10 celebrity dads with mirror-image sons following in their footsteps: Will and Jaden Smith, Princes Charles and William, plus Tom and Colin Hanks all show star power runs in the genes
- The Beatles’ guitarist George Harrison has a lookalike son, Dhani, also pursuing a music career; same with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and sons Jakob and Joey
- Diddy’s son Christian Combs raps, Mark and Michael Consuelos both starred on Netflix’s Riverdale, while Dustin and Jake Hoffman, and Eugene and Dan Levy, all act in films
Tom and Colin Hanks
From his performance in Forrest Gump, to his voice role in the Toy Story franchise, to impressions of public figures like Walt Disney, Tom Hanks, 65, has become a national treasure. While he usually graces the big screen, his eldest son, Colin, 44, who has followed in his footsteps, can be seen on both the small and big screens.
Colin has starred in the TV shows Dexter, Fargo and American Crime Story as well as the films King Kong, The House Bunny and the Jumanji reboot.
The nearly identical father and son shared the screen in The Great Buck Howard, where Tom played Colin’s character’s father. Colin even played Fred Rogers in an episode of Drunk History before Tom famously did in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
“Oh, did someone else get cast in a rival Mr Rogers project? I would hate to be them right now,” Colin jokingly tweeted in 2018.
Billie Joe and Joey Armstrong, and Jakob Danger
The Green Day frontman has been going strong as a prominent and influential singer and musician for over 30 years. Billie Joe Armstrong, 50, has a knack for creating timeless punk rock and pop-rock music, a skill trickled down to his two sons.
His younger son, who goes by the stage name Jakob Danger, is 23 and followed in his father’s footsteps. He is a singer-songwriter and guitarist both as a solo artist and for his punk band Mt. Eddy, which formed in 2015.
