Joe Manganiello
Manganiello in 2012, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Joseph Michael Manganiello
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 28, 1976
Ethnicity:
*paternal grandfather – African-American, Irish
*paternal grandmother – Italian Sicilian
*maternal grandfather – Dalmatian Croatian
*maternal grandmother – Armenian, German
Joe Manganiello is an American actor, producer, director, author, and narrator. He is known for playing Alcide Herveaux on True Blood, and for his roles in the films Magic Mike, Sabotage, Archenemy, and, as Flash Thompson, in Spider-Man, among many other works.
Joe is the son of Susan Catherine and Charles John Manganiello. His paternal grandmother was of Italian descent, from Sicily. As an adult, Joe discovered that his paternal grandfather was of mixed African-American and Irish ancestry. Joe’s maternal grandfather was of Dalmatian Croatian ancestry, and Joe’s maternal grandmother was of German and Armenian descent. A picture of Joe with his parents can be seen here.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2023) stated that Joe’s genetic ancestry is:
*93% European
*7% Sub-Saharan African
Joe’s biological paternal grandfather was the son of William Henry Cutler and Nellie Alton. Joe’s great-grandfather William was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was African-American. He was the son of William H. Washington and Nancy A. Somers/Sommers, and a great-grandson of Plato Turner, who was born in Africa, and was taken into slavery in the U.S.; Plato later became a free man, fighting in the American Reolution starting in 1776. Joe’s great-grandmother Nellie was born in Washington, D.C., and was white, with Irish ancestry. She was the daughter of John Alton and Mary Hurley.
Joe’s paternal grandmother was Marie Rose Bonanno (the daughter of Giuseppe/Joseph Bonanno and Rose Correnti). Marie was born in Connecticut, to Italian parents, from Messina, Sicily. Giuseppe was the son of Santo Bonanno and Carmela Aveni. Rose was the daughter of Carmelo Correnti and Maria Trifiletti.
Joe’s legal paternal grandfather was named Emilio “John” Manganiello. Emilio was born in Pennsylvania, to a family from Avellino, Campania. As an adult, Joe discovered via Finding Your Roots that Emilio was not his biological grandfather.
Joe’s maternal grandfather was Nicholas Francis Joseph Brachanow (the son of Ante/Marko/Marks/Michael Bračanov/Brachanow and Kata/Kate “Catherine” Jelavčić/Jelovčić/Jelnick/Yarosa/Yelobchich/Jelovich). Nicholas was born in Massachusetts, to Dalmatian Croatian parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, likely Murter, Jezera. Marks was the son of Nikola/Nicola Bračanov and Matija Baresin. Kata was the daughter of Jakov/Jacov/Jack Jelovčić and Tonka/Anntonet Lovresko/Lovesko.
Joe’s maternal grandmother was Sirarpi/Sirapi “Sondra” Tateosian/Tatouchian (the daughter of Karl Wilhelm Beitinger/Beutinger and Terviz/Tevris/Tarvez “Rose” Darakjian). Sondra was likely born in Samatya, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. Kerl was born in Heilbronn, Germany, and was the son of Rudolf Beitinger and Catharina Jakobine Albrecht, and the grandson of Johan/Johann Heinrich Beutinger and Catharine Friederike/Friedrike Reischle. Rose was likely born in St. Stephens, Harpoot, Ottoman Empire, the daughter of Vartan Darakjian and Mariam Kachadourian.
Joe has said, discussing his maternal great-grandmother:
…April 24 was a very special day because it is the centenary of the 1915 genocide (when the Turkish government deported and exterminated millions of Armenians). My great-grandmother escaped that same year when her entire family was murdered… [She swam] across the Euphrates River with her last baby on her back. But when she got across the river, she saw that the baby had drowned. She ended up living in a cave until some German soldiers found her and one of them got her pregnant. They went to Germany where she had an Armenian-German baby daughter. This was my grandmother. She lived on the streets of Constantinople for three years, until she gathered enough money to go to the United States, where she eventually married. That’s the story of my great-grandmother and grandmother.
Manganiello in 2010, photo credit: Ronald Woan
Sources: http://www.grazia.it
http://www.vanidades.com
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https://www.irishexaminer.com
Genealogy of Joe Manganiello – https://www.geni.com
Joe’s paternal grandmother, Marie Rose Bonanno, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Birth record of Joe’s maternal grandfather, Nicholas Francis Joseph Brachanow – https://www.familysearch.org
Joe’s maternal grandfather, Nicholas Francis Joseph Brachanow, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Joe’s maternal great-grandparents, Ante/Marks/Michael Bračanov/Brachanow and Kata/Kate “Catherine” Jelavčić/Jelovčić/Jelnick/Yarosa/Yelobchich – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Joe’s maternal grandmother, Sirarpi/Sirapi “Sondra” (Tateosian/Tatouchian) Brachanow – https://www.newspapers.com
“93% European”.
Is this reliable? If he is part Armenian, at least.
It does seem odd, right? Shouldn’t he skew some large percentage of West Asian? Kind of an unexpected result.
Apparently, the show uses 23andMe as their tester, from what I can find. So what I assume is that on the show, he simply folds the “Northern West Asian” results into “European.” Because I have no reason to doubt whether the test is reputable.
When the show began, they actually used a combination of several DNA services: 23andMe, AncestryDna specifically the African test to help pinpoint specific tribes of descendants of slaves, and FamilyTreeDNA. I guess to get a more balanced approximation. Well according to this anyway:
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2012/03/24/finding-your-roots-with-henry-louis-gates-jr/
Although I’ll say this, 23andme isn’t a current sponsor, of the big companies, only Ancestry is currently a sponsor, from what I can tell. So perhaps that has something to do with the accuracy of the more recent profiles. From all the comments I read years ago, AncestryDna had some poor approximations comparative to 23andme, and I’m not talking about a few, I read into the thousands of complaints. These companies are always improving and tweaking, and they have data on millions of users, so several thousand seem like a drop in the bucket, but the cross section of users with vastly different origins, that I read into, made me doubt Ancestry’s legitimacy the most.
Also the last time I checked it seemed like their lead geneticist CeCe Moore was probably going to be let go of soon, as I think her credit was downgraded to co-chief geneticist, or something like that, with Kimberly N. Morgan also being called the lead geneticist.
Maybe CeCe’s getting old or her specialty skews too far Eurocentric and they’re getting more diverse participants and she can’t keep up or something. Either way, she was good at what she did, but it is probably becoming too niche for the scope Dr. Gates wants to cover.
Why mention West Asian, when it’s Armenian? What ‘s West Asian anyway? Whether you like it or not, Armenians fall under the European cluster of gene classification.
Ashkenazi Jews too
Certainly
Not necessarily….especially with these DNA testing companies
His father is approximately an octoroon
Check out the eugenics on Andrew. Can’t believe people actually believe in that stuff. His father was approximately whatever he wanted to be.
October 2021 he visited my local town to realise his Cork ancestry. BIg man and his partner was a lovely lady too. Down to earth and hung around for a few days. Whatever they did discover, or not, then the best of luck to two very famous but still very grounded people.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-40723821.html