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24 celebrities everyone wants to be their grandparents
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24 celebrities everyone wants to be their grandparents

When life doesn’t give one the family they want and deserve, those people head out and choose new circles to feel embraced by. However, there are also instances where people create fictional families utilizing famous faces as branches on their fictitious family trees. When it comes to filling said branches with grandparents, there are many to choose from in Hollywood. So, let’s get into the celebrities everyone wants to be their grandparents.

 
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Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren
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This grandma has a chance of stealing your partner, so watch out!

 
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Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy
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Something about Eugene Levy screams ultra cool grandpa that will take you to Vegas for an absolutely epic 21st birthday.

 
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Betty White

Betty White
Touchstone Pictures

Although gone, Betty White is still the ideal grandparent for so many.

 
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David Alan Grier

David Alan Grier
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David Alan Grier is the type of grandpa who’ll show up at school ready to clown whoever tries to come for his grandkids.

 
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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep
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The bragging rights alone if Meryl Streep was your grandma alone are why many wish for this biological connection.

 
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Steve Martin

Steve Martin
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Banjo lessons in the morning and nothing but laughs afterward with Grandpa Steve!

 
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Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad
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She feels like the type of grandma who’d want her grandkids by her side when she watched her stories.

 
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Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen
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Playing Lord of the Rings all day would be the only option if Ian McKellen was a relation.

 
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Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda
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Weekends with Jane Fonda as grandma would mean major doses of activism. We can’t help but stan.

 
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Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman
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Bedtime would be elevated with Morgan Freeman reading the stories.

 
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Vicki Lawrence

Vicki Lawrence
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It’d be like the real-life Mama’s Family; a dream come true.

 
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Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart
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Asking Grandpa Patrick if he could call Wolverine on the daily.

 
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Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton
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Diane Keaton feels like the grandparent who is all about teaching her grandchildren culture via Broadway plays and afternoons at the museum.

 
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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford
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Han Solo. That’s it. Could say more, but why? Okay, Indiana Jones. That’s all that needs to be and can be said here.

 
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Sheryl Lee Ralph

Sheryl Lee Ralph
Nina Prommer/Sipa USA

A joke about this really being Sally Jessy Raphael is necessary here, but only makes sense for those familiar with Sheryl Lee Ralph’s character on Abbott Elementary.

 
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Dıck Van Dyke

Dıck Van Dyke
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Dıck Van Dyke was put on this earth to spark joy, and he’s doing the best job at just that!  

 
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Glenn Close

Glenn Close
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Glenn Close, the backbone of anything she’s a part of.

 
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Willaim Shatner

Willaim Shatner
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William Shatner legitimately looks like the most typical grandpa at a Little League game.

 
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Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett
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A tug on the ear for one of the funniest grandmas one can ever hope to have.

 
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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones
Twentieth Century Fox

James Earl Jones’ passed in 2024, and the world collectively mourned because he was a fictional grandpa to many after playing some of the most iconic fathers in cinema: Darth Vader and The Lion King’s Mufasa.

 
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Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno
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If Rita Moreno is like her One Day at a Time character, then yes, please, someone allow her to adopt the world as her grandchildren. She’s the best!

 
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William Daniels

William Daniels
ABC

William Daniels, better known as Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World, played a character so caring yet stern that everyone wishes he were in their everyday lives in some capacity.

 
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Pam Grier

Pam Grier
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When grandma is a baddie, she’s Pam Grier.

 
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Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler
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Very few humans are as pure as Henry Winkler.

Kendra Beltran

Kendra Beltran is a pop culture obsessed writer who spent her youth tirelessly jotting down ‘Total Request Live’ data after school. She took that obsession and a useless college degree, and spun it into enough to pay her rent by writing for MTV Geek, Collider, Popverse, and more. Over the years her interest in pop culture has only grown, and today she finds herself baking while streaming ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ running (slowly) while listening to podcasts about the ‘90s, and hanging out with her dog while taking in emo playlists

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