Birth Name: Benjamin A. Foster
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: October 29, 1980
Eye Color: Green
Hair Type/Color: Blond
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish, English
Family info: Ben Foster is an American actor. He is the brother of actor Jon Foster. His father is from a Jewish family that immigrated from Russia. His mother has English ancestry.
Ben was raised Jewish, and was Bar Mitzvah.
Ben’s paternal grandparents were Abraham Frank Foster (the son of Samuel Foster and Bessie) and Celia “Lucille” Segal (the daughter of Barney Segal and Mary Seltzer). Abraham was born in Massachusetts, to Russian Jewish parents. He was a prominent judge in Boston. Celia was a Russian Jewish immigrant, who came to the United States in the 1920s.
Ben’s maternal grandparents were William Maxwell Sterling (the son of Philip Columbus Sterling and Ethel M. Hurley) and Sophie Jones.
Source: Ben’s paternal grandfather, Abraham Frank Foster, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XQ51-7NH
Abraham Frank Foster on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K4JK-2LH
Obituary of Ben’s paternal grandfather, Abraham Frank Foster – http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/290724968.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec%2027,%201994&author=Indira%20A.R.%20Lakshmanan,%20Globe%20Staff&pub=Boston%20Globe%20(pre-1997%20Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=&desc=A.%20Frank%20Foster,%20judge%20who%20once%20halted%20a%20man’s%20beating;%20at%2084
Ben’s paternal grandmother, Celia Segal, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K4VS-HJ9
Obituary of Ben’s paternal grandmother, Celia (Segal) Foster – http://brezniakrodman.com/obituary/celia-segal-foster/
Ben’s maternal grandfather, Philip Columbus Sterling, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X34N-LTL
Obituary of Ben’s maternal grandfather, William Maxwell ‘Bill’ Sterling – http://missoulian.com/uncategorized/friday-february-oliver-floyd-sackett-jay-davenport-kathleen-j-dahinden/article_f58cdda5-9f64-5b52-9142-0bab8dbd14d4.html
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