If we have become accustomed to nepo babies, these children of stars who decide like their famous parents to make a career in the world of entertainment, we are less aware of the family ties which unite certain members of show business.
More or less distant cousins, these stars, who we thought had only their job in common, in fact share much more. Enough to make us say that Hollywood is ultimately just a gigantic family tree.
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Isabelle Nanty and Kristofer Hivju
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Les Tuches et Game of Thrones are much closer than we could have imagined. Indeed, the Norwegian actor Kristofer Hivju (who plays Tormund Giantsbane) is a distant cousin of Isabelle Nanty (aka Cathy Tuche). “Kristofer Hivju, the son of my Norwegian mother’s cousin’s daughter, plays Tormund Giantsbane,” she explained in 2017 to Télé Star.
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Les sœurs Fanning et Kate Middleton
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Princesses who ignore each other. She and Dakota Fanning would indeed be very distant cousins of Kate Middleton. Information revealed in 2014. The Princess of Wales and the Fanning sisters would be descendants of Edward III: “It’s so weird… it’s crazy”, explained Elle Fanning.
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Laurent Voulzy and Pascal Légitimus
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It was on the set of a TV film that the two celebrities discovered this bond that unites them. Laurent Voulzy had told in the show Roll on Sunday : “It was his uncle that I knew, one day I don’t know how we got to know each other and I saw him often. And one day he took a paper and a pencil and he drew me a family tree and he said to me ‘you see, we are cousins’. So when I met Pascal we realized that we were a bit like the same family.”
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Julia Piaton and Charlotte de Turckheim
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View in What have we done to the Good Lord?, Damn! or The things we say, the things we doJulia Piaton is the eldest daughter of another famous actress: Charlotte de Turckheim.
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The 90s star and the rapper are cousins. Note that Brandy Norwood also has a brother, singer Ray J, famous for dating Kim Kardashian in the early days.
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Stanley Tucci et Emily Blunt
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Ultra-stylish family dinners. Once off the film sets, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci find themselves with family since the actor of Devil wears Prada is married to Felcity Blunt, Emily’s sister. It was the latter who introduced the two future lovebirds who have been married since 2012.
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Gracie Abrams et J.J Abrams
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If you know Gracie Abrams’ songs, you may not be aware that her father is also in the entertainment world. The father of the singer in a relationship with Paul Mescal is none other than the famous director of Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek or even Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Julie Gayet and François Cluzet
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On the set of the film Polyreleased in 2019, Julie Gayet discovered that she shared something other than the love of cinema with her acting partner, François Cluzet. An anecdote that the actress told on Europe 1 : “He came to see me and said ‘Did you know we were cousins?’ We started looking, and indeed we are very close, we are cousins on my mother’s side of my family in the Ardennes.”
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Ralph Fiennes et Charles III
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In 2014, the very serious Financial Times revealed that Charles III and actor Ralph Fiennes were 8th cousins. The two men are both believed to be descendants of James II of Scotland, who reigned in the 15th century.
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Matt Damon et Ben Affleck
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We knew them to be friends forever. But Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are also distant cousins. In 2009, the New England Genealogical Society certified that the two actors shared a common ancestor. Enough to bring them a little closer.
