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sometimes Fame runs in the family
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
celebrities we had no idea are related
no one one quick one that I really gotta
fly for this list we’re taking a look at
celebs that you’d never guess in a
million years our relatives I’m coming
in let’s go let’s go and we’re walking
table walking number 10 Melissa McCarthy
and Jenny McCarthy this is very exciting
these women are actresses comedians and
cousins these two gals hail from
opposite ends of the spectrum
Melissa’s best known for her funny
characters and Jenny made a name for
herself as a Playboy model and TV host
today the cousins both maintain steady
careers in Hollywood though their
circles rarely overlap jenny has
co-hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s rockin
Eve since 2010 and appears on wall
burgers and Donnie loves Jenny with
husband Donnie Wahlberg I love that
you’re crying
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Chiqui you did great
are you sure yeah to have any worries
Melissa meanwhile won an Emmy for her
role on Mike and Molly and earned an
Oscar nomination for bridesmaids hey not
Air Marshal John you want to get back in
that restroom and not rest the cousins
career paths may have diverged over the
years but they’re cut from the same
cloth the only thing that’s different is
my driver’s license more more MORE
that’s it
number nine Denis Lawson and Ewan
McGregor we made a foam perfect sense
with Denis Lawson who I believe is out
here somewhere
there is middle middle to uncle Dennis
not only did both of these esteemed
Scottish actors appear in Star Wars
films they’re also uncle and nephew good
the size of that thing to give you a
refresher on that galaxy far far away
Lawson starred as wedge antilles in the
original trilogy while McGregor played
obi-wan Kenobi in the prequels why do I
sense we’ve picked up another pathetic
life-form Lawson actually inspired his
nephew to get into acting and both their
careers have spanned the big and small
screens as well as the stage in fact
Lawson once directed a play starring
McGregor you and was at school still and
I’d come back with the hair and the pink
genes and the waistcoats had a rabbit
skin waste course and the medallions all
that stuff for that hippie gear and he
just went oh I I want to be like this
neither is a stranger to accolades
either as Lawson won the 1983 Olivier
Award for his role in the stage musical
mr. cinders and McGregor has received
Golden Globe nominations and is an
Officer of the Order of the British
Empire these charming gentlemen are
always fun to watch
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now
number eight Lenny Kravitz and Al Roker
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what could a grammy-winning rocker and a
famous weather forecaster have in common
they happen to be cousins you are lenny
Kravitz’s cousin yeah well I don’t know
I wasn’t supposed to say it now I give
up a monthly stipend Kravitz’s late
mother Roxie Roker famous for her role
on The Jeffersons was Roker’s first
cousin which makes the men first cousins
once removed damn Roker’s weathercast
and career began in 1974 and he since
become a household name through the
Today Show he didn’t stop there though
and he’s made TV and movie cameos
co-wrote a series of murder mystery
novels and holds the Guinness world
record for the longest uninterrupted
live weather report so it gives me great
pleasure TV weather forecast how you are
officially amazing on the other side of
things Kravitz is not only a successful
musician but also a seasoned actor
appearing in critical and commercial
successes like precious and The Hunger
Games talent really does run in the
family you realize that your actions
reflect badly on all of us not just you
on a good show it’s fine number seven
Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman I
want you to take this face
and burn it along with their director
cousin Sophia these cousins are part of
the famous Coppola family Cage is a
critically acclaimed actor whose
performance in leaving Las Vegas earned
him an Oscar a Golden Globe and a Screen
Actors Guild Award
he’s also ventured into producing and
comic-book collecting are you saying
that your drinking is a way to kill
yourself or killing myself is a way to
drink
Schwartzman is best known for his work
with Wes Anderson and has additionally
had notable roles in marie antoinette
saving mr. banks and Scott Pilgrim vs.
the world made me swallow my gum
my digestive tract for seven years like
his younger brother Robert who you might
know from the Princess Diaries
Schwartzman is also a musician
he was the drummer for Phantom Planet
and is behind the indie pop project
Coconut Records it’s pretty obvious that
cage and Schwartzman aren’t just
Hollywood royalty but also gifted
performers in their own right he often
comes and stays a week or more three
times year at least but never in the
season number six Warren Beatty and
Shirley MacLaine I’ve known the longest
the person I’ve loved the longest on
this planet and always will my brother
Warren these two are a couple of
Hollywood’s most acclaimed actors and
are actually brother and sister I’m
Clyde baron right we rob banks over six
decades Beatty and McClain have appeared
in such iconic films as Bonnie and Clyde
terms of endearment and Bugsy everybody
needs a fresh start once in a while with
20 Academy Award nominations between
them and almost as many Golden Globe
nods both siblings received Kennedy
Center Honors the Cecil B deMille Award
and the AFI Life Achievement Award for
their outstanding careers but perhaps
most admirable is the pair’s lasting
friendship only three years apart in age
they’ve always inspired and encouraged
each other in this close bond helped
them achieve success this is it I have
found that I am inhale far from a
sibling rivalry McClain and Beatty are a
testament to the power of supportive
family I love you Shirley
thank you
number five Tom Cruise and William
Mapother I feel thirsty
this action star and prominent
Scientologists may be one of Hollywood’s
biggest names but there’s another actor
in the family and my boys but they’re
none of my business
cruises first cousin William Mapother
has often starred in thrillers and
horror movies including in the bedroom
and The Grudge this will get easier soon
I promise
on the small screen he’s best known for
playing evil dr. Ethan ROM on lost
Charlie I want her back maybe Tharin
crews have also appeared in five movies
together with Mae pethor roles ranging
from cameos like in Minority Report to
small roles in Mission Impossible 2 and
Magnolia am i doing
come quietly judging you whether they’re
kicking butter scaring a silly these
cousins sure know how to keep us
entertained
relax Luther it’s much worse than you
think
number four Lily Allen and Alfie Allen
this is hot out handful Abed this
outspoken English singer and actor are
brother and sisters who’d have thunk it
Lily shot to fame in 2006 with the
release of her debut album alright still
while Alfie is best known for playing
Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones you
never hold it for more than a few days
as soon as wings fell got words we’d
taken torrhen’s square the Starks would
send their men to take it back the
siblings are so close
Lily even wrote a song about Alfie
delivering lines only a sisterhood
you
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Lilly has been known for her
controversial remarks and views but
she’s now much more focused on her
family and charity work so you’ve been
trying to jump on lorries to get over
into UK as that what is that what I must
be terrifying that’s scary
besides Game of Thrones Alfie has
starred in films like John wick and
pandemic lily and Alfie have both
received recognition for their work
including Grammy and Screen Actors Guild
nominations respectively now that’s
something to smile about
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number three taran killam and Robert
Stack will be great together watch out
for this cable at first glance the
sketch comedy star and the host of
unsolved mysteries might seem like
completely different people and yet
taran killam great-uncle was in fact the
one and only Robert Stack no one knows
how these enigmatic circles got there
voted gently from unbroken stalks of
wheat and corn they may just represent
one of the most intriguing unsolved
mysteries of the century stacks acting
career lasted over 60 years and he won
an Emmy for his role as agent Eliot Ness
on the TV series The Untouchables hood
had a gun you knew that didn’t you kill
him shot to fame as the youngest ever
cast member on MADtv and is one of only
four SNL stars to do over a hundred
impressions I’ll see you at the polls
and live from New York it’s Saturday
night like his great uncle Killam has
also taken two films landing roles in
big fat liar the heat and 12 years a
slave
good night’s rest and tomorrow tomorrow
you will feel as well and refreshed as
if the earth were new again stack passed
away in 2003 but his talent lives on
through his great nephew I think he
might have lost his mom
number two Jason Sudeikis and George
Wendt my uncle who’s a George went from
cheers from cheers and cheers y’all
happy for these funny men comedy is
hereditary went is Sudeikis ha’s
maternal uncle and you may know him for
playing norm Peterson on Cheers
well bars can be very sad places some
people spend their whole lives in a bar
just yesterday some guys set right here
next to me for 11 hours the two are
tight knit and went inspired his nephew
to pursue an acting career went received
six Emmy nominations for his iconic role
and even played norm outside of Cheers
woody give me a beer I think you’ve had
enough mr. Peterson my chiropractor says
I can’t carry you home anymore
just give me another beer you brain-dead
he also played Chicago Superman Bob
sworsky on SNL Sudeikis was a longtime
SNL star as well and has since appeared
in dozens of shows and movies including
30 rock son of Zorn and Horrible Bosses
three hours late what’s the deal I was
at your father’s funeral huh
went has dabbled in theater as Edna
Turnblad in hairspray and continues to
act on the small screen so it’s safe to
say that with these two there’s never a
dull moment how’s the search for work
going now I got good news and everybody
I’m no longer looking for a job begging
for one before we get to our number one
surprise celebrity relatives here are
some honorable mentions yesterday if I
turned up on the 6 o’clock news with a
survivor in tow
they’d have strung me up from the
nearest lamppost by the balls they start
in this fire they can burn in it that’s
her that’s everyone’s songs your house
wants me I’m sorry to hear that sure
number one Snoop Dogg and brandy when
the pimps in the crib mom drop it like
it’s hot drop it like it’s hot drop it
like a top these musicians are among the
top selling artists in their genres and
their first cousins
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the Baba
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Freddie and Snoop are mostly known for
their music although they’ve both
ventured into acting endorsements and
charity work
oh no can please don’t Oh is okay no
it’s not
same Edie since he started rapping in
1992 Snoop is sold over 35 million
albums around the world and has been
nominated for 17 Grammys and brandi is
nothing short of a trailblazer herself
her duet with Monika the boy is mine is
the best-selling female duet ever and
she became the first african-american
woman to play Cinderella I have to go
wait the cousins have even worked
together releasing the song special with
Pharrell in 2009 see I never flown for
phase come from the weekend overseas in
Greece with me please for me these
famous family members are at the top of
our list and the top of their game
lighten up it’s Friday night okay it’s a
bar
hutch it’s Wednesday afternoon man snap
out it do you agree with our list who
are your favorite famous relatives for
more celebrity top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com you’ll cut that
[Music]
you
sometimes Fame runs in the family
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
celebrities we had no idea are related
no one one quick one that I really gotta
fly for this list we’re taking a look at
celebs that you’d never guess in a
million years our relatives I’m coming
in let’s go let’s go and we’re walking
table walking number 10 Melissa McCarthy
and Jenny McCarthy this is very exciting
these women are actresses comedians and
cousins these two gals hail from
opposite ends of the spectrum
Melissa’s best known for her funny
characters and Jenny made a name for
herself as a Playboy model and TV host
today the cousins both maintain steady
careers in Hollywood though their
circles rarely overlap jenny has
co-hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s rockin
Eve since 2010 and appears on wall
burgers and Donnie loves Jenny with
husband Donnie Wahlberg I love that
you’re crying
[Music]
Chiqui you did great
are you sure yeah to have any worries
Melissa meanwhile won an Emmy for her
role on Mike and Molly and earned an
Oscar nomination for bridesmaids hey not
Air Marshal John you want to get back in
that restroom and not rest the cousins
career paths may have diverged over the
years but they’re cut from the same
cloth the only thing that’s different is
my driver’s license more more MORE
that’s it
number nine Denis Lawson and Ewan
McGregor we made a foam perfect sense
with Denis Lawson who I believe is out
here somewhere
there is middle middle to uncle Dennis
not only did both of these esteemed
Scottish actors appear in Star Wars
films they’re also uncle and nephew good
the size of that thing to give you a
refresher on that galaxy far far away
Lawson starred as wedge antilles in the
original trilogy while McGregor played
obi-wan Kenobi in the prequels why do I
sense we’ve picked up another pathetic
life-form Lawson actually inspired his
nephew to get into acting and both their
careers have spanned the big and small
screens as well as the stage in fact
Lawson once directed a play starring
McGregor you and was at school still and
I’d come back with the hair and the pink
genes and the waistcoats had a rabbit
skin waste course and the medallions all
that stuff for that hippie gear and he
just went oh I I want to be like this
neither is a stranger to accolades
either as Lawson won the 1983 Olivier
Award for his role in the stage musical
mr. cinders and McGregor has received
Golden Globe nominations and is an
Officer of the Order of the British
Empire these charming gentlemen are
always fun to watch
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now
number eight Lenny Kravitz and Al Roker
[Music]
what could a grammy-winning rocker and a
famous weather forecaster have in common
they happen to be cousins you are lenny
Kravitz’s cousin yeah well I don’t know
I wasn’t supposed to say it now I give
up a monthly stipend Kravitz’s late
mother Roxie Roker famous for her role
on The Jeffersons was Roker’s first
cousin which makes the men first cousins
once removed damn Roker’s weathercast
and career began in 1974 and he since
become a household name through the
Today Show he didn’t stop there though
and he’s made TV and movie cameos
co-wrote a series of murder mystery
novels and holds the Guinness world
record for the longest uninterrupted
live weather report so it gives me great
pleasure TV weather forecast how you are
officially amazing on the other side of
things Kravitz is not only a successful
musician but also a seasoned actor
appearing in critical and commercial
successes like precious and The Hunger
Games talent really does run in the
family you realize that your actions
reflect badly on all of us not just you
on a good show it’s fine number seven
Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman I
want you to take this face
and burn it along with their director
cousin Sophia these cousins are part of
the famous Coppola family Cage is a
critically acclaimed actor whose
performance in leaving Las Vegas earned
him an Oscar a Golden Globe and a Screen
Actors Guild Award
he’s also ventured into producing and
comic-book collecting are you saying
that your drinking is a way to kill
yourself or killing myself is a way to
drink
Schwartzman is best known for his work
with Wes Anderson and has additionally
had notable roles in marie antoinette
saving mr. banks and Scott Pilgrim vs.
the world made me swallow my gum
my digestive tract for seven years like
his younger brother Robert who you might
know from the Princess Diaries
Schwartzman is also a musician
he was the drummer for Phantom Planet
and is behind the indie pop project
Coconut Records it’s pretty obvious that
cage and Schwartzman aren’t just
Hollywood royalty but also gifted
performers in their own right he often
comes and stays a week or more three
times year at least but never in the
season number six Warren Beatty and
Shirley MacLaine I’ve known the longest
the person I’ve loved the longest on
this planet and always will my brother
Warren these two are a couple of
Hollywood’s most acclaimed actors and
are actually brother and sister I’m
Clyde baron right we rob banks over six
decades Beatty and McClain have appeared
in such iconic films as Bonnie and Clyde
terms of endearment and Bugsy everybody
needs a fresh start once in a while with
20 Academy Award nominations between
them and almost as many Golden Globe
nods both siblings received Kennedy
Center Honors the Cecil B deMille Award
and the AFI Life Achievement Award for
their outstanding careers but perhaps
most admirable is the pair’s lasting
friendship only three years apart in age
they’ve always inspired and encouraged
each other in this close bond helped
them achieve success this is it I have
found that I am inhale far from a
sibling rivalry McClain and Beatty are a
testament to the power of supportive
family I love you Shirley
thank you
number five Tom Cruise and William
Mapother I feel thirsty
this action star and prominent
Scientologists may be one of Hollywood’s
biggest names but there’s another actor
in the family and my boys but they’re
none of my business
cruises first cousin William Mapother
has often starred in thrillers and
horror movies including in the bedroom
and The Grudge this will get easier soon
I promise
on the small screen he’s best known for
playing evil dr. Ethan ROM on lost
Charlie I want her back maybe Tharin
crews have also appeared in five movies
together with Mae pethor roles ranging
from cameos like in Minority Report to
small roles in Mission Impossible 2 and
Magnolia am i doing
come quietly judging you whether they’re
kicking butter scaring a silly these
cousins sure know how to keep us
entertained
relax Luther it’s much worse than you
think
number four Lily Allen and Alfie Allen
this is hot out handful Abed this
outspoken English singer and actor are
brother and sisters who’d have thunk it
Lily shot to fame in 2006 with the
release of her debut album alright still
while Alfie is best known for playing
Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones you
never hold it for more than a few days
as soon as wings fell got words we’d
taken torrhen’s square the Starks would
send their men to take it back the
siblings are so close
Lily even wrote a song about Alfie
delivering lines only a sisterhood
you
[Music]
Lilly has been known for her
controversial remarks and views but
she’s now much more focused on her
family and charity work so you’ve been
trying to jump on lorries to get over
into UK as that what is that what I must
be terrifying that’s scary
besides Game of Thrones Alfie has
starred in films like John wick and
pandemic lily and Alfie have both
received recognition for their work
including Grammy and Screen Actors Guild
nominations respectively now that’s
something to smile about
[Music]
number three taran killam and Robert
Stack will be great together watch out
for this cable at first glance the
sketch comedy star and the host of
unsolved mysteries might seem like
completely different people and yet
taran killam great-uncle was in fact the
one and only Robert Stack no one knows
how these enigmatic circles got there
voted gently from unbroken stalks of
wheat and corn they may just represent
one of the most intriguing unsolved
mysteries of the century stacks acting
career lasted over 60 years and he won
an Emmy for his role as agent Eliot Ness
on the TV series The Untouchables hood
had a gun you knew that didn’t you kill
him shot to fame as the youngest ever
cast member on MADtv and is one of only
four SNL stars to do over a hundred
impressions I’ll see you at the polls
and live from New York it’s Saturday
night like his great uncle Killam has
also taken two films landing roles in
big fat liar the heat and 12 years a
slave
good night’s rest and tomorrow tomorrow
you will feel as well and refreshed as
if the earth were new again stack passed
away in 2003 but his talent lives on
through his great nephew I think he
might have lost his mom
number two Jason Sudeikis and George
Wendt my uncle who’s a George went from
cheers from cheers and cheers y’all
happy for these funny men comedy is
hereditary went is Sudeikis ha’s
maternal uncle and you may know him for
playing norm Peterson on Cheers
well bars can be very sad places some
people spend their whole lives in a bar
just yesterday some guys set right here
next to me for 11 hours the two are
tight knit and went inspired his nephew
to pursue an acting career went received
six Emmy nominations for his iconic role
and even played norm outside of Cheers
woody give me a beer I think you’ve had
enough mr. Peterson my chiropractor says
I can’t carry you home anymore
just give me another beer you brain-dead
he also played Chicago Superman Bob
sworsky on SNL Sudeikis was a longtime
SNL star as well and has since appeared
in dozens of shows and movies including
30 rock son of Zorn and Horrible Bosses
three hours late what’s the deal I was
at your father’s funeral huh
went has dabbled in theater as Edna
Turnblad in hairspray and continues to
act on the small screen so it’s safe to
say that with these two there’s never a
dull moment how’s the search for work
going now I got good news and everybody
I’m no longer looking for a job begging
for one before we get to our number one
surprise celebrity relatives here are
some honorable mentions yesterday if I
turned up on the 6 o’clock news with a
survivor in tow
they’d have strung me up from the
nearest lamppost by the balls they start
in this fire they can burn in it that’s
her that’s everyone’s songs your house
wants me I’m sorry to hear that sure
number one Snoop Dogg and brandy when
the pimps in the crib mom drop it like
it’s hot drop it like it’s hot drop it
like a top these musicians are among the
top selling artists in their genres and
their first cousins
[Music]
the Baba
[Music]
Freddie and Snoop are mostly known for
their music although they’ve both
ventured into acting endorsements and
charity work
oh no can please don’t Oh is okay no
it’s not
same Edie since he started rapping in
1992 Snoop is sold over 35 million
albums around the world and has been
nominated for 17 Grammys and brandi is
nothing short of a trailblazer herself
her duet with Monika the boy is mine is
the best-selling female duet ever and
she became the first african-american
woman to play Cinderella I have to go
wait the cousins have even worked
together releasing the song special with
Pharrell in 2009 see I never flown for
phase come from the weekend overseas in
Greece with me please for me these
famous family members are at the top of
our list and the top of their game
lighten up it’s Friday night okay it’s a
bar
hutch it’s Wednesday afternoon man snap
out it do you agree with our list who
are your favorite famous relatives for
more celebrity top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com you’ll cut that
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you
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