We’ve probably done this before, but I don’t really care.
I was watching the HBO series Enlightened for the first time last night, and I noticed that Laura Dern’s mother on the show was being played by Diane Ladd, who is Laura Dern’s mother in real life.
This put me in mind of Get a Life, in which Chris Elliot’s dad was played by his real-life dad, Bob Elliot.
In what other shows and movies have real-life relatives played characters who were relatives? (Bonus points if the characters are related in a different way from the actors IRL. E.g., real-life brothers playing cousins in a movie.)
John and Joan Cusack in Grandview, USA, and Say Anything. Well their characters have the same last name, so I’ll assume brother and sister. They are in a number of other movies together, but I’m not sure if their characters are related.
In Terminator 2 Linda Hamilton’s T-1000 clone is played by her real life twin. She also does some of the flashback (pre-muscles) scenes with the toddler version of John I believe.
Likewise, the guard who gets the coffee in the same movie is cloned by the T-1000 and that’s his twin brother too. They were also in Good Morning, Vietnam.
Edit: I don’t think this really fits the topic but well, there you go.
To continue this offshoot, Nicholas Brendan’s identical twin appeared in the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Xander is magically split into two people.
It’s not quite the same thing, but in The Chamomile Lawn Jennifer Ehle and her mother Rosemary Harris play the same character at different times.
Also not quite the same thing since paternity wasn’t established in the plot, but in Paper Moon Ryan and Tatum O’Neil play a sheister and his young accomplice.
No, neither in the book nor in the movie. Addie’s mother was a good-time gal killed in a car accident, and it was also possible that the local judge (among others) could have been Addie’s father. I don’t remember if that was brought up in the movie, but the book made it clear that there was no way to prove who Addie’s father was.
Judd Apatow’s real life wife Leslie Mann has appeared in his movies ***Knocked Up ***and Funny People, and their two real life daughters have played her daughters in those movies.
And Will Smith’s real son jaden played his son in The Pursuit of Happyness.
This is a little different from what the OP asked for but it’s still interesting.
There was an episode of ***Magnum PI ***in which Jose Ferrer plays a judge who’s been nominated for the Supreme Court, while June Lockhart plays the woman he once loved. In flashbacks, their younger selves were played by Jose’s son Gabriel Ferrer and June’s daughter Anne Lockhart.
More on targte, however… when June’s father Gene Lockhart played Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, yougn June played one of the Cratchit kids.