Date of Birth: c. 1992/1993
from New Jersey
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*English, Danish, Scottish (mother)
Ben Rosenfield is an American actor. He is the son of comedians Kate Redway and Stephen Rosenfield.
Ben’s father is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent (of Ukrainian Jewish and Romanian Jewish ancestry). Ben’s mother has English, Danish, and Scottish ancestry. Ben was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He has said that, as a child, he “connected deeply to [his] Jewish ancestry, and practiced the religion faithfully”.
On his mother’s side, Ben is the grandson of Albert James Redway, Jr. (tbe son of Albert James Redway and Edith Wright Parker) and Tilda de Kauffmann (the daughter of Henrik De Kauffmann/Henrik Kauffmann and Charlotte MacDougall). Ben’s grandfather Albert had English ancestry. Henrik was Danish, and served as the Danish Ambassador to the United States during World War II. Charlotte was American, the daughter of Admiral William D. MacDougall. Charlotte had Scottish and English ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of Ben’s maternal grandfather, Albert James Redway, Jr. – http://www.gunstonhall.org
Obituary of Ben’s maternal grandfather, Albert James Redway, Jr. – http://ww2.fairfaxtimes.com
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