Loads of actors’ children comply with of their footsteps, and typically, artwork imitates life.
Listed here are 12 instances actors’ actual dad and mom performed their dad and mom onscreen (however they don’t seem to be tremendous well-known):
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On Grasp of None Season 1, Aziz Ansari’s dad and mom, Shoukath and Fatima Ansari, performed Dev Shah’s dad and mom, Ramesh and Nisha.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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In Small City Saturday Night time, Chris Pine performs Rhett Ryan, and his dad, Robert Pine, play Rhett’s father, John Ryan.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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In BBC Sherlock Season 3, Benedict Cumberbatch’s dad and mom, Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, performed Sherlock Holmes’s dad and mom.
Right here they’re collectively IRL (alongside actor Tracie Bennett):
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Within the DCOM Soar In!, Corbin Bleu performed Izzy Daniels, and his dad, David Reivers, performed Izzy’s dad, Kenneth.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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However that is not the one time Corbin and David teamed up onscreen! In Excessive Faculty Musical 3: Senior Yr, David had a small position as Chad Danforth’s father.
As soon as once more, right here they’re collectively IRL:
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In The Sisterhood of the Touring Pants and its sequel, Ernie Vigorous performed Franz Vreeland, the daddy of his real-life daughter Blake Vigorous’s character, Bridget.
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Within the 2024 Apple TV+ collection Palm Royale, Bruce Dern and Laura Dern performed father/daughter duo Skeet Rollins and Linda Shaw/Penelope Rollins.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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In 1997, Matthew Perry starred as Alex Whitman in Fools Rush In. His dad, John Bennett Perry, performed Richard Whitman.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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That is not the one time they’ve performed father and son onscreen! On the Scrubs Season 4 episode “My Unicorn,” John guest-starred as Gregory Marks, a affected person, and Matthew performed his son, Murray.
Listed here are they’re collectively IRL as soon as once more:
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Within the 2021 miniseries Maid, Margaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell costarred as Alex Russell and her mom, Paula Langley.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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In 2015’s Forsaken, Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland performed father and son Rev. Samuel Clayton and John Henry Clayton.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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And eventually, Jerry Stiller performed Arthur Spooner on The King of Queens. On the Season 4 episode “Shrink Wrap,” his son, Ben Stiller, performed Arthur’s father, Jerry Spooner.
Right here they’re collectively IRL:
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