Actors With the Most Interesting Parents

Father, Rocky Aoki, former champion wrestler and founder of Benihana Restaurants

Mother, Pamela Hilburger, jewelry designer

Mother, Judith Love, satellite engineer and author who worked on the Hubble Telescope

Grandfather, Kingman Brewster, Jr., president of Yale University and US ambassador to the United Kingdom

Mother, Maria João, Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model

Father, Charles Chan, Chinese spy turned port inspector

Mother, Lee-Lee Chan, gambler and opium smuggler, nicknamed Big Sister, arrested by Jackie's father, Charles Chan

Father, Phil Collins, singer and songwriter

Father, Harry Connick Sr, district attorney of Orleans Parish

Mother, Anita Livingston, Louisiana Supreme Court justice

Father, Arthur Elgort, fashion photographer

Grandmother, Aase-Grethe Holby, member of the Norwegian resistance during WWII, eventually imprisoned at a concentration camp

Mother, Grethe Barrett Holby, founder and Artistic Director of American Opera Projects, founder and Executive Artistic Director of Family Opera Initiative and founder of Ardea Arts, Inc.

Great-grandfather, J Paul Getty, founder of Getty Oil

Mother, Gisela Schmidt, German photographer and documentarian

Father, A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale University and commissioner of Major League Baseball

Father, Charles V. Harrelson, hitman who was found guilty of two murders, including a US District Judge; also claimed he killed JFK

Father, Quincy Jones, record producer and writer

Father, Rick Dufay, one-time guitarist for Aerosmith

Mother, Maureen Kelly, exotic dancer

and her sister Lola Kirke

Father, Simon Kirke, drummer and founder of bands Free and Bad Company

Father, William "Ran" Laurie, general practitioner and gold-medal-winning Olympic rower

Father, Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, billionaire energy industrialist

and her sister Rooney Mara

Great-grandfather, Timothy James "Tim" Mara, founder of the New York Giants

Father, Timothy Christopher Mara, NFL scout and vice president of the New York Giants

Great-grandfather, Art Rooney, Sr, founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers

Father, Billy McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia

Mother, Constance Meester, drug smuggler who was serving federal time when Leighton was born

Father, Edward Francis Hutton, founder of American stock brokerage EF Hutton & Company

Mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post, socialite and owner of General Foods, which later merged with Kraft

Mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, invented Liquid Paper, typewriter correction fluid

Father, Brinley Newton-John, a Nazi interrogator whose work directly led to the capture of Rudolf Hess and was also part Bletchley Park, MI5's code-breaking headquarters

Grandfather, Max Born, Nobel Prize-winning atomic physicist and one of the founders of quantum mechanics

Mother, Jacqueline Nye, WWII codebreaker who worked on the Enigma Code

Father, Tony Penikett, Premier of Yukon, Canada

Great-grandfather, Monroe Jackson Rathbone II, chairman of Standard Oil, the precursor of Exxon

Father, Richard Rudolph, composer, songwriter and producer

Mother, Minnie Riperton, singer and songwriter

Grandfather, Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan credited with bringing universal healthcare to Canada

Father, Robert Thurman, professor of Tibetan Buddhist Studies who lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years

Mother, Birgitte "Nena" von Schlebrügge, German nobility and high-fashion model

Father, Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith

Step-father, Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter and producer

Mother, Bebe Buell, model, singer and Playboy Playmate

Father, Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, president of NBC, who established operating practices that became the industry standard