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Post by Weasel Pie on Apr 3, 2016 2:22:35 GMT
OK so I just caught up with Fear the Walking Dead, which unfortunately will be airing the same time as GoT. But this guy - Nick on the show ![]()  Also played Tom Riddle in Harry Potter  ![]() And this is Frank Dillane's father Stephen ![]()  Yeah well it was news to me!  |
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Post by Ser Duncan on Apr 3, 2016 17:02:35 GMT
Heh, I had no idea. Not that I watch TWD, but rather that the kid playing Tom Riddle was Dillane's son. I had heard the youngest version of Riddle, the one in the orphanage, was played by real life nephew to Ralph Fiennes (Voldy) and the casting director didn't know it, but chose the boy on his resemblance to his uncle.
And while we're at it, I was wondering how many actors are in fact related to each other, and we've not got a clue. Might be worth a thread all on it's own.
In keeping with the Potter theme, the guy that plays Bill Weasley (yeah, don't ask me for real names, I'm crap at that) is the real life son of the guy playing Alastor Moody. Only reason I know that is because he said so in an interview just before Deathly Hallows came out, about how his first line while filming was to tell everyone his father was dead. Naturally I flipped, thinking Arthur Weasley was going to die.
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Post by Weasel Pie on Apr 3, 2016 17:24:07 GMT
the guy that plays Bill Weasley Domhnall Gleeson, he's doing well for himself in the acting world too. Star Wars, Unbroken, About Time... good actor  His pop Brendan  I like the idea of that thread too |
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Post by Ser Duncan on Apr 3, 2016 17:53:04 GMT
I like the idea of that thread too Want to rename this one? Or I can make a new one, nae bother ah'tall. |
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Post by Weasel Pie on Apr 3, 2016 18:03:17 GMT
done!
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Post by Ser Duncan on Apr 3, 2016 19:54:39 GMT
Here's couple that shocked me when I heard of them:- Bryce Dallas Howard, from the Spiderman films and the Village (one of my favourite films) is actually the daughter of Ron Howard.  Sissy Spacek and Rip Torn are first cousins.   On the British front we have:- Toby Stephens, from Black Sails, is actually Dame Maggie Smith's son.   Jared Harris - who seems to be in everything lately --(yeah I had to look his name up) is the son of Richard Harris.   |
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Apr 3, 2016 23:23:37 GMT
Toby Stephens, from Black Sails, is actually Dame Maggie Smith's son. And I absolutely cannot look at Captain Flint anymore without seeing her. It cannot be unseen. |
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Post by Ser Duncan on Apr 4, 2016 1:45:02 GMT
And I absolutely cannot look at Captain Flint anymore without seeing her. It cannot be unseen. Yep, I agree, but I think her other son, a less famous actor here, looks more like her. Chris Larkin  Had to look his name up too. |
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Post by Ser Duncan on Apr 4, 2016 2:16:28 GMT
Oh I just remembered another one. Oona Chaplin (Talisa)  Is the daughter of Geraldine Chaplin (Dr Zhivago fame)  Who is in turn Charlie Chaplin's daughter.  And Oona was named after her grandmother, who was in her turn the daughter of Eugene O'Neil.  |
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Post by Maester Flagons on Apr 4, 2016 2:28:32 GMT
Sissy Spacek and Rip Torn are first cousins Had no idea. They are both Texas born, and I kinda know the places they are from. Torn is from Temple where an older lesser known celeb is from... Blind Willie Johnson. He was a Gospel/Blues artist decades ago. Don't know of any famous relatives of Johnson, but he has been covered by the Page and Plant "duo." Of course taking other people's songs was the Led Zeppelin way  |
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