rashida jones dad is one of the most
famous music producers of all time but
it sounds like she often holds all the
power in their relationship keep
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about celebs with surprisingly famous
parents
chris pine is probably best known as
captain kirk and jj abram's 2009 reboot
of star trek as well as its sequels but
an entirely different media franchise
actually paved pine's way into hollywood
chips the classic series about a pair of
motorcycle writing cops featured chris's
father robert in a recurring role as
sergeant joseph betrayer to chris's
credit he reportedly only used his
famous dad to help him land a job as a
production assistant a three-year-old
chris actually made an appearance
alongside his dad on an episode of chips
but acting wasn't something he would sit
on from an early age as he revealed
during an interview in 2016 i just
started doing plays in college and then
i went to la then i got an agent it just
sort of rolled like a very slow snowball
into what i'm doing now it's very weird
after his production assistant days the
younger pine then worked his way up from
building sets to starring in the likes
of blockbusters like wonder woman
maya rudolph is known for making us
laugh but did you know she comes from a
musical family the snl alum is the
daughter of composer richard rudolph and
singer minnie riperton who died when
maya was just a child ripperton shot to
the top of the charts in 1975 with the
classic pop song lovin you both of
maya's parents contributed to the tune
which had humble origins as a lullaby
that ripperton would sing to maya and
her brother mark in 2018 rudolph told
the new york times when i was a kid and
people would come up to me or stare at
me because of my mom i didn't like it i
used to think oh they're staring at my
hair because it's so big and ugly
because i didn't realize people were
just staring at my mother like wow
that's her daughter maya is now the
mother of four children of her own with
licorice pizza director paul thomas
anderson she talked to us weekly in 2017
about having a big family as she gushed
i feel really lucky it's like this extra
layer of life you never knew about for
the bridesmaid star knowing that her
mom's legacy lives on warms her heart as
she told you discover in 2019 love in
you was the debut of the special quality
that my mother had and people just were
blown away
katie cassidy burst onto the scene with
parts on 7th heaven supernatural and the
melrose place reboot before landing her
most prominent role on the hit cw
superhero show arrow if her last name
sounds familiar that's probably because
she's the daughter of the late david
cassidy star of the hit 70s sitcom the
partridge family but david has admitted
in interviews that he didn't raise katie
instead she lived with her mother cherie
williams in the years leading up to his
death katie and david became so
estranged that she was reportedly left
out of his will although she also
reportedly rushed to his side when he
was hospitalized before his death on
november 21 2017. my
father you know
he had
demons as we all do
suffice it to say that katie didn't get
much help from her father to break into
showbiz as she explained to fox news in
2018 david cassidy is my father yes but
for me it was always really important
with acting to stay in class study it
and earn it on my own my dad didn't help
me at the end of the day talent is
talent you have to be able to deliver
as the son of british actors timothy
carlton and wanda ventham benedict
cumberbatch follows the trend of not
using his famous parents last names but
in a weird twist he actually does go by
his real family moniker his mother
reportedly warned him not to do so
because the cumberbatch surname which
his father chose to not use
professionally is heavily associated
with slavery fascinatingly enough though
benedict has purposefully taken roles in
films that highlight the awfulness of
the slave industry to atone for his
ancestors benedict's parents also didn't
really encourage their son to be an
actor as they reportedly wanted him to
pursue a career as a barrister instead
however as cumberbatch explained to
variety after carlton saw his son
perform in amadeus while he was still at
university he told him you're better at
this than i ever was or ever will be
can't wait to watch you and support you
in what i think is going to be a
fantastic career benedict's folks
definitely came around as they even
portrayed his character's parents in an
episode of sherlock
eve hewson star of the netflix series
behind her eyes has a very famous father
his name is paul david hewson but you
probably know him better as bono so has
the u2 frontman helped his daughter
along the way according to houston
that's a big fat yes as she told the
mirror in 2021 i always say that my
dad's a crazy stage mother initially
bono and eve's mom ally didn't want her
to pursue acting but now they're all in
as eve explained i just ask him his
opinion on many things we're constantly
giving each other advice to be honest i
tell him all of my opinions about his
career so it's a two-way street but
while bono is plenty supportive he can
also be pretty embarrassing as eve
revealed to ok when she was a kid he
used to blast backstreet boys in his car
in traffic on the way to school he'd get
out of the car in his dressing gown and
dance with his glasses on and we'd be
mortified he he's a fun time but he he
knows how to embarrass me that's for
sure we imagine that wasn't exactly what
you'd call a beautiful day
when it comes to last names it doesn't
get more common than jones so it would
be easy to assume that parks and
recreation star rashida jones comes from
an average family but that couldn't be
further from the truth as she's actually
the daughter of legendary music producer
quincy jones however if you want to know
who really wields the power in this
family consider this rashida had quincy
recast on her tbs sitcom angie tribeca
after he played her tv dad in the pilot
episode don't worry though as there were
no hard feelings for all of quincy
jones's accomplishments he got recast in
his daughter's show
playing her father as for rasheeda's
mother that would be the late actress
peggy lipton and despite her famous
pedigree rashida didn't spend her
childhood planning on an acting career
as she admitted to the guardian in 2014
when i would talk about being interested
in the law as a kid my parents would be
like that's so cute she has her own
thing it wasn't until rashida's college
years that she realized her desire to
act but landing roles didn't exactly
come easy for her as she explained
during a tribeca talks event in 2019
it's not a meritocracy above all the
people that i know in the business are
resilient
grammy-nominated singer-songwriter elle
king is the daughter of a guy with a
great voice though he's known more for
making people laugh she was born while
her dad rob schneider was a writer for
snl and right before he became a cast
member on the sketch show but he wasn't
a huge part of her childhood as she was
raised by her mom london king and her
stepdad justin in 2018 she opened up to
people magazine about her complicated
relationship with her famous father as
she put it my whole childhood my dad was
a workaholic they eventually reconnected
after she got out of her own destructive
marriage schneider is now married to
actor producer patricia maya schneider
and king's two young half-sisters
prompted her to reconnect with her dad
in 2018 as she explained to people i
wanted my sisters to have good memories
of me from their childhood when they
grew family really is so important so
through that me just kind of showing up
and trying to be good for them really
made it easy because there were no bad
motives by 2020 king was even performing
a duet with her dad for his netflix
special dear old dad eventually became
his daughter's biggest fan and she's
been eating it up as she told people
every other day i'll get texts in all
caps of like your record's gonna change
the world i can't wait for your fans to
hear what you've made i love you i'm so
proud of you and that's a beautiful
wonderful thing i used to be rob
schneider now i'm
l king's dad
once upon a time in hollywood actress
margaret quali is the daughter of one of
hollywood's most enduring stars that
would be andy mcdowell who's probably
best known for the 90s films four
weddings and a funeral and groundhog day
in 2021 the two even starred together as
mother and daughter in the netflix
series made in an interview with
collider kwali recalled finding out
about the job opening and thinking my
mom's gotta do this and i called
producer margot robbie and she loved the
idea working with a seasoned pro who
also happened to have given birth to her
was quite the coup for quali as she
described it it's the biggest cheat i've
ever managed to pull off mcdowell has
just as many compliments for her
daughter as she told the washington post
in 2021 we are very close we're both
truly emotional beings and we spend a
lot of time together i was so happy to
work with my daughter and mcdowell knew
that a good opportunity like maid
doesn't come along that often as she
told usa today every moment was precious
for me i really wanted to do a good job
because it meant everything to me
because i was scared it would never
happen again
law order svu star mariska hargitay is
the daughter of actress jane mansfield
and hungarian bodybuilder mickey
hargitay in a 2018 interview with closer
weekly mariska admitted that growing up
the daughter of famous parents wasn't
always easy as she put it in some ways
being the daughter of a hollywood icon
has been a burden i used to hate
constant references to my mom because i
wanted to be known for myself mariska's
connection to her mother is also marked
by tragedy as she still has a scar on
her face from the fateful day that
mansfield was killed in a car accident
that spared her children including
three-year-old mariska acting actually
wasn't on mariska's radar until she
landed a part in a school play as she
revealed to people magazine in 1985 i
want to be an actress not a model or a
pretty face mariska has worked hard to
make her own name in hollywood though
she's also ultimately made peace with
her lineage
riley keough may not have a famous last
name but she does bear a striking
resemblance to her mom lisa marie
presley as well as her grandfather elvis
presley during her childhood she split
her time with her mom and her musician
dad danny keough who divorced when riley
was six as she revealed to the guardian
in 2017 i grew up very privileged with
my mother but my dad didn't live like
that actually my memories of growing up
with him were so colorful and eccentric
and fun when i was like eight i told him
i want to grow up and be poor like you
riley certainly didn't grow up poor
though and she's certainly getting good
work often enough nowadays that she
hasn't exactly fulfilled her childhood
declaration to her dad she's admitted
that she was super shy growing up and
she also remembers her mother telling
her to work hard otherwise she wouldn't
be taken seriously and when it came to
getting her start in hollywood being a
pressly didn't exactly hurt as she put
it to the guardian like the normal story
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