George Clooney
Clooney in 2008, cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: George Timothy Clooney
Place of Birth: Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States
Date of Birth: May 6, 1961
Ethnicity: Irish, English, and German, with more distant Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, and remote French Huguenot and Dutch
George Clooney is an American actor, writer, director, producer, and activist. He has starred in the Ocean’s films, From Dusk till Dawn, Good Night, and Good Luck. (which he also directed), and The Descendants, among many other roles. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Syriana (2005). George was selected People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1997, and again in 2006.
George is the son of Nina Bruce (Warren), a beauty queen and city councilwoman, and Nick Clooney (Nicholas Joseph Clooney), a journalist and television personality. His aunt (father’s sister) was singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. He is the cousin of Rosemary’s sons, actors Miguel Ferrer and Rafael Ferrer. He is a first cousin, once removed, of actress Tessa Ferrer.
George’s father is of half Irish and one quarter German ancestry, with his other quarter being a mix of English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish ancestry. George’s mother has English ancestry, along with more distant Scottish, Welsh, and remote French Huguenot and Dutch, roots.
George is married to lawyer Amal (Alamuddin) Clooney, who is of Druze and Lebanese descent. The couple has two children.
George’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Clooney, was born, c. 1829, in Windgap, County Kilkenny, Ireland, the son of David Clooney and Mary McGrath, farmers.
George’s paternal grandfather was Andrew Joseph Clooney (the son of Andrew Bartholomew Clooney and Crescentia Koch). Joseph was born in Kentucky. Andrew was the son of Nicholas Clooney and Bridget Byron, who were Irish immigrants. Crescentia was born in Ohio, the daughter of German parents, Joseph Henry/A. Koch and Margaret Fehler/Feller/Manns.
George’s paternal grandmother was Marie Frances Guilfoyle (the daughter of Michael Joseph Guilfoyle and Martha Adelia/Ada/Delia Farrow). Marie Frances was born in Kentucky. Michael was the son of Cornelius/Con Guilfoyle, from Tipperary, Ireland, and of Roseanna/Rosanna “Rose” Sweeney, whose parents were Irish, her father from Laois and her mother from Kilkenny. Martha was the daughter of Samuel Tully Farrow and Louella/Ellin Breckenridge “Ella” Vanden.
George’s maternal grandmother was Marvin Jackson Warren (the son of William Henry Warren and Ida Lee Chambers). Marvin was born in Kentucky. William was the son of John Linton Warren and Mary B. Gatton. Ida was the daughter of John Martin Chambers and Lucinda/Lucy Ann Crow.
George’s maternal grandmother was Dica Mae Edwards (the daughter of Ansel Leroy “Roy” Edwards and Nora Bell/Belle Perkins). Dica was born in Kentucky. Ansel was the son of James “Jack” Edwards and Dicy Florence Bandy. Nora was the daughter of Cicero/Cysarough Perkins and Martha Jane Wilburn.
George is a half-first cousin, five times removed, of President Abraham Lincoln. George’s maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Hanks, who was the mother of President Lincoln (Mary and Nancy were both the daughters of Lucy Hanks). Through the same line, George is also a seventh cousin, once removed, of actor Tom Hanks. George’s maternal seven times great-grandparents, John Hanks and Catherine, were also the paternal six times great-grandparents of Tom Hanks.
Sources: Genealogies of George Clooney – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://famouskin.com
http://www.geni.com
Genealogy of George Clooney (focusing on his father’s side) – http://www.wikitree.com
Genealogy of George’s father (through his father’s sister, Rosemary Clooney) – https://old.findagrave.com
Notations on George’s Irish ancestry – http://www.eneclann.ie
George’s paternal great-grandmother, Crescentia Koch, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of some of George’s more distant ancestors – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Do you DNA test people before you befriend them? You seem like “that” kinda crazy
His wife is Lebanese, but George is a WASP.
Sorry, but he is even if you don’t like it.
I’m not even gonna debate on whether George is white or not.
But can you explain to me how he would be mistaken as an Arab in southern Italy (that’s where ytou claim to live, right?) based on the traits that you pointed out? (olive skin and semitic features)
Are you like aware of the amount of people in southern Italy and Italy at large who have olive skin? And A LOT of southern Italians have jewish ancestry, how is hell someone with, according to you, olive skin and semitic features, would stand out in southern Italy at all?
@NOTREALLY
Leaving aside Muricans hysteria, those who have “A LOT” of Jewish ancestry are the Spaniards, not the Italians:
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/europe/04iht-gene.4.18411385.html
I never said Spaniards don’t have a lot of Jewish ancestry, I myself have some, I’m saying out of all Italians, southern ones have the most, dunno why you take it so personally
I guess you’re just as much of a white supremacist as muricans is, you just display it in a different fashion
I am not a “suprematist” of anything, you simply got it wrongly this time.
Another person with German/British isles ancestry that people thinks looks too “dark” for that ancestry…. Instead of trying to insist people are mixed with something stereotypically “darker”, just accept some British or German people look like this. Also, travel a bit more and you’ll find this is not a strange look in northwestern europe.
It’s like everyone missed that he is French. French people can be as dark and even darker than some people from the Middle East. All it takes is one gene. my family is French and we have quite a few dark skinned people. He’s French. Boom. Mystery solved lol.
lol
Right. There are even some dark Irish people. They use to be called “black Irish” back in the day.
@Jrose
His French ancestry has to be remote from Colonial times (1600s) in NY/NJ.