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* Creator/PaulineQuirke and Creator/LindaRobson, who played sisters Sharon and Tracey in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'', have been friends since primary school, enabling the opening credits to use genuine photos of them growing up together.

* ''Series/TheReallyLoudHouse'': Luan and Lucy are played by real-life sisters Catherine and Aubin Bradley. There's also Lana and Lola's actresses Mia and Ella Allen, though being identical twins makes it obvious.

** Creator/PeterFonda's daughter Creator/BridgetFonda appears as one of the hippie children in ''Film/EasyRider''.

Compare IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine, CoupleBomb, ActorAllusion, HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative (where a fictional character is related in-universe to a real person) and RomanceOnTheSet (where actors start a real-life relationship after being cast as characters with an on-screen relationship). A RealLife SiblingTeam, a CreatorCouple, or someone in the FamilyBusiness will do this frequently.

* ''Series/{{Bosch}}'': Creator/TitusWelliver plays Harry Bosch as an adult. For flashbacks to his childhood, Harry is portrayed by Titus's son Quinn Welliver.

** Topanga's parents were played by the husband-and-wife Michael [=McKean=] and Annette O'Toole [[TheOtherDarrin for one episode]]. Also, Ben Savage's brother Fred Savage appears in one episode as a creepy lecherous college teacher.

* Japanese voice actors Creator/KenichiSuzumura and Creator/MaayaSakamoto are married, which makes their playing Shinn Asuka and Lunamaria Hawke in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' all the more interesting retroactively, considering the two characters end up in a relationship. They're also the voices of Haruhi and Hikaru from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub,'' along with Shiki and Mikiya in ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners''.
* Also relating to ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'', Creator/BrentMiller and Creator/NicoleBouma, the English voices of Sting Oakley and Meyrin Hawke are married in real life. They would both return for the dub of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', where they would voice Andrei Smirnov and Nena Trinity.

* In the English dub of ''Anime/WickedCity'', Gregory Snegoff and Alexandra Kenworthy, who are son and mother, play Taki and Mackie who are lovers.

* In-universe example: In ''Comicbook/MuppetClassics: King Arthur'', Kermit the Frog plays Arthur, and his nephew Robin plays Arthur's nephew Mordred.

* For ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' this applied quite a bit in the Latin American Spanish dub:

* Creator/JessicaWalter, who plays Malory in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', is married in real life to Ron Leibman, who plays Malory's Season 4 husband Ron Cadillac. The humor is compounded with a touch of IronyAsSheIsCast; while Malory and Ron appear to have had a rush wedding within a few weeks of meeting and have a woefully mismatched relationship based on constant bickering, Walter and Leibman have been happily married since 1984.

* Creator/JohnMills and his daughter Creator/HaleyMills both starred in the movie ''Film/TigerBay'', he plays a police detective and she the lone witness to a murder he is investigating. The two made other movies together as well.

* In ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', Henry, one of the cowboys who loan Wyatt Earp and Tom Mix their horses, was played by Creator/JamesGarner's brother Jack.

* The KidsRock coda of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ' "Aeroplane" features Flea's daughter Clara.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

* ''Film/ReeferMadnessTheMusical'': Christian Campbell as Jimmy appears onscreen with his sister Creator/NeveCampbell as the waitress in the local diner, though their characters are (apparently) not related.

** Tony's wife Brooke Adams has appeared as four different characters on the show:

* Creator/JanetLeigh and her daughter Creator/JamieLeeCurtis in ''Film/TheFog1980''.

* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Creator/DallasReid and Creator/JillHarris, the English voice actors for respectively Carlos Whitrow and Katie Aalto, are married in real life. They have no scenes together.

* AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho

* In the Hallmark Channel movie ''A Royal Christmas'', RichBitch Queen Isadora is rude and snooty to her son's "commoner" girlfriend and constantly tries to push him into a relationship with his childhood sweetheart, who is of royal birth and who despite her icy demeanor she is clearly genuinely fond of. As the Queen is played by Jane Seymour and the girl is played by her daughter, this is understandable, and even lampshaded in one scene--"You remind me of myself at that age!"

* Peter [=DeLuise=], a director of the show, occasionally also made cameo appearances. His brother David played as a love interest to Carter.

* ''Series/TheWonderYears''

* Adam Jacobs, who originated the role of ''Theatre/{{Aladdin}}'' on Broadway, was absolutely ''delighted'' when his sister Arielle was cast as Jasmine in the Australian production. She did end up making the move to play the role on Broadway, though for [[IncestuousCasting obvious reasons]] not until Adam left the production (he and the original Jasmine, Courtney Reed, left at the same time).

* The Brazilian dub of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' has Grox, Glimmer and Catra voiced by Marlene Costa and her daughters Flávia Saddy and Fernanda Baronne. (amusingly, Marlene was Catra in the 80s cartoon)

* In the Latin American Spanish dub of ''Anime/BloodPlus'', the [[CainAndAbel antagonistic twins]] Saya and Diva are voiced by real-life sisters Xóchitl and Gabriela Ugarte, and their brother Creator/VictorUgarte plays Solomon Goldsmith, one of Diva's Chevaliers.

** In the Latin-American Spanish dub, Carla Castañeda voices Twilight Sparkle while her real-life parents, Creator/MarioCastaneda and Rommy Mendoza, voice Twilight's parents Night Light and Twilight Velvet.

*** Another episode featured Kira and Bashir arguing because the former was carrying Keiko O'Brien's baby, and the procedure to make that happen had been performed by Bashir. Visitor was [[RealLifeWritesThePlot actually pregnant]] with Siddig's child.