13 Celebrity Kids Who Got Their Start as Miss Golden Globe

While Miss Golden Globe is perhaps the most unsung honor of the Golden Globes, the award has quite the starry history. For the first 20 years of the ceremony, the award was given to two rising stars in movies and television. In 1962, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ditched the up-and-comer bent and bestowed the title on the children of the industry, who, during the ceremony, would act as escorts for the winners. Many of these celebrity offspring went on to become household names in their own right.

In 2017, the honor was rebranded; Hollywood scions may now have the pleasure of being named Golden Globe Ambassador. This year, Dylan and Paris Brosnan, the sons of Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith, will take the stage. If history is any guide, there’s a good chance that the Brosnans may be on their way to movie or television careers. Here, 13 stars who started out as Miss—or Mr—Golden Globe.

Melanie Griffith

Griffith had just two uncredited roles under her belt when she was named Miss Golden Globe in 1975. The daughter of former child stage actor Peter Griffith and actress Tippi Hedren (who made her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror classic The Birds) went on to win her very first Golden Globe in 1989 for her performance in Working Girl.

Laura Dern

Like the rest of her family, Laura Dern, the daughter of screen legends Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, has gone on to win her own awards since her days of Miss Golden Globe in 1982. Dern won her first honor in 1993, and has gone on to win three more statues, in 2009, 2012, and 2018. Winning: It just runs in the family.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Occasionally, it’s Mr. Golden Globe. Such was the case in 1996, when Freddie Prinze, Jr. earned the honor. The son of actor and stand-up comedian Freddie Prinze experienced a meteoric rise after his appearance at the Golden Globes. The next year, he starred in campy classics like I Know What You Did Last Summer (where he met wife-to-be, Sarah Michelle Gellar) and finished up the decade with I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and 1999’s She’s All That.

Dakota Johnson

Like mother, like daughter. The daughter of actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson served as Miss Golden Globe in 2006. Fun fact: Griffith and Johnson are the only mother-daughter pair in history who have both been honored as Miss Golden Globe. Before her appearance at the ceremony, Johnson had worked on one movie, Crazy in Alabama, which also starred her mother. A few years later, Johnson was earning high-profile roles in The Social Network and 21 Jump Street, and on the television show Ben and Kate. Of course, in 2015, Johnson got the biggest break of her career: playing Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey.

Rumer Willis

When Rumer Willis, the daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, was just starting out in the acting world, she reserved her roles for her parents’ projects. (She had small parts in Now and Then, Striptease, The Whole Nine Yards, and Hostage.) In 2009, the same year that Willis was Miss Golden Globe, she landed a role on the Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot, 90210. She went on to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago, a role in Empire, and stints on both Dancing With the Stars and The Masked Singer.

Rainey Qualley

Rainey Qualley, the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell and former model Paul Qualley, made her first big Hollywood appearance as Miss Golden Globe in 2012. Since her Miss Golden Globe days, Qualley has landed on the cover of Town & Country alongside her mother and sister Margaret. If you were watching carefully, you would have remembered Qualley as the fur-modeling minx from the final-season premiere of Mad Men. It seems that Qualley’s ambitions lie more with music than movies, however. In 2015, she released her first country music EP, Turn Me On Like the Radio.

Sosie Bacon

At first, Sosie Bacon’s parents, ’80s power couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, were reluctant to let her start acting. But when Kevin directed his first feature film in 2005, Loverboy, he couldn’t help but cast his daughter as a younger version of Sedgwick (who had the starring role of the film). “That’s what happens when you’re a director. You’ll do anything to get a shot,” Bacon once told New York magazine. “But Sosie was cool. She kind of got it out of her system. She said, ‘Oh, that was fun—now I’m going back to school.’” Sosie did return to school, but couldn’t resist the siren song of the family business. After being crowned Miss Golden Globe in 2014, she got a role on Scream: The TV Series the following year. Movie roles—Traces and Chronically Metropolitan—quickly followed, and more recently she's turned to TV: Catch her in 13 Reasons Why and Here and Now.

Greer Grammer

In contrast to many Miss Golden Globes before her, Kelsey Grammer’s daughter Greer already had a burgeoning television and movie career under way by the time she was honored in 2015. After competing in beauty pageants in her teens, Greer made the transition to television in 2010 with a guest spot on iCarly. The following year, she was cast as series regular Lissa Miller on the MTV series Awkward.

Anne Archer

In 1987, Anne Archer became the face of terror after playing a woman dealing with the consequences of her husband’s affair in Fatal Attraction. She’d go on to earn her first Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for the role. It was Archer’s second trip to the Golden Globes; she took the stage 16 years earlier as Miss Golden Globe at the 1971 ceremony. The daughter of actors John Archer and Marjorie Lord, Anne continued to act, taking roles in The L Word, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and more.

Corinne Foxx

After making a cameo on her father’s sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show at six years old, it was only a matter of time before Corinne Foxx became Miss Golden Globe. Having grown up on red carpets alongside Jamie, her moment finally came in 2016 with a heartfelt introduction from her father: “She was here when she was 10 years old, when she was in the fifth grade…This young lady is absolutely the love of my life. This young lady is absolutely my heart.” Having done some modeling work while attending the University of California, she made her acting debut in this past summer’s horror film 47 Meters Down: Uncaged alongside future Miss Golden Globe Sistine Stallone. In 2020 she’ll star alongside Robert Downey, Jr., Benicio Del Toro, and her father in the sports comedy All-Star Weekend.

The Stallone Sisters

While Miss Golden Globe has traditionally been a solo gig, the ceremony decided to switch things up in 2017. Actor Sylvester Stallone’s three daughters with model Jennifer Flavin—Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet—were the first group to share the honor the year after their father won his first Golden Globe for his performance in Creed. Sistine followed in both of her famous parents’ footsteps, having signed with IMG Models in 2016 and starred in 47 Meters Down: Uncaged. Sophia recently graduated from the University of Southern California, and Scarlet is currently in high school.

Originally Appeared on Vogue