Charlie Hall is an up-and-coming actor who has had his shot on shows like Single Drunk Female and The Sex Lives of College Girls. Also his mom is Julia-Louis Dreyfus from Seinfeld and Veep fame, so that helps.

John David Washington is a former football player and current actor who made his mainstream breakthrough in 2020 as the lead in Christopher Nolan’s polarizing sci-fi time warp film Tenet. Washington has only been consistently working Hollywood for a few years now, but moving from a football career to an acting career is made a little easier when your dad is Denzel Washington

Allison Williams’ biggest role to date is probably the HBO dramedy Girls, as one of the four titular girls who all live together in Brooklyn as they navigate their twenties. The M3GAN star, however, may have the largest claim to fame, as being the daughter of journalist and former MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.

Jack Quaid is the star of Amazon Prime’s The Boys, which wrapped up its third season last summer and went on to film a fourth. Quaid is the son of Dennis Quaid, veteran actor and sugar daddy.

Gracie Abrams is a newcomer to the music scene, carving out a niche for herself in the confessional young-adult songwriter genre that Gen Z is eating up lately. Abrams has been booked and busy gearing up for the release of her upcoming debut studio album Good Riddance. Oh, she’s also the daughter of Mission Impossible director and Lost creator J.J. Abrams.

I’m gonna cut to the chase, Billie Lourd is the daughter of Star Wars alum Carrie Fischer and the granddaughter of Halloweentown and Will & Grace star Debbie Reynolds, who both tragically passed away one day apart in 2016. Billie followed in the footsteps of her family’s matriarchs, appearing in the critically acclaimed coming-of-age film Booksmart, FX’s American Horror Story, and the final three films in the Star Wars “Skywalker Saga.”

Ben Platt really outed himself as a nepo baby during the promotion of his film Dear Evan Hansen, where Platt reprises his role as the titular Evan Hansen after a lengthy stint on Broadway in the live stage version of the story. After Platt’s depiction of Evan Hansen received scrutiny (because maybe a then 27-year-old man doesn’t exactly look like a teenage boy), people began to put two and two together that one of the producers, Marc Platt, was his father. Ben Platt said in response to the casting backlash: “Were I not to do the movie, it probably wouldn’t get made”

I wonder why...

“You said your mother only smiled on her TV show,” Halsey muses in her song Colors, which is allegedly about singer-songwriter Matt Healy. Healy is the frontman of the alt/pop band The 1975, and if you went through your Tumblr phase between 2013-2015 like I did, then you are intimately familiar with the band and their songs like “Somebody Else” and “Chocolate.” Matt Healy’s mother is indeed actress Denise Welch and his father is actor Tim Healy, both of whom have starred in several UK TV shows.

You may recognize Maude Apatow from a little show called Euphoria, which is the insanely popular HBO drama series, and second most-watched show on the platform behind Game of Thrones. Apatow plays Lexi, a book-smart teen living in the shadow of her more popular sister, and when she’s not on the Euphoria set, she’s living in the shadow of her mother and father: producer Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann.

Pretty much everyone on the planet has seen Schitt’s Creek at this point (a big “Ew, David” to you if you haven’t), and we have Dan Levy to thank. Dan Levy created and stars in the show about a rich family losing their fortune, forcing them to move to a quirky, rural town. The show has been praised, specifically for its groundbreaking queer representation, and Dan created the show alongside his father, the infamous Eugene Levy, who also plays his character’s dad.

Dakota Johnson is a household name at this point, if not for her acting chops in The Lost Daughter and Fifty Shades of Grey, then definitely for her confrontational Ellen interview heard ‘round the world. Her father is Miami Vice lead Don Johnson and her mother is 1980's it-girl actress Melanie Griffith. She is also definitely not allergic to limes.

Lily Rose Depp has been flying relatively under the radar in the nepotism scene, but the daughter of Johnny Depp is making her television debut in HBO’s The Idol, expected to air some time this year.

Jake Gyllenhaal, actor and infamous scarf-stealer (YES, I’m bringing it up), has an incredible track record of leading roles, and definitely has some Hollywood in his family. His sister Maggie is also an actress as well as a director and executive producer as of recently, and their parents are screenwriter and director Naomi Foner and Stephen Gyllenhaal, who is a director and a poet.

So Lenny Kravitz, actor, songwriter, performer, and record producer meets actress Lisa Bonet and have a daughter. The daughter grows up to be the one and only Zoë Kravitz, who has starred in The Divergent Series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and more recently, The Batman. Also, fun fact: her stepfather was briefly Jason Mamoa.

Try to convince me that Maya Hawke doesn’t look exactly like her mom Uma Thurman. Her father is also a seasoned veteran in Hollywood: Ethan Hawke. Stranger Things fans have probably known this for a while, as Maya Hawke had her breakout with her portrayal of Robin, a queer mall worker, in season 3 of Netflix’s sci-fi horror series.

I don’t know that it’s possible to talk about nepotism babies without talking about the nepotism babies: the Smith siblings (we’ll get to Jaden a little later). After a very brief acting stint as a kid, Willow Smith has recently been pursuing pop-punk music under the mononym WILLOW, working with Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker, PinkPantheress, and Tierra Whack. Oh yeah she’s Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s kid too.

I was caught completely off guard when I realized Tracee Ellis Ross is the daughter of disco darling Diana Ross, lead singer of The Supremes. To be fair, Tracee is sort of crushing it on her own right lately, starring in Black-ish—which has since come to an end—as well as creating and narrating its spin-off Mixed-ish. She also starred alongside fellow nepo baby Dakota Johnson in The High Note in 2020.

I’ve known Emma Roberts since her days starring as 13-year-old guitar player and dog mom Addy Singer on the Nickelodeon comedy Unfabulous. Roberts’ father is Eric Roberts, an actor who has appeared in Raggedy Man, The Dark Knight, and Inherent Vice. Eric’s sister, and Emma’s aunt, is Eat, Pray, Love star Julia Roberts.

And we’re back! When he’s not talking about the political and economic state of the world, Willow Smith’s older brother Jaden is kinda just doing a little bit of everything. Will Smith and Jada-Pinkett Smith’s son has dabbled in acting alongside his father, making music (he’s released three studio albums), modeling, and philanthropy.

Lily Collins has been kicking around Hollywood for a while now. Her earliest roles include The Blind Side in 2009 and The Mortal Instruments in 2013, and is currently starring in Netflix’s Emily in Paris. With a surname as normal as “Collins,” you might have missed that her father is 80's aficionado Phil Collins. Lily Collins is actually just a small part of a larger, more confusing famous family tree. After marrying director Charlie McDowell in 2021 (whose stepfather is Ted Danson) actor Malcom McDowell became Lilly’s father in law.

While it feels like most nepotism babies live in the shadow of their parents, one could argue that Miley has eclipsed her dad—country superstar Billy Ray Cyrus—in terms of fame. In music alone, Miley has released seven studio albums, six of which reached the Billboard 200's top 5, across pop, hip-hop, and country music, with bangers like Flowers, Wrecking Ball, Midnight Sky, and Party in the U.S.A. in her portfolio. She’s also known for her high-profile romance with ex Liam Hemsworth, as well as her time on the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana (duh).