photo credit: Alan Light
Robert John Downey, Jr.
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, USA
Ethnicity:
German, Scottish, Irish and Jewish Russian
The American actor starred in many Hollywood movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and recently in the movies Iron Man and Good Night and Good Luck. He was born to a German and Scottish Mother and an Irish and Jewish Father. He was quoted saying this in an article on the New York Times.
His father’s original surname was Elias and he stated that the name has Russian Jewish origin. He mentioned this on Inside The Actors Studio.
Source:
- http://www.nytimes.com/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZzKGak0jYI
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He looks Italian or Southern European really !!! Doesn’t look German or British at all, and not really Russian or Irish I don’t get it !!!! he should have somewhat of a native american admixture i thought but……..
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he doesn’t look native American at all. I sometimes wonder if any of you have actually seen a native person
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Jewish is not just a religion; it IS also a ethnicity and one of the semitic race (middle eastern). Dildoz is a dildo!
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jewish isnt a race/nationality its a religion…. retards
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Lol idiot it’s both
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I wouldn’t call it a race but it is a religion as well as a ethnicity. there are also different ethnicities among the ethnicity itself.
Ashkenazi Jew (Eastern European Jews which is pretty much what the majority of Hollywood Jews are)
Sephardic Jew (ex. Emmanuelle Chriqui and Lea Michele, these Jews are the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Penninsula before their expulsion in the Spanish Inquisition)
Mizrahi Jew (Jews descended from the communities of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucaus)
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right
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