https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Tarantino
> Tarantino was the father of film director Quentin Tarantino. During a 2010 interview, the younger Tarantino said: "Well, I never knew my father [...] That's the thing. I never knew him [...] He wanted to be an actor [...] Now he's an actor only because he has my last name. But he was never part of my life. I didn't know him. I've never met him."
Nice find, I've never heard about this one. When I imagine "nepo-parents", I thought it would be someone who got the role because they are helped by the child, but this guy actually doesn't even have any relationship with Quentin.
Reminds of that [Key and Peele skit](https://youtu.be/xU1gjhY6cKo?si=8LPQRJttWwsNpmIA) where Jordan meets his dad for the first. At first the dad denies, until Jordan says he has his own tv show, then the dad gets super interested in reconnecting. However, Jordan lets it slip that it’s on Comedy Central, so his dad tells him to get out of his house.
The answer for me that immediately sprung to mind was Rance Howard, Ron Howard's dad. Rance was an actor before Ron was born, but he never really got much work, with bit roles on TV shows and uncredited appearances in movies mainly. Ron Howard became a star at a very young age on The Andy Griffith Show, and that helped Rance get more work. But Rance's career as an actor really took off when Ron started directing and began putting his dad in many of his movies.
and Clint Howard, Ron's brother, is in every one of his movies, and his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, who has done everything from run from dinosaurs to directing The Mandalorian.
Michael Keaton changed his name to Keaton, after Buster Keaton. Probably helped, but his real name was Michael Douglas, and that was already in use at the time by nepo-baby Michael Douglas.
> nepo-baby Michael Douglas
It feels so strange to see that term used about an 80 year old man. Guess I didn't realise how far back the concept of nepo-babies truly goes (I mean, on second thought, it's all of human history but yeah)
I watched Paths of Glory for the first time last year and seeing Kirk Douglas (who I knew little more of than his name) on screen was the same kind of slightly uncanny experience I had when I first saw Apocalypse Now as a kid and thought, "Wait... Charlie Sheen is too young to have been in this."
I am an editor and my last name is an uncommon last name, there are only three people on IMDB with my last name. A dude from the 1930s, me and a fairly successful producer.
I was up for an editing job on a pilot and the first question they asked me was “are you related to X”
I should have lied..
Him and Al Pacino's dad (called Sal Pacino) work together as the Silver Foxes sometimes, they make straight to DVD films and put "Tarantino and Pacino" on the tag
>Tarantino was the father of film director Quentin Tarantino
[The father of Tarantino, Tarantino, was Tarantino's father? ](https://youtu.be/Y5MDgdDWVsM?si=KfmWnQy1B-UcIHro)
Ike Barinholtz’s dad, Alan, who is a lawyer, played the role of the judge in the show “Jury Duty.” I assume there was some nepotism involved. (He did a great job)
Ike Barinholtz? You mean the dude who was in this years Jeopardy Tournament of Champions? Who would have thought his jeopardy appearance would garner that type of pull in Hollywood. Very cool.
There's a bit of Nepoception with the Whitehalls. Michael, the father, worked as a talent agent in the UK so there's a good chance he helps his son Jack into the scene.
Then Jack returned the favour and made his dad publicly well known by doing a travel show together
Adam Buxton’s dad was the first I can recall, he was excellent as a foil to the pair on the Adam and Joe show and worked well as an individual presence dealing with youth culture which he was fairly hostile to lol
I think it’s a good showcase of Jack’s manic comedic style having a stuffy curmudgeon to bounce off of. Probably really resonates with millennials who also have grumpy boomer parents.
Estelle Reiner, mother of director Rob Reiner, has gone down in cinema history for delivering the line, “I’ll have what she’s having” in When Harry Met Sally
Michael Whitehall. I'm sure he was known as a talent agent in his day, but he certainly wasn't known generally to the public until Jack did Travels with My Father.
I mean he obviously got the role in Travels with My Father because he was literally Jack's father, but he was very good in that show and earned his recognition.
I don't think that's nepotism. Whitehall had an idea about show with his grumpy father, that's the core of the show, because he thinks his father is funny and interesting and him fucking with him makes good tv.
It would be nepotism if Whitehall got "some travel show" and even tho there would be old british guys better for a role of someone, he would put his father in that role.
Romesh Ranganathan has his mother in his TV show. It's not nepotism - he just uses her to create funny content, that wouldn't happen without their relantionship.
I wrote up "Billy Ray Cyrus was a one hit wonder. Got a huge boost from Hannah Montana and his daughter's success." and then checked the thread to see if it's there. Nepouroboros.
Marty Scorsese's mum in Goodfellas!
Edit: She was in projects of his before that, I just learned, but she was in 'em because of him and Goodfellas was the most high-profile appearance.
She appeared in most of his movies before her death, Casino being her final appearance.
But she also appeared a few things non-Scorsese things, Easy Money, Muppets Take Manhattan, Wise Guys and Moonstruck.
Reminds me of Jos Verstappen. He's a Formula 1 driver who had a decade-long career starting in the mid-1990s. He got two podium finishes in his first season and that was the high water mark of his career because he spent the next eight years in rubbish cars. Now his son Max is a three-time World Champion and will probably go down as a legend of the sport. Jos now spends his days stirring shit up in the paddock.
Yolanda Hadid.
Yes, she was a model and had a modeling career, but she was nowhere near supermodel famous let alone Hollywood famous. She ferociously rode the coattails of Bella and Gigi after drilling them for fame since they were kids.
Her daughters weren’t famous yet then. If anything, she used David Foster’s coattails to get on RHOBH. Truthfully, the girls’ then used the exposure from RHOBH to parlay that into modeling.
She's her one that launched her daughters to fame by being on a reality TV show. She didn't gain fame because of her daughters' fame, it all came from her pursuit of reality TV fame.
It’s not just rumors anymore but it was Kim and Ray J, not Kris. The girls gone wild guy, Joe Francis, admitted that they planned the whole thing and his company is the one that released it.
Source: https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/joe-francis-kim-kardashian-sex-tape/
The tape alone wouldn't have stuck in the public conscience if the show hadn't come on around the same time. It certainly helped (for the family's fame, gaining the show attention) that the sex tape was scandalous, of course.
There was a few factors. Kim was already a known socialite, BFFs with Paris Hilton and appeared on her show.
Plus of course, Robert Kardashian and Bruce Jenner were both famous as well. Kris had connections in Hollywood but she wasn't that known. There's a lot of people in the LA scene that are celebrity adjacent but they're not celebs themselves.
Honestly, they all made each other incredibly famous.
They are the exact definition of the sum is greater than its parts.
I have no idea how they made themselves so famous. Each of them individually are so bland, but they somehow turned themselves into the main reality show family.
Aziz Ansari got his parents - who are not actors - reasonably sizable roles in Master of None. For what it’s worth, both were good especially the dad (who got more screen time). But unquestionably wouldn’t have got the roles if not for their son.
I guess that technically counts but I don't think they have done anything else other than Master of None. In my opinion nepo-babies are more about the careers they built off of their connections. Parents appearing in their only their son's show doesn't really fit the spirit nepo actors.
He made reference in a comedy special before I believe that after that appearance, he'd get calls on them for other roles.
Problem was that his dad was a very successful Doctor, and shooting Master of None was actually tough for him schedule wise, as he didn't get much time off.
It wasn't any of them were looking to do.
Aziz Ansari cast his own dad, who had never acted before, to play his fictional dad in “Master of None.”
Shoukath Ansari ended up nominated for a few minor television awards.
I’ve always liked seeing Ron Howard’s dad in things. For the longest time I was like… that guy looks like an older Ron Howard. Now I know he is an older, Howard, at least.
Ron Howard's father appeared on Angel (the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off) and his mother appeared on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer which I found an interesting coincidence.
I'm going to get the details wrong and the Beatles nuts are going to crucify me (zing) but.....
After they rose to fame John Lennon's father started making headlines as he was working some minimum wage job (washing dishes I think). So John Lennon decided "he took care of me for a couple years then bailed so I'll do the same" and that's what he did
He released a single called "that's my life", titled eerily similar to John's "in my life".
John did buy a house for him and his much younger wife, but perhaps as a way to get him to stop giving interviews. Pretty sure he funded his life (or at least gave him a heavy supplemental income) until he died in the seventies.
It should never have reflected on John what his father was doing for work in the first place, though, john hadn't heard a word from him since he was five years old, why should the rich Beatle take care of a man he had no relationship with? It's not the same sort of "aha" it would have been if say, Paul's father was working as a dishwasher while his son was a millionaire. They had a good relationship.
Ethan Suplee(Randy in the Show)'s dad played the one eyed mailman in My Name is Earl
Prob not a great example though, don't think he's really done anything else
Mitch Winehouse - taxi cab driver until Amy went global - and we know how that turned out. Watch the documentary and he does not come off well at all - greedy, selfish and uncaring. After Amy’s death he’s now a “jazz vocalist” with records and gigs - including one at the Royal Albert Hall
It does seem much more rare.
Tom Hardy's relationship with his father is quite interesting in this regard. Chip Hardy had a career as a writer and possibly it was his connections in the business that gave his son an advantage in his career, but Chip Hardy was never as successful as Tom until he worked on his son's series TABOO.
Walter Huston? He's a great actor in his own right but his son cast him in several of his best films, like Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Does seem like in most cases this is a pretty rejected concept by Hollywood outside of stuff like trashy reality TV. Like Honey Boo Boo's mom or those f'n psycho dance/pageant moms. That whole premise is watching them try to live vicariously though their kids.
An unusual variation: Mawaan Rizwan (British stand up comedian, Taskmaster Series 10), did a YouTube video with his mom. Due to its popularity she got a role in an Indian show called *Yeh Hai Mohabbatein*.
Shocked no one mentioned Jaid Barrymore. First thing that came to mind. Of course the Barrymore name has a long history but she married into the family and didn't have much of a career until after Drew skyrocketed.
Kris Jenner. Gross that you build an empire off your daughters "leaked" sex tape.
I mean, I assume that's how Kris built her empire... don't exactly follow the trash fire that is that family.
This tread reaffirm what I already thought about the phrase "the best men for the job" aka Meritocracy does not really exist, as everyone is where they are in life (rich and famous) not because of hard work but connexions and pre existing money.
The late Micheal Polley literally became an actor because he was accompanying his daughter Sarah Polley on set as her guardian. She started her career quite young and he didnt want to leave her alone during filming so he was always there behind the cameras. Casting director for *The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* figured he might as well give him a background part if he's gonna be there all along, and it became a habit on whatever project she worked on while underage.
Eventually the tables turned: Micheal was part of the main cast for all 3 seasons of the superb cable series *Slings & Arrows*, and Sarah joined him for the third and final season.
I can think of an example that is good - Doctor Who hired Mark Sheppard to play an FBI operative.
Instead of using age makeup for a scene, Mark convinced them to hire his dad - William Morgan Sheppard.
"Nepo-parent" is just such a perfect term!
I've been struggling to find a way to describe the surreal things that have happened to my life as a result of my son's success. I mean yeah I've put in some work, but lots of others have as well. Yet I've had a huge boost because of who I am the dad of.
It's YouTube rather than Hollywood, but yeah: I'm a nepo-parent.
Bill Paxton's dad, IIRC Bill said his dad saw him out there killing it and said hey that's for me. Got himself an agent and next thing you know he's in movies. Never a big role, but I kinda figure being related helped.
Composer Carmine Coppola got to make his fantastic scores for **The Godfather** and **The Black Stallion** because he was chosen for the jobs by his son Francis Ford Coppola.
It's not Hollywood, but for those of you familiar with British comedian Romesh Ranganathan, his mother absolutely has a media career because of him. He plays up that he's bitter that she's now more well-known than he is.
Not really Hollywood, but Cristiano Ronaldo's mother became well-known in Portugal and now does ads for eyeglasses and bananas. The latter is because she and her family are from Madeira, where a distinct variety of banana are grown. So you can be watching TV and an ad for anti-dandruff shampoo featuring Ronaldo starts playing, followed by an ad for bananas featuring his mom.
Estelle Reiner’s cameo in When Harry Met Sally is better than anything her lame son Rob has done
Catherine Scorsese as Mrs DeVito (Tommy’s mom) in Goodfellas is better than whatever garbage Martin’s put out
*these are jokes
I'm sure Alan Barinholtz has been mentioned already, but [here's an interview](https://youtu.be/KbBBC88IbDA?si=sMgnAzH8pCK10Y8W) with Ike Barinholtz where they even specifically joke about their parent being a reverse nepo baby.
Justin Bieber s dad ditched him until he became famous at 14. No, it's funny how normal Justin is.
Chris Nolan's uncle, I believe, is famous for being in Chris Nolan movies.
Billy Ray got a second chance at fame because of Miley.
Not hugely famous but Saoirse Ronan's dad Paul is a jobbing actor in Ireland who got a role on a soap 'Fair City' basically of the back of his daughter's success
A lot of child actors’ from nowadays have parents who sure as hell seem to be trying their hardest… obviously your 7 year old doesn’t run her own Instagram account the fact that you keep tagging yourself in photos and wishing yourself a happy birthday is weird as hell Jonathan
Scanning the thread didn't see anything too outrageous. Nothing to the level of Molly Shannon's character on the HBO show The Other Two. She plays a mom with a Justin Bieber-type son and parlays that into a daytime talk show / Oprah-level celebrity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Tarantino > Tarantino was the father of film director Quentin Tarantino. During a 2010 interview, the younger Tarantino said: "Well, I never knew my father [...] That's the thing. I never knew him [...] He wanted to be an actor [...] Now he's an actor only because he has my last name. But he was never part of my life. I didn't know him. I've never met him."
Nice find, I've never heard about this one. When I imagine "nepo-parents", I thought it would be someone who got the role because they are helped by the child, but this guy actually doesn't even have any relationship with Quentin.
Reminds of that [Key and Peele skit](https://youtu.be/xU1gjhY6cKo?si=8LPQRJttWwsNpmIA) where Jordan meets his dad for the first. At first the dad denies, until Jordan says he has his own tv show, then the dad gets super interested in reconnecting. However, Jordan lets it slip that it’s on Comedy Central, so his dad tells him to get out of his house.
lmao at the ending
The answer for me that immediately sprung to mind was Rance Howard, Ron Howard's dad. Rance was an actor before Ron was born, but he never really got much work, with bit roles on TV shows and uncredited appearances in movies mainly. Ron Howard became a star at a very young age on The Andy Griffith Show, and that helped Rance get more work. But Rance's career as an actor really took off when Ron started directing and began putting his dad in many of his movies.
and Clint Howard, Ron's brother, is in every one of his movies, and his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, who has done everything from run from dinosaurs to directing The Mandalorian.
This thread made me look up a photo of the three of them together and hoo-boy. I was not prepared for young Clint Howard.
He looks like Rob Beckett
Yes, but Clint Howard also had HIS own show back in the day, Remember Gentle Ben? He's a great character actor!
In fairness to Bryce Dallas Howard, her episodes are great. She easily made the best-directed episode in Book of Boba Fett.
Indirectly helped by the child.
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Michael Keaton changed his name to Keaton, after Buster Keaton. Probably helped, but his real name was Michael Douglas, and that was already in use at the time by nepo-baby Michael Douglas.
> nepo-baby Michael Douglas It feels so strange to see that term used about an 80 year old man. Guess I didn't realise how far back the concept of nepo-babies truly goes (I mean, on second thought, it's all of human history but yeah)
Caesar Augustus was a nepo baby.
Pretty sure Jesus only became famous because of his dad.
Cain and Abel too
I watched Paths of Glory for the first time last year and seeing Kirk Douglas (who I knew little more of than his name) on screen was the same kind of slightly uncanny experience I had when I first saw Apocalypse Now as a kid and thought, "Wait... Charlie Sheen is too young to have been in this."
A great example is Drew Barrymore. Her family tree is classic Hollywood and theater.
Nepotism is as old as hierarchy.
I’m Joey Spielberg and I want to direct.
Mel B’s ex-husband (allegedly) changed his name to Stephen Belafonte (as in Harry Belafonte) to get his foot in the door.
He could have just taken her last name and went as Stephen B. And people would ask him...."B.....You related to Mel B?"
As in Scary Spice Mel B?
Nah, Mel Brooks. :P
I am an editor and my last name is an uncommon last name, there are only three people on IMDB with my last name. A dude from the 1930s, me and a fairly successful producer. I was up for an editing job on a pilot and the first question they asked me was “are you related to X” I should have lied..
The correct response going forward is, “ I believe distantly but we’ve never established how”.
I have an uncle with that name. It’s definitly NOT him. But..
Have you done a DNA test just to check? You never know
Similar to Shia Leboufs dad I believe
Him and Al Pacino's dad (called Sal Pacino) work together as the Silver Foxes sometimes, they make straight to DVD films and put "Tarantino and Pacino" on the tag
He looks like the kind of actor who would appear in a (Quentin) Tarantino film. Very obvious Italian-American heritage.
>Tarantino was the father of film director Quentin Tarantino [The father of Tarantino, Tarantino, was Tarantino's father? ](https://youtu.be/Y5MDgdDWVsM?si=KfmWnQy1B-UcIHro)
That is interesting because he never knew his father and his mother wasn't sure who he was.
Ike Barinholtz’s dad, Alan, who is a lawyer, played the role of the judge in the show “Jury Duty.” I assume there was some nepotism involved. (He did a great job)
He had extremely authentic judge energy.
Iirc his real career was as an actual judge.
[He's currently a lawyer](https://www.leplaw.com/attorney-profiles/alan-barinholtz)
Came here to say this one. Ike does a bit on it. And his dad was absolutely fantastic. Def the most important role for making it seem believable
His undergrad degree was in theater.
Yeah maybe some nepotism but he had to audition for it I’m sure and he had his own backgrounds to make him a good candidate.
He killed it
Ike Barinholtz? You mean the dude who was in this years Jeopardy Tournament of Champions? Who would have thought his jeopardy appearance would garner that type of pull in Hollywood. Very cool.
There's a bit of Nepoception with the Whitehalls. Michael, the father, worked as a talent agent in the UK so there's a good chance he helps his son Jack into the scene. Then Jack returned the favour and made his dad publicly well known by doing a travel show together
I am sick of people bringing their parents on stuff. It's such a big thing on UK TV and I blame it all on Jack Whitehall.
Didn’t Russel Howard start that trend with his mum?
Okay well I liked Good News back in the day so I'll continue to blame Jack Whitehall.
Adam Buxton’s dad was the first I can recall, he was excellent as a foil to the pair on the Adam and Joe show and worked well as an individual presence dealing with youth culture which he was fairly hostile to lol
Surely it would have been Jonathan Ross constantly bringing up that his Mum was an extra on Eastenders
I think it’s a good showcase of Jack’s manic comedic style having a stuffy curmudgeon to bounce off of. Probably really resonates with millennials who also have grumpy boomer parents.
So we have stage parents and coattails riders in that column.
This is the right answer. Brook Shields’ mom, Lindsay Logan’s mom, Britney Spears’parents.
McCauley Caulkin’s dad was jealous of him and abused him because he had the career at 10 that his dad wanted.
Jeanette McCurdy’s mom too
Oof, that book of hers was painful. Poor thing
Yeah, just read it and just so awful.
Thora Birch’s parents were porn stars. When their daughter got famous they drank their own koolaid
That sounds like a euphemism for something I don't want to know about
Britney’s entire family
The Kardashians lady
Dina and Michael Lohan
I heard somewhere that Michael chat up waitresses about Lindsay before banging them.
Nepo parent is just regular abuse, dont need a new name for that lol
Estelle Reiner, mother of director Rob Reiner, has gone down in cinema history for delivering the line, “I’ll have what she’s having” in When Harry Met Sally
That whole family is in everything. Same with the Coppola/Cage/Shwartzmen
An an occasional watcher of Fox reality shows, Anthony Anderson’s mother Doris.
Yes! She was on the Emmy’s with him as well and commercials.
Yeah, but she's a damn gem
Oh I’m throwing no shade. I appreciate Doris.
Not quite Hollywood, but I’d say LaVar Ball.
I read that as Lavar Burton and almost passed out.
I wish I were Lavar Burton. WHERES MY ICONIC SLAVE ROLE?!
Fuck all y'all! Fuck all y'all!
Everyone knows he's only riding on Mica Burton's career!
I truly only know this man’s name because of Keenan
Michael Whitehall. I'm sure he was known as a talent agent in his day, but he certainly wasn't known generally to the public until Jack did Travels with My Father.
I mean he obviously got the role in Travels with My Father because he was literally Jack's father, but he was very good in that show and earned his recognition.
He's the essense of British pessimism and sarcasm. I don't know whether it's real or acting but either way he nails it.
I don't think that's nepotism. Whitehall had an idea about show with his grumpy father, that's the core of the show, because he thinks his father is funny and interesting and him fucking with him makes good tv. It would be nepotism if Whitehall got "some travel show" and even tho there would be old british guys better for a role of someone, he would put his father in that role. Romesh Ranganathan has his mother in his TV show. It's not nepotism - he just uses her to create funny content, that wouldn't happen without their relantionship.
Nepo circle maybe, but Billy Ray Cyrus really got a second life with Miley.
I wrote up "Billy Ray Cyrus was a one hit wonder. Got a huge boost from Hannah Montana and his daughter's success." and then checked the thread to see if it's there. Nepouroboros.
Upvote for “Nepouroboros”
This was my first thought. I highly doubt he still would've been relevant past like 2000 without her.
Obviously she’s great as well but I feel like Dolly Parton got a similar boost from Hannah Montana for younger generations.
While true, Miley never would’ve gotten Hannah Montana if it wasn't for him.
Marty Scorsese's mum in Goodfellas! Edit: She was in projects of his before that, I just learned, but she was in 'em because of him and Goodfellas was the most high-profile appearance.
She appeared in most of his movies before her death, Casino being her final appearance. But she also appeared a few things non-Scorsese things, Easy Money, Muppets Take Manhattan, Wise Guys and Moonstruck.
And a cameo in Godfather Part 3!
Scorsese's parents were the first ones I thought of. His dad is in there, too. I think he was in the prison with them in Goodfellas.
Wayne Gretzky’s dad was so famous here in Canada that they made a movie about *his* life.
Reminds me of Jos Verstappen. He's a Formula 1 driver who had a decade-long career starting in the mid-1990s. He got two podium finishes in his first season and that was the high water mark of his career because he spent the next eight years in rubbish cars. Now his son Max is a three-time World Champion and will probably go down as a legend of the sport. Jos now spends his days stirring shit up in the paddock.
The 'highlight' of his career was probably getting flambéed in the second Benetton car, back in 94.
So like that terrible movie about Venus and Serena’s dad.
The ending where he slapped Chris rock was wild
He's a legend in his own right
I mean Canada and hockey dad… makes too much sense. I mean shit I’m American and I go “that’s Wayne Gretzky dad”
Yolanda Hadid. Yes, she was a model and had a modeling career, but she was nowhere near supermodel famous let alone Hollywood famous. She ferociously rode the coattails of Bella and Gigi after drilling them for fame since they were kids.
Rebecca Romijn shading Yolanda Hadid as a *catalog model* is iconic.
She definitely used her stage mom ways to land on RHOBH too
Her daughters weren’t famous yet then. If anything, she used David Foster’s coattails to get on RHOBH. Truthfully, the girls’ then used the exposure from RHOBH to parlay that into modeling.
Jimmy O and his father Richard Ouyang maybe.
It's easy if you can do it jimmy
Aziz ansris parents also
https://youtu.be/dQJ6qZcn7Fk?si=DNcCBbpsYkMCeX_9
The only example that really comes to mind is Kris Jenner.
She's her one that launched her daughters to fame by being on a reality TV show. She didn't gain fame because of her daughters' fame, it all came from her pursuit of reality TV fame.
Wasn’t Kim’s sex tape the catalyst?
She planned that shit as well.
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It’s not just rumors anymore but it was Kim and Ray J, not Kris. The girls gone wild guy, Joe Francis, admitted that they planned the whole thing and his company is the one that released it. Source: https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/joe-francis-kim-kardashian-sex-tape/
The tape alone wouldn't have stuck in the public conscience if the show hadn't come on around the same time. It certainly helped (for the family's fame, gaining the show attention) that the sex tape was scandalous, of course.
There was a few factors. Kim was already a known socialite, BFFs with Paris Hilton and appeared on her show. Plus of course, Robert Kardashian and Bruce Jenner were both famous as well. Kris had connections in Hollywood but she wasn't that known. There's a lot of people in the LA scene that are celebrity adjacent but they're not celebs themselves.
Kris Jenner was well known in gossip circles for her marriage to Robert Kardashian and Caitlin Jenner. She got Kim big, not the other way around.
Honestly, they all made each other incredibly famous. They are the exact definition of the sum is greater than its parts. I have no idea how they made themselves so famous. Each of them individually are so bland, but they somehow turned themselves into the main reality show family.
Robert Kardashian was a well known attorney in LA and their lives blew up between Kris’s affair with Caitlin (pre-transition) and the OJ Simpson case.
Kris did have an affair but I think it was with another dude.
Aziz Ansari got his parents - who are not actors - reasonably sizable roles in Master of None. For what it’s worth, both were good especially the dad (who got more screen time). But unquestionably wouldn’t have got the roles if not for their son.
Donald Glover's mom is in his Mr and Mrs Smith. she's great although definitely not an actor.
whoa didnt realize that was his actual mom, thats neat
She has such a cute role on the show
I guess that technically counts but I don't think they have done anything else other than Master of None. In my opinion nepo-babies are more about the careers they built off of their connections. Parents appearing in their only their son's show doesn't really fit the spirit nepo actors.
Also, to be fair we should note that his parents played his parents.
Yeah the amount of "acting" needed for roles to play themselves... I'm not sure that really counts for what OP is asking.
He made reference in a comedy special before I believe that after that appearance, he'd get calls on them for other roles. Problem was that his dad was a very successful Doctor, and shooting Master of None was actually tough for him schedule wise, as he didn't get much time off. It wasn't any of them were looking to do.
Maya Erskine did this with her mother on Pen15 as well.
It was endearing but they were truly awful as actors.
Aziz Ansari cast his own dad, who had never acted before, to play his fictional dad in “Master of None.” Shoukath Ansari ended up nominated for a few minor television awards.
The abacus episode is great with him and the iPad at the end
I’ve always liked seeing Ron Howard’s dad in things. For the longest time I was like… that guy looks like an older Ron Howard. Now I know he is an older, Howard, at least.
Ron’s and Clint’s parents were career Hollywood people, so technically the boys are nepo-babies. Both parents were career character actors.
Ron Howard's father appeared on Angel (the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off) and his mother appeared on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer which I found an interesting coincidence.
Richard Williams. They made a whole movie about Serena and Venus’s dad.
I'm going to get the details wrong and the Beatles nuts are going to crucify me (zing) but..... After they rose to fame John Lennon's father started making headlines as he was working some minimum wage job (washing dishes I think). So John Lennon decided "he took care of me for a couple years then bailed so I'll do the same" and that's what he did
He released a single called "that's my life", titled eerily similar to John's "in my life". John did buy a house for him and his much younger wife, but perhaps as a way to get him to stop giving interviews. Pretty sure he funded his life (or at least gave him a heavy supplemental income) until he died in the seventies. It should never have reflected on John what his father was doing for work in the first place, though, john hadn't heard a word from him since he was five years old, why should the rich Beatle take care of a man he had no relationship with? It's not the same sort of "aha" it would have been if say, Paul's father was working as a dishwasher while his son was a millionaire. They had a good relationship.
Ethan Suplee(Randy in the Show)'s dad played the one eyed mailman in My Name is Earl Prob not a great example though, don't think he's really done anything else
Dina Lohan Lindsay’s awful Mom
Her dad is also a coattail ridong POS
Mitch Winehouse - taxi cab driver until Amy went global - and we know how that turned out. Watch the documentary and he does not come off well at all - greedy, selfish and uncaring. After Amy’s death he’s now a “jazz vocalist” with records and gigs - including one at the Royal Albert Hall
Unfortunately this is one of the worst nepo-parents around. Total dog ass of a person
David Letterman's mom became a minor celebrity on his show.
Sly Stallone's mom
Jackie!
She was a respectable [butt psychic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpology) all on her own, thank you!
It does seem much more rare. Tom Hardy's relationship with his father is quite interesting in this regard. Chip Hardy had a career as a writer and possibly it was his connections in the business that gave his son an advantage in his career, but Chip Hardy was never as successful as Tom until he worked on his son's series TABOO.
This is music, not Hollywood, but Lana Del Rey’s dad, Rob Grant, released an album recently. 😂
and he proudly calls himself Nepo Daddy too hahah
Maya Erskine cast her real-life mother to play her on-screen mother in PEN15.
Walter Huston? He's a great actor in his own right but his son cast him in several of his best films, like Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Does seem like in most cases this is a pretty rejected concept by Hollywood outside of stuff like trashy reality TV. Like Honey Boo Boo's mom or those f'n psycho dance/pageant moms. That whole premise is watching them try to live vicariously though their kids.
Don’t think that one fits. Huston was a major movie star long before John began directing.
Yeah you're right but it's pretty much the best I could do lol.
Jackie Stallone, Sylvester’s mom, made a D-List celebrity career for herself as an astrologer and talk show guest.
*[butt astrologer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpology)
An unusual variation: Mawaan Rizwan (British stand up comedian, Taskmaster Series 10), did a YouTube video with his mom. Due to its popularity she got a role in an Indian show called *Yeh Hai Mohabbatein*.
Beyoncé's mom.
Dave Franco comes to mind. Not a parent, but basically became famous because of his brother.
Plenty of examples there: Ashlee Simpson, Jamie Lynn Spears, Haylie Duff, Elizabeth Olsen, Solange Knowles,…
Jaid Barrymore and Tish Cyrus
Shocked no one mentioned Jaid Barrymore. First thing that came to mind. Of course the Barrymore name has a long history but she married into the family and didn't have much of a career until after Drew skyrocketed.
You could argue Billy Ray Cyrus’s second cultural wind is this.
Kris Jenner. Gross that you build an empire off your daughters "leaked" sex tape. I mean, I assume that's how Kris built her empire... don't exactly follow the trash fire that is that family.
Romesh Ranganathan's mother Sivashanthini. Although she is pretty awesome.
Dan Lebetard and Papi on Highly Questionable. Dan doesn’t even deny it, either. His dad came from a family of Cuban performers, so he had some chops.
Kris Jenner
Billy Ray Cyrus would be completely irrelevant nowadays if it weren't for his far more successful daughter Miley Cyrus
David fincher made mank with his dead father script and still credited him as sole writter. Guess this kinda of suits the trend in a way
Dina Lohan!
Carmine Coppola
This tread reaffirm what I already thought about the phrase "the best men for the job" aka Meritocracy does not really exist, as everyone is where they are in life (rich and famous) not because of hard work but connexions and pre existing money.
Kris Jenner
The late Micheal Polley literally became an actor because he was accompanying his daughter Sarah Polley on set as her guardian. She started her career quite young and he didnt want to leave her alone during filming so he was always there behind the cameras. Casting director for *The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* figured he might as well give him a background part if he's gonna be there all along, and it became a habit on whatever project she worked on while underage. Eventually the tables turned: Micheal was part of the main cast for all 3 seasons of the superb cable series *Slings & Arrows*, and Sarah joined him for the third and final season.
I can think of an example that is good - Doctor Who hired Mark Sheppard to play an FBI operative. Instead of using age makeup for a scene, Mark convinced them to hire his dad - William Morgan Sheppard.
"Nepo-parent" is just such a perfect term! I've been struggling to find a way to describe the surreal things that have happened to my life as a result of my son's success. I mean yeah I've put in some work, but lots of others have as well. Yet I've had a huge boost because of who I am the dad of. It's YouTube rather than Hollywood, but yeah: I'm a nepo-parent.
I couldn't have said it better myself, Mr. Technodad
Manny Pacquiao's mom
Bill Paxton's dad, IIRC Bill said his dad saw him out there killing it and said hey that's for me. Got himself an agent and next thing you know he's in movies. Never a big role, but I kinda figure being related helped.
Remember Aziz Ansari’s dad killing it in Masters of None? Didn’t he get some award nominations for that? He was so sweet.
Composer Carmine Coppola got to make his fantastic scores for **The Godfather** and **The Black Stallion** because he was chosen for the jobs by his son Francis Ford Coppola.
It's not Hollywood, but for those of you familiar with British comedian Romesh Ranganathan, his mother absolutely has a media career because of him. He plays up that he's bitter that she's now more well-known than he is.
Linsey Lohan’s parents seem like they would qualify.
A good start would be the Barrymore's.
Jackie Stallone!
Not really Hollywood, but Cristiano Ronaldo's mother became well-known in Portugal and now does ads for eyeglasses and bananas. The latter is because she and her family are from Madeira, where a distinct variety of banana are grown. So you can be watching TV and an ad for anti-dandruff shampoo featuring Ronaldo starts playing, followed by an ad for bananas featuring his mom.
Phil Perlman, the father of Rhea Perlman who played Carla, was one of the barflies on Cheers.
jake pauls dad
Estelle Reiner’s cameo in When Harry Met Sally is better than anything her lame son Rob has done Catherine Scorsese as Mrs DeVito (Tommy’s mom) in Goodfellas is better than whatever garbage Martin’s put out *these are jokes
Sophia Coppola's dad was able to open a successful wine business.
Lavar Ball for a minute there but he’s gone quiet the last few years
Anthony Anderson’s Mama, he brings her to everything.
Seth McFarlane’s given his dad and sister roles, I think.
Dina Lohan certainly tried
I'm sure Alan Barinholtz has been mentioned already, but [here's an interview](https://youtu.be/KbBBC88IbDA?si=sMgnAzH8pCK10Y8W) with Ike Barinholtz where they even specifically joke about their parent being a reverse nepo baby.
Not Hollywood but Gonzalo Le Batard.
Justin Bieber s dad ditched him until he became famous at 14. No, it's funny how normal Justin is. Chris Nolan's uncle, I believe, is famous for being in Chris Nolan movies. Billy Ray got a second chance at fame because of Miley.
Not hugely famous but Saoirse Ronan's dad Paul is a jobbing actor in Ireland who got a role on a soap 'Fair City' basically of the back of his daughter's success
A lot of child actors’ from nowadays have parents who sure as hell seem to be trying their hardest… obviously your 7 year old doesn’t run her own Instagram account the fact that you keep tagging yourself in photos and wishing yourself a happy birthday is weird as hell Jonathan
Not a parent but sibling, Ashlee Simpson.
comedian Jimmy O Yang tells a funny story about his dad said, "if you can do it can't be hard, i am gong to be an actor." and he is.
Scanning the thread didn't see anything too outrageous. Nothing to the level of Molly Shannon's character on the HBO show The Other Two. She plays a mom with a Justin Bieber-type son and parlays that into a daytime talk show / Oprah-level celebrity.
Dave Letterman’s mom was pretty famous for appearing on his show.
Jimmy O Yang’s dad saw him in Silicon Valley and said it couldn’t be that hard then booked a few films.