Every Celebrity Guest Star in 'The Bear' Season 4 - NewsBreak
If you're a celebrity traveling through Chicago in the spring, it feels like a requisite for you to stop by The Bear production for a cameo. The restaurant drama has been adding incredible guest stars to the roster since Season 1, and the list keeps growing.
The show centers on Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto () as he tries to turn his family's beef sandwich joint into a Michelin star restaurant with his protege Syd (). He's assisted by his sister Nat/Sugar () and his cousin, Richie (). Multiple members of the Berzatto family and the extended clan either work at the restaurant or pass through, allowing The Bear to cast some serious heavy-hitters to fill out the Berzatto family tree.
The breakout Season 2 episode, "Fishes," gave us our biggest glimpse at the family as it centered on a Christmas dinner gone awry. It introduced us to the family matriarch, Donna (), as well as multiple uncles and cousins. Those family members have popped up on different occasions (or in different flashbacks) since then. But Season 4 gave everyone a chance to be in the same room together.
Richie's ex-wife Tiff () remarried in Season 4. Her nuptials with Frank () were an excuse to bring the Berzattos back together, making for another star-studded affair. All of those famous faces can be hard to keep track of, especially when trying to remember how they fit into the family as a whole. Don't worry, Parade is here with a full breakdown of the Berzatto family tree, and which celebrity plays which family member.
Donna is the matriarch of the Berzatto family and the mother of Carmy, Nat, and Mikey. She has an estranged relationship with Carmy after she drove a car through the Berzatto family living room during a chaotic Christmas dinner. The incident inspired Carmy to move to New York to pursue his culinary dreams more seriously.
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Mikey is Donna's eldest son and Carmy and Nat's older brother. He was the original Berzatto sibling to take over The Beef before we were introduced to the family in Season 1. He takes his own life before the series began, which brings Carmy back to Chicago to take over the family business. He struggled with drugs and depression throughout his adulthood, but he was Carmy's ultimate idol.
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Jimmy is Carmy's uncle and the primary investor in The Bear. It's strongly implied in the first season of The Bear that Jimmy has ties to the mob, and that's how he makes his fortune. He's a tough guy, but he's loyal to his family and does want to see Carmy and his siblings succeed.
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Better Call Saul star plays Uncle Lee on The Bear. He's Carmy, Nat, and Mikey's uncle on their father's side and has an implicit romantic relationship with Donna. Carmy is not a fan of his uncle, but it's revealed in Season 4 that Lee became very close with Mikey before he died, and he was the only one to lay eyes on Carmy at Mikey's funeral.
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Michelle is a Berzatto cousin and lives in New York with her husband. She let Carmy sleep on her couch when he moved to the city to improve his culinary resume, and is very close with Tiff.
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Stevie is related to the Berzattos by marriage. He's married to Michelle and the pair live in New York. At both family gatherings that we've seen him attend so far, Stevie has appeared to be in cahoots with the Fak brothers and their hare-brained schemes.
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Tiff is also related to the Berzattos by marriage. She is Richie's () ex-wife and the mother of his child. She gets married to Frank in Season 4 of The Bear, and she confesses to Jimmy at the wedding that she was worried that she'd lose the Bear in the divorce. Jimmy assured her that she'd always be a member of the fam, so she and Frank have earned their spot on this list.
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Francine is another Fak sibling, which makes her a surrogate cousin to the Berzatto clan. She is introduced in Season 4 as Nat's former-best-friend-now-enemy. The two manage to hash it out and become friends again by the end of Tiff's wedding, officially bringing Francie back into the Berzatto family fold.
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Larson isn't the only A-Lister in the Fak family. The Bear Season 3 introduced WWE star and action hero John Cena as Sammy Fak, the fourth Fak sibling. He is an agent of chaos and just as goofy as his brothers.
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