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From Emmy winners to Oscar nominees, some celebrities have emerged from their siblings' shadows to claim the spotlight! Join us as we count down actors who turned Hollywood sibling rivalry into a victory lap. Which sibling duo on our list is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00I know you like to sneak a smoke here and there. I figured we're on vacation. Why not?
00:04I want you to have a good time. Just don't let the kids see you.
00:07Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the actors
00:10who turned Hollywood's sibling rivalry into a victory lap,
00:13past their already famous family members.
00:16Smells sweet.
00:18I was going to say real.
00:20Oh, it's all very real. Thanks.
00:24Number 10, Kieran Culkin.
00:25Oh, man. Oh, thanks. This is incredible.
00:30Uh, I'm feeling a little...
00:32My wife and I did a shot of tequila with Mario Lopez.
00:37Definitely feeling that. The whole speech is gone.
00:40Rip it, Kieran. You're doing fine. I love the Golden Globes.
00:44One of the most famous child stars who's ever lived,
00:46Macaulay Culkin became an overnight sensation
00:48following the box office dominance of the enduring Christmas comedy Home Alone.
00:52Crucially, that film also featured the acting debut of Macaulay's younger brother, Kieran.
00:56After years spent as the other Culkin brother,
01:00Kieran's career blew up in a big way in 2018,
01:03the result of his performance as the despicable Roman Roy on HBO's Succession.
01:07Can you hit a ball?
01:08Yeah.
01:09Great, because I will give you $1 million if you hit a home run.
01:14I'm dead serious, okay?
01:15For real?
01:16Yes, for real.
01:18Million dollars. Honey, where's the, um, your bag?
01:20After two nominations, Kieran finally won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
01:26at the award show's 75th installment in 2024.
01:29All doubt that Kieran remained in his brother's shadow was erased
01:33after his Best Supporting Actor Oscar win for director Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain.
01:38You know, sometimes I look at you.
01:40Yeah?
01:40I see her.
01:42I look like an old Jewish woman.
01:44No, man, you look wise and, I don't know, it's beautiful.
01:48Really?
01:48Yeah.
01:49Thanks.
01:50All right, all right, I'm gonna shower, okay?
01:52Cool.
01:52Yeah.
01:53Mind if I shower first?
01:54What, um, no, sure.
01:55Number nine, Dave Franco.
01:56How many of you guys want?
01:5820 bucks a pop.
02:00One each, one pop, each of drugs.
02:04You guys aren't narcs, are you?
02:05Whoa!
02:06Whoa, whoa, whoa, no.
02:07Dude, come on.
02:08Baby, you're a narc.
02:09You know who calls people narcs?
02:11Narcs.
02:12Narc.
02:12Born the third and youngest son of Douglas and Betsy Franco,
02:16Dave's older brother James had a multi-year head start on his acting career.
02:20First making a name for himself as lovable rascal Daniel Desario on the short-lived cult sitcom Freaks and Geeks,
02:27James rose to worldwide fame via Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films and his frequent collaborations with comic actor Seth Rogen.
02:34Have a seat.
02:35Okay, cool.
02:36Thanks, man.
02:37Awesome.
02:38Yo, check this out.
02:42Ah, satellite radio.
02:44Whoa.
02:45Got two TVs and radio.
02:47That's pretty rad.
02:48Nice home entertainment.
02:50Very entertained.
02:51Oh, wow, you got a cute picture, too.
02:53Oh, yeah.
02:54Me and my bubby.
02:55However, just after directing Dave and himself in The Disaster Artist,
02:59misconduct allegations against James forced him to go on hiatus from the spotlight.
03:03In the meantime, Dave has been putting the work into becoming a bona fide leading man,
03:08with his leading role in the body horror film Together,
03:10alongside his real-life wife, Alison Brie, earning rave reviews.
03:14What's going on?
03:18I don't know.
03:20Since the move, Tim and I haven't been on the same page.
03:25Please.
03:26Do you love each other?
03:27Maybe we're just complacent.
03:32Number eight, Charlie Sheen.
03:33Nice to see you in such a good mood, Dad.
03:35What'd Mom do?
03:36Give you fish for dinner?
03:37You're smoking too much.
03:38How many times you gotta go to the hospital to realise...
03:41Leave me alone, will you?
03:42It's the only thing that makes me feel good anymore.
03:43There you go, Frank.
03:44All set.
03:45Take care.
03:45Spaghetti.
03:47Your mother still makes lousy spaghetti.
03:49It's called pasta now, Dad.
03:51Spaghetti's out of date.
03:52Yeah, so am I.
03:53You want a beer?
03:53The actor, born Carlos Estevez, hails from a revered acting dynasty, featuring his father,
03:59Martin Sheen, mother, Janet Templeton, and, crucially, his older brother, Emilio.
04:04Both sons followed Martin into the acting business, but Emilio earned a significant leg up in 1983,
04:10in the wake of his starring role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders.
04:14While he followed that up with the successful 80s, coming-of-age films The Breakfast Club
04:18and St. Elmo's Fire, the elder Estevez brother struggled to maintain his momentum, outside
04:23of the Mighty Ducks comedy franchise.
04:26How lazy can you be?
04:27They're killing us out there.
04:30How many times do I have to tell you?
04:32Get those rebounds.
04:33Get your heads up.
04:34Get those loose pucks.
04:36Get...
04:37Just...
04:37Just get the hell out of here.
04:39Meanwhile, despite his well-documented history of controversial behavior, Charlie quickly
04:44established himself as a superstar, with leading roles in both film and television.
04:48In fact, he was at one point the highest-paid actor on TV.
04:52Wait a sec.
04:54Melan had made it into junior high?
04:56Yes.
04:58So, you passed summer school?
05:00Sort of.
05:01What do you mean, sort of?
05:02They said it was in everyone's best interest if I moved on.
05:05What's that supposed to mean?
05:08It means they promoted him.
05:10He's starting junior high, and there's absolutely nothing to be gained in asking how or why.
05:13Number 7, Ray J.
05:21We're probably all thinking the same thing when it comes to what William Ray, Ray J. Norwood, Jr.,
05:25is best known for.
05:26His infamous connection to Kim Kardashian and subsequent notoriety aside,
05:31it's easy to forget who Ray J's older sister is.
05:34That would be R&B icon Brandy, whose 1993 self-titled debut album became a smash hit.
05:46Brandy parlayed that album's massive success into a triumphant, multi-million-selling record career.
05:52However, sometime in the mid-2000s, that career cooled considerably,
05:57shortly before Kim Kardashian, superstar, thrust her brother back into the spotlight in a major way.
06:02While the infamy from that adult film was relatively short-lived,
06:05it did provide Ray J with a platform.
06:07At least for a time.
06:08Number 6, Elle Fanning.
06:15Daddy, why does the snowflake?
06:18Because snowflakes.
06:21Daddy, does mustard nail on it.
06:23Because it's yellow ketchup.
06:27Daddy, why are Minn Balls?
06:29Sometimes they're more because their head is shiny and they don't have hair on it.
06:34The younger Fannings shared history with her older sister, Dakota, runs deep.
06:37So deep, in fact, that Elle played a younger version of Dakota's character in I Am Sam as her feature debut.
06:44Dakota was everywhere in the early to mid-2000s,
06:47an obvious choice whenever Hollywood needed to cast a precocious little girl.
06:51Honey, this is Mr. Crazy.
06:55Good afternoon, Mr. Crazy.
06:57It's very nice to meet you.
06:59It's in English, honey.
07:01Do you want to show Mr. Crazy to his room?
07:03This way, Mr. Crazy.
07:05Elle overtook Dakota sometime in the early 2010s,
07:08particularly after a starring role in J.J. Abrams' sci-fi thriller Super 8.
07:13This is the train they want to destroy.
07:16Looks real.
07:19Looks so old.
07:21Yeah, that's dry brush technique.
07:25It's when there's a coat of paint and then you put something like Euro Grey over it.
07:30Euro Grey?
07:32Oh my god, there's like 14 different Greys.
07:34It's crazy.
07:36Elle followed up Super 8 with a rapid-fire succession of collaborations
07:40with renowned auteur filmmakers.
07:42This impressive stretch culminated in a major supporting role
07:45in James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown,
07:48as well as being cast as a young Effie Trinket
07:51in The Hunger Games' Sunrise on the Reaping.
07:54It made me think about people on stage.
07:57But anyone who gets on stage, you know,
07:59anyone who's going to hold your attention on stage,
08:02you have to kind of be a freak.
08:04Not everyone.
08:06Anyone's good.
08:07Are you a freak?
08:09Yeah, I hope so.
08:10Frank Sinatra's not a freak.
08:12Well, that voice ain't human.
08:13Number 5, Zooey Deschanel.
08:15I love the Smiths.
08:17Sorry?
08:18I said I love the Smiths.
08:24You've, you've got a taste of music.
08:26You like the Smiths.
08:27Yeah.
08:28To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.
08:32I love them.
08:33Largely credited as the inspiration for the word adorkable,
08:36Deschanel has much more to offer,
08:38like formidable comedic chops and, believe it or not, indie music cred.
08:42It's hard to know where to even start.
08:44Landing roles in such instant classics as Almost Famous and Elf,
08:48Deschanel's true breakthrough was the Fox sitcom New Girl.
08:51Whoa.
08:52Cute guy.
08:56Okay, Jess, game time.
08:58Let's do this.
08:59You want to forget about Spencer?
09:01You're going to have to do some very, very bad things.
09:04That man, right over there.
09:07How bad?
09:08Real bad, Jess.
09:10Like a makeup sesh, no tops.
09:12However, she wasn't the first member of the Deschanel family to lead a show on Fox.
09:16That honor belongs to her older sister, Emily,
09:18who portrayed Dr. Temperance Brennan on the hit police procedural, Bones,
09:22alongside David Boreanaz.
09:24While Bones became Fox's longest-running one-hour drama,
09:28we'd have to argue that Zoe's fame has largely eclipsed Emily's.
09:32Don't be nice to me after I got you in trouble.
09:34Your heart was not right close to him.
09:35No, I'm not a heart person.
09:36You're a heart person.
09:37I'm a brain person.
09:39You vouched for me.
09:40Forget it.
09:41No, I won't.
09:42You think it was the senator?
09:43No, the senator's had sex with a dozen of these interns.
09:46He hasn't killed any of them.
09:47Our best bet is still the stalker.
09:48You want to check him out?
09:49We can, I don't know, what do you call it?
09:51Roost him?
09:52Roust.
09:52In a 2010 interview with New York State's Journal News,
10:17the younger Mara sister reflected on her initial hesitance
10:20to pursue acting as a career.
10:21Musing that it never seemed that honourable to me.
10:24And I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
10:27Of course, this was prior to her small but pivotal role
10:30in David Fincher's Oscar-winning Mark Zuckerberg biopic,
10:33The Social Network,
10:34and her own Oscar-nominated role in the director's adaptation of
10:37The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
10:39It's regulation.
10:40I have to ask you things.
10:41It's a health matter.
10:42Write what you want.
10:43And why do you need such an expensive computer?
10:46For work.
10:47Making coffee, sorting mail.
10:48I shouldn't even have to ask.
10:49I should have control of my money.
10:50And you will.
10:51Once you learn to be sociable,
10:53get along with people,
10:54can you do that?
10:55What you might not know, though,
10:57is that Rooney was following in the footsteps
10:59of her older sister, Kate,
11:01who's best known for her roles on the small screen
11:03in series like House of Cards,
11:05A Teacher,
11:06American Horror Story,
11:07and Pose.
11:08As good as you imagine?
11:10I used to dream about having lobster.
11:12Like those fancy people down by the shore.
11:14I used to picture myself wearing one of those bits,
11:17you know?
11:17A lobster bit?
11:18Yeah, a lobster bit.
11:19Should I be wearing one right now?
11:20No.
11:21Just don't get butter on your bow.
11:23I mean, you cannot imagine a taste you never tasted,
11:25but I would just imagine what I would feel like
11:28when I finally got to eat it.
11:30Number three, Elizabeth Olsen.
11:31Hello.
11:32Hi.
11:37Are you back?
11:38Yeah.
11:40Where are you?
11:41But where are you then?
11:46I'm not sure.
11:49Upstate, I think.
11:50It's hard to argue that Olsen benefited significantly
11:53from her proximity to 90s icons Mary-Kate and Ashley.
11:57However, since making her feature film debut
11:59in the psychological thriller Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene,
12:02Olsen has beaten the Nepo Baby allegations
12:05through sheer talent and acting ability.
12:08You're wondering why you can't look inside my head.
12:11Sometimes it's hard,
12:13but sooner or later every man shows himself.
12:17No, I'm sure they do.
12:18But you needed something more than a man.
12:23That's why you let Stark take the scepter.
12:25I didn't expect.
12:27Besides, while her siblings made their bones
12:29off of starring in film and television from a young age,
12:32they both made the choice to give it up in the early 2010s.
12:35While a comeback is never off the table,
12:37we'll focus on Elizabeth's sterling work
12:39in a wide variety of films for now.
12:41I know you're scared.
12:42Scared?
12:43What am I scared of exactly?
12:44You're scared to open yourself up to him.
12:46You're scared to let yourself love him again.
12:50Wow.
12:51Don't.
12:52Wow, that's amazing.
12:54Yeah.
12:54Number two, Mark Wahlberg.
12:55We'll give you a moment to collect yourself
13:05as you realise that this 90s banger
13:07was rapped by none other than a pre-Boogie Nights Wahlberg.
13:11Now that that's out of the way,
13:12it may not be as much of a surprise
13:14when you realise who the Oscar nominee's older brother is,
13:18Donnie Wahlberg,
13:18whom you'll remember from the iconic boy band New Kids on the block.
13:22Step two, there's so much we can do.
13:26Step three, it's just you by me.
13:29Mark even joined his brother in the group,
13:31albeit for only a few months before he quit to focus on his solo career.
13:35While Donnie has pursued acting on and off in the years since,
13:38Mark has since become one of the biggest leading men on the planet.
13:42I'm in here working, okay?
13:43I'm trying to better my life, that's it.
13:45Can you stop coming to see me?
13:47What's the problem?
13:47I thought you moved on.
13:49You were in prison!
13:50What was I supposed to do, wait?
13:52Yeah?
13:52With no ring?
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14:07Number one, Julia Roberts.
14:11Did you sleep?
14:13Uh, yes, a little on the couch.
14:16I was working last night.
14:19You don't sleep, you don't do drugs,
14:21you don't drink,
14:22you hardly eat.
14:24What do you do, Edward?
14:26Because I know you're not a lawyer.
14:27Emerging in the late 80s to become arguably the most famous person of the era,
14:31Roberts' performance in the comedy Pretty Woman
14:33is what truly launched her into the stratosphere.
14:35With that in mind, Roberts' older brother, Eric,
14:38had by this point already established himself
14:40as no slouch in the acting department either.
14:43In fact, for his supporting role in the 80s action thriller Runaway Train,
14:47the elder Roberts sibling was nominated for an Academy Award.
14:50Check them out, man.
14:53Thanks, bro.
14:54You bet.
14:59And I tell you what, Jackson,
15:00since you have always been so goddamn good to me,
15:05you get these suckers for $80.
15:06They go for $200, but you got them for $80, boss.
15:09Eric's career has in the years since
15:11taken several interesting and surprising turns,
15:13becoming one of the most prolific actors of all time in the process.
15:17At the end of the day, though,
15:18Julia's name undoubtedly carries greater cultural cash.
15:21Well, you know, we're on vacation.
15:24Clay, Amanda, we could absolutely refund you your money.
15:28You want us to leave?
15:30It's the middle of the night.
15:31My children are sleeping upstairs.
15:33You come in here and talk about refunding our money.
15:35I think I need to call the company.
15:36I don't even think you can do this.
15:38There's got to be a number on their website.
15:39That's really not necessary.
15:41Why not?
15:42Because we're not saying you should leave.
15:44Which sibling duo on our list is your favorite?
15:47Are there any we missed?
15:48Be sure to let us know in the comments below.
15:50I made mistakes and people were hurt.
15:53But you put things right in the end and that was never in doubt.
15:57I'm not here to talk about Westview.
16:00Then what are you here for?
16:01We need your help.
16:05With what?
16:07What do you know about the multiverse?
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