Trending badgeTrendingPosted 2 hours agoNepo Babies Obviously Have A Leg Up In Hollywood, But These 15 Stars Took It To A Whole New Level By Literally Being Handed RolesIt don't get any more nepo baby than this!by Hannah MarderBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Nepo babies undeniably have a leg up in Hollywood, whether or not they acknowledge it - and this is never more obvious than when they literally get their start in their parents' projects. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF NBC Even if it's just a small role, appearing in a high profile project is something many actors never even get close to - most people can't even get in the audition room for these projects unless they have a great agent and a lot of credits (and don't even get me started on if they belong to the SAG-AFTRA union or not). Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF NBC Here are 15 Nepo babies that literally got their start from their parents...basically making them the ultimate Nepo babies. 1. Judd Apatow cast his daughters Maude and Iris Apatow in three of his films when they were young kids: Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40. Maude was then cast in three episodes of Girls (on which her father was an executive producer). HBO Her next role was in Other People: she was recommended for the role by casting director Allison Jones. Jones had previously done the casting for Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights, Knocked Up, Superbad, Funny People, and This is 40...and thus had known the Apatows since Maude was two. Vertical Entertainment This all led to a role in a film by Sam Levinson, himself a nepo baby (more on that later). He then cast her in Euphoria, largely considered her breakout role. HBO 2. Speaking of Sam Levinson...his father is Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson. His father cast him in his 1992 film Toys (starring Robin Williams) when Levinson was a kid, then later facilitated his breaking in as a writer, asking him to co-write the 2017 drama Wizard of Lies starring Robert De Niro. The elder Levinson told Collider, "I discussed it (the project) with my son, Sam, and he put together 20 pages. I sent that over to Bob and Jane Rosenthal, and we had the meeting and they thought it looked good, so I told them that my son wrote it. Bob has known Sam since he was 10 years old, and he said, 'All right, good.' That's how we proceeded." JA/Everett Collection Levinson - who had only a single writer/director credit from an indie film before his father asked him to work on The Wizard of Lies - springboarded off the film to the 2018 dark satire Assassination Nation. Euphoria quickly followed. HBO 3. Gwyneth Paltrow was born to an actor mom and a director/producer dad...and her godfather is literally Steven Speilberg. Her first role was in a TV pilot (with Zach Braff, btw) called High written and directed by her father. She then made her professional stage debut in 1990 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, where her mother had starred in several productions. Cbs Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images After a small role in the John Travolta film Shout, she was cast in her godfather's film Hook. She then did some smaller projects before having a larger role in Flesh and Bone, and, more memorably, Se7en - her career largely took off after that. TriStar Pictures 4. Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, began her career as an actor, appearing in her father's films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married and The Godfather Part III (a performance that was critically panned). Coppola later said it was never her dream to be an actor and that she was just helping her father out. Paramount / courtesy Everett Collection She would go on to become a writer/director, and got a leg up here too from her father, who asked her to co-write his segment of the anthology film New York Stories - the other segments were directed by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen. After directing a short film and a few music videos, Sofia read The Virgin Suicides and decided she had to adapt and direct a film version. The film was critically acclaimed and her career took off. Paramount Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection 5. Bryce Dallas Howard is a nepo baby to the extreme - her mother is a writer, and her father is director Ron Howard. She is the granddaughter of actors, her godfather is Henry Winkler. Her first roles were as extras in her dad's films, including the Academy Award-winning Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind, plus the box office smash How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures Fun fact: she was babysat by Tom Cruise as a kid. After studying acting in college, most of her first large roles were in theater - she was noticed in As You Like It by M. Night Shyamalan, who cast her in The Village and Lady in the Water - neither of which she had to audition for. After that, her career continued to take off. Buena Vista / court