Birth Name: Douglas Alexander Smith
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: June 22, 1985
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Race or Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather), English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian
Family info: Douglas Smith is a Canadian actor, with American citizenship. He is the son of producer Maurice Smith and actress Terrea Oster. His brother is actor Gregory Smith.
Douglas’s father was born in England and Douglas’s mother was born in the United States. Douglas’s maternal grandfather was Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Germany and Hungary). Douglas’s maternal grandmother had English, Dutch, German, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry.
Douglas’s father was born in England. Douglas’s paternal grandparents were George Smith and Anne Joan Brown.
Douglas’s maternal grandfather was Harvey Oster (the son of Theodore David Oster and Ruth Singer). Harvey was born in New York. Theodore was a Jewish immigrant, who was born in Germany, to Maurice Oster and Barbella Lrank. Ruth was born in New York, to Jewish parents from Hungary, Ignatz Singer and Sarah or Lena Selkules.
Douglas’s maternal grandmother was Louise Mae Merchant (the daughter of George Elmer Merchant and Mable or Mabelle/Mabel A. Hanson). George had English, as well as more distant Dutch and German, ancestry. Mable’s father was Swedish and Mable’s mother was Norwegian.
Source: Marriage record of Douglas’s maternal grandparents, Theodore David Oster and Ruth Singer – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FFT9-WJV
Douglas’s maternal grandfather, Harvey Oster, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MV3N-VXM
Genealogy of Douglas’s maternal grandmother, Louise Mae Merchant (focusing on her own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=merchantct&id=I5437
Douglas’s maternal grandmother, Louise Mae Merchant, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XCDT-B97
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