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Description: 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.
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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