Sean Astin — whose lengthy profession started with star turns in The Goonies and Rudy, grew with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and continues as we speak along with his position as Tyler on The Conners, which airs its sequence finale on April 23 — was born on February 25, 1971. However precisely who he was born to was, for a few years, a query to each Sean and his mom, actress Patty Duke.
When Duke grew to become pregnant with Sean in 1970, she wasn’t sure who the daddy was — she had been seeing actor and musician Desi Arnaz Jr., in addition to Addams Household star John Astin, who was married to another person on the time. Duke had additionally impulsively married live performance promoter Michael Inform, a stranger who was subletting her condominium, that very same 12 months, in a union that lasted solely two weeks.