14 On-Screen Parents and Kids Who Look So Alike, We Can’t Believe They’re Not Actually Related

If you’re a fan of TV shows, you’ve probably noticed that sometimes the characters who play relatives on-screen look so alike, we instantly forget they’re not related in real life. It’s almost as if the casting directors of those shows are real magicians. Well, at least they know how to do their job well and get us completely lost in the plot of the show.
Here at Bright Side, we tried to recall TV shows where daughters and mothers and sons and fathers looked so alike, they could easily be relatives in real life. So here’s a gallery of look-alikes that we’ve come up with. Do you support our choices?
Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Tim Allen from Home Improvement
Lisa Kudrow and Teri Garr from Friends
Teri Hatcher and Lesley Ann Warren from Desperate Housewives
Zach Braff and John Ritter from Scrubs
Michelle Dockery and Elizabeth McGovern from Downton Abbey
Zoe Perry and Annie Potts from Young Sheldon
KJ Apa and Luke Perry from Riverdale
Camila Mendes and Marisol Nichols from Riverdale
Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls
Gina Rodriguez and Andrea Navedo from Jane the Virgin
Leighton Meester and Margaret Colin from Gossip Girl
Katie McGrath and Brenda Strong from Supergirl
Anna Faris and Allison Janney from Mom
Connor Swindells and Alistair Petrie from Sex Education
In your opinion, which characters from our selection look most like parents and kids? Can you add the names of other movie and TV show characters to our list?
Comments
the one with Camila Mendes from Riverdale, thats NOT Marisol Nikols from Riverdale. That is Lana Parilla from Once Upon A Time fame....wow, totally wrong!
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