Birth Name: Lesli Kay Pushkin
Place of Birth: Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 13, 1965
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Lesli Kay is an American actress.
Lesli is the daughter of Marsha Albert (born Marsha Harriet Diznoff) and Jack Pushkin. Lesli’s parents are Jewish; she had the first individual bar mitzvah ceremony for a girl in the state of West Virginia, at the age of twelve. She has two brothers, David and Michael.
Lesli’s paternal grandparents were Herman I. Pushkin (the son of Jacob Pushkin and Rebecca Schumann) and Cecelia/Cellia Helen Goldstein (the daughter of Samuel David Goldstein and Lilly/Lillie Cohen). Jacob and Rebecca were both born in Russia. Samuel and Lilly were also from Russia.
Lesli’s maternal grandparents were Alexander/Alex/Alec H. Diznoff (the son of Jake Diznoff and Lena) and Eleanor K. Jake and Lena were from Russia.
Sources: Genealogy of Lesli’s father, Jack Pushkin – https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/jack-pushkin_89673717
Lesli’s paternal grandfather, Herman I. Pushkin, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNKN-2ZQ
Lesli’s paternal grandmother, Cecelia/Cellia Helen Goldstein, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M21P-GY3
Lesli’s maternal grandfather, Alexander/Alex/Alec H. Diznoff, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCH1-CQP
Obituary of Lesli’s maternal grandfather, Alexander/Alex/Alec H. Diznoff – https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/159305212/
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