Nepotism: Film Industry's Biggest Liability?
aka Nepotism: Hollywood's Dirty "Secret"
or Rampant Abuse of Family Connections In the Film Industry
or How Elitism Dominates Show-Biz
2021 UPDATE: I am trying to catch up with all the more recent actors/directors, but nepotism has been plowing forward (i.e. backward, for us) at such an accelerated pace that I just can't find them all quickly enough. The list should include hundreds more people... Elitism and corruption are on the rise which perfectly aligns with the drastic drop in the quality of movies and television in this century.
2023 UPDATE: I've added almost 650 new names recently.
2023 UPDATE: I have also started adding far more non-Americans, to avoid making the list too U.S.-centric, but also because nepotism/elitism are even more widespread across the Atlantic. The majority of the French entries are to be found on pages 11 and 12. The German section is on pages 12 and 13. Gradually, I might add Spanish, and Italian sections as well, although I already have some people from these (and other) countries. There is a separate list for Serbian nepotism. However, Bollywood nepotism I won't even attempt because I have no inside knowledge of that industry at all, and besides which I'd heard that nearly everybody in it is nepotistic.
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"It’s a running joke in Hollywood that every bellhop, busboy and waitress in LA is working on being an actor, screenwriter, director - whatever. Every year, thousands flock to the city where dreams are made… only to be passed over so someone’s niece can snag a role without having to go through the audition process. Hooray for Hollywood!" - KC Morgan.
Hey, I'm a whistle-blower of sorts! Why won't Hollywood side with me as they do with Edward Snowden?
Oh right, I'm blowing the whistle on THEM. They don't appreciate it when THEY'RE being scrutinized. They prefer to do the moralizing and the finger-pointing themselves, especially in their brazenly deceptive political propaganda films, while always hoping that not too many people notice what a cesspool of hypocrisy, egomania and decadence the American film industry itself is. And not just American cinema, but most other successful film nations too. This list isn't just about American nepotism.
(And besides, Snowden is a bad example. There is a big difference between a whistle-blower and a spy.)
First off, let me explain why this list aggravates some people within show business: because it exposes the hypocrisy of their elitism which goes against all of their left-wing, "equal-opportunity" public-persona politics. The main reason the list might not appeal to some movie fans: because it reveals to them how easily they're manipulated into devouring anything - or accepting anybody as a "talent" - that the powerful movie-industry hype-machine forces into their defenseless brains. Nobody likes to be informed that they are uncritical and lacking criteria. Nobody likes to find out that they aren't capable of differentiating between a great actor and a mediocre one. (But it's precisely this widespread - and growing - inability among most movie-goers that enables nepotism to flourish more than ever before. The studios have grown to realize it in recent decades hence why they'd stopped trying to find talent, or at least curtailed that activity greatly, deeming it unnecessary.)
The list that proves that practically anyone can be turned into a star, or at least a moderately employable actor. If you can talk, walk and learn lines, i.e. if you're a half-way functioning "meat puppet", you're in. But you do need strong connections, because the Pearly Gates of Hollywood are holding off hordes of incoming potential actors, writers and directors whose unexplored talents will remain forever hidden thanks to favouritism.
Millions of young people want in on the fun (sex, power, money and fame... and the "artistry" ha ha) but 99.9% have practically zero chance, not just because many are not good enough but because the privileged kids from powerful industrial and show-biz families have the huge advantage over them, because they get the short-cuts to fame: they get to be auditioned, and the others don't. Rich show-biz kids get the A-movie roles almost straight away, while struggling "plebeian" actors have to scrape up the ladder from the very bottom. Thanks to nepotism (and other forms of Hollywood corruption that I won't get into here but which you can easily guess) these Pearly Gates of Stardom are firmly shut most of the time. At least for the working-class and even middle-class kids.
The movie industry (everywhere, not just in the States) is a very incestuous, sect-like world in which family connections, political affiliation - and even ethnicity - are the deciding factors when it comes to the forging of careers. (The recent Weinstein scandals proved yet again that the casting couch is alive and well, too, and that even nepotists aren't safe from its clutches - let alone non-nepotists.) Talent is far behind in 10th place, after the various, more decisive factors: nobody seems to be interested in talent anymore, certainly not studio bosses, producers, and even directors who had realized a long time ago that the public's criteria have sunk so low over the years that these new audiences accept pretty much any face on the screen. And that is a big part of the reason why at least 90% of all movies are pretty much useless.
Which brings me to why (American) movies have been going down the toilet in recent years. The amount of garbage being put out by major studios has been on a steady rise for some years now. There are several reasons for this, one certainly being political correctness i.e. an all-encompassing political agenda, but perhaps the most negative impact stems from the exponentially growing nepotism which is now firmly entrenched in ALL aspects of film-making. It is difficult to find a recent (big-budget) movie in which more than a half of the cast members don't have influential parents/relatives/friends in the industry before they got their foot in the movie door.
Ditto the film crews, but the list concerns itself only with the "creative" branches of the film industry. In fact, I don't mind at all when gaffers, electricians, prop people, producers and even costume designers stem from show-biz clans. These are all pretty much behind-the-camera, non-creative aspects of the business hence irrelevant. It's the creative and "creative" aspects such as acting, writing and directing that this list is about: this is the Holy Trio of what makes or breaks a movie, the stuff that needs to be of a certain level and quality in order for a movie or TV show to be great, or at least solid.
The list focuses predominantly on actors and directors - hence largely it doesn't even take into consideration the vast number of bad scripts that have been a result of nepotistic infiltration! Nor does it include the plethora of nepotistic offspring that had appeared only in several smaller roles in fairly meaningless productions and as extras in big movies. I have intentionally skipped all the nepotists who have just a handful of minor appearances i.e. credits. You can click on the bio of just about any better-known actor older than 45 and you'll find that at least half of them have kids, siblings or cousins who are either actors, producers, or working in film crews as set designers or whatever.
So movie "artistry" is now an arena limited to a predetermined genetic karma, to a select few with the "right breeding", huh? Nice. How monarchistic. How anti-socialist. But the element of injustice isn't what is the worst about it all: it's the fact that nepotism kills good entertainment. Bad scripts, mediocre directors and charisma-free/incompetent actors combine to produce a heap of garbage that cannot measure up to what real talent can achieve. This is simply a fact, and a very evident one.
Tinseltown's elitist jet-set would have us believe that acting "talent" is passed on genetically, but if you believe there is such a thing as an acting gene (or a "charisma DNA") I would like to see some scientific proof of it first. Besides, many nepotists on this list come from non-movie, or at least non-acting, backgrounds. MANY of the kids who got a shot at fame in the past few decades - that aren't related to actors or producers - are children of upper-class, millionaire clans, wealthy industrialists for example, a fact that offers more proof how anti-equal-opportunity the film industry is, how corrupt and lazy it is.
They would also have us believe that nearly all of the world's acting/writing/directing talent has already been collected from all corners of America (and elsewhere), that the world's "acting talent pool" has dried up, been totally depleted, so why even bother looking for potential new De Niros, Caines, MacLaines, Connerys and Pacinos amongst the "masses"? Hence the debilitating current trend whereby the vast majority of the younger stars today have parents in powerful positions in the business - or commerce, or politics. I wouldn't mind, IF these kids were any good. But they usually aren't. Armies of Pauly Shores, Casey Aflecks and Amy Schumers dominate the film industry, while much more talented kids are sitting around stupidly, naively waiting for their agents to cast them in good auditions. So anti-socialist. Totally anti-liberal.
The gulf between what cinema's left-wingers preach and what they practice can't be any bigger.
It would seem that auditions serve very little purpose in Hollywood (and elsewhere), except to weed out the worst from the bad. A typical high-profile Hollywood audition (I am guessing) must be like a who's-who of famous actors' children, all fighting for a shot at fame and additional cash. Very few outsiders. It makes one wonder just how many truly bad nepotists never make it! Even a severely talent-free case like David Arquette must have beaten out several dozen failed nepotists, i.e. they are even worse ones than him. Scary (but fascinating) thought.
The list also exposes the startling hypocrisy of the movie business which is predominantly left-wing (now more than ever before), i.e. supposedly orientated toward the rights of the poor and "oppressed" - and yet there's this little anti-equality thing called elitist nepotism that proves that this is just an act: in reality, no poor or unconnected person with talent can make it in Hollywood unless they have wild luck. Hollywood predominantly employs its own spoiled rich kids, plus a whole array of sons and daughters of powerful politicians, famous pop stars, high-profile athletes - even sons and daughters of barons, lords and countesses! Hollywood producers and casting directors rarely hire middle-class or especially blue-collar talent. Again, I wouldn't mind this at all, IF only this corrupt selection-process worked - but it clearly doesn't. We've never had so many bland, boring actors and mediocre directors. The scripts are pitiful too.
So what is the real message Hollywood is giving blue-collar kids with dreams of movie careers? "You go on working in your factories and washing dishes and flipping burgers like your parents, we don't really need you here." That is the real message here, and one that is in total contrast/opposition to Hollywood's left-wing equal-opportunity lies - the politically-correct and completely dishonest message Hollywood is selling to the brainwashed masses.
So, yes, as insane and as despicable as it may sound, Hollywood is about silver-spoon-fed, righteous, holier-than-thou millionaires creating/starring in movies that preach about the rights of the oppressed, the poor, promoting socialism, minorities and the working class. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. This fact alone should tell you what kind of people run the film industry.
(It's interesting how this list had close to 500 views per week in its first years - then suddenly the numbers went down to two digits. I wonder how that happened.)
The list will be continually upgraded, there are LITERALLY HUNDREDS MORE people that haven't yet been added.
(EDIT: I stuck to my promise and added 200 more names. Then another 200. And another.)
Listed in the approximate order from the worst to slightly less bad. Essentially the first 100 are the best and most relevant examples of why nepotism is awful and destructive, whereas the rest are pretty much ranked randomly.
And no, I am not a disgruntled actor or director. I have never had any aspirations whatsoever to be in show-biz, since I am neither an exhibitionist attention-seeker nor obsessed with money. All I want is to watch good movies, but that is only possible when a good script is complemented with a good cast, and directed by someone chosen on the merit of his talents, not as a favour for a friend.
Nepotism is a branch of corruption. It is amoral, and it leads to a lowering of artistic standards. Whoever can't grasp this simple concept should skip this list altogether.
"The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star." - Marin Ireland, actress
Methinks Ms Ireland is either trying to be funny or working hard to prove one of the oldest cliches about Hollywood actresses...
Of course, as with anything else, there are degrees or levels. Not all of the people listed here had it equally easy to enter show business. From easiest level entry to least easy:
1. Kids/relatives of studio bosses and powerful producers.
2. Kids/relatives of billionaires and of nobility i.e. the upper-most echelon of the so-called "1%"
3. Kids/relatives of current A-list actors (and directors), so-called "film stars".
4. Kids/relatives of non-show-biz people, but powerful professionals such as influential Hollywood lawyers, District Attorneys and Washington politicians.
5. Kids/relatives of top-tier casting agents and mid-level producers.
6. Kids/relatives of former A-list actors (and directors), i.e. "has-beens" but well-connected has-beens who have quite a number of very useful telephone numbers in their notepads.
7. Kids/relatives of B-list/C-list actors with lengthy filmographies. Not nearly as well-connected as the categories listed above, but certainly with far more advantages at their disposal than a farmer's daughter in Alabama (who has almost zero chance to get her Cinderella foot in the door, even if she's beautiful and talented; this does happen but very rarely).
8. Kids/relatives of minor actors who showed up on TV and movies in small parts.
9. Kids/relatives of prominent and/or wealthy archeologists, scientists, and other types of non-show-biz professionals.
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100. Kids from the working class, from trailer-parks, and farmers' sons and daughters. These demographics very rarely make it to the film industry or even the mainstream music industry - which is equally corrupt, believe it or not. There was a time in the 50s and 60s in the UK when this happened occasionally (Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins), but generally speaking most eras have been blue-collar-unfriendly. Being even "merely" of the middle-class lessens one's chances significantly.
The 9 categories above are neither a complete or totally precise division/ranking of nepotistic levels, but it gives you a good idea of how nepotists are ranked in terms of how well connected they are, i.e. how easy or less easy their access to employment and/or outright stardom is. Being Will Smith's kid is thereby in a far better position to get started than a child from a wealthy clan of famous archeologists. Kids from the top 3 categories rarely need to waste their time on minor roles and smaller movies: they usually start their careers right away in big-budget films. But that's just a general rule. (Hint: whenever an unknown young actor/actress suddenly appears in a very good role in a top movie production, chances are fairly high it's a nepotist).
Of course, there are also many actors who broke into show-business through a childhood friend, such as was the case with Tobey Maguire. There are many such cases, but they aren't included on this list. In other words, the list could/should be twice as large if I had access to this kind of information too.
My YouTube channel, it's mostly music-related:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QrO38IvBGyUUPeTs46aYA
or Rampant Abuse of Family Connections In the Film Industry
or How Elitism Dominates Show-Biz
2021 UPDATE: I am trying to catch up with all the more recent actors/directors, but nepotism has been plowing forward (i.e. backward, for us) at such an accelerated pace that I just can't find them all quickly enough. The list should include hundreds more people... Elitism and corruption are on the rise which perfectly aligns with the drastic drop in the quality of movies and television in this century.
2023 UPDATE: I've added almost 650 new names recently.
2023 UPDATE: I have also started adding far more non-Americans, to avoid making the list too U.S.-centric, but also because nepotism/elitism are even more widespread across the Atlantic. The majority of the French entries are to be found on pages 11 and 12. The German section is on pages 12 and 13. Gradually, I might add Spanish, and Italian sections as well, although I already have some people from these (and other) countries. There is a separate list for Serbian nepotism. However, Bollywood nepotism I won't even attempt because I have no inside knowledge of that industry at all, and besides which I'd heard that nearly everybody in it is nepotistic.
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"It’s a running joke in Hollywood that every bellhop, busboy and waitress in LA is working on being an actor, screenwriter, director - whatever. Every year, thousands flock to the city where dreams are made… only to be passed over so someone’s niece can snag a role without having to go through the audition process. Hooray for Hollywood!" - KC Morgan.
Hey, I'm a whistle-blower of sorts! Why won't Hollywood side with me as they do with Edward Snowden?
Oh right, I'm blowing the whistle on THEM. They don't appreciate it when THEY'RE being scrutinized. They prefer to do the moralizing and the finger-pointing themselves, especially in their brazenly deceptive political propaganda films, while always hoping that not too many people notice what a cesspool of hypocrisy, egomania and decadence the American film industry itself is. And not just American cinema, but most other successful film nations too. This list isn't just about American nepotism.
(And besides, Snowden is a bad example. There is a big difference between a whistle-blower and a spy.)
First off, let me explain why this list aggravates some people within show business: because it exposes the hypocrisy of their elitism which goes against all of their left-wing, "equal-opportunity" public-persona politics. The main reason the list might not appeal to some movie fans: because it reveals to them how easily they're manipulated into devouring anything - or accepting anybody as a "talent" - that the powerful movie-industry hype-machine forces into their defenseless brains. Nobody likes to be informed that they are uncritical and lacking criteria. Nobody likes to find out that they aren't capable of differentiating between a great actor and a mediocre one. (But it's precisely this widespread - and growing - inability among most movie-goers that enables nepotism to flourish more than ever before. The studios have grown to realize it in recent decades hence why they'd stopped trying to find talent, or at least curtailed that activity greatly, deeming it unnecessary.)
The list that proves that practically anyone can be turned into a star, or at least a moderately employable actor. If you can talk, walk and learn lines, i.e. if you're a half-way functioning "meat puppet", you're in. But you do need strong connections, because the Pearly Gates of Hollywood are holding off hordes of incoming potential actors, writers and directors whose unexplored talents will remain forever hidden thanks to favouritism.
Millions of young people want in on the fun (sex, power, money and fame... and the "artistry" ha ha) but 99.9% have practically zero chance, not just because many are not good enough but because the privileged kids from powerful industrial and show-biz families have the huge advantage over them, because they get the short-cuts to fame: they get to be auditioned, and the others don't. Rich show-biz kids get the A-movie roles almost straight away, while struggling "plebeian" actors have to scrape up the ladder from the very bottom. Thanks to nepotism (and other forms of Hollywood corruption that I won't get into here but which you can easily guess) these Pearly Gates of Stardom are firmly shut most of the time. At least for the working-class and even middle-class kids.
The movie industry (everywhere, not just in the States) is a very incestuous, sect-like world in which family connections, political affiliation - and even ethnicity - are the deciding factors when it comes to the forging of careers. (The recent Weinstein scandals proved yet again that the casting couch is alive and well, too, and that even nepotists aren't safe from its clutches - let alone non-nepotists.) Talent is far behind in 10th place, after the various, more decisive factors: nobody seems to be interested in talent anymore, certainly not studio bosses, producers, and even directors who had realized a long time ago that the public's criteria have sunk so low over the years that these new audiences accept pretty much any face on the screen. And that is a big part of the reason why at least 90% of all movies are pretty much useless.
Which brings me to why (American) movies have been going down the toilet in recent years. The amount of garbage being put out by major studios has been on a steady rise for some years now. There are several reasons for this, one certainly being political correctness i.e. an all-encompassing political agenda, but perhaps the most negative impact stems from the exponentially growing nepotism which is now firmly entrenched in ALL aspects of film-making. It is difficult to find a recent (big-budget) movie in which more than a half of the cast members don't have influential parents/relatives/friends in the industry before they got their foot in the movie door.
Ditto the film crews, but the list concerns itself only with the "creative" branches of the film industry. In fact, I don't mind at all when gaffers, electricians, prop people, producers and even costume designers stem from show-biz clans. These are all pretty much behind-the-camera, non-creative aspects of the business hence irrelevant. It's the creative and "creative" aspects such as acting, writing and directing that this list is about: this is the Holy Trio of what makes or breaks a movie, the stuff that needs to be of a certain level and quality in order for a movie or TV show to be great, or at least solid.
The list focuses predominantly on actors and directors - hence largely it doesn't even take into consideration the vast number of bad scripts that have been a result of nepotistic infiltration! Nor does it include the plethora of nepotistic offspring that had appeared only in several smaller roles in fairly meaningless productions and as extras in big movies. I have intentionally skipped all the nepotists who have just a handful of minor appearances i.e. credits. You can click on the bio of just about any better-known actor older than 45 and you'll find that at least half of them have kids, siblings or cousins who are either actors, producers, or working in film crews as set designers or whatever.
So movie "artistry" is now an arena limited to a predetermined genetic karma, to a select few with the "right breeding", huh? Nice. How monarchistic. How anti-socialist. But the element of injustice isn't what is the worst about it all: it's the fact that nepotism kills good entertainment. Bad scripts, mediocre directors and charisma-free/incompetent actors combine to produce a heap of garbage that cannot measure up to what real talent can achieve. This is simply a fact, and a very evident one.
Tinseltown's elitist jet-set would have us believe that acting "talent" is passed on genetically, but if you believe there is such a thing as an acting gene (or a "charisma DNA") I would like to see some scientific proof of it first. Besides, many nepotists on this list come from non-movie, or at least non-acting, backgrounds. MANY of the kids who got a shot at fame in the past few decades - that aren't related to actors or producers - are children of upper-class, millionaire clans, wealthy industrialists for example, a fact that offers more proof how anti-equal-opportunity the film industry is, how corrupt and lazy it is.
They would also have us believe that nearly all of the world's acting/writing/directing talent has already been collected from all corners of America (and elsewhere), that the world's "acting talent pool" has dried up, been totally depleted, so why even bother looking for potential new De Niros, Caines, MacLaines, Connerys and Pacinos amongst the "masses"? Hence the debilitating current trend whereby the vast majority of the younger stars today have parents in powerful positions in the business - or commerce, or politics. I wouldn't mind, IF these kids were any good. But they usually aren't. Armies of Pauly Shores, Casey Aflecks and Amy Schumers dominate the film industry, while much more talented kids are sitting around stupidly, naively waiting for their agents to cast them in good auditions. So anti-socialist. Totally anti-liberal.
The gulf between what cinema's left-wingers preach and what they practice can't be any bigger.
It would seem that auditions serve very little purpose in Hollywood (and elsewhere), except to weed out the worst from the bad. A typical high-profile Hollywood audition (I am guessing) must be like a who's-who of famous actors' children, all fighting for a shot at fame and additional cash. Very few outsiders. It makes one wonder just how many truly bad nepotists never make it! Even a severely talent-free case like David Arquette must have beaten out several dozen failed nepotists, i.e. they are even worse ones than him. Scary (but fascinating) thought.
The list also exposes the startling hypocrisy of the movie business which is predominantly left-wing (now more than ever before), i.e. supposedly orientated toward the rights of the poor and "oppressed" - and yet there's this little anti-equality thing called elitist nepotism that proves that this is just an act: in reality, no poor or unconnected person with talent can make it in Hollywood unless they have wild luck. Hollywood predominantly employs its own spoiled rich kids, plus a whole array of sons and daughters of powerful politicians, famous pop stars, high-profile athletes - even sons and daughters of barons, lords and countesses! Hollywood producers and casting directors rarely hire middle-class or especially blue-collar talent. Again, I wouldn't mind this at all, IF only this corrupt selection-process worked - but it clearly doesn't. We've never had so many bland, boring actors and mediocre directors. The scripts are pitiful too.
So what is the real message Hollywood is giving blue-collar kids with dreams of movie careers? "You go on working in your factories and washing dishes and flipping burgers like your parents, we don't really need you here." That is the real message here, and one that is in total contrast/opposition to Hollywood's left-wing equal-opportunity lies - the politically-correct and completely dishonest message Hollywood is selling to the brainwashed masses.
So, yes, as insane and as despicable as it may sound, Hollywood is about silver-spoon-fed, righteous, holier-than-thou millionaires creating/starring in movies that preach about the rights of the oppressed, the poor, promoting socialism, minorities and the working class. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. This fact alone should tell you what kind of people run the film industry.
(It's interesting how this list had close to 500 views per week in its first years - then suddenly the numbers went down to two digits. I wonder how that happened.)
The list will be continually upgraded, there are LITERALLY HUNDREDS MORE people that haven't yet been added.
(EDIT: I stuck to my promise and added 200 more names. Then another 200. And another.)
Listed in the approximate order from the worst to slightly less bad. Essentially the first 100 are the best and most relevant examples of why nepotism is awful and destructive, whereas the rest are pretty much ranked randomly.
And no, I am not a disgruntled actor or director. I have never had any aspirations whatsoever to be in show-biz, since I am neither an exhibitionist attention-seeker nor obsessed with money. All I want is to watch good movies, but that is only possible when a good script is complemented with a good cast, and directed by someone chosen on the merit of his talents, not as a favour for a friend.
Nepotism is a branch of corruption. It is amoral, and it leads to a lowering of artistic standards. Whoever can't grasp this simple concept should skip this list altogether.
"The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star." - Marin Ireland, actress
Methinks Ms Ireland is either trying to be funny or working hard to prove one of the oldest cliches about Hollywood actresses...
Of course, as with anything else, there are degrees or levels. Not all of the people listed here had it equally easy to enter show business. From easiest level entry to least easy:
1. Kids/relatives of studio bosses and powerful producers.
2. Kids/relatives of billionaires and of nobility i.e. the upper-most echelon of the so-called "1%"
3. Kids/relatives of current A-list actors (and directors), so-called "film stars".
4. Kids/relatives of non-show-biz people, but powerful professionals such as influential Hollywood lawyers, District Attorneys and Washington politicians.
5. Kids/relatives of top-tier casting agents and mid-level producers.
6. Kids/relatives of former A-list actors (and directors), i.e. "has-beens" but well-connected has-beens who have quite a number of very useful telephone numbers in their notepads.
7. Kids/relatives of B-list/C-list actors with lengthy filmographies. Not nearly as well-connected as the categories listed above, but certainly with far more advantages at their disposal than a farmer's daughter in Alabama (who has almost zero chance to get her Cinderella foot in the door, even if she's beautiful and talented; this does happen but very rarely).
8. Kids/relatives of minor actors who showed up on TV and movies in small parts.
9. Kids/relatives of prominent and/or wealthy archeologists, scientists, and other types of non-show-biz professionals.
.....
.....
.....
100. Kids from the working class, from trailer-parks, and farmers' sons and daughters. These demographics very rarely make it to the film industry or even the mainstream music industry - which is equally corrupt, believe it or not. There was a time in the 50s and 60s in the UK when this happened occasionally (Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins), but generally speaking most eras have been blue-collar-unfriendly. Being even "merely" of the middle-class lessens one's chances significantly.
The 9 categories above are neither a complete or totally precise division/ranking of nepotistic levels, but it gives you a good idea of how nepotists are ranked in terms of how well connected they are, i.e. how easy or less easy their access to employment and/or outright stardom is. Being Will Smith's kid is thereby in a far better position to get started than a child from a wealthy clan of famous archeologists. Kids from the top 3 categories rarely need to waste their time on minor roles and smaller movies: they usually start their careers right away in big-budget films. But that's just a general rule. (Hint: whenever an unknown young actor/actress suddenly appears in a very good role in a top movie production, chances are fairly high it's a nepotist).
Of course, there are also many actors who broke into show-business through a childhood friend, such as was the case with Tobey Maguire. There are many such cases, but they aren't included on this list. In other words, the list could/should be twice as large if I had access to this kind of information too.
My YouTube channel, it's mostly music-related:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QrO38IvBGyUUPeTs46aYA
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