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When two or more characters in a show have some form of real-life relationship, be it familial or romantic, off-screen. Extra points if the relationship is replicated on-screen. It can make love scenes more convincing if the two people involved are regularly having a candlelit dinner or giving the trailer's springs a workout. For blood relatives, the family resemblance can do wonders for convincing the audience that these people are family. In some instances, however, real couples may have no onscreen chemistry.
Can lead to some very interesting scenarios, including [[Actor Allusion
It is also not unheard for a couple to be on opposite sides of an on-screen divide, making for some interesting [[Foe Yay]] scenes.
Compare [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]], [[Couple Bomb]] and [[Actor Allusion]]. For cases where actors start a real-life relationship after being cast as characters with an on-screen relationship, see [[Romance on the Set]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Occasionally happens in [[FUNimation]] dubs. Jessica Dismuke played Yukina in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', while her brother Aaron played Shura, although the two never had a scene together and their cousin Justin Cook played Yusuke. Linda Young (Genkai) and John Burgmeier (Kurama) are also mother and son.
* Chris and Greg Ayres. ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', ''[[Initial D]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'', ''[[Sengoku Basara]]''...
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* [[Yuji Ueda]] and [[Omi Minami]] who are married in [[Real Life]] are cast in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' as Akito Tenkawa and Ruri Hoshino. Thankfully however, they're not a couple seeing as Ruri is a [[Little Miss Snarker]] and Akito's pretty much in his late teens.
** This gets a bit more awkward in Sensei no Ojikan/''[[Doki Doki School Hours]]'' where they play teacher and student.
* The Disney
* Voice actors [[Amanda Winn-Lee]] and Jason C. Lee are married, which makes their roles as the Bonnie & Clyde-esque [[Heroic Sociopath|protagonists]] of ''[[Dead Leaves]]'' amusing and Shigeru Aoba (Jason)'s {{spoiler|tanging}} scene at {{spoiler|the hands of Rei (Amanda)}} in ''[[The End of Evangelion]]'' hilarious.
* [[Travis Willingham]] (Roy Mustang in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'') and [[Laura Bailey]] (Lust) are married, which renders the violent confrontation between Mustang and Lust in episode 19 of ''Brotherhood'' [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].
* The Japanese voice actors of Haruhi and Hikaru from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]],'' along with Shiki and Mikiya in [[Garden of Sinners]] are married in [[Real Life]].
== Film ==
* [[Sylvester Stallone]]'s son Sage played Rocky Balboa's son in 1990's ''[[Rocky V]]'', but turned down the role for the 2006 sequel, ''Rocky Balboa''.
** And Sly's brother Frank Stallone appeared in several ''Rocky'' movies.
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* Partially subverted in the 2005 horror flick ''Devour'': Jensen Ackles' real-life father played his character, Jake Gray,'s ''foster'' father.
* Luke and Owen Wilson, brothers in real life, were together in ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'', but not as brothers (Luke played Ritchie Tenenbaum, while Owen played Eli, a friend of the Tenenbaum kids).
* They were also in Disney's ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]''
* Luke also appears with his other brother, Andrew, in ''[[Idiocracy]]''. Andrew is Beef Supreme, one of the "corrections personnel" trying to kill Joe (Luke) in "Rehabilitation".
* ''[[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft: Tomb Raider]]'': Richard Croft was of course played by [[Jon Voight]], [[Angelina Jolie]]'s father. However, Jolie and Voight weren't getting along. Clever editing and writing allowed for them both to appear in the movie without ever being on the same set at the same time.
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** Tom and Nicole also starred in ''[[Days Of Thunder]]'' and ''[[Far And Away]]'' as a couple.
* In the ''lucha'' movie ''La Venganza de la Momia'' (The Vengeance of the Mummy), [[El Santo]] adopts a young boy after the monster of the title kills the boy's grandfather. The boy is played by one of Santo's sons.
* Near the end of the last ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movie, there's a scene with Sam, Rosie, and their two children. The children seen are Sean Astin's (Sam) daughter and Sarah McLeod's (Rosie) baby daughter.
* ''[[Donnie Darko]]'', where the sister of the eponymous character (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) is played by [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], Jake's sister.
** Jake also wound up co-starring with his eventual brother-in-law Peter Sarsgaard in ''[[Jarhead]]''.
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* Real-life mother and daughter [[Diane Ladd]] and [[Laura Dern]] have played mother and daughter in four movies (cf [[Those Two Actors]]: ''White Lightning,'' ''Wild at Heart,'' ''Citizen Ruth,'' and ''Daddy and Them.''
* In ''Grizzly Mountain'', Dan Haggerty stars in the show - as do his two children, Dylan Haggerty and Megan Haggerty. Dylan is one of the protagonists, while Megan is the ''other'' sister. They have no apparent relationship to Dan Haggerty's character. All three siblings [[The Danza|also share names with their actor counterparts]].
* In the first scene of ''[[The View Askewniverse|Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' where we see the title characters as babies, Silent Bob is played by Kevin Smith's daughter, [[Harley Quinn]] Smith. ([[Real Joke Name|No, really.]]) Smith's wife also appears as one of the villainous jewel thieves, who noticeably takes no part in the gang's big scene as she's getting the van ready. Smith says on the commentary, "A better husband probably would have given her more to do." He does make an [[Actor Allusion]] out of it though. She comments to the others, "The fat one is creeping me out."
** She also appears as a receptionist in ''[[Jersey Girl]]'' and is finally given a more important role in ''[[Clerks]] 2'' as Dante's fiancé.
** [[Kevin Smith]]'s real-life mother plays the "Milkmaid" in ''[[Clerks]].''
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** They also played Roman and Margaret in ''[[Dead Again]]'' and Henry V and Katherine in ''Henry V''. And [http://www.imdb.com/search/title?roles=nm0000110%2Cnm0000668 a couple of other things.]
* No one knew that porn stars Amber Lynn and Buck Adams were brother and sister until they were cast in the same film and were scheduled to have sex with each other. They put a stop to ''that'' pretty damned quick by revealing their relationship to one another.
* During their marriage, [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton]] appeared in several films together; the most famous is ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''. Not that there's any irony in that.
* Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward appeared in ten films together.
* Henry Fonda and his daughter [[Jane Fonda|Jane]] played father and daughter in ''On Golden Pond''.
* Wah and Qiu Yuen trained under the same master at the China Drama Academy. They've appeared in quite a few martial arts films as a couple, most notably ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]].''
* Siblings Spencer and [[Abigail Breslin]] played siblings in ''[[Raising Helen]]''.
* [[Judd Apatow]] often casts his wife and daughters in his films, such as ''[[Knocked Up]]'' and ''[[Funny People]]''. His justification for using his own kids is that he doesn't like child actors and would rather not have to work with them.
* ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' is not the only place where Amy Yasbeck and John Ritter have been on screen together. They also appear in both ''Problem Child'' movies, though Yasbeck inexplicably [[You Look Familiar|plays two different characters]].
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* In the film version of ''[[Danny, the Champion of the World]]'', Jeremy Irons played Danny's father and his son Samuel Irons played Danny. Additionally, Jeremy Irons' father-in-law (Samuel's grandfather) Cyril Cusack played Doc Spencer.
** The photograph of Danny's late mother was also in fact a photograph of Samuel Irons' actual mother (Jeremy Irons' wife, and Cyril Cusack's daughter, actress Sinéad Cusack).
* In the 2003 film, ''It Runs in the Family'', [[Kirk Douglas]], his son
* Real-life siblings Matthew and Rebecca Pidgeon play Dickie and Catherine Winslow, respectively, in ''[[The Winslow Boy]]''.
* [[Humphrey Bogart]] and wife [[Lauren Bacall]] starred in three movies as a couple after their [[Romance on the Set]] in ''To Have and Have Not'': ''[[The Big Sleep (film)|The Big Sleep]]'', ''Dark Passage'' and ''[[Key Largo]]''.
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* John Mills and his daughter Haley Mills both starred in the movie ''Tiger Bay'', he playing a police detective and she the lone witness to a murder he is investigating. The two made other movies together as well.
** In ''The Family Way'', they play a father- and daughter-''in-law''.
* Then-couple [[Jeff Goldblum]] and [[Geena Davis]] costarred in ''[[The Fly]]'', ''Transylvania 6-5000'' and ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]''.
* In the film ''Miracle'', USA hockey player Buzz Schneider was played by his son Billy. [http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/miracle.php Proof.]
* Real-life couple [[Kurt Russell]] and [[Goldie Hawn]] appear together as a couple in ''[[Overboard]]''.
** On the subject of [[Kurt Russell]], his first wife, Season Hubley, makes an appearance in ''[[Escape from New York]]'', and his son (with Goldie Hawn), Wyatt, has cameos in both ''[[Escape From L.A.]]'' and ''[[Soldier]]''.
* Real life husband and wife [[Hume Cronyn]] and [[Jessica Tandy]] as Joe and Alma Finley in ''[[Cocoon]]''.
* [[Jamie Lee Curtis]]' mother, [[Janet Leigh]], had a cameo appearance in ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] H20''.
* In ''[[The Good Son]]'' [[Macualay Culkin]]'s real life sibling Quinn and Rory Culkin appear as Henry's siblings Connie and Richard whom {{spoiler|Henry murders before the events of the film}}
** Also, in ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'' Rory plays the younger Richie.
** And in ''[[Home Alone]]'' Kieran plays Macaulay's cousin.
* In the 1938 film of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', Bob Cratchit, Mrs. Cratchit, and Belinda Cratchit were played by Gene, Kathleen, and [[June Lockhart]].
* In
** And in the seventh, the death of
** In the epilogue of the eighth movie, Draco Malfoy's future wife Astoria is played by Jade Olivia, the then-real-life girlfriend of Draco actor Tom Felton.
** Anna Friel apparently really wanted to play Tonks so that she could act alongside David Thewlis, her real-life partner. The role went to Natalia Tena.
** The very first includes director Chris Columbus' daughter Eleanor as Susan Bones. Also siblings Derek and Julianne Hough played two unnamed Hogwarts' students.
** There was also this pair of twins in there somewhere...{{context}}
* In the film ''[[Barney's Version]]'', [[Dustin Hoffman]]'s son Jake plays his grandson.
* In ''[[Daddy's Little Girls]]'', the main character's three daughters are played by sisters China, Lauryn and Sierra
* In ''[[Eve's Bayou]]'', Jurnee Smollett(Eve)'s real life brother Jake plays Eve's younger brother Poe.
* In ''[[Bridesmaids]]'', Melissa McCarthy's husband Ben Falcone has a small role as a man her character (Megan) hits on {{spoiler|and later hooks up with.}}
* ''[[Gigli]]'' was centered on this. As a vehicle for [[Ben Affleck]] and [[Jennifer Lopez]]'s relationship, it died along with public interest over their coupling, along with [[Kevin Smith]]'s ''[[Jersey Girl]]'' which starred Affleck and had Lopez in a smaller role.
* While filming ''[[Terminator|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'', James Cameron [[Making Use of the Twin|took advantage of the fact that Linda Hamilton has an identical twin sister]] in order to save on his special effects budget. In three scenes that required two "Sarah Connors" to be on screen at the same time (the playground scene where Conner is trying to warn everyone about the oncoming nuclear war, the CPU reprogramming scene, and the scene where the T-1000 had taken Sarah's form), Cameron used Hamilton's sister, [http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Leslie_Hamilton_Gearren Leslie Hamilton Gearren], as a double rather than using CGI to achieve the same effect.
* In the Soviet film ''[[Moscow Cassiopeia|Teens in the Universe]]'', the leader of the [[Human Aliens]] and his son Agapit are played by the [[Real Life]] father-and-son Igor and Vadim Ledogorov.
* [[Tim Burton]] often casts his real life girlfriends (first Lisa Marie and then [[Helena Bonham Carter]]) with the latter getting the more meatier parts than the former as Bonham Carter was already a well-respected Academy Award nominated actress before she and Burton hooked up.
* In Disney's ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'', "[[Satan|the Master]]" and his wife are played by (uncredited) real-life siblings Garry and Penny Marshall.
* In ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]],'' the old photo of Red, at the time of his
* The real parents of ''[[The Goonies]]'' were cast as their parents for the final reunion, save for Mikey and Brand's parents being played by established actors.
* The ensemble of actors who performed in [[The Bowery Boys]] films included star Leo Gorcey, his brother David, and his father Bernard. Leo Gorcey also eventually married actress Amelita Ward, whom he seems to have met when she appeared in the 1948 Bowery Boys film ''Smuggler's Cove''.
== Live-Action TV ==
* [[Emilio Estevez]] and his daughter also have a brief appearance in an episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'', in "archival video" of a younger Jed Bartlet and daughter Zoe.
** [[Martin Sheen]]'s daughter Renee has a small recurring role as staffer Nancy, who interacts with the President from time to time.
* An episode of ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' called "What's the Matter With Kids?" features [[Steve Allen]] and [[Jayne Meadows]] as
* One ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' episode had an appearance of Adrian Paul's then-wife Melani as an escaped female con hired to seduce Duncan. (She played the character until the plastic surgery, then Alexandra Vandernoot took over)
* Geraint Wyn Davies' real-life son guest starred in one season 3 episode of ''[[Forever Knight]]''.
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* [[Lucille Ball]] and Desi Arnaz, who starred in several classic comedy films in addition to producing and starring in ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. Unfortunately, they had [[Real Life]] marital trouble during the course of the series and divorced after the final episode had aired.
** Their children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., starred in Lucille Ball's later shows.
* In ''[[Smallville]]'' twins Shawn Ashmore and Aaron Ashmore both played
* On ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' TV series, Jack Klugman played bitter divorcee Oscar Madison, and his wife, Brett Somers, played Blanche, Oscar's ex-wife. During the series' run, Klugman and Somers ''really did'' separate, though their marriage didn't officially end until Somers died in 2007.
* ''[[Friends]]'' ([[Jennifer Aniston]] and Tate Donovan)
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** While Brad Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston he appeared as Monica, Rachel and Ross' old high school friend. His character, Will, and Ross started the rumor about the 'hermaphrodite cheerleader from Long Island' aka Rachel.
* On ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', The chemistry between Rory and Jess was made a little more obvious due to the fact that Milo Ventimiglia was the real life boyfriend of [[Alexis Bledel]] when he joined the show. In an odd coincidence, they broke up roughly around the same time that Rory and Jess see each other for the final time.
* The new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** In a behind the scenes example, the show's iconic cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" (and several other tracks) are preformed by Brendan McCreary, the brother of the show's composer, [[Bear McCreary]].
** In the episode ''Greetings from Earth'' in the original series, most of the children are played by children of the series creator Glen A. Larson or star Lorne Greene.
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*** [[Word of God]] is that Melissa Gilbert took the role for less money than she usually gets, as a favor to her husband.
* ''[[Jeremiah (TV series)|Jeremiah]]'': In the episode ''Moon in Gemini'', cast regular Ingrid Kavelaars' character Erin has a twin sister named Lauren, played by... real-life twin sister Monique Kavelaars.
* ''[[Two of a Kind]]'', ''[[So Little Time]]'', ''[[Sister, Sister]]'', ''[[Double Trouble]]'', and ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' are all built around twin sisters being played by twin sisters (first two the Olsens, the other three the Mowrys, Sagals, and Daniels respectively).
* Peter DeLuise, the director of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', occasionally also made cameo appearances. His brother David played as a love interest to Carter.
** His other brother Michael DeLuise appeared as "Colonel Danning" in ''Wormhole X-Treme!'' and father [[Dom DeLuise]] as Urgo.
** As well as his wife Anne Marie DeLuise (nee Loder) as Farrell in ''The Other Side'' and Cameron Mitchell's high school sweetheart Amy Vanderburg in ''Bounty''.
* Real-life siblings David and Kate Hewlett also play brother and sister onscreen in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' in the aptly named episode "McKay and Mrs. Miller". Fans loved her so much that TPTB brought her back for three more episodes.
** This was actually Art Mimicking Life - in "The Siege" McKay was originally to have been composing the video to his brother. David Hewlett convinced them to shift it to sister, as he had no brothers, but ''did'' have a sister who was an actress, should they ever want to go that route later on in the series...
** Hewlett said in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140109031622/http://scifi.about.com/od/stargate/a/SGA_hewlett.htm an interview] that in their first episode together the director instructed them to act like brother and sister, forgetting that they actually were.
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* ''[[Space: 1999]]'', starring [[Martin Landau]] and his wife [[Barbara Bain]], both also having starred before in the show ''[[Mission: Impossible]]''.
** And in the ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' revival series, Barney's son was played by the actor's son.
* Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, both regulars on ''[[All My Children]]'', were married in 1996...and then their characters got married.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', "Q2", father and son John and Keegan de Lancie play Q and "Q Junior". Also an instance of [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]
* Donald Sutherland was to play the father of his son Kiefer's character, Jack Bauer, on ''[[24]]'', but was unavailable at the time of filming and was replaced by James Cromwell.
* "Far Beyond The Stars", an [[Elseworld]] episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' in which the regulars were writers for a 1950s science fiction magazine, had Nana (Kira) Visitor and Alexander (Bashir) Siddig, who were married at the time, as a married couple based on [[C. L. Moore]] and [[Henry Kuttner]].
* In the ''[[Farscape]]'' trilogy ''Look at the Princess'', the simulations of John Crichton's son and daughter are played by Ben Browder's children.
** Additionally, Ben Browder's wife, Francesca Buller, has played multiple alien characters, notably War Minister Ahkna.
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* ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' sports a peculiar variation. Melissa Gilbert, playing Laura Ingalls, is of a different family than her real-life brother, Jonathan Gilbert, playing Willie Oleson. In reality, they were both adopted by the same family but are not blood related. It gets even better because Melissa Gilbert's in-show brother, Matthew Laborteaux, is the real-life brother of Patrick Labyorteaux (Matthew dropped the "y" from his surname), playing Matthew's friend on the show, Andrew Garvey, which are also both adopted! To top that, the role of Carrie Ingalls was played by twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush. While it's not rare for twins to play the same role, especially as a baby, there was an episode where both of them played side by side, when Carrie's character created an imaginary friend, played by her actual sister! Even more, the twins have a brother which also appeared as a guest star on the show!
** The '80s Disney TV movie ''The Thanksgiving Promise'' features Beau, Lloyd, Lloyd's wife Dorothy, Beau's other son Jordan, and an uncredited [[Jeff Bridges|Jeff]].
* In one episode of ''[[The Last Detective]]'', [[Georgia Moffett]] guest-starred alongside her
* [[Peter Davison]] and [[Georgia Moffett]], real-life father and daughter, played a father and daughter on ''[[Fear Stress And Anger]]''.
* (And for the hat-trick) A particularly unusual variant in ''[[Doctor Who]]'': in 2008 [[Georgia Moffett]] played the daughter of [[David Tennant]]'s (Tenth) [[Doctor Who|Doctor]] - who is a ''regeneration'' of the same character played five 'lifetimes' earlier (the Fifth Doctor) by her real-life father [[Peter Davison]] between 1981-84. The pair started dating afterward, and now have a child and are engaged to be married.
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** Talking of Patrick Troughton, Jack Watling (Professor Travers in the Great Intelligence stories) was the father of Deborah Watling (the Doctor's companion Victoria).
** In the original production of the stage play "Doctor Who and the Daleks: Seven Keys to Doomsday", the companion character is Jenny, played ([[You Look Familiar|oddly enough]]) by Wendy Padbury (Zoe Herriot). In the [[Big Finish]] version she's played by Padbury's daughter, Charlie Hayes.
** In the Series 6 episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
*** Incidentally they also do this in an episode of NCIS (6.13; "Broken Bird") with Mark Sheppard playing a young version of W. Morgan Sheppard's character in Ducky's flashbacks.
* ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'' starred [[Dick Van Dyke]] as crimesolving doctor Mark Sloan, and co-starred his own son Barry Van Dyke as his character's son, police detective Steve Sloan. Other members of the Van Dyke family appeared at various times during the show's run, including Dick's brother Jerry and daughter Stacy in one episode each as Dr. Mark's brother and daughter respectively. Barry's four children all appeared in multiple episodes, although not as Sloan family members: Carey as six different characters in as many episodes; Shane as four, the last of whom became a regular supporting role in the show's concluding months; Wes as three; and Taryn in three episodes. All four appeared together in two separate episodes, which therefore share the highest rating of 6.0 on the Van Dyke Scale...
* ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' also had a few episodes with [[Jerry Van Dyke]] as Stacey Petrie, Rob's sleepwalking brother.
* ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' featured Danica McKellar as Kevin's main love interest, and her real-life sister Crystal McKellar in a recurring role as an unrelated character who was also Kevin's sometime girlfriend.
* [[Benjamin Bratt]] and [[Julia Roberts]] were dating when they starred in a memorable episode of ''[[Law and Order]]''. Mostly notable for the fact that Roberts attempted to seduce Bratt's married character, leading to a venomous and hateful series of betrayals. One wonders if they might not have had some real-life problems to work out...
** Probably, since they didn't stay together.
** Another ''[[Law and Order]]'' example (sort of) derives from when Jill Hennessy was on ''[[Law and Order]]'' as Claire Kincaid. Jill was filming some scenes from a crossover with ''[[Homicide: Life
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' co-stars Jesse Spencer and Jennifer Morrison were dating at the same time as their characters, Dr. Chase and Dr. Cameron, started their romantic relationship.
** Inversely, a few months after Chase and Cameron made their relationship official in the third season's finale, Jesse Spencer and Jennifer Morrison decided to call off their engagement.
* [[Billy Ray Cyrus]] and his daughter [[Miley Cyrus|Miley]] play ''[[Hannah Montana]]'''s dad and the title character, respectively.
** And his other daughter Noah is an extra.
** Mateo Arias made [[The Cameo|a cameo]] appearance as Rico's brother. Rico is played by Moises Arias.
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* In ''[[Private Practice]]'', [[Wicked (theatre)|Idina Menzel]] plays a patient's mother and a potential love interest. Menzel is the real-life wife of [[Rent|Taye Diggs]], who plays Dr. Sam Bennett.
* In ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'', Charlie Day's character has an unrequited crush on a waitress played by his real-life wife, Mary Elizabeth Ellis. Also, Rob McElhenney (Mac) is married to Kaitlan Olson (Sweet Dee); they met when she auditioned for her part. In another episode with a [[Shout-Out]] to [[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]], the person who was playing the role of "Chief" was actually Will Sampson's son.
** Additionally, in the episode "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom" Danny
* In ''[[Family Ties]]'', [[Tracy Pollan]] played the girlfriend of [[Michael J. Fox]]'s character. In ''Bright Lights Big City'', Tracy Pollan played the cousin of Michael J. Fox's character. The two of them married later that year, and are still married to this day. Tracy Pollan has also made a guest appearance on ''[[Spin City]]'', as the high school flame of Michael J. Fox's character.
** Before Tracy Pollan, Michael J. Fox had dated Nancy McKeon. The two of them played love interests on two [[Made for TV Movie|made-for-TV movies]], ''High School USA'' and ''[[Poison Ivy]]''.
** In ''Life With Mikey'', Michael J. Fox is the titular character. His sister, Kelli Fox, has a minor role.
* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', the actors playing Ted Sprague and Sandra Bennet are married in real life. In one episode, Ted threatens to kill Sandra. In the episode commentary, the actor playing Ted observes, "Yeah, our kids aren't gonna be allowed to watch this one."
** The fact that Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia were dating is going to make for some awkward television considering that Milo's ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' character is ''her character's uncle''.
** If those two end up marrying, I doubt they'll let their kids watch the recent{{when}} episode {{spoiler|where Future Claire kills Future Peter}}. Assuming they let their kids watch the show at all.
* On the last couple of seasons of ''[[Growing Pains]]'', Chelsea Noble played the romantic interest of Kirk Cameron's character. They ended up getting married in the show, and then later married in [[Real Life]].
** And then even later, Noble played Cameron's love interest in the short-lived WB series ''[[Kirk]]''.
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** ...and even worse than that, reportedly, Cameron won't even kiss anyone other than Noble now. She's supposedly in ''Fireproof'' (uncredited) in Cameron's kiss scenes with his movie wife (played otherwise by Erin Bethea).
* In the ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' TV series, Melissa Joan Hart's real life sister Emily played Sabrina's cousin Amanda. She then played Sabrina on the animated series while Melissa Joan Hart played her aunts.
* On the 1980s British TV series ''A Fine Romance'', main characters Mike and Laura were played by real-life spouses [[Michael Williams]] and [[Judi Dench]].
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "The Inner Light", the son of Kamin, the person whose life Picard is experiencing, was played by Patrick Stewart's son Daniel.
* Father-son example: in ''Romeo!'', [[Master P]] makes occasional guest appearances as the father of the title character, played by his son Li'l Romeo.
* Extreme example: Michael, Nat, and Alex Wolff (father and sons) play a father and his two sons in ''[[The Naked Brothers Band]]''.
** On top of that, Jesse, Alex's [[
* The character of Compo Simmonite died on ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' following the death of the actor Bill Owen. Several episodes later and after the funeral, Compo's long-lost son moves into town and is played by Bill Owen's real-life son Tom Owen.
* Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson, who played sisters Sharon and Tracy in ''Birds of a Feather'', have been friends since primary school, enabling the opening credits to use genuine photos of them growing up together.
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* ''[[Kojak]]'' featured Telly Savalas and his brother George as Det. Stavros.
* ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' introduces us to David Trueheart, Tommy's long-lost brother... played by Eric Frank, actual brother to Tommy's actor, Jason Frank.
* ''[[
** The photograph on Col. Potter's desk, supposedly of Potter's wife Mildred, was actually a picture of [[Harry Morgan]]'s real-life wife, Eileen Detchon.
* In ''[[Due South]]'' Fraser's ([[Paul Gross]]' character) mother was played by Martha Burns ...who is Paul Gross' wife. They also starred together in the series ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'', as former lovers.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' took advantage of the fact that Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris) has an identical twin, in an episode where there are two Xanders.
** Kelly Donovan (Brendan's twin) stood in for Nicholas Brendon on multiple occasions during Buffy's production run. Besides the episode mentioned above, Donovan subbed for his brother during the fight scenes in the episode "Intervention", because Nicholas Brendon had pneumonia at the time.
** [[Adam Busch]] (Warren) and [[Amber Benson]] (Tara), respectively, were dating, and [[Joss Whedon]] actually told Adam, "You're gonna kill your girlfriend," to which the reply was "Warren gets a girlfriend?" "No, I mean your real girlfriend." Eight years later, by the way, they're still together. This relationship was actually the inspiration somewhat for the Buffy fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3460966/1/Difficult_to_Fight_Against_Anger Difficult to Fight Against Anger]''.
** [[Alyson Hannigan]] crossed over to guest star on [[Angel]] alongside her now-husband [[Alexis Denisof]]
** [[David Boreanaz]]' wife Jaime Bergman appeared in one season 5 Angel episode.
** ''[[Dollhouse]]'' similarly took advantage of Enver Gjokaj (Victor) having an identical twin brother. He stood in as the second Victor in a dream sequence.
*** ''Dollhouse'' had another example of real-life relatives: the series finale has [[Eliza Dushku]]'s younger brother Nate as Clive Ambrose's latest body. Her real-life boyfriend, Rick Fox, also cameoed.
*** Nate was also the gunman in one of [[Angel]]'s flashbacks in Eliza's final appearance on that show.
* Several episodes of ''[[Monk]]'' guest-star [[Brooke Adams]] (aka Mrs. [[Tony Shalhoub]]), each time as a different character.
** Adams also guest-starred on ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' as a nun who is helped by Shalhoub's character Antonio.
* Speaking of ''Wings'', in addition to Shalhoub and Adams, a handful of episodes featured guest spots by relatives of the cast.
** [[Tim Daly]]'s sister [[Tyne Daly|Tyne]] played a wealthy woman who attempts to make Brian a kept man.
** Tim Daly's wife, [[Amy Van Nostrand]], played a woman in a married couple who befriends the Hacketts.
** [[Amy Yasbeck]]'s husband [[John Ritter]] played Casey's estranged husband Stuart.
* Emily, the estranged daughter of Gerry Standing in ''[[New Tricks]]'' is played by Dennis Waterman's daughter Hannah.
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* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'': The woman Gob (Will Arnett) marries on a dare is played by Arnett's wife, [[Amy Poehler]]. The situation was reversed years later when Poehler got her own show, ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', and Arnett appeared in one episode as Leslie (Poehler)'s horrible blind date.
** ''Arrested'' was fond of this trope. In a later episode, Michael (Jason Bateman) hires a woman, played by Bateman's real-life sister Justine, to work at the Bluth Company. He thinks she is his {{spoiler|long-lost sister Nellie}}; she's actually a {{spoiler|prostitute}}.
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* Tatort (NDR; Hannover): The actress Maria Furtwängler who plays KHK Charlotte Lindholm is the daughter of Kathrin Ackermann who portrays Charlottes mother Annemarie Lindholm.
* Semi-example: Shirley Jones, who is/was David Cassidy's stepmother, played his mother in ''[[The Partridge Family]]''. AIR neither was consulted on the casting of the other.
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* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Timeslides" Lister's ''younger self'' was played by Emile Charles, Craig Charles's younger brother. Baby Lister in "Oroboros" was played by Danny John-Jules's nephew, Alexander John-Jules.
** The mechanoid and blob incarnations of Camille in "Camille" were played by Robert Llewellyn's then-girlfriend (now wife) Judy Pascoe. In his memoir ''The Man In The Rubber Mask'' Llewellyn claims that the publicity shot of Kryten and Camille is in his parents' photo album: "That's our elder son and his wife and children, that's our daughter and her children, and that's our middle son who's a robot and his girlfriend."
* In ''[[St. Elsewhere]],'' Dr. Craig and his wife were played by real-life husband and wife William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett.
** Briefly reprised in ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', where Mr. Feeney (Daniels) fell for the college's dean (Bartlett). In fact, Daniels and Bartlett have played a romantic couple on no less than four occasions: ''Killer on Board'' (1977), ''Touched By an Angel'', ''Boy Meets World'', and ''[[St. Elsewhere]]''. Apparently, they are a living aversion to the [[Couple Bomb]] both in real life and onscreen (they've been married since 1951).
* Another ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' example: Topanga's parents were played by the husband-and-wife Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole [[The Other Darrin|for one episode]]. Also, Ben Savage's brother Fred Savage appears in one episode as a creepy lecherous college teacher.
* The first season ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' episodes "The Quadripartite Affair" and "The Giuoco Piano Affair" were two of the relatively few episodes that gave Illya Kuryakin (played by David McCallum) the [[Girl of the Week]]. She was played in both episodes by Jill Ireland, who was at the time of filming married to McCallum.
* On ''[[Lost]]'', Benjamin Linus is played by Michael Emerson. His wife Carrie plays Ben's mother Emily. Thankfully, [[Squick]] is avoided because Emily {{spoiler|dies in childbirth}} and thus only appears during baby Ben's birth and {{spoiler|as a hallucination on the island}} to young Ben.
* Father and son Rene Auberjonois and Remy-Luc Auberjonois played father and son in an episode of ''[[
** Speaking of ''LA Law'', husband-wife actors Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry were both regulars on that show and also appeared together in several late '80s/early '90s TV movies that they produced.
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' managed to bring in Alyson Hannigan's husband, Alexis Denisof, as a love interest for Robin. Also, David Burtka, Neil Patrick Harris's boyfriend, played Lily's high school boyfriend.
** Not to mention that Josh Radnor, who plays Ted, is dating Lindsay Price who played Cathy the girl who couldn't shut up in the episode Spoiler Alert. And Cobie Smulder's Fiancee, Taran Killam, played Blauman a co-worker of Marshall and Barney's. There's a strange alternate universe episode in here somewhere.
* The [[Heartwarming Orphan
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** His brother Ed Colbert is a copyright lawyer, and appeared on the show during the Shepard Fairey 'Hope' poster fair use debate.
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** Speaking of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, she and her future husband Brad Hall were castmates on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. Several years later, Julia guest-starred on an episode of ''[[The Single Guy]]'', which was created and produced by Hall.
* [[Zooey Deschanel]] guest-starred in an episode of ''[[Bones]]'', which stars her sister Emily, as Emily's character's cousin. The writers took the golden opportunity to [[Lampshade]] the ''hell'' out of this during said episode.
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** She also appeared in the video for The Postal Service's "We Will Become Silhouettes", alongside her now-husband Ben Gibbard.
* The French series ''[[Kaamelott]]'' seems to have been cast largely from creator (and lead actor) Alexandre Astier's family. In particular, his real-life father, mother, and half-brother appear as his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law, respectively. Note they're all professional actors anyway, so it hardly hurts the show.
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* In ''[[Oz]]'', resident [[Manipulative Bastard]] Ryan O'Reily (played by Dean Winters) and his mentally retarded older brother Cyril O'Reily (Scott William Winters) are brothers in real life.
** Their eldest brother, Bradford Winters, was series creator/head writer Tom Fontana's main collaborator for most of the series' run, as well.
* On ''[[
* ''[[Skins]]'' has the obvious example of real life twins Kathryn and Megan Prescott playing the twins Emily and Katie, respectively.
** And the significantly less obvious example of Effy's mum (Morwenna Banks) cheating on her screen husband (Harry Enfield) with her real one (David Baddiel).
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* A story arc in ''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]]'' involved Jiraiya/Ninja Black, who is played by Kane Kosugi, being forced to challenge his sensei-turned-nemesis Gali, who was played by Kane's actual father Sho Kosugi.
* Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter play brother and sister in [[Dexter]], but were married in real life. They have since divorced.
* [[
* ''[[The A-Team]]'' had an episode entitled "Bounty" in which Murdock fell in love with a vet named Kelly. Kelly was played by Wendy Fulton, who is still to this day married to [[Dwight Schultz]] and has been since 1983.
* On ''[[The Closer]]'', Brenda's niece Charlie was played in several episodes by Kyra Sedgewick's real-life daughter, Sosie Bacon.
* On ''[[Primeval]]'', Connor and Abby are played by actors who are currently engaged in real life. James Lester and [[Foe Yay|Christine Johnson]] are also married in real life.
* On ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', the actress who plays Jill's sister Carrie is married to Richard Karn, who plays Al.
* In ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Hollywood A.D.", a movie is made based on Mulder and Scully's lives as paranormal FBI agents. Tea Leoni is cast as the movie version of Scully, and it is mentioned (jokingly) that she has a crush on Mulder. Tea Leoni being David Duchovny's wife, obviously. Of course, David Duchovny also wrote ''and'' directed that episode...
* In the season 3 premiere of ''[[Leverage]]'', Nate {{spoiler|helps a young inmate escape from jail.}} The inmate is played by Edwin Hodge, brother of Aldis Hodge, who plays Hardison.
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* In [[The Shield]], Vic Mackey's daughter Cassidy is played by Michael Chiklis's real life daughter Autumn Chiklis.
* Marg Helgenberger's now ex-husband appeared in two episodes of [[CSI]].
* Chris Masterson appeared on his brother Danny’s series ''[[That '70s Show]]'' as an unrelated character. They also played brothers on one episode of ''[[White Collar]]''.
* Ali Marsh plays a recurring role as a psychiatrist on [[In Plain Sight]], which stars her husband Frederick Weller. Bonus points because their characters went on a date once, but she wasn't interested.
* ''[[Gimmie A Break]]'': During the last three seasons, Matthew Lawrence joined his older brother, Joey, as Joey's [[The Danza|(the character)]] little brother, Matt.
* In ''[[Dad's Army]]'', Pike's girlfriend Ivy was played by Ian Lavender's real-life wife. Arthur Lowe's wife, Joan Cooper, [[The Other Darrin]] also took over the role of Dolly Godfrey towards the end of the series.
== Pro Wrestling ==
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* In the 1990s, Jeremy Hardy and his then wife Kit Hollerbach in ''Unnatural Acts'', later titled ''At Home With The Hardys'' in imitation of the above.
* In the [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] story "An Earthly Child", McGann's real-life son guest-stars as the Doctor's great-grandson.
== Theater ==
* Many high school musicals will use the younger siblings of cast members to fill children's parts, mostly because it cuts down on scheduling issues. If one child can make it to all of the rehearsals, chances are their sibling can as well. Of course, sometimes the younger child is very good in their own right, and may even have a substantially bigger part than their brother or sister.
== Video Games ==
* The ending in the Japanese version of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' featured [[Akio Ohtsuka]] as Solid Snake and {{spoiler|his father [[Chikao Ohtsuka]] as Big Boss}}.
* Likewise, the Japanese release of ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' uses the immediately-above same two actors for plot relevance; with Akio Ohtsuka having voiced Xehanort in the entire ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series by that point, it was only natural to cast {{spoiler|Chikao Ohtsuka as Master Xehanort, who commits [[Grand Theft Me]] on Terra at the end of Terra's scenario, effectively becoming present-day Xehanort. Apparently, Akio represents a younger Chikao.}}
== Web Original ==
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] does this a
* [[Doug Walker]]'s brother is The Other Guy (Rob Walker), who mostly works behind the camera, but does appear on screen as various characters on occasion.
* Scott McClure, the aspiring filmmaker behind [[The Joker Blogs]], also uses this, probably for the same reasons as Linkara.
== Western Animation ==
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** She's also done a number of additional voices on ''[[Family Guy]]'', including Stewie's love interest Olivia ([[Incestuous Casting|Stewie is voiced by Seth]]).
* On ''[[Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist]]'', Laura Silverman and H. Jon Benjamin (respectively, surly secretary Laura and Ben, the 24 year old slacker son of Dr. Katz who repeatedly and unsuccessfully asks out Laura) were dating when the show started, but broke up during the middle of the show's run.
* [[
* The late Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor, the voice actors of Mickey and Minnie Mouse respectively, were married until Wayne's death.
* French voices of Homer and Marge in [[The Simpsons]] (Veronique Augereau and Philippe Peytieu) are real life spouses.
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** In the ''Lilo & Stitch'' crossover episode (from 2005, four years after the show ended and two years after the [[Direct to Video]] movies), Gus was [[The Other Darrin|replaced by]] Zach Ewing, due to his previous voice actor, Courtland Mead, going through puberty. Zach's older brother, Blake Ewing, was the voice of Menlo in the show (He also did the singing voices for Gus and T.J. in the credits of ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'').
* On ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'', the Pesto Twins are voiced by sisters Sarah and Laura Silverman.
* In ''[[Little Demon]]'', [[The Devil]] is voiced by [[Danny DeVito]] and his [[The Antichrist|Antichrist]] daughter Chrissy is voiced by DeVito's daughter [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lucy%20DeVito Lucy.]
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