz Sagal. Boris's second wife was the dancer and actress
Marge Champion, who was previously married to choreographer, actor and dancer
Gower Champion. ;Salkind • Producer
Alexander Salkind was the father of fellow producer
Ilya Salkind. Ilya was previously married to actress Skye Aubrey, the daughter of actress
Phyllis Thaxter. ;Samuel • Musician
Seal (born Olusegun Adeola Akarbi Samuel) is the brother of Jeymes Samuel, better known as
The Bullitts, a singer-songwriter. He married supermodel
Heidi Klum. • Heidi has a child with Italian
Formula One team manager
Flavio Briatore. ;Sánchez • Guitarist
Antonio Sánchez Pecino was father of guitarist
Ramón de Algeciras, singer
Pepe de Lucía and guitarist
Paco de Lucía. • Pepe's daughter is singer
Malú, who has a daughter with politician
Albert Rivera. • Paco's godson is the son of singer
Alejandro Sanz, who was married to actress and model
Jaydy Michel. • Alejandro's goddaughter is the daughter of singer
David Bisbal, who is married to actress
Rosanna Zanetti. ;Santiago-Casanova • Guitarron player
Natividad Santiago was the father of fellow guitarron player
Enrique Santiago. Both have been members of the
Vargas de Tecalitlan. Santiago's daughter is comedian and singer
Cessy Casanova. ;Sarafian • Film director
Deran Sarafian and scriptwriter
Tedi Sarafian are the sons of
Richard C. Sarafian, another film director. They are nephews of director and screenwriter
Robert Altman. ;Sariñana • Film director
Fernando Sariñana is the father of actress and singer
Ximena Sariñana. ;Savage • Siblings
Fred,
Ben and Kala Savage are all actors. ;Savage-Youngs • Actor
John Savage (born John Youngs) is the brother of fellow actors
Jim and
Gail Youngs. John's daughter is actress
Jennifer Youngs. ;Savalas-Adams-Sheridan • Brothers
Telly and
George Savalas were actors. Telly was married to actress Sally Adams, whose stage names were Dani Sheridan and Sally Sheridan. • Telly's daughter,
Candace Savalas, and his stepdaughter,
Nicolette Sheridan, are actresses. ;Sawalha • Actor
Nadim Sawalha is the father of actresses
Nadia and
Julia Sawalha. ;Schneider-King • Actor and comedian
Rob Schneider is the brother of producer John Schneider. • Rob was once married to former model
London King, with whom he has a daughter, musician
Elle King (born Tanner Elle Schneider). He later married television producer
Patricia Azarcoya Arce. ;Schöbel-Doerk-Lacasa • Singer and actor
Frank Schöbel was married to singer and actress
Chris Doerk, and then in a long-term relationship with singer and artist
Aurora Lacasa; their daughter is singer and actress
Dominique Lacasa. ;Scott • Directors and producers
Ridley and
Tony were brothers. ;Scott-Dewhurst • Twice-married and -divorced actors
George C. Scott and
Colleen Dewhurst had two sons, Alexander Scott and actor
Campbell Scott. ;Seals-Duncan • Musicians Jim Seals, of
Seals and Crofts, and
Dan Seals, of
England Dan & John Ford Coley, who also had a solo career, are brothers. They are cousins to country singer, guitarist and songwriter
Troy Seals, who, in turn, is the uncle of country singer
Brady Seals. Another country artist,
Johnny Duncan, was a cousin to Jim and Dan. ;Sellers • Actors
Britt Ekland and
Peter Sellers are the parents of actress
Victoria Sellers. ;Selznick •
Lewis J. Selznick is the father of film producer and screenwriter
David O. Selznick and film producer
Myron Selznick. • David married theatrical producer
Irene Mayer (see
Mayer), daughter of
Louis B. Mayer, a film producer. They had two sons, Lewis Jeffrey and Daniel Selznick, both of whom also became film producers. He later married the actress
Jennifer Jones. • Jennifer was previously married to actor
Robert Walker (see
Walker). They have two sons, actors
Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Walker. After Selznick, Jones married industrialist
Norton Simon. • Daniel married Susan Warms Dryfoos, daughter of
Orvil E. Dryfoos, publisher of
The New York Times. • Myron married silent film actress
Marjorie Daw. • Marjorie was previously married to director and actor
A. Edward Sutherland (see
Sutherland). ;Severn •
Clifford Severn,
Raymond Severn,
Christopher Severn,
Yvonne Severn, Venetia Severn,
William Severn,
Ernest Severn and
Winston Severn were siblings. ;Seymour • Rosemary Nest Scott-Ellis (see
Ellis) and George Fitzroy Seymour (cadet branch of
Marquess of Hertford and
Duke of Somerset of Thrumpton Hall) are the parents of literary critic and author
Miranda Seymour. • Miranda married the novelist and historian
Andrew Sinclair (see
Sinclair) and had a son, Merlin. Her second marriage was to
Anthony Gottlieb, then executive editor of
The Economist and author of a history of Western philosophy. ;Shakur • Rapper
Tupac Shakur has several family members who were members of the
Black Panthers:
Mutulu Shakur, his step-father;
Assata Shakur, his step-aunt;
Billy Garland, his biological father; and
Afeni Shakur, his mother. • His stepbrother,
Mopreme Shakur, is a rapper. ;Shankar-Jones • Renowned sitar player
Ravi Shankar is the younger brother of Indian classical dancer
Uday Shankar. • Uday was the father of Bengali musician
Ananda Shankar and actress and dancer
Mamata Shankar. Ananda's widow is Indian dancer and choreographer
Tanusree Shankar. • Ravi was married to Indian classical musician
Annapurna Devi, daughter of renowned instrumentalist and teacher
Allauddin Khan. He is the father of musician and composer
Shubhendra Shankar, American jazz-pop singer
Norah Jones and British sitar player
Anoushka Shankar. ;Shatner-Gretsch • Actor
William Shatner is the father of actress
Melanie Shatner, who is married to actor
Joel Gretsch. ;Shaughnessy • Screenwriter
Alfred Shaughnessy is the father of actors
Charles Shaughnessy and
David Shaughnessy. ;Shaw • Actor and novelist
Robert Shaw was the father of actor
Ian Shaw. ;Shaw brothers • Movie studio executives
Run Run and his third brother
Runme Shaw were owners of
Shaw Brothers Studio and
Shaw Organisation. The other brothers,
Runje and
Runde, were also involved in the movie industry. ;Shu • Actress and singer
Barbie Shu is the sister of
Dee Shu; they had a notable pop career together. ;Shue •
Andrew and
Elisabeth Shue are actors. She is married to director
Davis Guggenheim (
An Inconvenient Truth), whose father
Charles Guggenheim was also a documentary-maker. Andrew is married to news journalist
Amy Robach. ;Sheen •
see Estévez ;Shrapnel • English actor
John Shrapnel is the father of actors
Lex Shrapnel and Tom Shrapnel, and writer Joe Shrapnel. ;Siemaszko • Actor
Casey Siemaszko is the older sister of actress
Nina Siemaszko. ;Simon • Jazz writer and musician
George T. Simon is the uncle of singer-songwriter
Carly Simon. • Carly's first husband was singer-songwriter
James Taylor (see
Taylor). • James and Carly are the parents of musicians Ben and
Sally Taylor. ;Simon-Brickell • Singer-songwriter
Paul Simon is the father of fellow singer-songwriter
Harper Simon by his first marriage to photographer Peggy Harper. • His second marriage was to actress and author
Carrie Fisher, the daughter of singer
Eddie Fisher and actress
Debbie Reynolds. • His third and current marriage is to former
New Bohemians lead singer-songwriter
Edie Brickell. They have three children: Adrian, Lulu and Gabriel. Edie and her stepson Harper have a band called
The Heavy Circles. ;Simpson • Actress, fashion designer and singer
Jessica Simpson was married to singer, producer and actor
Nick Lachey. Jessica's sister is actress and singer
Ashlee Simpson. • Lachey is now married to actress
Vanessa Minnillo. • Ashlee was married to
Fall Out Boy bassist
Pete Wentz. ;Sinatra • Singer and actor
Frank Sinatra was the father of actor and singer
Frank Sinatra Jr., and actress and singer
Nancy Sinatra. • Sinatra was also married to actresses
Ava Gardner and
Mia Farrow. ;Sinden • Actor Sir
Donald Sinden, whose younger brother is the actor Leon Sinden (whose partner was the actor
Walter Carr), was married to the late actress Diana Mahony. They had two children: actor
Jeremy Sinden, who was married to the actress Delia Lindsay, and actor and film director
Marc Sinden, who was married to film producer
Jo Gilbert. The Edwardian actress
Topsy Sinden and her brother actor Bert Sinden were cousins. ;Singer • Musician
Jacques Singer is the father of actors
Marc and
Lori Singer. • Jacques is the uncle, and Marc and Lori are the cousins, of film director
Bryan Singer. ;Skarsgård • Swedish actor
Stellan Skarsgård is the father of the actors
Alexander,
Gustaf,
Bill,
Valter and
Kolbjörn Skarsgård. ;Slezak • Opera singer
Leo Slezak is the father of actor
Walter Slezak. • Walter's daughter is actress
Erika Slezak. ;Smallbone-Fink • Contemporary Christian singer Rebecca Smallbone, better known by her stage name,
Rebecca St. James, is the older sister of fellow contemporary Christian artists
Joel and Luke Smallbone, who perform as the band
For King & Country. In addition, she is the wife of Jacob Fink, bass guitarist of
Foster the People. ;Smith • Rapper and actor
Will Smith is the father of actor Trey Smith by his first wife, actress Sheree Zampino, and actors
Jaden and
Willow Smith by his second and current wife, actress
Jada Pinkett Smith. ;Smollett • Actor and photographer
Jussie Smollett is the older brother of actors
Jurnee Smollett and
Jake Smollett. ;Sorvino • Actor
Paul Sorvino is the father of actress
Mira Sorvino. ;Spacek-Fisk • Actress
Sissy Spacek is the mother of actress
Schuyler Fisk. ;Spall • Actor
Timothy Spall is the father of actor
Rafe Spall. • Rafe is married to actress
Elize du Toit. ;Spelling • Producer
Aaron Spelling was married to actress
Carolyn Jones. He then married author and television personality
Candy Spelling. He and Candy are the parents of actress
Tori Spelling and actor
Randy Spelling. • Carolyn later married producer
Herbert Greene. • Tori was once married to actor and playwright
Charlie Shanian. She is now married to actor
Dean McDermott. • McDermott was once married to actress and singer
Mary Jo Eustace. ;Spielberg-Capshaw • Director
Steven Spielberg married first actress
Amy Irving, and is now husband of actress and producer
Kate Capshaw. Spielberg and Capshaw are the parents of actress and musician
Sasha Spielberg. • Kate's daughter from her previous marriage is actress
Jessica Capshaw. ;Sprouse •
Dylan and Cole Sprouse are actors and twin brothers, who came to fame as children in a popular
Disney Channel sitcom,
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. ;Stallone • Actor, writer and hairstylist
Frank Stallone Sr. is the father of actors
Sylvester Stallone and
Frank Stallone with first wife and astrologer
Jackie Stallone. • Sylvester is the father of actor
Sage Stallone with wife Sasha Czack. He later married model and actress
Brigitte Nielsen. He then married model
Jennifer Flavin. • Sage married actress
Starlin Wright. ;Standing • Actor
Herbert Standing is the father of economist
Guy Standing, and actors
Wyndham Standing,
Percy Standing,
Jack Standing and
Herbert Standing Jr. • Herbert Jr.'s daughter is actress
Joan Standing. ;Starkey/Starr • Musician
Ringo Starr of
The Beatles is married to
Barbara Bach and is the father of musician
Zak Starkey (Starr's legal surname). ;Stauffer • Actor
Jack Stauffer was married to actress
Renne Jarrett, with whom he has a son, actor
Drew Stauffer. • Renne later married film director
Bruce Bilson (see
Bilson). ;Stefani • Animator and musician
Eric Stefani is older brother of singer
Gwen Stefani, who was married to fellow singer
Gavin Rossdale. ;Stephens • Actor Sir
Robert Stephens was the father of actors
Chris Larkin and
Toby Stephens through his third wife Dame
Maggie Smith. He later married actress
Patricia Quinn, whose nephew is rock musician
Jonny Quinn. Smith later remarried, to playwright and screenwriter
Beverley Cross. • Toby is married to actress
Anna-Louise Plowman. ;Sterling/Sothern/Jeffries • Actor
Robert Sterling and his first wife actress
Ann Sothern were the parents of actress
Tisha Sterling. Sterling's second marriage was to his
Topper co-star
Anne Jeffreys. ;Stewart • Singer
Rod Stewart has been married several times, and has many children. He was first married to actress
Alana Stewart (
née Collins). Together, they have a daughter, model
Kimberly Stewart, and a son, reality star
Sean Stewart. • Kimberly has a daughter with actor
Benicio del Toro (see
del Toro). • Alana was also previously married to actor
George Hamilton. They have one child, actor
Ashley Hamilton. • Rod then began a relationship with model
Kelly Emberg. They have a daughter, model and singer
Ruby Stewart. • Rod's second marriage was to model
Rachel Hunter. They have two children. • Rod's third marriage is to model
Penny Lancaster. They also have two children. ;Stiller •
Anne Meara and husband
Jerry Stiller are parents to son
Ben Stiller and daughter Amy Stiller. Ben is married to actress
Christine Taylor. ;Stills • American rock musician
Stephen Stills and his former wife, French singer-songwriter
Véronique Sanson, are the parents of musician
Chris Stills. ;Stockwell • Actors
Nina Olivette and
Harry Stockwell were the parents of actors
Dean and
Guy Stockwell. ;Stoppard • Playwright, screenwriter and critic Sir
Tom Stoppard is the father of actor
Ed Stoppard. ;Streisand-Gould-Brolin • Actress
Barbra Streisand was married to actor
Elliott Gould, with whom she had one child, actor
Jason Gould. She is now married to actor
James Brolin. • James Brolin is the father of actor
Josh Brolin by his first marriage. His second marriage was to actress
Jan Smithers. • Josh Brolin was married to actress
Diane Lane. • Barbra's half sister is actress and singer
Roslyn Kind. ;Streep-Gummer • Actress
Meryl Streep is married to sculptor
Don Gummer, and their children include musician
Henry Gummer and actresses
Mamie and
Grace Gummer. Streep is also the sister-in-law of actress
Maeve Kinkead. ;Sturges-Close-Merrill-Robertson • Director
Preston Sturges married Eleanor Post Close, the daughter of Edward Bennett Close and Marjorie Meriwether Post. Edward Bennett Close, by his second wife, became the grandfather of actress
Glenn Close. Marjorie Post, by her second husband, was the mother of actress
Dina Merrill, whose second husband was late Oscar-winning actor
Cliff Robertson. ;Sumner • Rock musician
Sting (real name Gordon Sumner) has been married to actress
Frances Tomelty, and actress and producer
Trudie Styler. Among his children with Tomelty is musician and entrepreneur
Joe Sumner; among his children with Styler are actress
Mickey Sumner and musician
Eliot Sumner. ;Sutherland •
Donald Sutherland was the father of actors
Kiefer (by his second wife, Canadian actress
Shirley Douglas), and
Rossif and
Angus (both by his third wife, actress
Francine Racette). ;Sutherland • Director and actor
A. Edward Sutherland is the nephew of both actors
Blanche Ring (see
Ring) and
Thomas Meighan. He was first married to actress
Marjorie Daw. Later, he married actress
Louise Brooks. • Marjorie was previously married to actor
Myron Selznick (see
Selznick). ;Swift •
Clive Swift is the brother of actor
David Swift. Clive is the father of TV gardener
Joe Swift, whose mother is
Margaret Drabble. Margaret is the sister of writer
A. S. Byatt. David is the father of
Julia Swift.
T ;Talmadge •
Norma and
Constance Talmadge were 1920s movie stars. Their sister was actress
Natalie Talmadge, who was the first wife of actor
Buster Keaton (see
Keaton).
They are not related to Hollywood stuntman Richard Talmadge. ;Tamblyn • Actors
Eddie Tamblyn and Sally Aileen Tamblyn were married, and their sons were actor
Russ Tamblyn, and singer and musician Larry Tamblyn of
The Standells. • One of Russ's children is actress
Amber Tamblyn. ;Tarbuck • English comedian
Jimmy Tarbuck is the father of presenter and actress
Liza Tarbuck. ;Taurog-Cooper • Director
Norman Taurog was the uncle of actor and director
Jackie Cooper. ;Taylor • Singer-songwriter
James Taylor (see
Taylor) has four musical siblings with recorded albums:
Alex,
Livingston,
Kate and Hugh Taylor. James was once married to singer-songwriter
Carly Simon (see
Simon). • James and Carly are the parents of musicians Ben and
Sally Taylor. ;Thicke • Actor and singer-songwriter
Alan Thicke is the brother of composer
Todd Thicke. • Alan's sons are actor Brennan Thicke and singer
Robin Thicke. Alan used to be married to singer
Gloria Loring. • Robin married actress
Paula Patton. ;Thomas-Donahue • Comic actor
Danny Thomas is the father of actress
Marlo Thomas, film producer
Tony Thomas and former actress Terre Thomas. • Marlo has been the wife of talk-show host
Phil Donahue since 1980. ;Thompson-Tilbury • English dancer, actress and producer
Lydia Thompson was the mother of stage and screen actress
Zeffie Tilbury. ;Thompson • Actor
Eric Thompson is married to actress
Phyllida Law, and they have two daughters, actresses
Emma and
Sophie Thompson. • Sophie is married to actor
Richard Lumsden. • Emma was married to
Kenneth Branagh and later to
Greg Wise. ;Tisdale • Actresses
Ashley and
Jennifer Tisdale are sisters. ;Tom • Soap opera actress
Heather Tom is the elder sister of twins
David (her frequent co-star) and
Nicholle Tom. ;Travolta •
Ellen,
Joey, Ann,
Margaret, Sam and
John Travolta are siblings. • Ellen is married to actor
Jack Bannon. • John was married to actress and model
Kelly Preston. ;Trippy • YouTube personality and
We the Kings band bassist
Charles Trippy is son of musician and former
Gregg Allman Band (see
Allman) percussionist
Chaz Trippy. Charles was formerly married to YouTube personality and travel vlogger
Alli Speed. His sister,
Melissa Trippy, is also a YouTube personality. ;Troughton • Actor
Patrick Troughton was the father of actors
David and
Michael Troughton. • David is the father of actor
Sam Troughton and cricketer
Jim Troughton. • Actor
Harry Melling is the son of Patrick's elder daughter, Joanna. ;Troup • Actors
Bobby Troup and
Julie London were the parents of fellow actresses
Cynnie,
Ronne and
Kelly Troup. ;Tsang • Television presenter, comedian, actor and director
Eric Tsang is the father of actor
Derek Tsang, and singer and actress
Bowie Tsang. ;Tse • Producer and actor
Patrick Tse, and former wife actress Deborah Lee were the parents of actor and singer
Nicholas Tse, who was married to actress and
Cantopop singer
Cecilia Cheung. ;Tyler •
Playboy model
Bebe Buell and her partner, rock musician
Todd Rundgren, raised
Liv Tyler. Liv later found out that
Steven Tyler of
Aerosmith was her biological father; he is also the father of model
Mia Tyler. Liv was married to musician
Royston Langdon. They are unrelated to the
Bonnie Tyler family.
V ; Vale • Actor, comedian and singer
Raul Vale was married to actress and singer
Angelica Maria. • Their daughter,
Angelica Vale, is an actress, comedian and singer. ;Van Dyke-Nance • Actors
Dick and
Jerry Van Dyke are brothers. • Dick's son
Barry Van Dyke is an actor, writer and producer. Barry's son
Shane is a screenwriter, actor and director. • Jerry's daughter Kelly Jean Van Dyke was an adult film actress, who was married to actor
Jack Nance. • Dick's grandson Carey Van Dyke is an actor. ;Van Patten-Balsam-Dugan • Actors
Dick and
Joyce Van Patten are siblings. Director
Tim Van Patten is their half-brother. • Dick is the father of actors
Vince, Nels and James Van Patten. • Joyce and her first husband, actor
Martin Balsam, are the parents of actress
Talia Balsam. Joyce's second husband was actor and director
Dennis Dugan. ;Van Peebles • Film writer and director
Melvin Van Peebles is the father of fellow director (and actor)
Mario Van Peebles. ;Vernon • Actor
John Vernon was the father of actress
Kate Vernon. ;Vertue • Media executive and producer
Beryl Vertue is the mother of producer
Sue Vertue, who is married to screenwriter
Steven Moffat. ;Vidal • Actresses
Lisa,
Christina and Tanya Vidal are sisters. ;Voight-Jolie-Haven-Taylor • Actor
Jon Voight is the father of actress
Angelina Jolie and director
James Haven, by his former wife,
Marcheline Bertrand. Jon Voight's brother is songwriter
Chip Taylor. ;
Von Erich • Professional wrestler and promoter Jack Adkisson, better known as
Fritz Von Erich, was the father of five sons, who followed in his footsteps as wrestlers under the Von Erich name:
Kevin,
David,
Kerry,
Mike and
Chris. The family is famous for its supposed "curse" – although Jack lived until his natural death, his eldest son, Jack Jr., was killed in a freak childhood accident; David died in disputed circumstances; and Mike, Chris and Kerry all took their own lives. • Kevin's son Ross and Kerry's daughter Lacey are wrestlers, who perform under the Von Erich name.
W ;Wagner • Actor
Jack Wagner was married to actress
Kristina Wagner. ;Wahlberg •
Donnie Wahlberg is best known as a member of pop group
New Kids on the Block and as an actor. Rapper-turned-actor
Mark Wahlberg (not to be confused with actor and talk-show host
Mark L. Walberg) is his brother. Actors
Robert Wahlberg and
Paul Wahlberg are also their brothers. They are the sons of actress
Alma McPeck Wahlberg Conroy. • Donnie is married to actress and model
Jenny McCarthy (see
McCarthy). • Mark is married to actress and model
Rhea Durham. ;Wainwright-McGarrigle-Roche •
Loudon Wainwright III (son of
Time columnist and
Life editor
Loudon Wainwright Jr.), his sister
Sloan Wainwright, son
Rufus Wainwright and daughter
Martha Wainwright are all singer-songwriters. Rufus and Martha are the children of Loudon's former wife
Kate McGarrigle, of the singing sisters
Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Their sister
Jane McGarrigle is a composer, while Anna's daughter Lily Lanken (by her husband, journalist
Dane Lanken, who has sung with the McGarrigles) is a singer. Loudon's second daughter,
Lucy Wainwright Roche, whose mother is
Suzzy Roche of singing sisters
The Roches, is another singer-songwriter. ;Walker • Broadway actress
Charlotte Walker was the mother of character actress
Sara Haden. ;Walker-Jones • Actor
Robert Walker and his wife
Jennifer Jones were the parents of actors
Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Walker. ;Wanamaker • Actor and director
Sam Wanamaker was the father of actress
Zoë Wanamaker. ;Warner-Hauser-Sperling • Brothers
Harry,
Albert,
Sam and
Jack Warner founded and directed for
Warner Brothers studio. • Actor
Cole Hauser is the son of
Wings Hauser, another actor, who is the son of screenwriter
Dwight Hauser. Cole's maternal great-grandfather was film mogul
Harry Warner, and his maternal grandfather was
Milton Sperling, a Hollywood screenwriter and independent film producer. ;Warren-Alba • Actor
Michael Warren is the father of actor and producer
Cash Warren, whose wife is actress
Jessica Alba. ;Waterman • Actor and singer
Dennis Waterman is the father of actress
Hannah Waterman by his second wife, actress
Patricia Maynard. His third wife was actress
Rula Lenska. ;Waterston • Actor
Sam Waterston is the father of actor
James Waterston and actress
Katherine Waterston. ;
Watson •
Bobs Watson,
Delmar Watson,
Harry Watson,
Coy Watson Jr., Vivian Watson, Gloria Watson, Louise Watson, Billy Watson and Garry Watson were siblings. ;Watling • Actor
Jack Watling and actress Patricia Hicks are the parents of actresses
Dilys Watling and
Deborah Watling, and actor
Giles Watling. ;Way • Brothers
Gerard and Mikey Way are singers in
My Chemical Romance. ;
Wayans •
Damon Wayans,
Dwayne Wayans, Elvira Wayans,
Keenen Ivory Wayans,
Kim Wayans,
Marlon Wayans,
Nadia Wayans,
Shawn Wayans and
Chaunté Wayans are siblings. ;Wayne • Actor
John Wayne was the father of actors
Patrick Wayne and
Ethan Wayne. ;Weinstein • Producer
Harvey Weinstein and brother
Bob Weinstein founded Miramax and The Weinstein Company. ;Weisser • Actor
Norbert Weisser is the father of fellow actor
Morgan Weisser. ;Weissmuller • Actor
Johnny Weissmuller is the father of
Johnny Weissmuller Jr. ;Westcott Actor
Gordon Westcott was the father of actress
Helen Westcott. ;West-Scales • Actor
Lockwood West is the father of actor
Timothy West. • Timothy married actress
Prunella Scales and their son is actor and director
Samuel West. ;Whitmore • Actor
James Whitmore is the father of fellow actor
James Whitmore Jr. ;Wilcox • Documentary maker and producer
Desmond Wilcox was married to journalist-turned-presenter
Esther Rantzen. Their daughter
Rebecca is a producer and television presenter. ;Wilde • Singer-songwriter
Marty Wilde, and singer and actress
Joyce Baker are the parents of composer, performer and producer
Ricky Wilde, and singer and actress
Kim Wilde. ;Williams (Hank) •
Hank Williams was a leading figure in country music history. • Hank's son Randall Hank, better known as
Hank Williams Jr., has had an enormously successful country career of his own. • Hank Jr.'s children
Hank Williams III (real first name Shelton) and
Holly Williams are both successful country musicians. •
Jett Williams, the posthumously born daughter of Hank and half-sister to Hank Jr., had modest success in country music. ;Williams (John) • Composer and conductor
John Williams, and actress and singer
Barbara Ruick are the parents of
Toto's lead singer
Joseph Williams and drummer Mark T. Williams. John is the brother of percussionist Don Williams, who has performed on many of John's film scores, and the son of jazz drummer
Johnny Williams. Barbara Ruick is the daughter of late actors
Melville Ruick and
Lurene Tuttle. ;Willis-Moore • Actor
Bruce Willis married actress
Demi Moore, and their daughter is actress
Rumer Willis. •
Demi Moore later married actor
Ashton Kutcher. ;Wilson/Love •
Murry Wilson, a musician and record producer, was the father of
Brian,
Dennis and
Carl Wilson. The three sons, plus their first cousin
Mike Love, were members of
The Beach Boys. • Brian and his first wife, singer
Marilyn Rovell, are the parents of
Carnie and
Wendy Wilson, singers who formed two-thirds of the vocal group
Wilson Phillips. ;Wilson • Actors
Andrew Wilson,
Owen Wilson and
Luke Wilson are brothers, and unrelated to The Beach Boys family. ;
Winans • David and Dolores Winans,
gospel music singers, recorded both together and separately as "Pop" and "Mom" Winans, and became progenitors of a highly prolific musical family. The following musicians can trace their family roots to Pop and Mom Winans: • The second through fifth sons of Pop and Mom –
Ronald,
Marvin,
Carvin and Michael Winans – are best known as the gospel group
The Winans. Marvin's former wife,
Vickie Winans, has had a successful music career, and Michael has recorded with his wife Regina. • Four sons of The Winans – Marvin Jr., Carvin Jr., Michael Jr. and another son of Carvin Sr., Juan Winans – have recorded together as Winans Phase 2. •
Mario Winans is Vickie's son from her prior marriage to Ronald Brown. • Daniel Winans, a gospel singer and producer, is Mom and Pop's sixth son. • The seventh Winans son,
Benjamin "BeBe" Winans, and the eighth child and oldest daughter,
Priscilla "CeCe" Winans, have performed both as
BeBe & CeCe Winans and as solo artists. • The two youngest of Pop and Mom's children, Angie and Debbie Winans, have recorded both together and as soloists. ;Winding (Vinding) • Author and journalist
Andreas Vinding with his wife, actress
Agis Winding, has a son, journalist
Ole Vinding. • Actor, producer and author
Thomas Winding is the son of Ole. • Thomas was married five times. With his former wife, cinematographer
Vibeke Winding, he is the father of singer
Kasper Winding and actress
Sara Winding. With Lulu Gauguin (see
Gauguin), he has a daughter, singer
Alberte. • Vibeke later married film editor and director
Anders Refn (see
Refn). They are the parents of director and screenwriter
Nicolas Winding Refn. • Nicolas is married to actress
Liv Corfixen (see
Corfixen). • Kasper was first married to actress
Brigitte Nielsen; their son is television personality
Julian Winding. He was later married to actress
Simone Bendix. With writer and photographer
Pia Tryde, he has a son, screenwriter
Oliver Winding. • Nielsen was married to actor
Sylvester Stallone (see
Stallone), director and photographer
Sebastian Copeland (see
Casadesus), television writer
Raoul Meyer, and producer
Mattia Dessi. • Alberte was married to singer and composer
January Rørdam. She is now married to guitarist
Andreas Fuglebæk. ;Wong • Brothers
Michael and
Russell Wong are both actors. ;Woodward •
Edward Woodward was the father of actors
Tim and
Peter Woodward. ::
NOTE: The family is unrelated to American actress Joanne Woodward ;Wynn-Williams • Actor
Ed Wynn was the father of actor
Keenan Wynn, whose sons are screenwriters
Ned and
Tracy Wynn. Keenan's daughter Hilda was married to actor and musician
Paul Williams.
Y ;York-Wells •
Susannah York is the mother of
Orlando Wells. ;Young • Actor
Gig Young, born Byron Elsworth Barr, was married to
Sophie Rosenstein, the resident drama coach at
Paramount, actress
Elizabeth Montgomery (see
Montgomery), and German magazine editor Kim Schmidt. ;Yuen • Martial arts choreographer
Yuen Woo-ping is the son of
Yuen Siu-tien, a martial arts film actor.
Z ;Zane •
Lisa and
Billy Zane are siblings. ;Zanuck • Film producer and former
20th Century Fox VP of production
Darryl F. Zanuck has a son, film producer and former head of production at Fox
Richard D. Zanuck. Richard's son
Dean Zanuck is also a film producer. ;Zappa-Sloatman-Robinson • Composer, musician and producer
Frank Zappa was the father of actress, author and singer
Moon Unit, who is married to Paul Doucette, former drummer and current rhythm guitarist of Matchbox Twenty; actor, composer and musician
Dweezil; actor, author and musician
Ahmet Zappa; and actress and photographer
Diva Zappa. Frank's niece is actress (and, more recently, costumer)
Lala Sloatman, who was married to
Black Crowes lead singer and co-founder
Chris Robinson. ;
Zimbalist • Composer and violinist
Efrem Zimbalist and his wife, soprano
Alma Gluck, were the parents of actor
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. • Efrem Jr. is in turn the father of actress
Stephanie Zimbalist. ;Zucker •
David and
Jerry Zucker are brothers. ==Celebrity brothers not listed above==