In The Family: 8 Actors You Didn’t Know Had Kids In The ‘Biz

Hollywood families are nothing new in showbiz. Entire family trees that require a pen, paper and a certificate in geneology such as the Coppola-Cage-Schwartzman clan are common knowledge for even those with a passing interest in film. If a rising actor shares a surname with an established star, all it takes is one journalist to ask, and a nepotistic secret is revealed. Famous parent and offspring combos have long been outed - Kiefer Sutherland’s Dad is Donald Sutherland! Quelle surprise! Angelina Jolie is estranged from her father…Jon Voight! Goldie Hawn is Kate Hudson’s Dad! What?! What of those who’ve worked a little harder to make it on their own? To keep the family connection a secret? Read on for 5 actors you never knew had kids in showbiz…

1) Susan Sarandon – Daughter:  Eva Amurri

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Before Susan Sarandon met Tim Robbins, and after marrying (and divorcing) Chris Sarandon, the actress had a dalliance with another. Her unmistakable daughter, Eva Amurri, possesses her mother’s classical good looks with a hint of the mediterranean. A bit of a shameless lead in there, ahem, as her father is Italian director Franco Amurri, known in the US for helming the 1994 Thora Birch kids romp, Monkey Business.

Early in her career, she worked alongside her mother after winning smallish parts in Stepmom and The Banger Sisters. During this period, the pair also guest-starred in a season seven episode of Friends, as a bickering mother and daughter. Mixing it up, Amurri has continued to dally with TV and film, popping up on the big screen in Anywhere But Here, Saved!, The Life Before Her Eyes, Middle Of Nowhere, New York, I Love You and Adam Sandler flop, That’s My Boy.

She’s perhaps best known for her career on the small screen though, working across a ton of networks in a variety of wide-ranging projects. From her recurring role as saucy stripper Jackie in Californication, to pop-ups in How I Met Your Mother, cancelled hospital dramedy Mercy, House, Children’s Hospital, New Girl and The Mindy Project.

If her brief cameos weren’t sufficient, she’s now touted to star once more with her mother in an NBC pilot entitled Growing Ivy. They’re set to play an uptight daughter who invites her “wacky” mother to move in. Could be a hoot, or a load of old tripe. Let’s see if the network picks it up for a full season.


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