These famous daughters of equally famous women look so like their celebrity moms that sometimes it feels like we took a trip in a time machine!
It’s no big surprise when kids look like their parents. That is the magic of DNA, after all. But it doesn’t mean that sometimes the resemblance isn’t so striking that it makes you stop and wonder if there is some sort of Orphan Black sorcery at hand. Such is often the case with celebrity offspring because we get to see their lives play out in the public eye. Like when Zoe Kravitz and mom Lisa Bonet took the red carpet together at the Golden Globes, we had to do a double-take.
And Judging by some Hollywood families, some famous moms definitely have tenacious genes — so, while we all know a partner contributed to the kid’s genetic makeup, you can’t necessarily tell it just by looking.
Ava Phillippe and her petite Southern mother, Reese Witherspoon, are precisely this kind of pair as are Cindy Crawford and daughter Kaia Gerber. And the list doesn’t end there. Gwyneth Paltrow, Lisa Bonet, Kate Beckinsale — there are many Hollywood moms whose daughters look just like them. Keep clicking and prepare to be impressed by the power of genetics.
Click through to see some of favorite celeb moms’ mini-mes.
A version of this story was originally published in 2020.
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Eva Amurri
Image Credit: FilmMagic Monarch star Eva Amurri is taking after her famous mom, Susan Sarandon, in every way possible. Amurri was born in 1985 during her mom’s marriage to Italian director Franco Amurri.
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Malia Obama
Image Credit: Jackson Lee/GC Images, Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Malia Obama is all grown up and making her way in Hollywood with several impressive TV writing credits. While she’s on a different path than her parents, she’s absolutely becoming a mini-me of Michelle Obama. Malia’s style may change over time but she and Michelle will always share a few features, like the way they laugh.
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Ava Phillippe
Image Credit: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images for Fendi Reese Witherspoon’s fashionista daughter Ava absolutely shares some traits with her famous dad Ryan Phillippe but there is no denying who her mom is!
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Nico Parker
Image Credit: Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic via Getty Images Every time Nico Parker and Thandiwe Newton make a mother-daughter red carpet appearance together, everyone can’t help but see all the similarities between the gorgeous duo!
And now with Nico’s acting career taking off, we’re surely going to be doing a lot of double takes!
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Dakota Johnson
Image Credit: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Netflix Dakota Johnson is the perfect mix between her talented actor parents Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson.
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Dylan Penn
Image Credit: Amy Sussman/Getty Images If a reboot of The Princess Bride is ever made, Dylan Penn is a shoo-in for the role her mother, Robin Wright, originally played. For now we’ll have to settle for seeing Dylan act alongside her dad, Sean Penn, in the 2021 film Flag Day.
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Gigi Hadid
Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Hadid certainly helped her daughter Gigi Hadid to follow in her model mom’s footsteps by passing on her looks!
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Sailor Brinkley-Cook
Image Credit: Aurora Rose/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images Mom Christie Brinkley and her daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook look so much alike it’s uncanny — just look at their gorgeous smiles!
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Kate Hudson
Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Kate Hudson and her ultra-successful mom Goldie Hawn have the exact same smile! We’ll always be in awe of this mother-daughter duo, whose acting careers proved that good looks and comedic chops both run in the family.
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Leni Klum
Image Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Heidi Klum’s daughter Leni most definitely has all the glamor of a Victoria’s Secret model and is giving her mom a run for her money with her successful career.
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Apple Martin
Image Credit: Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images, Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Apple, Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, has her mom’s beautiful bone structure and when she’s sitting in the front rows of fashion week, we can hardly tell them apart.
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Jessica Altman
Image Credit: Marc Piasecki/WireImage via Getty Images Actress Lynda Carter birthed her doppelganger back in 1990 and they look more and more alike by the day, as seen in this fashion week appearance!
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Maya Hawke
Image Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix, Gregory Pace/FilmMagic via Getty Images When Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke’s talented daughter Maya Hawke first appeared in Stranger Things fans freaked out over how much she looked like her her Oscar-nominated mama. Don’t lie to us, you’re seeing double too!
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Maude Apatow
Image Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images We can’t lie, usually we see a lot of Judd Apatow in his actress daughter Maude but this poised fashion week appearance with her mom, Leslie Mann, had us realizing that she’s actually a mix of the two!
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Mamie Gummer
Image Credit: Photo by Brent N. Clarke/FilmMagic. From those iconic cheekbones to the hairline, Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer are actual twins.
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Ever Anderson
Image Credit: Oscar Del Aguila/WWD via Getty Images Since embarking on her modelling and acting career, Ever Anderson has proved time and time again that she looks just like her mom, Milla Jovovich.
The teen, whose dad is filmmaker Paul W. S. Anderson, has starred in Black Widow and Peter Pan & Wendy, and we already know she’s going to go as far as her successful mom!
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Kaia Gerber
Image Credit: WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images Kaia Gerber is a dead ringer for her supermodel mom Cindy Crawford, just look at these photos to prove it. She’s also following in her footsteps too. The runway darling has modeled for fashion houses like Versace, Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein.
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Frances Bean Cobain
Image Credit: Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images. Besides the rocker-chic aesthetic, everyone did a double take when Frances Bean Cobain went fully into being her mother’s lookalike when she died her hair a similar color to Courtney Love’s.
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Rainey Qualley
Image Credit: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley had us seeing double when they attended the 95th Annual Academy Awards together. Also, we cannot get over those gorgeous matching all-black outfits!
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Margaret Qualley
Image Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Andie MacDowell’s daughter, and Rainey’s older sister, Margaret Qualley is a triple threat: actor, dancer and model. Her impressive résumé includes appearing in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, walking the runway at Fashion Week in Paris and New York as well as a starring role in the HBO series The Leftovers.
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Violet Affleck
Image Credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images Violet couldn’t be more adorable if she tried, so it’s no stretch to say she takes after mom Jennifer Garner. While the Affleck kids definitely stay out of the spotlight, this mom-daughter duo did show off their resemblance at a White House dinner in 2022.
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Lila Grace Moss
Image Credit: Dave Benett/Getty Images Kate Moss’ teenage daughter Lila Grace could be her mom’s younger sister! Beyond their physical resemblance, the women both love to sit front row at fashion shows and star in major fashion campaigns.
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Lily Mo Sheen
Image Credit: Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage via Getty Images Lily Mo doesn’t just look like her mom — she acts like her too, and like her dad Michael Sheen. Kate Beckinsale’s daughter has starred alongside her in three films: Click, Everybody’s Fine and Underworld: Evolution. And she starred without her mom in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent in 2022.
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Lily-Rose Depp
Image Credit: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Good genes for sure run in the family. Lily-Rose, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, puts her beauty and talent to use as a model and actor.
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Zoë Kravitz
Image Credit: Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Big Little Lies star Zoë Kravitz most definitely got her looks and her edgy style from her cooler-than-cool parents Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet.
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Rumer Willis
Image Credit: MJ Photos/Variety. Demi Moore and daughter Rumer Willis are quite the twinning duo. There is no way you could look at these two and not see the resemblance.
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Selah Louise Marley
Image Credit: Andrew H Walker/WWD. Lauryn Hill and Rohan Marley’s daughter Selah is both modeling and singing, following in her mom’s footsteps already working in the studio.
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