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Anna Gunn

Ancestry of
Anna Gunn

TV and Movie Actress


Who is Anna Gunn?

Anna Gunn is an American television and movie actress. She is probably best known for her role as Skyler White on AMC’s television drama Breaking Bad. Anna Gunn has been nominated for a number of acting awards. She’s won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in both 2013 and 2014. A couple of her more recent films include Equity (2016) and Sully (2016).

Famous Kin

Anna Gunn is a descendant of Mayflower passengers Richard Warren, William Bradford, and Stephen Hopkins. She is also a descendant of William Rufus Day, the 36th U. S. Secretary of State. Anna Gunn’s U.S. Presidential kin include George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Theodore Roosevelt, Millard Fillmore, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and both Presidents Bush. Her family connections to the current royal family include the late Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York.

Anna Gunn has a number of fellow celebrities in her family tree. These include Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Taylor Swift, Bing Crosby, Christopher Reeve, Raquel Welch, Shirley Temple, Matt Damon, Sally Field, Orson Welles, Chrisopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, Anderson Cooper, Johnny Carson, and many others. Some of her more notable historical kin include Declaration of Independence signer Samuel Adams, American Revolution traitor Benedict Arnold, author and poet Henry David Thoreau, women’s rights advocate Susan B. Anthony, inventor Thomas Edison, aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright, and many others.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Anna Gunn

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

15th cousin 5 times removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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George Palmer Putnam

Founder, G.P. Putnam's Sons

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Richards

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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Warren

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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

6th cousin 5 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Robert Waterman

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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

7th cousin 4 times removed
via William Ford

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Phil Scott

82nd Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Paine Jr.

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Richards

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

11th cousin
via Nicholas Snow

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Elizabeth Ring

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Horatio Collins King

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Warren

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Horatio Collins King

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Charles K. Williams

20th Governor of Vermont

6th cousin 7 times removed
via William Chaplin

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Warren

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Burgess

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

8th cousin 3 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Benjamin Nye

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

4th cousin 7 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

6th cousin 9 times removed
via Richard Baldwin

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Fairchild

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

7th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Bourne

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

5th cousin 6 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Benjamin Bunnell

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William A. Barstow

3rd Governor of Wisconsin

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bourne

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William A. Barstow

3rd Governor of Wisconsin

4th cousin 7 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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Anna Gunn photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)