Claire Danes Moved to Tears Over a Special Family Connection | Finding Your Roots

Entertainment
11 January 2023
by Ancestry® Team

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Actor Claire Danes learns that she inherited more from her grandmother than just her first name! Watch as she unravels this profound connection on Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Actor Claire Danes came to me hoping to learn about her paternal grandmother, Claire Tomowski, who died of a brain aneurysm when she was just 42-years-old. While Claire bears her grandmother’s name, she knows very little about her life.

In the archives of the Washington State University libraries we discovered that the two shared a passion—theater. Indeed Claire’s grandmother wrote a master’s thesis on William Shakespeare.

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