Welsh-Americans :)
by Hmj_22 | created - 24 Oct 2011 | updated - 24 Oct 2011 | PublicI was interested to see how many (or few) Americans had Welsh Ancestery so here is the list. :) I most likely won't have put all well known Welsh-Americans but I will try!
1. Dean Cain
Actor | God's Not Dead
Dean Cain was born Dean George Tanaka in Mount Clemens, Michigan, to actress Sharon Thomas Cain and Roger Tanaka. His mother married his adoptive father, director Christopher Cain, when Dean was three. Though he grew up in Malibu and attended Santa Monica High School, his career plans favored ...
2. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
3. Bette Davis
Actress | All About Eve
Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...
4. Thomas Dekker
Actor | Swimming with Sharks
Thomas Dekker is a 30 year veteran of the film and television industry. At the age of 5, he landed a national commercial and a brief stint on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless". This lead to a slew of guest starring and recurring roles on popular television series of the time such as "...
5. Sara Evans
Soundtrack | Where the Heart Is
Sara Evans was born on February 5, 1971 in New Franklin, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Where the Heart Is (2000), Sara Evans: Born to Fly (2009) and To Appomattox (2015). She has been married to Jay Barker since June 14, 2008. She was previously married to Craig Schelske.
6. Glenn Ford
Actor | Gilda
Legendary actor Glenn Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada, to Hannah Wood (Mitchell) and Newton Ford, a railroad executive. His family moved to Santa Monica, California when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school...
7. D.W. Griffith
Director | The Birth of a Nation
David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 ...
8. Teri Hatcher
Actress | Tomorrow Never Dies
Teri Hatcher is an American actress, writer, presenter, and former NFL cheerleader. She is known for her television roles, portraying Lois Lane on the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997), and as Susan Mayer on the television series Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), ...
9. Bob Hope
Actor | The Ghost Breakers
Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons of Avis (Townes), light opera singer, and William Henry Hope, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His maternal grandmother was Welsh. Hope moved to Bristol before emigrating with his parents...
10. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
11. Isham Jones
Soundtrack | Southland Tales
While his name may have begun to slip from public consciousness, many of the songs written by Isham (pronounced "Eye-sham") Jones continue to live on. He put out more than a hundred, many of them musical standards, like "It Had To Be You", "Swinging Down the Lane", "How Many Tears Must Fall", "I'll...
12. Tommy Lee
Soundtrack | Barb Wire
Tommy Lee was born on October 3, 1962 in Athens, Greece. He is an actor and composer, known for Barb Wire (1996), The Dirt (2019) and Vanilla Sky (2001). He has been married to Brittany Furlan since February 14, 2019. He was previously married to Pamela Anderson, Heather Locklear and Elaine ...
13. Blake Lewis
Actor | Blake Lewis Is Shitting in My Bathroom
Blake Lewis was born on July 21, 1981 in Redmond, Washington, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Blake Lewis Is Shitting in My Bathroom (2009), Free Radio (2007) and Mermaid.
14. Juliette Lewis
Actress | Natural Born Killers
Juliette Lewis has been recognized as one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile actors of her generation since she first stunned audiences and critics alike with her Oscar-nominated performance as "Danielle Bowden" in Cape Fear (1991). To date, she has worked with some of the most revered ...
15. Harold Lloyd
Actor | Safety Last!
Born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd who fought constantly and soon divorced (at the time a rare event), Harold Clayton Lloyd was nominally educated in Denver and San Diego high schools and received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art (San ...
16. Myrna Loy
Actress | The Thin Man
Myrna Williams, later to become Myrna Loy, was born on August 2, 1905 in Helena, Montana. Her father was the youngest person ever elected to the Montana State legislature. Later on her family moved to Radersburg where she spent her youth on a cattle ranch. At the age of 13, Myrna's father died of ...
17. Ray Milland
Actor | The Lost Weekend
Ray Milland became one of Paramount's most bankable and durable stars, under contract from 1934 to 1948, yet little in his early life suggested a career as a motion picture actor.
Milland was born Alfred Reginald Jones in the Welsh town of Neath, Glamorgan, to Elizabeth Annie (Truscott) and Alfred ...
18. Leslie Nielsen
Actor | Airplane!
Leslie William Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and raised in Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), Northwest Territories. His mother, Mabel Elizabeth (Davies), was Welsh. His father, Ingvard Eversen Nielsen, was a Danish-born Mountie and a strict disciplinarian. Leslie studied at the Academy of ...
19. Chris Pine
Actor | Star Trek
Chris Pine was born in Los Angeles. His parents are actors Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford, and his maternal grandparents were Max M. Gilford, a president of the Hollywood Bar Association, and actress Anne Gwynne. His sister, Katherine Pine, has also acted. Chris's ancestry is Russian Jewish (from ...
20. Gena Rowlands
Actress | The Notebook
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes ...
21. Susan Sarandon
Actress | Thelma & Louise
It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...
22. Alan Osmond
Soundtrack | Cemetery Junction
Alan Osmond was born on June 22, 1949 in Ogden, Utah, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Cemetery Junction (2010), Harrigan (2013) and Mel & Susan Together (1978). He has been married to Suzanne Pinegar since July 16, 1974. They have eight children.
23. Jay Osmond
Producer | Marie
Jay Osmond was born on March 2, 1955 in Ogden, Utah, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Marie (1980), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) and The Gift of Love (1978). He has been married to Karen Randall since May 21, 2014. He was previously married to Kandilyn Harris.
24. James A. Osmond
Soundtrack | Fame
James A. Osmond was born on April 16, 1963 in Canoga Park, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Fame (1982), Jocks (1986) and Enchanted Musical Playhouse (1984). He has been married to Michelle Larson since June 7, 1991. They have four children.
25. Merrill Osmond
Soundtrack | Cemetery Junction
Merrill Osmond was born on April 30, 1953 in Ogden, Utah, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Cemetery Junction (2010), Harrigan (2013) and Mel & Susan Together (1978). He has been married to Mary Carlson since September 17, 1973. They have six children.
26. Wayne Osmond
Soundtrack | Cemetery Junction
Wayne Osmond was born on August 28, 1951 in Ogden, Utah, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Cemetery Junction (2010), Harrigan (2013) and Land of the Lost (1974). He has been married to Kathlyn Louise White since December 13, 1974. They have five children.
27. Marie Osmond
Soundtrack | Donny and Marie
Marie Osmond has spent 5 iconic decades in the entertainment business performing as a successful singer, television performer and talk show host, dancer, actor, author, entrepreneur and public speaker. She has continued to maintain relevance, remaining an instantly recognizable figure across the ...
28. Tom Osmond
Producer | Donny and Marie
Tom Osmond was born on October 26, 1947 in Ogden, Utah, USA. He is a producer, known for Donny and Marie (1975), The Gift of Love (1978) and Jerry Visits (1971). He has been married to Carolyn since August 16, 1989. They have four children. He was previously married to Lyn Heslop.
29. Virl Osmond
Producer | The Gift of Love
Virl Osmond was born on October 19, 1945 in Ogden, Utah, USA. He is a producer, known for The Gift of Love (1978), Jerry Visits (1971) and Inside the Osmonds (2001). He has been married to Debbie since October 2014. He was previously married to Christopher Marie Carroll.
30. Donny Osmond
Actor | Mulan
Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond was born December 9, 1957 in Ogden, Utah, to Olive Osmond (née Davis) and George Osmond on . He was the seventh of eight brothers and has one sister. When Donny was young, his family went to see Lawrence Welk in California. They were unable to meet with him so they ...
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