Nepo baby Ella Beatty, 26, bears striking resemblance to aunt Shirley MacLaine in new photoshoot... as she opens up about famous parents Warren Beatty and Annette Bening

Ella Beatty is speaking candidly about her famous parents – but it's her A-list aunt with whom she shares the most physical similarities. 

The 26-year-old actress dazzled on the cover of Town & Country's October issue, showing off her striking resemblance to her dad's big sister Shirley MacLaine. 

'Ella looks like a young Aunt Shirley!' pointed out one fan in the comments of Ella's Instagram post promoting the magazine spread on Wednesday.

Another said that the rising star has her 'dad's eyes' and the rest of her looks are 'mom and Aunt Shirley's.' 

Ella's parents are Warren Beatty, 89, and Annette Bening, 68. 

'The older I get, the more I feel like, how is it possible that these incredible artists are my parents?' Ella said of her famous mom and dad. 'And I feel so lucky to, hopefully, by some osmosis, get a little bit of their brilliance.'

Inside the pages of the glossy, Ella reflected on her rising fame.

'I do have a certain amount of discomfort about being a public person. I’m still learning how to do that,' she admitted. 

'I want to be able to disappear into roles and for an audience to be thinking about the character and not me. There is also joy in sharing your life with people. So I don’t know. I’m sure it will change and fluctuate with time,' the star predicted.

The Juilliard graduate captivated across multiple portraits captured by photographer Ruven Afanador.

So striking was the siren's elegance that one fan wrote in her Instagram comments, 'I’m afraid of how beautiful she is.'

Ella made her Broadway debut in 2024, starring alongside veteran performer Sarah Paulson, 51, in the play Appropriate.

She takes on the role of acquitted murder suspect Lizzie Borden in the latest installment of the Netflix anthology series Monster. 

Lizzie was accused of killing parents Andrew and Abby Borden in a brutal hatchet attack in 1892, and was found not guilty by an all-male jury the following year. 

Ella is Beatty and Bening's youngest child, born after Stephen, 34, Benjamin, 32, and Isabel, 29.

Her parents have one of the longest marriages in Hollywood and have credits in some of the biggest movies of the 90s to their name.

Beatty is known for roles in Dick Tracy, Bugsy, Love Affair, and Bulworth. 

Bening rose to fame in the 1990 film The Grifters, and has also starred in The American President with Michael Douglas and The Kids Are All Right with Julianne Moore. 

Now, Ella is following in their legendary footsteps as she makes her lead debut in the haunting drama, which premiered on the streamer September 17.

'I totally acknowledge that there is an inherent privilege and exposure that comes from having well-known actors as parents,' she told Vogue in 2024.

'And I really hope that I can offer something meaningful.'

Growing up with her famous parents meant she was often on film sets and in dressing rooms.

When asked about growing up in an acting family and if they influenced her decision to become a performer, she replied: 'I don't know anything else. I have no other context for the world.'

'But my parents are the most loving, supportive, incredible artists,' she said, noting they taught her to 'contextualize the world' as artists since she was 'a very little girl.'

She echoed the sentiment in this week's Town & Country interview, describing her parents as 'very normal and loving and present.'