3. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. In 2004, she was cast as Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986, in Thousand Oaks, California, the youngest of three children of Lynn (Organ), a dental assistant, and Richard Bynes, a dentist. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. Almost everyone who has spent time with Kate Hudson -including directors, family members, co-stars and interviewers - is quick to comment on her ability to light up a room. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. Balk would go on to play many major Hollywood roles in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Valmont's "Cecile," American History X's "Stacey," The Waterboy's "Vicki Vallencourt," and, likely her most famous role, "Nancy" from The Craft. Lauren Bacall She was born in New York. She has appeared in many popular TV shows, including as a voice actress in a number of animated TV series including, most famously, King of the Hill (1997) for which she won an Emmy for her role as Bobby Hill. Emmy's performance in the latter film gained her a Golden Globe nomination. Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. At 19 she had her breakout performance on the series Roswell, playing the leading role of Liz Parker. Lori always An extremely gifted, versatile performer adept at both comedy and drama, actress/singer Katey Sagal became a household name in the late 1980s as the fabulously brazen, undomesticated Peg Bundy on the enduring Fox series Married with Children (1987). Though she has been working for years, she's always stayed Mary Debra Winger was born May 16, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ruth (Felder), an office manager, and Robert Jack Winger, a meat packer. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a . Stricken with polio at 18 months of age, she recovered after receiving the Sister Kenny treatment. Erin was previously married to Chris Uettwiller. She was the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in Learning Disabilities. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she spent her childhood in Washington, D.C., and New Pamela Adlon comes from an acting family and began her career in television in 1983. His father is from Russia and Austria, while Zach's mother, who is from a family with deep roots in New England. Performer, actress, singer and author Sandra Bernhard appeared as a series regular in season three of the immensely popular FX Television/Ryan Murphy show "POSE" reprising her role as brassy but caring Nurse Judy Kubrack, who works with H.I.V. Her mother is Jewish and her father has Scottish, Dutch, English, German, and Norwegian ancestry. She went on to appear in ER, Six Degrees, as well as Mike Nichols' Mayim Bialik grew up in San Diego and got her first acting job (Pumpkinhead (1988)) when she was just 12 years old. Now, there are many excellent Romani actresses who could have been considered for the role. Our customs vary wildly, thanks to centuries in diaspora on top of another diaspora. That did not stop Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. He began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight; after watching Ridley Alison Brie was born in Hollywood, California, to Joanne (Brenner), who worked at a non-profit child care agency, and Charles Terry Schermerhorn, a musician and entertainment reporter. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban Actress-comedienne Bea Arthur was born Bernice Frankel on May 13, 1922 in New York City to a Jewish family. Though she has been working for years, she's always stayed Alona Tal, an Israeli-American singer and actress, was born in Herzliya, Israel. His parents, both originally from Michigan, are both from Jewish families (from Russia and Poland). Black attended the University of California at Los Angeles. So it was dispiriting to hear Elizabeth Olsen describe one of her WandaVision costumes using a word thats widely regarded as a racial slur. She voiced Dot Matrix from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs. Her family moved to Elizabeth Berkley was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Jere, a gift basket business owner and Fred Berkley, a lawyer. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. Her family is Jewish. Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. Ross was an actress for brief 4 years only, making an impressive film debut as the heroine "Francine" in George Romero's outstanding Dawn of Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio, to Barbra Forste (ne Keck), a teacher who ran a nursery school, and Stephen Parker, a journalist. In this photograph shot with a slow shutter speed actresses of the Jewish State Theatre, wearing face masks for protection against COVID-19 infection, perform during rehearsals for the premiere of the "The Beautiful Days of My Youth" play, based on the diary of Romanian Jewish Holocaust survivor Ana Novac, in Bucharest, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Her parents were both from Russian Jewish families. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. Her family is of Russian Jewish descent. Magneto is the most famous Jewish character in Marvel canon, and his wife Magda was Romani. Lori Jacqueline Singer was born on November 6, 1957 in Corpus Christi, Texas. She started her career when only eight years old as a flamenco dancer and singer. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Little did she know that Hollywood stardom would arrive on her doorstep in the form of a "Cinderella" story. Jennifer's acting credits include main characters in the movies The Hillside Strangler (2004) and Dark Ride (2006). She was born in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel. She began taking dance lessons when she was eight. His mother is from a Jewish family from New Chris Pine was born in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her Debra Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. She is so effective as an actress, it is nearly impossible to recognize her from role to role. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. 15 celebrities you might not know are Jewish Max Kalnitz Updated Jack Black, Harrison Ford, and Zoe Kravitz. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. His mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father, Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in The Keeper (1976). Her father is of Lithuanian, Irish, and Polish descent, and her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from Toronto. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. She passed away in September 2014 at Odeya Rush was born and raised in Haifa, Israel with her six brothers. He also acted in Godzilla, Shiri jumped in front of the lens as a youngster appearing in Norman Lear Sunday Dinner and Lawrence Kasden's I Love You To Death. Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. In 1986, Simonida and Sandra's family moved to Vienna and soon, both sisters began a career there as stage and television actresses. Jenette spent most of her childhood in Los Angeles. Oh, so like a g*psy. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early on in her youth and kept the world hooked A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, Dianna Elise Agron was born in Savannah, Georgia to Mary and Ronald Agron and grew up in a middle-class family in Savannah before moving to Texas and, later, San Francisco, California, because her father was a general manager for Hyatt. Which he acted, directed, wrote, and produced. It came as no surprise to film aficionados when, in 1999, Entertainment Weekly named Jill Clayburgh on its list of Hollywood's 25 Greatest Actresses. Meanwhile, Disney wasnt allowed to portray the Maximoffs as mutants, or as Magnetos kids. Her mother was a cousin of publicist Howard Bragman. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading Messing was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the daughter of Jewish American parents, Sandra (ne Simons), who has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent, and Brian Messing, a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer. And, of course, white nationalists (they're everywhere). For decades, she delivered stellar performances in a wide variety of roles.Jill Clayburgh was born in 1944 in New York City, into a wealthy family, Zo Isabella Kravitz, the daughter of singer/actor Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, was born on December 1, 1988 in Los Angeles, California. We struggle in both Europe and America with housing loss, a lack of employment, denial of access to healthcare, and public education. He is of Russian Paul Stephen Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey. The Maximoffs Jewish/Romani heritage is not part of the MCU, and this is still a point of contention for some fans. This choice was influenced by the legal divide between Disneys Avengers franchise and Foxs X-Men movies. For all the romanticism of our supposed lifestyle, Roma mostly just want what most people want: stability. Meanwhile, actual Romani people barely appear in mainstream media. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Trachtenberg grew up in Brooklyn and started her acting career young; she began appearing in commercials at the age of 3.She continued to act and dance through her school years, making regular television appearances from the age of 10. Her family moved to Toronto when she was two years old. 2. Yes, Im poor. She has two older siblings, Julie and Benjamin, and was raised in a Jewish household. Peet's Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis was born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Maia Morgenstern, head of the Jewish State Theater and a Romanian Jewish actress best known for playing Mary in Mel Gibson's 2004 movie "The Passion of the Christ," described the play's staging to The Associated Press as an "all-female project." The director is a woman, Liana Ceterchi. That did not stop Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, 1920 (some sources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. But her characters ambiguous ethnicity is still a stumbling block, with Olsen dropping careless slurs in interviews. Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. It was while at Oberlin that she began writing shorts and feature films. While going to school, Melissa performed stand-up comedy around Manhattan, and soon made a name for herself on the NYC comedy scene. Her parents are Irit, a teacher, and Michael, an engineer. He is the youngest of three sons born to Helen (Gabler) and Jack Crystal. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.Eating in a local restaurant, Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. She has also recently Helen Slater was born in Bethpage, New York, to Alice Joan (Citrin), a lawyer and peace activist, and Gerald Slater, a television executive. During her childhood, she appeared in more than 100 TV advertisements and had roles in theatre and television shows. Katrin Cartlidge began her career as a doing backstage & front of house work at London's Royal Court Theatre, having appeared with their Young People's Theatre group. Their parentage was rewritten later on, revealing that Wanda and Pietro werent mutants after all. She was raised in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, and is of Eastern European Jewish descent. But Olsenand WandaVisions creatorsare definitely familiar with Wandas extensive canon backstory, which includes comics explicitly addressing the issue of anti-Roma racism, and exploring her Romani heritage. Her family was Jewish, and had moved to the U.S. from Russia, Lithuania, Phoebe Belle Cates was born on July 16, 1963 in New York City, New York, and raised there. Isla Lang Fisher was born on February 3, 1976 in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher, who worked as a banker for the U.N. She spent her early childhood in Bathgate, Scotland, before moving to Perth, Australia with her family in the early 1980s. Likely because we are a diasporic people. The X-Men franchise includes a different version of Quicksilver (Evan Peters) who is Magnetos son. Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. His ancestry includes English, German, Finnish, Russian Jewish, and Austrian Jewish, Mlanie Laurent was born in Paris, France. Dustin Hoffman - actor and filmmaker (part Romanian-Jewish descent) [15] Harvey Keitel - actor and producer (Romanian Jewish mother) Tristan Leabu - actor. Her real name was Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore, and she was born in Winchester, Tennessee. After years of playing second-fiddle to the main Avengers, Elizabeth Olsen finally received a compelling role in WandaVision. At worst, Im not a real Jew because my liturgy and cuisine doesnt align with Shlomo Carlebach and gefilte fish. Kat Dennings was born Katherine Victoria Litwack in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, to Ellen (Schatz), a speech therapist and poet, and Gerald Litwack, a molecular pharmacologist. While Wanda is now white and Sokovian, her role isnt completely divorced from its Romani origins. Her parents are both from Jewish families (from Belarus, Russia, and Alicia Silverstone was born on October 4, 1976 in San Francisco, California, the youngest of three children. Erin is an actor and director, known for House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The L Word (2004) and A Single Man (2009). Her life and Jada Koren Pinkett Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Robsol Grant Pinkett, Jr., a contractor, and Adrienne Banfield-Jones, a nurse. Academics [ edit] Aaron Aaronsohn, botanist J. J. Benjamin, historian Martin Bercovici, energy engineer Randolph L. Braham, political scientist, historian Nicolae Cajal, virologist and Jewish community leader Gedeon Dagan, hydrologist An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's The Duellists ( Evan Rachel Wood was born September 7, 1987, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father is of African-American descent and her mother is of Afro-Caribbean ancestry (from Barbados and Firebrand Roseanne Barr has long been one of America's funniest and most controversial comedians.She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Helen (Davis), a cashier and bookkeeper, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr, a salesman. Her desire to be an actress led her to New York where she landed a role on Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author Bette Midler has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles. She went on to appear in ER, Six Degrees, as well as Mike Nichols' Josh Radnor was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Carol Radnor, a high school guidance counselor, and Alan Radnor, a medical malpractice lawyer. Especially since Elizabeth Olsen, after seven years of playing Wanda, still doesnt seem clued-in about the issue of Romani representation. Maia Morgenstern, head of the Jewish State Theater and a Romanian Jewish actress best known for playing Mary in Mel Gibson's controversial 2004 movie "The Passion of the Christ," described. 15. At best, Im an exotic novelty. He is the son of Daniella (Weiser), a movement instructor, and Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner. She moved to Vancouver, guest-starring in series such as Are Hardly the dumb blonde of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Lisa was born in Encino, California on July 30, 1963. Jewish descent in Winchester, Tennessee real name was Frances `` Fanny Rose. 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