Jeanette MacDonald, the famous actress and singer from the 1930s and 40s, had a sister, Edith, who was also in show business. Edith MacDonald wasn’t famous under that name, however. She was married to a gentleman named Clarence Rock and was known as Blossom Rock. She became famous in the 1960s for playing Grandmama in “The Addams Family.”
Jon Voight’s brother wrote the song “Wild Thing.”
Chris Stamp (who co-produced most of the Who’s albums) is brother to Terrence Stamp (who played General Zod in Superman II, and Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars Episode I).
Norah Jones is Ravi Shankar’s daughter.
Kiefer Sutherland is the grandson of the late Canadian PM Tommy Douglas.
He’s Chip Taylor? I have never been surprised by one of these trivia threads, but you got me. Bravo!
Julia Louis Dreyfus’s half sister Lauren Bowles plays Holly on True Blood.
The Everly Brothers are first cousins of James Best (character actor and acting teacher best known as Roscoe P. Coltrane).
Mia Sara (Legend, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) is the mother of Sean Connery’s grandchildren.
Jules Asner is the former daughter in law of Ed Asner but is now the wife of Stephen Soderbergh. (She’s been divorced from her first husband for 16 years and has been married to Soderbergh much longer but still retains the surname Asner.)
Jennifer Love Hewitt has apparently shagged every third straight guy in show business. Known relationships include Carson Daly, John Mayer, Joey Lawrence, Rich Cronin, Will Friedle, Ross McCall, and Jamie Kennedy- and that’s just the more famous ones.
Not a legal relationship, but Mindy Cohn of Facts of Life is godmother to the children of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. She and Pitt met in an acting class when he was new to Hollywood and have been friends ever since.
Per prevalent rumor Ron Glass of Barney Miller & Firefly and Tony Geary of General Hospital have been a couple since the 1970s.
And the mother of Jim Henson’s grandchildren as well
The little girl who starred in *Escape to Witch Mountain *is Paris Hilton’s aunt.
Maya Rudolph is singer Minne Ripperton’s daughter (the song “Loving You” is about Maya.)
Cannot read this one without thinking about Mia, Woody & Soon-Yi.
Jimmy Swaggart, Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis are all first cousins.
I knew about and admired both NYC Fire Commissioner Thomas von Essen and Broadway actor Max von Essen for many years, but had to read it in a book to realize they were father and son!:smack:
His Aunt Rosemary was pretty well known, too.
According to both Wikipedia and IMDb, you spelled ‘Brad Hall’ wrong. (And why did I ever think she was related to Alfred Dreyfus of ‘The Dreyfus Affair’?)
Father Guido Sarducci’s sister, Antonia Novello, was Surgeon General of the US.
Geoffrey Fieger (Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s high profile lawyer) is the brother of the late Doug Fieger, lead singer of The Knack and writer of My Sharona.
Nixon’s daughter is married to Eisenhower’s grandson, in an early attempt to breed the GOP Kwisatz Haderacht.
Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello is the grandnephew of Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of an independent Kenya.
Sgt. Getraer > Capt. Kirk
Actor Mark Harmon gives us a lot of material:
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His father, Tom Harmon, won the Heisman Trophy at Michigan
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His wife, Pam Dawber, starred on “Mork & MindY” and “My Sister Sam.”
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His sister married former teen idol Ricky Nelson.
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His nephews Matthew and Gunnar were the hair metal duo Nelson.
Jason Miller was both a successful actor (he starred in “The Exorcist”) and an acclaimed playwright (he won a Tony for “That Championship Season”).
He married Jackie Gleason’s daughter.
His oldest son is actor Jason Patric.
His other son Joshua was a child actor who specialized in creepy roles, in weird movies like “River’s Edge.”
Didn’t one of his sisters (maybe the one married to Ricky Nelson, maybe a different one) get pretty far gone into hardcore addiction and lose custody of her kids, with Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber eventually adopting them?
His sister Kelly (?) was the Tic Tac girl I had a crush on back in the day…
Harmon petitioned for custody of his sister’s youngest son, Sam. Her other three children (actress Tracy Nelson and brothers Matthew and Gunnar) were adults by that time. Harmon and Dawber dropped the suit when Kristin Nelson insinuated she could produce witnesses who could testify that they had snorted coke with Dawber. She kept custody of Sam, but her brother was granted visitation rights.
As well as his uncle by marriage, Jose Ferrar.