The Oscar-nominated star learned of his family connection to the woman who married Virginia settler John Rolfe on Tuesday’s episode of the PBS genealogical history show “Finding Your Roots.” Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. confirmed the longstanding family rumor to be fact, telling Norton: “You have a direct paper trail, no doubt about it, connection to your 12th great-grandmother and great-grandfather, John Rolfe and Pocahontas.
The show, which traces the ancestral histories of celebrities, also uncovered that Norton’s third great-grandfather, John Winstead, owned a family of slaves including a 55-year-old man, a 37-year-old woman and five young girls, aged 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10. Norton, 53, who said he had researched his own ancestry before his appearance on “Finding Your Roots,” expressed that that part of history didn’t sit well with him.
Wow, he must be related to SenWarren ewarren
this proves that Miles Bron was an even greater example of a method acting
Bbbbooooooooooooooooooo this man!
BS he just trying to get away from being seen as the slave owner and Trader... Perfect timing I found out I am a slave owners ancestor............ And, and... Pocahontas relative as well. Very convenient?🤔 How do you get DNA from a boat where she died?
This is so amazing!
He would have still taken her land and pillaged her village, if he were alive at the same time she was.
SenWarren gonna be ragin' jealous
Related to Elizabeth Warren. Nice touch.
Aww related to my Wife then. Hold all DNC operatives accountable for the Sammy Cash and Ray Epps Ray Epps Ray Epps Ray Epps Ray Epps.
I’m Sure My 12 th Grandmother Was A African Queen, But Our History Was Erased That Far Back 🤦🏾♀️
Breaking News: CNN has discovered what all of America has known for a decade---CNN is a worthless organization and is a disgrace. Fake News at its best!
amazing
That level of your family tree has 16,384 people in it. So I guess he can say he is 1:16384 Pocahontas.
He’s related to Elizabeth Warren?
Nonsense…we’ve know for years that Pocahontas is Elizabeth Warren ewarren
Such a news-worthy piece of information
Her name was Matoaka or Amonute if y’all would like to CORRECTLY/factually report ! Pocahontas was a nickname— are y’all her homie? No. Have some respect for those that were never given the amount they rightfully deserve.
Blue corn moon!!! Baby!!
Giacomo Casanova is my grandfather 🤣
What did he sleep with Elizabeth Warren.
More Indian than SenWarren
So this is Twitter able HOW?
Officially more Indian than Elizabeth Warren!
Don’t tell Liz Warren that
Not SenWarren
After 4 generations it makes zero difference unless you’re royalty
Of course. Everyone knows about Pocahontas Norton, she started the first fight club. 😂
Didn't know he was related to SenWarren
I didn’t know Warren was quite that old. 😂🤣😂🤣
But his ancestors owned slaves so he must be canceled. Bye Norton.
I can see the resemblance
Elizabeth Warren is so jealous right now!
I bet Elizabeth Warren is in hysterics right now.....
Ok
Elizabeth Warren hardest hit.
Buuuuulllllllshiiiiiiiit
100,000 people are decedents of Pocahontas.
Edward Norton, More Native American than Elizabeth Warren.
Who. Cares.
He should pay himself reparations
Has a bone to pick with Edward:
Does this make Edward Norton the new most interesting man in the world? DosEquis
My great grandfather x 700 years ago. William Wallace. Why all my friends say I'm awesome 🤣🤣
Who is ed norton?
That's nice for him 😊
Shit you know how many people make this claim
Must be related to George Santos
ewarren
Elizabeth Warren:
ewarren found your cousin!
Must be a slow day for Fake News.
CNN this is why no one takes you serious.
DNA technology. My unofficial test said I was related to someone named 'Sho Nuff'
Lies!!!!
well
Her name is Matoaka
Well whoop-de-friggin do!
Probably more closely related to any random person on the street. People don't understand how far distant that is. I have Robert the Bruce AND Edward I if I go back far enough. But, I wouldn't call Braveheart a movie about grandpas.
When a devout racist finds out his 12th-great grandmother is Pocahontas, it sets him on a life-changing course. Starring Edward Norton: Native American History X
He doesn’t look anything like Elizabeth Warren.
Wow,,, she really got around
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
And Pocahontas is my 12th great auntie! 😂
So?
So what?
Yeah, looks just like her!
Really?
There are 4,096 related people to a 12th generation ancestor. Edward Norton is not special.
Thats what all the whites say.
He should pay a visit to Gravesend where she's buried.
Doesn’t look like Warren.🤡
Or Elizabeth Warren…
So when are you and Liz Warren are having a family reunion?
Elizabeth Warren doesn't like this post
BS
They look alot alike
Senator?
He was? so his DNA changed again out of the blue and no related anymore?
So they are related also
And Seth Rogan is Christopher Columbus’s 14th great Uncle
His next movie: Edward Norton as Pocahontas.
So has George Santos 😂😂😂😂😂
Is Elizabeth Warren aware of this They must be related.
She has like tens of thousands of descendants if not more.
Man, that news makes all my concerns about America’s problems fade into unimportance. Now I can face tomorrow. Thanks . This is the kind of breaking news that you’re known for.
Wow Elizabeth Warren is really old
Isn’t this the case where so are 80% of the US population?
I've discovered that CNN will print literally any story, no matter how random or uninteresting.
But can he sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can he paint with all the colors of the wind?
Sure this is a fun party fact but 12 generations is 4100 grandparents. Many many Americans have her as a Great Great…. Grandmother.
SenWarren totally disagrees.
Interesting…
Great show
That's a cool discovery
Big effing deal. So what? It means nothing. She is a historical figure with her own tale to tell and he is a mediocre actor who's trying to stay relevant.
Now that they are family, do you think Elizabeth Warren is going to ask Edward Norton if she can borrow money?
Awesome episode 🙌
that is so kewl.
damn
Her name wasn’t Pocahontas. Now Edward Norton is Native 1/1200000%
That was reckles statement . Speaker outside the house
Having a speaker outside the house is only going to jeopardise the well fonctionning and integrity of the house because he has nothing to report to his electors. He can do what he wants and that isd dangerous. No control.
Reminds me of the time Ben Affleck censored the fact that his ancestry wasn't exactly 'slave owning' free. 😂
And she was trans
Nobody cares that your ancestors owned slaves but they do care when you try to erase and downplay the effects of slavery on future generations.
That’s Amazing 🤩 if the Record is Correct ✅
Everything he says about the history and concept of slavery is 100% correct, it's only the inference that we have somehow whitewashed or haven't been reckoning with the fact is where he loses me. CRT is the antithesis of anti racism and only a mere Trojan horse for Marxism
That’s quite the stretch. Must not be any other important news like Hunter Biden or the border.
Fascinating to learn about one’s roots
Wow Him and Elizabeth Warren must be cousins!
Wow that makes him like 100% more Native American than Elizabeth Warren.
I me prior to the mc carthy results
I create the envrionnement to help free voting but the elected officials have made it that nothing gets done ever for decades. Even worse since trump arrived. Are you surprised by the election results? Its these changes throw democratie in a frenze then that makes them criminals
Bahaha stfu!!!!
And his family had slaves? Helluva ancestors. com visit he had
Why is it 3 stories in one? But the point isn’t made….
And my first love said I look like Ed, while I also dated a native that looked like the Disney Pocahontas 😆
Does this mean Ed Norton is now a Senator from Massachusetts?
We did deal with it, member, the civil war.
😆I saw Ed Norton get fucked in the ass in prison 20 years ago.....
Still more native American that Elizabeth Warren.
Everyone else. Buy this. Give us your attention, er.... money. You're a good person for wathing, no matter how it affects your bretheren. Plus, you owe more to the global BS, than you do your own,..... right?..... right? ... We own you.... right?
You don’t need the word that
Don’t make your self a joke u not native u so far away’
ed norton is more native american than elizabeth warren
‘It’s a judgment on the history of this country’, Edward Norton says. As if slavery is uniquely American
Who F…ing cares
And being related to her WASN'T UNCOMFORTABLE!!
Somebody page Senator Warren
You mean Miles Bron?
She was a rape and kidnapping victim
AZRamirez2 KingOMediocrity I always knew
Not really a flex. That means he comes from one of the families that pushed for exemption from discrimination laws (Pocahontas Exception). Cool to come from a long line of racists that are proud to *checks notes* be mixed race.
luxeprogressive How is this possible I am related to Ed Norton… She is my 12th great grandmother too
What kind of news is this ,CNN has really went down hill.
The resemblance is uncanny.
So he’s also related to SenWarren ?
I definitely didn’t have this on my 2023 bingo card.
I'll bet that ol' blue eyes Norton will be telling everyone that he has embraced his American native roots.🙄
Cool.
What a joke
Who cares?
The article doesn’t explain how he’s truly connected. As a Jamestown descendant myself, I can say there are some gaps in documenting Pocahontas and John Rolfe’s lineage.
Dudes a loser
Because he wasn't insufferable enough before?
😆
All these celebrities suddenly discovering their families were slave owners and they're descendants of Pocahontas....why is it news?
whoopee-do
Has he a new movie coming out?
How can you say Pocahontas was a woman? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
tim_brannigan I KNEW it!
He’s related to Elizabeth Warren?
Weird, I thought Elizabeth Warren was the real Pocahontas.
Congratulations SenWarren
Please send him reparations for being indian, urr, native american. Sorry
People are so rude! He did his DNA testing this is what was factually found as it was in my family too, my 13 GG grandfather is her Father Chief Powhatan it’s not a choice he’s making for ffs.
More than 1/1024th?
Who’s gonna tell Elizabeth Warren? Pocahontas
Let's get a speaker first then give him a congressional medal for being in a line?
Bring the human trafficked child back to her homelands. Have Disney foot the bill.
She's a little jealous.
Must be related to Elizabeth Warren.
Time to cash in on some of that casino money.
I thought she had only one son with Rolfe who died in infancy?
Don't forget the enslaver and plantation owner. That's probably a lot more relevant.
That's why these media houses are happy when there are wars, riots and elections etc, it gives them actual news otherwise they are left with this horse shit!
loofyfisherman Seba_Fuslalucho kim_indigenous BornIndigenous
Wow. Modern journalism is really shallow
Yeah, that's a load of BS
Is he a relative of ewarren?
Makes him more native than SenWarren.
NBCNews nytimes MSNBC washingtonpost ABC TMZ latimes You have greatness in your genes my friend.
“Real life Pocahontas”? As opposed to the fake Pocahontas? Or a doll Pocahontas?
BREAKING: your Ed Norton family lineage Christmas ornaments are now essentially worthless
So?
More native American than Elizabeth Warren
I'm related to Sequoyah but you don't see me in the news.
These comments are gold
He kind of does look like Elizabeth Warren.
This is great news!
Please..
So does that mean he's related to Elizabeth Warren?
Does that mean he’s related to Elizabeth Warren?
I thought she’s in the White House senate!
That’s 😎 I want to do a DNA test too
Thank goodness not the animated cartoon Pocahontas
So can he open a casino now?
First rule of 12th grandparents is we do not talk about 12th grandparents
So Chief Pocohon had 12 daughters. Pocahontas is my 12th great aunt. A lot of the eastern seaboard tribes have, roots to the Chief. What’s more important, how will you use this info to help your people? That is the responsibility of who you are, fame, ancestors and all.
perfect photo choice, just, a smug shot. 🤌
A person has more than 16,000 twelfth great grandparents
I would give a thousand pelts
Me too. No, seriously.
Trump won't be very pleased to know that
That makes Elizabeth Warren his aunt.
Yep. Always wondered who he took after..........Pocahontas is right on the money
LOL I don't buy that unless the tribal enrollment rolls get checked. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept Of Interior should check the rolls for his family lineage.
Thanks for clarifying. I thought maybe you were talking about the Disney cartoon. CNN is on top of its game in 2023.
Elizabeth Warren’s 12th great grandmother.
My relatives are Adam and Eve
Really, CNN? The 'real-life' Pocahontas? As opposed to...the cartoon? Tbh I'd be MUCH more interested if Ed Norton found out he was descended from an animated figure.
Man he’s related to this 🤡
This isn't news but then again CNN isn't a news site
Does that mean he has a better claim at being a native than Warren?
elizabeth warren is old, but not like, 12th great-grandmother old
he related to Liz?
It's all bullshit. Everyone says they are a descend of Pocahontas. Even Elizabeth Warren thinks she is Indian too.
I always thought he was Ed Norton’s son from the Honeymooners.
What should the Islamic Republic do, how many people will it take for you to do something other than expressing sympathy?People are being suffocated, there is no freedom to speak, no freedom to protest, no clean water, we have nothing and people are being executed.
He should run for Senate.
Then she is for many many others too.
Insert Elizabeth Warren joke here _____________😄
Who knew he was related to SenWarren
jjfdsjflkdj John Smith was putting in WORK.
NEWS.
Huh. Neat.
WGAF
As opposed to President Trump’s Pocahontas.
I see the resemblance…🤣
🤡
SenWarren
This is likened to black folks finding out they're descendants of Thomas Jefferson. Criminal. Absolute criminal family tree
Big news CNN....
I am personally related to Adam and Eve
🙄
He's more legit than Liz Warren!
Is Ed related to Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren?
Elizabeth Warren
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