Now that the dust has finally settled on the nepo-baby conversation—which briefly turned everyone on the internet into an amateur genealogist in 2022—it’s time we faced the facts. Celebrities, like other people, have children. The performing arts are a challenging and vulnerable but also creative and exciting field. It is the most natural thing in the world that some of those children would follow in their parents’ footsteps—and thank goodness! Some of the greatest actors we have are the offspring of other performers and artists. (What would Hollywood be without Liza Minnelli? Jane Fonda? Jamie Lee Curtis? Gwyneth Paltrow? Kate Hudson?! The long and illustrious list goes on and on.)
And it’s all the better when the two generations meet up in a single project—which is why here, we’ve rounded up 15 parent-child duos who have shared the big screen.