Matt LeBlanc
LeBlanc in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Matthew Steven LeBlanc
Place of Birth: Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 25, 1967
Ethnicity:
*father – French-Canadian
*mother – Italian
Matt LeBlanc is an American actor and comedian.
Matt’s father, Paul LeBlanc, was of French-Canadian descent. Matt’s mother, Pat (Di Cillo) Grossman, is from an Italian family.
He has played several Italian-American roles. His surname, Le Blanc, is French for “the white.” Matt has said:
…my last name is French, but my mother is Italian. Her last name is Di Cillo. She is from Arce near Frosinone… I visited when I was on vacation in Italy. We stayed in Rome for three days…
Matt has a daughter with his former wife, British-born American model Melissa McKnight.
Matt’s paternal grandfather was Henry Joseph LeBlanc (the son of Joseph Ozime Ferdinand LeBlanc and Marie Marguerite Cormier). Henry was born in Massachusetts. Matt’s great-grandfather Joseph was the son of Ferdinand LeBlanc and Marceline Ouellet. Marie Marguerite was born in Memramcook, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada, the daughter of Ferdinand Cormier and Celina LeBlanc.
Matt’s paternal grandmother was named Genevieve Melanson (the daughter of Dominique Melanson and Natalie). Genevieve was born in Canada.
Several internet family trees misidentify Matt’s mother as the daughter of David M. Grossman and Judith L. Bourne, who were of Russian Jewish descent. Matt’s mother’s name is Pat Grossman, but the surname Grossman is a re-marriage surname.
Source: Genealogy of Matt LeBlanc (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
correction:
http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/LeBlanc-Family-Tree-2304
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=dowfam3&id=I399075
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQRZ-6GD
I’m pretty sure they keep getting his mother’s background wrong. I think “Grossman” is her re-marriage surname. She’s a (non-Jewish) Italian.
Are you able to trace her original family? I am sure you can.
Yes, http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2015-10-16/mattleblanc.
Speaking of Pauly D, it’s interesting that you wrote “whatever his genetic is, and whatever those % mean, his family is Italian. They speak Italian and they identify as Italian”.
On the other hand, you imply that Pauly D’s grandmother and Alessia Cara’s mother both had affairs with black men.
Interesting double standard. Oh, well, you’re only human.
I was talking about Joe Bastianich’s family, that is still ethnically Italian. I didn’t implied that “Pauly D’s grandmother (?) and Alessia Cara’s mother both had affairs with BLACK MEN”, only that Pauly D’s does not look Italian but of mixed race (and I am not only one to think that) and that Alessia’s mother “keeps a secret”. Btw if both her children are so exotic they must me fathered by the same man.
*Pauly D’s mother does not etc..
You called Alessia Cara a “new world mongrel who believes to be Italian”, even though her family is Italian, they speak Italian, and they identify as Italian.
yes I do believe she’s a “mongrel”. Even Kobe Bryant speaks Italian, but he’s African-American.
So Alessia Cara and Pauly D aren’t Italian even though as far as we and they know, they are, but Lidia Bastianich is Italian even though 63% of her ancestry is Eastern European?
Works for me. That was my point.
I don’t rely much on a genetic chart who use vague terms like “Eastern European” and “Italy-Greece”, as if Italy and Greece would be the same thing. About Lidia, she was kicked out by Slavs because she was Italian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian_exodus
Of course. You would believe a DNA test that said that Pauly D is of 17% African descent (and that would immediately make him “non-Italian”), but not one that says Lidia Bastianic is of 63% Eastern European descent.
I’m not really into any kind of genetic test. Also genotype and phenotype often don’t get along.
Fat guy with a fake French name.
On friends he died his hair black because even in his younger days in the ’90s he was starting to get grey.
His mothers surname is Grossman. That is nowhere near Italian. He must be something else from her side.
“Grossman” is a surname from his mother’s re-marriage, I believe.
I read somewhere his mom was of Italian-Jewish heritage
I believe all of this started with “Grossman”. I think some people just assumed his mother is Jewish because she carries this surname, but it almost certainly is a re-marriage name. I believe his mother is even an Italian immigrant, not just of Italian descent.
she looks more Italian that Pauly D’s mother……
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/matt-leblanc-and-mother-pat-closeman-during-lost-in-space-los-angeles-picture-id115368286
Le Blanc is a commune and a sub-prefecture of the Indre department in central France.
isnt that cute :)