Yul Brynner

by ethnic


Birth Name:

Yuliy Borisovich Brynner

Birth Place:

Vladivostok, Russia

Ethnicity:

Swiss, Russian and Jewish

The actor was born Yuliy Borisovich Brynner in Vladivostok, Russia. His father was of part Swiss and Russian heritage and his mother was of Russian and Jewish heritage. This was stated on the thejewishlife.com website.

Yul was also mixed with Buryat (Mongolic) blood.

He claimed that was of part-Japanese heritage and born on the Island of Sakhalin but this was contradicted in a biography by his son Rock.

Source:

  1. http://www.thejewishlife.com/yul-brynner-actor/
  2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000989/bio
  3. Brynner, Rock (2006). Empire & odyssey: the Brynners in Far East Russia and beyond.

Celebrities sharing similar heritage:

  1. Michael Douglas
  2. Edward Furlong
  3. Scarlett Johansson
  4. Gwyneth Paltrow
  5. Olesya Rulin
  6. Olga Kurylenko
  7. Pete Doherty
  8. Anna Kournikova
  9. Fedor Emelianenko
  10. Anya Monzikova
  11. Anton Yelchin
  12. Sarah Silverman
  13. George Balanchine
  14. Alexander Pushkin
  15. Taylor Momsen

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