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Keri Russell

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Keri Russell

TV and Movie Actress


Who is Keri Russell?

Keri Russell is an American television and movie actress. She began her television career as a cast member of the All-New Mickey Mouse Club where she co-starred alongside Ryan Gosling, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake. Keri Russell is probably best known for the television series Felicity for which she won a Golden Globe in 1999. She has appeared in a number of feature films including Mission: Impossible III and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. More recently, she has appeared as a cast member of the FX Channel's spy series The Americans in which she portrays a KGB agent.

Famous Kin

Keri Russell's famous kin include a number of American patriots from the American Revolution. These include, but are not limited to, U.S. Constitution signers John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman, Nathaniel Gorham, Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock, and Boston Tea Party participant Amos Lincoln. U.S. Presidential kin include Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover, William Howard Taft, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Keri Russell also has family ties to the current royal family through connections with Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, and Katherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge. Celebrities in her family tree include Christopher Reeve, Kyra Sedgwick, Sally Field, Kate Upton, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Montgomery, Liza Minnelli, and Tom Hanks. Some of her historically significant kin include Confederate General Robert E. Lee, evolutionist Charles Darwin, explorer Meriwether Lewis, mutiny on the Bounty leader Fletcher Christian, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Keri Russell

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

21st cousin
via Eudo la Zouche

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Philip le Despencer

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir John Howard

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Ralph de Stafford

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

20th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

18th cousin
via Sir Ralph Neville

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Walter Blount

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George Herbert

8th Earl of Carnarvon
Owner, Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey)

18th cousin
via Sir Ralph Shirley

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir William de Ros

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

14th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Ralph Shirley

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Ralph de Stafford

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

20th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

20th cousin
via Sir John Grey of Rotherfield

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

17th cousin
via Sir Richard Neville

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Reynold de Grey

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Penn Jillette

Magician

15th cousin 2 times removed
via John Brome

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Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

14th cousin 6 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Warren Buffett

Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

20th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

16th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Samuel Prescott

Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

14th cousin 6 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

20th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Catherine Howard

5th Wife of King Henry VIII

6th cousin 14 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Keri Russell photo by Caroline Bonarde Ucci (CC BY 3.0)