Nepo baby discourse is dominating the internet at the moment. Nepo baby - short for nepotism babies - means you are the child of a famous family and whose career has benefited from your parents’ fame.
While some nepo babies are quite obvious, such as Brooklyn Beckham, son of ex-footballer David Beckham and Spice Girls’ Victoria Beckham, some other nepo babies have come as a surprise.
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Here are 10 celebs you may or may not have known are nepo babies.
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore actually hails from one of Hollywood’s biggest dynasties. Barrymore is the granddaughter of John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, and daughter of actor John Drew Barrymore.
Drew started her acting career at just 11 months old and rose to fame following her role in the movie E.T.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal and his sister Maggie are two big Holywood names, and are also nepo babies.
Their parents are also known in the world of film as their mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal is a screenwriter and director, and father Stephen Gyllenhaal is a director.
Maude Apatow
Euphoria star Maude Apatow’s famous parents are director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann.
Maude appeared in Knocked Up, a movie her father wrote and directed. She played the daughter of Leslie Mann, alongside her younger sister Iris.
Kate Hudson
Movie star Kate Hudson is the daughter of Goldie Hawn and her first husband Bill Hudson. She was also raised by Hawn’s longtime partner and actor Kurt Russell.
Nicolas Cage
Cage's grandfather is Carmine Coppola, who was an Oscar-winning composer for the score of "The Godfather" movies. His uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, is the Oscar-winning "Godfather" director and his aunt Talia Shire starred in the film.
Cage decided to drop his family name, telling GQ it was to prove "that I had something, and it wasn't simply because I was born into a Coppola family. It was because I thought I had a unique way of feeling things and looking at things.”
Dan Levy
Emmy award-winner Dany Levy is the son of American Pie's Eugene Levy and producer Deborah Divine.
In 2018, the Schitt's Creek creator told Page Six: "I’ve never really turned to my dad for anything, I think out of fear of the label of nepotism. Entertainment seems to be the only arena where children who pursue the work of their parents, which is an inherently natural thing to do, is met with a lot of skepticism. And so for my whole life, leading up to [Schitt’s Creek], I’ve always tried to do everything on my own, I guess to prove, mainly to myself, that I could do it.”
Zoë Kravitz
Model, singer and Batman’s Zoë Kravitz is the daughter of actress Lisa Bonet and singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz.
Maya Hawke
The Stranger Things star began her acting career at age 21. Her mother is Pulp Fiction’s Uma Therman and her dad is Ethan Hawke.
Jaden Smith
Jaden was only 11 when he filmed The Karate Kid remake, starting his career young. His parents are Jada Pinkett Smith and of course Fresh Prince’s, Will Smith.
Dakota Johnson
The Fifty Shades Of Grey star is the daughter of two big names in Hollywood - Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. She is also the granddaughter of Tippi Hedren, star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
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