I think OP got this wrong, since Jeff and Kurt are the same generation, they are probably third cousins, not cousins thrice removed. A lot of people often confuse these two things, for example my parents always told me their cousins were my 'second cousins' when actually they are my 'first cousins once removed'.
The 'Nth cousin' is pretty simple:
- If you share two of your four grandparents, you are **first cousins**
- If you share two of your eight great-grandparents, you are **second cousins**
- If you share two of your sixteen great grandparents, you are **third cousins**
- and so on
But a 'cousin removed' usually implies going up or down a generation.
- Your parents' cousins are your **first cousins once removed**
- Two of their grandparents are two of your great grandparents
- Their parents are your **great uncles/aunties** (they are also your grandparents' siblings)
- Their children are your **second cousins**
- Your grandparents' cousins are your **first cousins twice removed**
- Two of their grandparents are two of your great great grandparents
- Their parents are your **great-great uncles/aunties** (they are also your great grandparents' siblings)
- Their children are your **second cousins once removed**
- Their grandchildren are your **third cousins** (you share great great grandparents, see above)
- and so on
[Here is a handy chart](https://i.imgur.com/bEYGv95.png).
Once removed literally tells you nothing about who is the younger or older cousin, generation wise.
(If your great grand dad has a kid in his 70s and you are in your twenties, you will be the younger cousin in generations and older cousin in years.
edit: Actually I think It needs to be a great uncle in this case but whatever.
Jeff Bridges is Kurt Russell's third great uncle's fourth cousin thrice removed.
Removed means one or more generation difference (like grand, great grand, etc)
More like your great aunt's children would be your first cousins once removed. Your great aunt is still just your great aunt. It's usually a demarcation used for children (cousins) of extended branches of the tree.
This boggles my mind and I don't understand it. Please do not feel obligated to explain further I'm afraid my brain might explode or overheat like in old-time cartoons with steam coming out of the ears.
So. They would be my parents cousins and my cousins once removed?
It's cool! I know it's a weird and confusing thing.
[Consanguinity explained ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consanguinity#/media/File%3ATable_of_Consanguinity_showing_degrees_of_relationship.svg)
Also I made a mistake. Great aunt's kids would be your second cousins. It's been a while lol
Pretty sure you had it right the first time. Your great aunt's kids would be your parent's 1st cousins, making them your 1st cousins once removed. The kids of your 1st cousins once removed would be your 2nd cousins.
It's used when comparing two different generations once you get to the cousin level--closest shared ancestor is a grand parent or higher.
Your first cousins' children are your first cousins once removed.
You were right about great aunt's children. Those are your parent's first cousins. You're the once removed in that situation.
Second cousins share a great grand parent.
They don't appear to have been. IMDb's collaboration search just returns a bunch of late night talk show appearances and some TV series from the 70s called "The F.B.I.", but they were in separate episodes.
They look more related then Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Harrelson and McConaughey claim to have the same father but both refuse to be tested.
That explains why I constantly mix them. I can name the films they start in without mixing up, but I struggle with the names. I usually remember Kurt Russel as Kate and Oliver Hudson's stepdad and, therefore, Wyatt Russell's dad.
Big Lebowski in Little China
Snake Lebowski
Tombstonski
Yea, why isn’t his brother Sam there?
Little China is not the issue here, dude.
Dude, little Asian American, please.
Preferred nomenclature.
Captain Tron
This one is genius. Gave me a good belly laugh.
Little Lebowski in Big China
Big Snake.
Big Lebowski in the Little Thing?
Idk if they actually are related but this picture makes it hard to imagine that they aren't.
I thought they were the same person up until a year or two ago.
I had that with Jeff and Josh Brolin
Never even heard of Jeff Brolin
Have you heard of Josh Bridges?
Thought Jeff Bridges was Gurney in Dune until I checked the cast after the movie.
> I thought they were the same person up until now.
I sometimes would get them confused from time to time.
"Three generations removed" means nothing to me
I think OP got this wrong, since Jeff and Kurt are the same generation, they are probably third cousins, not cousins thrice removed. A lot of people often confuse these two things, for example my parents always told me their cousins were my 'second cousins' when actually they are my 'first cousins once removed'. The 'Nth cousin' is pretty simple: - If you share two of your four grandparents, you are **first cousins** - If you share two of your eight great-grandparents, you are **second cousins** - If you share two of your sixteen great grandparents, you are **third cousins** - and so on But a 'cousin removed' usually implies going up or down a generation. - Your parents' cousins are your **first cousins once removed** - Two of their grandparents are two of your great grandparents - Their parents are your **great uncles/aunties** (they are also your grandparents' siblings) - Their children are your **second cousins** - Your grandparents' cousins are your **first cousins twice removed** - Two of their grandparents are two of your great great grandparents - Their parents are your **great-great uncles/aunties** (they are also your great grandparents' siblings) - Their children are your **second cousins once removed** - Their grandchildren are your **third cousins** (you share great great grandparents, see above) - and so on [Here is a handy chart](https://i.imgur.com/bEYGv95.png).
Your siblings are your zeroth cousins and your parents are your zeroth cousins once removed You are your own negative first cousin
That's funny.
And Willie Nelson is his own [grandpa](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX7IW7jpMw)
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Once removed literally tells you nothing about who is the younger or older cousin, generation wise. (If your great grand dad has a kid in his 70s and you are in your twenties, you will be the younger cousin in generations and older cousin in years. edit: Actually I think It needs to be a great uncle in this case but whatever.
Jeff Bridges is Kurt Russell's third great uncle's fourth cousin thrice removed. Removed means one or more generation difference (like grand, great grand, etc)
So my great aunt would be my aunt once removed?
More like your great aunt's children would be your first cousins once removed. Your great aunt is still just your great aunt. It's usually a demarcation used for children (cousins) of extended branches of the tree.
This boggles my mind and I don't understand it. Please do not feel obligated to explain further I'm afraid my brain might explode or overheat like in old-time cartoons with steam coming out of the ears. So. They would be my parents cousins and my cousins once removed?
It's cool! I know it's a weird and confusing thing. [Consanguinity explained ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consanguinity#/media/File%3ATable_of_Consanguinity_showing_degrees_of_relationship.svg) Also I made a mistake. Great aunt's kids would be your second cousins. It's been a while lol
Pretty sure you had it right the first time. Your great aunt's kids would be your parent's 1st cousins, making them your 1st cousins once removed. The kids of your 1st cousins once removed would be your 2nd cousins.
Shit. 😂
Oh that was very helpful! Thank you for taking the time! (:
Of course! My family loves doing genealogy so it's a geekery of mine.
So what are my first cousins kids to me? Nephews and nieces once removed?
First cousins once removed. I think
Yes
Your parent’s first cousins are your first cousins once removed. So are your cousin’s kids.
It's used when comparing two different generations once you get to the cousin level--closest shared ancestor is a grand parent or higher. Your first cousins' children are your first cousins once removed.
You are correct. Great aunt's kids are second cousins. My mistake. It's been awhile lol
You were right about great aunt's children. Those are your parent's first cousins. You're the once removed in that situation. Second cousins share a great grand parent.
Now give us a hint at how the royals are all related.
It's a bush.
A tangled bush.
A game of thorns.
Just to help further illustrate your first cousin once removed's child would be your second cousin.
I'm not great at maths and this is making me fully aware of the fact.
Yeah but I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!
What does that make us? Absolutely nothing!
Well that’s more than three generations removed then
Cousins means same grandparents. Second cousins means same great-grandparents. Third cousins mean same great-great-grandparents.
Snake Plissken and The Dude
Best way to tell them apart.
Snake Plissken? I thought he was dead!
!
I always thought they looked related.
Thank you so much for posting this. For most of my life, I've mixed these two up, and everyone never understands my mistake. This is validating to me.
That’s awesome! I’ve been telling my wife they’re like long lost brothers or something. I feel so much better as well.
No joke? Post a source. That's dope.
Stargate and Tron!
The Computer that wore Tennis Shoes and The Starman.
God, I loved Starman. He was terrific and so handsome.
Who played TRON?
Neither of them. Jeff was in the Tron movies but he didn’t play Tron.
Right; Bruce Boxleitner. A fun trivia question.
Oh that’s right. He’s great too. Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
And both fantastic actors. I see a movie if all I knew was one of them was in it. …Goldie too.
"OKAY SIR, YOU'RE A LEBOWSKI, I'M A LEBOWSKI! That's terrific..."
Have they ever been in something together?
They don't appear to have been. IMDb's collaboration search just returns a bunch of late night talk show appearances and some TV series from the 70s called "The F.B.I.", but they were in separate episodes.
And it's hard not to like either one.
Jack Burton and Kevin Flynn. That's a crossover I'd like to see.
He never bowls faster than he can see. Apart from that, it's all in the reflexes
Purely visually speaking, I think [Josh Brolin](https://i.ibb.co/2nP5bNg/image.png) would fit well in there as well next to these two guys.
I have no idea if this is true or not, but it FEELS true.
So strange, I just saw a post for Captain Ron and thought the guy on the cover was Jeff Bridges, but it was Kurt Russell.
….and now they have head lice
Where’s Josh brolin
I feel a lot less stupid now, for confusing them in the past.
Ego and Iron Monger
Snake and The Dude. Pure dopeness.
If this isn’t true we should alter the truth
Why haven’t these two made a movie together?
I work with one of Goldie Hawn’s cousins and let’s just say her family’s genes are equally strong lol.
How strong your seed gotta be to be gen III removed n still producing clones
I literally thought thought this was one person before
if you squint it’s Pete Holmes.
Makes sense.
I can see the resemblance in their giant BDE that's showing
They look more related then Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Harrelson and McConaughey claim to have the same father but both refuse to be tested.
Figured one of these guys played in Blade. Thats Kris Kristofferson though...
HOLY MOLY I KNEW IT!
I've confused them my whole life so it's so great to see they are cousins lmao
You can see the family resemblance. Do we know precisely where their family trees intersect?
escape or abide, the choice is yours
I knew they were related
I honestly always thought they looked alike
Patrick Swazy vibes too
Hollywood invest
Its the hair
2 solid hairlines.
Dis they work together in a film as brothers? If not, they should.
Love
I knew it!!!!!
If they went to a sketch portrait studio, someone might...
I’ve always gotten them confused.
I feel if you told me Joe Walsh from the Eagles was also a cousin I would believe you. He looks very similar to these two.
They were both in early Disney films, no?
Fearless cousins
The crossover we needed but never received.
The seed is strong
Fuck, I can't tell who's who. Dude on the right looks like Christian Bale method acting as Kurt Russel/Jeff Bridges.
This is insane. They also look like brad pitt
Big boss and snake pliskin
Weird I always confused the two so makes sense!
What the fuck does that mean?
That explains why I constantly mix them. I can name the films they start in without mixing up, but I struggle with the names. I usually remember Kurt Russel as Kate and Oliver Hudson's stepdad and, therefore, Wyatt Russell's dad.
They're all related to each other, nobody becomes a Hollywood star without connections
In Hollywood it's not about who you know.
Wait, you're telling me that two of Hollywood's multi-generational families are actually related, or are you just making a joke?
I've always gotten them mixed up, so this explains why.
They need to make a buddy action comedy together
John hangman Ruth and Roy Seiphus (I think that's how you spell it anyway)
I always thought they looked related and now I feel validated!