Which actor/actress were you surprised to discover is hugely connected?

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Kate Hudson - my god i had no idea her mum is Goldie Hawn

Just finished season 2 of Running Point (really good)

Emily Blunt's uncle is Crispin Blunt. Poor Emily.

I know!

DJ Janice Long was Keith Chegwins sister. He was married to Maggie Philbin.

It's not nepotism then is it,

Jack Whitehall got his career off the ground joking about nepotism basically, he openly acknowledges that his connections got him going but he and all the aforementioned nepobabies only get to stay in the industry if they are good, today - it’s a cut throat business and directors and producers don’t put up for long with actors, presenters etc who are no good whoever their parents are!

Mel Giedroyc’s sister is a director who gave her early jobs in TV.

Have you frequented a state secondary recently, these things don't happen!

Riley Keough is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, so the grand daughter of Elvis Presley

Gerard Way ( singer, My chemical Romance) and Joe Rogan are cousins.

Sabrina Carpenter and Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson) are niece and aunt.

I don’t think there is any evidence that her father financed the production, but she was terribly well connected.

I think the problem for her is that the Barbra Streisand portrayal is so well-known and so iconic. There was talk that they wanted to take a different direction and really lean into the Funny of Funny Girl, but she just isn’t the vocal powerhouse that people felt the role required.

I'm sure but the fact that they even had access to demonstrate this to people who are determining these prospects is pretty depressing.

It is also really dull. I mean, it tells you a lot about the way society has become so unequal when you know someone like Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais had no connections but that just wouldn't happen now.

I read that Simon Reeves, who makes travel documentaries, doesn’t have any famous connections.

He went to Cambridge with Robert Webb, David Mitchel and Olivia Coleman

See the other three dont come off as intolerable of normal people 😩

I'd feel like Richard would be judging me the second he saw me for being 'undereducated'

Richard Osman was primarily a tv producer, he created pointless suggested his university friend Zander Armstrong for it who apparently turned down a different game show previously because he didn’t want to be typecast (I think it was who wants to be a millionaire) Richard then ended up doing it with him as they worked well together. That led to ROHOG and stuff like task master. The writing is purely because he’s a well known name though.

I didn't know that. They do look alike once you know.

And also my even greater aunt!

Joan Collins is her sister's godmother!

She also went to Marlborough and hung out with the Guinesses!

Maya Rudolph had influential parents
the actress who played Daisy in Daisy jones and the six is Elvis presleys granddaughter

Emma and Sophie Thompson's mother is the actor Phyllida Law. And their father Eric Thompson created the Magic Roundabout.

He didn't. He wrote the script and did the voices. The Magic Roundabout - Wikipedia

Claudia winkleman and actress Sophie Winkleman are sisters

I just thought of another example. If anyone on here is a horror film fan, then you may know the name Val Lewton, who apparently, created the jump scare. He was a famous producer of early horror films.

His Aunt Alla Nazimova was a very famous actress (of both the stage and film.)

Nazimova was also the Godmother of Nancy Regan!

PP's have mentioned Dakota Johnson and her grandmother Tippi Hedren (Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie). Her parents are Don Johnson (Miami Vice) and Melanie Griffith (Working Girl - the worst acting I have ever, ever seen)

@BleedinglyObvious thanks for pointing that out - I misread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Thompson, which says he created the English narration for Magic Roundabout.

I posted because I only learnt that their mother was Phyllida Law when I saw the Winter Guest, in which Phyllida and Emma play a mother and daughter.

Agree, I was saying that too.