Hot Gallery: Surprise Celebrity Connections!
Doesn’t it sometimes seem like celebrities all know each other? Well, that’s probably because most of them do. Off the top of your head, you can probably name any number of famous Hollywood families—the Gyllenhaals, Baldwins, Arquettes, Robertses—but the connections aren’t always so obvious. Can you guess, for example, who Mirror Mirror star Lily Collins’ famous parent is? By Nina Hämmerling SmithKim Cattrall is best known for her role as the sexually voracious Samantha Jones in the Sex and the City series and movies, as well as an early appearance in Porky’s (that’s her as a brunette in the red skirt) and, of course, Mannequin. Most recently she appeared on Broadway in Noël Coward’s Private Lives.
Cattrall’s grandmother babysat the young Richard Starkey, a.k.a. Ringo Starr. In a 2003 interview, Cattrall—who is originally from Liverpool, though she moved to Canada as a baby—revealed to John Hiscock of the London Mirror that when she returned at age 11 to the U.K., “it was the time of the Beatles, so it was really exciting. I loved it. In fact, my grandmother used to babysit Ringo.” Starr continues to release records (his latest is Ringo 2012) and perform with his All-Starr Band.