T. J. Miller

Miller in 2012, photo by Prphotos

Birth Name: Todd Joseph Miller

Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, U.S.

Date of Birth: June 4, 1981

Ethnicity:
*father – English, Swedish, German, Scottish
*mother – likely Jewish

T. J. Miller is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and comedian.

T. J. is the son of Leslie, a clinical psychologist, and Kent Miller, an attorney. His father is of English, Swedish, German, and Scottish descent. His mother was adopted, by a Jewish family, of German Jewish, Austrian Jewish, Russian Jewish, and Lithuanian Jewish descent. At the time, the late 1940s, most children adopted by Jewish parents were born to Jewish mothers (and sometimes also Jewish fathers).

He is married to actress and installation artist Kate Gorney/Miller.

T. J.’s paternal grandfather was Ernest William Miller (the son of Albert Monroe Miller and Alta K. Roberts). Ernest was born in Kansas. Albert was the son of Phillip Miller and Mary Ellen Vaughn. Alta was the daughter of Thomas A. Roberts and Cornelia Acenath Kenneday.

T. J.’s paternal grandmother was Margery Louise Olson (the daughter of Andrew Belmont Olson and Nancy Mary Comstock). Margery was born in Kansas. Andrew was of Swedish descent, the son of Andrew Belmont Olson and Josephine/Josefine Othelia Lonquist. Nancy was the daughter of Crocker Henry Comstock and Mary Ann Funk.

T. J.’s adoptive maternal grandfather was Joseph Louis Jaffe, Jr. (the son of Joseph Louis Jaffe and Stella Rosenberg). T. J.’s grandfather Joseph was born in California. T. J.’s great-grandfather Joseph was born in California, to parents from Germany, Lewis Jaffe and Johanna Oppenheim/Coppenhen. Stella was also born in California, the daughter of Wolf Rosenberg, who was born in Germany, and of Esther C. Kaplan, who was born in California, to parents from Germany.

T. J.’s adoptive maternal grandmother was Virginia Clara Bayer (the daughter of William S. Bayer and Gertrude L. Grossberg). Virginia was born in Ohio. William was born in Galicia, Austria. Gertrude was born in Illinois, to parents from Russia or Lithuania, Louis Grossberg and Rebecca Lane. T. J.’s matrilineal great-great-grandmother Rebecca was the daughter of Rabbi Abel Lane and Clara Kallen.

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Genealogies of T. J.’s paternal grandparents, Ernest William Miller and Margery Louise Olson – http://www.findagrave.com

Obituary of T. J.’s paternal grandmother, Margery Louise (Olson) Miller – https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net

T. J.’s mother on the 1950 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org

T. J.’s maternal grandfather, Joseph Louis Jaffe, Jr., on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

T. J.’s maternal great-grandparents, Joseph Louis Jaffe and Stella Rosenberg, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

T. J.’s maternal great-grandfather, Joseph Louis Jaffe, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

T. J.’s maternal great-grandmother, Stella Rosenberg, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

T. J.’s maternal grandmother, Virginia Clara Bayer, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Virginia Clara Bayer on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

T. J.’s maternal great-grandparents, William S. Bayer and Gertrude L. Grossberg, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

T. J.’s maternal great-grandmother, Gertrude L. Grossberg, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org