Many famous persons, such as Bill Gates, Stephen King, and Miuccia Prada, are legends with fortunes in the millions. And their offspring are already preparing to take over for their renowned parents: some are just getting started, while others are already well-known.
We decided to find out what famous people’s children look like and what they’re up to now, and we’d like to share what we discovered with you.
1. Finty Williams
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Finty Williams is Dame Judi Dench‘s only kid with Michael Williams, her late husband. Williams not only inherited her mother’s charm, but she also followed in her mother’s footsteps by becoming a full-time actress. She also provides voiceovers for animated children’s shows and audiobooks.
2. Deacon Phillippe
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Deacon Philippe is a singer and songwriter who is the son of actress Reese Witherspoon and actor Ryan Philippe. On her Instagram account, the actress hailed her son’s debut single. “When your kid has his first single…you gotta dance!” she wrote.
3. Eve Jobs
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Eve Jobs is the 22-year-old daughter of Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple, and Laurene Powell, Jobs’ second wife. She is currently enrolled at Stanford University, where her mother attended and where her parents met. She recently began her modeling career as the face of the Glossier cosmetics line.
4. Jennifer Katharine Gates
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Jennifer Gates, the oldest daughter of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, did not follow in her father’s footsteps as a business magnate. She graduated from Stanford University with a medical degree in 2018. She is now a student at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, where she hopes to work as a pediatrician or family doctor in the future.
5. Lorenzo Bertelli
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Lorenzo Bertelli, formerly a well-known Italian racing driver, is the 33-year-old son of Miuccia Prada and her businessman husband, Patrizio Bertelli, the famed Italian designer. He eventually retired from racing and began working for the Prada fashion house. He joined this massive corporation as the head of marketing and communications in 2017.
6. Leni Olumi Klum
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Leni Olumi Klum is the 16-year-old daughter of Heidi Klum and Flavio Briatore, an Italian businessman who broke up with Heidi before Leni was born and has remained completely absent from her childhood. Seal, a famous singer with whom Heidi had a brief relationship, was instrumental in Leni’s upbringing.
Leni had always wanted to be a model, but her mother would not allow her to begin her profession when she was young. Heidi let Leni start her Instagram page when she turned 16 and put her on the cover of Vogue.
7. Joseph Hillstrom King
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The son of Stephen King, the famed author, and Tabitha King, who is also a writer, Joseph Hillstrom King is better known as Joe Hill as he chose not to be compared to his famous and successful father.
Heart-Shaped Box, his first novel, was published in 2007. Horns was written in 2010, NOS4A2 in 2013, and The Fireman in 2016. He also created the Locke & Key comic series, which ran from 2008 to 2013. In 2009 and 2012, he won two British Fantasy Awards for this series, as well as an Eisner Award in 2011.
8. Sofia Richie
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Sofia Richie, the youngest daughter of Lionel Richie and his second wife, Diane Alexander, is already well-known in the worlds of fashion and blogging. She’s been in commercials for Chanel, Tommy Hilfiger, and Michael Kors, among others. And the young model’s Instagram page already has 6.5 million followers.
Sofia has always been interested in music, despite her sole celebrity as a model. She could sing at the age of five, play the piano at seven, and even played music with Joel Madden, the singer of Good Charlotte, when she was a teenager. However, she opted to give up her music career owing to the strain of trying to live up to her father’s popularity, which is difficult to match.
9. Willow Camille Reign Smith
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Willow Smith is the 20-year-old daughter of actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith, and she, like her brother Jaden, has a music career. Willow has four albums: Ardipithecus, The 1st, Willow, and The Anxiety, a collaboration with Tyler Cole. She also has four mini-albums, including 3, Interdimensional Tesseract, Mellifluous, and RISE.
Willow made her film debut in 2007 with her famous father in I Am Legend. She then appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl and did voice work in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. She also did voice work in Neo Yokio with her brother in 2017.
Willow, her mother, Jada, and her grandma, Adrienne, established the show Red Table Talk, in which they discuss various issues and express their ideas in an attempt to understand each other and bridge the generation gap.
10. Catherine Lucy Hawking
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Lucy Hawking, the 50-year-old daughter of English physicist Steven Hawking and novelist Jane Wilde Hawking, has made a career in journalism. She’s written for publications such as the Daily Mail, The Times, Telegraph, and The Guardian.
Lucy writes novels and children’s books in addition to journalism. The most well-known is a series of books on George co-authored by Steven Hawking. Lucy is also a trustee of the Autism Research Trust and a vice president of the National Star College, an organization that helps persons with impairments reach their full potential.
11. Jakob Luke Dylan
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The 51-year-old son of Bob Dylan, the famed artist, and Sara Dylan, a model, Jakob Luke Dylan is best known as the leader of The Wallflowers and as a solo performer. He has two Grammy awards, and his 2010 solo album, Women + Country, debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200, and is regarded his most successful record following the band’s 1996 breakthrough, Bringing Down the Horse.
Echo in the Canyon, a documentary in which Jakob featured, was released in 2018. It’s about the music that emerged in the middle of the 1960s from Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles.
12. Mickey Sumner
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The 37-year-old daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler, a singer and actor, Mickey Summer did not follow in her father’s footsteps as a musician, but she did follow in her mother’s footsteps as an actor.
She is most known for her roles in the comedies Frances Ha and CBGB, as well as the crime drama Low Winter Sun and the post-apocalyptic series Snowpiercer. However, she is mostly cast in supporting roles, such as the one she performed in Marriage Story.
13. Jake Hoffman
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Dustin Hoffman and his wife Lisa Hoffman have a 40-year-old son named Jake Hoffman. Jake, like his father, is interested in film, although he is more absorbed in directing. Jake graduated from the New York University Film School in 2003. He’s directed short films after shooting music videos and writing scripts. In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the drama Asthma, which starred Benedict Samuel and Krysten Ritter.
Jake is most known for his acting career, in which he played designer Steve in The Wolf of Wall Street and co-starred with Dustin Hoffman in the series Luck. They also played grandfather and grandchild, though not as father and son. Jake also appeared in the 2019 film The Irishman as a supporting character.
14. Bee Shaffer
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Bee Shaffer is the 33-year-old daughter of Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, and David Shaffer, her first husband. She earned a degree from Columbia University and began her career by writing articles. She contributed many articles to The Daily Telegraph in 2006. But, unlike her mother, she isn’t particularly fashion-conscious.
Bee later worked as a producer for Late Night With Seth Meyers. She is currently employed with the Ambassador Theatre Group, where her most recent production as a producer was a charity online reading of James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends.
Bee also married Italian director Francesco Carrozzini, the son of Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani, in 2018. They had two wedding ceremonies, one in New York and the other in Francesco’s hometown of Portofino.
15. Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis
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Gabriel-Kane is the son of Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, the only actor in history to win the Oscar for “Best Actor” three times. His mother is a French singer and actress, Isabelle Adjani. Gabriel, unlike his famous father, did not begin his acting career at the age of 26. He chose music, and he, like his mother, sings and writes songs as well as playing the piano and guitar.
Gabriel also works as a model. In 2015, he even starred alongside Julianne Moore in a Chanel presentation. IMG Model Management has a contract with him. Gabriel also speaks fluent English and French, owing to the fact that his parents were born in different countries.
