Celebrity offspring that have become/became more famous than their parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jamie Lee Curtis

more famous that Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh in their heyday? No way!

This is one I will disagree with or say she's at least as famous. Same with Jane and Peter Fonda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elvis Costello

Saoirse Ronan

Lena Dunham

Zooey Deschanel

Maya Rudolph

Plus 1 to all of these examples. Who the heck are the "famous" parents of these celebrities? Elvis Costello had a famous parent? So did Maya Rudolph?

This is Maya Rudolph's mom, she was an R&B singer.

Never heard of her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maya Rudolph

We are still singing Minnie Rippleton's music forty years later. Will the people40 years from now know Maya?

Maybe. I'd be curious to know how many people know the song but couldn't tell you who sang it.

That would be me. Just posted I had never heard of her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jamie Lee Curtis

more famous that Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh in their heyday? No way!

This is one I will disagree with or say she's at least as famous. Same with Jane and Peter Fonda.

Henry Fonda, not Peter.

[Anonymous]

Miley Cyrus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elvis Costello

Saoirse Ronan

Lena Dunham

Zooey Deschanel

Maya Rudolph

Plus 1 to all of these examples. Who the heck are the "famous" parents of these celebrities? Elvis Costello had a famous parent? So did Maya Rudolph?

This is Maya Rudolph's mom, she was an R&B singer.

Never heard of her.

Have you heard this song before? How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elvis Costello

Saoirse Ronan

Lena Dunham

Zooey Deschanel

Maya Rudolph

Plus 1 to all of these examples. Who the heck are the "famous" parents of these celebrities? Elvis Costello had a famous parent? So did Maya Rudolph?

This is Maya Rudolph's mom, she was an R&B singer.

Never heard of her.

Have you heard this song before? How old are you?

I've heard the song, but had no idea who sang it. I'm 50.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Miley Cyrus

Good one

[Anonymous]

Emma Thompson

[Anonymous]

Emma roberts

[Anonymous]

Zoe Kravitz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zoe Kravitz

Is this a joke?

[Anonymous]

LOL at all the kids in this thread.
Reminds me of a few weeks ago when someone wrote “Enrique Iglesias’s father, who was apparently also a singer…”

Kate Hudson, Zoe, Keifer, Dakota

[Anonymous]

Buster Keaton
Brian Wilson
Asia Argento
Jack Nicholson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elvis Costello

Saoirse Ronan

Lena Dunham

Zooey Deschanel

Maya Rudolph

Plus 1 to all of these examples. Who the heck are the "famous" parents of these celebrities? Elvis Costello had a famous parent? So did Maya Rudolph?

+1 - I was making the same list. And will add Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

The Gyllenhaals’ is a screenwriter and dad is a director (I think). Jake’s godparents are Jamie Lee Curtis and Paul Newman. So his parents were definitely successful in show business.