Joe Pesci
Pesci in 2001, photo by PR Photos
Birth Name: Joseph Frank Pesci
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 9, 1943
Ethnicity: Italian
Joe Pesci is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Goodfellas (1990). He is also known for starring in the films Home Alone, Casino, and The Irishman, among others.
The words pesce (singular) or pesci (plural) mean “fish” in Italian. Joe’s parents, Mary (Mesce) and Angelo Pesci, were born and raised in New Jersey. All of four of Joe’s grandparents were Italian emigrants. His mother’s family was from Aquilonia, Province of Avellino, Campania, Italy. His father is said to have had origins in Turin.
Joe has a daughter with his former wife, actress and model Claudia Haro.
Joe’s paternal grandfather was Santino Pesci (the son of Angelo Pesci and Maria Ansuicci). Santino was born in Valentano, Viterbo, Lazio. Angelo was the son of Tommaso Pesci and Francesca Bellucci.
Joe’s paternal grandmother was named Louise Gaburo (the daughter of Louis Gaburo and Ana).
Joe’s maternal grandfather was named Vito Mesce (the son of Donato Antonio Mesce).
Joe’s maternal grandmother was named Filomena/Philomena Lazzolo.
Sources: Genealogy of Joe Pesci – https://www.geni.com
Joe’s father on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Joe’s aunt (father’s sister) – http://www.legacy.com
Joe’s mother on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
obituary of Joe’s paternal aunt, Rose A. Pesci Marra: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary.aspx?n=rose-a-pesci-marra&pid=129248093
Joe’s mother, Maria Mesce, was born c. 1913 in Aquilonia, Province of Avellino, Campania, Italy.
http://www.aquilonia-carbonara.it/archivio/269-cittadinanza-onoraria-a-joe-pesci.html
His mother was born in New Jersey.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4BX-N2W
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X4DV-ZBD
Rachel Bilson’s maternal grandparents were born in the U.S., too.
they skipped a generation.
heterochromia
https://kanbyamadworld.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/actors-with-heterochromia/
http://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2014/01/08/heterochromia-sexiest-mutation-world/
@ Andrew
I knew Africans had this ,but I didn’t know Europeans had it to. I actually forgot about this mutation, when I was talking about Africans with blue eyes. Thanks for bringing it up.
Probably wears a blue eye contact on one of his eye to “even” it out.
pesci means “fish”
He looks like a fish
for those who say italians are white. joe pesci don’t look white.
Lopac, when are you going to grow up and get a life?
when are you going to get laid.
and stop calling me lopac I don’t know who that is.
HAHA, ITALIANS ARE THE ROOT OF WHITENESS. YOU KNOW ROMANS RIGHT? THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE WRITE ARE HILARIOUS. THERE ARE A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE (MANY ARE EVEN PURPLE HAHA) IN USA AND YOU ARE STILL CONSIDERED WHITE (BECAUSE THE REAL AMERICANS ARE A MIXED OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES).
First of all, what’s is “white”? We studied at school, there
are only 3 races: black (from Africa), asian, and all other
belong to white race. I myself was confused with a word
“indo-european”, but people from India are white, too,
even if they have a very tanned skin and black hair.
Arabs and south-europeans, who are “mixed”(raped)
by some moors, are white, too.
You must have went to a special school inside of a cess pit. There are a hell of a lot more races than three, and people from India being white is a laughable claim.
Race is a social construct you idiot
Observable, measurable differences are as concrete as any calculable equation. What we base reality on, is observation. You can take blind dna samples and group vast majority, there’s outliers however, of people/humans and the table will show opposing ends of the spectrum of phenotypical expression.
Like in the electromagnetic spectrum there’s readings, and what ever you want to call any particular electromagnetic radiation, they’ll fall into a certain range of frequencies. It just takes someone to name them. Same thing with genes and races. You look at blind dna study and then compare them with what the individuals look like and how they cluster in the table, or in a physical mass huddle, and it all makes sense.
Call a group black, or negroid, or group A, it doesn’t matter, they cluster closely and are separated from the other groups. Their geographic neighbors that are in close proximity are closer in terms of genetic markers, frequency of haplogroups, and phenotypical traits, and as the distance grows geographically, so too do the markers and phenotypes start to vary, and then those groups start to cluster.
The notion of races has a history rooted in schism, but as negatively impactful as that notion may be, it does have a root in measurable, quantifiable differences. Many frequent contributors on this site use the big 3 racial groups merely as short hand for ethnic classification or geographical origin, in the interest of genealogical research and discussion.
Sure there’s some obnoxious users that cast aspersions against whole groups of people, but it’s best to ignore those people, like when you ignore a child throwing a temper tantrum, until they calm down.
“BIG PAC”
So, you mean, he’s african american?
he looks north frican
Hm, he doesn’t look especially african-american to me.
lol
he looks north african
u lost the plot this time
Let me guess…your IQ is the same as the speed limit in most major metropolitan cities? Please enlighten me as to what isn’t white about a man that can trace his entire family history right back to Europe? Italians are White/European and they (along with the Greeks) developed and invented civilization. With a name like “BIG PAC” it’s really hard to take you seriously, and I definitely know what ignorant ethnicity you are just by that stupid, uneducated nickname…lol. Moron.
hah, nice troll.
He looks Italian, whiteness is for the most part, a social construct, but he does look “European”.
The only reason you think he doesn’t look “white”, is because you’ve bought into hispanics as a race. Joe Pesci may look somewhat hispanic to some, but hispanics are overwhelmingly southern European, even Mexican people are mostly European, people just don’t realize how swarthy med types can be, and how vastly different their features can be.