Glass Onion star Edward Norton finds out Pocahontas was his 12th great-grandmother on US ancestry show Finding Your Roots. A less welcome discovery was that some of his ancestors had also owned slaves.
Ed Norton is a direct descendant of Pocahontas, records have revealed.
The Native American heroine, who was turned into a Disney cartoon character in the 1995 film, was the 53-year-old actor’s 12th great-grandmother.
Norton, who was born in Boston and raised in Columbia, Maryland, said he grew up believing it was just a « family legend », but was proven wrong on a recent episode of ancestry show Finding Your Roots on US network PBS.
The programme’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr, said that Pocahontas became Norton’s distant relative after marrying colonist John Rolfe.
