Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: June 29, 1982
Ethnicity:
*German, Irish or Scottish (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, English, distant Welsh, remote Dutch (mother)
Lily Rabe is an American actress. She is the daughter of actress Jill Clayburgh and playwright and screenwriter David Rabe.
Lily’s paternal grandparents were William Louis Rabe III and Ruth McCormick.
Lily’s maternal grandparents were Albert Henry Clayburgh (the son of Albert Clayburgh and Alma Lachenbruch) and Julia Louise Dorr (the daughter of Bryan Ripley Dorr and Edna Evelyn Smith). Lily’s grandfather Albert was of German Jewish, some Sephardi Jewish (Portuguese Jewish), and a smaller amount of French Jewish, ancestry, with his Sephardi Jewish line having been in the United States since the 1700s. Lily’s grandmother Jill had English, distant Welsh, and remote Dutch, ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of Lily Rabe (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Jill Clayburgh (focusing on her own mother’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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