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TV series / 2012
Finding Your Roots
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
The story
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host
CeCe MooreSelf - Genetic Genealogy Expert
Derek JeterSelf
Anderson CooperSelf
Tom ColicchioSelf
Angela BassettSelf
Valerie JarrettSelf
Alan DershowitzSelf
Tony KushnerSelf
Sally FieldSelf
Tina FeySelf
NasSelf
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Aarón SánchezSelf
StingSelf
George StephanopoulosSelf
Maya RudolphSelf
Ty BurrellSelf
Mia FarrowSelf
Soledad O'BrienSelf
Jimmy KimmelSelf
Ava DuVernaySelf
John TurturroSelf
QuestloveSelf
Lisa LingSelf
Marisa TomeiSelf
S. Epatha MerkersonSelf
Laura LinneySelf
Bill HaderSelf
Julianne MooreSelf
Lidia BastianichSelf
Scarlett JohanssonSelf
Lupita Nyong'oSelf
Téa LeoniSelf
Ann CurrySelf
Kehinde WileySelf
Joe MadisonSelf
Donna BrazileSelf
Kara WalkerSelf
Bill MaherSelf
Bill O'ReillySelf
Dustin HoffmanSelf
Sterling K. BrownSelf
Sasheer ZamataSelf
Jon BatisteSelf
Harry Connick Jr.Self
Branford MarsalisSelf
Cory BookerSelf
John LewisSelf
Geoffrey CanadaSelf
Barbara WaltersSelf
Kevin BaconSelf
Kyra SedgwickSelf
Angela Warnick BuchdahlSelf
Yasir QadhiSelf
Rick WarrenSelf
Robert Downey Jr.Self
Robert Downey Sr.Self
Naomi FonerSelf
Maggie GyllenhaalSelf
Samuel L. JacksonSelf
Condoleezza RiceSelf
Ruth SimmonsSelf
Margaret ChoSelf
Sanjay GuptaSelf
Martha StewartSelf
Margarett CooperSelf
John LegendSelf
Barack ObamaSelf (archive footage)
Wanda SykesSelf
Linda ChavezSelf
Adrian GrenierSelf
Michelle RodriguezSelf
Stephen KingSelf
Gloria ReubenSelf
Courtney B. VanceSelf
Billie Jean KingSelf
Rebecca LoboSelf
Ken BurnsSelf
Anna Deavere SmithSelf
Ben AffleckSelf
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