Celebs you didn't know were related

Updated 2:26 PM ET, Tue August 11, 2015

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When comedian Amy Schumer held a joint press conference in August 2015 with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, announcing plans to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/politics/amy-schumer-chuck-schumer-gun-control/index.html">crack down on mass shootings and gun violence</a>, it was the first time some fans learned they were related. The pair are cousins.

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When comedian Amy Schumer held a joint press conference in August 2015 with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, announcing plans to crack down on mass shootings and gun violence, it was the first time some fans learned they were related. The pair are cousins.

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Fame clearly runs in the family. Just ask cousins Melissa McCarthy (left) and Jenny McCarthy.

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This one would be easier to figure out if the world remembered that Tom Cruise (left) was born "Thomas Mapother." He's cousins with actor William Mapother.

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Aunt Julia Roberts (left) has surely passed on some acting tips to her niece Emma Roberts.

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Jake Gyllenhaal (left) and Peter Sarsgaard aren't just costars on the film "Jarhead." Sarsgaard is married to Gyllenhaal's sister, Maggie.

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Radio personality Ira Glass (left) is second cousin to musician and composer Philip Glass. In 1999<a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/31/146092923/ira-glass-interviews-his-cousin-composer-philip-glass" target="_blank"> Ira interviewed Philip for "This American Life."</a>

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Radio personality Ira Glass (left) is second cousin to musician and composer Philip Glass. In 1999 Ira interviewed Philip for "This American Life."

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Nicolas Cage's father, author and film executive August Coppola, is the brother of Sofia Coppola's dad, director Francis Ford Coppola, so that makes the pair cousins. Cage changed his name when he broke into acting.

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Legendary music producer Quincy Jones is the father of actress Rashida Jones.

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Actors Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are siblings.

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This is another case of related by marriage: Actress Emily Blunt is the sister-in-law of actor Stanley Tucci. Tucci married Blunt's older sister, Felicity, in 2012 after the pair met in 2010 at Blunt's wedding to John Krasinski.

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