Birth Name: Jason Michael Lee
Place of Birth: Orange County, California
Date of Birth: April 25, 1970
Ethnicity: English, German, Swiss-German, some Scottish
Jason Lee is an American actor. His ancestry includes English, German, Swiss-German, and more distant Scottish.
Jason’s maternal grandparents were Chester Bernard Weaver (the son of Peter Leonidas Weaver and Alice May Guenthart) and Dorothy Lorraine Oppenheimer (the daughter of Phillip Frederic Oppenheimer and Gladys Amy Baldwin). Alice was the daughter of a Swiss-German father, Henry Guenthart, and of a German mother, Minnie Dorthea Burmeister. Phillip’s father, George Oppenheimer, was a Bavarian German immigrant, and Phillip’s mother, Minnie Ehlert, was born in Iowa, of German descent.
Sources: Genealogies of Jason Lee (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://nagelhistory.com
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