The actor Edward Norton has discovered on a television program that the Native American Pocahontas (1595-1617), daughter of the leader of the Powhatan territory, is his twelfth great-grandmother.
The American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer obtained this information during Tuesday’s episode of the genealogy history show. “Finding Your Roots” on the PBS broadcast television channel hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“This makes you realize that you are a small part of the history of humanity“, Norton commented after finding out during the broadcast of the program.
Gates assured Norton that English colonist John Rolfe and Pocahontas were part of his family tree and that his great-grandparents had married on April 5, 1614 in Virginia.
During the program that is dedicated to tracing the ancestral stories of celebrities, it was also revealed that the third great-grandfather of the “Fight Club” (1999) actor, john winstead, owned a family of slaves made up of a man, a woman and five girls.
On this, Norton has confessed that he was not proud of that part of his story and that it was something that made him feel “uncomfortable“.
“It is not a judgment on your own life, but it is a judgment on the history of this country and you have to recognize it first and then you have to face it (…) When you read ‘eight-year slave’, you just want to die “, the protagonist of “Puñales por la Espalda” has snapped.
Some of Edward Norton’s best-known works have been films such as Gregory Hoblit’s “Primal Fear” (1996), his portrayal as a former neo-Nazi leader in “American History X” (1998), as well as his role in the film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, “Birdman” (2014), for which he obtained an Oscar nomination respectively.
Source: Lasexta
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