Oliver Platt was second cousin to Princess Diana
Crispian Mills of semi-rubbish band Kula Shaker was son of Hayley Mills (child star of Disney films such as ‘The Parent Trap’) who was in turn daughter of Sir John Mills.
St. Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere is daughter to Lucia Pamela, whacked-out 60’s entertainer and artist of Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela, which she claimed was recorded on the Moon. Neither’s a big celebrity; I just wanted to post Lucia’s bio and song clips, which you just gotta check out.
That surpised me so much when I read it I started a thread pretty much like this one (months or years ago).
Even weirder, their original last name was “Einstein”. Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein.
I thought it was the other way around-people wondering if Capote really wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
Ewan McGregor, who played the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels is the nephew of Denis Lawson, who played X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars movies.