Matt Damon
Matt Damon's cousin - Lieutenant Colonel of Fay. As part of the fifth Tank Division, Fay participated in Neptune operation - a maritime landing operation, held on June 6, 1944 in Normandy during World War II by US, Great Britain, Canada and their allies against Germany. The film was shown the landing of the Rangers on the coast with the code name Omaha Beach. And the ancestor of the movie star on the same day participated in the operation on the "Utah" beach, where the landing of the landing took place under the cover of floating tanks.
George Clooney
In distant relatives from George Clooney, it turns out that President Abraham Lincoln himself. The actor falls as a famous American state actor with a grandchildren. The compilers of the genealogical tree of the movie star found out that Mom Lincoln Nancy Hanks was for the mother's sister Mary Ann Speroou - Prababas Claña in the fourth knee.
It turned out that in the residents of Cindy Crawford the royal blood flows. Photo: instagram.com/cindycrawford.
Cindy Crawford.Cindy Crawford was often a joke called himself an "American jook", meaning that she was from the simplest family. But researchers of pedigree supermodels managed to find out that royal blood flows in her veins. It turned out that Praded Cindida in the 41th generation was Karl I Great - the King of Frankings, the Langobard king, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperor of the West, ruled until 814. Crawford was very surprised by this relationship: "Now I have something to tell my children and grandchildren," the coquettishly responded to the news supermodel.
El and Dakota Fanning
A couple of years ago, the sisters of the Fanning - 21-year-old Dakota and 17-year-old El - Royal Blood was discovered. The owners of the site ancestry.com, having learned in their pedigree, found out that the actress's motherboard is direct descendants of the English king Eduard III (1327-1377): grains in the 22nd generation. The duchess of Kate by Mother also accounted for by Eduard III's lug and also in the 22nd generation. Thus, sisters Fanning and the spouse of Prince William - Kuzina.
Johnny Depp and Armor Hummer. Frame from the movie "Lone Ranger".
Johnny DeppThe great-grandfather Johnny Depp in the eighth knee was Elizabeth Ki Greenshed - a person is very famous in American history. Elizabeth - the daughter of African American and the British aristocrat - became the first black woman in the North American colonies, which challenged his slavery in court. In 1656, she won the process both for himself and for his young son. In addition to Rodance with Depp, it was established that it also falls a fabric attitude of the actress Crista Allen, known on the films "Hour of payback" and "Growney Management".
Armor Hammer
In the film "Lone Ranger" Indian played Johnny Depp. But it turned out that the Indian roots have a Hammer's armor who performed the role of Ranger. According to his father, the actor accounts for the grandson in the seventh knee of the leader Kanagatuko - one of the first famous leaders of the tribe of the Cherokee tribe, the Yarus supporter and the propagandist of the world and friendship during the seven-year war (1756-1763).
Brook Shields
American actress Brooke Shields originally from the noble Italian family Torononia. Her grandmother on the father of Donna Marina Torononia is the daughter of the 4th Prince Di Chivitella-Czeet Marino Torononia. He, in turn, was the descendant of the duke of Milan Louis Sforgetz - the patron of Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the compilers of the Genealogical Tree Brooke Shields managed to find out that it is also a detailed relative of the King of France Henry IV - the founder of the French Royal Dynasty of Bourbon.
Ben Affleck. Photo: Rex Features / fotodom.ru.
By the way ...Last October, Ben Affleck became the hero of the American TV show "In search of his roots". The authors of the show are building the genealogical trees of famous people, looking for curious details from the life of celebrity ancestors. However, Ben, having learned the truth about one of his relatives, asked the creators of TV programs to delete that of his tresh. It turned out that the ancestor that Affleck was trying, was a slave owner. And the authors of the show, contrary to their rules, decided not to talk about this man on the air. Instead, they told an interesting story about the great-grandfathers of the movie star, which during the Civil War claimed that he could communicate with the spirits of the dead. And used his abilities for consolations of those who have lost on the battlefield of close people. They also reported to Ben, that his other ancestor during the American revolution was served directly under the command of George Washington.
However, in April of this year, the fact that the actor asked to hide a shameful point from the history of his family, began thanks to the publication of the Sony Pictures Entertainment correspondence on WikiLeaks. A terrible scandal broke out. And with recently, the TV show "In search of my roots", even temporarily removed from the air.