15 Nepo Kids Who Got Their Start From Their Parents

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Judd Apatow forged his daughters Maude and Iris Apatow in three of his movies after they had been younger children: Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40. Maude was then forged in three episodes of Girls (on which her father was an govt producer).

Her subsequent position was in Other People: she was advisable for the position by casting director Allison Jones. Jones had beforehand executed the casting for Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights, Knocked Up, Superbad, Funny People, and This is 40…and thus had identified the Apatows since Maude was two.

This all led to a task in a movie by Sam Levinson, himself a nepo child (extra on that later). He then forged her in Euphoria, largely thought of her breakout position.

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Speaking of Sam Levinson…his father is Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson. His father forged him in his 1992 movie Toys (starring Robin Williams) when Levinson was a child, then later facilitated his breaking in as a author, asking him to co-write the 2017 drama Wizard of Lies starring Robert De Niro. The elder Levinson instructed Collider, “I discussed it (the project) with my son, Sam, and he put together 20 pages. I sent that over to Bob and Jane Rosenthal, and we had the meeting and they thought it looked good, so I told them that my son wrote it. Bob has known Sam since he was 10 years old, and he said, ‘All right, good.’ That’s how we proceeded.”

Levinson — who had solely a single author/director credit score from an indie movie earlier than his father requested him to work on The Wizard of Lies — springboarded off the movie to the 2018 darkish satire Assassination Nation. Euphoria shortly adopted.

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Gwyneth Paltrow was born to an actor mother and a director/producer dad…and her godfather is actually Steven Speilberg. Her first position was in a TV pilot (with Zach Braff, btw) referred to as High written and directed by her father. She then made her skilled stage debut in 1990 on the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, the place her mom had starred in a number of productions.

After a small position within the John Travolta movie Shout, she was forged in her godfather’s movie Hook. She then did some smaller tasks earlier than having a bigger position in Flesh and Bone, and, extra memorably, Se7en — her profession largely took off after that.

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Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, started her profession as an actor, showing in her father’s movies The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married and The Godfather Part III (a efficiency that was critically panned). Coppola later stated it was by no means her dream to be an actor and that she was simply serving to her father out.

She would go on to change into a author/director, and received a leg up right here too from her father, who requested her to co-write his phase of the anthology movie New York Stories — the opposite segments had been directed by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen. After directing a brief movie and some music movies, Sofia learn The Virgin Suicides and determined she needed to adapt and direct a movie model. The movie was critically acclaimed and her profession took off.

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Bryce Dallas Howard is a nepo child to the acute — her mom is a author, and her father is director Ron Howard. She is the granddaughter of actors, her godfather is Henry Winkler. Her first roles had been as extras in her dad’s movies, together with the Academy Award-winning Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind, plus the field workplace smash How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

After finding out appearing in faculty, most of her first massive roles had been in theater — she was observed in As You Like It by M. Night Shyamalan, who forged her in The Village and Lady within the Water — neither of which she needed to audition for. After that, her profession continued to take off.

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Blake Lively’s father is actor Ernie Lively, and her first position was in a movie he directed referred to as Sandman. Her mom is a expertise supervisor. Her brother was additionally an actor, and received his agent* to ship Blake on a “couple” auditions one summer time — which is when she booked The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (by which her father additionally appeared in). Of course, her profession skyrocketed from there.

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Jeff Bridges is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and actor/author Dorothy Bridges. Growing up, he appeared on his father’s exhibits Sea Hunt, The Lloyd Bridges Show, and The Loner. He continued on with a handful of small roles earlier than touchdown The Last Picture Show, launching his profession.

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Jessica Capshaw — finest identified now for starring as Arizona in Grey’s Anatomy — is the daughter of actor/producer Kate Capshaw and the stepdaughter of Steven Spielberg.

Her first position was in a movie her mom was starring in, The Locusts. She had a pair different small roles earlier than she was forged in her stepfather’s movie Minority Report, which was successful.

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Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith received his begin starring alongside his father in The Pursuit of Happyness. After touchdown a task within the panned The Day the Earth Stood Still, he was forged in The Karate Kid, which his mother and father produced, and starred once more alongside his father in After Earth.

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Cooper Hoffman, the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, had grown up making small movies along with his father’s collaborator and buddy Paul Thomas Anderson and his son. Hoffman wasn’t even fascinated by appearing till Anderson instructed him about Licorice Pizza and requested him to learn the script. Once Hoffman instructed Anderson he wished the position, Hoffman went by means of a lot of digicam assessments with the Haim sisters (which he stated he would contemplate auditions “to see if I could actually do it.”) He was solely 17, with no prior appearing expertise.

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Scott Eastwood might have tried to keep away from profiting off his surname by initially utilizing his mom’s final identify, however I’m unsure he fooled anyone (in truth, one director famous he appeared precisely like “his dad 25 years ago”). His first-ever movie or TV position was in his father Clint’s movie Flags of Our Fathers. He later appeared in his father’s Gran Torino and Invictus, and has had a protracted, constant profession since then.

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Anjelica Huston — daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston — did not even need to act, saying she was given roles in her father’s movies “without really [her] consent.” Her first substantial position was in her father’s movie A Walk with Love and Death, and her efficiency was not effectively regarded…however she did proceed to have a protracted profession in Hollywood, and she or he labored along with her father once more on The Dead.

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John David Washington, whose father is Denzel Washington, appeared in two small roles in his father’s tasks (together with Malcolm X), then co-produced one in all his father’s movies earlier than starting to make it on his personal.

John David’s breakout position was starring in BlacKkKlansman, a Spike Lee movie — Lee was a frequent collaborator with Denzel, and had already directed John David in Malcolm X.

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In one other instance, Ang Lee’s son Mason Lee is about to make his main debut (after a lot of small roles, together with as a child in one in all his father’s movies) in an upcoming Bruce Lee biopic to be directed by his father.

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And lastly, the three members of Please Don’t Destroy (Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy) had been most well-known for his or her comedy TikToks earlier than becoming a member of SNL. It appeared like a Cinderella story for them — till it got here out that two of them had fathers who had been longtime writers and producers on SNL.

To carry this submit full circle, after their work on SNL, the trio is engaged on a movie with Judd Apatow. They will write and star within the movie, in addition to govt produce it.