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Ed Helms

Ancestry of
Ed Helms

TV and Movie Actor


Who is Ed Helms?

Ed Helms is an American television and movie actor who is probably best known for his roles in The Office television series and The Hangover movie franchise. He began his career as a comedian in New York when he got his big television break with The Daily Show.

Famous Kin

Ed Helms has a number of fellow celebrities as kin. These include, but are not limited to, Bill Paxton, Sara Paxton, Elvis Presley, Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball, Richard Gere, Anthony Perkins, Christopher Reeve, Oliver Platt, Jodie Foster, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, and probably Marilyn Monroe. His family tree also includes a number of former U.S. Presidents including Jimmy Carter, Grover Cleveland, Millard Fillmore, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Gerald Ford, and George W. Bush. He also has family connections to a number of U.S. First Ladies including Abigail Adams, Edith Roosevelt, Ellen Wilson, Florence Harding, Nancy Reagan, Bess Truman, and Barbara Bush.

Ed Helms has his fair share of famous historical figures in his family tree. These include Confederate General Elisha Paxton, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, abolitionist John Brown, Republic of Texas President Sam Houston, American painter John Trumbull, Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low, Circus pioneer P.T. Barnum, and U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. He also has kinship to a few of the signers of the Declaration of Independence including Oliver Wolcott, William Williams, and Samuel Huntington.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Ed Helms

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

15th cousin 3 times removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

16th cousin 2 times removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Chester B. Jordan

48th Governor of New Hampshire

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Stephen Post

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Chester B. Jordan

48th Governor of New Hampshire

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Edward Griswold

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

11th cousin 1 time removed
via William Read

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Louis L'Amour

Western Author

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Louis L'Amour

Western Author

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Grace Slick

Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Grace Slick

Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

20th cousin
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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John Ritter

TV and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Author of In the Heart of the Sea

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Kelsey Grammer

TV and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Richard Hatch

TV and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Richard Hatch

TV and Movie Actor

20th cousin
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Scott Foley

TV, Stage and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Kevin Spacey

TV and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Edward Larkin

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

8th cousin 4 times removed
via Robert Stanley

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Vanessa Hudgens

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

12th cousin
via Robert Stanley

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Zach Snyder

Filmmaker

20th cousin
via John of Gaunt

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Zach Snyder

Filmmaker

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Fitzalan

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Ann Morgan Guilbert

TV and Movie Actress

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Matthew Marvin

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Ed Helms photo by Shana Fagan (CC BY 3.0)