A Hollywood ‘nepo baby‘ who hails from a beloved comedy dynasty has entered show business with a career of her own.
The 25-year-old’s father and uncle both starred on a series that has emerged as one of the most iconic TV programs in American history.
Her uncle was also the leading man of multiple legendary comedy movies, including one that has become an enduring classic about the college experience.
Her dad has been in movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Demi Moore.
Last year, she herself featured on a beloved US soap opera, one that has been airing continuously on CBS for nearly four decades.
She is now also a singer-songwriter, who this Monday night could be seen playing a glamorous cancer benefit in Beverly Hills.
Can you guess who she is?
She is Jamison Belushi, the daughter of Jim Belushi and the niece of the late John Belushi, both of whom were among the early stars of Saturday Night Live.
John was part of the seven-member original cast of Lorne Michaels’ sketch show when it aired its first season on NBC in 1975.
During a brief but dazzling career cut short by his galloping drug problem, John established himself as a reigning comedy star of the late 20th century.
His movies included the 1978 college romp National Lampoon’s Animal House, in which he stole the show as a fraternity brother called Bluto with a bottomless appetite for drink.
He and his comedy partner Dan Aykroyd won the hearts of fans around the world with their 1980 musical comedy The Blues Brothers.
After several turbulent years of rampaging substance abuse, John died of a cocaine and heroin overdose in 1982 at the age of just 33.
The following year, his little brother Jim joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, having broken into movies with the 1981 film Thief starring James Caan and Willie Nelson.
His movies include the 1983 comedy Trading Places starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, as well as the 1986 war drama Salvador directed by Oliver Stone.
In his more recent career, he has acted in such films as the 2010 Roman Polanski feature The Ghost Writer with Pierce Brosnan and Kim Cattrall, as well as the 2017 Woody Allen picture Wonder Wheel with Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake.
Perhaps his greatest success came with his hit sitcom According To Jim, in which he played the patriarch of a suburban family.
The series ran eight seasons from 2001 until 2009 – during which time it gave little Jamison her acting debut in 2005, the year she turned six.
Jamison is Jim’s daughter by his third wife Jennifer Sloan, whom he married in 1998 and split from in 2021b when they both filed for divorce.
As an adult, Jamison continued her acting career with the 2019 film The Last Summer, and since last year has been on six episodes of the long-running soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful as a hospital lab technician called April.
She is also a singer-songwriter, and has relocated to the country music capital of Nashville, Tennessee to pursue her ambitions.
However she was back in the Los Angeles area this week, playing the An Unforgettable Evening benefit for the Women’s Cancer Research Fund, held at the ritzy Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Last year, her singing career allowed her to pay a tribute to the legacy of her late uncle – that summer, she played the Blues Brothers Con at the Old Joliet Prison in Illinois that was featured in the movie.
