RL celebrities related to fictional characters

[Riv86672]

While Googling a whole different subject, I was reminded that Bill Nye the Science Guy appeared on the TV show Blindspot…



…where he played the father of tech wiz Patterson.

Looking for more examples like this where a celebrity plays a fictionalized version of themselves in a TV show or in a movie and is related to a character.

[babyblob]

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Topp played the father of Angela Montenegro on Bones.

[Riv86672]

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Topp played the father of Angela Montenegro on Bones.

^^^YES! That’s right! I’d forgot that Ty!!!

[ChrisIII]

Not exactly living ones, but...

-James Bond is related to British noble Sir Thomas Bond. There's actually a visual joke to this in OCTOPUSSY where Bond is on Bond street.

-The Antonio Banderas Zorro is the fictional brother of the real-life bandit Joaquin Muretta.

-Rome's version of Caeserion is the son of Titus Pullo instead of Julius Caeser.

-Spock says his ancestor create a Sherlock Holmes qoute in Star Trek VI, implying he's related to Conan Doyle, although alternatively he's referring to Holmes.

-Alexios and Kassandra from Assasssin's Creed Odysseys are related to both Leonidas and Pythagoras. In the Ezio saga, Ezio also has a romance with Christina Vespucci, related to Amerigo, the man who named America.

-Batman is said to be related to Revolutionary War hero Anthony Wayne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne

-Collosus and Illyana from X-men of course are said to be related to *that* Rasputin.

[Riv86672]

Not exactly living ones, but...

-James Bond is related to British noble Sir Thomas Bond. There's actually a visual joke to this in OCTOPUSSY where Bond is on Bond street.

-The Antonio Banderas Zorro is the fictional brother of the real-life bandit Joaquin Muretta.

-Rome's version of Caeserion is the son of Titus Pullo instead of Julius Caeser.

-Spock says his ancestor create a Sherlock Holmes qoute in Star Trek VI, implying he's related to Conan Doyle, although alternatively he's referring to Holmes.

-Alexios and Kassandra from Assasssin's Creed Odysseys are related to both Leonidas and Pythagoras. In the Ezio saga, Ezio also has a romance with Christina Vespucci, related to Amerigo, the man who named America.

-Batman is said to be related to Revolutionary War hero Anthony Wayne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne

-Collosus and Illyana from X-men of course are said to be related to *that* Rasputin.

^^^Effing COOL, i didn’t know any of these! Appreciated!

[CaptCleghorn]

Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code is a descendant of Jesus Christ.

Shiwan Khan from The Shadow is a descendant of Genghis Khan. Although that really isn't as big of a deal now considering how many descendants of Khan are around.

[ChrisIII]

The villain from Ghosts of Tsushima is also a Khan.


I do kind of find it a bit funny they used the same actor who played Atilla the Hun in the Night At The Museum movies though.

[WebLurker]

When Mark Hamill guest-starred on The Muppets Show, he appeared as both himself and his Star Wars character, Luke Skywalker, with a running joke that the two were cousins.

[useridgoeshere]

Kellen Lutz is Lutz’s nephew on 30 Rock.

[ChrisIII]

In the "Uncharted" series it's implied that Nathan Drake is related to Sir Frances Drake, this is retconned by the fourth game, although hints that he is not a real descendant are dropped as early as the first game.

However, his real last name is Morgan, which was also the surname of a famous privateer, although eventually a Pirate one (and of course a popular brand of alcohol). Given the game dealt extensively with pirates, it could be hinting at a connection there instead.

[Vakanai]

In Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost it's revealed that TV star/chef Bobby Flay is Fred's uncle (least according to Wikipedia, my memory wants to tell me they were distant cousins but it's been a couple years since I saw it so best to rely on the wiki really).

[j9ac9k]

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt had a character who was a fictional Hemsworth brother.

[Jokerz79]

Well not all family trees are worth bragging about Forrest Gump was related to Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Jim Harbaugh showed up on Saved by the Bell as Screech's cousin.

In a weird version of this where both people are real, The Mike Tyson Mysteries established that Mike Tyson and Neil deGrasse Tyson are brothers.

[KurtW95]

In comics and not TV or movies, but Zdarsky retconned Flash Thompson as the nephew of Lea Thompson and cousin of Zoey Deutch in a comic a few years ago.