Birth Name: Frank Theodore Levine
Place of Birth: Bellaire, Ohio
Date of Birth: May 29, 1957
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*English (mother)
Ted Levine is an American actor.
His father was from a Russian Jewish family. His mother had English ancestry.
Ted’s mother has also been said to have Welsh and Native American ancestry. It is not clear if this Welsh and Native American ancestry has been documented/verified.
Ted’s paternal grandparents were Morris Levine (the son of Abraham I. Levine and Yetta Podnos/Padnos) and Frances Slonim (the daughter of Chaim Eliezer Daniel Slonim and Esther M. Stupack). Morris was a Russian Jewish immigrant. Frances was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents.
Ted’s maternal grandparents were Willis John Clark and Eliza J. Chatterton (the daughter of Anna V.).
Sources: Ted’s father on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Ted’s mother on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Ted’s maternal grandmother, Eliza J. Chatterton, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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