# Unrelated actors that look like family **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291 "2006-01-17T01:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/21 "2006-01-17T14:18:38Z")
[Henry Winkler](http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~rb224/images/fonz.jpg) could be [David Schwimmer](http://i.tbs.com/v5cache/TBS/Images/Dynamic/i10/friends_ross_240x260_052820041524.jpg)’s father. If you squint. I was once convinced by someone that this was in fact the case, while drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/22 "2006-01-17T14:32:16Z")
I’ve always insisted that [Jerry Doyle](http://www.nndb.com/people/902/000071689/) and [Bruce Willis](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/cb/180px-Bruce_Willis.jpg) are the same person. They even talk alike. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/23 "2006-01-17T14:38:05Z")
Mary Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins. They even play on the same show, Weeds. Does anyone know if they play sisters? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/24 "2006-01-17T14:43:45Z")
Jack Nicholson and Bruce Willis could be father and son. Since they both grew up in New Jersey with unknown parentage, I often wonder if there is a genetic connection (Nicholson was born to a 15 year old, unknown father; Willis was adopted). ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/25 "2006-01-17T16:34:22Z")
I would have said [Robert Sean Leonard](http://us.ent4.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/fox/house_photos/robert_sean_leonard/house.jpg) and [Sean William Scott](http://imdb.com/name/nm0005405/) are family. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/26 "2006-01-17T16:45:29Z")
I thought Ray Liotta and Johnny Depp made a believeable father/son in Blow… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/27 "2006-01-17T16:50:17Z")
Tom Hanks and Juliette Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/28 "2006-01-17T17:28:18Z")
> [@Fromage A Trois](#): > > [Henry Winkler](http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~rb224/images/fonz.jpg) could be [David Schwimmer](http://i.tbs.com/v5cache/TBS/Images/Dynamic/i10/friends_ross_240x260_052820041524.jpg)’s father. If you squint. > > I was once convinced by someone that this was in fact the case, while drunk. They were in a [television show](http://imdb.com/title/tt0108863/) (for about 10 minutes) as father and son once. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/29 "2006-01-17T17:31:15Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Tom Hanks and Juliette Lewis. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/30 "2006-01-17T17:32:41Z")
OK, you probably don’t recognize them by name, but you might know them by character. [Ryan Reynolds](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005351/) (who played Berg on “Two Guys and a Girl”) could easily be the older brother of [Shawn Ashmore](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039162/), who plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men movies. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/31 "2006-01-17T17:33:26Z")
Sam Waterston [http://imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2412/SamWaterst\_Cohen\_2272467\_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path\_key=Waterston,%20Sam&seq=23](http://imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2412/SamWaterst_Cohen_2272467_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Waterston,%20Sam&seq=23) and Ed Norton [http://imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1894/EdwardNort\_Pimen\_837765\_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path\_key=Norton,%20Edward%20(I)&seq=6](http://imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1894/EdwardNort_Pimen_837765_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Norton,%20Edward%20(I)&seq=6) Could play father & son. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/32 "2006-01-17T17:51:14Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Uhhh…why not? I swear, it’s freaky. They could be siblings. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/33 "2006-01-17T17:55:20Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Tonya Skeet Ulrich is a poor but acceptable Johnny Depp [/QUOTE] I must have watched “As Good as it Gets” five times before I learned that it wasn’t my beloved Johnny. I always wondered why he had an uncredited cameo. I only found out through a thread similar to this one, and lemme tell ya I felt like the ultimate :wally What popped into my head when I saw this thread was the quick shot of a lady last night at the Golden Globes that was either [Kirstie Alley](http://www.thespiannet.com/actresses/A/alley_kirstie/ka.jpg) or [Fergie](http://www.radiodeejay.hr/img/ostale_vijesti/fergie.jpg) Okay, it makes more sense that it was Kirstie, but she was looking awfully Fergoid. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/34 "2006-01-17T17:56:41Z")
That was the same cry of despair Luke Skywalker gave in the Cloud City. The awful realization of a truth too horrible to be incorrect. That was the same cry Abdul Alhazered gave at the end of his wanderings in the desert when he sat down to write Al Azif. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/35 "2006-01-17T17:56:53Z")
Perhaps instead of wookin’ pa nub I should start wookin’ pa coding. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/36 "2006-01-17T17:57:57Z")
Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson could be brothers. 😃 Tony Hale and either John Turturro or Adam Sandler. Will Arnett and Michael Keaton. Chris Elliot and Daniel Stern. Laura Dern and Helen Hunt. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/37 "2006-01-17T18:09:27Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > That was the same cry of despair Luke Skywalker gave in the Cloud City. The awful realization of a truth too horrible to be incorrect. > . Ah…I thought it sounded familiar. 🙂 We could start a parallel thread: “I can’t believe they’re related.” Like Randy & Dennis Quaid, or Beau & Jeff Bridges. Owen & Luke Wilson seem headed that way. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/38 "2006-01-17T18:30:08Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Denis Leary and Willem Dafoe. Don’t forget [Jeff Kober](http://www.theactingcorps.com/images/faculty/koberHead.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/39 "2006-01-17T18:32:53Z")
Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley could be sisters. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/40 "2006-01-17T18:54:22Z")
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