Whoopi Goldberg great-grandmother came from Odessa, and David Duchovny at Russian father

1. David Duchovny by Russian father. More precisely, a Russian Jew. His father's name was Amram spiritual. At the time, Amram changed the letter "x" in his name on the "To" - the Americans it was easier to pronounce it as "Dukovny." However, David returned to the place of the letter.

2. Mother dark-skinned beauty Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat dolls - half-Hawaiian, half-Russian. Full name is Nicole Scherzinger Praskovja Elikolani Veliente.

3. Natalie Portman's parents moved to Jerusalem from Chisinau.

4. Gwyneth Paltrow comes from a kind of Paltrovichey rabbis who lived in Minsk.

5. Milla Jovovich was born in Kiev. Her mother, Galina Loginova, an actress, and his father - a doctor, a pediatrician from Yugoslavia. The first five years of her life Mila spent in the Soviet Union.

6. The mother of actor Harrison Ford named Dora Nidelman. Her mother, Anna, grandmother Ford, left Minsk in 1907. After filming the movie "K-19" Harrison Ford via non-governmental organizations engaged in the search for great-grandfathers and distant relatives who live in the territory of the former USSR.

7. grandmother Leonardo DiCaprio name Elizaveta Smirnova. After the revolution, little Lisa's parents were taken from the newfound Soviet Union in Germany, where she grew up and got married. Her daughter, the mother of Leo, moved to the United States.

8. Both grandfather Steven Spielberg originally from Russia. A sister's husband Spielberg, Susan - a distant relative of Boris Pasternak.

9. Modest Jewish woman, Rosa Rabinovich, who was born in pre-revolutionary Russia in Odessa, could hardly imagine that it will be the great-grandson of a world celebrity and his name will be Sylvester Stallone.

10. great-grandmother of actress Whoopi Goldberg came from Odessa.

Source: www.radioc.ru

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