His father was a clothes presser and an actor, and his mother was a seamstress and an actress.

Their mother, Lynne ( Luckinbill ), was a nurse and painter whose brother is actor Laurence Luckinbill.

She was also the mother of actor Larry Hagman.

The family's three oldest children, Sandra ( now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer ), Larry ( now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California.

His mother, Dorothy ( née Dora Nidelman ), was a homemaker and former radio actress, and his father, Christopher Ford ( born John William Ford ), was an advertising executive and a former actor.

Holst's mother, Clara Cox von Holst ( née Lediard ), who died in 1882, was a singer and pianist who bore two sons, Gustav and Emil Gottfried ( who later became Ernest Cossart, a film actor in Hollywood ).

* Miranda — A " ractor " ( actor in interactive movies ) who, by performing in the stories of Nell's Primer, effectively becomes a mother figure for Nell.

She is the mother of one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, with her first husband, actor Matt Lattanzi.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

When President Ronald Reagan was an actor during the 1940s, he had his mother sign his name to much of his fan mail.

* Toby Hemingway, actor in The Covenant and Feast of Love moved to Ojai with his mother when he was 13, and resides there today

Actress / Playwright / lyricist Gretchen Kiger-Cryer, mother of actor Jon Cryer, was born and raised in Dunreith.

* Frances Ford Seymour ( 1908 – 1950 ), wife of actor Henry Fonda and mother of actress Jane Fonda and actor Peter Fonda ; lived in Fairhaven for several years with family members and attended Fairhaven High School

Famous people who attended the Little Red Schoolhouse include opera star and Edison protégé, Anna Case and Marion Van Fleet, the mother of actor Lee Van Cleef.

An intriguing possibility is that, having received his mother ’ s correspondence ( which he subsequently burnt ) from his sister in 1868, he discovered that his biological father was the actor and musician Ludwig Geyer, and feared that Geyer was Jewish ( which he was not ) and that he himself might be Jewish as well.

Raymond later became the mother of actor Ian Ogilvy.

West has appeared alongside his actor parents on several occasions ; with his mother Prunella Scales in Howards End and Stiff Upper Lips, and with his father Timothy West on stage in A Number, Henry IV Part I and Part II.

He took many fashion and nude photos of supermodel Cindy Crawford and eventually set her up with his good friend, actor Richard Gere, at a BBQ held at his mother Shirley's house.

Keeping in touch with his mother Jules by video link on his computer ( though by the third season she also moved to Wilsted ), Jett now spends part of his time with family, friends and school, and the rest living the life of a working actor and celebrity.

Don O ' Kelly born Donald Patrick Kelly at Sheepshead Bay, New York, the son of an Irish-American father Robert J. Kelly and Norwegian-American mother Rachel Knudtsen was an American actor in the 1950s and 1960s.

His father, Robert Downey, Sr., is an actor, writer, producer, cinematographer, and director of underground films, and his mother, Elsie ( née Ford ), is also an actress and appeared in Downey Sr .' s films.

He turned for solace to Carmen Miyares de Mantilla, a Venezuelan who ran a boarding house in New York, and he is presumed to be the father of her daughter María Mantilla, who was in turn the mother of the actor Cesar Romero, who proudly claimed to be Martí's grandson.

* No. 41: Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire, Brother-sister actor / dancing act leased a flat here, along with their mother, Ann Astaire when playing the West End production, ' Stop Flirting ,' in 1923.

When Vadiz was little, her mother married comedy actor, show host and television chef Luis Antonio Cosme, who grew to love Vadiz as if she were his own daughter.

Tina, the sexy but highly incompetent adoption agency employee, decides to accompany Mel, Nancy, and the newborn on a trip to San Diego to meet Mel's biological mother.

* Paul Rudd as Josh Lucas: Cher's ex-stepbrother, as Mel had been married to Josh's mother five years earlier.

In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

She also appeared from the third to ninth season as Mel Sharples ' gruff mother, Carrie, on the CBS sitcom Alice, making two or three appearances a season.

Glenn Close played mother to Mel Gibson in the Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 Hamlet.

In September 2004, Mel Broughton's mother suffered minor injuries during a protest at the construction site, when an unidentified substance was thrown at her, allegedly by one of the construction workers.

Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland and left the north for London in 1914 after his mother died.

A young 20-year-old named Jody ( Tyrese Gibson ) lives with his mother Juanita ( Adrienne-Joi Johnson ), in South Central Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, after a startlingly brief love affair ( of which Molly knows nothing ), Mr Gibson abruptly decides to remarry, less from his own inclination than from a perceived duty to provide Molly with a mother to guide her.

One notable 1967 segment featured the return of Pert Kelton ( in one of her last performances ; she died the following year ), this time playing Alice's mother, Mrs. Gibson.

His mother, Mrs. Paul A. Gibson, resides in Seal Beach, California.

His mother, Mrs. Paul A. Gibson, resides in Seal Beach, California.

In Pattern Recognition, a 2003 novel by William Gibson, the main character's mother tries to convince her that her father is communicating with her from recordings after his death / disappearance in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The deaths are investigated by Captain Monica Stark ( Charles Busch ), who also suspects Chicklet's mother ( Beth Broderick ), Chicklet's best friend Berdine ( Danni Wheeler ), surfing guru The Great Kanaka ( Thomas Gibson ) and B-movie actress Bettina Barnes ( Kimberley Davies ).

Nancy's mother was Anne DeWolf Gibson ( 1877-1963 ).

In Santa Barbara, Preston met and, in 1973, married Janice Gibson, an opera singer and mother of three children, Morgan, Dante, and Amanda.

Little Anne rapidly outdistanced her mother in recovery.

Anne Frank's mother, Edith Frank was born here as well.

Anne's mother, Maria Branwell ( 1783 – 1821 ), was the daughter of Thomas Branwell, a successful, property-owning grocer and tea merchant in Penzance and Anne Carne, the daughter of a silversmith.

Anne was barely a year old when her mother became ill of what is believed to have been uterine cancer.

After three weeks of speculation it was revealed that the killer was in fact Frank's own mother ( Anne Foster ).

The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

Her mother was Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn.

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

Anne Vavasour, Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I, mother of Oxford's illegitimate son.

Anne Brebner, the film's casting director, was almost cast as Harold's mother when Vivian Pickles was briefly unable to do the role.

The Immaculate Conception should not be confused with the perpetual virginity of Mary or the virgin birth of Jesus ; it refers to the conception of Mary by her mother, Saint Anne.

The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself and was the daughter of a human father and mother, traditionally known by the names of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne.

* 1900 – Edith Frank, Holocaust victim and mother of Anne Frank ( d. 1945 )

Stuart was educated at home by his mother and tutors until the age of twelve, when he left Laurel Hill to be educated by various teachers in Wytheville, Virginia, and at the home of his aunt Anne ( Archibald's sister ) and her husband Judge James Ewell Brown ( Stuart's namesake ) at Danville.

Mary is seated on the knee of her mother, St Anne.

Her mother, Anne ( Purcell ) Higgins, was a devout Catholic who went through 18 pregnancies ( with 11 live births ) in 22 years before dying at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

Although her mother bore eight children, all except Mary and her younger sister Anne died very young, and the King had no legitimate children.

Casement's mother, Anne Jephson of Dublin ( whose origins are obscure ), had him rebaptised secretly as a Catholic when he reached the age of three, in Rhyl.

Richard Lovelace's mother, Anne Barne ( 1587 – 1633 ), was the daughter of Sir William Barne and the granddaughter of Sir George Barne III ( 1532-d. 1593 ), the Lord Mayor of London and a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I ; and Anne Gerrard, daughter of Sir William Garrard, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1555.

Richard Lovelace's mother was also the daughter of Anne Sandys and the granddaughter of Cicely Wilford and the Most Reverend Dr. Edwin Sandys, an Anglican church leader who successively held the posts of the Bishop of Worcester ( 1559 – 1570 ), Bishop of London ( 1570 – 1576 ), and the Archbishop of York ( 1576 – 1588 ).

1629-King Charles I nominated " Thomas Richard Lovelace ," upon petition of Lovelace ’ s mother, Anne Barne Lovelace, to Sutton ’ s foundation at Charterhouse.

A Rose for the Crown, by Anne Easter Smith, is about Kate Haute who is portrayed as the mother of Richard's illegitimate children.

Anne had become pregnant by the end of 1532 and gave birth on 7 September 1533 to Elizabeth named in honour of Henry's mother.

She had a number of problems during her childhood, one of the main ones being after the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn.