In the American show Finding Your Rootsactor Edward Norton, recently seen in Glass Onion: a story at loggerheadsdiscovered having an iconic figure in history as 12th great-grandmother!
While Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) strives to solve a most delicious investigation in Glass Onionthe independent suite ofAt Knives Out, two films available on Netflix, actor Edward Norton has fun finding the names that make up his family tree! In the thriller, Edward Norton plays Miles Bron, the one who stages a game in which his guests must identify who his potential murderer is. The character, a wealthy man who owes his wealth to almost everyone except himself, of course hides secrets that the hero Benoit Blanc will be keen to bring to light. In the American show Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., actor Edward Norton takes on a whole new challenge: finding the names that make up his family tree! And one thing is certain: the results are more than surprising.
Actor Edward Norton is linked to Pocahontas
More and more people are curious to learn more about their history, but also their origins. Through DNA research, it is possible to find out where you really come from. Edward Norton lent himself to the game and thus made a surprising discovery: Pocahontas, the 17th century Powhatan woman, would be his 12th great-grandmother! An astonishing revelation which is explained by the fact that she had married the English colonist John Rolfe in 1614. “John Rolfe and Pocahontas were married on April 5, 1614. Shakespeare died in 1616, just to put that into perspective. Pocahontas died in March 1617 in Grave’s End, England, and John Rolfe died around March 1622”, thus explained Henry Louis Gates Jr., leaving the actor amazed, realizing “how we are only a small piece of all human history”.
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Edward Norton and Julia Roberts have a common ancestor
If the actor Glass Onion was obviously delighted to learn that he was one of Pocahontas’ descendants, he was less proud to learn that his third great-grandfather, John Winstead, was known to have owned slaves in the 1850 census in North Carolina. Information that he judged “uncomfortable”, while his interlocutor reminded him that “it was not him or his own life that was being judged”. “It is a judgment on the history of this country and it must be recognized first and then it must be fought” he added. In a previous episode of Finding Your Roots with Julia Roberts, DNA results revealed that the two actors shared a common ancestor!
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