Gale Anne Hurd

Hurd in 2016, photo by kathclick/www.bigstockphoto.com/

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: October 25, 1955

Ethnicity:
*father – Ashkenazi Jewish
*mother – English, Irish, one eighth Mexican

Gale Anne Hurd is an American film and television producer.

Gale is the daughter of Lolita/Loretta and Frank Hirshstein/Hurd. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic. Gale is married to screenwriter and director Jonathan Hensleigh. She has a daughter with her former husband, director and screenwriter Brian De Palma.

Gale’s paternal grandfather was Jacob Milton Hirshstein (the son of Ferdinand Hirshstein and Josephine Danbaum). Ferdinand was born in Prussia. Josephine was the daughter of parents from Germany.

Gale’s paternal grandmother was Gertrude Rosenberg (the daughter of Jacob Rosenberg and Charlotte Haas). Jacob was born in Breisach am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the son of Goetsch L. Rosenberg and Ceiscentia Weil. Charlotte was the daughter of parents from Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Elias Haas and Teresa/Theresa Levy.

Gale’s maternal grandfather was Zevele Lemuel/Claude Samuel Jordan/Jordon (the son of Benjamin Samuel Jordan and Mahala/Haley Ann Wordlow/Wardlow). Zevele was born in California. Benjamin was the son of Benjamin Bridgforth Jordan and Rachel Sidney McCrowrie/McCrory. Mahala was the daughter of Emily Leathers.

Gale’s maternal grandmother was Ruth Helen Dunn (the daughter of Thomas Stassford Dunn/Dunne, Jr. and Alice Perry). Ruth was born in California. Thomas was born in Mexico, to an Irish father, Thomas Dunne, Sr., and a Mexican mother, Dolores Rivera Vasquez. Alice was possibly born in Iowa, the daughter of William Perry and Amanda Lavina Billington.

Sources: Genealogy of Gale Anne Hurd – http://www.wikitree.com

Divorce record of Gale’s parents – http://www.familysearch.org

Genealogies of Gale’s paternal great-grandparents, Jacob Rosenberg and Charlotte Haas – https://www.geni.com

Gale’s mother on the 1930 U.S. Census – http://www.familysearch.org

Marriage record of Gale’s maternal grandparents, Zevele Lemuel/Claude Samuel Jordan/Jordon and Ruth Helen Dunn – http://www.familysearch.org