Danny Nucci
Nucci in 2008, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Daniel Solomon Nucci
Place of Birth: Klagenfurt, Austria
Date of Birth: 15 September, 1968
Ethnicity: Sephardi Jewish
Danny Nucci is an American actor.
Danny was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, the son of Marinette and Arturo Samuel Dahan Nucci. His parents are/were Moroccan Jews. His father was born in Fez, and his mother’s family is from Casablanca.
When Danny was seven, his family moved to the U.S., living first in New York, and then in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California.
Danny is married to actress Paula Marshall. He has a daughter with his former wife Terre Bridgham; and a daughter with Paula.
Danny’s maternal grandparents were named David Barhanin and Thérèse.
Sources: https://www.google.ca
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Death record of Danny’s father – https://www.familysearch.org
It “Nucci” a popular Italian Jewish surname? If not, I’d assume his father is ethnically Italian.
Not Jewish at all to me.
That’s what I figured. Italian should probably be added, then, and then sourcing added for everything.
And now someone has changed it just to say Shepardi Jewish without any documentation.
His father was born in Morocco, had Dahan in his name, re-married to another Moroccan Jewish woman, and is buried in a cemetery for Moroccan Jews. It looks like an article in Le Monde in 2003 refers to him as a Moroccan Jew, as well, independently of any mention of his son. I’m not sure he had any connection to Italy. Was there an Italian community in Fez, Morocco in the 1930s? Most likely Nucci was changed from something like Nouchi.
Can you add that Le Monde article and/or cemetery record as a citation?
Good find, follers.
Another case of fake Italian then.
There are plenty of French Jews (from North Africa) with Dahan surname indeed.