Cooper Andrews

Andrews in 2018, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Andrew Lawrence Cooper

Place of Birth: Smithtown, New York, U.S.

Date of Birth: March 10, 1985

Ethnicity:
*Samoan (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)

Cooper Andrews is an American actor.

Cooper has said:

…I’m Samoan or half-Samoan, but I don’t know a whole lot of the Samoan culture. I was raised by my mom, I was raised Jewish. I’m one of the very few Samoan Jews in the world, which is funny. She’s in the Peace Corps, and that’s where she met my dad, but I never knew my dad. I was raised by my mom, who is a New York Jew.

His mother is of Hungarian Jewish descent.

Cooper is married to Abin Shim.

Cooper’s maternal grandfather was Joseph A. Grünwald (the son of Bernat Grünwald and Paula Klein). Joseph was born in Mezőladány, Hungary. Bernat was born in Mezőladány, the son of Szali Grünwald. Paula was the daughter of Lorinc Klein and Sarah Szeren Gunczler.

Cooper’s maternal grandmother was named Ida Juliana Blumenstock (the daughter of Armin/Armino Blumenstock and Esther). Ida was born in Hungary.

Sources: Genealogy of Cooper Andrews (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://stevemorse.org

Genealogy of Cooper’s mother (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com