18 Photos Of Celebrities And Their Famous Parents At The Same Age

Celebrities with famous parents are a dime a dozen. After all, the easiest way to get your foot in the door of the biz is to have your mom or dad make a few blockbuster films or record some hit singles – and that’s totally fine. You’d do it if you could. But it’s really weird when some of the celebrities with famous parents look like younger clones of their progenitors. Celebrities who look like their famous parents can’t help that they share more than a passing resemblance to the folks who supplied their genes, but it is strange to look at the duos side by side and notice the intricate similarities that they each share. There are definitely more than a few entries on this list that you’ll be staring at and forgetting which photo belongs to the parent and which belongs to the child.

To purposefully misquote the Insane Clown Posse: genetics, how do they work? Why do these celebrity children look exactly like their famous parents when other famous kids look like they could belong to anyone? It’s weird, and someone needs to explain science in the comments of this list right now. Whether you understand why these celebrities look like clones of their famous parents or not, you’ll be more than a little freaked out by how close they look, and you’ll want to vote on the parent-kid duos who look the most alike. Can they all be number one? There’s only one way to find out.

You wouldn't think that Ben Stiller, who was totally jacked by the time he was 39, would look anything like his goofy-looking dad (most famous for playing Mr. Costanza on Seinfeld), but these guys look crazy similar. 

You kind of have to ignore the hair that's going on in this side by side (the only other film that Sheen did at the age of 28 was The Three Musketeers), but you can really see that the two men are related when you take a look at their eyes and their chins. The father and son made light of their similarities in Hot Shots Part Deux when they both parodied Martin Sheen's role in Apocalypse Now, and they acted side by side in Wall Street, so these two are definitely into the whole father-son thing. 

The older he gets, the more Colin Hanks looks like his dad, avid typewriter fan and David S. Pumpkins himself, Tom Hanks. The one weird thing is that Colin didn't have the white guy fro that his dad had when he was in Bosom Buddies. 

You know who Gwyneth Paltrow is, right? She's the mastermind of Goop, and she's also been in some movies, but do you know Blythe Danner? Throughout the '70s, she was in films like To Kill A Clown, Futureworld, and the series version of M*A*S*H*. If none of those things are ringing a bell, then you've definitely seen her in Meet The Parents, and she appeared with her daughter in Sylvia playing Sylvia Plath's mom. Talk about typecasting. 

Jaden Smith didn't just follow in his father's footsteps as a musician and actor, he took things a step further and became a Twitter guru to rival anyone online – all the while looking suspiciously similar to dear old dad. The biggest difference between Jaden Smith at 18 and his father when he was the same age is that Will Smith seems so much more grown up. Maybe Jaden's always going to look like Will's little brother rather than his son; is that really the worst thing that's ever happened? 

When you grow up the daughter of Goldie Hawn, you've pretty much got the rest of your life taken care of, but, rather than rest on her laurels, Hudson followed in her mother's footsteps and hopped into film roles that showcased her comedy chops as well as her beauty. 

It can't be easy to be Meryl Streep's daughter, but Mamie (and her sister Grace) have managed to make very tidy careers of film and television appearances on their own merit rather than pretending to be time-traveling younger versions of their mother. To see Gummer and Streep working together, check out Ricki and the Flash. 

Michael and Kirk Douglas are two guys who it just doesn't matter what age they are, because they always look really old. Seriously, in Kirk Douglas's first role in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers in 1946, he looked to be 30 going on 50. 

You might know that Rashida Jones of The Office and Parks and Recreation fame was the daughter of Quincy Jones, but did you know that her mom was on Twin Peaks and The Mod Squad? This mother-daughter duo run the game when it comes to cult television. 

Scott Eastwood came out of the dregs of Nicholas Sparks movies to make a massive push for stardom in 2016 when he appeared in Snowden and Suicide Squad, before moving on to the Fast and the Furious franchise. Should anyone have been surprised? He is Clint Eastwood's son after all, and anyone with that jaw can take over the world.