Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012)

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Presented and written by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., this series journeys deep into the ancestry of a group of remarkable individuals and provides new understanding of personal identity and American history.

Original Release

03/25/2012 on PBS

Links

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Cast

Name	Character

Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Self - Host
Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Self / Self - Host
CeCe Moore	Self
Tina Fey	Self
Scarlett Johansson	Self
Sally Field	Self
Angela Bassett	Self
Marisa Tomei	Self

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	From the Manor Born	Tuesday, 19 January 2021
2	Against All Odds	Tuesday, 26 January 2021
3	No Irish Need Apply	Tuesday, 02 February 2021
4	The shirts off their backs	Tuesday, 09 February 2021
5	Write My Name in the Book of Life	Tuesday, 16 February 2021
6	Country Roots	Tuesday, 23 February 2021
7	The New World	Tuesday, 13 April 2021
8	Laughing on the Inside	Tuesday, 20 April 2021
9	On Broadway	Tuesday, 27 April 2021
10	Anchored to the Past	Tuesday, 04 May 2021

Directors

Hazel Gurland, Sabin Streeter, Jesse Sweet, Josh Gleason, Muriel Soenens, Jamila Wignot, Phil Bertelsen, Hannah Olson, Krista Whetstone, Lindsey Megrue

Writers

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Cast

Name	Character

Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Self - Host
Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Self / Self - Host
CeCe Moore	Self
Tina Fey	Self
Scarlett Johansson	Self
Sally Field	Self
Angela Bassett	Self
Marisa Tomei	Self
John Turturro	Self
Maya Rudolph	Self
Sting	Self
S. Epatha Merkerson	Self
Sean 'Diddy' Combs	Self
Questlove	Self
Jimmy Kimmel	Self
Alan Dershowitz	Self
George Stephanopoulos	Self
Tony Kushner	Self

Producers

Name	Role

Peter W. Kunhardt	Executive Producer
Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Executive Producer
Dyllan McGee	Executive Producer
Dalton Delan	Executive Producer
Stephen Segaller	Executive Producer
Anna Harrington	Executive Producer
Anne Harrington	Executive Producer
Julie Anderson	Executive Producer
George Kunhardt	Producer
Teddy Kunhardt	Producer
Natalia Warchol	Producer
Kelly Deckert	Producer
Deborah Clancy Porfido	Producer
Stef Gordon	Producer
Hannah Olson	Producer
Hazel Gurland	Producer
Tiffany Hagger	Producer
Leslie Asako Gladsjo	Producer
Brittany Clemons	Producer
John Maggio	Producer
Josh Gleason	Producer
Sabin Streeter	Producer
Jesse Sweet	Producer
Elizabeth Woller	Producer
Prisca Pointdujour	Producer
Megan Peck Shub	Producer
Kevin Burke	Producer
Jenny Sorin	Producer
Dorin Razam-Grunfeld	Producer
Rachel Dretzin	Producer
Holly Siegel	Producer
Maya Tepler	Producer
Joey Fishman	Producer
Leah Bartels	Producer
Nicole Bozorgmir	Producer
Samantha Gowda	Producer
Jessica Xanthe Cran	Producer
Stephen Robinson	Producer
Gopi Shastri	Producer
Nyasha Kadandara	Producer
Ariel Field	Producer
William Ventura	Producer
CeCe Moore	Producer
Muriel Soenens	Producer
Ti Yu	Producer
Phil Bertelsen	Producer
Sandra I. McDaniel	Producer
Caitlin McNally	Producer
Zehra Rehman	Producer
Julia Marchesi	Producer
Lindsey Megrue	Producer
Tom Denison	Producer
Stephanie Carter	Producer
Jack Youngelson	Producer