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Almost half foreign celebrities, can be found in the pedigree of Russian.

What Hollywood was established by immigrants of the Russian Empire, – for anybody not a secret.

Among the figures of the first magnitude of the American “dream factory” and “lucky” world stage and now is a superstar with Russian roots.

Leonardo DiCaprio

A crowd favorite, Leonardo, as he himself said in conversation with Vladimir Putin, “not a quarter, half Russian”. Russian roots he owes his mother Irmelin DiCaprio, but rather her parents. His grandmother Elena S. Smirnova moved to Germany from the Soviet Union approximately 50 years ago, where she married Wilhelm Indenbirken. Despite the fact that nothing in the name of the grandfather does not indicate his Russian origin, DiCaprio himself repeatedly referred to him by our countryman.

Leonardo himself is known for his love of Russian culture and cinema of the XX century, especially the works of Eisenstein, Tarkovsky and Parajanov.

Steven Spielberg

The pedigree of the Creator of “Star wars” and “the Adventures of Indiana Jones” comes from Polish and Russian Jews. The parents of his father – Samuel Spielberg and Rebecca Cheswick both were born in Russia, and maternal grandfather Philip Posner was born in pre-revolutionary Odessa in 1884. “First of all, I’m Russian,” – said the Director for an interview, devoted to the premiere of the film “Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull”. Although this did not prevent him once again to portray Russians as the main villains. “It’s all in the historical period, we filmed in 1957, when the Cold war was in full swing,” explained Spielberg.

Natalie Wood

The Queen of Hollywood do not hide their Russian roots was Natalie wood, the main character of the famous movie of the 60’s “the Great race”. Her real name is Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. During the revolution, her parents fled from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, then to China, and thence to San Francisco. There was born in 1938, Natalia. The daughter of a Russian noblewoman and engineer speaks English and Russian. As in the Russian and foreign press constantly mentioned that she considered herself “very Russian”.

Michael Douglas

Like father, like son managed to leave a significant mark in the history of Hollywood cinema. Kirk Douglas, Michael’s father was a real Issurim Danilovich-Demski. In turn, his father was in some degree a Russian deserter he escaped from the Russian Empire to escape involvement in the Russo-Japanese war. In exile, he “Americanize” the family name, becoming Demski (Demsky), and now kirk and later Michael changed it to “Douglas”.

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