George Chakiris
Place of Birth: Norwood, Ohio, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 16, 1934
Ethnicity: Greek
George Chakiris is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for West Side Story (1961).
His parents, Zoe (Anastasiadou) and Stelianos “Steven” Chakiris, were ethnic Greeks who were born in Turkey.
George’s paternal grandparents were Aristotelis “Aristotle” Chakiris and Ekaterini “Cathryn” Pappalazarou.
Source: George’s parents, Stelianos “Steven” Chakiris and Zoe Anastasiadou, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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He is Greek. When I was about 12 and I saw him on the screen I thought he was so good looking!
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in yr wrong writing abt the origin of george chakiris i am sure that the parents of George were greek
I really think He’s Albanian..
I mean his Origin could be Albanian.
Alot of Albanians move to Greece, and Label themselfs as Greek, maybe his parents, or grandparents did that also… But I really want to find out what is George Chakiris.
His parents were ethnic Greeks, born in Turkey.