Birth Name: Jeremy Charles Strong

Date of Birth: 1978

Ethnicity: Irish, possibly other

Jeremy Strong is an American actor. He is of at least part Irish ancestry, and likely has other roots.

Jeremy’s maternal grandmother was Marguerite McCormick (the daughter of Louis McCormick and Marguerite Haines). Jeremy’s great-grandmother Marguerite was the daughter of Benj Haines, who was born in Massachusetts, to Irish parents, and of a Canadian-born mother.

Sources: Jeremy’s maternal grandmother, Marguerite McCormick, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Obituary of Jeremy’s maternal grandmother, Marguerite (McCormick) Hughes – http://www.findagrave.com

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Birth Name: Charles Tahan

Place of Birth: Glen Rock, New Jersey

Date of Birth: December 21, 1997

Ethnicity: Syrian (great-grandfather), Italian, Irish

Charlie Tahan is an American actor. His sister is actress Daisy Tahan.

Charlie’s paternal grandparents are George Tahan, Jr. (the son of George B. Tahan and Emily A.) and Joan P.

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Birth Name: Jana Rae Kramer

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan

Date of Birth: December 2, 1983

Ethnicity: German, Croatian

Jana Kramer is an American singer. She has German and Croatian ancestry.

Jana’s grandmothers’ names are Denise and Margaret.

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Birth Name: Virginia Cathryn Rowlands

Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin

Date of Birth: June 19, 1930

Ethnicity: Welsh, English

Gena Rowlands is an American actress. She is the daughter of Lady Rowlands (born Mary Allen Neal), an actress, and Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, a banker and state legislator. She was married to director/actor John Cassavetes until his death. Actor/director Nick Cassavetes is her son.

Her father was of Welsh descent. Her mother had English ancestry.

Gena’s paternal grandparents were David Morris Rowlands (the son of Morris J. Rowlands and Catherine Owens) and Emma Davies (the daughter of Edwin Davies and Jane Ann Hughes). David was born in Wisconsin, to Welsh parents. Emma was born in Wisconsin, to a Welsh-born father and a New York-born mother, of Welsh descent.

Gena’s maternal grandparents were William Joel Neal (the son of Younger Neal and Martha Thomas Dyer) and Tennessee Virginia Hickey (the daughter of Charlie M. Hickey and Saphronia Froney Wright).

Source: Gena’s father on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

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Birth Name: Candice Rickelle Glover

Place of Birth: Beaufort, Sea Islands, South Carolina, USA

Date of Birth: November 22, 1989

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Type/Color: Black

Ethnicity: African American

Family info: Candice Glover is an American R&B singer who won the twelfth season of American Idol. Glover is the first female winner of the show since Jordin Sparks won in 2007, the fourth African-American winner in American Idol history and the first winner to have auditioned three times before being cast for the live shows. Her debut album Music Speaks was released on February 18, 2014, after being pushed back from October and July 2013.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Glover

http://thegrio.com/2013/05/17/american-idol-candice-glovers-gullah-roots/

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Birth Name: Craig Theodore Nelson

Place of Birth: Spokane, Washington

Date of Birth: April 4, 1944

Ethnicity: Norwegian (paternal grandfather), German (maternal grandfather), English, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), distant Dutch

Craig T. Nelson is an American actor. His paternal grandfather was of Norwegian descent and his maternal grandfather was of German descent. His other roots are English, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and distant Dutch.

Craig’s paternal grandparents were Julius Theodore Nelson (the son of Gulbrand/Gilbert Nelson and Anne Christine Eriksdatter) and Daisy May Kee (the daughter of James Kee and Ellen Annette Pingry). Gulbrand and Anne were Norwegian.

Craig’s maternal grandparents were Frederick Charles Spindler (the son of Charles Spindler and Amelia) and Edna May VanHooser (the daughter of Charles Van Hooser and Margaret/Maggie Gillen). Frederick’s parents were German.

Source: Genealogy of Craig’s parents – http://records.ancestry.com

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Birth Name: Margaret Ruth Kidder

Place of Birth: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

Date of Birth: October 17, 1948

Ethnicity: English

Margot Kidder is a Canadian and American actress. Many of her father’s ancestors were American, and through them, she has deep roots in New England.

Margot’s paternal grandparents were Sidney Jesse Kidder (the son of Willard Kidder and Louise Kendall) and Margaret Powell (the daughter of David Powell and Margaret Greeley).

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Birth Name: Ivan Simon Cary Elwes

Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England

Date of Birth: 26 October, 1962

Ethnicity:
*English
*Scottish
*Irish
*Croatian Jewish (great-grandfather)
*Serbian (great-grandmother)

Cary Elwes is a British actor. He is the son of Dominick Elwes (Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes), a portrait painter, and socialite and interior designer Tessa Kennedy (Tessa Georgina Kennedy).

Cary’s father was of English, with some Scottish, descent. Cary’s maternal grandfather had English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, while Cary’s maternal grandmother was of half Croatian Jewish and half Serbian descent. Some of his distant ancestors were American-born.

Cary’s paternal grandparents were Simon Elwes, a war artist (born Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes, the son of Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes, a tenor, and of Alice Geraldine Ward) and Gloria Ellinor Rodd (the daughter of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, a diplomat, and of Lilias Georgina Guthrie).

Cary’s maternal grandfather was Geoffrey Alexander Farrer Kennedy (the son of John Macfarlane Kennedy and Dorothy Farrer). John’s father, Alexander Kennedy (Alexander Blackie William Kennedy), was a prominent civil and electrical engineer and academic.

Cary’s maternal grandmother was Daška Marija Ivanović-Banac (the daughter of Ivan Rikard Mendel Kraus, later Ivan Rikard Ivanović, and of Milica Popović). Daška was born in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Ivan, a Croatian industrialist and politician, was the son of Ivan Ivanovic and Bettina. Cary’s great-grandfather Ivan was born to a Jewish family, that had converted to Catholicism and changed their surname from “Kraus”. Milica was of Serbian descent, and was the daughter of Stevan Popović and Bella Nikolajevic. Milica’s brother was politician Dušan A. Popović.

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Birth Name: Judith Lee Ivey

Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas

Date of Birth: September 4, 1951

Ethnicity: English

Judith Ivey is an American actress.

Judith’s paternal grandparents were Alfred Columbus Ivey (the son of James Albert Ivy and Angeline Maria Honey) and Lilla Orah Beddingfield (the daughter of Charles Arvin Beddingfield and Laura Belle Ashbrook).

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Birth Name: Barry Morris Goldwater, Jr.

Date of Birth: January 2, 1909

Place of Birth: Phoenix, Arizona

Date of Death: May 29, 1998

Place of Death: Phoenix, Arizona

Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*English (mother)

Barry Goldwater was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987), and was the Republic nominee for President of the United States in 1964. He was the son of Barry M. Goldwater and Hattie Josephine (Williams).

Barry Goldwater was the first person of Jewish heritage to be nominated for either President or Vice President on a major party ticket in the United States (Joe Lieberman (in 2000) and John Kerry (in 2004) are the other two). Barry’s father was Jewish (of Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish descent), and Barry’s mother, who was of English ancestry, was Christian. Barry was raised an Episcopalian, though sometimes referred to himself as Jewish. His second wife, Susan Shaffer Wechsler (married from 1992 to his 1998), was a convert to Judaism (for reasons unrelated to her marriage to Barry).

Barry’s paternal grandparents were Michael Goldwasser (the son of Hirsch Goldwasser and Scheindel-Chawe/Fravda) and Sarah Nathan (the daughter of Moses Nathan and Hannah). Michael was born in Konin, Poznanskiego, Poland. Sarah was born in London, England, to parents from Russia.

Barry’s maternal grandparents were Robert Royal Williams (the son of John Asbury Williams and Ann Alfrey) and Laura Josephine Smith (the daughter of William Coats Smith and Sarah Liming).

Barry’s paternal great-grandparents, Hirsch Goldwasser and Scheindel-Chawe/Fravda, were also the paternal great-great-great-great-grandparents of actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Thus, Barry and Christopher are second cousins, three times removed

Source: Genealogy of Barry Goldwater – http://www.wargs.com

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Birth Name: Jermaine Junior Jones

Place of Birth: Frankfurt am Main, West Germany

Date of Birth: 3 November 1981

Ethnicity: African American, German

Family info: The professional soccer player was born to a German mother and an African American father.

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Birth Name: David Eric Grohl

Place of Birth: Warren, Ohio

Date of Birth: Januari 14, 1969

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Type/Color: Dark brown

Ethnicity:Slovak, German,Irish

Family info: Dave Grohl’s father is James Grohl and his mother is Virginia Wendt. They divorced when he was seven years old. His sister, Lisa Grohl, introduced him into the punk rock scene when he was 13 years old. He had been playing for Nirvana as a drummer and is currently the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Foo Fighters.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grohl

http://books.google.com.au/

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Place of Birth: New York City, New York

Date of Birth: March 26, 1960

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Jennifer Grey is an American actress. She is the daughter of Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz), an actor, and Jo Widler, an actress and singer. She is married to actor Clark Gregg.

Jennifer’s parents are both Jewish (her ancestors were from Lithuania, Latvia, and Russia).

Jennifer’s paternal grandparents were Mickey Katz, a comedian and musician (born Meir Myron Katz, the son of Menachem/Max Mandel Katz and Johanna Sarah Herzberg) and Goldie “Grace” Epstein (the daughter of Morris Epstein and Fanny Bordovsky). Menachem was a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant and Johanna was a Latvian Jewish immigrant. Morris and Fanny were Russian Jewish immigrants.

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Birth Name: Jason Thomas Mraz

Place of Birth: Mechanicsville, Virginia, U.S.

Date of Birth: June 23, 1977

Eye Color: Green

Hair Type/Color: Brown

Ethnicity: Czech

Family info: Jason Mraz was born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. He is of Czech descent through his grandfather, who moved to the United States from Austria-Hungary in 1915. His surname is Czech for “frost”. (Czech: mráz) His parents, Tom (Tomáš) Mraz and June, divorced when he was four years old, but he maintains that he had an idyllic childhood, saying, “My hometown of Mechanicsville was very American. There were white picket fences, a church on every street corner, low crime and virtually no drug use. It was a good place to grow up.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Mraz

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Birth Name: Christopher Thomas Howell

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California

Date of Birth: December 7, 1966

Ethnicity: English

C. Thomas Howell is an American actor. He is the son of Candice C. (Webb) and Christoph N. Howell.

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Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts

Date of Birth: June 14, 1987

Ethnicity: English, 1/8th Swedish, 1/8th Finnish, 1/16th German

Cameron Russell is an American model. Her mother, Robin Chase, is the founder and CEO of Buzzcar. Her father is Roy P. Russell, Jr.

Her maternal grandmother is of half Swedish and half Finnish ancestry. Cameron also has English, and 1/16th German, ancestry.

Cameron’s paternal grandparents are Roy Patterson Russell (the son of John Arthur Russell and Frances S. Ware) and Nancy Richmond Meyer (the daughter of Richmond Frederick Meyer and Margaret Elizabeth Smith). Richmond was the son of Ernest Meyer (whose parents were German) and of Mary (whose parents were English).

Cameron’s maternal grandparents are Robert Willard Chase (the son of Willard Linwood Chase and Ruth Hazel Spinney) and Shirley I. Gustafson (the daughter of Ragnar William Gustafson and M. Irene). Ruth was born in Massachusetts, to Canadian parents. Ragnar was born in Massachusetts, to Swedish parents, August W. Gustafson and Mary E. Carlson. M. Irene was born in Finland.

Sources: Marriage announcement of Cameron’s paternal grandparents, Roy Patterson Russell and Nancy Richmond Meyer – http://fultonhistory.com

Cameron’s paternal grandfather, Roy Patterson Russell, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Genealogy of Cameron’s paternal grandmother, Nancy Richmond Meyer (focusing on her own mother’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com

Cameron’s paternal grandmother, Nancy Richmond Meyer, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Cameron’s paternal great-grandfather, Richmond Frederick Meyer, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Cameron’s maternal grandfather, Robert Willard Chase, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Obituary of Cameron’s maternal grandfather, Robert Willard Chase – http://staugustine.com

Obituary of Cameron’s maternal great-grandfather, Willard Linwood Chase (W. Linwood Chase) – http://www.nytimes.com

Cameron’s maternal grandmother, Shirley I. Gustafson, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

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Birth Name: Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp

Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Date of Birth: July 17, 1964

Ethnicity: Scottish, German, English

Heather Langenkamp is an American actress. She has Scottish, German, and English ancestry.

Heather’s patrilineal line can be traced back to her great-great-grandparents, Frederick Langenkamp and Wilhelmina Brandt, who were born in Germany.

Heather’s paternal grandparents were Robert Darwin Langenkamp (the son of Frederick Charles Langenkamp and Hazel Martha Morrison) and Mary Bell Dobie (the daughter of David Leslie Dobie and Mary Claire Keeley).

Heather’s maternal grandparents were Horace Ralph Myers (the son of Mary High) and Pattie Lera Turner (the daughter of John Pete Turner and Lucinda Alice Shelton).

Source: Obituary of Heather’s maternal grandmother, Pattie Lera (Turner) Myers – http://newspaperarchive.com

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Birth Name: Stephen John Fry

Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England

Date of Birth: 24 August, 1957

Ethnicity:
*English (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)

Stephen Fry is a British actor, comedian, author, and media personality.

Stephen’s father was of English descent (from a Christian background). Stephen’s mother is from a Jewish family (from Hungary and Slovakia).

Stephen’s paternal grandparents were John William Fry (the son of John Henry Fry and Elizabeth Young) and Florence Ella Constance Dunthorne Pring (the daughter of Albert James Pring and Minnie Florence Eliza Manwaring). John and Florence were English.

Stephen’s maternal grandparents were Martin Neumann (the son of Leopold Neumann) and Rosa Braun (the daughter of Samuel Braun and Berta). Martin was born in Hungary.

Sources: Who Do You Think You Are? profile of Stephen Fry – http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com

Genealogy of Stephen’s paternal grandparents, John William Fry and Florence Ella Constance Dunthorne Pring – http://www.geni.com

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Birth Name: Freya Mavor

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Date of Birth: 13 August 1993

Ethnicity: Scottish

Family info: Freya Mavor is a Scottish actress and model.

Mavor was born in Glasgow but grew up in Inverleith, Edinburgh. Her father, James Mavor, is an award-winning playwright who leads the MA screenwriting course at Napier University. Her grandfather, Ronald Bingo Mavor, was The Scotsman’s theatre critic in the early 1960s before he became the director of the Scottish Arts Council. Her great-grandfather, Osborne Henry Mavor, was a playwright, screenwriter and surgeon from Scotland.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_Mavor

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Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois

Date of Birth: April 8, 1968

Ethnicity:
*English, French-Canadian, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, Irish, Welsh (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)

Patricia Arquette is an American actress. She is the sister of actors Rosanna Arquette, Alexis Arquette, and David Arquette.

The family surname was spelled “Arcouet” many generations back. Patricia’s father, actor Lewis Arquette (Lewis Michael Arquette), had English, French-Canadian, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. David’s mother, Brenda Olivia Nowak, was Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Poland).

There is a claim on the internet that Lewis Arquette was a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis. Meriwether Lewis had no children. It is possible that Patricia’s father was related to Meriwether Lewis in some other way.

Patricia’s paternal grandfather was Clifford Charles Arquette (the son of Charles Augustus Arquette, Jr. and Winifred/Wynne/Minnie Ethel Clark). Charles Augustus Arquette was the son of Charles Arquette (who was born in Michigan, to French-Canadian parents, Peter Daniel Arquette and Marie Annthecia Meloche) and of Minnie Fritchie, who was Swiss, of Swiss-German descent.

Patricia’s paternal grandmother was Mildred Speight, later Mildred LeMay (the daughter of Shirely Sidney Speight and Willie Sue Barr).

Sources: Genealogies of Patricia Arquette (focusing on her father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com

Patrilineal genealogy of the Arquette family – http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com

Patricia’s paternal grandfather, Clifford Charles Arquette, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Patricia’s paternal great-grandfather, Charles Augustus Arquette, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org