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Edward Norton

Ancestry of
Edward Norton

Movie Actor


Who is Edward Norton?

Edward Norton is an American movie actor and filmmaker. He has won a number of film awards and has been nominated for three Academy Awards. In 1997, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Primal Fear. He followed that in 1998 with a nomination for Best Actor for his role in the film American History X. More recently, Edward Norton was nominated in 2014 for Best Supporting Actor for the film Birdman.

Famous Kin

Edward Norton is a direct descendant of the legendary Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe. His U.S. Presidential kin include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Millard Fillmore, John Tyler, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Zachary Taylor, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and both Presidents Bush. His royal family connections include King Ferdinand II of Spain, King Henry VIII and some of his wives, along with members of the current royal family including Queen Elizabeth II, the late Princess Diana, and Catherine Middleton.

Edward Norton’s historically significant kin include Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1st U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton, explorer Meriwether Lewis, inventor Thomas Edison, polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, women’s rights advocate Susan B. Anthony, and many others. Fellow celebrities found in his family tree include Johnny Depp, Christopher Lloyd, Ted Danson, Roy Rogers, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Kardashian, John Wayne, Anderson Cooper, James Spader, Oliver Platt, Jodie Foster, and many others.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Edward Norton

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Treat Williams

TV & Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Raymond

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Raymond

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William Egan

1st Governor of Alaska

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Jonathan Brewster

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin
via Ezekiel Turner

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

19th cousin
via Sir Thomas Mowbray

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

16th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Roger Wentworth

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Michael de la Pole

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir John Howard

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin 3 times removed
via William Brewster

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Bradford

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Jonathan Brewster

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

8th cousin 3 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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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

18th cousin
via Sir Ralph Neville

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

12th cousin
via Stephen Post

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via William Hyde

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 3 times removed
via William Brewster

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Alice Carpenter

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin
via William Bradford Jr.

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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)

16th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas Blount

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Alice Carpenter

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Humphrey Bogart

Movie Actor

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Edward Norton photo by David Shankbone (CC BY 3.0)