Meet Modern Family star Ed O’Neill’s real-life daughter Claire: she just made a rare TikTok appearance rapping alongside her dad to a Tupac Shakur song, delighting Sarah Hyland and Ariel Winter

Apr 1 , 2025

Ed O’Neill and daughter Claire O’Neill at the Los Angeles premiere of Clipped in June 2024. Photo: Getty Images

The 78-year-old television star has been married to actress Catherine Rusoff for almost 40 years and the couple share 2 biracial daughters, Claire and Sophia

Actor Ed O’Neill played the gruff but lovable patriarch Jay Pritchett in ABC’s beloved sitcom Modern Family, which also starred Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sofia Vergara.

Ed O’Neill played Jay Pritchett on the hit show Modern Family. Photo: Getty Images

On the show, O’Neill’s character Jay is the father of two adult children, Claire and Mitchell.

But in a recent TikTok shared by O’Neill’s rarely seen real-life daughter – also called Claire – the father-daughter duo can be seen lip-synching along to Tupac Shakur’s NSFW song “Hit Em Up”.

“This was his idea,” Claire captioned the post.

The video, published on March 24, has since garnered over 10 million likes, per the New York Post.

Sarah Hyland, who played O’Neill’s granddaughter Haley Dunphy on Modern Family, wrote: “I am screamingggggg,” in all caps, while another co-star, Ariel Winter added, “This is amazing.”

Fans chipped in on the video’s comment section, with one pointing out “You’re telling me he really has a child named Claire?!”

Here’s everything you need to know about Ed O’Neill’s younger daughter.

She is biracial

Actor Ed O’Neill, wife Catherine Rusoff and daughters Claire O’Neill and Sophia O’Neill at the Kidstock Music and Arts Festival in 2012 in Beverly Hills. Photo: Getty Images