Birth Name: Christopher Whitelaw Pine
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: August 26, 1980
Race or Ethnicity: English, Welsh, Russian Jewish
On his father’s side he is English and Welsh. But his maternal grandfather Max Goldfarb’s parents’ names were Yetta Saporsnikova and Louis Goldfarb, all very Jewish names.
Source:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
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He doesn’t look Russian at all more like a Jewish/English mix
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I think his dad was the actor that played the police commander on that motorcycle cop show Chips back in the ’70s.
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So hot! If I wasn’t married……….LOL.
I think he has some Irish in him.
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i think he has some Irish in him too!!! he so cutee
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He’s pretty hot. Not the hottest guy around *my opinion*.
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what a unique middle name lol!:)
hottest guy ever!
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thanks for the input Dave and Anon.
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He is of Welsh and Jewish descent on his mother’s side. http://www.flixster.com/actor/chris-pine
But on wikipedia on his mother page write: Her grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants.
Maybe just on father side?
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SAD, SAD, SAD. RUINED HIS GENES FOREVER BECAUSE HE IS BIRACIAL. WHAT AN UTTER WASTE. WHAT A SHAME.
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What do you mean with biracial? In what way? Just goes to show how nonsensical our definition of race is. The Slavs do have some Asiatic heritage, but most people regard them as white. Anyway, he wouldn’t be what he is if it were not for his genes!
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@ A/N ur a racist, and how the hell is he biracial?? Being eastern european and western european isn’t biracial, they both belong to the white-caucasian category.
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@A/N I really want to know what sad pathetic piece of shit you are maybe you should educate yourself a little then you wouldn’t walk around talking bullshit about nations you have no idea about. How stupid has one got to be to seriously assume Russians are Asian-mixed? A Russian that’s actually mixed like that is not an ethnic Russian big surprise who came up with this..BTW we are whiter than most other so proud western Europeans asshole
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Saporsnikova is Russian surname. -ova is Russian end of name, and really very looks like slavic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_surname
What you think?
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“Yetta” is a very Jewish name, so definitely Russian Jewish on that side.
Hard to say about Welsh… people may assume so because his grandmother’s stage name was the Welsh “Gwynne” – but she wasn’t born with that name.
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