Birth Name: Jonathan Daniel Foster
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: August 3, 1984
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish, English
Family info: Jon Foster is an American actor. He is the brother of actor Ben Foster. His father is from a Jewish family that immigrated from Russia. His mother has English ancestry.
Jon was raised Jewish.
Jon’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.
Jon’s maternal grandparents were William Maxwell Sterling (the son of Philip Columbus Sterling and Ethel M. Hurley) and Sophie Jones.
Source: Jon’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 Jon’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
Jon’s paternal grandmother, Celia Segal, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K4VS-HJ9
Obituary of Jon’s paternal grandmother, Celia (Segal) Foster – http://brezniakrodman.com/obituary/celia-segal-foster/
Jon’s maternal grandfather, Philip Columbus Sterling, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X34N-LTL
Obituary of Jon’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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