Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart and Mickey Gillis are all cousins from the south…
IMDb use to credit Screech as being brothers with Joe D of the Beastie Boys. It later changed it.
I also just found out that CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper is son of Gloria Vanderbelt.
It explains a lot about how HE got on CNN.
Here’s some that are not really secrets, but might not be common knowledge:
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Actor Anthony Head (Buffy’s Giles) is the brother of Murray Head, the singer of the 80s hit “One Night in Bangkok”.
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Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph is the daughter of 70s singer Minnie Ripperton (“Loving You”).
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Actors Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts are brother and sister.
When David Lynch first met Isabella Rossilini he told her “You could be Ingrid Bergman’s daughter.”
She is.
–Cliffy
Mickey Gillis = Mickey Gilley
It was Gilley’s famous honky-tonk in Pasadena, Texas – eponymously named “Gilley’s” – that served as the setting for the 1981 movie Urban Cowboy.
Ooh … forgot one:
- Singer Lenny Kravitz is the son of actress Roxie Roker (Helen on the sitcom The Jeffersons).
Another one:
- Singers Neneh Cherry (“Buffalo Stance”) and Eagle-Eye Cherry (“Save Tonight”) are siblings.
Adam Baldwin (“Firefly,” Full Metal Jacket) is not related to the Baldwin Brothers. 
Hardly surprising, but Martin Sheen (aka Ramon Estevez) is the father of Charlie Sheen (Carlos Estevez), and Emilio, Renee, and Ramon Estevez. He is also brother to Joe Estevez. According to IMDb, the name comes from a Bishop Fulton Sheen.
Peter Marshall (long-time host of “The Hollywood Squares”) had a son, Pete LaCock, who played major league baseball for nine years.
Tennis great Billie Jean King has a brother – Randy Moffitt – who had a successful major league baseball career.
The Huston family has three generations of Oscar winners: Walter and John for “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” and Anjelica for “Prizzi’s Honor.”
Rebecca Miller, the actress, writer and director, is also the daughter of Arthur Miller.
Jennifer Jason Lee is the daughter of Vic Morrow.
Fanny Flagg changed her name because her real name is Patricia Neal.
Loretta Young’s “adopted” daughter was proven much later to be her out-of-wedlock biological daughter by Clark Gable. Loretta denied this when the daughter first made the claim, but later confirmed it on her deathbed. She herself was a descendant of one of Brigham Young’s brothers, though she grew up Catholic, and her sister is married to Ricardo Montalban, who was with her when she died.
Now deceased octagenarian heart throb (and closeted gay man) Cesar Romero had an ancestry that reads like a who’s who of Latin American history.
Marlon Brando is the father of most of Tahiti, not to mention of Superman and Michael Corleone.
And the wife of Daniel Day Lewis.
Rebecca de Mornay is the daughter of vulgar and evil shock jock Wally George, though she doesn’t know him well as she was raised by her stepfather. Her lover for several years was the much older Leonard Cohen; her children are the grandchildren of Ryan O’Neal.
Goldie Hawn is a direct descendant of Edward Rutledge, youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence.
I watched “The Godfather” trilogy again this week. GF3 has Nicholas Cage credited as co-exec. producer.
I was watching the credits roll and saw his name. I thought BS he wasn’t in there, well maybe…let’s review. So, I just checked the video box and it says Nicholas Gage…hmmm, maybe I’m wrong.
But the daughter Mary of Michael Corleone (Pacino) was played by Sofia Coppola. BTW Bridget Fonda was in the movie, daughter of Henry and sis to Jane & Peter.
Bridget Fonda’s not that old. I thought everyone knew she’s Peter Fonda’s daughter?
And they still are. Neither of them will die till the other does, just out of spite.
Operetta film star Jeanette MacDonald and haglike Grandmama Addams (Blossom Rock) were also sisters!
Lisa Marie Presley is Elvis Presley’s daughter.
sorry
But is she though?
Mariska Hargatay is Jayne Mansfield’s daughter.
Singer Louise Goffin is the daugher of Carole King and Gerry Goffin. In fact, I think there was a Gap (?) commercial a while back featuring Louise and Carole.
I just read somewhere recently that Gary Lewis (of 60’s group Gary Lewis and the Playboys) is the son of comedian Jerry Lewis… never knew that one before.
That’s actually Mike D. This was a pretty popular story (I think I first read it in Rolling Stone) - Screech was played by Dustin Diamond. Mike D’s last name is also Diamond.
Jason Schwartzman is the son of Talia (“Yo, Adrian!”) Shire. He’s Nick Cage’s cousin and Francis Ford Copolla’s nephew. The band is called Phantom Planet, although IMDb says he left the band just a few days ago.