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ABDUL |
PAULA |
Paula Julie Abdul |
Lorraine (née Rykiss) and Harry Abdul |
Her father, a Syrian Jew, was born in Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the United States;Abdul's mother, also Jewish, is originally from Saint Boniface |
ABBOTT |
BUD |
William Alexander Abbott |
Rae Fisher, was a bareback rider and his father, Harry |
German [likely German Jewish] (mother) |
ABEL |
ZAK |
Zak David Zilesnick |
Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ABLOW |
KEITH |
Keith Russell Ablow |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ABOUTBOUL |
ALON |
Alon Moni Abutbul/Aboutboul |
Egyptian Jewish, Algerian Jewish |
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ABRAHAMS |
JIM |
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AD-ROCK |
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Adam Keefe Horovitz |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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ADAIR |
SANDRA |
Sandra B. Estrin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ADELSTEIN |
PAUL |
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ADLER |
JOE |
Joseph Philip Adler |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian |
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ADLER |
LUTHER |
Lutha Adler |
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born to Russian Jewish actors Sara and Jacob P. Adler |
ADLER PAVLOVICH |
JACOB |
Yankev P. Adler |
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Russian actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and New York City |
ADLON |
PAMELA |
Pamela Fionna Segall |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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AGRON |
DIANNA |
Dianna Elise Agron |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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AIMEE |
ANOUK |
Françoise Sorya Dreyfus |
Geneviève Sorya (born Durand) and Henri Murray (born Dreyfus) |
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AISENBERG |
ALAN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ALADJEM |
MACKENZIE |
Mackenzie Elizabeth Aladjem |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ALAN |
LORI |
Lori Alan Denniberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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ALAZRAQUI |
CARLOS |
Carlos Jaime Alazraqui |
Argentinian (Spanish, likely some Sephardi Jewish) |
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ALBERTSON |
JACK |
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son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants Flora Craft and Leopold Albertson |
ALEXANDER |
JASON |
Jay Scott Greenspan |
Ruth Minnie (née Simon), Alexander B. Greenspan |
of Jewish parents |
ALGREN |
NELSON |
Nelson Ahlgren Abraham |
75% Ashkenazi Jewish-25% Swedish [grandfather, who converted to Judaism] |
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ALLEN |
KEEGAN |
Keegan Phillip Franc Allen |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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ALLEN |
WOODY |
Allen Stewart Konigsberg |
Nettie and Martin Konigsberg |
family was Jewish and his grandparents were Yiddish- and German-speaking immigrants |
ALMAGOR |
GILA |
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Max Alexandrowitz, a Jewish immigrant from Germany |
ALTMAN |
BRUCE |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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AMALRIC |
MATHIEU |
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Nicole Zand, and Jacques Amalric |
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AMES |
ED |
Edmund Dantes Urick |
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to Russian Jewish immigrant parents |
ANCONA |
RONNIE |
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is of Italian Sephardic Jewish origin |
ANDERSON |
BILLY BROCHO |
Max Aronson |
Henry and Esther Aronson |
Anderson, who was Jewish |
ANDRE |
ERIC |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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ANGARANO |
MICHAEL |
Michael Anthony Angarano |
Italian, some Sephardi Jewish |
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ANGELYNE |
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Ronia Tamar Goldberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ANNABLE |
DAVID |
David Rodman Annable |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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ANNABLE |
ODETTE |
Odette Juliette Yustman |
paternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ANWAR |
GABRIELLE |
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25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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APATOW |
JUDD |
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His family is Jewish |
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APFEL |
IRIS |
Iris Barrel |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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APPEL |
RICHARD |
Richard James Appel |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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APPELMAN |
ZACH |
Zachary Soglin Appelman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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APPLEBY |
NOEL |
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APPLEBY |
SHIRI |
Shiri Freda Appleby |
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Dina (née Bouader), an Israeli-born Hebrew school teacher, and Jerry Appleby, a Jewish-American |
APPLEMAN |
HALE |
Hale Isaac Appleman |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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APPLETON |
NATALIE |
Natalie Jane Appleton |
Jewish, English |
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APPLETON |
NICOLE |
Nicole Marie Appleton |
Jewish, English |
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AQUINO |
AMY |
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75% Italian-*25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ARBUS |
ALLAN |
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of Jewish background,[1] the son of Rose (née Goldberg) and Harry Arbus, who was a stock broker |
ARCH |
LISA |
Lisa Kushell |
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ARCIERI |
LEILA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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ARENBERG |
LEE |
Lee Todd Arenberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ARISON |
AMIR |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ARKIN |
ADAM |
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ARKIN |
ALAN |
Alan Wolf Arkin |
Beatrice Wortis, and David I. Arkin - Ashkenazi Jewish |
in a Jewish family |
ARNEZEDER |
NORA |
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Sephardi Jewish (mother) |
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ARNOLD |
TOM |
Thomas Duane Arnold |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_and_maiden_names |
who had Jewish ancestors named Cohen on his maternal |
ARONOFSKY |
DARREN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ARQUETTE |
DAVID |
David James Arquette |
Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), and Lewis Arquette |
David Arquette's mother was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland.[4] His father was a convert to Islam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis[5][6][7][8] and is thus of partial Welsh descent. Arquette's siblings are actors Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and Patricia Arquette. |
ARQUETTE |
PATRICIA |
mother – Ashkenazi Jewish |
Daughter of Lewis Arquette and Brenda Denaut. |
Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist;[1] and actor Lewis Arquette |
ARQUETTE |
ROSANNA |
Rosanna Lauren Arquette |
Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), and Lewis Arquette |
Arquette's mother was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland |
ARTHUR |
BEATRICE |
Bernice Frankel |
Philip and Rebecca Frankel |
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ARZENEDER |
NORA |
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Her father is Austrian and Catholic, while her mother is an Egyptian Jew and of Sephardic heritage |
ASHCROFT |
PEGGY |
Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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ASHKENAZI |
LIOR |
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Turkish Jewish |
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ASNER |
ED |
Eddie Asner |
Lizzie (née Seliger), a housewife, and Morris David Asner |
Orthodox Jewish family |
ASSAYAS |
OLIVIER |
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Sephardi Jewish (father)-Hungarian, some Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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ASTAIRE |
FRED |
Frederick Austerlitz |
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Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus) and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz (born September 8, 1868 as Friedrich Emanuel Austerlitz).Astaire's mother was born in the United States to Lutheran German immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace, while Astaire's father was born in Linz, Austria, to Jewish parents |
ASTIN |
ALI |
Alexandra Louise Astin |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Irish, German, English |
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ASTIN |
SEAN |
Sean Patrick Duke |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ATAMANUIK |
ANTHONY |
Anthony Lawrence Atamanuik |
Ukrainian, Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ATIAS |
MORAN |
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Moroccan Jewish |
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ATIKA |
AURE |
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Sephardi Jewish (mother) |
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ATKIN |
HARVEY |
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His grandfather, an immigrant from Russia |
ATTAL |
YVAN |
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French-Algerian Jewish parents |
ATTELL |
DAVE |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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ATTIAS |
CECILIA |
Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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AUMONT |
JEAN PIERRE |
Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons |
Alexandre Salomons, and Suzanne Cahen |
His father, whose family came from Holland, was Jewish and his mother also came from a Jewish family |
AUSTER |
SOPHIE |
Sophie Hustvedt Auster |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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AUSTIN |
ABRAMS |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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AVALON |
WHITNEY |
Whitney Sara Cohen |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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AVITAL |
MILI |
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Noni and Iko Avital |
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AZARIA |
HANK |
Hank Albert Azaria |
Sephardi Jewish |
the son of Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jewish parents from Thessaloniki, |
BACALL |
LAUREN |
Betty Joan Perske |
Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, and William Perske |
Jewish immigrants, their families having come from France, Poland, Romania and Germany |
BACH |
BARBARA |
Barbara Goldbach |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
the daughter of Marjorie and Howard I. Goldbach (1922–2001), a policeman. Her mother is Irish Catholic, while her father was Jewish (from a family from Germany, Austria, and Romania) |
BACHARACH |
BURT |
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Irma (née Freeman) and Bert Bacharach, |
of German Jewish descent |
BADDIEL |
DAVID |
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BADIE |
MINA |
Mina A. Badiyi |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BAIN |
BARBARA |
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BAITZ |
HJON ROBIN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BAKER |
CAROLL |
Karolina Piekarski |
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BALABAN |
BOB |
Robert Elmer Balaban |
Eleanor (née Pottasch) and Elmer Balaban |
He is Jewish,with his paternal grandparents having immigrated from Russia to Chicago |
BALABAN |
LIANE |
Liane Clara Balaban |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BALCON |
JILL |
Jill Angela Henriette Balcon |
Aileen Freda Leatherman (1904–1988) and Michael Balcon |
Her family was Jewish, and originated in Lithuania on her father's side, and Poland on her mother's Balcon attended Roedean. |
BALDONI |
JUSTIN |
Justin Louis Baldoni |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BALFOUR |
ERIC |
Eric Salter Balfour |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BALSAM |
MARTIN |
Martin Henry Balsam |
Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, |
to Jewish parents |
BALSAM |
TALIA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BANKS |
ELIZABETH |
Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell |
Ann and Mark Mitchell |
Banks went through parts of conversion to Judaism, her husband's faith, and studied with rabbis. In 2013, speaking of her religion, she stated that she practices Judaism, though "I did not have my mikveh, so technically I'm not converted", but that she has "been essentially a Jew for like 15 years", adding "Frankly, because I'm already doing everything [practicing religious rituals], I feel like I'm as Jewish as I'm ever going to be" |
BANNER |
JOHN |
Johann Banner |
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Jewish Austrian American actor |
BARA |
THEDA |
Theodosia Burr Goodman |
Bernard Goodman (1853–1936),[1] a prosperous Jewish tailor born in Poland. Her mother, Pauline Louise de Coppett |
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BARASH |
BRANDON |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BARER |
LIBE |
Libe Alexandra Barer |
Ashkenazi Jewish, some Mexican |
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BARINHOLTZ |
IKE |
Isaac Barinholtz |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BARKIN |
ELLEN |
Ellen Rona Barkin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
lower-middle-class Jewish family,a descendant of immigrants from Siberia and the Russia-Poland border |
BARR |
ROSEANNE |
Roseanne Cherie Barr |
Helen (née Davis), Jerome Hershel “Jerry” Barr |
working-class Jewish family |
BARRIE |
BARBARA |
Barbara Ann Berman |
Frances Rose (Boruszak) and Louis Berman |
of Jewish heritage |
BARRY |
GENE |
Eugene Klass |
Eva (née Conn) and Martin Klass |
all of his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia |
BARRYMORE III |
JOHN BLYTH |
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English, Irish, German (father) - *Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BARTHA |
JUSTIN |
Justin Lee Bartha |
Stephen, is a real estate developer, while his mother, Betty |
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BARTILSON |
LYNSEY |
Lynsey Marie Bartilson |
50% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BARUCHEL |
JAY |
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His paternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew |
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BARZILAI |
NETTA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, Mizrahi Jewish |
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BASCHE |
DAVID ALAN |
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BASIS |
AUSTIN |
Austin Lee Basis |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BASS |
ALFIE |
Abraham Basalinksy |
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BASS |
JON |
Jonathan Arthur Bass |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BATINKOFF |
RANDALL |
Randall Matthew Batinkoff |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BAUER |
STEVEN |
Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson |
uban [Spanish, possibly other], as well as one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish and 1/32 Italian |
Bauer's maternal grandparents were Jewish refugees from Germany |
BAUMBACH |
NOAH |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BAY |
FRANCES |
Frances Evelyn Goffman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BEAN |
SHOSHANA |
Shoshana Elise Bean |
Ashkenazi Jewish, English, at least 1/16th Irish (father)-Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (mother) |
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BEART |
EMMANUELLE |
Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson |
Geneviève Galéa, a former model, and Guy Béart |
Beart's mother is of Greek Maltese and Croatian descent,and her father is from a Jewish family- of Spanish, Swiss, and Russian ancestry. |
BEATRIZ |
STEPHANIE |
Stephanie Beatriz Bischoff Alvizuri |
Colombian [German, 1/4 Sephardi Jewish, Dutch, Spanish, Basque, possibly other] (father) |
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BECK |
JULIAN |
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Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck |
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BECKHAM |
DAVID |
David Robert Joseph Beckham |
25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BEER |
MADISON |
Madison Elle Beer |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BEGA |
LESLIE |
Leslie Rae Bega |
Sephardi Jewish (father)-*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BEHR |
DANIEL |
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Behr is of South African Jewish descent |
BEKER |
JEANNE |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BEL GEDDES |
BARBARA |
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Helen Belle (née Sneider) and stage and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes. |
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BELAFONTE |
GINA |
Gina Deborah Belafonte |
62.5% Jewish [Ashkenazi, some Sephardi] |
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BELAFONTE |
HARRY |
Harold George Belafonete, Jr. |
Sephardi Jewish, African-Jamaican (father) |
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BELAFONTE |
SHARI |
Shari Lynn Belafonte |
African-Jamaican, Dutch Jewish, Irish, Scottish |
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BELFI |
JORDAN |
Jordan Christopher Belfi |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BELL |
CORREA AMY |
Amy Elizabeth Correa |
Puerto Rican, Guatemalan, Japanese, Jewish |
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BELL |
LAKE |
Lake Caroline Siegel Bell[ |
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BELLMAN |
GINA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BELZER |
RICHARD |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
son of Francis and Charles Belzer |
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BENAROYA |
MICHAEL |
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Sephardi Jewish, |
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BENDAVID |
MARC |
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Sephardi Jewish (father) |
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BENDER |
LAWRENCE KIRK |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BENIOFF |
DAVID |
David Friedman |
He is the son of Barbara (Benioff) and Stephen Friedman, who is the former head of Goldman Sachs |
He changed his name in his teens to David Benioff, his mother's maiden name. He is the youngest of three children. His family is of German Jewish descent. |
BENJAMIN |
RICHARD |
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BENNET |
MICHAEL |
Michael Farrand Bennet |
mother – Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BENNY |
JACK |
Benjamin Kubelsky |
Meyer Kubelsky and Emma Sachs Kubelsky |
Meyer was a Jewish saloonkeeper, later to become a haberdasher, who had emigrated to America from Poland.Emma had emigrated from Lithuania |
BENRUBI |
ABRAHAM |
Abraham Rubin/Ruben Hercules Benrubi |
Greek Jewish (paternal grandfather) |
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BENSON |
AMBER |
Amber Nicole Benson |
Edward (a psychiatrist)[1] and Diane Benson-Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
She had a mixed Christian and Jewish upbringing |
BENSON |
ROBBY |
Robin David Segal |
Ann (née Benson), and Jerry Segal |
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BENYAER |
MICHAEL |
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*Sephardi Jewish (father)-*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BERENSON |
MARISA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BERFIELD |
JUSTIN |
Justin Tyler Berfield |
son of Gail Berfield (née Stark) and Eric "Rick" Berfield |
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BERGMAN |
MARY-KAY |
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Her parents were Jewish |
BERKLEY |
ELIZABETH |
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Jere, a gift basket business owner, and Fred Berkley |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
BERKOFF |
STEVEN |
Leslie Steven Berks |
Pauline and Alfred Berks (Berkovitch) |
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BERKUS |
NATE |
Nathan Jay Berkus |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BERLANT |
KATE |
Kate Elizabeth Mendez Berlant |
Jewish (father) |
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BERLE |
MILTON |
Milton Berlinger |
Moses Berlinger, AND Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger |
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BERMAN |
JOHN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish, some Sephardi Jewish |
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BERMAN |
JULIE |
Julie Marie Berman |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Irish, English, Scottish, French-Canadian |
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BERMAN |
SHELLEY |
Sheldon Leonard Berman |
Irene (née Marks) and Nathan Berman |
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BERNARDI |
HERSCHEL |
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BERNHARD |
SANDRA |
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Jeanette and Jerome Bernhard |
Of her Jewish family |
BERNHARDT |
SARAH |
Rosine Bernardt |
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daughter of Julie Bernardt (1821, Amsterdam – 1876, Paris) and an unknown father. Julie was one of six children of an itinerant Jewish spectacle merchant, "vision specialist" and petty criminal, Moritz Baruch Bernardt, and Sara Hirsch (later known as Janetta Hartog; c. 1797–1829) |
BERNSEN |
CORBIN |
Corbin Dean Bernsen |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BERNSTEIN |
CARON |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BERNTHAL |
JON |
Jonathan Edward Bernthal |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BERRY |
MARILOU |
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Sephardi Jewish (father) |
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BESS |
ROUS |
Bess Rous Feinsod |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BESSER |
JOE |
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Morris and Fanny Besser (Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe) |
BESSER |
MATT |
Matthew Gregory Besser |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BETHEL |
WILSON |
Stephen Wilson Bethel |
Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother) |
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BEYER |
TROY |
Troy Yvette Byer |
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African American mother and a Caucasian Jewish father |
BHABHA |
SATYA |
Satya Sorab Bhabha |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BHABIE |
BHAD |
Danielle Bregoli |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BIALIK |
MAYIM |
Mayim Hoya Bialik |
Barbara, a nursery school director, and John Bialik |
Her grandparents emigrated in the late 1930's from Poland and Czechoslovakia/Hungary. Bialik was raised in Reform Judaism |
BIEL |
JESSICA |
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Hungarian Jewish (from her paternal great-grandfather, the origin of her surname), Danish, English, German, and Swiss-German. |
BIERKO |
CRAIG |
Craig Philip Bierko |
Pat and Rex Bierko |
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BIKEL |
THEODORE |
Theodor Meir Bikel |
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BILLARD |
LANI |
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BILLER |
ANNA |
Anna East Biller |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather) |
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BILSON |
RACHEL |
Rachel Sarah Bilson |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BINDER |
MIKE |
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BINGHAM |
MARGOT |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BIRNBAUM |
ROGER |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BISHOP |
JOEY |
Joseph Abraham Gottlieb |
Anna (née Siegel) and Jacob Gottlieb |
Jewish Central European immigrants |
BLACK |
CLAUDIA |
Claudia Lee Black |
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BLACK |
JACK |
Thomas Jacob Black |
Judith (née Cohen),and Thomas William Black |
Black was thus raised as Jewish |
BLACK |
KAREN |
Karen Blanche Ziegler |
Elsie (née Reif), and Norman A. Ziegler |
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BLACK |
LEWIS |
Lewis Niles Black |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLACK |
MICHAEL |
Michael Ian Schwartz |
Jill, a store owner, and Robert Schwartz |
Black is Jewish |
BLAIKLOCK |
MICHAEL |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BLAIR |
SELMA |
Selma Blair Beitner |
Molly Ann, a judge,[2] and Elliot Beitner |
75% Ashkenazi Jewish |
BLAIRE |
AMELIA ROSE |
Amelia Bernardine Belmont-Rosenfield |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLAKE |
MICHAEL |
Blake Michael Rabin |
75% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLANC |
MEL |
Melvin Jerome Blank |
Frederick and Eva Blank |
to Jewish parents, |
BLATT |
MELANIE |
Melanie Ruth Blatt |
Ashkenazi Jewish, French |
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BLEETH |
YASMINE |
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth |
Carina, a model, and Philip Bleeth |
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BLOOM |
BRIAN |
Brian Keith Bloom |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLOOM |
CLAIRE |
Patricia Claire Blumental |
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her maternal grandparents, originally named Griewski, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe |
BLOOM |
RACHEL |
Rachel Leah Bloom |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLOOM |
SCOTT |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLOOMBERG |
MICHAEL |
Michael Rubens Bloomberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLUE |
JONAS |
Guy James Robin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BLUM |
JASON |
Jason Ferus Blum |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BLYDEN |
LARRY |
Ivan Lawrence Blieden |
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BOCHCO |
STEVEN |
Steven Ronald Bochco |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BOCHNER |
HART |
Hart Matthew Bochner |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BOCHNER |
LLOYD |
Lloyd Wolfe Bochner |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BOGDANOVICH |
PETER |
Petar Bogdanović |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BOLONA |
MELISSA |
Melissa Susann Boloña |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Croatian and Czech (mother) |
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BOLOTIN |
MICHAEL |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BOLTON |
MICHAEL |
Michael Bolotin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BONET |
LISA |
Lisa Michelle Bonethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Bonet#endnote_12 |
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BOOKS |
ALBERT |
Albert Lawrence Einstein |
son of Thelma Leeds (née Goodman),Harry Parke (né Einstein), |
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BOONE |
MEGAN |
Megan Whitney Boone |
German, English, some Scottish and Dutch, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BOONE |
RICHARD |
Richard Allen Boone |
Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone |
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BORSTEIN |
ALEX |
Alexandrea G. Borstein |
Judy and Irving Borstein - Ashkenazi Jewish |
She was raised in a Jewish family[3][4] with roots in Germany, Hungary, Angola, Poland, Mongolia, and Russia |
BOSLEY |
TOM |
Thomas Edward Bosley |
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he is Jewish |
BOUCHARD |
LOREN |
Loren Hal Bouchard |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BOURDAIN |
ANTHONY |
Anthony Michael Bourdain |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BOURRET |
CAPRICE |
Caprice Valerie Bourret |
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parents of French and Jewish ancestry. Dale Bourret and Valerie Pion |
BOWEN |
MICHAEL |
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mother – Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, German, Swiss-German |
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BOWMAN |
JOSH |
Joshua Tobias Bowman |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BOYCE |
CAMERON |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BRAFF |
ZACH |
Zachary Israel Braff |
Hal Braff, and Anne Brodzinsky, |
a Jewish family |
BRAGG |
JOEY |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BRANDON |
MICHAEL |
Michael Feldman |
Miriam (née Tumen) and Sol Feldman |
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BRATMAN |
MAX |
Max Liron Bratman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BRAUN |
TAMARA |
Tamara Eve Braun |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BREITBART |
ANDREW |
Andrew James Breitbart |
raised Jewish |
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BRENER |
JOSH |
Joshua Max Brener |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BRESLIN |
ABIGAIL |
Abigail Kathleen Breslin |
25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BRESLIN |
SPENCER |
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25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BRESSACK |
JAMES CULLEN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BRESSLAW |
BERNARD |
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BRIAN |
GEORGE |
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Brie's mother is Jewish |
Baghdadi Jewish parents who had immigrated to Israel from India |
BRIDGES |
JORDAN |
Jordan Philip Bridges |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Austrian (mother) |
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BRIE |
ALISON |
Alison Brie Schermerhorn |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BRITT |
MAY |
Maybritt Wilkens |
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BRODERICK |
MATTHIEW |
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Patricia (née Biow), and James Wilke Broderick |
Broderick's mother was Jewish, and his father a Catholic of Irish descent |
BRODY |
ADAM |
Adam Jared Brody |
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Jewish parents Valerie (née Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Brody, |
BRODY |
ADRIEN |
Adrien Nicholas Brody |
Sylvia Plachy, a photojournalist, and Elliot Brody-75% Ashkenazi Jewish |
Brody's father is of Polish-Jewish descent, and Brody's mother was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Catholic father and Jewish mother |
BRON |
ELEANOR |
Bronstein |
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BRONFMAN |
HANNAH |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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BROOKS |
JAMES |
James Lawrence Brooks |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BROOKS |
MEL |
Melvin Kaminsky |
Kate (née Brookman), and Maximilian Kaminsky |
his family are Jewish; his maternal grandparents immigrated from outside Kiev and his paternal family was from Danzig in the German Empire |
BROWN |
DANIEL JONATHAN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BROWN |
SARAH |
Sarah Joy Brown |
David and Pamela Brown |
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BRUCE |
LENNY |
Leonard Alfred Schneider |
Sally Marr (née Sadie Kitchenberg |
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BUCATINSKY |
DAN |
Daniel R. Bucatinsky |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BULLOCK |
SANDRA |
Sandra Annette Bullock |
Helga D. Meyer, a German and John W. Bullock |
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BURCH |
TORY |
Tory Robinson |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BURKE |
BROOKE |
Brooke Lisa Burke |
Donna and George Burke |
Her mother is Jewish and she identifies herself as Jewish;She is also of Irish, French, and Portuguese ancestry. |
BURNET |
GUY |
Guy Daniel Wain-Burnet |
Israeli Jewish, Libyan Jewish, Italian Jewish (mother) |
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BURNS |
GEORGE |
Nathan Birnbaum |
Louis and Dorothy (Bluth) Birnbaum |
His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but did not work very often |
BURTON |
STEVE |
John Stephen Burton |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BUSH |
SHOSHANA |
Shoshana Gloriella Bush |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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BUTAN |
MARC |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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BUTLER |
JERRY |
Paul David Siederman |
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BUTTONS |
RED |
Aaron Chwatt |
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Jewish immigrants. |
BYNES |
AMANDA |
Amanda Laura Bynes |
Lynn (née Organ),and Rick Bynes - Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
Bynes's father is Catholic Her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family |
CAAN |
JAMES |
James Edmund Caan |
son of Sophie and Arthur Caan |
Jewish refugees from Germany |
CAAN |
SCOTT |
Scott Andrew Caan |
son of actor James Caan and Sheila Ryan-Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CABOT |
SUSAN |
Harriet Shapiro |
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Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, |
CAESAR |
SID |
Isaac Sidney Caesar |
Ida (née Raphael) and Max Caesar |
Jewish immigrants |
CALLIS |
JAMES |
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Callis is Jewish,[2] the descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland |
CALVANO |
SADIE |
Sadie Amara Calvano |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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CAMPBELL |
NEVE |
Neve Adrianne Campbell |
Marnie (née Neve), Gerry Campbell |
Campbell is Roman Catholic, but also identifies as Jewish because of her mother's Sephardic Jewish ancestry |
CAMPOS |
ANTONIO |
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Brazilian [Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] (father) |
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CANNON |
DYAN |
Samile Diane Friesen |
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to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother |
CANTERBURY |
CHANDLER |
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English, German, Irish or Scottish, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CANTOR |
EDDIE |
Edward Israel Iskowitz |
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son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Meta and Mechel Iskowitz |
CAPOTONDI |
CRISTIANA |
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Italian, as well as Jewish (maternal grandfather) |
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CAPSHAW |
KATE |
Kathleen Sue Nail |
Beverley Sue (née Simon), and Edwin Leon Nail |
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CARDEN |
D’ARCY |
Darcy Beth Erokan |
German, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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CARLISLE |
KITTY |
Catherine Conn |
father, Dr. Joseph Conn, was a gynecologist who died when she was 10. Her mother, Hortense Holtzman Conn |
German Jewish heritage. |
CARMEL |
EDDIE |
Edward Carmeli |
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to Jewish immigrants Itzack and Miriam Carmel. |
CARRADINE |
Ever Dawn |
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*father – English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, Swiss-German, distant Irish and Dutch |
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CARRADINE |
Sorel Johannah |
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Polish (maternal grandmother), German, English, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/16th Danish, small amounts of Swiss-German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Irish, and Dutch |
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CARTER |
HELENA BONHAM |
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Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist. Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter |
Eduardo Propper de Callejón, was of half Spanish and half Jewish ancestry |
CARTER |
NELL |
Nell Ruth Hardy |
Horace and Edna Mae Hardy |
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CARTERIS [ΚΑΡΤΕΡΗΣ] |
GABRIELLE |
Gabrielle Anne Carteris |
Marlene, a realtor, and Ernest Carteris |
Carteris is Jewish |
CASELLA |
MAX |
Maximilian J. Deitch |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CASH |
AYA |
Aya Rachel Cash |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CASPE |
DAVID |
David Herbert Caspe |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CASSEL |
SEYMOUR |
Seymour Joseph Cassel |
Pancretia Ann (née Kearney) and Seymour Joseph Cassel |
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CATES |
PHOEBE |
Phoebe Belle Cates |
Joseph Cates (originally Katz) |
Her maternal grandfather was of Chinese/Filipino descent, and her father as well as her maternal grandmother were of Russian Jewish origin.[ |
CHAFFIN |
JESSICA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CHAIKIN |
CARLY |
Carly Hannah Chaikin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CHALAMET |
TIMOTHEE |
Timothée Hal Chalamet |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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CHAMUEL |
MICHELLE |
Michelle Jacqueline Chamuel |
Egyptian Jewish |
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CHAPLIN |
ORSON |
Orson Belisario M. Chaplin Salkind |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican (father) |
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CHARLES |
JOSH |
Joshua Aaron Charles |
Allan Charles, an advertising executive, and Laura |
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CHARVET |
DAVID |
David Franck Guez |
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Charvet's father is the Tunisian-born Jewish businessman Paul Guez.[1] David Charvet's mother, Christiane Charvet, is French |
CHASE |
SARA |
Sara Elizabeth Chase |
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CHOLODENKO |
LISA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CHRIQUI |
EMMANUELLE |
Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui |
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the daughter of Moroccan Jewish immigrants. Her mother was born in Casablanca and her father in Rabat.Chriqui has relatives in Israel and her family practiced Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardic tradition |
CHUNG |
CONNIE |
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung |
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Connie is married to Jewish television presenter Maury Povich. She converted to Judaism upon their marriage |
CIPES |
CREG |
Gregory Michael Cipes |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CLARE |
CASSANDRA |
Judith A. Rumelt |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CLARK |
BOB |
Benjamin Clark |
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CLARKSON |
PATRICIA |
Patricia Davies Clarkson |
1/8th Basque, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish (matrilineal), as well as German, English, French/Cajun, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote Dutch |
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CLARY |
ROBERT |
Robert Max Widerman |
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Jewish heritage |
CLAY |
ANDREW CLAY |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CLAYBURGH |
JILL |
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Julia (née Dorr), and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh |
Clayburgh's family was Jewish and upper class |
CLIFTON |
SCOTT |
Scott Clifton Snyder |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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COBB |
LEE |
Leon Jacob |
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Jewish family in New York City, |
COBRIN |
ALI |
Alexandra Alrey Cobrin |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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COEN |
JOEL & ETHAN |
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Edward and Rena Coen |
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COGHLAN |
MADELEINE |
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Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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COHEN |
ANDY |
Andrew Joseph Cohen |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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COHEN |
MATT |
Matthew Joseph Cohen |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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COHEN |
SARA BARON |
Sacha Noam Baron |
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Jewish family.[3] His mother was born in Israel while his father was originally from Wales.[4] Baron Cohen's paternal grandfather was born in Pontypridd, Wales, and his maternal grandmother, who now lives in Haifa, Israel, was a ballet dancer originally from Germany |
COHEN |
SCOTT |
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Leatrice, a teacher, and Jack Cohen, |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
COHN |
MINDY |
Melinda Heather Cohn |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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COLEMAN |
BOBBY |
Robert Moorhouse Coleman III |
English, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8th Irish, 1/16th German, small amounts of Scottish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish |
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COLEMAN |
KELEN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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COLLINS |
DEAN |
Dean Richard Collins |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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COLLINS |
JOAN |
Joan Henrietta Collins |
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Collins' South African-born father was Jewish and her British mother was Anglican |
COLLINS |
LILY |
Lily Jane Collins |
75% mix of English, and small amount of German-25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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COLLINS |
MICHELLE |
Michelle Danielle Collins |
English, Welsh, Ashkenazi Jewish |
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COLLINS |
MISHA |
Dmitri Tippens Krushnic |
paternal great-grandfather was from a Jewish family (from Russia and Hungary) |
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CONDUNER |
ALLAN |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CONN |
DIDI |
Edith Bernstein |
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CONNELLY |
JENNIFER |
Jennifer Lynn Connelly |
Ilene, an antiques dealer, and Gerard Connelly |
Connelly's father was of Irish Catholic and Norwegian descent, and Connelly's mother was Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Russia and Polandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Connelly#cite_note-2 |
CONNICK |
HARRY JR |
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. |
son of Harry Connick, Sr., and Anita (née Livingston) |
Connick, Jr.'s father is Irish American, and Connick, Jr.'s mother, who died in 1981, was Jewish |
CONRAD |
ROBERT |
Konrad Robert Falkowski |
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CONRIED |
HANS |
Hans Georg Conried, Jr |
Edith Beyr (née Gildersleeve), was a descendant of Pilgrims, and his father, Hans Georg Conried, Sr |
a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, Austria |
COOPER |
OLIVER |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CORBETT |
JOHN |
John Joseph Corbett |
mother – Lithuanian, Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CORDUNER |
ALAN |
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Corduner is gay and Jewish |
his mother was from Berlin, Germany, and his father was of Finnish - Russian ancestry |
CORMAN |
ROGER |
Roger William Corman |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CORTEZ |
RICARDO |
Jacob Krantz |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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COSTA |
ANTONY |
Antony Daniel Costa |
Greek Cypriot (father) - Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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COSTANZO |
PAULO |
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COULSON |
CATHERINE |
Catherine Elizabeth Coulson |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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COURIC |
KATIE |
Katherine Anne Couric |
Elinor Tullie (née Hene),john Martin Couric Jr |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
COYOTE |
PETER |
Robert Peter Cohon |
Ruth (née Fidler) and Morris Cohon |
His father was of Sephardic Jewish descent and his mother came from a working-class Ashkenazi Jewish family. Her father, trained as a rabbi in Russia |
CRANE |
KARA |
Kara Taylor Crane |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CRANSTON |
BRYAN |
Bryan Lee Cranston |
12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CRESKOFF |
REBECCA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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CROSS |
DAVID |
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CRUICKSHANK |
JESSI |
Jessica Shaia/Sarah Cruickshank |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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CRYSTAL |
BILLY |
William Edward Crystal |
of Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal |
Crystal grew up in a Jewish family that he has described as "large" and "loving" |
CUDLITZ |
MICHAEL |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CUKOR |
GEORGE |
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Hungarian-Jewish descent |
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CURNEN |
MONIQUE GABRIELA |
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Irish, Ashkenazi Jewish |
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CURTIS |
JAMIE LEE |
|
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh-Ashkenazi Jewish |
Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants |
CURTIS |
TONY |
Bernard Schwartz |
Emanuel Schwartz and his wife Helen Klein-Ashkenazi Jewish |
His parents were Jewish immigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary |
CUSE |
CARLTON |
Arthur Carlton Cuse |
German [including Baltic and Alsatian], one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, distant French |
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D’ELIA BLACK |
SOFIA |
Sofia Joelle Black D’Elia |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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DA SILVA |
HOWARD |
Howard Silverblatt |
son of Benjamin and Bertha Silverblatt |
His parents were both Yiddish speaking Jews born in Russia |
DAIMONT |
DON |
Donald Feinberg |
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DAMON |
STUART |
Stuart Michael Zonis |
Eva (née Sherer) and Marvin Leonard Zonis |
His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants |
DANGERFIELD |
RODNEY |
Jacob Cohen |
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Jewish parents, His ancestors came to the United States from Hungary |
DANIELS |
ERIN |
Erin Cohen |
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She grew up in a Jewish family |
DANIELS |
JEFF |
Jeffrey Warren Daniels |
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DANIELS |
SPENCER |
Spencer Eli Daniels |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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DASSIN |
JULES |
Julius Dassin |
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Russian-Jewish barber in Middletown, Connecticut |
DAVID |
LARRY |
Lawrence Gene David |
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Jewish American family |
DAVIDSON |
AMY |
Amy Elise Davidson |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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DAVIS |
JASON |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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DAVIS |
SAMMY JR |
Samuel George Davis, Jr. |
Elvera Sanchez (1905-2000),and Sammy Davis, Sr. (1900-1988), an African-American |
Sammy Davis, Jr. converted to Judaism in 1961. He was a practicing Jew. |
DAY |
MIKEY |
Michael William Day |
English, Scottish, Irish, German, as well as 1/1024 Sephardi Jewish |
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DAY-LEWIS |
DANIEL |
Daniel Michael Blake |
Jill Balcon and the Irish born Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis |
His mother was of Baltic Jewish descent |
DE LUCA |
MICHAEL |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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DEARDEN |
TAYLOR |
Taylor Dearden Cranston |
English, German, Irish/Northern Irish, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish, small amounts of Scottish and Swiss-German |
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DELLAL |
ALICE |
|
Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
DENCIK |
DAVID |
Karl David Sebastian Dencik |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
DENNINGS |
KAT |
Katherine Victoria Litwack |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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DEUTCH |
HOWARD |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
DEUTCH |
ZOEY |
Zoey Francis Thompson Deutch |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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DEVLIN |
DEAN |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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His father was Jewish and his mother Filipino |
DIAMOND |
DUSTIN |
Dustin Neil Diamond |
son of Mark Diamond, an actor |
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DIAMOND |
NEIL |
Neil Leslie Diamond |
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Jewish family descended from Russian and Polish immigrants |
DIAMONT |
DON |
Donald Feinberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
DIGGS |
DAVEED |
Daveed Daniele Diggs |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
DIPERSIA |
ALEXANDER |
Alexander John DiPersia |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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DOBKIN |
DAVID |
David Lawrence Dobkin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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DOHAN |
MEITAL |
|
|
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DONEGER |
MICHAEL |
Michael L. Doneger |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
DONNER |
RICHARD |
Richard Donald Schwartzberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
DONOVAN |
JASON |
|
English, some Irish, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish, at least 1/32 Scottish |
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DOUGLAS |
CAMERON |
Cameron Morrell Douglas |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Swiss, French, English, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Scottish, Belgian |
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DOUGLAS |
GEORGE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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DOUGLAS |
ILLEANA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish, English, German, Scottish (father) |
|
DOUGLAS |
JERRY |
Gerald Rubenstein |
Ashkenazi Jewish, English, German, Scottish |
to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe |
DOUGLAS |
KIRK |
Issur Danielovitch Demsky |
Jacob Danielovitch, and Bryna, from Russia |
"the ragman's son" of Russian-Jewish ancestry |
DOUGLAS |
MELVYN |
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
DOUGLAS |
MICHAEL |
Michael Kirk Douglas |
Kirk & Diandra |
Is of Russian-Jewish, Scottish, and Irish heritage. |
DOVER |
BETH |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
DOWNEY Jr. |
ROBERT |
Ashkenazi Jewish (three eighths), as well as English, |
Elsie (née Ford) |
His father is of half Russian Jewish and half Irish ancestry, and his mother is of German and Scottish descent. |
DOWNEY Sg |
ROBERT-IOHN |
Robert Elias |
Betty McLoughlin |
Robert Elias, was the son of Russian Jewish parents, and his mother, cover girl Betty McLoughlin, was of Irish Catholic descent |
DOYLE |
AARYN |
Élan Doyle |
Irish, Jewish, African-Caribbean |
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DRAI |
VICTOR |
|
Moroccan Jewish |
|
DRATCH |
RACHEL |
Rachel Susan Dratch |
Elaine, a transportation director, and Paul Dratch |
|
DRESCHER |
FRAN |
Francine Joy Drescher |
Sylvia, a bridal consultant, and Mort Drescher |
Fran_Drescher#cite_note-0 Her Ashkenazi Jewish family is of Eastern European origin (her great-grandmother was born in Focşani, Romania) |
DREXLER |
JORGE |
Jorge Abner Drexler Prada |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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DREYFUS |
JULIE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
DREYFUS |
LOUIS JULIA |
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), German, Mexican, English, French, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish |
|
DREYFUS |
RICHARD |
Richard Stephen Dreyfus |
son of Norman, an attorney and restaurateur, and Geraldine, |
Yiddish origin, believed to originate in the German city of Trier |
DRIVER |
MINNIE |
Amelia Fiona J. Driver |
Gaynor Churchward (Millington), e Ronnie Driver |
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DRUCKER |
JASON |
Jason Ian Drucker |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
DUCHOVNY |
DAVID |
David William Duchovny |
Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram Ducovny |
David Duchovny's paternal grandparents were Russian Jews and his mother is a Lutheran immigrant from Scotland |
DYE |
JEFF |
Jeffrey Alden Dye |
French-Canadian, German, Spanish, Jewish |
|
DYLAN |
BOB |
Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham |
Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice "Beatty" Stone |
His paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire His mother's grandparents, Benjamin and Lybba Edelstein, were Lithuanian Jews arrived in the United States in 1902 |
EASTWOOD |
FRANCESCA |
Francesca Ruth Eastwood |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Norwegian |
|
ECKHART |
AARON |
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EDELMAN |
EZRA |
Ezra Benjamin Edelman |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
EDELSTEIN |
LISA |
|
Alvin and Bonnie Edelstein-Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EFIRA |
VIRGINIE |
|
Belgian (Flemish), Greek Jewish, possibly other |
|
EFRON |
ZAC |
Zachary David Alexander |
Ashkenazi Jewish (grandfather) |
His surname, "Efron" (אפרון), is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, taken from a Biblical place name.[7][8] Zac has described himself as Jewish |
EGGOLD |
RYAN |
Ryan James Eggold |
Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother) |
|
EHRENREICH |
ALDEN |
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich |
87.5% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EHRICH |
MAX |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EICHNER |
BILLY |
William R. Eichner |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EIGENBERG |
DAVID |
|
Beverly, owns pre-schools, and his father, Harry Eigenberg |
Eigenberg's father was Jewish, though Eigenberg was raised in his mother's Episcopalian religion |
EINHORN |
TREVOR |
Trevor Elias Einhorn |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EINSTEIN |
BOB |
|
Harry Parke and Thelma Leeds |
|
EISENBERG |
HALLIE KATE |
Hallie Kate Eisenberg |
Amy, who worked as a clown, and Barry Eisenberg |
His family is Jewish |
EISENBERG |
JESSE |
Jesse Adam Eisenberg |
Amy, who worked as a clown, and Barry Eisenberg |
His family is Jewish |
EISENSTEIN |
SERGEI |
Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein |
|
Eisenstein's father Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein was of German-Jewish and Swedish[citation needed] descent[1] and his mother, Julia Ivanovna Konetskaya, was from a Russian Orthodox family |
EISNER |
BRECK |
Michael Breckenridge Eisner |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
ELFMAN |
DANNY |
Daniel Robert Elfman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
ELFMAN |
RICHARD |
|
|
|
ELLIN |
DOUG |
Douglas Reed Ellin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
ELMALECH |
GAD |
|
Moroccan Jewish |
|
ELMAN |
JAMIE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
ELSA |
|
Elsa Lunghini |
French, Sephardi Jewish, Spanish (mother) |
|
ELTON |
BEN |
|
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EMMERICH |
NOAH |
Noah Nicholas Emmerich |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
ENGELSON |
TREVOR |
Trevor Jed Engelson |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
ENGLUND |
ANABEL |
|
English, Scottish, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/16th Bohemian [Czech] |
|
ENTIN |
EDMUND |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EPHRAIM |
MOLLY |
Molly Z. Ephraim |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EPHRON |
NORA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
EPSTEIN |
KALAMA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
ERIN |
HARLEY |
Hayley Erin Feil |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
ESKENAZY |
ALBERTO |
ΑΛΜΠΕΡΤΟΣ ΕΣΚΕΝΑΖΥ |
|
is a Greek actor of Jewish descent |
ESKENAZY |
ROZA |
Sarah Skenazi – ΣΑΡΑ ΕΣΚΕΝΑΖΥ |
|
Roza Eskenazi was of Sephardi Jewish origin. |
ESPSTEIN |
KALAMA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
ESSMAN |
SUSI |
Susan Essman |
|
Born in Manhattan to a Jewish family |
ESTERMAN |
LAURA |
|
of Sophie (née Milgram) and Benjamin Esterman |
|
ESTES |
JACOB AARON |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
ETTINGER |
PHILIP |
Philip M. Ettinger |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FAIRBANKS |
DOUGLAS |
Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr. |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), English, Scottish |
|
FALCHUK |
BRAD |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FALDINI |
FRANCA |
|
Figlia unica, nacque in una famiglia ebrea della borghesia romana che fuggì in Toscana all'introduzione delle leggi razziali |
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FALK |
PETER |
Peter Michael Falk |
|
Falk was the son of Jewish parents,His mother was Russian and his father was Polish, and of Hungarian and Czech descent |
FANDERA |
OKSANA |
Oksana Olegovna Fandera |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
FARROW |
RONAN |
Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
FAVREAU |
JON |
Jonathan Kolia |
|
Favreau's mother was Jewish and his father was Catholic and of Italian and distant French-Canadian ancestry |
FAXON |
NAT |
Nathaniel Wales Faxon |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
FEHR |
ODED |
|
|
to Jewish parents |
FEIG |
PAUL |
Paul Samuel Feig |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FELD |
FRITZ |
Fritz Feilchenfeld |
|
|
FELDMAN |
COREY |
Corey Scott Feldman |
Sheila (née Goldstein), and Bob Feldman |
|
FELDMAN |
MARTY |
Martin Alan Feldman |
|
son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev |
FELDSHUH |
TOVAH |
Terri Sue Feldshuh |
Lillian (née Kaplan) and Sidney Feldshuh |
was born to a Jewish family in New York City |
FELDSTEIN |
BEANIE |
Elizabeth Greer Feldstein |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FELL |
NORMAN |
Norman Noah Feld |
|
to a Jewish family |
FELTZ |
VANESSA |
|
mother Valerie (née Ohrenstein) |
middle-class Jewish |
FENTON |
LEONARD |
Leonard Feinstein |
|
His parents were also English , but his ancestral roots lie in Eastern Europe; Riga and Lithuania |
FERNANDEZ |
SHILOH |
Shiloh Thomas Fernandez |
25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FEUERSTEIN |
MARK |
|
|
born in New York City to a Jewish family,[3] lawyer father and a school teacher mother |
FIEGER |
DOUG |
Douglas Lars Fieger |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
FIELDING |
FENELLA |
Fenella Feldman |
|
|
FIERSTEIN |
HARVEY |
Harvey Forbes Fierstein |
Jacqueline Harriet (née Gilbert), and Irving Fierstein |
He is Jewish by birth |
FINE |
LARRY |
Andrew Louis Feinberg |
Joseph Feinberg was of German-Jewish, and mother, Fanny Lieberman |
a Jewish family |
FINKEL |
FYVUSH |
Philip Finkel |
Harry Finkel, from Warsaw, Poland, and Mary, from Minsk |
the third of four sons of Jewish immigrant |
FISCHLER |
PATRICK |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FISHER |
CARRIE |
Caroline Frances Fisher |
Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds |
Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia |
FISHER |
CARRY |
Carrie Frances Fisher |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FISHER |
EDDY |
Edwin John Fisher |
ate (née Winokur) and Joseph Fisher |
Russian-born Jewish immigrants |
FISHER |
ISLA |
Isla Lang Fisher |
|
parents from Bathgate and Stranraer |
FLEDER |
GARY |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FLEISCHER |
RUBEN |
Ruben Samuel Fleischer |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
FLENDER |
RODMAN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FLYNN |
BRANDON |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
FOA |
BARRETT |
|
Italian Jewish (father) |
|
FOGELMAN |
DAN |
Daniel Eric Fogelman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FORD |
GLENN |
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton |
Hannah Wood Mitchell and Newton Ford |
|
FORD |
HARRISON |
|
Dorothy (née Dora Nidelman),Christopher Ford |
His maternal grandparents, Anna Lifschutz and Harry Nidelman, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus |
FORMAN |
MILOS |
Jan Tomáš Forman |
son of Anna (née Svabova), and Rudolf Forman |
his biological father was a Jewish architect |
FORSYTH |
JOHN |
John Lincoln Freund |
Blanche Materson (née Blohm) and Samuel Jeremiah Freund |
|
FOSTER |
BEN |
|
|
Foster is Jewish; his paternal grandmother emigrated from Russia to escape Pogroms |
FOX |
FREDDIE |
Frederick Samson Robert Morice Fox |
English, 1/8th Channel Islander [Jersey], 1/16th Jewish [Ashkenazi and Sephardi], more distant Scottish and Irish |
|
FOX |
LAURENCE |
Laurence Paul Fox |
English, 1/8th Channel Islander [Jersey], 1/16th Jewish [Ashkenazi and Sephardi], more distant Scottish and Irish |
|
FOX |
WILLIAM |
Wilhelm Fried and/or Fuchs |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FRANCO |
JAMES |
James Edward Franco |
Betsy (née Verne), , and Doug Franco |
Franco's father is of Portuguese and Swedish descent[3] and Franco's mother is Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Russia |
FRANKEL |
BETHENNY |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
FRANKEN |
AL |
Alan Stuart Franken |
Phoebe G. Kunst, and Joseph P. Franken |
Franken had a Jewish upbringing |
FRANKLIN |
BONNIE |
Bonnie Gail Franklin |
of Claire (née Hersch) and Samuel Benjamin Franklin |
Franklin has identified her religion as Jewish |
FRANKLIN |
NELSON |
Nelson Leopold Franklin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FREEMAN |
CASSIDY |
Cassidy Bree Freeman |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
FREES |
PAUL |
Solomon Hersh Frees |
|
|
FRESCO |
VICTOR |
Victor Phillip Fresco |
Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
FREY |
LEONARD |
|
|
|
FREY |
SAMI |
Samuel Frey |
|
|
FRIEDLANDER |
JUDAH |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
FRY |
STEPHEN |
Stephen John Fry |
|
|
FRYE |
SOLEIL MOON |
|
Virgil Frye, and Sondra Peluce Londy |
|
FUMUSA |
DOMINIC |
|
He has nine siblings. Dominic is married to actress Ilana Levine and converted to Judaism upon their marriage. |
|
FUNT |
ALLEN |
|
|
|
FURLAN |
MIRA |
|
|
|
FURST |
GRIFF |
Griffith Ethan Feuerstein |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
FURST |
STEPHEN |
Steven Nelson Feuerstein |
|
|
FUTTERMAN |
DANI |
|
|
He was raised in Conservative Judaism and grew up in an "intellectual family" |
GABEL |
SETH |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GABLE |
CLARK JAMES |
|
German, along with 1/8th Hungarian, 1/8th Italian, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Irish, Scottish, Swiss-German, and remote Belgian |
|
GABOR |
EVA |
|
|
|
GABOR |
MAGDA |
Magdolna Gábor |
|
|
GABOR |
ZSA ZSA |
Sári Gábor |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GABRIEL |
ANDREA |
Andrea D. Monkarsh |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GABRIEL |
JOHN |
Jack Arnold Monkarsh |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GABRIEL |
SANDY |
Sandra Cohen |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GADOT |
GAL |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GAINSBOURG |
CHARLOTTE |
Charlotte Lucy Gainsburg |
Jane Birkin and French actor/singer Serge Gainsbourg |
|
GALLAND |
JORDAN |
|
German Jewish, Iraqi Jewish (father) |
|
GALLNER |
KYLE |
Kyle Steven Gallner |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
GALVIN |
NOAH |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GARBER |
VICTOR |
Victor Joseph Garber |
His mother, Hope Garber (née Wolf) |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
GARELIK0 |
DAVID |
David M. Garelik |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GARFIELD |
ALLEN |
Allen Goorwitz |
|
|
GARFIELD |
JOHN |
Jacob Julius Garfinkle |
David and Hannah Garfinkle |
Russian Jewish immigrants |
GARFUNKEL |
ART |
Arthur Ira Garfunkel |
Rose, a housewife, and Jacob "Jack" Garfunkel |
His family was Jewish, with his paternal grandparents having immigrated from Iaşi in Romania, and Garfunkel is the first cousin of pop impresario Lou Pearlman on his mother's side |
GARLIN |
JEFF |
|
|
|
GARNER |
JULIA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GARRETT |
BEAU |
Beau Jesse Garrett |
Belgian Flemish (paternal grandmother), Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather), German, English, Irish |
|
GARRETT |
BRAD |
Bradley Harold Gerstenfeld |
Barbara (née Colton), a homemaker, and Al Gerstenfeld |
|
GARSON |
WILLIE |
William Garson Paszamant |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GASSMAN |
ALESSANDRO |
|
German-Italian-Jewish (father) |
|
GASSMAN |
VITTORIO |
Vittorio Gassmann |
German father, Heinrich Gassmann, and a Pisan Jewish mother, Luisa Ambron |
|
GAVRON |
RAFI |
Raphael Pichey Gavron |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
GEFFEN |
DAVID |
avid Lawrence Geffen |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GELLAR |
SARAH MICHELLE |
|
Rosellen (née Greenfield) ,Arthur Gellar |
Both of her parents were Jewish |
GELMAN |
BRETT |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GELULA |
DYLAN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
GERALD |
MATT |
Matthew Gerald |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GERBER |
KAIA |
Kaia Jordan Gerber |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
GERBER |
RANDE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GERSHON |
GINA |
|
Mickey (née Koppel), , and Stan Gershon, |
Gershon is Jewish |
GERTZ |
JAMI |
Jami Beth Gertz |
|
|
GETTY |
ESTELLE |
Estelle Scher |
Sarah and Charles Scher |
|
GIL |
ENRIQUE |
Enrique Mari Bacay Gil V |
Filipino [Cebuano and Hiligaynon], Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GILBERT |
MELISSA |
Melissa Ellen Gilbert |
|
Paul Gilbert (born Ed MacMahon, he changed his name to Paul Gilbert to get a Screen Actors Guild card) and his wife, dancer and actress Barbara Crane (later Barbara Gilbert, Barbara Abeles, Barbara Gilbert Cowan) |
GILBERT |
SARA |
Sara Rebecca Abeles |
Barbara Crane (née Cowan) and Harold Abeles |
|
GILFORD |
JACK |
Jacob Aaron Gellman |
Sophie "Susksa" (née Jackness),and Aaron Gellman |
His parents were Romanian-born Jewish immigrants |
GILL |
MICHEL |
Michel Racine Gill |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GILMAN |
JARED |
Jared T. Raynor Gilman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GILSIG |
JESSALYN |
|
Clare, a writer and translator, and Toby Gilsig |
Gilsig is Jewish on her father's side and married her husband in a traditional Jewish wedding |
GIORGI |
CAMILA |
|
Italian Jewish |
|
GLADIS |
MICHAEL |
Michael James Gladis |
Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) |
|
GLATTER |
LESLIE LINKA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GLAUDINI |
LOLA |
Lola Luna Glaudini |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GLEASON |
JOANNA |
Joanne Hall |
the daughter of Marilyn (née Plottel) |
|
GLENN |
PAUL MICHAEL |
Paul Manfred Glaser |
son of Dorothy and Samuel Glaser |
Of Jewish heritage |
GLENN |
SCOTT |
Theodore Scott Glenn |
|
|
GLICK |
GIDEON |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GLUCK |
GRIFFIN |
Griffin Alexander Gluck |
Japanese (paternal grandmother), Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Scottish, Irish, Polish |
|
GLUSMAN |
KARL |
Karl Lewis Glusman |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Swedish, German |
|
GODDARD |
PAULETTE |
Marion Pauline Levy |
|
father, Joseph Russell Levy, was Jewish, and her mother, Alta Mae Goddard |
GOGLIA |
JULIETTE |
Juliette Rose Goglia |
English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other (mother) |
|
GOLD |
ELON |
|
|
|
GOLD |
JUDY |
|
|
|
GOLD |
MISSY |
Melissa Fisher |
Joe and Bonnie Fisher |
|
GOLD |
TRACEY |
Tracey Claire Fisher |
|
|
GOLDBERG |
ADAM |
Adam Charles Goldberg |
Donna (née Goebel)[1] and Earl Goldberg |
His father is Jewish and his mother is a Roman Catholic of Irish, French and German descent |
GOLDBERG |
BERNARD |
Bernard Richard Goldberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GOLDBERG |
BILL |
William Scott "Bill" Goldberghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Goldberg#cite_note-oww-0 |
|
|
GOLDBERG |
IDDO |
|
|
|
GOLDBLUM |
JEFF |
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum |
|
His family is Jewish and belonged to an Orthodox synagogue.Goldblum's paternal grandfather, Josef Povartzik (whose surname was changed to Goldblum), emigrated from Minsk, Russian Empire in 1911, and his maternal grandfather, Samuel Louis Temeles, from Złoczów, Austria–Hungary, in 1910. |
GOLDSMAN |
AKIVA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GOLDSMITH |
JONATHAN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GOLDSTEIN |
JENETTE |
Jenette Elise Goldstein |
|
Goldstein is Jewish in real life |
GOLDWYN |
SAMUEL |
Szmuel Gelbfisz |
|
Polish Jewish family |
GOLDWYN |
SAMUEL |
Szmuel Gelbfisz |
|
Goldwyn was born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a Polish Jewish family |
GOLDWYN |
TONY |
Anthony Howard Goldwyn |
Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr |
|
GOMEZ |
IAN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GONZALES |
CHILLY |
Jason Charles Beck |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GOOD |
MEAGAN |
Meagan Monique Good |
My mother’s mother is Jewish and African |
|
GOODMAN |
AMY |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GOODMAN |
HENRY |
|
|
|
GOODWIN |
GENNIFER |
Jennifer Goodwin |
Linda, a Federal Express worker, and Tim Goodwin |
|
GOOR |
DAN |
Daniel Joshua Goor |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GORCEY |
LEO |
Leo Bernard Gorcey |
Son of actor Bernard Gorcey |
|
GORDON |
KEITH |
|
|
He grew up in an atheist Jewish familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gordon#cite_note-1 |
GORDON |
MOLLY |
Molly June Gordon |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GORDON-LEVITT |
JOSEPH |
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt |
His father, Dennis Levitt, Jane Gordon (daughter of director Michael Gordon) |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
GORESHTER |
ISIDORA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GOSSELAAR |
MARK-PAUL |
Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar |
Dutch Jewish, German, Dutch, Indonesian |
|
GOTTFRIED |
GILBERT |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GOULD |
ELLIOTT |
Elliott Goldstein |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
the grandson of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe |
GRADE |
LEW (THE LORD) |
Lev Winogradsky – Lovat |
|
rade was born in Tokmak, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire to Isaak and Olga Winogradsky. In 1912, the Jewish family emigrated to escape Cossack violence and anti-Semitism, from Odessa via Berlin to Brick Lane in Bethnal Green in the East End of London |
GRADE |
TOPHER |
Christopher John Grace |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandmother), English, Irish, possibly other |
|
GRAHN |
NANCY LEE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GRANT |
JENNIFER |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GRANT |
LEE |
Lyova Haskell Rosenthal |
Witia (née Haskell), a teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal |
daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants-daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants Witia (née Haskell), a teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal, a realtor and educator |
GRASER |
ILANA |
Ilana Rose Glazer |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GRAYNOR |
ARI |
Ariel Geltman Graynor |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GRAZER |
BRIAN |
Brian Thomas Grazer |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
GRAZER |
JACK DYLAN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GREEN |
EVA |
Eva Gaëlle Green |
Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of Sephardi Jewish heritage |
Eva's father is of Swedish and French descent. |
GREEN |
SETH |
Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green |
His parents are Barbara (née Gesshel), and Herb Green |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
GREENBERG |
BRYAN |
|
Denny and Carl Greenberg |
Greenberg was raised in Conservative Judaism |
GREENE |
LORNE |
Lyon Himan "Chaim" Green |
Daniel and Dora Green |
Russian Jewish immigrants |
GREENWALD |
ALEX |
Alexander Greenwald Hurst |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GREGORINI |
FRANCESCA |
Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish (mother) |
|
GREY |
ALEX |
Alex Velzy |
|
|
GREY |
JENNIFER |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
Joel Grey and the former actress/singer Jo Wilder. |
GREY |
JOEL |
Joel David Katz |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
Grace and Mickey Katz |
GREY |
ZENA |
Zena Lotus Grey |
Allyson Grey and Alex Grey |
|
GRODENCHIK |
MAX |
|
|
|
GRODIN |
CHARLES |
Charles Grodinsky |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
to Orthodox Jewish parents |
GROSS |
ARYE |
|
Sheri and Joseph Gross |
|
GRUNBERG |
GREG |
Gregory Phillip Grunberg |
|
|
GUEST |
CHRISTOPHER |
Christopher Haden-Guest |
son of Peter Haden-Guest, second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes |
Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia |
GUILLORY |
SIENNA |
Sienna Tiggy Guillory |
Jewish, English, possibly other |
|
GUMBEL |
BRYANT |
Bryant Charles Gumbel |
Louisiana Creole [African, French, approximately 3/32 Ashkenazi Jewish, distant Corsican Italian, possibly English] |
|
GURWITCH |
ANNABELLE |
|
|
|
GUTFELD |
GREG |
Gregory John Gutfeld |
25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
GUTTENBERG |
STEVE |
Steven Robert Guttenberg |
son of Ann Iris (née Newman),and Jerome Stanley Guttenberg |
He had a Jewish upbringing |
GYLLENHAAL |
JACK |
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal |
His father is of partial Swedish heritage and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. |
|
GYLLENHAAL |
MAGGIE |
Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal |
Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (née Achs) |
Her mother is from a Jewish family in New York City |
GYLLENHAAL |
STEPHEN |
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal |
|
|
HACKETT |
BUDDY |
Leonard Hacker |
|
Jewish heritage |
HACKETT |
HESSEMAN |
Howard Michael Mandel II |
|
|
HADDISH |
TIFFANY |
Tiffany Sarac Haddish |
Eritrean-Ethiopian Jewish (father) |
|
HAGEN |
NINA |
Catharina Hagen |
25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HAGMAN |
LARRY |
Larry Martin Hagman |
Mary Martin, Benjamin Jack Hagman |
|
HAIG |
SID |
Sidney Eddy Mosesian |
armenian jewish ? |
|
HAIM |
ALANA |
Alana Mychal Haim |
|
|
HAIM |
COREY |
Corey Ian Haim |
Judy, an Israeli-born computer operator, and Bernie Haim |
Haim is Jewish |
HAIM |
DANIELLE |
Danielle Sari Haim |
|
|
HALL |
DARYLL |
Daryl Franklin Hohl |
Daryl converted to Judaism around 1969 or 1970. |
|
HALL |
MONTY |
Monte Halperin |
Rose (née Rusen) and Maurice Harvey Halperin |
|
HALOP |
BILLY |
William Halop |
|
|
HALPERT |
JOSETTE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HANDELMAN |
MAX |
|
He was raised in a Jewish household |
|
HANDLER |
CHELSEA |
Chelsea Jane Handler |
|
she was raised Jewish by her Mormon mother and Jewish father |
HANDLER |
EVAN |
Evan Elliott Handler |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HANDLESON |
BUDDY |
James K. Handleson |
Irish, Danish, German, English, Greek, Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HANKS |
TOM |
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks |
Amos Mefford Hanks , His mother, Portuguese-American Janet Marylyn Frager |
Now is Ortodosse |
HANNIGAN |
ALYSON |
Alyson Lee Hannigan |
Emilie Posner, a real estate agent, and Al Hannigan |
|
HAPLIN |
LUKE |
|
Helen and Eugene Halpin |
|
HARELIK |
MARK |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HARRIS |
DANIELLE |
Danielle Andrea Harris |
|
Harris is Jewish |
HARRIS |
ESTELLE |
Estelle Nussbaum |
daughter of Anna and Isaac Nussbaum |
|
HARRIS |
JONATHON |
|
|
|
HARRIS |
SAM |
Samuel Benjamin Harris |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
HARRIS |
SAMANTHA |
Samantha Harris Shapiro |
Richard Shapiro, Bonnie Harris Shapiro |
Harris had a Jewish upbringing |
HART |
HANNAH |
Hannah Maud Hart |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HART |
MARY |
Mary Johanna Harum |
|
|
HART |
MELISSA JOAN |
|
12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HARTLEY |
LINDSAY |
indsay Nicole Korman |
62.5% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HARTLEY |
NINA |
Marie Louise Hartman |
|
a Jewish family and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area |
HARVEY |
LAURENCE |
Zvi Mosheh Skikne (Laruschka Mischa Skikne) |
Ber "Boris" and Ella Skikne |
Jewish family in the town of Joniškis, Lithuania |
HAUER-KING |
JONAH |
Jonah Andre Hauer-King |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HAUPTAMAN |
MICAH |
Micah Adam Hauptman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HAUSER |
COLE |
Cole Kenneth Hauser |
Cass Warner, Wings Hauser |
Hauser is of Irish descent on his father's side and Jewish on his mother's |
HAWK |
KALI |
|
African-American, Native American, German Jewish |
|
HAWN |
GOLDIE |
Goldie Jean Hawn |
Laura (née Steinhoff), and Edward Rutledge Hawn-Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
Her father was Presbyterian and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary |
HAY |
SARAH |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
HAZAVICIUS |
MICHEL |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HEARD |
JOHN |
|
His mother was of half Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HEATHERTON |
ERIN |
Erin Heather Bubley |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HECHT |
GINA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HECHT |
JESSICA |
|
|
|
HEDAYA |
DANI |
|
|
Sephardic Jewish family from Syria.[1][2][3] His father immigrated from Aleppo |
HELLER |
BRUNO |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
HENDLER |
STEWART |
Stewart Maxwell Hendler |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
HENDRICKSON |
ELIZABETH |
Elizabeth Courtney Hendrickson |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HERMAN |
PAUL |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HERSHEY |
BARBARA |
Barbara Lynn Herzstein |
|
Her father was Jewish and her mother was an Arkansas-born Presbyterian of Irish descent. |
HERSKOVITZ |
MARSHALL |
Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HERVEY |
JASON |
Jason Robert Hervey |
|
|
HERZBERG |
PAUL |
|
|
|
HESLOV |
GRANT |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HESSEMAN |
HOWARD |
|
|
|
HILL |
JONAH |
|
Hill was raised Jewish |
He is of Russian Jewish descent. |
HILL |
STEVEN |
Solomon Krakovsky |
|
|
HIMELSTEIN |
AARON |
|
|
|
HIRSCH |
EMILE |
Emile Davenport Hirsch |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather) |
|
HIRSCH |
JUDD |
|
son of Sally (née Kitzis) and Joseph Sidney Hirsch |
Hirsch was raised in a Jewish family and his father was an immigrant from Russia |
HITCHENS |
CHRISTOPHER |
Christopher Eric Hitchens |
English, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
HO-SANG |
JOSH |
|
Chilean-Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
HOBERMAN |
DAVID |
David Elliot Hoberman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HOFFMAN |
DUSTIN |
Dustin Lee Hoffman |
Lillian and Harry Hoffman |
Hoffman is from a Jewish family |
HOFFS |
SUSANNA |
Susanna Lee Hoffs |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HOFHEIMER |
CHARLIE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
HOLLANDER |
XAVIERA |
Xaviera DeVries |
|
Dutch Jewish father and a French-German mother |
HOLLIDAY |
JUDY |
Judith Tuvim |
Abe and Helen Tuvim |
Jewish immigrants from Russia. |
HOMME |
JOSH |
Joshua Michael Homme |
25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HORAN |
MONICA |
|
|
|
HOUDINI |
HARRY |
Ehrich Weiss |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
Houdini's father was Rabbi Mayer (Mayo) Samuel Weiss (1829–1892), and his mother was Cecilia Steiner (1841–1913) |
HOUSEMAN |
JOHN |
Jacques Haussmann |
|
son of a British mother of Welsh and Irish descent and an Alsatian-born Jewish |
HOUSER |
DAN |
|
English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HOUSER |
SAM |
|
English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HOWARD |
CURLY |
Jerome Lester Horwitz |
|
of Levite and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry |
HOWARD |
LEO |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
HOWARD |
MOE |
Moses Harry Horwitz |
Solomon Horwitz and Jennie Gorovitz |
of Levite and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry |
HOWARD |
SHEMP |
Samuel Horwitz |
|
of Levite[citation needed] and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry |
HUCK |
LUCIANO |
Luciano Grostein Huck |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish |
|
HUDSON |
KATE |
Kate Garry Hudson |
Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson |
Kate Hudson is of English, Italian, and Hungarian Jewish descent,[5] and was raised in her maternal grandmother's Jewish religion |
HUDSON |
OLIVER |
Oliver Rutledge Hudson |
Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson |
Hudson is of Hungarian, Italian, and Jewish descent |
HUNT |
HELEN |
Helen Elizabeth Hunt |
Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), and Gordon Hunt - 25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
Hunt is of Jewish (from her paternal grandmother)[4] and Methodist background. |
HUNTER |
TAB |
Arthur Andrew Kelm |
|
His father, Charles Kelm, was Jewish and his mother, Gertrude Gelien, a Roman Catholic who later converted to Judaism |
HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY |
ROSIE |
Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley |
37.5% Jewish [Ashkenazi, some Sephardi] |
|
HURD |
GALE ANNE |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HURLEY |
DAMIAN |
Damian Charles Hurley |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Serbian, English, Irish |
|
HURWITZ |
JUSTIN |
Justin Gabriel Hurwitz |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Mizrahi Jewish |
|
HYAMS |
JOHN |
|
father – Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
HYNES |
JESSICA |
Tallulah Jessica Elina Stevenson |
Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) |
|
IGER |
BOB |
Robert Allen Iger |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
INGLESIAS |
JULIO |
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva |
some degree of Sephardi Jewish ancestry on his mother’s side |
son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat which was of Jewish origin |
IRVING – ISRAEL |
AMY |
Amy Davis Irving – Israel |
Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish |
Irving is of Jewish descent on her father's side and has Welsh and Cherokee ancestry on her mother's |
ISAACS |
JASON |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
Jewish parents who later emigrated to Israel |
ISEMAN |
MADISON |
|
English, Scottish, Irish, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, distant French and Dutch |
|
ISEMAN |
MATT |
Matthew Charles Iseman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
IVANIR |
MARK |
Mark Alexandrovich Ivanir |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
IWATA |
TROY |
Alexander Troy Tamasaburo Iwata |
mother – Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JACKSON-COHEN |
OLIVER |
Oliver Mansour Jackson Cohen |
Egyptian Jewish (father) |
|
JACOBS |
ADAM |
Adam Loren Jacobs |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
JACOBS |
MARC |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JACOBSON |
ABBI |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JACOBSON |
NINA |
Nina Rose Jacobson |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JACOBSON |
PETER |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JAMES |
KEVIN |
Kevin George Knipfing |
likely at least partially Jewish (mother) |
|
JAMES |
SID |
Solomon Joel Cohen |
|
to Jewish parents |
JAMIAN |
CHAD |
Chad Jamian Williams |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JANE |
THOMAS |
Thomas Elliott III |
Irish, Scottish, possibly more distant German Jewish and Blackfoot Native American |
|
JANSSEN |
DAVID |
David Harold Meyer |
Edward Meyer and Berniece Graf |
|
JARECKI |
NICHOLAS |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
JAY |
RICHY |
Richard Jay Potash |
His grandfather, Max Katz |
middle class Jewish family |
JAY |
TONY |
|
|
|
JENKINS |
CARTER |
Carter Mark Jenkins |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
JENKINS |
MAXWELL |
|
Welsh, Ashkenazi Jewish, other |
|
JEREMY |
IRON |
Ronald Jeremy |
his father, Arnold, was a physicist and his mother a book editor |
an upper middle-class Jewish family |
JERINS |
STERLING |
|
Latvian, Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JETER |
HANNAH |
Hannah Davis |
German (about five eighths), as well as Ashkenazi Jewish (one eighth), Irish, English, and Scottish |
|
JOBERT |
JOSEPHINE |
|
French, Sephardi Jewish, Spanish (father) |
|
JOBERT |
MARLENE |
|
|
Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria, to a Jewish pied-noir family |
JODOROWSKY |
ALMA |
|
French, as well as Ashkenazi Jewish paternal grandfather |
|
JOHANSSON |
SCARLETT |
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson |
Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-Her mother, Melanie Sloan-Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx |
JOHN |
OLIVIA NEWTON |
|
37.5% Ashkenazi Jewish |
Mother a Jewish family in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) |
JOHNSON |
AARON TAYLOR |
Aaron Perry Johnson |
Irish, English, Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
JOLSON |
AL |
Asa Yoelson |
Moses Reuben Yoelson and his wife Naomi |
Moses Yoelson moved to the United States in 1891, and was able to find a job as a rabbi and cantor at the Talmud Torah Synagogue in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C. |
JON B. |
|
Jonathan David Buck |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
JONES |
CAROLYN |
Carolyn Sue Jones |
Cloe Jeanette (née Southern) and Julius Alfred Jones |
Her body was entombed at Melrose Abbey Memorial Park Cemetery in Anaheim, California, beside her mother. Jones was a convert to Judaism |
JONES |
RASHIDA |
Rashida Leah Jones |
Quincy Jones and his former wife, actress Peggy Lipton |
her mother is Jewish, descended from immigrants from Ireland and Russia |
JONZE |
SPIKE |
Adam Spiegel |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
JORDAN PRICE |
KATEI |
Katrina Amy Alexandria |
|
Her maternal grandmother is Jewish |
JULY |
MIRANDA |
Miranda Jennifer Grossinger |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KAFKA |
FRANZ |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KAHN |
MADELINE |
Madeline Gail Wolfson |
Paula Kahn and Bernard Wolfson |
non-observant Jewish family |
KAIL |
THOMAS |
Thomas M. Kail |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KALEM |
TONI |
|
|
|
KANAN |
SEAN |
Sean Perelman |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father and maternal grandfather) / German and Irish (maternal grandmother; who likely converted to Judaism) |
|
KANE |
CAROL |
Carolyn Laurie Kane |
|
Her family is Jewish, her grandparents having emigrated from Russia |
KAPLAN |
GABE |
|
|
|
KAREN |
JAMES |
James Karnofsky |
son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants |
Mae (née Freed) and Joseph H. Karnofsky |
KARLIN |
MIRIAM |
Miriam Samuels |
|
Orthodox Jew |
KARYO |
TCHEKY |
Baruh Djaki Karyo |
Turkish Jewish (father), Greek (mother) |
|
KASDAN |
JAKE |
Jacob Norman Kasdan |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KASDAN |
LAWRENCE |
Lawrence Edward Kasdan |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KASSOVITZ |
MATHIEU |
|
Chantal Rémy, a film editor, and Peter Kassovitz |
Kassovitz's mother is French and Catholic and his father is a Hungarian Jew |
KATIMS |
JASON |
Jason Alexander Katims |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KATTAN |
CHRIS |
Christopher Lee Kattan |
Kip King (né Jerome C. Kattan), , Hajnalka E. Biro |
His father is of Iraqi Jewish descent and his mother, a native of Budapest, Hungary, is a Buddhist |
KATZ |
OMRIN |
Omri Haim Katz |
Israeli Jewish (Ashkenazi) |
|
KATZENBERG |
JEFFREY |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KAUFMAN |
ANDY |
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman |
Janice (née Bernstein) and Stanley Kaufman |
middle-class Jewish family, in Great Neck, Long Island |
KAUFMAN |
LLOYD |
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr. |
Ruth (née Fried) and Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Sr. |
|
KAUFMANN |
CHARLIE |
Charles Stuart Kaufman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KAVNER |
JULIE |
Julie Deborah Kavner |
of Rose, a family counselor, and David Kavner |
|
KAY |
LESLI |
Lesli Kay Pushkin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KAYE |
DANNY |
David Daniel Kaminsky |
|
Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn |
KAYE |
JUDY |
|
|
|
KAYE |
PAUL |
|
|
Jewish parents |
KAZAN |
LAINIE |
Lanie Levine |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish |
Ashkenazi Jewish father who worked as a bookie and a Sephardic Jewish mother, Carole |
KAZINSKY |
ROBERT |
Robert John Appleby |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KEANAN |
STACI |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KEATON |
JOSH |
Joshua Luis Wiener |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KEITEL |
HARVEY |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
son of Miriam and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland |
KELLER |
RACHEL |
Rachel Rye Keller |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KENIN |
DYLAN |
Dylan Carlos Kenin |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KENNENTY PARKER |
JESSICA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
KENT |
HEATHER PAIGE |
|
|
|
KETAI |
BEN |
Benjamin David Ketai |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KEVIN |
JAMES |
Kevin George Knipfing |
likely at least partially Jewish (mother) |
|
KINBERG |
SIMON |
Simon David Kinberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KIND |
RICHARD |
Richard J. Kind |
son of Alice, a homemaker, and Samuel Kind, a jeweler |
|
KING |
ALAN |
Irwin Alan Kniberg |
Minnie (née Solomon) and Bernard Kniberg |
|
KING |
ELLE |
Tanner Elle Schneider |
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather) |
|
KING |
HUNTER |
Haley Ashley King |
Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly English |
|
KING |
JAIME |
|
remote Sephardi Jewish, |
|
KINGSLEY |
BEN |
Krishna Pandit Bhanji |
Annalyna Mary (née Goodman),and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji |
Russian or German Jew |
KINGSTON |
ALEX |
Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston |
father – English, possibly around 1/16th, or less, Jewish |
|
KINNAMAN |
JOEL |
Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman |
Swedish Jewish (mother) |
|
KIRBY |
JACK |
Jacob Kurtzberg |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KIRKE |
JEMIMA |
Jemima Jo M. Kirke |
Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
KIRSHNER |
MIA |
|
Polish Jewish, Bulgarian Jewish |
|
KISHNER |
MIA |
|
Etti, a teacher, and Sheldon Kirshner |
her father was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946 and met Kirshner's mother, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel |
KITAEN |
TAWNY |
Julie Kitaen |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
a Jewish-American father, Terry Kitaen, who was an employee of a neon sign company, and Linda Taylor Kitaen |
KITE |
JONATHAN |
Jonathan Bernard Kite |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KITSIS |
EDWARD |
Edward Lawrence Kitsis |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KLAPOW |
CHARLES |
Charles Gregory Klapow |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KLAUS-TAYLOR |
BEX |
Rebecca Edison Taylor-Klaus |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KLEIN |
ROBERT |
|
Frieda (née Moskowitz) and Benjamin Kleinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Klein#cite_note-4 |
was raised in a "prototypical 1950s Bronx Jewish" environment |
KLEMPERER |
WERNER |
|
Otto Klemperer and Johanna Geisler |
|
KLINE |
KEVIN |
Kevin Delaney Kline |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KLINE |
RICHARD |
|
|
|
KLINE |
ROBERT |
|
Frieda (née Moskowitz) and Benjamin Klein |
"prototypical 1950s Bronx Jewish" |
KLOSS |
KARLIE |
Karlie Elizabeth Kloss |
convert to Judaism |
|
KLUGMAN |
BRIAN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KLUGMAN |
JACK |
Jacob Joachim Klugman |
|
His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants |
KOENING |
WALTER |
Walter Marvin Koenig |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
is of Russian-Lithuanian and Jewish descent |
KOHAN |
JENJI |
Jennifer Leslie Kohan |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KOHNER |
SUSAN |
Susanna Kohner |
|
Jewish Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia |
KOLINKA |
ROMAN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KOPPEL |
TED |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KORINE |
HARMONY |
|
Jewish - Iranian Jew. |
|
KORMAN |
HARVEY |
Harvey Herschel Korman |
Ellen (née Belcher) and Cyril Raymond Korman |
Russian-Jewish descent |
KOROT |
ALLA |
|
|
orot is Jewish.[1] She is married to a Russian-born Israeli |
KOSARIN |
KIRA |
Kira Nicole Kosarin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KOSINSKI |
JERSY |
Josek Lewinkopf |
|
to Jewish parents in Łódź, Poland |
KOSOVE |
ANDREW |
Andrew Alexander Kosove |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KOSSOFF |
DAVID |
|
|
Russian-Jewish[1] immigrant parents |
KOTERO |
APOLLONIA |
Patricia Kotero |
Mexican, possibly some German Jewish |
|
KOTTO |
YAPHET |
Yaphet Frederick Kotto |
|
Both parents are African Jews |
KOVE |
MARTIN |
|
|
Kove was born in Brooklyn, New York City and had a Jewish upbringing |
KRAMER |
STANLEY |
|
|
|
KRAMER |
STEPHANIE |
|
|
|
KRAUTHAMMER |
CHARLES |
Irving Charles Krauthammer |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KRAVITZ |
LENNY |
Leonard Albert Kravitz |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KRAVITZ |
ZOE |
Zoë Isabella Kravitz |
50% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KRIEGER |
LEE TOLAND |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KRING |
TIM |
Richard Timothy Kring |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
KROKIDAS |
JOHN |
|
*Greek (father)-*Italian (maternal grandfather)-*Jewish (maternal grandmother) |
|
KROLL |
NICK |
Nicholas J. Kroll |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KRUEGER |
STEVEN |
Steven Anthony Krueger |
Romanian, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
KRUMHOLTZ |
DAVID |
|
Judy, a dental assistant, and Michael Krumholtz |
His mother moved from Hungary |
KUBRICK |
STANLEY |
Jacques Leonard Kubrick |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
Jacques Kubrick, whose parents were of Jewish Austro-Hungarian origin |
KUBRICK |
VIVIAN |
Vivian Vanessa Kubrick |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
KUCZYNSKI |
ALEX |
Alexandra Louise Kuczynski |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
KUDISCH |
MARC |
|
|
|
KUDROW |
LISA |
Lisa Valerie Kudrow |
Nedra S. (née Stern), a travel agent, and Dr Lee N. Kudrow |
upper-middle-class Jewish family - Ashkenazi Jewish |
KUNIS |
MILA |
Milena Markovna Kunis |
Elvira AND Mark Kunis |
|
KURTZMAN |
ALEX |
Alexander Hilary Kurtzman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LABEOUF |
SHIA |
Shia Saide LaBeouf |
|
Shia LaBeouf's New York-born mother is Jewish and his father is a Cajun (once described by LaBeouf as a "Ragin' Cajun"). LaBeouf was raised in the Jewish religion and had a Bar Mitzvah |
LADIN |
ERIC |
Eric Stephen Ladin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LAHR |
BERT |
Irving Lahrheim |
|
|
LAKE |
RICKI |
Ricki Pamela Lake |
Jill, a housewife, and Barry Lake |
a Jewish family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York |
LAKIN |
CHRISTINE |
Christine Helen Lakin |
25% Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LAMARR |
HENDY |
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
to Jewish parents Gertrud (née Lichtwitz), a pianist and Budapest native who came from the "Jewish haute bourgeoisie", and Lemberg-born Emil Kiesler, a successful bank director |
LAMBERG |
ADAM |
Adam Lee Lamberg |
|
|
LAMBERT |
ADAM |
Adam Mitchel Lambert |
mother – Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LAMBERT |
CHRISTOPHER |
Christophe Guy Denis Lambert-Lamond |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (father) |
|
LANDAU |
JULIET |
Juliet Rose Landau |
Martin Landau and Barbara Bain |
|
LANDAU |
MARTIN |
Martin James Landau |
son of Selma Buchanan and Morris Landau |
born into a Jewish family |
LANDECKER |
AMY |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), English, German, Scottish, Dutch, Irish |
|
LANDER |
NATALIE |
Natalie Jenette Lander |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LANDER |
RICKI NOEL |
Ricki Ross Noël Lander |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Dutch/Frisian (mother) |
|
LANDIS |
JOHN |
John David Landis |
Shirley Levine (née Magaziner) and Marshall David Landis |
Berfield is Jewish |
LANDIS |
MAX |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LANDON |
CHRISTOPHER |
Christopher Beau Landon |
Ashkenazi Jewish and Irish (father) |
|
LANDON |
JENNIFER |
Jennifer Rachel Landon |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LANDON |
MICHAEL |
Eugene Maurice Orowitz |
Eli Maurice Orowitz, mother, Peggy O'Neill |
His parents were Jewish and Irish Catholic. |
LANG |
STEPHEN |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
|
LANSING |
ROBERT |
Robert Howell Brown |
|
|
LANSING |
SHERRY |
Sherry Lee Heimann |
|
|
LANTOS |
ROBERT |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LARSON |
JACK |
Jack Edward Larson |
|
|
LARUSSO |
|
Laetitia Serero |
Sephardi Jewish |
|
LASSER |
LOUISE |
|
|
Of Jewish heritage |
LATIANO |
JILL |
Jill Anne Latiano |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
|
LAUFER |
JACK |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LAUREN |
RALPH |
Ralph Lifshitz |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LAURENT |
MELANIE |
|
French Jewish [both Ashkenazi and Sephardi] |
She is Jewish, of both Ashkenazi (Polish-Jewish) and Sephardic (Tunisian-Jewish) ancestry |
LAURIE |
PIPER |
Rosetta Jacobs |
Charlotte Sadie Alperin and Alfred Jacobs |
daughter of a Polish immigrant and his Russian-American |
LAVI |
INBAR |
Ramat Gan, Israel |
Polish Jewish (father)-Moroccan Jewish (mother) |
|
LAVIN |
LINDA |
|
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LAWRENCE |
MARC |
Max Goldsmith |
Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith |
|
LAWRENCE |
STEVE |
Sidney Leibowitz |
|
to a Jewish family |
LAWSON |
NIGELLA |
Nigella Lucy Lawson |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LEACHMAN |
CLORIS |
|
|
|
LEE |
MICHELE |
Michelle Lee Dusick |
Sylvia Helen (née Silverstein) and Jack Dusick |
|
LEE |
STAN |
Stanley Martin Lieber |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
|
LEE GIFFORD |
KATHIE |
Kathryn Lee Epstein |
Joan (née Cuttell), a singer, and Aaron Epstein |
Her paternal grandfather was Jewish and her mother was a Methodist |
LEEDS |
ANDREW |
Andrew Harrison Leeds |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LEFEVRE |
RACHELLE |
Rachelle Marie Lefevre |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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LEHMAN |
ERNEST |
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born into a wealthy Jewish Long Island |
LEHR |
JOHN |
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He is Jewish, having converted to Judaism in 2000 |
LEIBMAN |
RON |
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Grace (née Marks) and Murray Leibman |
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LEIBOVITZ |
ANNIE |
Anna-Lou Leibovitz |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LEIFER |
CAROL |
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Anna, a psychologist, and Seymour Leifer, an optometris |
Ashkenazi Jewish family |
LEIGH |
JENNIFER JASON |
Jennifer L. Morrow |
Vic Morrow and Pollock screenwriter Barbara Turner |
Both of Leigh's parents were Jewish, |
LEITCH |
DONOVAN |
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Enid Karl (née Stulberger), a model, and Donovan, |
His father is Scottish and his mother an American of Jewish descent |
LEMBECK |
HARVEY |
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LEMBECK |
MICHAEL |
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LEONARD |
GLORIA |
Gale Klinetsky |
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LERMAN |
LOGAN |
Logan Wade Lerman |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LERNER |
MICHAEL |
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Blanche and George Lerner |
of Romanian Jewish descent |
LESTER |
MARK |
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English, Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LETTERMAN |
DAVID |
David Michael Letterman |
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Harry Joseph Letterman his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering) |
LEVIEVA |
MARGARITA |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LEVIN |
HARVEY |
Harvey Robert Levin |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LEVINE |
ADAM |
Adam Noah Levine |
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Jewish parents Patsy Noah and Fred Levine, |
LEVINE |
ILANA |
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LEVINE |
TED |
Frank Theodore Levine |
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LEVINSON |
BARRY |
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His family is of Russian Jewish descent. |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
LEVINSON |
SAMUEL |
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His family is of Russian Jewish descent. |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
LEVITT |
JOSEPH-GORDON |
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LEVY |
BERNARD-HENRI |
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Sephardi Jewish |
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LEVY |
DANI |
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Levy is Jewish |
LEVY |
EUGENE |
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a Jewish family |
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LEVY |
JANE |
Jane Colburn Levy |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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LEVY |
WILLIAM |
William Levy Gutiérrez |
75% Cuban/Spanish-Cuban-25% Jewish |
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LEWIS |
AL |
Albert Meister |
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Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Lewis_%28actor%29#cite_note-5 |
LEWIS |
DANIEL DAY |
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis |
Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon - Ashkenazi Jewish |
His mother was Jewish, and his maternal grandparents' families had emigrated to Britain from Latvia and Poland. |
LEWIS |
GEOFFREY |
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LEWIS |
JENNY |
Jennifer Diane Lewis |
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LEWIS |
JERRY |
Joseph Levitch |
Daniel Levitch, Danny Lewis,and Rachel ("Rae") Levitch (née Brodsky)-Ashkenazi Jewish |
son of parents of Russian Jewish ancestry |
LEWIS |
JUDAH |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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LEWIS |
JULIETTE |
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LEWIS |
RICHARD |
Richard Philip Lewis |
Ashkenazi Jewish family |
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LEWIS |
SHARI |
Shari Phyllis Hurwitz |
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LIEBERSTEIN |
PAUL |
Paul Bevan Lieberstein |
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LIGHT |
JUDITH |
Judith Ellen Licht |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LINDELOF |
DAMON |
Damon Laurence Lindelof |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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LINDEN |
HAL |
Harold Lipshitz |
Charles Lipshitz and Frances Rosen |
of Jewish parents |
LINDON |
VINCENT |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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LINZ |
ALEX |
Alexander David Linz |
Deborah Baltaxe, an attorney, and Dr. Daniel Linz |
Linz is Jewish |
LIPMAN |
MAUREEN |
Maureen Diane Lipman |
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LIPNICKI |
JONATHAN |
Jonathan William Lipnicki |
Rhonda (née Rosen) and Joseph Lipnicki |
Lipnicki is Jewish;[2][3] his father was born in a refugee camp in Germany |
LIPTON |
JAMES |
Lewis/Louis James Lipton |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LIPTON |
PEGGY |
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Rita Hetty (née Benson), an artist, and Harold Lipton Ashkenazi Jewish |
Russian Jews and her Dublin-born mother was also Jewish, descended from Eastern European immigrants |
LISSAEUR |
TREVOR |
Trevor Ryan Lissauer |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LISTER-JONES |
ZOE |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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LIVINGSTON |
BARRY |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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LIVINGSTON |
NATALIA |
Barry Gordon Livingston |
Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican, possibly Swiss-German and German (maternal grandmother) |
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LLOYD |
CRISTOPHER |
Christopher Allen Lloyd |
Ruth (née Lapham), and Samuel R. Lloyd |
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LLOYD |
DENNIS |
Nir Tibor |
Jewish - Tibor may be Ashkenazi.
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LOEW |
MARCUS |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Born into a poor Jewish family in New York City |
LOM |
HERBERT |
Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich von Schluderbacheru |
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upper-class Jewish parents |
LONDON |
LAUREN |
Lauren Nicole London |
Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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LONG |
GREG |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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LORRE |
PETER |
László Löwenstein |
Alois and Elvira |
a Jewish family in Rózsahegy (Hungarian)/Rosenberg (German), Kingdom of Hungary, part of Austria-Hungary, now Ružomberok, Slovakia |
LOUISE |
TINA |
Tatiana Josivovna Chernova Blacker |
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LOURD |
BILLIE |
Billie Catherine Lourd |
Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) |
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LOVE |
COURTNEY |
Courtney Michelle Harrison |
Linda Carroll, a therapist, and Hank Harrison |
Irish and Jewish ancestry |
LOVITZ |
JON |
Jonathan M. Lovitz |
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LOWES |
KATIE |
Katie Quinn Lowes |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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LUCAS |
MATT |
Matthew Richard Lucas |
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Jewish[1] family, with his British born mother |
LUCAS |
PAUL |
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Ashkenazi Jewish |
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LUMET |
JENNY |
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Ashkenazi Jewish (father) |
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LUNDEN |
JOAN |
Joan Elise Blunden |
of Gladyce Lorraine (née Somervill) and Erle Murray Blunden |
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LUNER |
JAMIE |
Jamie Michelle Luner |
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LYONNE |
NATASHA |
Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein |
Ashkenazi Jewish-Yvette Lyonne, and Aaron Braunstein |
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MAC GRAW |
ALI |
Alice MacGraw |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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MACHT |
GABRIELE |
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Suzanne Victoria Pulier, Stephen Macht |
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MACHT |
STEPHEN |
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MACY |
BILL |
Wolf Marvin Garber |
Mollie (née Friedopfer) and Michael Garber |
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MADDEN |
BENJI |
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Madden began dating actress Cameron Diaz in May 2014. The two were unofficially engaged before[clarification needed] Christmas Day in 2014 and were spontaneously married on 5 January 2015,[12] in a Jewish ceremony, at their Beverly Hills home |
MAEVE |
STELLA |
Stella Maeve Corman-Johnston |
Ashkenazi Jewish |
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MAGARO |
JOHN |
John Robert Magaro |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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MAHER |
BILL |
William Maher, Jr. |
of Julie (née Berman), a nurse, and William Maher, Sr |
Maher was raised in his Irish American father's Catholic religion and did not find out that his mother was Jewish until his teenage years |
MAISONET |
KAYLA |
Kayla Rose Maisonet |
Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
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MALCO |
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