The Hollywood entertainment industry is such a huge one that it sometimes gets so hard to keep track of who are related to each other, even if by a long-shot.  Sometimes celebrities get cosmetic surgery and their similarities to their relatives disappear, and you really cannot find the familial resemblance.  So who among the many famous people, most with huge bank accounts, are related to one another?  Some of these related celebs with definitely make you say “I didn’t know that!”

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck: Distant Cousins

Who knew that friendship is not the only thing that bonds Matt Damon and Ben Affleck together?  The actors, who probably have two of the fattest bank accounts in Hollywood, are actually 10^th cousins!  Their blood relation was traced from one William Knowlton Jr., a bricklayer who came to the United States from his native England during the 1600s.