Birth Name:
Sean Justin Penn
Birth Place:
Santa Monica, California, USA
Ethnicity:
Jewish-Lithuanian and Russian, Irish and Italian
The actor was born in California. His father had Jewish parents from Lithuania and Russia. His mother is of Irish and Italian descent.
Penn’s mother also said that his father also could’ve had Spanish/French ancestry hence his father’s original surname, Pinon.
Source:
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/penn.htm
- http://www.jewishjournal.com/
- http://www.irishmusicarchive.com/exhibits/HoH/Penn_Sean.html
- http://www.enews20.com/
Celebrities sharing similar heritage:
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Question: How Irish are you? Have you ever traced your Irish roots?
Sean Penn: Well, what time of day how Irish? I think the way you answer this question is… a quarter. I’m Spanish, Russian, Italian and Irish.
http://www.oocities.org/indianrunner60/AOLchat.html
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Very handsome man. I thought he was just Italian.
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His mother also said that his dad might also could’ve had Spanish/French ancestry hence the last name Pinon and It’s on wikipedia with a source…
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