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5	->''"When you guys first came in, we were as wholesome as the family in ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. Now we're as dysfunctional and incestuous as the cast of ''The Brady Bunch''."''
6	-->-- '''Abed''', ''Series/{{Community}}'', "[[Recap/CommunityS1E15RomanticExpressionism Romantic Expressionism]]"
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8	Cast Incest is a variant of RomanceOnTheSet, where two actors from a TV series or film start dating in real life, after they've been playing family members in the show. Or maybe they were cast into a part specifically because they were already dating/married.
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10	Sometimes it can come from a bad ActorAllusion if two people are playing a couple in a production when they had previously played family members or vice versa.
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12	For the far {{squick}}ier inversion, see IncestuousCasting.
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15	!!Examples:
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19	* In 2017 Creator/MarkHamill revealed that he and Creator/CarrieFisher "[made] out like teenagers" during the filming of ''Film/ANewHope'', though the two weren't revealed to be playing brother and sister until two films later, in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
20	* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': On-screen siblings Creator/MatthewBroderick and Creator/JenniferGrey dated after appearing in this film together. The actors who played their parents, Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward, met on the film and were married for several years.
21	* ''Film/BladesOfGlory'': Creator/WillArnett and Creator/AmyPoehler, who play the sibling ice skating duo, were married in real life when the film came out and were together well before the film was made. And it's [[BrotherSisterIncest not exactly platonic]] in the film either.
22	* ''Film/MrsMiniver'': Creator/GreerGarson married Richard Ney, who was her on-screen son.
23	* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': In the early years, it was believed that Creator/GeorgieHenley (Lucy Pevensie) had a PrecociousCrush on Creator/SkandarKeynes (Edmund Pevensie), due to the fact that she constantly mentioned him in the audio commentaries, tried to attract his attention, and said how she missed him the most. The movie's producers and executors even named one of the audio commentaries ''Georgie loves Skandar''. It doesn't help that ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' puts a lot of IncestSubtext between the two.
24	* Creator/RobertPattinson, who plays Edward Cullen in ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', was seen dating his co-star Creator/NikkiReed, who plays Rosalie Hale, his [[NotBloodSiblings adoptive sister]] in the movie. Made even funnier by the fact that, in the book, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen their characters were supposed to fall for each other but never did]].
25	* Nikki Reed also dated for two years Victor Rasuk, who played her onscreen brother in the movie ''Film/LordsOfDogtown''.
26	* ''Loverboy'' (not the one with Creator/PatrickDempsey): Creator/KevinBacon and Creator/KyraSedgwick, who are married in real life, played father and daughter. No wonder the former's character is screwed up.
27	%%* ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'': Creator/BruceCampbell revealed in a Q&A session that he lost his virginity to Ellen Sandweiss.
28	* ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'':
29	** Charmian Carr, who played Liesl, admitted she had a crush on her onscreen father, Creator/ChristopherPlummer. Plummer would admit the feeling was mutual, but never went beyond flirtation.[[note]]This is not nearly as creepy as it sounds; Charmian was twenty-one during filming, only a little over a decade younger than the 34-year-old Plummer.[[/note]]
30	** Nicholas Hammond, who played Friedrich, apparently had a penchant for {{precocious crush}}es, because he later admitted to, at all of fourteen, being infatuated with both Creator/JulieAndrews (whom he had seen live in the West End as [[Theatre/MyFairLady Eliza Doolittle]] on her last night in the role several years earlier and carried a torch for ever since) and Charmian Carr, who played oldest von Trapp daughter Liesl. As noted above, though, Carr only had eyes for her onscreen father, Christopher Plummer.
31	* In ''House of D'', a semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Creator/DavidDuchovny, the Duchovny character's neglectful, alcoholic, pill-popping ''mother'' was played by his then wife Creator/TeaLeoni. Richard Roeper described this as "a bit of casting that would knock Freud off his chair".
32	* Noted on the DVD commentary for ''Film/TheSquidAndTheWhale'': Creator/AnnaPaquin and Creator/JeffDaniels play lovers, which squicked out fans of their previous collaboration as a father and daughter on ''Film/FlyAwayHome.''
33	* Creator/TomFelton has admitted to having had a crush on Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, his onscreen aunt in the Literature/HarryPotter franchise.
34	* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': In an inverted ActorAllusion example, Creator/ElizabethOlsen and Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson were cast as the twin siblings Wanda and Pietro Maximoff despite playing a married couple the last time they worked together in ''Film/Godzilla2014.''
35	* In 2014, Creator/ShaileneWoodley and Creator/AnselElgort play a brother and sister in {{Film/Divergent}}. In the same year, they also played a couple who fall in love in Film/TheFaultInOurStars. Both joked about this while accepting their MTV Movie Award for Best Onscreen Kiss in 2015.
36	* Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler play mother and son in the Singaporean film Film/IloIlo and are in a TeacherStudentRomance in Film/WetSeason. Both films were directed by Anthony Chen.
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40	* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': InUniverse in ''Last Writes'' -- Quinn Kirkland is revealed to have slept with his co-star Vanessa Dennis, who plays his niece on the ShowWithinAShow ''Muffy and Me''.
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44	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Creator/DavidTennant, the Tenth Doctor, is married to Creator/GeorgiaMoffett, who played the Tenth Doctor's genetically engineered single donor child in "The Doctor's Daughter". Georgia Moffett is ''actually'' the daughter of Creator/PeterDavison, [[TheNthDoctor the Fifth Doctor]], which is the same person, but played by a different actor after several regenerations. They now have a daughter, so there is now a child out there that has the Doctor as a father and a grandfather. To sum up: [[Creator/PeterDavison A Doctor]][[Creator/GeorgiaMoffett 's daughter]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter who played the Doctor's daughter]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter in "The Doctor's Daughter"]] [[Creator/DavidTennant and then had the Doctor's]] [[MindScrew daughter.]]
45	* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Creator/MichaelCHall (Dexter Morgan) and Creator/JenniferCarpenter (Debra Morgan) are playing onscreen (adopted) siblings. For a couple of years, they were married in RealLife.
46	* ''Series/DueSouth'': Paul Gross's wife Martha Burns played his character's mother in the series finale.
47	* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': Salli Richardson-Whitfield's (Allison Blake) husband Dondré Whitfield guest stars as Allison's brother Marcus Blake in one episode.
48	* ''Series/{{Everwood}}'': Creator/EmilyVanCamp ("Amy") and Creator/ChrisPratt ("Bright") dated in real life while being siblings on the series.
49	* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Creator/SummerGlau and Sean Maher played siblings on the show but dated for a short time in real life.
50	* Averted with ''Series/LifeWithDerek'''s main actors, Creator/MichaelSeater and Creator/AshleyLeggat, who played Derek and Casey respectively. The most popular rumors are that they used to date and sleep together due to the fact that their characters had too much UnresolvedSexualTension, but none of the actors had ever confirmed such rumors. In fact, they were best friends who hung out a lot in their free time and were, unconventionally, quite touchy-feely with each other. Even after almost 10 years, with Ashley being married and Michael having other relationships, [[PlatonicLifePartners they still hang out as best friends and have fun together]].
51	* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': Music/SelenaGomez said in an interview that she actually had a crush on Creator/DavidHenrie, who plays her brother in the series, when they were younger. It doesn't help the fact that they seem to like each other a lot since [[BrotherSisterIncest their own characters]], in the movie, appear to have UnresolvedSexualTension problems, according to many fans. They later admitted that they used to casually date, but they didn't want to get involved into something serious, due to the fact that, well, they are [[UnfortunateImplications Justin and Alex Russo]] after all.
52	** Another Disney example from [[Creator/DisneyXD Disney XD's]] Series/LabRats , Creator/TyrelJacksonWilliams admitted he had a real life precocious, [[StacysMom "Stacy's Mom-esque"]], adolescent crush on the actress who played his mother, Creator/AngelParker. [[note]] Obviously there was never any relationship between them, of course, because of age, it was just a normal, teenage boy, puppy-love crush on an older woman. He admitted that as he was a young, adolescent teen with raging hormones and puberty during the filming of the show, he had a huge crush on her, especially from seeing her in previous films and TV shows that he was familiar with, before she starting playing as his mother on Lab Rats.[[/note]]
53	* Ryo Narushima (formerly Keiko Hayase) and Ryuhei Kobayashi, the actors who played the twin Hoshikawa siblings of Remi and Fumiya in ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'', dated each other while filming the series. They were married after the show ended and have since raised three children.
54	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Creator/HaydenPanettiere (Claire Bennet) and Creator/MiloVentimiglia (Peter Petrelli) dated for a time while playing an onscreen uncle and niece. They've since broken up.
55	* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': Barry Williams (Greg) went out to dinner once with Florence Henderson, his TV (step) mom, and the media made a bigger deal out of it than it actually was. A full-fledged relationship did not come of it. There was a behind-the-scenes special that revealed that just about everyone ended up hooking up to one extent or another, usually with their counterpart.
56	** Namely, Barry Williams/Maureen [=McCormick=], Christopher Knight/Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland/Susan Olsen, and according to some rumours also Maureen/Eve.
57	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Creator/MichaelEmerson is married to Creator/CarriePreston, who plays Ben's mother. Somewhat offset by the fact they never share screen-time with each other.
58	** Creator/IanSomerhalder (Boone) and Creator/MaggieGrace (Shannon) briefly dated.
59	** This also happened to be canon incest for the characters. They're siblings.
60	* ''Series/BrothersAndSisters'' had to do a serious retcon due to the sexual chemistry between the actors playing half-siblings Rebecca and Justin. Supposedly these two dated early on in the run of the show.
61	** Which is especially funny as the actress playing Rebecca, Emily [=VanCamp=], is also mentioned in the ''Everwood'' entry.
62	** David Annable, who played Justin, also allegedly dated Creator/SallyField, his onscreen mother.
63	* On ''Series/{{Roswell}}'', Creator/JasonBehr and Creator/KatherineHeigl, who played brother and sister Max and Isabel, respectively, were dating in real life.
64	* Creator/DavidCassidy and Creator/SusanDey, who played siblings on ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'', slept together shortly after the series ended. She had a huge crush on him; he claimed he loved her like a sister, but made an effort anyway. It didn't work out.
65	* Creator/BruceBoxleitner married Kathryn Holcomb, his TV sister from ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon''.
66	* Early on in the run of ''Series/NipTuck'' onscreen mother and son Creator/JoelyRichardson (Julia) and John Hensley (Matt) were dating in real life.
67	* Creator/LaurenGraham and Creator/PeterKrause who play siblings on ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'' are currently dating, which is naturally becoming a RunningGag for Lauren on media tours to joke about dating her "brother".
68	* In ''Series/StrangersWithCandy'', Creator/StephenColbert's wife briefly appears as his character's mother in a flashback. To make things interesting, in TheMovie, she's his character's ''wife'' (who was played by a different actress in the series).
69	* In the 80s mini-series ''North and South'' (the Second Book), Creator/KirstieAlley and her then-husband Parker Stevenson played siblings Virgilia and Billy Hazard, respectively.
70	* Creator/JohnTravolta became romantically involved with Diana Hyland after she played his mother in ''Film/TheBoyInThePlasticBubble''.
71	* ''Series/BlueBloods'': Alluded to in an interview, where Creator/TomSelleck had to remind himself not to have any chemistry with his on-screen adult daughter.
72	* Real-life married couple David and Tamela Mann play father and daughter on Creator/TylerPerry's ''Meet the Browns''.
73	* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': Ray Ablack briefly dated Melinda Shankar, who plays his younger sister.
74	* ''Series/MrsBrownsBoys'': Almost all of the main characters are played by relatives by blood or marriage of series creator Brendan O'Carroll, who also plays Mrs. Brown. Perhaps the oddest example is Jennifer Gibney, who is Brendan O'Carroll's wife in real life but plays Mrs. Brown's daughter Cathy on screen. Mrs. Brown's friend and neighbour Winnie [=McGoogan=] is played by O'Carroll's sister Ellish. Mrs. Brown's daughter-in-law, Maria Nicholson, is played by O'Carroll's daughter Fiona, while her real-life husband, Martin Delany, plays Mrs. Brown's son Trevor. Maria's husband, Dermot, is played by Paddy Houlihan, the lifelong best friend of O'Carroll's son Danny, who plays Buster Brady... and Danny's wife, Amanda Woods, plays Betty, the wife of Mrs. Brown's son Mark.
75	* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has one of a purely ActorAllusion variety: Creator/ClarkGregg and Creator/AmyAcker play love interests, having previously been cast as uncle and niece in Creator/JossWhedon's film version of ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''.
76	* Creator/JasonPriestley and Creator/ShannenDoherty, who were on screen twins on ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'', were involved for a short period in real life too, while filming the first season of the show.
77	* In most episodes of the BBC series ''Series/TheSupersizersEat'', the characters played by Giles Coren and Sue Perkins are husband and wife. However, the Regency episode makes their characters brother and sister. Sue lampshades this by suggesting that Giles's Regency character has incestuous feelings for hers.
78	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
79	** Dean-Charles Chapman and Nell Tiger Free, who are [[TheOtherDarrin the second actors for]] siblings Tommen and Myrcella "Baratheon" after their age-ups, are dating in real life. Fittingly, their characters on the show were themselves products of BrotherSisterIncest.
80	** Likewise, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams, who played sisters, apparently liked to kiss on set, bathe, and sleep together, though they never called themselves a couple.
81	* Of the ActorAllusion variety: Barry Williams and Christopher Knight, who played brothers Greg and Peter on ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', played a gay couple in one episode of ''Series/That70sShow''.
82	* The ''Series/HereComeTheBrides'' episode "Next Week, East Lynne" contains an in-universe example. When Jason stars in a production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', the actress playing Gertrude relentlessly hits on him and kisses him between scenes.
83	-->'''Lockhart''': Eleanor, dear, don't forget you're playing [[StageName Mr. Winthrop]]'s mother.\
84	'''Eleanor''': Don't worry, Lockhart. I plan to mother him to death.
85	* ''Series/{{Poldark}}'': Creator/EleanorTomlinson and Harry Richardson, who played on-screen siblings Demelza Poldark and Drake Carne, dated for about a year, from mid-2017 to mid-2018, while the series was ongoing.
86	* Creator/AndySamberg and Creator/NasimPedrad played a couple on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and later siblings on ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''.
87	* An InUniverseExample in ''Series/{{Kenan}}'' - Kenan met his wife Cori while working in a sitcom in which they played son and mother. The sexual tension was so noticeable, the show tanked pretty fast.
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91	* Rock duo ''Music/TheWhiteStripes'' were initially married when they started the band, although they [[AmicableExes amicably divorced]] early on in their career. Due to their LikeBrotherAndSister relationship, the fact that they shared a last name and similar looks they were assumed by many fans who were unaware of their history to be siblings, and the pair just went with it and presented themselves as brother and sister for years.
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95	* Wrestling/KenShamrock dated Alicia Webb, who portrayed his {{Kayfabe}} sister 'Ryan Shamrock'. There was even a plan to do an "incest" storyline with them, but this was dropped once Webb was released by Wrestling/{{WWE}}.
96	* Best known for her work in Wrestling/{{ECW}} from 1995-1998 as Wrestling/{{Beulah McGillicutty}}, Trisa Hayes had a short-lived role in Stampede Wrestling in the mid-1980s as Wrestling/BrianPillman's "sister" Theresa, as she and Pillman had been dating in RealLife at the time.
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100	* Rebecca Caine played Cosette in the original, 1985 London production of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', opposite Colm Wilkinson as Jean Valjean, Cosette's [[ParentalSubstitute father-substitute]]. Then, she was cast as Christine in the original Canadian company of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' - opposite Colm Wilkinson as the Phantom. Since the Phantom explicitly presents himself as both a father figure and love interest for Christine, this casting makes a certain amount of {{squick}}y sense.
101	* George Hearn (The Broadway replacement for Creator/LenCariou as ''[[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet Sweeney Todd]]'') and Betsey Joslyn (replacement for Johanna, Sweeney's daughter) were married in real life before the production. This can be seen on the tour DVD.
102	* Sierra Boggess played Ariel and Norm Lewis her father Triton in ''Theatre/TheLittleMermaid'', and the two ended up playing Christine and Erik/the Phantom in ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
103	* Jasmine Cephas-Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds) and Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton) of the original broadway cast of ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' started dating somewhere near the start of their run of the musical. Peggy is Philip's aunt (although they never interact in the show).
104	* From ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'': Sophie Blümel and Marjan Shaki played Hélène von Wittelsbach in the same production as their real-life husbands, Thomas Hohler and Lukas Perman. Duchess Hélène is aunt to Crown Prince Rudolf - Hohler and Perman's character.
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108	* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' gives an InUniverse example: one arc featured Rudy's high school putting on a production of ''West Habitat Story'', that universe's version of ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. His girlfriend Fiona is cast as Maria. Rudy himself? Cast as Maria's brother Bernardo. As they put it, "awkward...". At least until Rudy forgot it was a play and slugged Edgar (Tony) for kissing Fiona. The director's response was to promptly recast him as Chino, Maria's would-be suitor. But for about a week it still counted!
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112	* ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'''s OfficialCouple, Creator/JoeyRichter (himself) and Sally (Creator/JaimeLynBeatty), can become really squicky if you remember that they played siblings Ron and Ginny Weasley ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical''.
113	* In ''WebVideo/{{Gayle}}'', Gayle's daughter Terry is played by Creator/ChrisFleming's girlfriend Melissa Strype. This gets played with a bit, as a couple times Gayle hallucinates that Terry is her CelebCrush Yanni and...um...gets flirty with Terry.
114	--->'''Terry:''' Christ, she thinks I'm Yanni again.
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118	* A flashback in ''WesternAnimation/AxeCop'' has the title character's mother voiced by Creator/MeganMullally (who voices most of the female characters in the show). She's the wife of Creator/NickOfferman, who plays Axe Cop.
119	* Happens in-universe with ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' and his former TV co-star Sarah Lynn, who played his daughter on the ShowWithinAShow ''Horsin' Around'': The two have sex with each other in one episode while under the influence.
120	* On ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' , Bobby Santiago and Carlota Casagrande, who are cousins, are voiced by Carlos [=PenaVega=] and Alexa [=PenaVega=], who are married in real life.
121	* The Brazilian dub of ''Westernanimation/Incredibles2'' had the Deavor siblings voiced by a real life couple.
122	* In-universe example in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':
123	** In the episode "Terrors", ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and [[SuperpowerLottery Miss Martian]] infiltrate [[TheAlcatraz Belle Reve]] disguised as [[SiblingsInCrime a pair of twins]]. It ends with them having TheBigDamnKiss ([[EvenEvilHasStandards to Icicle Jr.'s horror]]).
124	** They pose as siblings again in "Performance", when the entire team (except Kid Flash, so there isn't another example with him and Artemis) goes undercover as a family of acrobats called "the Daring Dangers".
125	* On ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' Billups' mother Queen Paolana is voiced by Creator/JuneDianeRaphael, wife of Billups' voice actor Creator/PaulScheer.
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