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Finding Your Roots (2012) Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Finding Your Roots (2012)

Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.

Cast:
Self - Host: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Self:
Self - Guest: Anjelica Huston
Self - Actress: Julianna Margulies
Self - Robert's Father: Robert Downey Sr.
Self - Maggie's Mother: Naomi Foner
Self - Kevin's Brother: Michael Bacon
Self - Kyra's Uncle: John Sedgwick
Self - Branford's Father: Ellis Marsalis
Self - Expert on Slave Era Law, Albany Law School: Paul Finkelman
Self - John's Father: Ronald Lamar Stephens
Self - Historian, San Francisco State University: Eva Sheppard Wolf
Self - Historian, Harvard: Walter Johnson
Self - Genealogist: Johni Cerny
Self - Head Researcher, Massachusetts Historical Society: Peter Drummey
Self - Researcher, New Orleans Public Library: Greg Osborn
Self - Civil War Historian, Mobile, Alabama: Art Green
Self - Researcher: David Deskins
Self - Kyra's Father: Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Self - Historian, University of Memphis: Susan O'Donovan
Self - Author and John's Cousin: James L. Hale
Self - Branford's Mother: Delores Marsalis
1 episode, 2014: Deepak Chopra
Self - Interviewee: John McCain
Self - Actor: Dustin Hoffman
Self - Chef: Lidia Bastianich
Self - Author: Azar Nafisi
Michael Scott: Steve Carell
1 episode, 2020: Marc Maron
1 episode, 2023: Edward Norton

Production: Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films

Release date: 25 Mar 2012
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