17 Actors Who Look So Much Like Their Famous Parents They Were Cast To Play Them.

A lot of individuals grow up being told they look very much like their folks, and a lot of guardians continually hear that, amazing, their youngster looks actually like them. While the vast majority of us wouldn't give it a very remarkable idea, numerous entertainers have utilized their generational likeness to impart jobs to their nearest family members. 

 

1. Ever Anderson played the more youthful adaptation of Alicia Marcus, her mom Mila Jovovich's person, in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

2. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson played his grappler father, Rocky, on a 1999 scene of That '70s Show. 

3. In Evening, Mamie Gummer played the 1950s rendition of Lila Wittenborn Ross, while her mom Meryl Streep played the present-day adaptation. 

Meryl and Mamie collaborated again when they played mother and little girl in Ricki and the Flash eight years after the fact in 2015. They recently assumed comparable parts in Heartburn in 1986. 

4. O'Shea Jackson Jr. played his father Ice Cube in the biopic Straight Outta Compton.

O'Shea disclosed to News Corp Australia Network, "[Director F. Gary Gray] realized that this film must be true and no one will deal with this job as enthusiastically as I would in light of the fact that it's my family's inheritance." 

5. Michael Gandolfini repeated his father James' job as Tony Soprano in the forthcoming The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark.

Michael watched The Sopranos interestingly while getting ready for the job, which assisted him with feeling associated with his late dad. He told Esquire, "[There's a scene where Tony] hollers at A.J., and he gets a pizza to apologize, and he sits by his child's bed and says, 'I was unable to request a superior child.' I just realized he was conversing with me in that scene." 

 

6. Michael Consuelos played the high school rendition of Hiram Lodge, who's typically played by his father Mark, in a flashback scene of Riverdale. 

It was Michael's first tryout. On Live with Kelly and Ryan — his mother's show — he said, "There were a lot of individuals who could've been siblings or cousins… it seemed as though a lot of Michaels in the tryout room. " 

7. Melissa Rivers played her mother Joan in Joy, a biopic about innovator Joy Mangano.

Melissa told the Hollywood Reporter, "I needed to ensure it looked right. I needed to ensure that it was conscious. Furthermore, truly, when the hairpiece was on I quit glancing in a mirror — it was excessively odd." 

8. Mario Van Peebles composed, delivered, coordinated, and featured as his movie producer father Melvin in the biopic Baadasssss!

The film depends on Melvin's experience making his 1971 independent movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, in which he additionally played the lead. Mario had a minor job also, playing the more youthful emphasis of Sweetback.

9. Previous Phillies GM Rubén Amaro Jr. played his father, previous MLB player Rubén Amaro Sr., on two scenes of The Goldbergs. 

A young adaptation of Rubén Amaro Jr. is likewise a repetitive person on the show since he went to secondary school with Adam F. Goldberg, the semi-self-portraying show's maker, in actuality. 

10. On the wedding scene of 30 Rock, Tina Fey's girl Alice Richmond played Liz Lemon in a youth flashback. 

11. In Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Willow Smith voiced the more youthful adaptation of her mother Jada Pinkett Smith's person Gloria. 

child Gloria observes new creatures show up at the zoo.

12. C.J. Wallace played his dad, rapper The Notorious B.I.G., as a kid in Notorious. 

C.J. told the Columbus Telegram, "Others might seem as though him and dress in a similar careful manner, however I did well since I realize how to respond on the grounds that my grandmother...told me about him and his activities and different things." 

13. Sophia Loren played both her mom Romilda Villani and herself in Sophia Loren: Her Own Story. 

Sophia played Romilda again in the miniseries My House Is Full of Mirrors (2010). 

14. On a scene of Orange Is the New Black, Dasany Kristal Gonzalez played 14-year-old Daya, who's played by her mother Dascha Polanco as a grown-up, in a flashback. 

15. Quinn Dempsey Stiller voiced the more youthful variant of Alex the lion, who's played by his father Ben, in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. 

Ben and Quinn made light of father and child in Locked (2021), and the two of them had minor voice jobs in Megamind (2010). 

16. In Kiss Bang, Indio Falconer Downey played the 9-year-old rendition of his father Robert Downey Jr's. character Harry Lockhart. 

Indio's stepmom Susan Downey created the film. 

17. Lastly, Zoe Perry plays Mary Cooper, Sheldon's mother, on Young Sheldon, a job her mother Laurie Metcalf started on The Big Bang Theory. 

Zoe recently played a more youthful adaptation of her mom's person Jackie on Roseanne.