Next Episode of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. is
Season 11 / Episode 5 and airs on Feb 05, 2025 01:00
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of 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.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters they've played on stage and screen. Moving from a naval base in the Philippines to a small town bakery in Pennsylvania to steamships on the Atlantic Ocean, Lea and Amanda hear stories of relatives who survived wars, murders, and heart-wrenching ordeals.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Italian roots of Joy Behar & Michael Imperioli.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals inspiring ancestors of novelist Amy Tan & poet Rita Dove.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the ancestry of actor Sharon Stone & model Chrissy Teigen.
Celebrity chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.
Musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
Actors Kristen Bell ("The Good Place") and Dax Shepard ("Parenthood").
Actors Debra Messing ("Will & Grace") and Melanie Lynskey ("Yellowjackets").
Historian Lonnie Bunch and actor Sheryl Lee Ralph ("Abbott Elementary").
Actor Laurence Fishburne ("The Matrix") and host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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