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George Clooney
Actor
Irish, English, and German, with more distant Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, and remote French Huguenot and Dutch
Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States
George Sanders
Actor · Musician
Father: possibly European Royal and Russian · Mother: German, as well as 1/16th English, remote Scottish
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (now Russia)
Gig Young
Actor
French-Canadian, Dutch, English, Scottish, Northern Irish/Irish, 1/128th Huron Native Canadian
St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.
Heath Ledger
Actor
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 1/16th Jewish [Sephardi, Ashkenazi] (matrilineal)
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
J. K. Simmons
Actor
English, as well as small amounts (to varying degrees) of Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, distant Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Cornish
Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S.
Jack Lemmon
Actor · Musician
English, Irish, small amounts of Scottish, German, French, Dutch, and Welsh
Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Jack Nicholson
Actor
Mother: Irish, with smaller amounts of Scottish, English, German, Welsh * biological father – unknown: either Italian, or Latvian, or Ashkenazi Jewish, or Baltic German
New York City, New York, U.S.
Jared Leto
Actor · Musician
English, Cajun/French, smaller amounts of Irish, German, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, at least 1/512 Spanish, remote Dutch and Mi’kmaq First Nations
Bossier City, Louisiana, U.S.
Jason Robards
Actor
Swedish (maternal grandmother), English, Welsh, German, Irish, distant Scottish
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Javier Bardem
Actor
Spanish [Castilian and Leónese], Basque, Catalan, as well as 1/64th British Isles [Irish, English]
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
John Gielgud
Actor
Father: Polish, Lithuanian · Mother: Cornish, English
Kensington, London, England, U.K.