Travis Tope

Tope in 2014, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Travis Hunter Tope

Place of Birth: Bexar, Texas, U.S.

Date of Birth: November 11, 1991

Ethnicity: English, some Scottish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, one eighth Italian/Sicilian, distant Welsh and German

Travis Tope is an American actor. His roles include the films Men, Women & Children, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014), Viral, and Seven in Heaven, and the series Boardwalk Empire and American Vandal.

Travis’s paternal grandfather is Virgil Maurice Tope (the son of Millard Filmore Tope and Dora Taylor). Virgil was born in Texas. Millard was the son of Thomas Benjamin Tope and Lydia Elizabeth White. Dora was the daughter of Edward Lee Taylor and Louise Hilburn.

Travis’s paternal grandmother is Janie Louise Chiodo (the daughter of Russell Chester Chiodo and Eva Delia Coleman). Janie was born in Texas. Russell was born in Alia, Palermo, Sicily, the son of Salvadore Antonino “Samuel” Chiodo and Santa/Sidney Berlinen. Eva was the daughter of James Wyatt Andrew Coleman and Emma Jane Sutherland.

Travis’s maternal grandfather is Ira Lee Neal (the son of Sylvanus Bud Henry Neal and Esther Williams). Ira was born in Texas. Sylvanus was the son of Jeptha Sessions Neal and Willie Bell Rutherford. Esther was the daughter of Joseph Robert Williams and Nora Nixon.

Travis’s maternal grandmother was Bettie/Betty Glenn McQueen (the daughter of Austin Glenn McQueen and Bertha Violet Cathey). Bettie was born in Texas. Austin was the son of John Morgan McQueen and Lucinda Bennie “Dolly” Crenshaw. Bertha was the daughter of Maury Walker Cathey and Tessie R. Webb.

Sources: Travis’s paternal great-grandmother, Dora Taylor, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Travis’s paternal grandmother, Janie Louise Chiodo, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Obituary of Travis’s maternal grandmother, Bettie/Betty Glenn (McQueen) Neal – http://www.findagrave.com