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What a household tree Niecy Nash-Betts apparently has!
The actress (and up to date Emmy winner) took to social media on Tuesday to congratulate her cousins, Sterling Okay. Brown and Danielle Brooks, on their Oscar nominations.
“Each of my COUSINS are OSCAR NOMINATED,” Nash-Betts wrote in the caption of a photograph that includes the three of them on her Instagram, including by the use of clarification, “Sure! We’re blood associated! REAL cousins!”
“I’m so pleased with my fam!” the “Claws” star added, concluding the caption with, “I’m rooting for you!”
Whereas it’s unclear precisely how the three are associated, a publicist for Brooks confirmed that she and Nash-Betts are cousins.
CNN has reached out to reps for Nash-Betts and Brown for additional clarification.
Brooks and Brown are every nominated within the supporting actor classes on the Academy Awards this 12 months.
Brooks is nominated for her function of Sofia in “The Shade Purple,” whereas Brown acquired his nod for his work in “American Fiction.”
It seems, Nash-Betts additionally has one other well-known relative.
Final 12 months she appeared on an episode of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” and found that the activist Angela Davis is a distant cousin.
Nash-Betts’ current Emmy win was for excellent supporting actress in an anthology sequence, for her function in Netflix’s “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”