Jessica Biel
Biel in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Jessica Claire Biel
Place of Birth: Ely, Saint Louis, Minnesota, United States
Date of Birth: March 3, 1982
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish (one eighth), Danish (one eighth), English, along with German, Swiss-German, Scottish, distant Welsh, Swedish, and French
Jessica Biel is an American actress, model, producer, and singer. She has had leading roles on television’s 7th Heaven, The Sinner, Limetown, and Candy, and in the films Ulee’s Gold, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Summer Catch, The Rules of Attraction, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Cellular, Blade: Trinity, Stealth, London, Elizabethtown, The Illusionist, Home of the Brave, Next, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Easy Virtue, Powder Blue, Valentine’s Day, The A-Team, The Tall Man, Total Recall (2012), Hitchcock, Playing for Keeps, The Truth About Emanuel, Accidental Love, Bleeding Heart, The Book of Love, A Kind of Murder, and Shock and Awe.
Jessica is the daughter of Kim, a spiritual healer, and Jon Biel, a business consultant. She was raised partly in Texas, Connecticut; Woodstock, Illinois, and finally Boulder, Colorado. She is married to singer and actor Justin Timberlake, with whom she has two children.
Jessica has Hungarian Jewish, from her patrilineal great-grandfather, Danish, from a great-grandmother, English, as well as some German, Swiss-German, and Scottish, and remote Welsh, Swedish, from the early 1700s, and French, ancestry. Jessica did not know of her Hungarian Jewish background until her appearance on the show Who Do You Think You Are?, in a 2017 episode. She stated:
I never heard any of this before. I’m really surprised… I can’t wait to share this with my dad… [I] never had any sort of religious community at all… [I’m] going to learn a lot more about the Hungarian Jews.
Jessica had believed that she has some degree of Native American ancestry on her mother’s side, sometimes stated as Choctaw Native American. An AncestryDNA test whose results were displayed during Jessica’s appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? did not detect any genetic markers for Native American ancestry.
The DNA test stated that Jessica’s genetic ancestry consists of:
*99% Europe
——–*30% Great Britain
——–*26% Europe West
——–*16% Italy/Greece
——–*12% Scandinavia
——–*8% European Jewish
——–*3% Iberian Peninsula
——–*2% Ireland
——–*2% Europe East [possibly Jewish]
*<1% Africa
Jessica’s paternal grandfather was Donald Arthur “Donny” Biel (the son of Edward Lincoln Biel and Carrie L. Rasmussen). Donald was born in Illinois. Edward was born in Illinois, the son of Moritz/Morris Biel and Otillie/Ottilia Morskovitz, who were Jewish emigrants from Žilina (then in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Slovakia). Carrie was born in Illinois, the daughter of Mikael Frederik Rasmussen and Eleonora Katrine Lund, who were Danish immigrants.
Jessica’s paternal grandmother is Claire Porter (the daughter of Howard Carlisle/Carlyle Porter and Marie/Mary Celeste Weber). Claire was born in Illinois. Howard was born in North Dakota, the son of Charles William Porter and Anna E. Bryant, who had roots in the U.S. going back to the 1600s. Marie/Mary Celeste was born in Illinois, the daughter of George Theodore Weber and Elizabeth Hausner, who were of German descent.
Jessica’s maternal grandfather was Garth Lon Conroe (the son of Clifford Albert Conroe and Mary Frances Eloise Newkirk). Garth was born in Colorado, to a father from Kansas and a mother from Illinois. Clifford was the son of Vernon Eugene Conroe and Ada Butsch. Mary was the daughter of Henry Milo Newkirk and Lillian Lee Cannon.
Jessica’s maternal grandmother is Norma Jean Roberts (the daughter of James Conaway/Conway Roberts and Flora Zobeda Brasier/Brazier). Norma was born in Colorado, to parents from Missouri. James was the son of William David Roberts and Hannah Jane Miller. Flora was the daughter of William “Bill” Brazier/Brasier and Eliza Belle/Bell Pearson.
Sources: Genealogy of Jessica Biel – http://www.geni.com
Jessica’s paternal grandfather, Donald Arthur “Donny” Biel, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Jessica’s paternal grandmother, Claire Porter, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Jessica’s paternal great-grandmother, Marie/Mary Celeste (Weber) Porter – https://www.findagrave.com
Genealogy of Jessica Biel (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.wikitree.com
Jessica’s maternal grandfather, Garth Lon Conroe, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Jessica’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Vernon Eugene Conroe and Ada Butsch, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Jessica’s maternal grandmother, Norma Jean Roberts, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogies of Jessica’s maternal great-grandparents, James Conaway/Conway Roberts and Flora Zobeda Brasier/Brazier – https://www.findagrave.com
So you have to add to ethnicity, Irish also, because of Conroe and Miller
It is discrimination! Miller and Conroe against Butsch :)
two vs one. If there’s “German” so “Irish” should be also added for the same reason. Or “German” must be removed
Are you kiddin me?!
She is married to Vernon Conroe. That’s not her name.
Follers: you like to discriminate, but not to be
discriminated
I ment you comment “I like to discriminate”
Witty, but a bit offensive
“I ment you comment “I like to discriminate”
Witty, but a bit offensive”
It is the problem of methodology, rather than discrimination
“Yes Marc, because Jessica having an ancestor with a German last name and Swiss- and German- born parents doesn’t mean that she has Swiss and German ancestry,”
Unknown family tree,even unknown name, but you detected her ancestry, just by place of birth.
“What do you mean? If she had an ancestor named “Murphy” who was born in Ireland, I would say she has Irish ancestry. I think that’s fair. So having an ancestor named “Butsch” from Switzerland sounds fair to say Swiss (or Swiss-German).”
Just guesses, like my, about Americans and Britons with Irish names.
Swiss and German are synonyms for you?
“They’re not the same, but Swiss-German is one group, and, Ada’s mother was born in Germany.”
Which roots are unknown yet
“And Miller can be Jewish, German, English, Scottish, etc. We should add all that.”
Yeah! And Butsch could be Escimo also
“Vernon Conroe and Ada Butsch were Jessica’s great-great-grandparents. What is the issue?”
Jeeez, this is not evidence!!! This site defined ETHNICITY, not place of birth without name)))) or not?
Actually, there’s no german name “Miller”, but
“Müller”.
Find at least one american celebrity, who doesn’t claim, he/she
is “partly native”?
George Clooney
She don’t needs claim being part native,is kinda obvious that she is.
By family legend, Jessica’s “exotic appearance” goes from her grand mother by mother side. So take a look at her French-British ancestors
http://www.geni.com/people/William-Brazier/6000000018096454391
Her facial features are just some paleo-european influence
How is it obvious that she is Native American? She isn’t.
Thank you!!!
Typical Multi-Racial American MIXED
Not mixed..
Of course, not mixed!
Princess? Her marriage made her to white trash
“Biel” in polish means whiteness
had no idea that jessica biel was biracial, but she’s gorgeous
uh….she’s not biracial
Actually yes, her mother is Native-American, and native-american isn’t white. For example if you are Asian and European your biracial, if your African and European your biracial, if your Native and Asian your biracial, if your Native and African your biracial, if your African and Asian your biracial. God created 4 races(European, African, Native, and Asian). Jessica Biel is half Native and half European meaning biracial.
Jessica Biel is not half European and half Native American.
Her mother, Kimberly Conroe, has Native American ancestry. She is nowhere near full-blooded Native American. She’s not even a half.
Therefore, Jessica is not biracial.
I can see Jessica has some Native features, though.
Barely, can see Native American in her features. Just chin and eyes a bit, but one thing is BiracialLexi. How is one race made at all? by admixture or just created the first race in the beginning? Simple answer admixture, that is how the 5 races were made, not 4. 5 races: Asian, Negroid (good speaking terms because I refuse to degrade race), Caucasian, Arab, and Aborginal (Native) are created such, and yes, created such by God or can be disputed for religions, but doesn’t religion of God show acceptance for a dominant race, and not to take supremacist ways? definitely. However, someone half and half is half of both and should be accredited for such, but also people that are that dominant race are that race no matter. To be non-prejudice, she is Caucasian and it shows in the database as such, and to be prejudice, she is not, but not one person or certain ideals that do not prove anything can go against a person’s race. Anyhow, who cares, she is caucasian in census and that is whatever.