Shaun Weiss
Weiss in 2011, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Shaun Herman Weiss
Place of Birth: Montvale, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 27, 1979
Ethnicity:
*mother – Indian-Guyanese [Tamil, Punjabi]
*father – possibly Ashkenazi Jewish
Shaun Weiss is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Goldberg in The Mighty Ducks film series, and as Josh Birnbaum in the movie Heavyweights.
Shaun’s maternal grandfather was named Baba/Basil Ramcharan/Ramecharan.
Shaun’s maternal grandmother was named Sukania/Shirley Geer.
Change the mother’s ethnicity to: Indo-Guyanese [Tamil, Punjabi, other]
According to this interview he is half Jewish http://oychicago.com/blog.aspx?id=7842&blogid=142
I saw that. No mention of half, but I find it curious that when asked if he was Jewish, Weiss just said that he attended a lot of Bar Mitzvahs. His father could still have been Jewish, though.
According to this interview he is half Jewish
OK, he turned out to be half-Indian. My mistake.
He’s only mentioned his Jewish ancestry in interviews, and he plays Ashkenazi Jewish characters all the time. There was no indication that he had any other ancestry besides that. I couldn’t find any info on him being anything other than Ashkenazi. Him being brown-skinned isn’t a clue that he’s mixed, since a lot of full Ashkenazi Jews have brown skin (some even darker than Weiss).
Oh dear. You are actually right. Ethiopian Jews are darker than him.
Weiss doesn’t quite precisely say he or his father are Jewish in the interviews I found, although it is possible.
He looks either Puerto Rican or North African. Def. mixed-race.
Mixed-raxed is a misnomer. The countries/regions you mentioned are technically inhabited by a majority population of people belonging to the Caucasian race. Mixed-raced implies he should have admixture with Mongoloids or Negroids, or a more of a long shot, Australoids or other more rare races of the Pacific, or even more rare Khoisanoids.
I agree he looks mixed ethnically, but I’m not sure how I feel about stamping him as having a mixed race look.
What’s your opinion of Paul Sorvino? They always remind me of each other a little.
He looked part Negroid to me.
Now it turns out he is half Guyanese and all makes sense then.
Paul Sorvino? I doubt they look alike tbh, if not at all.
Good call man.
Idk, they’ve always just seemed reminiscent of one another
http://www.imagevenue.com/ME122J3H
I’m pretty sure his mother was named Rajpatie Ramcharan, and was Guyanese (and probably Indian). Various articles mention him having family members named Ramcharan.
BTW, I don’t know if we’re 100% sure his father was Jewish? He doesn’t quite say it in the interview, although perhaps it’s implied.
His name was, I think, Charles Weiss, and he died around 2015.
Good find.