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Laura Dern and Diane Ladd acted together nine times, making them one of Hollywood’s most prolific mother-daughter duos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Uma Thurman encouraged her daughter Maya Hawke to establish her career independently before collaborating on a film in 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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Leslie Mann’s daughters, Maude and Iris Apatow, frequently appear in her movies directed by their father, Judd Apatow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There’s nothing more iconic than celebrity moms and daughters<\/a> who share screen time.<\/p>\nThroughout Hollywood history, a number of legendary familial duos have starred together in movies, including Uma Thurman<\/a> and Maya Hawke<\/a> and Andie MacDowell<\/a> and Margaret Qualley<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaura Dern<\/a> and Diane Ladd<\/a> may hold the record, having appeared in nine films together<\/a> until Ladd’s death<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\nCurious to see that famous family chemistry on screen? Here are 10 celebrity mother-daughter duos who have acted together over the years.<\/p>\n
01 of 10<\/p>\n
Uma Thurman & Maya Hawke<\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\nMaya Hawke and Uma Thurman in ‘The Kill Room.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Though both actresses have had their share of experience in the industry, they acted together for the first time in the 2023 dark comedy The Kill Room<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nHawke told The Guardian<\/em><\/a>in October 2021 that her parents \u2014 Thurman and actor Ethan Hawke<\/a> \u2014 wanted her to pave her own way in Hollywood, and not just have “bit-parts in their movies<\/a>.”<\/p>\n02 of 10<\/p>\n
Susan Sarandon & Eva Amurri<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Eva](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/899E4264906E4FE202D3F38C5E8EFB4E337CC1435360282E18505EAF597BF0F3\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2F51b47e4e0b436ca11b5f909068abfe8d\"\/)
<\/div>\nEva Amurri and Susan Sarandon in ‘The Banger Sisters.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Susan Sarandon<\/a> and her daughter, Eva Amurri<\/a>, have shared the screen at least four times.<\/p>\nThey famously played mother and daughter in the 2002 movie The Banger Sisters<\/em>, and Amurri played a younger version of her mother’s character in Dead Man Walking<\/em>.<\/p>\n03 of 10<\/p>\n
Blythe Danner & Gwyneth Paltrow<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Blythe](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/921CE46E86FF35AFE7318D51B126A11E274F5BAF366E33E37514C1AC03E6CA58\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2Fac766aad205eb594e706d34a0dce9121\"\/)
<\/div>\nBlythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow in ‘Sylvia’
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So far, Blythe Danner<\/a> and Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a> have only appeared in two movies together: Cruel Summer <\/em>and Sylvia<\/em>.<\/p>\nHowever, Danner told PEOPLE in 2016 that she was holding out hope for more screen time with her daughter, whom she described as “a phenomenal talent.”<\/p>\n
04 of 10<\/p>\n
Melanie Griffith & Dakota Johnson<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Melanie](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/A82AC7185AB6D6EEA8E5A681E818744351A981795B7843D3408FD7B6ADE9B3BD\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2Fd152d55e51e6ad3c01ad2a6f13ec4886\"\/)
<\/div>\nMelanie Griffith in ‘Crazy in Alabama.’
Credit: Everett<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Dakota Johnson<\/a> got her start in Hollywood at the age of 10<\/a> in her mom’s 1999 flick Crazy in Alabama<\/em>.<\/p>\nOver two decades later, Melanie Griffith<\/a> appeared in a minor role in her daughter’s 2020 comedy-drama The High Note<\/em>.<\/p>\n05 of 10<\/p>\n
Carrie Fisher & Billie Lourd<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Billie](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/237C776B2BADEDE0E51157AD90C73A8DF7229A7228ED09AA967F5EA72234873D\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2Fa680ed1c03d4897a349c2a35c3f9dd12\"\/)
<\/div>\nBillie Lourd and Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens.’
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Before her shocking death<\/a> in 2016, Carrie Fisher<\/a> famously worked with her daughter, Billie Lourd<\/a>,<\/em> in the Star Wars <\/em><\/a>sequel trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe actress died before the release of two of the films \u2014 Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em> and The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> \u2014 leading to alterations to the overall storyline.<\/p>\n06 of 10<\/p>\n
Meryl Streep & Mamie Gummer & Grace Gummer<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Meryl](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/650670BF7E90635684F75AB5BC365726323175417BB716E2851260B30DA70200\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2F1903adf4c5d6a8db0c055546b61f1bd4\"\/)
<\/div>\nMeryl Streep and Mamie Gummer in ‘Ricki and the Flash.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Meryl Streep<\/a> and Mamie Gummer<\/a> have collaborated on three films, the first of which, 1986’s Heartburn<\/em>, Mamie appeared in when she was just 20 months old.<\/p>\nStreep even changed her daughter’s name in the credits to protect her identity.<\/p>\n
The two also collaborated on 2007’s Evening<\/em> and 2015’s Ricki and the Flash.<\/em><\/p>\nLike her sister, Meryl’s younger daughter, Grace Gummer<\/a>, also starred alongside her mom as a baby in the 1993 movie House of Spirits<\/em>, and was also credited under a different name.<\/p>\n07 of 10<\/p>\n
Laura Dern & Diane Ladd<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Diane](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/B49F279866FA6AEB7F8336A7A49B9D341EB364FDDB3734D193FF2B771975A9AF\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2F253aee1c719663deea8397b597ec480b\"\/)
<\/div>\nDiane Ladd and Laura Dern in ‘Rambling Rose.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Dern shared the screen with her Oscar-nominated mom a whopping nine times, starting when she was 7 years old as an extra in 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe two went on to star together in 1990’s Wild at Heart<\/em>, 1991’s Rambling Rose<\/em> (for which they became the first mother and daughter to earn acting Oscar nominations in the same year), as well as a number of other notable projects.<\/p>\nLadd also played Dern’s mother in the HBO series Enlightened <\/em>from 2011 to 2013, telling New Orleans Magazine<\/em><\/a>in February 2014 that she was proud of her daughter’s “incredible talent.”<\/p>\n08 of 10<\/p>\n
Leslie Mann & Maude Apatow & Iris Apatow<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Leslie](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/F0E483320B4433FD3EB1A83BEF4EE3891C80311EB1640C208A0BEECDCCB683BB\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2F5968ac3898aadca4c18cb15ef807360a\"\/)
<\/div>\nLeslie Mann and her daughters in ‘This Is 40,’ alongside Paul Rudd.
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Leslie Mann<\/a> has shared the screen with not one but both of her daughters<\/a>.<\/p>\nMaude<\/a> and Iris<\/a> Apatow have appeared alongside their mom (often as her characters’ children!) in several films, including\u00a0Knocked Up<\/em>,\u00a0This Is 40<\/em> and\u00a0Funny People<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 all of which were also directed by their dad, Judd Apatow<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n09 of 10<\/p>\n
Angeline Jolie & Vivienne Jolie-Pitt<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Angelina](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/7BE6489EB9848B77E26EEDB9B783A1817C98C8640256B9AD6690C68CA023CA00\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2Fa1de99bd9264a8a381f02c0c48e3fbf7\"\/)
<\/div>\nAngelina Jolie and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt in ‘Maleficent.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
So far, Angelina Jolie<\/a> and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt<\/a> have shared the screen just once, in the 2014 Disney film Maleficent<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe actress told Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>at the time that she only used her daughter in the film because the other child actors were too afraid of her character.<\/p>\n10 of 10<\/p>\n
Andie MacDowell & Margaret Qualley<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"Margaret](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/24DABEFECF765452D5DF2007975C12D1996533F31EB198480BC21FD0C18B699B\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960_h640;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Faol_people_articles_471%2Fa9ba2bbf2f58ee00736167e8f54817c6\"\/)
<\/div>\nMargaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell in ‘Maid.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Though they haven’t shared the big screen yet, MacDowell and Qualley did play mother and daughter in the 2021 Netflix limited series Maid<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nAfter the show premiered, MacDowell wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post that acting with her daughter was “an extraordinary honor, and an experience I will cherish forever.”<\/p>\n
Laura Dern and Diane Ladd acted together nine times, making them one of Hollywood’s most prolific mother-daughter duos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Uma Thurman encouraged her daughter Maya Hawke to establish her career independently before collaborating on a film in 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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\nLeslie Mann’s daughters, Maude and Iris Apatow, frequently appear in her movies directed by their father, Judd Apatow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There’s nothing more iconic than celebrity moms and daughters<\/a> who share screen time.<\/p>\n
Throughout Hollywood history, a number of legendary familial duos have starred together in movies, including Uma Thurman<\/a> and Maya Hawke<\/a> and Andie MacDowell<\/a> and Margaret Qualley<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Laura Dern<\/a> and Diane Ladd<\/a> may hold the record, having appeared in nine films together<\/a> until Ladd’s death<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n
Curious to see that famous family chemistry on screen? Here are 10 celebrity mother-daughter duos who have acted together over the years.<\/p>\n
01 of 10<\/p>\n
Uma Thurman & Maya Hawke<\/h2>\n
\n \n<\/div>\n Maya Hawke and Uma Thurman in ‘The Kill Room.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nThough both actresses have had their share of experience in the industry, they acted together for the first time in the 2023 dark comedy The Kill Room<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Hawke told The Guardian<\/em><\/a>in October 2021 that her parents \u2014 Thurman and actor Ethan Hawke<\/a> \u2014 wanted her to pave her own way in Hollywood, and not just have “bit-parts in their movies<\/a>.”<\/p>\n
02 of 10<\/p>\n
Susan Sarandon & Eva Amurri<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Eva Amurri and Susan Sarandon in ‘The Banger Sisters.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nSusan Sarandon<\/a> and her daughter, Eva Amurri<\/a>, have shared the screen at least four times.<\/p>\n
They famously played mother and daughter in the 2002 movie The Banger Sisters<\/em>, and Amurri played a younger version of her mother’s character in Dead Man Walking<\/em>.<\/p>\n
03 of 10<\/p>\n
Blythe Danner & Gwyneth Paltrow<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow in ‘Sylvia’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nSo far, Blythe Danner<\/a> and Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a> have only appeared in two movies together: Cruel Summer <\/em>and Sylvia<\/em>.<\/p>\n
However, Danner told PEOPLE in 2016 that she was holding out hope for more screen time with her daughter, whom she described as “a phenomenal talent.”<\/p>\n
04 of 10<\/p>\n
Melanie Griffith & Dakota Johnson<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Melanie Griffith in ‘Crazy in Alabama.’
Credit: Everett<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nDakota Johnson<\/a> got her start in Hollywood at the age of 10<\/a> in her mom’s 1999 flick Crazy in Alabama<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Over two decades later, Melanie Griffith<\/a> appeared in a minor role in her daughter’s 2020 comedy-drama The High Note<\/em>.<\/p>\n
05 of 10<\/p>\n
Carrie Fisher & Billie Lourd<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Billie Lourd and Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens.’
Credit: Lucas Films<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nBefore her shocking death<\/a> in 2016, Carrie Fisher<\/a> famously worked with her daughter, Billie Lourd<\/a>,<\/em> in the Star Wars <\/em><\/a>sequel trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The actress died before the release of two of the films \u2014 Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em> and The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> \u2014 leading to alterations to the overall storyline.<\/p>\n
06 of 10<\/p>\n
Meryl Streep & Mamie Gummer & Grace Gummer<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer in ‘Ricki and the Flash.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nMeryl Streep<\/a> and Mamie Gummer<\/a> have collaborated on three films, the first of which, 1986’s Heartburn<\/em>, Mamie appeared in when she was just 20 months old.<\/p>\n
Streep even changed her daughter’s name in the credits to protect her identity.<\/p>\n
The two also collaborated on 2007’s Evening<\/em> and 2015’s Ricki and the Flash.<\/em><\/p>\n
Like her sister, Meryl’s younger daughter, Grace Gummer<\/a>, also starred alongside her mom as a baby in the 1993 movie House of Spirits<\/em>, and was also credited under a different name.<\/p>\n
07 of 10<\/p>\n
Laura Dern & Diane Ladd<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Diane Ladd and Laura Dern in ‘Rambling Rose.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nDern shared the screen with her Oscar-nominated mom a whopping nine times, starting when she was 7 years old as an extra in 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore<\/em>.<\/p>\n
The two went on to star together in 1990’s Wild at Heart<\/em>, 1991’s Rambling Rose<\/em> (for which they became the first mother and daughter to earn acting Oscar nominations in the same year), as well as a number of other notable projects.<\/p>\n
Ladd also played Dern’s mother in the HBO series Enlightened <\/em>from 2011 to 2013, telling New Orleans Magazine<\/em><\/a>in February 2014 that she was proud of her daughter’s “incredible talent.”<\/p>\n
08 of 10<\/p>\n
Leslie Mann & Maude Apatow & Iris Apatow<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Leslie Mann and her daughters in ‘This Is 40,’ alongside Paul Rudd.
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nLeslie Mann<\/a> has shared the screen with not one but both of her daughters<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Maude<\/a> and Iris<\/a> Apatow have appeared alongside their mom (often as her characters’ children!) in several films, including\u00a0Knocked Up<\/em>,\u00a0This Is 40<\/em> and\u00a0Funny People<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 all of which were also directed by their dad, Judd Apatow<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
09 of 10<\/p>\n
Angeline Jolie & Vivienne Jolie-Pitt<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Angelina Jolie and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt in ‘Maleficent.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nSo far, Angelina Jolie<\/a> and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt<\/a> have shared the screen just once, in the 2014 Disney film Maleficent<\/em>.<\/p>\n
The actress told Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>at the time that she only used her daughter in the film because the other child actors were too afraid of her character.<\/p>\n
10 of 10<\/p>\n
Andie MacDowell & Margaret Qualley<\/h2>\n
\n \n\n Margaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell in ‘Maid.’
Credit: Alamy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nThough they haven’t shared the big screen yet, MacDowell and Qualley did play mother and daughter in the 2021 Netflix limited series Maid<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n
After the show premiered, MacDowell wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post that acting with her daughter was “an extraordinary honor, and an experience I will cherish forever.”<\/p>\n
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