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
Бил – bił in polish is as u said past tense from your english “to beat” (bić in polish), pronunciation is not similar to biel (maybe only in USA where people often pronounce their immigrant names in all kinds of wrong ways – in this case yes Бил can sound like biel lol). Biel in polish means “whiteness” not “white” which is biały.
“immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire” it means they were polish jews after partition of Poland… Biel means White in polish, it is polish surname.
You forgot one thing. There was no Poland that time [ 3 partitions of Poland in 18 century]and 1/3 of Rzeczpospolita/Poland/Polish land became part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. BTW, “Biel” is polish surname/word and means “white” in Polish language and there is no such word in hungarian language…Make some research in polish and hungarian vocabulary or in google translator and you will see i am right.
Looks like you’re from Poland. Don’t you think that this surname concentrates around southern Poland, about Carpathian area.
And second question, what do you think about pronunciation of name “Biel” which is very similar to Eastern Slavic word “Бил” or “to beat” in English???
“Бил” or “To beat” in the past tension, surely
She looks like she has some Native American in her.
for humanid
Jewish is placed first coz it’s her paternal direct lineage, maternal is alwais put after. I think Jessica is unaware to have some Jewish in her, as many Americans about any ethnicity btw
To people don’t get confused reading about Biel’s ethnicity, there’s a sense to express it as a percentage.
British/French – 68,75 %
Danish -12.5 %
Austrian or possibly Ashkenazi (never mind) -12.5 %
Swiss -6.25 %
So she’s predominantly Western European
French and British are not the same (and Biel’s French ancestry is much smaller than her English), there is also Swedish and German, and we’re down to “possibly” Ashkenazi now?
Her German ancestry among the Swiss branch. And i did not find Swedish.
European trend: Western-Central-Eastern is not less important than trend: North-South, both culturally and ethnically.
The main difference is Eastern European/Western European. I can distinguish Eastern Europeans from Western ones (it doesnt matter if Northern/Central or Southerners) by a mile, and it’s not about the hair/eyes type/colour. They have a different head shape
Agree. It is very easy to distinguish Eastern Europeans from Western in general.If we’re talking about these two areas It is possible to guess where are some people from with 90-95% possibility. And you’re right, level of pigmentation doesn’t have to do with this. Central Europe is between this two areas and it’s population is the result of two head tides, from West and from East. This zone streches from Italy through Germany to Scandinavia, and is the most mixed in Europe.