Sydney Sweeney & Marilyn Monroe Are Distant Cousins, New Genealogy Research Finds

Getty Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe apparently have more in common than their Hollywood careers! New genealogical research from MyHeritage has found that the 29-year-old Euphoria actress and the late Hollywood icon are ninth cousins, once removed. The connection was traced through both women's paternal family lines, with Sydney connected through her father, Steven Sweeney, and Marilyn through her biological father, Charles Stanley Gifford. According to MyHeritage, their family trees connect through a shared ancestor named Ezra Perry, who lived from approximately 1625 to 1689 and was an . . .