There are plenty of successful celebrity siblings in Hollywood, like Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Luke and Owen Wilson, and Ben and Casey Affleck, just to name a few.
But it's hard for anyone to make it in the entertainment biz, even if you have a famous
big bro or sis to give you a leg up on the competition.
So for every star sibling who did manage to carve out their own career, there are plenty
more still toiling away in the shadows of their more famous kin.
These are some celebrity siblings who only got a sliver of screen time.
Andrew and Matthew Lawrence
While older brother, Joey, has navigated his way from being a child star on Gimme a Break!
to huge hits with Blossom and then Melissa & Joey...
Whoa… unbelievable!"
...his younger brothers, Andrew and Matthew, didn't have quite the same luck.
Andrew and Matthew both played younger versions of Joey on Blossom, then went on to star alongside
their big bro in the sitcom Brotherly Love.
Matthew, who had already starred in Mrs. Doubtfire at this point, went on to a pretty decent
run on Boy Meets World followed by a career-cooling part in The Hot Chick with Rob Schneider.
"Hello?"
"I should have made love to you when I had the chance."
"Dude, who was that?"
"I think it was my old camp counselor."
Andrew went to voice work on the Disney series, Recess, then a steady string of one-off appearances
on network procedural shows like CSI: NY, Bones, CSI: Cyber, and NCIS: Los Angeles.
Both of the younger Lawrence boys also ended up back on Joey's coattails for small parts
on Melissa & Joey.
Haylie Duff
Back in 2004, 20/20 interviewed the Duff sisters and asked them point blank if Hilary's success
caused any tension in the relationship.
Haylie's reply was, "We never really thought about it before!"
Hilary said her sister's future was "just a matter of timing."
Haylie went on to release her own albums, write songs for Hilary, and star in her own
list of movies and TV shows, including 7th Heaven.
But if you asked the majority of people what they know her from, they'd probably say "She's
the girl from Napoleon Dynamite."
The world seems to only have an appetite for one Duff family superstar.
"That makes you larger than life!"
Haylie most recently switched gears, and started her blog, The Real Girl's Kitchen.
The new culinary direction seems to be Haylie's lane, and she now has a cookbook, two cooking
series and has been a guest on many more food-related shows, like Chopped Junior, Food Network Star,
and Beat Bobby Flay.
Michael Buscemi
Steve Buscemi is a veteran character actor who was able to make the leap into a leading
role on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
That's a significant accomplishment for any actor, let alone one who's made a career out
of playing supporting roles.
And though his infamous mug seems like it's one-of-a-kind, there is another Buscemi, Steve's
younger brother Michael, and they're practically twins.
Michael is also an actor, although his recognizable credits are mostly from movies that Steve
was also in, like I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, Interview, and Blended.
"Michael and Steve, look at you two.
The amount of money your parents must have saved on Halloween masks."
The Buscemi boys now star together on Steve's AOL series, Park Bench, a short-format interview
show in the style of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
They even use their similar looks for a gag on the show here Michael hosts a fictional
rival show called Bench Talk, in which which he steals guests from Steve.
"We're doing a show, you know, called Park Bench.
What's the name of your show?"
"Bench Talk."
"Bench Talk?!"
"Bench Talk."
When asked by Fast Company how he feels about working in the shadow of his brother all these
years, Michael said:
"Imagine you're a good plumber and your brother is a good plumber as well and is getting a
lot of business.
They're talking about him, you know, and you say, 'Well, I'm a plumber.
I can fix your toilet.'
But instead, they're saying, 'Well, I know this great, great plumber …"
Steve's response to that was, "You know, he's a pretty great plumber himself."
​Joe Estevez
Joe Estevez is Martin Sheen's younger brother, and of course, the uncle of actors Emilio
Estevez and Charlie Sheen.
He's also by far the busiest actor out of all of the lesser-known siblings on this list,
with an astonishing 277 credits on his IMDb page including 18 credits in 2010 alone.
But he did get his start on one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, Apocalypse
Now.
In an interview on the Shane Devins Show, he shared about a call he got from director
Francis Ford Coppola:
"So he called me to San Francisco to do the narration on Apocalypse Now.
But that's my voice on Apocalypse Now, doing the narration."
After standing in and taking over narration for his brother as Captain Willard in the
Vietnam war epic, Joe returned to his budding B-movie legacy and never looked back.
A former factory worker, Joe brought his blue collar work ethic right onto the set with
him.
"I think myself like most actors.
We like to work we'll do our 10, 12, 13 hours a day… go home and go to bed."
Daniel Baldwin
Any of the Baldwins other than Alec could probably make this list, but Stephen and Billy
both had brief flings with mainstream success.
So for this list, we're going to focus on Daniel.
The peak of his fame was in the early '90s with his stint on Homicide: Life on the Street.
By that time he'd already developed a detrimental drug habit.
"I'm a straight up c------- addict.
I don't truly drink very much, but I have abused alcohol in the past.
And I don't use any other drugs.
I don't take pills, don't do anything."
Though he continued to work steadily in B-movies and TV bit parts, his career was constantly
interrupted by arrests for wild behavior related to his drug use, like his nude drug-fueled
rampage in a Plaza hotel suite in 1998, which got him arrested and slapped with drug possession
charges.
He continued the cycle of getting clean, then relapsing for years.
"I went to rehab nine times.
And it wasn't until I went to this facility that I really learned what I needed to do
to stay sober long-term and reclaim my life."
Neil Connery
You wouldn't think anyone would consider it a good idea to try to break into Hollywood
by spoofing their wildly successful brother's most popular character, but that's exactly
how Neil Connery — yes, Sean Connery's younger brother — attempted to do it in 1967 with
the film Operation Kid Brother.
In the movie, Neil Connery stars as Doctor…
Neil Connery, a surgeon who gets wrapped up in some kind of evil plot by a group of supervillains
who plan to hijack nuclear weapons.
In the end, he has an archery battle with the main villain, because at that point they
weren't even trying to make any kind of sense anymore.
The movie also didn't even try to pretend it wasn't a James Bond ripoff, going so far
as casting previous Bond film stars.
Needless to say, Operation Kid Brother did not send Neil Connery to the top of the A-List,
or even the D-List for that matter.
With a total of 10 acting credits to his name, Connery mostly worked as a "plasterer" until
an accident in 1983 also derailed that career.
Still, is it too much to ask for there to be an unknown Daniel Radcliffe sibling out
there, just waiting for someone to greenlight a Harry Potter spoof, called Kid Wizard: Do
My Parents Even Care I'm Alive?
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