Taron Egerton ’s mama work in social services , while his dad once ran a seam - and - breakfast near Liverpool .
1.First,Jenna Ortega’s mom isa full-time ER nurseand would drive Jenna from their home in the Coachella Valley to Los Angeles for auditions. “She would drive me, it was like a 6–7-hour roundtrip, LA and back,” Jenna explained. “And she has five other kids.”
2.Chris Evans’s dad isa dentist, and his mom was once anartistic directorat the Concord Youth Theater in Massachusetts. During his first appearance ever on a late night talk show, Chris joked about his dad being a dentist when he showed his old school pictures.
3.Margot Robbie’s mom is aphysiotherapist, and she worked on the family’s farm in Australia. After Margot’s dad, who was a fruit farmer, left when she was around 5 years old, Margot’s mom raised her and her siblings alone. When Margot booked her first big movie,The Wolf of Wall Street, shepaid offher mom’s mortgage.
4.Pedro Pascal’s dad wasa fertility doctor, while his mother was a child psychologist while he was growing up. Pedro has talked about how his parents fled Chile in the 1970s and were able to build a life for Pedro and his siblings in the US.
5.Jessica Chastain’s stepfather isa firefighter. Jessica has openly talked about her family struggling financially when she was growing up,saying, “I did grow up with a single mother who worked very hard to put food on our table. We did not have money. There were many nights when we had to go to sleep without eating. It was a very difficult upbringing.”
6.Paul Mescal’s mom wasa police officerin the Garda, the national police of Ireland, and his dad is a teacher. His mom retired from the Garda in 2023, and Paul called her a “force of nature.”
7.Sandra Oh’s mom isa retired biochemistwhile her dad is a businessman. They immigrated from South Korea and eventuallysettledin Ontario in the 1960s before Sandra was born in 1971.
8.Selena Gomez’s mom used to work for a small modeling agency in Texas, and was responsible fordoing makeup. In fact, Selena explained her mom’s love of makeup helped inspire her company Rare Beauty. Selena said, “She would do their makeup and would take me to work with her. I just loved watching her create, I loved the colors. I loved how she could make someone look completely different.”
9.Leonardo DiCaprio’s dad was oncean underground comic book writerand distributor, while his mom used to work as a legal secretary. Leo grew up with his dad taking him to comic book stores and introducing him to small, local artists.
10.Sofía Vergara’s mom was a homemaker while her dad wasa cattle rancherin Colombia. Also, Sofía originallywentto dental school before she decided to become an actor.
11.Julia Roberts’s parents founded a theater school called Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott Kingsent their children. After working at the school, Julia’s dadsold vacuums, and her mom was a secretary.
12.Sam Claflin’s dad is an accountant, while his mom isa classroom assistantat the high school he attended. Speaking about his parents, Sam said, “My parents don’t have any show business links. They are so far away from it. It is nice to be able to share it with them and hold hands and scream together.”
13.Kerry Washington’s mom used to bea college professor, while her dad isa real estate broker. Kerry revealed that when she was growing up, her mombeggedher to become a lawyer.
14.Dolly Parton’s dad was asharecropper, who later grew tobacco on his own land. He also worked construction to help supplement the income he was making from farming tobacco. Dolly often credits her impeccable “work ethic” to her father.
15.Taron Egerton’s mom works insocial services, while his dad once ran a bed-and-breakfast near Liverpool.
16.Olivia Rodrigo’s mom isa teacher, while her dad is a family therapist. When her albumGutsdropped, many fanslovedthe line “but I am my father’s daughter, so maybe I could fix him,” in “get him back!“knowingher dad is a therapist.
17.Jodie Comer’s dad isa physical therapistfor the Everton Football Club, while her mom is a transport employee who works on the Merseyrail, aka the metro railway that serves the Liverpool area.
18.Taylor Lautner’s mom onceworkedat a software development company, and his dad isa pilotfor Midwest Airlines. Speaking about growing up with his dad as a pilot, Taylor said it came in handy when they were traveling from Michigan to LA for auditions.
19.Betty White’s dad was anexecutive at a lighting company, while her mom was a housewife.
20.Reese Witherspoon’s mom used to be aprofessor of nursingat Vanderbilt, and she hasa PhD in pediatric nursing, while her dad was a lieutenant in the US Army Reserve and thenbecamean ear-nose-and-throat specialist.
21.And finally, Paul McCartney’s dad wasa salesman for a cotton merchant, and then during WWII, he found work as a lathe turner, and he volunteered for the fire brigade. Meanwhile, his mom was a nurse and visiting midwife.
