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Birth Name:
David Paul Boreanaz
Birth Place:
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth:
May 16, 1969
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Italian, Slovak, Irish, German, French, Swiss
The American actor is best known for appearing in the television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
His father is Dave Roberts, originally David Thomas Boreanaz. According to an article on Parade.com the surname Boreanaz is from Northern Italy.
His mother, Patti Boreanaz is an Italian Catholic, according to IMDB.
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He is half Italian, quarter Slovak and quarter Irish, German, French, and Swiss. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/what-kind-of-name-is-bore_b_862391.html
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Yes, he IS very good-looking. I always assumed he was Jewish (David AND Boreanaz?), but perhaps I’m wrong. Well, whatever his religion or cultural identity is, he’s still a nice-looking guy…
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Hey Ethnic =), the lastame Boreanaz comes from the Slovenian lastname Borjanac which means “from the city of Borjana” which is a Slovenian city near the Italian border. The Boreanaz last name is very rare in Italy and it is manly in Friuli, an area near the Slovenian border. I know this cuz I m Italian and I ve just looked up on an Italian site this lastname. So actually he is a Slovenian-Italian. :)
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haha, thanks Ethnic :)
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Yeah, I was right! He has well distant Yugoslavian (Slovenian) heritage !! Thank you for your information !!
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One thing is the place of origin of a person and another thing is the origin of the surname. That’s why Michele Bachelet is from Chile but her surname is French. Boreanaz is clearly a jewish or at least semitic surname. In the middle ages there was a Spanish nobleman who held the title of Count of Torreanaz (from Torre (tower) and Anaz, a locality in Cantabria, Spain). The Old Testament mentions many Anas, and -naz is a root for many hebraic and later arabic words. I think it is jewish surname, though David may perfectly have Italian origin.
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Well the “az” part is true. My father always told me all of the Spanish surnames ending in ‘ez” were of jewish descent i.e. Gonzalez, Morales, Hernandez, im guessing of course, sephardic jews, because my father is of sephardic Jewish descent… David clearly has a slavic look. Tall, big boned, broad shouldered, medium nose, high cheek bones. At first I thought he was native american for some reason? But then I googled his last name and found it was a romanticized version of a slavic name. IRONICALLY I know that Italian names are ALWAYS slavicized in the Czech and Slovak lands. So in this case its Bass-ackwards and Boreanaz is an Italianized version of a slavic surname, Go figure! However, I see he is from pennsylvania and that was the main hub for the Slovaks and Czechs, which I see he is also a part Slovak. I am also slovak, and his other name without vowels sounds slovak to me…they are the west slavic names that end in “ke” and “ka” that occur in Czech and Slovak….
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He is of Italian descent as he has stated himself many many times.
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