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‘Married… With Children’ Actor Ed O’Neill’s Daughter Is Following In Her Famous Dad’s Footsteps

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The list of iconic Hollywood stars would be incomplete without Ed O’Neill. The actor became a well-known face on TV with his role as Al Bundy in the 1990s sitcom, Married… with Children. The series, which ran for ten years, earned him two Golden Globe Awards nominations. Following this success, Ed starred in several films, including Little Giants, Dutch, Prefontaine, and The Bone Collector.

O’Neill’s role as a father continued when he featured as lead character Jay Pritchett in the series Modern Family, which earned him three Primetime Awards nominations and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. The black belt holder is also a family man outside of TV, as he has been married to Catherine Rusoff for 36 years, with two children, Sophia and Claire.

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Meet Ed O’Neill’s daughter who is following in her famous dad’s footsteps

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Thirteen years after Ed married his wife, Catherine Russoff, in 1986, they had their first daughter, Sophia, who is an actress. The 23-year-old has featured in more than two films. She made a cameo appearance in season 4 of Modern Family in 2009. While in 2010, Sophia played a part in the comic adventure, On the Block. Seven years later, the actor cast the role of Morrissey White in the movie, An American Funeral.

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Sophia’s acting skills credit may not be given only to her father, as her mother was also a popular Hollywood actress. Sixty-eight-year-old Catherine appeared in several known movies in the 1980s. Besides taking a role alongside her husband in Whereabouts of Jenny, she has appeared in Highway to Heaven and The Midnight Caller. With star actors like her parents, we hope to see more of her soon.

Sophia O’Neill’s Networth and family life

Starring in only two movies, the American Funeral star has not reached her father’s approximate net worth of $65 million. However, with her appearances in both films, she would have accumulated a few hundred thousand dollars, as it is estimated that a typical American actor earns above $50,000 per year. With a dad like Ed and Snapchat pictures of various vacation spots, Sophia is surely living the lavish lifestyle of an American actress.

MODERN FAMILY, (from left): Sophia O’Neill, Rebecaa Nazouz, Logan Riley Hassel, Nolan Gould (back to camera), Rico Rodriguez, ‘Mistery Date’, (Season 4, ep. 408, aired Nov. 14, 2012), 2009-. photo: Peter ‘Hopper’ Stone / ©ABC / Courtesy: Everett Collection

Ed, who loves to share about his family, has appeared in several talk shows with his first child. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, the Modern Family lead actor publicly revealed Sophia’s secret obsession with the celebrity Dylan O’Brien, as the On the Block star sat in the audience embarrassed. “I was working with Dylan O’Brien, who’s a young, handsome actor, who my daughter has a slight crush on. And in the story, we kiss. And she had to witness this and was very upset that it was me and not her.”

In another interview, he revealed that his daughter was horrified when he admitted to her that he did not know who the popular singer Taylor Swift was.

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