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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 | |
ABLOW | KEITH | Keith Russell Ablow | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ABOUTBOUL | ALON | Alon Moni Abutbul/Aboutboul | Egyptian Jewish, Algerian Jewish | |
ABRAHAMS | JIM | |||
AD-ROCK | Adam Keefe Horovitz | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
ADAIR | SANDRA | Sandra B. Estrin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ADELSTEIN | PAUL | |||
ADLER | JOE | Joseph Philip Adler | Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian | |
ADLER | LUTHER | Lutha Adler | born to Russian Jewish actors Sara and Jacob P. Adler | |
ADLER PAVLOVICH | JACOB | Yankev P. Adler | 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) | |
AGRON | DIANNA | Dianna Elise Agron | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
AIMEE | ANOUK | Françoise Sorya Dreyfus | Geneviève Sorya (born Durand) and Henri Murray (born Dreyfus) | |
AISENBERG | ALAN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ALADJEM | MACKENZIE | Mackenzie Elizabeth Aladjem | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ALAN | LORI | Lori Alan Denniberg | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
ALAZRAQUI | CARLOS | Carlos Jaime Alazraqui | Argentinian (Spanish, likely some Sephardi Jewish) | |
ALBERTSON | JACK | 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] | |
ALLEN | KEEGAN | Keegan Phillip Franc Allen | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
ALLEN | WOODY | Allen Stewart Konigsberg | Nettie and Martin Konigsberg | family was Jewish and his grandparents were Yiddish- and German-speaking immigrants |
ALMAGOR | GILA | Max Alexandrowitz, a Jewish immigrant from Germany | ||
ALTMAN | BRUCE | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
AMALRIC | MATHIEU | Nicole Zand, and Jacques Amalric | ||
AMES | ED | Edmund Dantes Urick | to Russian Jewish immigrant parents | |
ANCONA | RONNIE | is of Italian Sephardic Jewish origin | ||
ANDERSON | BILLY BROCHO | Max Aronson | Henry and Esther Aronson | Anderson, who was Jewish |
ANDRE | ERIC | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
ANGARANO | MICHAEL | Michael Anthony Angarano | Italian, some Sephardi Jewish | |
ANGELYNE | Ronia Tamar Goldberg | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ANNABLE | DAVID | David Rodman Annable | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
ANNABLE | ODETTE | Odette Juliette Yustman | paternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ANWAR | GABRIELLE | 25% Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
APATOW | JUDD | His family is Jewish | ||
APFEL | IRIS | Iris Barrel | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
APPEL | RICHARD | Richard James Appel | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
APPELMAN | ZACH | Zachary Soglin Appelman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
APPLEBY | NOEL | |||
APPLEBY | SHIRI | Shiri Freda Appleby | Dina (née Bouader), an Israeli-born Hebrew school teacher, and Jerry Appleby, a Jewish-American | |
APPLEMAN | HALE | Hale Isaac Appleman | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
APPLETON | NATALIE | Natalie Jane Appleton | Jewish, English | |
APPLETON | NICOLE | Nicole Marie Appleton | Jewish, English | |
AQUINO | AMY | 75% Italian-*25% Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ARBUS | ALLAN | of Jewish background,[1] the son of Rose (née Goldberg) and Harry Arbus, who was a stock broker | ||
ARCH | LISA | Lisa Kushell | ||
ARCIERI | LEILA | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
ARENBERG | LEE | Lee Todd Arenberg | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ARISON | AMIR | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ARKIN | ADAM | |||
ARKIN | ALAN | Alan Wolf Arkin | Beatrice Wortis, and David I. Arkin - Ashkenazi Jewish | in a Jewish family |
ARNEZEDER | NORA | Sephardi Jewish (mother) | ||
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 | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
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 | |
ARZENEDER | NORA | 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) | |
ASHKENAZI | LIOR | Turkish Jewish | ||
ASNER | ED | Eddie Asner | Lizzie (née Seliger), a housewife, and Morris David Asner | Orthodox Jewish family |
ASSAYAS | OLIVIER | Sephardi Jewish (father)-Hungarian, some Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
ASTAIRE | FRED | Frederick Austerlitz | 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 | |
ASTIN | SEAN | Sean Patrick Duke | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ATAMANUIK | ANTHONY | Anthony Lawrence Atamanuik | Ukrainian, Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ATIAS | MORAN | Moroccan Jewish | ||
ATIKA | AURE | Sephardi Jewish (mother) | ||
ATKIN | HARVEY | His grandfather, an immigrant from Russia | ||
ATTAL | YVAN | French-Algerian Jewish parents | ||
ATTELL | DAVE | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ATTIAS | CECILIA | Cécilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer-Albéniz | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
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) | |
AUSTIN | ABRAMS | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
AVALON | WHITNEY | Whitney Sara Cohen | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
AVITAL | MILI | Noni and Iko Avital | ||
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 | Irma (née Freeman) and Bert Bacharach, | of German Jewish descent | |
BADDIEL | DAVID | |||
BADIE | MINA | Mina A. Badiyi | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BAIN | BARBARA | |||
BAITZ | HJON ROBIN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BAKER | CAROLL | Karolina Piekarski | ||
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) | |
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) | |
BALFOUR | ERIC | Eric Salter Balfour | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BALSAM | MARTIN | Martin Henry Balsam | Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, | to Jewish parents |
BALSAM | TALIA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
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 | 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 | |
BARASH | BRANDON | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BARER | LIBE | Libe Alexandra Barer | Ashkenazi Jewish, some Mexican | |
BARINHOLTZ | IKE | Isaac Barinholtz | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
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 | English, Irish, German (father) - *Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
BARTHA | JUSTIN | Justin Lee Bartha | Stephen, is a real estate developer, while his mother, Betty | |
BARTILSON | LYNSEY | Lynsey Marie Bartilson | 50% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BARUCHEL | JAY | His paternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew | ||
BARZILAI | NETTA | Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, Mizrahi Jewish | ||
BASCHE | DAVID ALAN | |||
BASIS | AUSTIN | Austin Lee Basis | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BASS | ALFIE | Abraham Basalinksy | ||
BASS | JON | Jonathan Arthur Bass | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BATINKOFF | RANDALL | Randall Matthew Batinkoff | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
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 | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
BAY | FRANCES | Frances Evelyn Goffman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BEAN | SHOSHANA | Shoshana Elise Bean | Ashkenazi Jewish, English, at least 1/16th Irish (father)-Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (mother) | |
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) | |
BECK | JULIAN | Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck | ||
BECKHAM | DAVID | David Robert Joseph Beckham | 25% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BEER | MADISON | Madison Elle Beer | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BEGA | LESLIE | Leslie Rae Bega | Sephardi Jewish (father)-*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BEHR | DANIEL | Behr is of South African Jewish descent | ||
BEKER | JEANNE | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BEL GEDDES | BARBARA | Helen Belle (née Sneider) and stage and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes. | ||
BELAFONTE | GINA | Gina Deborah Belafonte | 62.5% Jewish [Ashkenazi, some Sephardi] | |
BELAFONTE | HARRY | Harold George Belafonete, Jr. | Sephardi Jewish, African-Jamaican (father) | |
BELAFONTE | SHARI | Shari Lynn Belafonte | African-Jamaican, Dutch Jewish, Irish, Scottish | |
BELFI | JORDAN | Jordan Christopher Belfi | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BELL | CORREA AMY | Amy Elizabeth Correa | Puerto Rican, Guatemalan, Japanese, Jewish | |
BELL | LAKE | Lake Caroline Siegel Bell[ | ||
BELLMAN | GINA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BELZER | RICHARD | Ashkenazi Jewish | son of Francis and Charles Belzer | |
BENAROYA | MICHAEL | Sephardi Jewish, | ||
BENDAVID | MARC | Sephardi Jewish (father) | ||
BENDER | LAWRENCE KIRK | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
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 | |||
BENNET | MICHAEL | Michael Farrand Bennet | mother – Ashkenazi Jewish | |
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) | |
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 | |
BENYAER | MICHAEL | *Sephardi Jewish (father)-*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
BERENSON | MARISA | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
BERFIELD | JUSTIN | Justin Tyler Berfield | son of Gail Berfield (née Stark) and Eric "Rick" Berfield | |
BERGMAN | MARY-KAY | Her parents were Jewish | ||
BERKLEY | ELIZABETH | Jere, a gift basket business owner, and Fred Berkley | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BERKOFF | STEVEN | Leslie Steven Berks | Pauline and Alfred Berks (Berkovitch) | |
BERKUS | NATE | Nathan Jay Berkus | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BERLANT | KATE | Kate Elizabeth Mendez Berlant | Jewish (father) | |
BERLE | MILTON | Milton Berlinger | Moses Berlinger, AND Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger | |
BERMAN | JOHN | Ashkenazi Jewish, some Sephardi Jewish | ||
BERMAN | JULIE | Julie Marie Berman | Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Irish, English, Scottish, French-Canadian | |
BERMAN | SHELLEY | Sheldon Leonard Berman | Irene (née Marks) and Nathan Berman | |
BERNARDI | HERSCHEL | |||
BERNHARD | SANDRA | Jeanette and Jerome Bernhard | Of her Jewish family | |
BERNHARDT | SARAH | Rosine Bernardt | 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) | |
BERNSTEIN | CARON | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BERNTHAL | JON | Jonathan Edward Bernthal | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BERRY | MARILOU | Sephardi Jewish (father) | ||
BESS | ROUS | Bess Rous Feinsod | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BESSER | JOE | Morris and Fanny Besser (Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe) | ||
BESSER | MATT | Matthew Gregory Besser | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
BETHEL | WILSON | Stephen Wilson Bethel | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother) | |
BEYER | TROY | Troy Yvette Byer | African American mother and a Caucasian Jewish father | |
BHABHA | SATYA | Satya Sorab Bhabha | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BHABIE | BHAD | Danielle Bregoli | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
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 | 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 | |
BIKEL | THEODORE | Theodor Meir Bikel | ||
BILLARD | LANI | |||
BILLER | ANNA | Anna East Biller | Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather) | |
BILSON | RACHEL | Rachel Sarah Bilson | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
BINDER | MIKE | |||
BINGHAM | MARGOT | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
BIRNBAUM | ROGER | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BISHOP | JOEY | Joseph Abraham Gottlieb | Anna (née Siegel) and Jacob Gottlieb | Jewish Central European immigrants |
BLACK | CLAUDIA | Claudia Lee Black | ||
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 | |
BLACK | LEWIS | Lewis Niles Black | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BLACK | MICHAEL | Michael Ian Schwartz | Jill, a store owner, and Robert Schwartz | Black is Jewish |
BLAIKLOCK | MICHAEL | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
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 | |
BLAKE | MICHAEL | Blake Michael Rabin | 75% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BLANC | MEL | Melvin Jerome Blank | Frederick and Eva Blank | to Jewish parents, |
BLATT | MELANIE | Melanie Ruth Blatt | Ashkenazi Jewish, French | |
BLEETH | YASMINE | Yasmine Amanda Bleeth | Carina, a model, and Philip Bleeth | |
BLOOM | BRIAN | Brian Keith Bloom | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BLOOM | CLAIRE | Patricia Claire Blumental | her maternal grandparents, originally named Griewski, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe | |
BLOOM | RACHEL | Rachel Leah Bloom | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BLOOM | SCOTT | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BLOOMBERG | MICHAEL | Michael Rubens Bloomberg | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BLUE | JONAS | Guy James Robin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BLUM | JASON | Jason Ferus Blum | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
BLYDEN | LARRY | Ivan Lawrence Blieden | ||
BOCHCO | STEVEN | Steven Ronald Bochco | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BOCHNER | HART | Hart Matthew Bochner | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BOCHNER | LLOYD | Lloyd Wolfe Bochner | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BOGDANOVICH | PETER | Petar Bogdanović | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BOLONA | MELISSA | Melissa Susann Boloña | Ashkenazi Jewish, Croatian and Czech (mother) | |
BOLOTIN | MICHAEL | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BOLTON | MICHAEL | Michael Bolotin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BONET | LISA | Lisa Michelle Bonethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Bonet#endnote_12 | ||
BOOKS | ALBERT | Albert Lawrence Einstein | son of Thelma Leeds (née Goodman),Harry Parke (né Einstein), | |
BOONE | MEGAN | Megan Whitney Boone | German, English, some Scottish and Dutch, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BOONE | RICHARD | Richard Allen Boone | Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone | |
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 | he is Jewish | |
BOUCHARD | LOREN | Loren Hal Bouchard | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BOURDAIN | ANTHONY | Anthony Michael Bourdain | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BOURRET | CAPRICE | Caprice Valerie Bourret | parents of French and Jewish ancestry. Dale Bourret and Valerie Pion | |
BOWEN | MICHAEL | mother – Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, German, Swiss-German | ||
BOWMAN | JOSH | Joshua Tobias Bowman | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
BOYCE | CAMERON | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
BRAFF | ZACH | Zachary Israel Braff | Hal Braff, and Anne Brodzinsky, | a Jewish family |
BRAGG | JOEY | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BRANDON | MICHAEL | Michael Feldman | Miriam (née Tumen) and Sol Feldman | |
BRATMAN | MAX | Max Liron Bratman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BRAUN | TAMARA | Tamara Eve Braun | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BREITBART | ANDREW | Andrew James Breitbart | raised Jewish | |
BRENER | JOSH | Joshua Max Brener | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BRESLIN | ABIGAIL | Abigail Kathleen Breslin | 25% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BRESLIN | SPENCER | 25% Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BRESSACK | JAMES CULLEN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BRESSLAW | BERNARD | |||
BRIAN | GEORGE | Brie's mother is Jewish | Baghdadi Jewish parents who had immigrated to Israel from India | |
BRIDGES | JORDAN | Jordan Philip Bridges | Ashkenazi Jewish, Austrian (mother) | |
BRIE | ALISON | Alison Brie Schermerhorn | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BRITT | MAY | Maybritt Wilkens | ||
BRODERICK | MATTHIEW | 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 | 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 | ||
BRONFMAN | HANNAH | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
BROOKS | JAMES | James Lawrence Brooks | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
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 | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BROWN | SARAH | Sarah Joy Brown | David and Pamela Brown | |
BRUCE | LENNY | Leonard Alfred Schneider | Sally Marr (née Sadie Kitchenberg | |
BUCATINSKY | DAN | Daniel R. Bucatinsky | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
BULLOCK | SANDRA | Sandra Annette Bullock | Helga D. Meyer, a German and John W. Bullock | |
BURCH | TORY | Tory Robinson | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
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) | |
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) | |
BUSH | SHOSHANA | Shoshana Gloriella Bush | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
BUTAN | MARC | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
BUTLER | JERRY | Paul David Siederman | ||
BUTTONS | RED | Aaron Chwatt | 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) | |
CABOT | SUSAN | Harriet Shapiro | Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, | |
CAESAR | SID | Isaac Sidney Caesar | Ida (née Raphael) and Max Caesar | Jewish immigrants |
CALLIS | JAMES | Callis is Jewish,[2] the descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland | ||
CALVANO | SADIE | Sadie Amara Calvano | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
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 | Brazilian [Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] (father) | ||
CANNON | DYAN | Samile Diane Friesen | to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother | |
CANTERBURY | CHANDLER | English, German, Irish or Scottish, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
CANTOR | EDDIE | Edward Israel Iskowitz | son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Meta and Mechel Iskowitz | |
CAPOTONDI | CRISTIANA | Italian, as well as Jewish (maternal grandfather) | ||
CAPSHAW | KATE | Kathleen Sue Nail | Beverley Sue (née Simon), and Edwin Leon Nail | |
CARDEN | D’ARCY | Darcy Beth Erokan | German, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
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 | to Jewish immigrants Itzack and Miriam Carmel. | |
CARRADINE | Ever Dawn | *father – English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, Swiss-German, distant Irish and Dutch | ||
CARRADINE | Sorel Johannah | Polish (maternal grandmother), German, English, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/16th Danish, small amounts of Swiss-German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Irish, and Dutch | ||
CARTER | HELENA BONHAM | 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 | |
CARTERIS [ΚΑΡΤΕΡΗΣ] | GABRIELLE | Gabrielle Anne Carteris | Marlene, a realtor, and Ernest Carteris | Carteris is Jewish |
CASELLA | MAX | Maximilian J. Deitch | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
CASH | AYA | Aya Rachel Cash | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
CASPE | DAVID | David Herbert Caspe | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
CASSEL | SEYMOUR | Seymour Joseph Cassel | Pancretia Ann (née Kearney) and Seymour Joseph Cassel | |
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 | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
CHAIKIN | CARLY | Carly Hannah Chaikin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
CHALAMET | TIMOTHEE | Timothée Hal Chalamet | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
CHAMUEL | MICHELLE | Michelle Jacqueline Chamuel | Egyptian Jewish | |
CHAPLIN | ORSON | Orson Belisario M. Chaplin Salkind | Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican (father) | |
CHARLES | JOSH | Joshua Aaron Charles | Allan Charles, an advertising executive, and Laura | |
CHARVET | DAVID | David Franck Guez | 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) | |
CHOLODENKO | LISA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
CHRIQUI | EMMANUELLE | Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui | 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 | Connie is married to Jewish television presenter Maury Povich. She converted to Judaism upon their marriage | |
CIPES | CREG | Gregory Michael Cipes | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
CLARE | CASSANDRA | Judith A. Rumelt | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
CLARK | BOB | Benjamin Clark | ||
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 | |
CLARY | ROBERT | Robert Max Widerman | Jewish heritage | |
CLAY | ANDREW CLAY | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
CLAYBURGH | JILL | Julia (née Dorr), and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh | Clayburgh's family was Jewish and upper class | |
CLIFTON | SCOTT | Scott Clifton Snyder | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
COBB | LEE | Leon Jacob | Jewish family in New York City, | |
COBRIN | ALI | Alexandra Alrey Cobrin | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
COEN | JOEL & ETHAN | Edward and Rena Coen | ||
COGHLAN | MADELEINE | Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
COHEN | ANDY | Andrew Joseph Cohen | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
COHEN | MATT | Matthew Joseph Cohen | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
COHEN | SARA BARON | Sacha Noam Baron | 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 | Leatrice, a teacher, and Jack Cohen, | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
COHN | MINDY | Melinda Heather Cohn | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
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 | |
COLEMAN | KELEN | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
COLLINS | DEAN | Dean Richard Collins | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
COLLINS | JOAN | Joan Henrietta Collins | 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 | |
COLLINS | MICHELLE | Michelle Danielle Collins | English, Welsh, Ashkenazi Jewish | |
COLLINS | MISHA | Dmitri Tippens Krushnic | paternal great-grandfather was from a Jewish family (from Russia and Hungary) | |
CONDUNER | ALLAN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
CONN | DIDI | Edith Bernstein | ||
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 | ||
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 | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
CORBETT | JOHN | John Joseph Corbett | mother – Lithuanian, Ashkenazi Jewish | |
CORDUNER | ALAN | 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) | |
CORTEZ | RICARDO | Jacob Krantz | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
COSTA | ANTONY | Antony Daniel Costa | Greek Cypriot (father) - Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
COSTANZO | PAULO | |||
COULSON | CATHERINE | Catherine Elizabeth Coulson | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
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) | |
CRANSTON | BRYAN | Bryan Lee Cranston | 12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
CRESKOFF | REBECCA | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
CROSS | DAVID | |||
CRUICKSHANK | JESSI | Jessica Shaia/Sarah Cruickshank | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
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 | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
CUKOR | GEORGE | Hungarian-Jewish descent | ||
CURNEN | MONIQUE GABRIELA | Irish, Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
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 | |
D’ELIA BLACK | SOFIA | Sofia Joelle Black D’Elia | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
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 | ||
DAMON | STUART | Stuart Michael Zonis | Eva (née Sherer) and Marvin Leonard Zonis | His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants |
DANGERFIELD | RODNEY | Jacob Cohen | Jewish parents, His ancestors came to the United States from Hungary | |
DANIELS | ERIN | Erin Cohen | She grew up in a Jewish family | |
DANIELS | JEFF | Jeffrey Warren Daniels | ||
DANIELS | SPENCER | Spencer Eli Daniels | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
DASSIN | JULES | Julius Dassin | Russian-Jewish barber in Middletown, Connecticut | |
DAVID | LARRY | Lawrence Gene David | Jewish American family | |
DAVIDSON | AMY | Amy Elise Davidson | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
DAVIS | JASON | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
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 | |
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) | ||
DEARDEN | TAYLOR | Taylor Dearden Cranston | English, German, Irish/Northern Irish, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish, small amounts of Scottish and Swiss-German | |
DELLAL | ALICE | Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
DENCIK | DAVID | Karl David Sebastian Dencik | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
DENNINGS | KAT | Katherine Victoria Litwack | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
DEUTCH | HOWARD | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
DEUTCH | ZOEY | Zoey Francis Thompson Deutch | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
DEVLIN | DEAN | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | His father was Jewish and his mother Filipino | |
DIAMOND | DUSTIN | Dustin Neil Diamond | son of Mark Diamond, an actor | |
DIAMOND | NEIL | Neil Leslie Diamond | 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) | |
DOBKIN | DAVID | David Lawrence Dobkin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
DOHAN | MEITAL | |||
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 | ||
DOUGLAS | CAMERON | Cameron Morrell Douglas | Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Swiss, French, English, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Scottish, Belgian | |
DOUGLAS | GEORGE | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
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 | |
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) | |
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 | |
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 | |||
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 | |||
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 | ||
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 | |
LEFEVRE | RACHELLE | Rachelle Marie Lefevre | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
LEHMAN | ERNEST | born into a wealthy Jewish Long Island | ||
LEHR | JOHN | He is Jewish, having converted to Judaism in 2000 | ||
LEIBMAN | RON | Grace (née Marks) and Murray Leibman | ||
LEIBOVITZ | ANNIE | Anna-Lou Leibovitz | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
LEIFER | CAROL | 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 | Enid Karl (née Stulberger), a model, and Donovan, | His father is Scottish and his mother an American of Jewish descent | |
LEMBECK | HARVEY | |||
LEMBECK | MICHAEL | |||
LEONARD | GLORIA | Gale Klinetsky | ||
LERMAN | LOGAN | Logan Wade Lerman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
LERNER | MICHAEL | Blanche and George Lerner | of Romanian Jewish descent | |
LESTER | MARK | English, Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
LETTERMAN | DAVID | David Michael Letterman | Harry Joseph Letterman his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering) | |
LEVIEVA | MARGARITA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
LEVIN | HARVEY | Harvey Robert Levin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
LEVINE | ADAM | Adam Noah Levine | Jewish parents Patsy Noah and Fred Levine, | |
LEVINE | ILANA | |||
LEVINE | TED | Frank Theodore Levine | ||
LEVINSON | BARRY | His family is of Russian Jewish descent. | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
LEVINSON | SAMUEL | His family is of Russian Jewish descent. | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
LEVITT | JOSEPH-GORDON | Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
LEVY | BERNARD-HENRI | Sephardi Jewish | ||
LEVY | DANI | Levy is Jewish | ||
LEVY | EUGENE | a Jewish family | ||
LEVY | JANE | Jane Colburn Levy | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
LEVY | WILLIAM | William Levy Gutiérrez | 75% Cuban/Spanish-Cuban-25% Jewish | |
LEWIS | AL | Albert Meister | 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 | |||
LEWIS | JENNY | Jennifer Diane Lewis | ||
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 | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
LEWIS | JULIETTE | |||
LEWIS | RICHARD | Richard Philip Lewis | Ashkenazi Jewish family | |
LEWIS | SHARI | Shari Phyllis Hurwitz | ||
LIEBERSTEIN | PAUL | Paul Bevan Lieberstein | ||
LIGHT | JUDITH | Judith Ellen Licht | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
LINDELOF | DAMON | Damon Laurence Lindelof | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
LINDEN | HAL | Harold Lipshitz | Charles Lipshitz and Frances Rosen | of Jewish parents |
LINDON | VINCENT | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
LINZ | ALEX | Alexander David Linz | Deborah Baltaxe, an attorney, and Dr. Daniel Linz | Linz is Jewish |
LIPMAN | MAUREEN | Maureen Diane Lipman | ||
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 | |
LIPTON | PEGGY | 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 | |
LISTER-JONES | ZOE | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
LIVINGSTON | BARRY | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
LIVINGSTON | NATALIA | Barry Gordon Livingston | Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican, possibly Swiss-German and German (maternal grandmother) | |
LLOYD | CRISTOPHER | Christopher Allen Lloyd | Ruth (née Lapham), and Samuel R. Lloyd | |
LLOYD | DENNIS | Nir Tibor | Jewish - Tibor may be Ashkenazi. |
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LOEW | MARCUS | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Born into a poor Jewish family in New York City | |
LOM | HERBERT | Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich von Schluderbacheru | upper-class Jewish parents | |
LONDON | LAUREN | Lauren Nicole London | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
LONG | GREG | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
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 | ||
LOURD | BILLIE | Billie Catherine Lourd | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) | |
LOVE | COURTNEY | Courtney Michelle Harrison | Linda Carroll, a therapist, and Hank Harrison | Irish and Jewish ancestry |
LOVITZ | JON | Jonathan M. Lovitz | ||
LOWES | KATIE | Katie Quinn Lowes | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
LUCAS | MATT | Matthew Richard Lucas | Jewish[1] family, with his British born mother | |
LUCAS | PAUL | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
LUMET | JENNY | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
LUNDEN | JOAN | Joan Elise Blunden | of Gladyce Lorraine (née Somervill) and Erle Murray Blunden | |
LUNER | JAMIE | Jamie Michelle Luner | ||
LYONNE | NATASHA | Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein | Ashkenazi Jewish-Yvette Lyonne, and Aaron Braunstein | |
MAC GRAW | ALI | Alice MacGraw | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
MACHT | GABRIELE | Suzanne Victoria Pulier, Stephen Macht | ||
MACHT | STEPHEN | |||
MACY | BILL | Wolf Marvin Garber | Mollie (née Friedopfer) and Michael Garber | |
MADDEN | BENJI | 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 | |
MAGARO | JOHN | John Robert Magaro | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
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) | |
MALCO | ||||
MALINA | JOSHUA | Joshua Charles Malina | Fran and Robert Malina-Ashkenazi Jewish | The actor has commented that while the name "Malina" does not sound Jewish to most people and often leads them to assume he is Latino, the name is Polish in origin, from the "Polish [word] for 'raspberry |
MANDEL | HOWIE | Howard Michael Mandel II | His family is of Jewish descent. | |
MANHEIM | CAMRYN | Debra Frances Manheim | Sylvia, a teacher, and Jerome Manheim | Ashkenazi Jewish family |
MANHEIM | MILO | Milo Jacob Manheim | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
MANKIEWICZ | BEN | Benjamin Frederick Mankiewicz | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
MANKIEWICZ | JOSEPH | Joseph Leo Mankiewicz | Franz Mankiewicz (?–1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish immigrants from Germany | |
MANKIEWICZ | TOM | Thomas Francis Mankiewicz | Jewish immigrants from Germany | |
MARAN | JOSIE | Johanna Selhorst Maran | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
MARGOLIS | CINDY | Cynthia Dawn "Cindy" Margolis | ||
MARGOLIS | MARK | Mark Neal Margolis | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MARGOLYES | MIRIAM | Ashkenazi Jewish | a Jewish family a descendant of immigrants from Belarus | |
MARGULIES | JULIANNA | Julianna Luisa Margulies | Francesca, and Paul Margulies - Ashkenazi Jewish | parents were Jewish, descended from immigrants from Austria, Hungary, and Romania |
MARKS | HANNAH | Hannah Gayle Marks | Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (father) | |
MARLEY | JOHN | |||
MARSHALL | TRUDY | Gertrude Marshall | ||
MARTIN | ROSS | Martin Rosenblatt | Jewish Family He spoke Yiddish, Polish and Russian | |
MARTIN | TONY | |||
MARX | BRETT | |||
MARX | CHICO | Leonard Marx | ||
MARX | GROUCHO | Julius Henry Marx | Minnie Schoenberg Marx and Sam Marx | In an interview, he jokingly suggested his epitaph read: "Excuse me, I can't stand up." But his mausoleum marker bears only his stage name, a Star of David, and the years of his birth and death |
MARX | HARPO | Adolph Marx | Minnie Schoenberg Marx and Sam Marx | |
MARX | ZEPPO | Herbert Manfred | His parents were Sam Marx (called "Frenchie" throughout his life), and his wife, Minnie Schönberg Marx. Minnie's brother was Al Shean. Marx's family was Jewish. His mother was from East Frisia in Germany; and his father was a native of France, and worked as a tailor. | |
MARX-BERTI | JADE | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather), Mexican (great-grandfather), English, German, Slovenian | ||
MASLOW | JAMES | James David Maslow | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MASON | ADAMS | Jewish background | ||
MASON | JACKIE | Jacob Moshe Maza | ||
MASUR | RICHARD | |||
MATISYAHU | Matthew Paul Miller | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MATLIN | MARLEE | Marlee Beth Matlin | She is Jewish | |
MATSOUKAS | MELINA | Greek Jewish, Polish Jewish (father) | ||
MATTHAU | WALTER | Walter John Matthau | son of Jewish immigrants, Rose (née Berolsky), who was born in Lithuania and worked in a sweatshop, and Milton (Melos) Matthau, an electrician and peddler who was from Russia | |
MAUTNER | AMORA | Ashkenazi Jewish, Croatian (father) | ||
MAVRAKI – ΜΑΥΡΑΚΗ | EVE -ΗΒΗ | Eva Mavrakis, a production designer, who is of Greek-Sephardi Jewish ancestry | ||
MAY | MATHILDA | Greek Jewish, Turkish Jewish (father) | ||
MAYRON | MELANIE | Melanie Joy Mayron | Norma (née Goodman), a real estate agent, and David Mayron | *Sephardi Jewish (father)-*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) |
MAZAR | DEBORAH | Ashkenazi Jewish (father, who was raised Christian) | ||
MAZIN | CRAIG | Craig Lawrence Mazin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MAZURSKY | PAUL | Irwin Mazursky | His grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine | |
MAZZELLO | JOSEPH | Joseph Francis Mazzello III | 12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MC GILLE | BRUCE | Bruce Travis McGill | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
MCBRIDE | JAMES | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
MCGOWAN | ZACH | Zachary Brendan McGowan | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
MCINTRYRE | MICHAEL | Michael Hazen James McIntyre | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather, who converted to Catholicism) | |
MEARA | ANNE | Mary (née Dempsey) and Edward Joseph Meara | Irish-born immigrants , but converted to Judaism six years after marrying Stiller | |
MECHLOWICZ | SCOTT | Scott David Mechlowicz | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MEDANOY | MIKE | Morris Michael Medavoy | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MELLOR | KAY | Catholic father and a Jewish mother | ||
MENCHELL | IVAN | Ivan David Menchell | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
MENDELSOHN | BEN | Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn | Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), 1/8th Greek, as well as Scottish, English, Irish, Northern Irish, and 1/32 German | |
MENDES | SAM | Samuel Alexander Mendes | his mother is an English Jew | |
MENEGHEL | SASHA | Sasha Meneghel Szafir | Brazilian [1/2 Jewish, at least 1/16 Italian, Portuguese, likely Polish, possibly other] | |
MENZEL | IDINA KIM | Idina Kim Mentzel | Helene, is a therapist, and her father, Stuart Mentzel | of Jewish heritage |
MESSING | DEBRA | Debra Lynn Messing | Sandra (née Simons), and Brian Messing | Messing is Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland |
METCHIK | AARON MICHAEL | Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish - - Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MEYER | DINA | |||
MEYERS | ARI | Ariadne Meyer | Jewish American parents | |
MEYERS | JOSH | *31.25% Swedish-*25% Ashkenazi Jewish-*12.5% Bohemian/Czech-*12.5% Croatian-*12.5% English-*6.25% German | ||
MEYERS | NANCY | Nancy Jane Meyers | The younger of two daughters, she was raised in a Jewish household in the Drexel Hill area | |
MEYERS | SETH | Seth Adam Meyers | ||
MICHAEL | BLAKE | Blake Michael Rabin | 75% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MICHAELS | JILLIAN | Jillian L. McKarus | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother) | |
MICHON | CATHRYN | Cathryn Susan Michon | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
MIDLER | BETTY | Bette Davis Midler | Ruth (née Schindel) and Fred Midler | |
MILES | SYLVIA | Sylvia Reuben Lee | Belle (née Fellman) and Reuben Lee | |
MILLEN | ARI | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MILLER | BEN | Bennet Evan Miller | Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, likely English | |
MILLER | DICK | Richard Miller | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MILLER | EZRA | Ezra Matthew Miller | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
MILLER | JEREMY | Jeremy James Miller | James Miller and Sonja Morckel | |
MILLER | LARRY | Lawrence J. Miller | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MINNILLO | VANESSA JOY | 12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MINTZ-PLASSE | CRISTOPHER | Christopher Charles Plasse | 50% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MIROJNICK | LILI | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MITCHELL | ANDREA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MITCHELL | SASHA | Sergei A. Mitchell | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MITCHELL | WARREN | Warren Misell | Russian Jewish descenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Mitchell#cite_note-Behr1-0 | |
MITCHELL | YVONNE | Yvonne Joseph | ||
MOLLEN | JENNY | Jenny Ann Mollen | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
MONASTERIO | DERRICK | Derrick Leander Monasterio | Jamaican [East Indian, Scottish, Lebanese, Sephardi Jewish] (biological paternal grandmother) | |
MONROE | MARILYN | Norma Jeane Baker | Gladys Baker had married a Martin E. Mortenson | |
MOODY | RON | Ronald Moodnick | Kate (née Ogus) and Bernard Moodnick | |
MOONVES | LESLIE | Ronald Moodnick | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MOOR | MANDY | Her mother, Stacy (née Friedman), is a former news reporter who once worked for the Orlando Sentinel, and her father, Donald, is a pilot for American Airlines | Moore's father is of Irish and Cherokee descent, and her mother is of half-English and half-Jewish ancestry | |
MOORE | JULIANNE | Julie Anne Smith | father – German, Irish, Welsh, Ashkenazi Jewish, English | |
MORANIS | RICK | Frederick Alan Moranis | ||
MORANTE | LAURA | Laura Nerina Morante | Italian (including Sicilian), Jewish (paternal great-grandmother) | |
MORGAN | CHESTY | her family left Poland because of the treatment of Jews, relocating to Israel. | ||
MORGAN | LILY | Morgan Lily Jane Gross | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MORGENSTERN | MAIA | a Jewish family | ||
MORRISON | SHELLEY | Rachel Mitrani | Shelley is a Sephardic Jew of Hispanic decent. | |
MORRONE | CAMILA | Camila Rebeca Morrone Polak | Argentinian [Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Slovenian] | |
MORROW | ROB | Robert Alan Morrow | Diane Francis (née Markowitz), and Murray Morrow | of Jewish ancestry |
MORROW | VIC | Victor "Vic" Morrow | Jean (née Kress) and Harry Morrow | middle class Jewish family |
MORTITZ | NEAL | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MOSCOW | DAVID | David Raphael Moscow | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
MOSS-BACHRACH | EBON | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
MOST | DON | Donny Most, Donald | ||
MOSTEL | 0 | Samuel Joel Mostel | Israel Mostel, an Eastern European Jew, and Cina "Celia" Druchs | Jewish family, who was born in Poland and raised in Vienna |
MOUSTAKI | GEORGE | Yussef Mustacchi | singer and songwriter from France of Greek Jewish origin | |
MUNI | PAUL | Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund | to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine. | |
MURRAY | JAN | Murray Janofsky | ||
MUSTAINE | DAVE | David Scott Mustaine | mother – Ashkenazi Jewish | |
MYERSON | BESS | Bess Myerson on the Jewish-American Hall of Fame site | ||
NADIRA | Florence Ezekiel | Nadira was born to a Baghdadi Jewish family | ||
NAISHULLER | ILYA | Ilya Viktorovich Naishuller | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
NAOR | YIGAL | Iraqi Jewish | ||
NAVA | JAKE | Jacob Marcos Nava | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) | |
NEF | HARI | Harrison J. Neff | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
NEFF | LUCAS | Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish | ||
NELSON | JUDD | Judd Asher Nelson | son of Merle (née Royte),and Leonard Nelson | Leonard Nelson, a corporate lawyer who was the first Jewish president of the Portland Symphony Orchestra |
NELSON | TIM BLAKE | Ruth Kaiser Nelson | Nelson is Jewish | |
NEUFELD | MACE | Mace Alvin Neufeld | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
NEUWIRTH | BEBE | Beatrice Neuwirth | Neuwirth is Jewish | |
NEWACHECK | KYLE | Kyle Richard Newacheck | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather), Welsh, English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, Czech/Bohemian | |
NEWLEY | ANTHONY | George Anthony Newley | ||
NEWMAN | BARRY | |||
NEWMAN | JAIME RAY | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
NEWMAN | LARAINE | the granddaughter of a Jewish cattle rancher from Arizona | ||
NEWMAN | PAUL | Paul Leonard Newman | Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková)[6][7] and Arthur Samuel Newman - Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | father was Jewish, the son of immigrants from Poland and Hungary.Newman's mother, who practiced Christian Science, was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family at Ptičie (formerly Pticsie) in the former Austria–Hungary (now in Slovakia) |
NIMOY | LEONARD | Leonard Simon Nimoy | Born in Boston to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. | |
NIVOLA | ALESSANDRO | 25% Italian/Sardinian-*25% Ashkenazi Jewish-*50% English/Scottish | ||
NOBLE | BAILEY | Bailey Ann Noble | English, Irish, German, Polish, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish | |
NORTON | JAMES | James Geoffrey Ian Norton | English, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish (matrilineal) | |
NOVEK | BRETT | Brett Michael Novek | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
NOVICK | MASON | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
NUCCI | DANNY | Italian-Sephardi Jewish | ||
NYE | LOUIS | Louis Neistat | Born To Russian-Jewish émigrés | |
NYMAN | ANDREW | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
OAKERSON | BIG JAY | Jason M. Oakerson | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
OAKERSON | BIG JAY | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
OBERMAN | TRACY-ANN | |||
OCHOA | RYAN | 37.5% Mexican-25% Italian-12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish-12.5% Filipino-12.5% mix of English, German, and Scottish | ||
OKONEDO | SOPHIE | Joan (née Allman), a pilates teacher, and Henry Okonedo | her mother, an Ashkenazi Jew, | |
OLEFF | WYATT | Wyatt Jess Oleff | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
OLIN | KEN | Kenneth Edward Olin | ||
OLYPHANT | TIMOTHY | Timothy David Olyphant | English, Scottish, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, small amounts of German, Dutch, and Irish, remote French Huguenot | |
OPPENHEIMER | MEAGHAN | Meaghan Reed Oppenheimer | Ashkenazi Jewish, Scottish and English | |
ORBACH | JERRY | Jerome Bernard Orbach | Father was German-Jewish whose ancestry was Spanish Sephardic and Mother was Polish Catholic. | |
ORNSTEIN MARISI | MICHAEL | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ORY | MEGHAN | Meghan R. Ory | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
OZ | FRANK | Richard Frank Oznowicz | Oz's Dutch/Polish father was Jewish | |
PAIS | JOSH | Joshua Pais | Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
PAKULA | ALAN | Polish-Jewish descent | parents of Polish and Jewish descent, Jeanette (née Goldstein) and Paul Pakula. | |
PALL | ALEX | Alexander Jo Pall | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
PALLY | ADAM | Adam Saul Pally | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PALTROW | GWYNETH | Gwyneth Kate Paltrowitz | father – Ashkenazi Jewish | Paltrow's father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent and her mother is a Quaker of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry |
PALY | BAR | Varvara Alexandrovna Phaly | Russian Jewish | |
PARKER | ELEANOR | Eleanor Jean Parker | ||
PARKER | SARA JESSICA | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | Her father, a native of Brooklyn, was Jewish, the original family surname being "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen") | |
PARKES | WALTER | Walter Fishman | ||
PARSONS | ESTELLE | Estelle Margaret Parsons | Elinor Ingebore (née Mattson),and Eben Parsons. | |
PASCAL | ADAM | Ashkenazi Jewish | Jewish family in The Bronx | |
PASCAL | AMY | Amy Beth Pascal | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PATINKIN | MANDY | Mandel Bruce Patinkin | Patinkin grew up in a middle class Jewish family and was raised in Conservative Judaism | |
PATRICOF | JAMIE | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
PATTERSON | LORNA | |||
PAUL | LOGAN | Logan Alexander Paul | English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, at least 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PAWLIKOWSKI | PAWEL | Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski | 75% Polish - *25% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PAXTON | SARA | father – Irish, Scottish, English, very distant French (convert to Judaism) - Sara was raised Jewish. | Sara’s mother, Lucía (Menchaca Zuckerman), was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico. Lucía was raised Jewish. Lucía’s maternal grandfather was a Dutch Jewish immigrant, while the rest of her family is of Mexican ancestry, along with 1/16th German and 1/16th Chilean. Lucía’s maternal grandmother almost certainly converted to Judaism when marrying her grandfather, and Lucía’s father, who was buried in a Jewish ceremony, almost certainly converted to Judaism when marrying her mother. | |
PAYMER | DAVID | Paymer is Jewish; | ||
PECK | JOSH | Joshua Michael Peck | Peck has described himself as a "Jewish kid that grew up in New York City just trying to hustle and make it in life" | |
PEET | AMANDA | Penny (née Levy), a social worker, and Charles Peet, Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | Her father is a Quaker and her mother is Jewish | |
PEIRCE | KIMBERLY | Kimberly Ane Peirce | Italian (paternal grandfather), Ashkenazi Jewish, English | |
PELTZ | NICOLA | Nicola Anne Peltz | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
PELTZ | WILL | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
PENN | DYLAN | Dylan Frances Penn | paternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PENN | SEAN | Sean Justin Penn | Leo Penn, and Eileen Ryan (née Annucci)-Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Russia |
PERETTI | CHELSEA | Chelsea Vanessa Peretti | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
PERLMAN | FRANCIS | Ronald Francis Perlman | Perlman is Jewish. | |
PERLMAN | RHEA | |||
PERLMAN | RON | Ronald Francis Perlman | Perlman is Jewish. | |
PERMUT | DAVID | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
PHILIPS | GINA | Gina Consolo | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
PHOENIX | JOAQUIN | Joaquin Rafael Bottom | Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (Dunetz), to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California | |
PHOENIX | RAIN | Rainbow Joan of Arc Bottom | Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (Dunetz), to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California | |
PHOENIX | RIVER | River Jude Bottom | Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (Dunetz), to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California | |
PHOENIX | SUMMER | Summer Joy Phoenix | Her mother, Arlyn Sharon ( Dunetz), to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California | |
PICON | MOLLY | Małka Opiekun | Clara (née Ostrow), and Louis (or Denis) Opiekun | She is buried in the Yiddish Theater section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery. |
PIDGEON | MATTHEW | |||
PIDGEON | REBECCA | |||
PINCHAK | JIMMY | James Justin Pinchak | Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Italian (maternal grandmother), Irish, possibly English | |
PINE | CHRIS | Christopher Whitelaw Pine | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) | |
PINK | Alecia Beth Moore | Judith Moore, a nurse, and James Moore, Jr | Her father is Catholic and her mother Jewish,[5] and her ancestors emigrated from Ireland, Germany, and Lithuania. | |
PIVEN | JEREMY | Jeremy Samuel Piven | ||
PLATT | BEN | Benjamin Schiff Platt | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PLATT | JONAH | Jonah Sezzin Platt | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PLESHETTE | SUZANNE | Geraldine (née Kaplan), Eugene Pleshette-Ashkenazi Jewish | of Jewish heritage | |
PLOTNICK | JACK | Jack Stuart Plotnick | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
POLANSKI | ROMAN | Rajmund Roman Liebling | His father was a Polish Jew and his mother, born in Imperial Russia | son of Bula[15] (née Katz-Przedborska) and Ryszard[15] Liebling (aka Ryszard Polański) |
POLIS | JARED | Jared Polis Schutz | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
POLLACK | SYNDEY | Sydney Irwin Pollack | Rebecca (née Miller) and David Pollack | family of Jewish immigrants from Russia |
POLLAK | KEVIN | Kevin Elliot Pollak | ||
POLLAN | TRACY | Tracy Jo Pollan | Corky, a magazine editor, and Stephen M. Pollan | Pollan is Jewish, and her children are raised in Reform Judaism |
PORTMAN | NATALIE | Natalie Hershlag | Avner Hershlag, Shelley Stevens | Her paternal grandfather's parents died in Auschwitz and her Romanian-born great-grandmother was a spy for the British during World War II |
POUL | ALAN | Alan Mark Poul | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
POVICH | MAURY | Maurice Richard Povich | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
POVITSKY | ESTHER | Esther Lauren Povitsky | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
POWER | STEFANIE | Stefanie Zofya Paul Federkiewicz | Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe | |
PRAVER | TORI | Victoria Syde Praver | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
PREMINGER | OTTO | Otto Ludwig Preminger | Markus and Josefa Preminger | |
PREPON | LAURA | Marjorie, a high school teacher, and Michael | She was raised in Watchung in a family of Russian Jewish and Irish Catholic extraction | |
PRESLEY | ELVIS | Elvis Aaron Presleyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley#cite_note-Aaron-0 | 100% Jewish by your and Orthodox requirements of mother(also his maternal grandmother, g-grandmother, g-g-grandmother,and he certainly was not only the most important singer, along with Frank, in the second hald of the 20th Century and also an actor in numerous movies | |
PRESSMAN | YASSI | Yasmin Isabel Yasto-Pressman | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
PRINCESS | KING | Mikaela Straus | Dutch [including Frisian], English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Irish, 1/8 Italian, as well as distant Cornish, French, Scottish, and Welsh | |
PRITIKIN | GREG | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
PRITZKER | GIGI | Jean Pritzker | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PROOPS | GREG | Gregory Everett Proops | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
PROSKE | JENN | Jennifer Morata Proske | She converted to Judaism upon their marriage. | |
PROSKY | ROBERT | Robert Józef Porzuczek | son of Helen and Joseph Porzuczek | |
PROVAL | DAVID | Jewish heritage | ||
PRYOR | RAIN | Shelley R. Bonus Richard Pryor | Rain Pryor's mother was a Jewish | |
PULITZER | JOSEPH | József Pulitzer | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
PULLMAN | LEWIS | Lewis James Pullman | British Isles [English, Scottish, Northern Irish]-Dutch-Ashkenazi Jewish-Norwegian | |
PULVER | LARA | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
PURDY | JOLENE | Jolene Aiko Purdy | english, Scottish, Irish, German, at least 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
PUTH | CHARLIE | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
QUESTEL | MAE | Mae Kwestel | ||
RABE | LILY | 25% mix of Ashkenazi Jewish and more distant Sephardi Jewish | ||
RADNER | GILDA | Jewish Henrietta and Herman Radner | ||
RADNOR | JOSH | Joshua Radnor | son of Alan Radnor | |
RAE | CHARLOTTE | Charlotte Rae Lubotsky | Esther (née Ottenstein), and Meyer Lubotsky | Russian Jewish immigrants |
RAHIMI | MEDALLAN | Iranian, Mizrahi Jewish | ||
RAIMI | SAM | Samuel M. Raimi | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
RAIMI | TED | Theodore R. Raimi | Celia Barbara (née Abrams), Leonard Ronald Raimi | |
RAINER | LIUISE | Heinrich Rainer and Emmy (née Koenigsberger) | ||
RAMIS | HAROLD | Ruth (née Cokee) and Nathan Ramis | Ramis had a Jewish upbringing, in his adult life he did not practice any religion | |
RAMOS | SARAH | Sarah Emily Ramos | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
RAMRAS | RACHEL | Rachel Leah Ramras | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
RAND | AYN | Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
RANDALL | TONY | Arthur Leonard Rosenberg | Julia (née Finston) and Mogscha Rosenberg | |
RANDOLPH | JOHN | Emanuel Hirsch Cohen | Dorothy (née Shore), an insurance agent, and Louis Cohen | son of Jewish immigrants |
RAPAPORT | MICHAEL | Michael David Rapaport | June Brody, radio personality, and David Rapaport | |
RATAJKOWSKI | EMILY | Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski | 25% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
RATH | JESSE | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
RATNER | BRETT | He grew up in a "middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family" | Ratner attended high school in Israelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Ratner#cite_note-nancyjosales.com-8 | |
RAYMONDE | TANIA | Tania Raymonde Helen Katz | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
RAZ | LIOR | Mizrahi Jewish | ||
REED | NIKKI | Nicole Houston Reed | three fourths Ashkenazi Jewish | |
REEMS | HARRY | Herbert Streicher | Jewish family in Bronx | |
REFAELI | BAR | Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
REINER | ALISIA | Alysia Michelle Davis Reiner | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
REINER | CARL | Bessie (née Mathias) and Irving Reiner | His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. | |
REINER | ROB | Robert Norman Reiner | Estelle Reiner (née Lebost), and Carl Reiner | |
REISER | PAUL | son of Helen, a homemaker, and Sam Reiser | ||
REITMAN | IVAN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
REITMAN | JASON | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
REMINI | LEAH | Leah Marie Remini | Vicki Marshall, a private school teacher, and George Remini | Her mother was of Austrian-Jewish background and her father was Sicilian |
RESNIK | REGINA | |||
REUBENS | PAUL | Paul Rubenfeld | Judy and Milton | |
REVAH | ROSE AMBER | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
REX | SIMON | Simon Rex Cutright | Paul and Zoe Cutright | |
RICE | SANTINO | Santino Quinto Rice | German, English, African-American, Jewish, Italian, Native American | |
RICH | ADAM | |||
RICKLES | DON | Donald Jay Rickles | Etta (née Feldman) and Max Rickles | Jewish parents |
RIEGEL | EDEN | Eden Sonja Jane Riegel | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
RIEGERT | PETER | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
RIFKIN | RON | Saul M. Rifkin | ||
RIVERS | JOAN | Joan Alexandra Molinsky | Russian-Jewish heritage. | |
ROBBINS | BRIAN | Brian Mitchell Levine | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ROBBINS | JEROME | Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz | ||
ROBERTS | DORIS | Doris May Roberts | Larry and Ann Meltzer-Ashkenazi Jewish | Russian Jewish parents |
ROBERTS | TANYA | Victoria Leigh Blum | of Irish and Jewish descent | her father, of Irish descent, and a Jewish mother |
ROBINSON | EDWARD | Emanuel Goldenberg | Born to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in Bucharest, he emigrated with his family to New York City in 1903 | |
ROGEN | SETH | Sandy, a social worker, and Mark Rogen | He has described his parents, who met at an Israeli kibbutz, as "radical Jewish socialists | |
ROIZ | SASHA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ROLLINS | HENRY | Henry Lawrence Garfield | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
ROLSTON | MATTHEW | Matthew Russell Rolston | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ROMAN | RUTH | Lithuanian Jewish | ||
ROMANEK | MARK | Mark L. Romanek | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ROSEN | DAPHNE | Daphne Aviva Rosen | ||
ROSEN | JACKY | Jacklyn Sheryl Spektor | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
ROSENBAUM | MICHAEL | Michael Owen Rosenbaum | He is Jewish and was "closer to religion" in New York than in Indiana | |
ROSENBERG | ALAN | Alan's German Jewish parents | ||
ROSENBERG | MELISSA | Melissa Anne Rosenberg | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ROSENBERG | TOM | |||
ROSS | JEFF | Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ROSS | TRACEE ELIS | Tracee Joy Silberstein | Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein | |
ROSSUM | EMMY | Emmanuelle Grey Rossum | Cheryl, a single mother | Her family is Jewish |
ROTH | ELI | Eli Raphael Roth | Dr. Sheldon Roth,and Cora Roth, | His grandparents immigrated from Austria, Russia and Poland, and Roth was raised Jewish |
ROTH | JESSICA | Jessica A. Rothenberg | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
ROTH | LILLIAN | Lillian Rutstein | ||
ROTHBART | BARRY | Barry R. Rothbart | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ROTHE | JESSICA | Jessica A. Rothenberg | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
RUAH | DANIELA | Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah | Sephardi Jewish (father)-Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish-Sephardi Jewish (mother) | |
RUBENFELD | MICHAEL | |||
RUBIN | JENNIFER | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
RUBINEK | SAUL | son of Polish-born Jews Frania and Israel Rubinek | ||
RUBINSTEIN | RONEN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
RUCKA | GREG | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
RUDD | PAUL | Paul Stephen Rudd | His parents, who were raised in London, England, were both Jewish, and were descended from immigrants from Russia and Poland. The family's original surname, "Rudnitzky", was changed by his grandfather to "Rudd" | |
RUDNER | RITA | Rita C. Rudner | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
RUDOLPH | MAYA | Maya Khabira Rudolph | Soul singer Minnie Riperton And composer, Richard Rudolph | Her father is Jewish and her mother was African American |
RUE | SARA | Sara Forbes Schlackman | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
RUNDGREN | TODD | Todd Harry Rundgren | Swedish, Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
RUSSEL | KERI | Keri Lynn Russell | Stephanie (née Stephens), a homemaker, and David Russell, | of Jewish heritage |
RUSSELL | BETSY | Elizabeth Russell | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
RYAN | MATT | Matthew Darren Evans | Welsh, at least 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish | |
RYDER | WINONA | Winona Laura Horowitz | Cynthia Palmer (née Istas), , Michael Horowitz, | her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia |
SABARA | DARYL | Daryl Christopher Sabara | of Jewish heritage | |
SABATO | ANTONIO JR | Czech-Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
SACHS | ANDREW | Andreas Siegfried Sachs | Of Jewish heritage | |
SAFDIE | BENJAMIN | |||
SAFDIE | JOSHUA | Syrian Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SAFRAN | JOHN | Yeshivah College, an Orthodox Jewish high school in Melbourne. | ||
SAGAL | KATEY | Catherine Louise Sagal | Boris Sagal, Sara Zwilling | |
SAGET | BOB | Robert Lane Saget | Benjamin,his mother, Rosalyn | |
SALENGER | MEREDITH | Meredith Dawn Salenger | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SALLES | WALTER | Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. | Brazilian (Portuguese, distant Sephardi Jewish, possibly other) | |
SALTZBERG | SARAH | |||
SALTZMAN | HARRY | the son of Jewish immigrants | ||
SAMBERG | ANDY | David Andrew Samberg | ||
SAMUEL | BENEDICT | Scottish, possibly Jewish | ||
SANDEL | ARI | Ari Devon Sandel | Israeli Jewish (father) | |
SANDERS | ERIN | Erin Zariah Sanders | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SANDERS | WILLIAM | William David Sanders | 75% Ashkenazi Jewish - *25% Irish | |
SANDLER | ADAM | Adam Richard Sandler | Judy, a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler | Sandler is Jewish |
SANDLER | JACKIE | Jacqueline Samantha Titone | convert to Judaism | |
SANTOS | SILVIO | Senor Abravanel | Sephardi Jewish | |
SAPORTA | GABE | Gabriel Eduardo Saporta | Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SASSE | JOSH | Joshua Seymour Sasse | Irish, English, Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, Scottish, 1/32 Belgian | |
SAVAGE | ANDREA | Andrea Kristen Savage | 75% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SAVAGE | BEN | Bennett Joseph Savage | Joanne and Lewis Savage-Ashkenazi Jewish | His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland, and Savage was raised as a Reform Jew. |
SAVAGE | FRED | Fredrick Aaron Savage | Joanne and Lewis Savage | His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland, |
SAVAGE | FRED | Frederick Aaron Savage | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SAVAGE | HERSCHEL | Harvey Joel Cowen | Herschel Cohen to Russian Jewish parents in New York City.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Savage#cite_note-1 | |
SAVAGE | MICHAEL | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SAVIANO | JOSH | Joshua David Saviano | ||
SCHAEFFER | REBECCA | Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer | ||
SCHAFER | NATALIE | Jewish family in Red Bank, New Jersey | ||
SCHAFFER | AKIVA | Akiva D. Schaffer or Akiva D. Shebar | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SCHAMUS | JAMES | James Allan Schamus | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SCHEER | ANDREW | Andrew James Scheer | 25% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SCHEJA | REBECCA | Ania Rebecca Scheja | 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SCHENKKAN | ROBERT | Robert Frederick Schenkkan, Jr. | Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (father) | |
SCHIFF | RICHARD | of Charlotte, Edward Schiff | ||
SCHILDKRAUT | JOSEPH | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SCHLAMME | THOMAS | Thomas David Schlamme | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SCHLESSINGER | LAURA | Laura Catherine Schlessinger | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SCHNABEL | STELLA | Stella Madrid Schnabel | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SCHNAPP | NOAH | Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish | ||
SCHNEIDER | MAX | Maxwell George Schneider | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SCHNEIDER | ROB | Robert Michael Schneider | Pilar (née Monroe) Schneider, and Marvin Schneider | Schneider's father was a secular Jew and his mother was Catholic. |
SCHNEIDER | STEPHEN | Jewish family | ||
SCHRAM | BITTY | Elizabeth Natalie Schram | ||
SCHREIBER | LIEV | Isaac Liev Schreiber | Heather (née Milgram) and Tell Schreiber | Schreiber's father, who is of Austrian, Swiss, Irish and Scottish descent |
SCHULTZ | HOWARD | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SCHUMACHER | JOEL | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
SCHUMER | AMY | Amy Beth Schumer | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SCHUR | MICHAEL | Michael Herbert Schur | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SCHWARTZ | SCOTT | |||
SCHWARTZMAN | JASON | Jason Francesco Schwartzman | Talia Shire (née Coppola) and the late producer Jack Schwartzman | Schwartzman is of Italian descent on his mother's side and Ashkenazi Jewish descent on his father's |
SCHWARTZMAN | ROBERT | Robert Coppola Schwartzman | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SCHWIMMER | DAVID | David Lawrence Schwimmer | Arthur and Arlene Colman-Schwimmer | |
SCIAMMA | DENNIS | Sephardi Jewish | ||
SCOTT | REID | Reid Scott Weiner | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SEAGAL | STEVEN | Steven Frederic Seagal | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | His mother was Irish and his father Jewish |
SECUNDA | ANDREW | Andrew Morgan Secunda | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SEDER | SAM | Samuel Lincoln Seder | ||
SEDGWICK | KYRA | Kyra Minturn Sedgwick | Patricia (née Rosenwald) and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V | Sedgwick's mother was Jewish |
SEGAL | GEORGE | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SEGAN | NOAH | Noah Gideon Segan | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SEGEL | JASON | His father is Jewish and his mother is Christian | ||
SEINFELD | JERRY | Jerome Allen Seinfeld | His father, Kálmán, was of Hungarian Jewish his mother, Betty, is of Syrian Jewish descent | |
SELDES | MARIAN | Marian Hall Seldes | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SELLERS | PETER | Richard Henry Sellers | Bill Sellers (1900 – 1962), Agnes Doreen 'Peg' née Marks | his mother, Agnes Doreen 'Peg' née Marks (1892 - 1967), was Jewish. His maternal grandmother, Benvenida Welcome Mendoza (1855 - 1932), was of Portuguese-Jewish descent; her grandfather, Mordecai Mendoza |
SERLING | ROD | Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling | Esther (née Cooper) and Samuel Lawrence Serling | |
SETTON | AMANDA | Amanda Eden Setton | Syrian Jewish (father)- Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
SEYMOUR | JANE | Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg | John Benjamin Frankenberg, an English Jewish obstetrician of Polish and German origin, and his Dutch wife, Mieke Frankenberg | |
SHAFFER | PETER | Sir Peter Levin Shaffer | Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, the son of Reka (née Fredman) and Jack Shaffe | |
SHAFFIR | ARI | Ari-na David Shaffir | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHANDLING | GARRY | Muriel, and Irving Shandling | Jewish family in Chicago | |
SHANDLING | GARRY | Garry Emmanuel Shandling | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHANKMAN | ADAM | Adam Michael Shankman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHAPIRO | BEN | Benjamin Aaron Shapiro | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHAPIRO | SARAH | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
SHATNER | WILLIAM | William Alan Shatner | Ann and Joseph Shatner - Ashkenazi Jewish | Is of Ukrainian-Jewish descent |
SHAW | ARTIE | Arthur Jacob Arshawsky | son of Sarah (née Strauss) and Harry Arshawsky. His family was Jewish; his father was from Russia and his mother was from Austria | |
SHAW | VINESSA | Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHAWN | DICK | Richard Schulefand | ||
SHAWN | WALLACE | Wallace Michael Shawn | Ashkenazi Jewish | prominent Jewish family in New York City |
SHEAR | MATTHEW LOUIS | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SHEARER | HARRY | Harry Julius Shearer | Dora Warren (née Kohn), a book-keeper, and Mack Shearer | Jewish immigrants from Austria and Poland |
SHEARER | NORMA | Edith Norma Shearer | il padre Andrew, scozzese, era manager di una compagnia di costruzioni, la madre proveniva da una famiglia di pastori inglesi | |
SHEEDY | ALLY | Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy | Charlotte (née Baum),John J. Sheedy, Jr | Ally Sheedy's mother was Jewish and her father was of Irish Catholic descent |
SHELDON | SIDNEY | Sidney Schechtel | to parents of Russian Jewish ancestry | |
SHENKAROW | JUSTIN | Justin Moran Shenkarow | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHENKMAN | BEN | Benjamin A. Sheinkman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHEPARD | HILARY | Hilary Shapiro | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHER | ANTONY | Lithuanian Jewish family | ||
SHER | EDEN | Eden Rebecca Sher | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHIMERMAN | ARMIN | Shimerman at FedCon IV | ||
SHLESINGER | ILIZA | Iliza Vie Shlesinger | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SHOKET | ANN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SHOR | MIRIAM | She is Jewish and speaks fluent Yiddish as well as Italian | ||
SHORE | DAVID | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
SHORE | DINAH | Frances Rose Shore | Solomon and Anna Stein Shore - Ashkenazi Jewish | Jewish immigrants from Russia |
SHORE | PAULY | Paul Montgomery Shore | Mitzi Shore (née Saidel) | |
SHOWALTER | MICHAEL | Elaine Showalter (née Cottler) | His father is Episcopalian and his mother is Jewish | |
SHYER | CHARLES | Charles Richard Shyer | His family was of German Jewish background. | |
SHYER | MELVILLE | Melville Jacob Shyer | His family was of German Jewish background. | |
SIDNEY | SILVIA | Sophia Kosow | was the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein) | a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing salesman. |
SIEGEL | JEFF | Jerome Siegel | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SIFF | MAGGIE | She is Jewish on her father's side | ||
SIGLER | JAMIE-LYNN | Her father is Jewish, the son of immigrants from Greece and Romania, and her mother is a Cuban-born convert to Judaism. | ||
SIGMAN | STEPHANIE | Stephanie Michelle Sigman | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SIGNORET | SIMONE | Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker | André and Georgette (Signoret) Kaminker-Ashkenazi Jewish (father) *French (mother) |
French-born Jewish army officer of Polish descent |
SILBERLING | BRAD | Bradley Mitchell Silberling | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SILK | ANNA | English, Turkish, Cypriot-is a convert to Judaism (her husband’s faith). | ||
SILVER | RON | Ronald Arthur Silver | May (née Zimelman), & Irving Roy Silver | |
SILVERA | FRANK | Frank Alvin Silvera | Sephardi Jewish (father) | |
SILVERMAN | JONATHAN | Jonathan Elihu Silverman | Ashkenazi Jewish | Devora (née Halaban) and Hillel Emanuel Silverman, a rabbi |
SILVERMAN | LAURA | Laura Jane Silverman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SILVERMAN | SARAH | Sarah Kate Silverman | Beth Ann Halpin, Donald Silverman | Her family is Jewish, the descendants of immigrants from Russia and Poland. |
SILVERS | CATHY | Phil Silvers and Evelyn Patrick. | ||
SILVERS | PHIL | Philip Silversmith | Silvers was the youngest of eight children in a Russian-Ukrainian Jewish family | |
SILVERSTONE | ALICIA | Alicia Radford Silverstone | Deirdre "Didi" (née Radford), a Scottish- and Monty Silverstone - Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | Silverstone was raised in a "traditional Jewish household"; her father, a native of east London, is Jewish, and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage |
SIMON | JOE | Hymie Simon | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SIMON | NEIL | Marvin Neil Simon | Irving and Mamie Simon | |
SIMON | PAUL | Paul Frederic Simon | born in Newark, New Jersey to Jewish Hungarian parents Bella (b. 1910, d. June 16, 2007), an elementary school teacher, and Louis Simon (b. circa 1916, d. Jan. 17, 1995) | |
SIMON | SAM | Samuel Michael Simon | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SINGER | BRYAN | raised Jewish | ||
SINGER | LORI | Leslie (née Wright), a concert pianist, and Jacques Singer | ||
SINGER | MARC | Leslie (née Wright), a concert pianist, and Jacques Singer | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SKREIN | ED | Edward George Skrein | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SKYE | IONE | Ione Skye Leitch | Donovan and Enid Karl (née Stulberger) | Her mother is an American of Jewish descent |
SKYLAR | ASTIN | Skylar Astin Lipstein | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SLATE | JENNY | Jenny Sarah Slate | Ashkenazi Jewish, as well as about one eighth Sephardi Jewish | |
SLATER | HELEN | Helen Rachel Slater | Alice Joan (née Citrin) and Gerald Slater - Ashkenazi Jewish | Her family is Jewish |
SLAYTON | NATASHA | Natasha Tillett Slayton | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SLEZAK | ERIKA | Erika Hermina Slezak | Czech/Moravian, Austrian, Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SLOANE | LINDSAY | Lindsay Sloane Leikin | Jewish heritage | |
SLOAT | MICAH | Micah Einstein Sloat | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SLOTNICK | JOEY | |||
SLOWE | GEORGIA | Michael and Zsuzsi Her Hungarian-born mother, Zsuzsi | Georgia's father, Michael, is of Russian descent. | |
SMIOLLETT | JAKE | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
SMIOLLETT-BELL | JURNEE | Jurnee Diana Smollett | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SMIRNOFF | KARINA | Karina Smirnova | Greek, Russian, Jewish | |
SMITH | GREGORY | Gregory Edward Smith | Terrea (née Oster), an American teacher, and Maurice Smith, | |
SMITH | SETH GRAHAM | Seth Jared Greenberg | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SMOLLET | JAKE | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
SMOLLETT | JUSSIE | Justin Smollett | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SMOLLETT-BELL | JURNEE | Jurnee Diana Smollett | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SNIDER | DEE | Daniel Snider | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SOBCHAK | KSENIA | Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak | Polish, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SOBIESKI | LEELEE | Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski | Elizabeth (née Salomon), who also works as Sobieski's manager, and French painter and former actor Jean Sobieski | Sobieski's maternal grandfather, United States Navy captain Robert Salomon, was Jewish and Sobieski grew up in a "pan-religious" family; she has said that she is "proud of [her] Jewish roots |
SOFER | RENA | Rena Sherel Sofer | Susan,and Martin Sofer, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rena_Sofer#cite_note-0 | Sofer is a descendant of Baal Shem Tov through her father's family. |
SOKOLOFF | MARLA | Marla Lynne Sokoloff | Cindi (née Sussman), a former caterer, and Howard Sokoloff | She was raised Jewish |
SOLLETT | PETER | Peter Sean Sollett | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SOMERS | STEVE | |||
SOOMEKH | BAHAR | Persian Jewish | Persian Jewish family. | |
SORKIN | AARON | Aaron Benjamin Sorkin | Ashkenazi Jewish | Sorkin was born in Manhattan to Jewish parents |
SPECTOR | MORGAN | Morgan Michael Douglas Spector | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SPEIGHT | RICHARD JR | Richard Dobbs Speight, Jr. | English, German, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SPELLING | AARON | Pearl (née Wald) and David Spelling (originally Spurling) | Jewish emigrants from Russia and Poland, respectively | |
SPELLING | RANDY | Candy Spelling and Aaron Spelling | ||
SPELLING | TORI | Victoria Davey Spelling | Candy Spelling and famed TV producer Aaron Spelling | |
SPERBER | WENDIE JO | |||
SPIELBERG | SASHA | Sasha Rebecca Spielberg | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
SPIELBERG | STEVEN | Steven Allan Spielberg | Ashkenazi Jewish | son of Jewish parents Leah Adler, a restaurateur and concert pianist, and Arnold Spielberg |
SPINER | BRENT | Brent Jay Spiner | Sylvia and Jack Spiner | |
SPIRO | JORDANA | Jordana Ariel Spiro | She is Jewish, She is of Greek and Jewish heritage. | |
SPIRTAS | KEVIN | Kevin Blair Spirtas | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SPRINKLE | ANNIE | Ellen Steinberg | ||
ST.JOHN | JILL | Jill Arlyn Oppenheim | Betty Lou Oppenheim./ daughter of Betty (née Goldberg | Ashkenazi Jewish |
STALLONE | SILVESTER | Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone | Frank Stallone, Sr., a hairdresser, and Jackie Stallone (née Labofish) | Stallone's father was a native of Italy and Stallone's mother was born in Washington, D.C. of French (from Brest in Brittany) and Russian Jewish descent |
STAMBERG | JOSH | Joshua Collins Stamberg | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STAMOS | JOHN | John Phillip Stamotopoulos | 12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STANDER | LIONEL | born in The Bronx, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants | ||
STEEL | DANIELLE | Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
STEIN | BEN | Benjamin Jeremy Stein | Mildred (née Fishman), a homemaker, and Herbert Stein | |
STEINBERG | DAVID | |||
STEINEM | GLORIA | Gloria Marie Steinem | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
STEINFELD | HAILEE | Hailee P. Steinfeld | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
STEINFELD | JAKE | Jeffrey Steinfeld | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STEPHENS | BRET | Bret Louis Stephens | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STERN | DANIEL | Daniel Jacob Stern | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STERN | HOWARD | Howard Allan Stern | Jewish American family in the Queens | |
STEVENS | RACHEL | Rachel Lauren Steinetski | Ashkenazi Jewish | middle class Jewish family |
STEWART | JON | Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz | Marian, and his father, Donald Leibowitz, | Jewish family |
STEWART | KRISTEN | Kristen Jaymes Stewart | Mother one half Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STIDHAM | ARI | *Sephardi Jewish (father)-*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
STILLER | BEN | Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) - Irish (mother; who converted to Judaism) | Jerry Stiller, is Jewish and his mother Anne Meara, who is of Irish Catholic |
STILLER | JERRY | Gerald Isaac Stiller | Bella (née Citrin) and William Stiller | His paternal grandparents were Austrian Jewish immigrants and his maternal grandparents were Russian Jews |
STINE R.L. | Robert Lawrence Stine | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
STOLLER | NICOLAS | Nicholas Allen Stoller | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STONE | HAROLD | Harold Hochstein | Born Harold Hochstein to a Jewish acting family | |
STONE | MATT | Matthew Richard Stone | Gerald Whitney Stone, and Sheila Lois Belasco | Stone's mother is Jewish and his father is Irish |
STONE | OLIVER | William Oliver Stone | Jacqueline (née Goddet) and Louis Stone | His father was Jewish and his mother a Roman Catholic |
STONE | SHARON | Sharon Yvonne Stone | Dorothy (née Lawson), Joseph Stone | |
STRASSBERG | LEE | Israel Strassberg | Baruch Meyer Strassberg and Ida Dine | in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Budaniv, Ukraine) to Jewish parents |
STRASSBERG | SUSAN | Susan Elizabeth Strasberg | ||
STRAUSS | JAEL | Jael Francine Strauss | Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (father) | |
STRAUSS | PETER | Peter Lawrence Strauss | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STRAUSS-SCHULSON | TODD | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
STREISAND | BARBARA | Barbara Joan Streisand | Diana Ida (née Rosen) and Emanuel Streisand-Emanuel Streisand & Diana Ida (née Rosen) | Her father, a high school teacher whose parents immigrated from Vienna, Austria, died from the complications of an epileptic seizure while working as the director of a Jewish summer camp |
STRICK | WESLEY | Wesley Earl Strick | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
STRONG | DANNY | Strong is Jewish. | ||
STRONG | TARA | Tara Lynn Charendoff | Ashkenazi Jewish | Strong is Jewish |
STUHLBARG | MICHAEL | Michael Stewart Stuhlbarg | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SULJIC | SUNNY | Bosniak and Russian-Jewish | ||
SULKIN | GREGG | Ashkenazi Jewish/Sephardi Jewish | ||
SUNDAY | GABRIEL | Gabriel Chechik Sunday | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
SUZMAN | JANET | |||
TAILOR | JADE | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
TAMBOR | JEFFREY | Jeffrey Michael Tambor | Eileen (née Salzberg), a housewife, and Barney Tambor | Jewish Hungarian |
TARSES | JAMIE | Sara James Tarses | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
TAYLOR | ELIZABETH | Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor | [Converted to Judaism] | |
TEDESCHI | VALERIA BRUNI | 25% Sephardi Jewish | ||
TELIO | MURIELLE | Lebanese Jewish, some Lithuanian Jewish (father) | ||
TELLER | Raymond Joseph Teller | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
TENNEY | JON | Jonathan Frederick Tenney | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
THAYER | DAVID | David Thayer Hersey | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
THIRLBY | OLIVIA | Olivia Jo Thirlby | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
THOMASHEFSKY | BORIS | Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre | ||
THORNE | CALLIE | Calliope Silver Thorne | Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather) | |
TICOTIN | RACHEL | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
TISHBY | NOA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
TOBIN | BECCA | Rebecca Melise Tobin | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
TOBOLOWSKY | STEPHEN | Stephen Harold Tobolowsky | ||
TOGO | JONATHAN | Jonathan Frederick Togo | Sheila, a store owner, and Michael Togo | Togo's mother is of Italian and Irish descent and his father is Jewish, with the original family surname, "Tonkaviev" |
TOPOL | CHAIM | Rel (née Goldman) and Jacob Topol | ||
TORK | PETER | Peter Halsten Thorkelson | 25% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
TORME | MEL | Melvin Howard Tormé | ||
TOVAH | MAGEINA | Mageina Tovah Begtrup | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | Russian Jewish parents |
TRACHTENBERG | MICHELLE | Lana, di origine russa), il padre, Michael | ||
TREBOR | ROBERT | Robert Schenkman | ||
TREVORROW | COLIN | Colin Tyler Trevorrow | Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (mother) | |
TURNER | LAHNA | Lahna Nicole Turner | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
UGGLA | MAGNUS | Per Allan Magnus Claësson Uggla | Swedish, 5/16ths Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/16th Danish, 1/16th Belgian [Walloon], 1/64th German, and remote Russian, Scottish, and Northern Irish | |
ULRICH | SKEET | Bryan Ray Trout | ||
UNKRICH | LEE | Lee Edward Unkrich | English, German (father, who converted to Judaism)-Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
USTINOF | PETER | Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov | 12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
VACK | PETER | Peter S. Brown | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
VALENSI | NICK | Nicholas Valensi | Sephardi Jewish (father) | |
VAN DAMME | BIANCA BRIGITTE | Bianca Bree Van Varenberg | Belgian [Flemish], Puerto Rican, 1/8th Jewish | |
VANITY | Denise Katrina Matthews | Polish, German, and/or Jewish (mother) | ||
VANITY | Denise Katrina Matthews | Jewish (mother) | ||
VARTAN | MICHAEL | Michael S. Vartan | Doris (née Pucher), a painter and artist, and Eddie Vartan | Vartan's American mother is Jewish and originally from Poland |
VAYNTRUB | MILANA | Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
VEBER | JAKE | Sephardi Jewish | ||
VELAZQUEZ | DIEGO | Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez | Portuguese, Spanish [Andalusian], possibly Sephardi Jewish | |
VICTOR | PAUL BEN | Paul Friedman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
VIGMAN | GILLIAN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
VIGODA | ABE | Abraham Charles Vigodah | Lena (née Moses) and Samuel Vigoda | Jewish immigrants from Russia. |
VOGT-ROBERTS | JORDAN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
VON DOHLEN | LENNY | Leonard Von Dohlen, IV | Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Irish, French | |
VON ZERNECK | DANIELLE | Danielle Frances von Zerneck | Hungarian, Sephardi Jewish (father) | |
WADLOW | JEFF | Jeffrey Clark Wadlow | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother) | |
WAIN | DAVID | David Benjamin Wain | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WAITITI | TAIKA | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
WAKSBERG | RAPHAEL-BOB | Raphael Matthew Waksberg | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WALLACH | ELI | Eli Herschel Wallach | Bertha (née Schorr) and Abraham Wallach | Sandler is Jewish |
WALLSTROM | MARTIN | Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz | Swedish, Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WALTER | JESSICA | Esther (née Groisser) and David Walter | ||
WANAMAKER | SAM | Samuel Wanamaker | son of Ukranian Jewish immigrants from Nikolayev, tailor Morris Wanamaker | |
WANAMAKER | ZOE | Wanamaker is of Jewish origin on her father's side, whose family originated in Russia | ||
WARDEN | JACK | John H. Lebzelter | Laura M. (née Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter | father was Jewish and his mother was Irish American. |
WARNER | ALBERT | Abraham "Wonsal," | family of Polish Jews from the village of Krasnosielc | |
WARNER | DAVID | Doreen (née Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner | ||
WARNER | HARRY MORRIS | Hirsch Moses Wonsal | family of Polish Jews from the village of Krasnosielc | |
WARNER | JACK | Jack Leonard "J.L." Warner | family of Polish Jews from the village of Krasnosielc | |
WARNER | SAM | Schmuel Louis Warner | family of Polish Jews from the village of Krasnosielc | |
WARREN | EMILY | Emily Warren Schwartz | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
WARREN | JENNIFER | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
WARREN | LESLEY ANN | originally "Warrenoff", was of Russian Jewish descent | ||
WARSHOFSKY | DAVID | David A. Warner | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
WATKINS | MICHAELA | Michaela Suzanne Watkins | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WAXMAN | AL | Albert Samuel Waxman | ||
WEBER | STEVEN | Steven Robert Weber | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEELER | MAGGIE | Margaret Emily Jakobson | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEIGERT | ROBIN | Robin Joselit Weigert | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEIN | DARYL | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
WEINER | MATTHEW | Matthew Hoffman Weiner | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEINGER | SCOTT | Scott Eric Weinger | Jewish parents Babs and Elliot Weinger | |
WEINSTAIN | BOB | Robert Weinstein | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEINSTAIN | HARVEY | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
WEISMAN | KEVIN | Kevin Glen Weisman | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEISS | DANIEL | Daniel Brett Weiss | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEISS | GAIA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
WEISS | JAMIE SUE | |||
WEISS | MICHAEL | Michael Terry Weiss | ||
WEISSMAN | MALINA | Ashkenazi Jewish, likely German | ||
WEISZ | RACHEL | Rachel Hannah Weisz | Edith Ruth (née Teich), George Weisz | Weisz's father is Jewish and her mother has been referred to as either Catholic,[5] or Jewish |
WEITZ | CHRIS | Christopher John Weitz | 75% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WEITZ | PAUL | Paul John Weitz | 75% Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WENTWORTH | MILLER | Wentworth Earl Miller III | Joy Marie Palm, and Wentworth Earl Miller II | his father is of African American, Jamaican, English, and German descent, and his mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese\ancestry |
WEST | MAE | Mary Jean West | "Battling Jack" West and Matilda Doelger | Her parents converted to Protestantism, although her mother was, by heritage, a Jewish Bavarian-German and her father was born Irish-Catholic. |
WEST | SHANE | Shannon Bruce Snaith | father – Jamaican [English, Sephardi Jewish, distant Scottish] | |
WEST COAST | CHANEL | Chelsea Chanel Dudley | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
WESTFELDT | JENNIFER | Swedish father and Jewish mother | ||
WESTON | MICHAEL | Michael Rubinstein | Ashkenazi Jewish, Polish (father) | |
WHITE-GLUZ | ALISSA | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
WICKERSHAM | EMILY | Emily Kaiser Wickersham | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
WIKONUR | MARISSA JARET | Maxine, a teacher, and Michael Winokur | She is Jewish | |
WILDE | CORNEL | Cornelius Louis Wilde | His parents were the Hungarian Jews Béla Weisz and Renée Vojtech | |
WILDE | OLIVIA | Olivia Jane Cockburn | English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Irish, German, Manx, 1/64th Sephardi Jewish | |
WILDER | GENE | Jerome Silberman | ||
WILK | BRAD | Bradley J. Wilk | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WILLIAMS | ANSON | Anson William Heimlick | ||
WILLIAMSON | MARIANNE | Marianne Deborah Williamson | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WILLIMON | BEAU | Pack Beauregard Willimon | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
WINER | JASON | Jason David Winer | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WINGER | DEBRA | Mary Debra Winger | of Ruth (née Felder), an office manager, and Robert Winger | Orthodox Jewish family - Ashkenazi Jewish |
WINKLER | HENRY | Henry Franklin Winkler | son of Ilse Anna Maria (née Hadra) and Harry Irving Winkler | Winkler's Jewish parents immigrated from Germany - Ashkenazi Jewish |
WINKLER | IRWIN | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
WINNINGHAM | MARE | Mary Megan Winningham | ||
WINTER | ALEX | Scott Richard Wolf | Gregg (née Mayer), Ross Albert Winter | |
WINTERS | MIKE & BERNIE | Michael Weinstein-Bernie Weinstein | The Winters were born in Islington, London to Jewish parents. | |
WINTERS | SHELLEY | Shirley Schrift | Rose (née Winter), a singer with The Muny, and Jonas Schrift, | Daughter of Jewish parents |
WIRTH | BILLY | William Edward Wirth | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
WISEMAN | JOSEPH | son of Ukranian Jewish immigrants from Nikolayev, tailor Morris Wanamaker (Manes Watmacher) and Molly Bobele | ||
WOLF | DICK | Richard Anthony Wolf | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | |
WOLF | FAY | Ashkenazi Jewish (father) | ||
WOLF | NAOMI | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
WOLF | SCOTT | Scott Richard Wolf | Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch | |
WOLFE | JENNA | Jennifer Wolfeld | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WOLFF | ALEX | Alexander Draper Wolff | father – Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WOLFF | NAT | Nathaniel Marvin Wolff | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
WOLFHARD | FINN | Jewish, Irish, Scottish, French, German, English, Welsh | ||
WOOD | ELIJAH | Elijah Jordan Wood | ||
WOOD | EVAN RACHEL | Ira David Wood III Sara Lynn Moore | a Jewish theatrical family | |
WOODELL | KEELIN | Keelin Shea Jerard Woodell | German, Swiss-German, English, Irish, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8th Italian | |
WOODS | ZACH | 75% Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
WRIGHT | TREVOR | Trevor Christopher Wright | Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) | |
WUHL | ROBERT | |||
WYLE | NOAH | Noah Strausser Speer Wyle | Marjorie (née Speer), and Stephen Wyle | |
WYNN | ED | Isaiah Edwin Leopold | ||
WYNN | KEENAN | Jessica Keenan Armstrong | Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn | f Jewish American vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn, and his Irish-American Catholic |
YAMIN | ELLIOTT | Efraym Elliott Yamin | Iraqi Jewish (father)-*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
YANOFSKY | NIKKI | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
YARKIN | SARAH | Sarah Gabriella Yarkin | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
YARON | HADAS | Jewish | ||
YAROSH | DANIKA | mother – Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, French, Irish, other | ||
YELCHIN | ANTONY | Anton Viktorovich Yelchin | Ashkenazi Jewish | His family is Jewish; in the USSR, they were subjected to religious and political oppression |
YOUN | MICHAEL | Michaël Benayoun | Moroccan-Jewish, and Algerian-Jewish descent | |
YOUNG | TYLER | Tyler Matthew Young | Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (mother) | |
YULIN | HARRIS | |||
YUSTMAN | ODETTE | Odette Juliette Yustman | Odette’s paternal grandfather was Jewish | |
ZEGEN | MICHAEL | Michael Jonathan Zegen | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ZIERING | IAN | Ian Andrew Ziering | Mickie and Paul Ziering | |
ZIERING | NIKKI | Nikki Schieler | Ziering converted to Judaism before marrying Ian Ziering | |
ZIFF | MATTHEW | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ZIGRINO | JENNY | Jennifer Rachael Zigrino | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | |
ZIMBALIST JR | EFREM | Ashkenazi Jewish (raised Episcopalian) | son of violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (1890-1985) and operatic soprano Alma Gluck (née Reba Feinsohn; 1884-1938). | |
ZIMMERN | ANDREW SCOTT | |||
ZOHN | ETHAN | |||
ZUCKER | ARIANNE | Arianne Bethene Zucker | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ZUCKERMAN | JOSHUA RYAN | Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish | ||
ZUKER | ARIANNE | Arianne Bethene Zucker | Zucker is an American actress and model of Jewish descent | |
ZUKERMAN | ASHLEY | Ashkenazi Jewish | ||
ZUKOR | ADOLPH | a Jewish family in Ricse, Hungary | ||
ZULAWSKI | ANDRZEJ | |||
ZUMANN | LUCAS | Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) | ||
ZURER | AYELET | |||
ZWICK | EDWARD | Edward Mitchell Zwick | Ashkenazi Jewish | |
ΕΣΚΕΝΑΖΙ | ΑΛΜΠΕΡΤΟ | Ἐσκενάζη Μωϋσῆς Ἀλβέρτος | ||
ΚΑΜΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΣ | ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ | |||
ΚΑΜΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΣ | ΙΑΚΩΒΟΣ | |||
ΜΑΤΣΑΣ | ΑΡΤΕΜΙΟΣ | |||
ΜΑΤΣΑΣ | ΝΕΣΤΩΡ | |||
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