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Celebrity Kids Who Dropped Their Famous Last Names
From Shiloh Jolie to Elle King, see which celebrity kids dropped their famous parents' last names in an effort to forge their own paths — and why
(Streep's youngest daughter, actress Louisa Jacobson, also doesn't use her given surname, but that's due to Screen Actors Guild restrictions, not to distance herself from her famous family.) Liam Neeson's son Micheál dropped his last name for a heartwarming reason: to honor his mother Natasha Richardson, who died from blunt force trauma following a skiing accident back in 2009. "People would not stop saying things like 'I love the smell of Nicolas in the morning,' " he recalled to Wired of the reference to his uncle's film Apocalypse Now.
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