You’re a star, mum
Working Girl with Harrison Ford, joined her mother and the rest of the cast when they celebrated Chaplin’s 77th birthday during filming at Pinewood.
Melanie’s own daughter Dakota Johnson has inherited the acting gene and appeared in the film version of best-seller 50 Shades Of Grey. She once said: “I grew up around really not normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They’re all artists. They’re creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves.”
X Factor judge, reality TV star and music manager Sharon Osbourne brought up three children with her husband Black Sabbath star Ozzy.
Kelly, Jack and Aimee were born 13 months apart from each other and have all gone on to carve out careers in the entertainment industry.
Sharon said she was in labour for 18 hours with Kelly and it was the most difficult of all the three births.
Reality TV series The Osbournes let cameras capture their home life and ran for four seasons. “We are a very colourful family,” Sharon pointed out. “Everybody knows our mistakes, but I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all our good and bad points.”
Almost Famous and You, Me And Dupree film actress Kate Hudson is the daughter of comedy movie star
Goldie Hawn and was brought up by her mum and her longtime partner actor Kurt Russell, who recently appeared in Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol 2.
Kate says: “I have zero problems when people say ‘God, you look like your mother’. I go ‘Well, great! Thanks!’”
Swedish-born Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman was 36 when she had twin daughters – Isotta and Isabella – with film director Roberto Rosellini.
Isotta became a professor of literature while Isabella – 34 minutes older than her twin – followed in her mother’s acting footsteps appearing in movies like Blue Velvet and White Nights. She made her film debut alongside her mother in the 1976 movie A Matter Of Time and the Casablanca star’s acting advice was “Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.”
Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor has five sons with bass guitarist husband Richard Jones, of The Feeling, and has said that working makes her a better mother as it gives her another purpose.
Her mother Janet Ellis was a familiar face on TV as a Blue Peter presenter and Sophie says it was occasionally awkward and often frustrating having a mother on TV, but she says her mum still gives her great advice.
“What springs to mind is trusting your instinct,” she says. “It can be hard to navigate things if you’re doing things that don’t feel right.”