Warning: Claim to Fame season 3 spoilers ahead. Dozens of celebrity relatives have been featured on Claim to Fame over the years, but none of them have defined Hollywood as well as who Shane is related to in Season 3.
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Shane is one of 11 contestants on the third season of Claim to Fame, ABC’s reality TV series where a group of contestants—each with a secret celebrity relative—must correctly identify each other’s claims to fames while keeping their own under lock and key.
The series is hosted by brothers Kevin Jonas and Frankie Jonas and has featured the relatives of stars like Tom Hanks, Dolly Parton, and Whoopi Goldberg. While there have been a lot of famous faces on Claim to Fame over the years, there’s perhaps been no one that’s represented Hollywood as much as Shane’s celebrity relative in Season 3.
Shane’s celebrity relative is actor and Hollywood legend Marlon Brando. Shane, whose full name is Shane Brando, is Marlon Brando’s grandson. Shane’s two truths and a lie also confirm that Brando is his celebrity relative.
Shane’s two truths and a lie were that his celebrity relative is his cousin, an actor, and has won an Oscar. Brando won two Oscars. His first Academy Award was in the Best Actor category in 1955 for the movie On the Waterfront. He won his second Oscar in the same category in 1973 for the film The Godfather. (He was also nominated six other times for times for movies like A Streetcar Named Desire, Julius Caesar, and Sayonara.
Shane’s father, Miko Brando, is Marlon’s son with his ex-wife, Movita Castaneda, which makes Marlon Shane’s grandfather. That also means that Shane’s lie was that his celebrity relative is his cousin.
In Season 3, Episode 1, Shane’s Claim to Fame cast mate, Bianca, incorrectly guessed his celebrity relative as actor Forest Whitaker and was therefore eliminated. Marlon, who died in 2004 at the age of 80, is one of a few deceased celebrity relatives to be featured on Claim to Fame after actor Dean Martin, the grandfather of Season 1 contestant Pepper, and singer Michael Jackson, the uncle of Shane’s Season 3 cast mate Dedrick.
Shane is also one of a few first Claim to Fame contestants to also know the relative of another contestant from the same season. Shane’s father, Miko, was the bodyguard for Jackson, who was the uncle of Shane’s Season 3 cast mate, Dedrick. ne’s Claim to Fame Season 3 cast mate Dedrick’s uncle and secret relative. Reddit users have also shared a photo of Shane and Jackson together. Shane hinted at his relationship with Jackson in Season 3, Episode 1, when he revealed that he had been Neverland Ranch, Jackson’s home and amusement park.
Who’s Marlon Brando, Shane’s relative?
Cinephiles will know Brando as an actor and activist who is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time with two Oscars, two Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film Awards. He gained acclaim after his role as Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 movie A Streetcar Named Desire, which earned him his first Oscar nomination.
His success continued with the 1954 movie On the Waterfront, which earned Brando his first Oscar and Golden Globe for his role as Terry Malloy. Brando won his second Oscar in 1972 for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. Brando made history that year after he didn’t appear at the awards ceremony and sent Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather to decline the Oscar on behalf due to Brando’s protest of “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry.”
Brando was married three times. He was married to his first wife, actress Anna Kashfi, from 1957 to 1959. He was married to his second wife, actress Movita Castaneda, from 1960 to 1968. His third wife, actress Tarita Teriipaia, was married to him from 1962 to 1972. He was the father of 11 children, three of whom were adopted: Christian, Cheyenne, Myles, Simon, Miko, Raisatua, Maimiti, Lisa, Rebecca, Timothy, and Ninna. Ninna, Myles, and Timothy were adopted. He also has three known grandchildren: Tuki, Cheyenne’s child; and Prudence and Shane, Miko’s children.
Brando died on July 1, 2004, of a rare respiratory disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 80 years old.
Claim to Fame is available to stream on Hulu.
