34 Celebrities Who Shared the Movie and TV Screen with Their Children

Adam Sandler, Sadie Sandler and Sunny Sandler

Adam Sandler‘s daughters, Sadie and Sunny, have virtually grown up on set alongside their celebrity father.

Together with their mother, Jackie Sandler, each have appeared in multiple Adam-led films — making cameos in 2010’s Grown Ups and 2012’s That is My Boy, garnering extra display screen time in 2017’s Sandy Wexler and 2020’s Hubie Halloween and voicing animated characters within the Hotel Transylvania franchise and 2023’s Leo.

The Sandler sisters nabbed their first starring roles within the 2023 Netflix film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, with Sunny taking part in Stacy Friedman and Sadie as her older sister, Ronnie.

In 2023, Adam instructed PEOPLE that “it is good to be taught” along with his daughters and shared the recommendation he gave about their performing careers up to now.

“I inform them to be sure to feel good about what you do and the way arduous you labored, and also you choose your self,” mentioned the Happy Gilmore star. “Do not let too many individuals attempt to get in your head. In the event you really feel such as you gave it your all, that is all you possibly can ask.”

Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell

Wyatt Russell had his dad, Kurt Russell, by his aspect in his first few huge display screen appearances — first as a younger orphan in 1996’s Escape from L.A., then as a youthful model of his father in 1998’s Soldier. Little did he know, 25 years later, he’d as soon as once more step into the position of his dad’s youthful self.

On the Apple TV+ sequence Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Kurt and Wyatt portray the same character, Lee Shaw, a member of the secretive group Monarch, a gaggle dedicated to finding out huge unidentified terrestrial organisms (MUTOs). The sequence follows Shaw throughout two timelines, tracing his story arc from a devoted U.S. Military officer (Wyatt) in his youth to a seasoned veteran deeply embedded inside Monarch in his later years (Kurt).

The Rivals of Amziah King actor mentioned that after watching his son Wyatt’s efficiency, he modified the best way he approached the character of Shaw.

“I was no longer really watching my son, Wyatt or something,” he instructed PEOPLE in 2024. “It actually hit me that this isn’t a father-son factor. This is similar individual, and I used to be going to must form of come up with some issues and carry them by, and it was actually constructing on what he was doing.”

Carrie Fisher and Billie Lourd

It’s secure to say the Drive is robust within the Fisher household.

Scream Queens star Billie Lourd made her characteristic movie debut subsequent to her mom, the late Carrie Fisher, in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Lourd was solid as Lieutenant Connix, a member of the Resistance serving underneath General Leia Organa, performed by her mother.

In a 2019 essay for TIME, Lourd shared moments on the set along with her mom, together with the primary time she obtained the signature Princess Leia double buns.

“Though she complained for years about how the long-lasting Leia buns ‘additional widened my already broad face,’ she desperately needed me to hold on the face-widening household custom!” wrote Lourd. “Some folks keep on their household title, some folks keep on vacation traditions — I used to be going to hold on the household coiffure.”

Fisher died after going into cardiac arrest in 2016 at age 60.

In 2024, on the anniversary of her mom’s loss of life on Dec. 27, Lourd wrote on Instagram, “I watch the magic that’s my son and daughter and I do know she is a bit of that magic.”

Diane Ladd and Laura Dern

The daughter of acclaimed actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern, Laura Dern has become a prominent figure in Hollywood in her personal proper, incomes her first Oscar for Finest Supporting Actress in 2020 for Netflix’s Marriage Story.

Although she appeared as a baby in just a few of Ladd’s earlier initiatives, Laura and her mother did not crew up till David Lynch‘s surreal highway journey movie Wild at Coronary heart in 1990.

“It is at all times been a want of mine to work with my mother and father, so this was a want come true,” Laura told Interview magazine on the time. “The primary day we did a scene collectively, I got here down the steps, and my mother pointed that finger at me [and said the line:] ‘Do not you dare speak to that boy once more!’ You already know, I’ve seen that finger for 23 years. And I began laughing, she began laughing, then the entire crew broke up!”

She added, “It appears like a cliché, however she’s [Ladd] actually one among my closest mates, and so’s my dad.”

In 1992, Laura made Academy Awards historical past with Ladd after they each have been nominated for his or her performances within the historic drama Rambling Rose, marking the primary time a mother-daughter duo was honored for a similar movie.

The 2 would later seem as costars in Citizen Ruth (1996), Daddy and Them (2001), Inland Empire (2006) and on HBO’s Enlightened. Artwork imitates life, as Laura and Ladd typically play mom and daughter on-screen, and in 2023, the duo released the joint book Honey, Baby, Mine of their intimate conversations.

“We each longed to speak concerning the issues that we might left unsaid in our life collectively,” Laura instructed PEOPLE.

Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke

Since her activate Stranger Issues as monster hunter and Steve Harrington wrangler Robin Buckley, Maya has continued to rack up on-screen credit — just a few reverse her movie star mother and father.

In 2020, Maya and father Ethan starred within the historic miniseries The Good Lord Bird. She performed Annie Brown, the daughter of abolitionist John Brown (Ethan), who additionally created the restricted sequence.

“It is somewhat mind-blowing,” Ethan mentioned of his daughter’s expertise throughout an look on Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2020. “Persons are typically everywhere in the web and information and TV reveals and stuff, you understand, making an attempt to remain younger, making an attempt to speak about how terrible it’s getting outdated.”

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker continued, “Then you end up on a set, telling a narrative that you simply actually wish to inform … that you’ve got a ardour to inform, and your 22-year-old daughter desires to inform it with you. And he or she’s obtained concepts. She has a grace that she gave the present that I did not know we would have liked so badly.”

The daddy-daughter performing duo reunited on the massive display screen in 2023’s Wildcat, with Ethan as director and Maya portraying Southern gothic author Flannery O’Connor.

Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie

Following her 2000 Oscar win for Girl, Interrupted, Angelina Jolie stepped into the cargo shorts of online game heroine Lara Croft within the 2001 movie adaptation of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

The Hollywood newcomer and her father, business legend Jon Voight, teamed up, with Voight taking over the position of Lord Richard Croft — Lara’s lacking father — whose disappearance is central to the story.

In an interview with 60 Minutes Australia on the time, Voight mentioned of his daughter, “I feel Angie is a really vibrant and powerful character,” including, “She’s obtained ‘that factor.’ ”

The success of Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel, The Cradle of Life, catapulted Jolie from an indie darling to an motion celebrity in 2021 movies similar to The Eternals and Those Who Wish Me Dead.

Rob Lowe and John Owen Lowe

Rob Lowe and his son, John Owen Lowe, debuted their office comedy Unstable on Netflix in 2023. Created and produced by the 2, the present took some cues (and jokes) from the father-son duo’s relationship IRL.

Operating for 2 seasons, the off-kilter sequence centered on fictional billionaire Ellis Dragon (Rob), a narcissistic biotech entrepreneur whose psychological well being spirals after the lack of his spouse. To assist his struggling father, his socially awkward son, Jackson (John Owen), steps in to help with the corporate and reconnect along with his dad.

“It’s a dream, personally and professionally,” Rob instructed PEOPLE in 2024. “You need your youngsters to succeed, and the notion of Johnny producing, writing, starring in [Unstable] at 28, is improbable.”

Uma Thurman and Maya Hawke

Maya isn’t any stranger to starring in movies along with her mother and father, together with 2023’s The Kill Room along with her celebrity mom, Thurman.

The comedy thriller follows artwork vendor Patrice (Thurman), who makes use of her gallery to launder cash for a prison group. Nevertheless, when the fabricated artist persona created for the hitman unexpectedly turns into a sensation within the artwork world, inflicting chaos and jealousy in aspiring artists just like the character Maya portrays within the indie flick.

“I am so excited for folks to get to see my mother be humorous,” Maya told Variety in 2023. “Within the final couple of years, she’s carried out impartial comedies that, for no matter motive, have not seen the sunshine of day. She’s the funniest person I know.”

Andie MacDowell and Margaret Qualley

Margaret Qualley obtained to act alongside her mom, actress Andie MacDowell, in Netflix’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated miniseries Maid.

The story follows Alex (Qualley), a struggling single mom who turns into a housecleaner to make a greater life for herself and her baby (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) — all whereas navigating tough relationships along with her abusive ex (Nick Robinson) and mom Paula (MacDowell), who struggles with bipolar dysfunction.

Casting her real-life mother was reportedly Qualley’s concept, telling Collider in 2021, “It is the largest cheat I’ve ever managed to drag off.”

“It was one of many extra surreal experiences of my life,” Qualley mentioned of their time collectively on-screen. “Throughout the board, there’s the consolation of getting your mother in the identical place once you’re in the course of a pandemic, and also you’re away from house for 9 months.”

She continued, “Then there’s my mother’s entire physique of labor, which I am in full awe of and could not look as much as her extra. After which there’s this factor the place you stroll into the room, and your mother is taking part in your mother, and that positively shifts the scenario.”

Taika Waititi, Matewa Kiritapu Waititi and Te Kainga O’Te Hinekahu Waititi

Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder was a little bit of a household affair.

Not solely do Hemsworth’s youngsters seem within the movie as youthful variations of himself and the daughter of his enemy, however costars Christian Bale and Natalie Portman and director Taika Waititi let their youngsters join in on the fun as properly.

Within the MCU movie, Waititi’s tykes Te Kainga O’Te Hinekahu and Matewa Kiritapu play Asgardian youngsters.

“I at all times encourage folks to have their youngsters round as a result of it is only a cool setting, and it chills the crew out,” Waititi instructed PEOPLE in 2022. “And I always want work like that.”

Hemsworth added, “Anybody who had youngsters within the solid had their youngsters on the set.”

(Enjoyable truth: All of their youngsters impressed the “cool” monsters within the movie!)

Thandiwe Newton and Nico Parker

Thandiwe Newton and lookalike daughter Nico Parker teamed up within the 2021 movie Memory.

Nevertheless, Parker — who made her debut within the 2019 live-action remake of Dumbo — made it clear that she would not at all times flip to her well-known mother and father (her dad is writer-director Ol Parker) for performing recommendation.

“Something that they’ve tried to instill in me as an individual, methods to behave and to not behave or the best way to deal with others — all of that, I feel you simply take it on board and let it flourish in you nevertheless it can,” Parker instructed PEOPLE in 2024. “And so a whole lot of that, I’ve definitely taken and used in a work setting, nevertheless it’s by no means particular to that.”

In 2023, Parker starred on the hit HBO sequence The Last of Us earlier than becoming a member of the solid of the 2025 live-action movie adaptation How to Train Your Dragon. Newton — who won her first Emmy in 2018 for her efficiency on HBO’s Westworld — may have a recurring visitor position on season 2 of Netflix’s Wednesday.

Chris Hemsworth, Tristan Hemsworth, Sasha Hemsworth and India Hemsworth

​​As if being the kids of an unique Avenger weren’t sufficient of a head begin, all three of Hemsworth’s kids — whom she shares with spouse Elsa Pataky — appeared on-screen with their father, the God of Thunder, within the fourth installment of theThor movie franchise.

One in all his twins, Tristan, performed a youthful model of Thor, whereas his daughter India performed the offspring of the villainous Gorr the God Butcher, portrayed by Bale. His different son, Sasha, had a small cameo as an Asgardian baby.

“It is actually cool. They really wanted to be in it,” Hemsworth told entertainment reporter Kevin McCarthy in 2022.

All three additionally appeared with their dad on the 2022 Disney+ docuseries from Nationwide Geographic, Limitless with Chris Hemsworth. India reunited along with her superhero father on the massive display screen in 2024’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, wherein she performed an unnamed woman whereas Hemsworth portrayed the movie’s villain, Dr. Dementus, reverse Anya Taylor-Joy as younger Furiosa.

Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson

Although Kate Hudson has by no means been in a film along with her well-known mother, Goldie Hawn, she has carried out so along with her “Pa,” Kurt Russell, in 2016’s Deepwater Horizon.

Throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Hudson instructed host Ellen DeGeneres that regardless of their time collectively within the movie being brief, she beloved working with Russell.

“I used to be again on set with my dad, and it jogged my memory of being somewhat child, and the place I fell in love with motion pictures and the way a lot time I spent on film units with him,” Hudson mentioned. “There was one thing actually superbly wistful about being on that set with my dad.”

​Earlier than collaborating in Deepwater Horizon, Hudson and Russell labored collectively in 2007 when the Almost Famous actress made her directorial debut with the brief movie Cutlass, starring Russell.

Angelina Jolie and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt

When Jolie performed the villainous titular character of Disney’s Maleficent, she wasn’t planning on having any of her children make a cameo within the 2014 fantasy movie. Nevertheless, discovering younger actors who weren’t afraid of the darkish elf proved difficult throughout filming.

Enter daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt to the rescue, who made her huge display screen debut within the film as child Princess Aurora as a result of “the opposite 3- and 4-year-old [performers] would not come close to me,” Jolie told Entertainment Weekly on the time.

“It needed to be a baby that loved me and wasn’t afraid of my horns, and my eyes and my claws. So it had to be Viv,” she added.

Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer

In 2015’s Ricki and the Flash, Meryl Streep starred alongside her daughter, Mamie Gummer, as a mother-daughter pair with a strained relationship. Directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Diablo Cody, the dramedy follows an absent mom who deserted her household to pursue her rockstar dreams however returns years later to make good along with her estranged daughter.

It was Streep’s concept for her to hitch the movie.

“I used to be over at her home, and she or he handed me the script to learn, similar to, ‘That is what I am doing subsequent, let me know what you consider it,’ ” Gummer told IndieWire.

Gummer continued, recalling her mom’s insistence, ” ‘It is actually good, Diablo Cody wrote it.’ I am like, ‘F—, that is wonderful. However, once more, I will learn it later,’ and she or he’s like, ‘I actually assume that it’s best to learn it now.’ ”

Ricki and the Flash was not the primary time Gummer appeared on-screen along with her mother — she performed Streep’s child within the 1986 film Heartburn. Then, in her early 20s, Gummer performed a youthful model of Streep in 2007’s Night.

Ralph Macchio and Julia Macchio

On season 4 of Cobra Kai, Julia Macchio seems on episode 8 alongside her father, Ralph Macchio, marking the primary time the father-daughter duo shared the display screen.

Whereas Ralph is understood for playing Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid movies and on Netflix’s sequel sequence adaptation Cobra Kai, Julia joins the franchise as Daniel’s cousin Vanessa LaRusso, who provides him and his spouse Amanda (Courtney Henggeler) a fast lesson in parenting.

“She knocked it out of the park,” Ralph instructed PEOPLE in 2022. “I used to be the proud father on set that day. As quickly as she ran our first take, all people was like, ‘Holy crap, she’s obtained this character.’ ”

Julia’s Vanessa grew to become a recurring character, persevering with to ship fact bombs to the LaRusso clan.

Will Smith and Jaden Smith

Earlier than Will Smith acted alongside son Jaden Smith within the 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness, the rapper-turned-actor solid him in one other position that was somewhat out of this world. 

Earlier than the wunderkind made critics and audiences sob along with his efficiency as Christopher in Happyness, Jaden had a small cameo position in 2002’s Men in Black II, starring Will. 

Nevertheless, it was in The Pursuit of Happyness that Jaden actually shined. Because the son of down-and-out single father Chris Gardner (Will), Jaden needed to show to filmmakers he was proper for the position as a younger baby.

In his 2021 memoir, Will, the Oscar winner recounted how Jaden held his personal.

“The studio merely did not need the issues that got here together with casting him. However audition after audition, in all his harmless, 6-year-old glory, he proved himself the precise actor for the position,” Will wrote, per Business Insider.

Throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2012, Jaden mentioned of working along with his father, “It was arduous, however enjoyable,” including, “My dad gave me recommendation … It’s important to be within the second.”

The pair would later star within the 2013 sci-fi flick After Earth, once more taking part in father and son. Daughter Willow Smith has additionally appeared on the massive display screen with Will in 2007’s I Am Legend, portraying his daughter, Sarah.

Robin Williams and Zelda Williams

Robin Williams shared the display screen with daughter Zelda Williams within the 2004 drama House of D.

Written, directed and starring David Duchovny, the movie follows an artist with a tough childhood whose greatest good friend — a janitor with developmental disabilities — is performed by Robin. The late Anton Yelchin portrayed the youthful model of the principle character, Tommy, whereas Zelda performed Melissa, the article of his affection.

Since her father’s death in 2014 due to an apparent suicide, Zelda has made a reputation for herself each in entrance of and behind the digicam, naming her father as a supply of inspiration for her leisure profession.

“I was fascinated by it early,” Zelda told Entertainment Tonight in 2024, recalling how she adopted her dad round on set. “If you’re that younger, I do not assume you grasp that it is a job, actually; similar to a enjoyable factor you go and go to.”

Along with engaged on animated reveals similar to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Legend of Korra and the hit sequence Jane the Virgin, Zelda made her feature-length directorial debut with 2024’s Lisa Frankenstein. The approaching-of-age comedy is a contemporary revamp of the Frankenstein story, with Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse as leads.

Noah Wyle and Auden Wyle

Noah Wyle‘s daughter Auden Wyle made a cameo on season 1 of the Amazon Freevee sequence Leverage: Redemption — and so did Noah’s spouse, Sara Wyle.

“That to me was one of many highlights of the season: I got to work with my own daughter,” Noah told TV Insider in 2021.

Season 3 of the crime thriller will premiere on Prime Video, starting on April 17, 2025, per Deadline.

George Lopez and Mayan Lopez

Earlier than they collaborated on Lopez vs. Lopez in 2022, Mayan Lopez had some expertise working along with her comic father, George Lopez.

When she was youthful, Mayan had a few cameos on her father’s eponymous sitcom, George Lopez, often within the background as an lovable little child in a gaggle scene. In 2008, she had a component as Yvette in George’s film Mr. Troop Mother.

On Lopez vs. Lopez, the pair play a fictionalized model of themselves. The dramedy follows the story of a daughter trying to reconcile along with her father after a protracted estrangement. Although the present led to 2025, it had a long-lasting impact on the duo, endlessly altering their bond.

“Even with the finale, we had a really emotional scene, and even simply pondering that at the start of the start, we have been nonetheless figuring it out,” she instructed PEOPLE in 2023. “We could not have carried out what we did on the finish. So it’s a full metamorphosis of our relationship.”

Sean Penn and Dylan Penn

Sean Penn and daughter Dylan Frances Penn  — whom he shares with The Princess Bride star Robin Wright — acted collectively within the 2021 movie adaptation Flag Day.

Dylan instructed PEOPLE that engaged on the film, directed by her Oscar-winning father, was a therapeutic expertise.

“For me, it was equal to doing family therapy in a room filled with strangers,” she mentioned, including, “I’ve carried out household remedy, however I’ve by no means carried out it with a crew that I did not know.”

After telling Vogue that Sean knew she was good for the position and noticed “[her] face within the character,” Dylan later revealed to PEOPLE that her mother persuaded her to take the half.

“She very merely mentioned, ‘I’ve never worked with a better director than your dad. It was essentially the most wonderful expertise I’ve ever had as an actor,’ ” Dylan mentioned. “So I trusted that.”

Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus

Billy Ray Cyrus starred alongside his daughter Miley Cyrus on the Disney Channel sequence Hannah Montana from 2006 till 2011. Billy Ray performed a personality aptly named Robby Ray, the daddy of Miley Stewart and her brother Jackson (Jason Earles) … and sometimes his personal twin, Bobby Ray.

“With out my dad, I do know — I imply, not simply actually, I would not be sitting on this chair, I would not exist — however I might not, who I’m as an individual, it would not exist,” the “Flowers” singer told The Hollywood Reporter in 2024.

Eugene Levy and Dan Levy

Eugene Levy and lookalike son Dan Levy played the hilarious father-son pairing of Johnny and David Rose on the Emmy-winning sequence Schitt’s Creek.

As down-and-out former millionaires adjusting to small-town life, the 2 earned worldwide acclaim and accolades for the sitcom they co-created, starred in and wrote.

“It’s important to actually respect the individual you are working with, and I feel once you do, it makes for an easy go of issues,” Dan told Today in 2021 of conceiving the present along with his father. “I’ve so lengthy admired what my dad had carried out … I feel he actually let me have house to search out my very own footing.”

Dan added that he discovered a vital lesson from his dad: “I feel what I discovered from him, simply from a comedy standpoint, is that … there’s a lot generosity, I feel, to nice comedy. It’s important to simply give folks house. There’s simply such a pleasure in realizing that you’ve got one another’s again.”

For Eugene, it was only a dream come true, telling PEOPLE, “I by no means recover from the truth that I’m actually on set with my kids.”

Demi Moore and Rumer Willis

In 1996, Demi Moore‘s daughter Rumer Willis — whom she shares with ex-husband and actor Bruce Willis — performed her fictional baby within the 1996 movie Striptease, a few mom who turns to unique dancing to pay her payments.

“Properly, she [Rumer] requested to have the chance to audition, so after a lot dialogue with my husband, I went and requested them if they’d be keen to let her strive as a result of she needed it so badly,” Moore instructed CNN on the time (via Hello!).

She added that there was no disgrace in her daughter watching her painting a stripper: “We do not disgrace the physique; we encourage the physique as one thing stunning and pure, and my youngsters bathe with me, and I stroll round bare.”

Moore later tackled this societal obsession with ageism and physique picture in 2024’s acclaimed psychological horror movie, The Substance, which sees her character, Elisabeth Sparkle, flip to a black-market drug to create a greater, younger model of herself.

In 2025, Rumer opened up on the What in the Winkler?! podcast about co-sleeping along with her mother and daughter, Louetta, and revealed that she and sisters Tallulah Willis and Scout Willis “all nonetheless take baths collectively.”

“Truthfully, I hope Lou will, like, nonetheless sleep in mattress with me when she’s my age,” Rumer mentioned, including, “I still sleep in bed with my mom, and I do not assume it is bizarre.”

Rumer continued, “That is simply the form of home that I grew up in.”

Johnny Depp and Lily-Rose Depp

One in all Lily-Rose Depp‘s first performing credit was a minor position in 2014’s Tusk, that includes her well-known dad, Johnny Depp. In 2016, she obtained a extra substantial position alongside him in Kevin Smith‘sYoga Hosers.

When requested if she would ever act along with her father once more, she told Entertainment Tonight in 2021, “Never say never,” however added that making it a household affair is not her precedence when auditioning.

“That is actually not one thing that I contemplate firstly; what’s fascinating to me is the actual character that I’ll or will not be taking part in after which the story that it is telling and all the things,” she mentioned. “I feel when the solid then begins to fill that story out and all the things, these are different issues to think about. However yeah, I imply, I like to work with nice actors.”

True to her phrase, Lily-Rose continued to work with notable expertise on-screen, specifically Oscar-winning actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph on HBO’s The Idol. She additionally had a lead position in 2024’s Nosferatu, with Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin rounding out the solid.

Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda was in a position to act alongside her revered dad, Henry Fonda, within the 1981 movie On Golden Pond.

“I really feel so blessed to have been in a position to have that have,” Jane mentioned throughout a phase of Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN in 2011. “He died 5 months later. I purchased the play and made the film as a result of I needed to work with him — we knew he was dying.”

The beloved actress and intersectional activist continued, “To have discovered a play wherein the daddy/daughter characters so mirrored our personal real-life relationship was wonderful. To have been in a position to say these phrases to him and to have the decision on the finish of the film … I simply really feel so fortunate. I miss him a lot.”

The pair grew to become the primary father-daughter duo nominated for an Academy Award, with Henry earning Best Actor. Jane accepted the statuette on his behalf, with the Oscars sharing the second on their official YouTube account.

Tina Fey and Alice Richmond

On the 30 Rock episode “Mazel Tov, Dummies!” from season 7, a flashback scene that includes Tina Fey‘s Liz Lemon presents audiences a sneak peek of the opinionated author when she was a 7-year-old child. To promote the scene, Fey solid her mini-me daughter Alice Richmond, a lifeless ringer for her mother.

Fey revealed throughout an interview on Conan in 2011 that Alice is definitely the supply of a number of the present’s funniest traces, telling former late-night host Conan O’Brien that she would give Tracy Morgan‘s character, Tracy Jordan, just a few of Alice’s infantile ramblings to say as a result of it completely match his character, “particularly when she was smaller.”

“You’re never cool [to your kids],” Fey instructed PEOPLE in 2024. “No, you are by no means cool, and also you should not attempt to be. Simply let it occur!” 

Clint Eastwood and Scott Eastwood

When your dad is prolific filmmaker Clint Eastwood, motion pictures are virtually embedded into your DNA.

Scott Eastwood has appeared in just a few of his father’s movies, together with Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Gran Torino (2008) and Invictus (2009), in addition to Hassle with the Curve (2012), which wasn’t directed by Clint however starred the display screen legend.

In 2024, Scott instructed PEOPLE the recommendation Clint gave him when he determined to pursue an performing profession.

“Follow your gut,” Scott recalled his dad telling him.

He beforehand told Esquire in 2016 of Clint, “I’ve tried to take each alternative I can to be taught from him … Each likelihood I get, I am making an attempt to be on set with him.”

Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen

Martin Sheen and his youngest son, Charlie Sheen, have labored collectively on a number of initiatives, with the 2 first sharing the display screen in 1974’s The Execution of Non-public Slovik. A younger Charlie had an uncredited bit half as a boy at a marriage.

Charlie’s subsequent half was extra substantial because the lead in 1987’s Wall Street. Martin performed his father, Carl Fox, a union chief at odds along with his stockbroker son.

Within the following years, the pair acted alongside one another in Cadence (1990), Scorching Photographs! Half Deux (1993) and No Code of Conduct (1998), in addition to on sequence similar to Spin City, The West Wing, Two and a Half Men and Anger Administration.

Sylvester Stallone and Sage Stallone

Sylvester Stallone‘s eldest son, Sage Moonblood Stallone, appeared alongside his father in 1990’s Rocky V when he portrayed Rocky’s son, Robert “Rocky Jr.” Balboa. 

The father-son relationship is a aspect story within the sports activities drama as Rocky neglects his son whereas coaching an up-and-coming boxer. The movie ends with the 2 of them reconciling and climbing the long-lasting “Rocky Steps” collectively.

Sage instructed PEOPLE in 1996 that his father helped him take care of points attributable to his newfound fame.

“To let you know the reality, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after Rocky V,” Sage mentioned. “I used to be 15 years outdated, and I assumed I used to be an enormous shot, like, ‘Ay, alright, let’s hit the bars, child.’ Belief me, outdated Daddy, put a cease to that actual fast.”

Sage tragically died at 36 as a consequence of coronary artery illness atherosclerosis in 2012.

Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez

Sharing his craft for performing would not simply lengthen to Charlie, Martin has additionally appeared on-screen along with his eldest son, Emilio Estevez.

The pair starred collectively within the 2010 movie The Method, which Estevez wrote and directed. Martin performs the position of Dr. Thomas Avery, a person grieving the lack of his son Daniel — performed by Estevez in flashbacks — whereas strolling the Camino de Santiago, a historic Christian pilgrimage route.

In a joint interview with travel writer Rick Steves in 2023, Estevez defined why it was necessary that his father play the position.

“I feel with this, it was not solely to create an exquisite position for you and to remind the world what a unprecedented actor you might be,” Estevez mentioned. “I needed to put in writing one thing that he could be celebrated.”

Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland

By the point 15-year-old Keifer Sutherland made his movie debut in 1983’s Max Dugan Returns along with his father, Donald Sutherland was already a longtime and revered actor, with standout performances on MASH and in 1971’s Klute and 1980’s Peculiar Individuals.

Although the 2 would later be solid in 1996’s A Time To Kill, it could take greater than a decade earlier than they appeared in a scene collectively within the 2015 interval movie Forsaken.

“We would been in a single film collectively, A Time to Kill, however we had by no means truly exchanged a line of dialogue collectively,” Kiefer mentioned throughout an interview on Good Morning America in 2016. ” I’ve watched him my entire life, and to have the chance to work with him was one thing I’ve needed my entire profession.”

Kiefer added, “The expertise is one thing I’ll always remember. It was essentially the most time I’ve truly spent with my father at one time in my life. It is a reminiscence and an expertise I will treasure the remainder of my life.”

Donald died at age 88 in 2024.

After Donald’s agent confirmed the information, Kiefer posted a black-and-white picture of his father on X (previously Twitter), together with this heartfelt message: “I personally assume some of the necessary actors within the historical past of movie. By no means daunted by a task, good, dangerous or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he beloved, and one can by no means ask for greater than that. A life properly lived.

Brendan Gleeson and Domhnall Gleeson

Would these two say working collectively is magic?

Irish actors Brendan Gleeson and his son Domhnall Gleeson each have elements within the Harry Potter movie franchise: Brendan performs Protection In opposition to the Darkish Arts instructor Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, whereas his red-headed son plays the eldest Weasley child, Invoice.

Though each made their franchise debut in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, they did not have any scenes collectively. It wasn’t till 2010, when the 2 starred in Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, Part I, that the father-son duo shared a scene within the movie sequence.

Domhnall has credited his father for serving to encourage his transfer into performing.

“I used to be concerned about writing and directing,” he told GQ in 2018. “That is what I went to school for, however I feel I’ve change into higher at performing than I’m at both of these two issues. My father is an unbelievable actor, and in a method, it made me understand it was attainable.”

Leslie Mann, Maude Apatow and Iris Apatow

Judd Apatow believes strongly in mixing family with business.

Along with casting his spouse, Leslie Mann, in a bevy of comedic roles for a lot of of his initiatives, he has additionally solid his daughters, Maude and Iris. The mother-daughter performing trio appeared in Knocked Up (2007), Humorous Individuals (2009), This Is 40 (2012) and The Bubble (2022) — although Maude is uncredited within the movie.

“A number of the time, I do not assume she knew there was a digicam rolling,” Apatow instructed PEOPLE in 2022 about working with Maude when she was youthful. “I might sit her subsequent to her sister, and I might simply say some key phrase, after which they’d simply begin preventing.”

The director told The Wall Street Journal that very same yr, “A part of the enjoyable of working with your loved ones is that you do not have to work with different folks’s youngsters. I additionally at all times felt that when you had youngsters within the film, it felt far more credible after they have been somebody’s precise youngsters.”