Which Emmy award celeb are you most closely connected to?

Question

We're featuring Emmy Award nominated and awarded celebrities in the Connection Finder this week, starting with Jason Sudeikis, the winner of the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Comedy, for his work on Ted Lasso.

Featured alongside him are other nominees and winners:

• Gillian Anderson, winner Supporting Actress in a Drama for The Crown
• John Lithgow, nominee Supporting Actor in a Drama for Perry Mason
• Stephen Colbert, nominee Variety Talk Series for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• Tracee Ross, nominee Lead Actress in a Comedy for Blackish
• Dolly Parton, winner Outstanding Television Movie for Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square
• Michael Douglas, nominee Lead Actor in a Comedy for The Kominsky Method
• Kate Winslet, winner Lead Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology, or Movie for Mare of Easttown
• Lin-Manuel Miranda, nominee Lead Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology, or Movie for Hamilton
• Paul Bettany, nominee Lead Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology, or Movie for WandaVision
• Rosie Perez, nominee Supporting Actress in a Comedy for The Flight Attendant

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 23,766,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

New special feature: Check out how you're connected to other Emmy winners by searching the Emmy Award Winners of the 21st Century category and related categories like Academy Award Winners of the 21st Century and American Television Actors using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the page.

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Answer 1

Ancestors and Cousins

23 generations      Cloris Leachman (1926-2021)
24 generations      Kyra Sedgwick

Connections

19 degrees      Eartha Mae (Keith) Kitt (1927-2008)
20 degrees      Ron Snyder
20 degrees      Jeffrey Daniels
23 degrees      Doris May (Green) Roberts (1925-2016)
25 degrees      Bryan Cranston
25 degrees      Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr. (1941-2006)
25 degrees      Julie (Luetkemeyer) Bowen
26 degrees      Megan Mullally
26 degrees      Kelsey Grammer

Answer 2

• Gillian Anderson - 24 - Quebec
• John Lithgow -18 - Nova Scotia
• Stephen Colbert - 24 - Maryland *
• Tracee Ross - 23 - Nova Scotia
• Dolly Parton - 22 - Ireland
• Michael Douglas -21 - Nova Scotia *
• Kate Winslet - 31 - Nova Scotia
• Lin-Manuel Miranda -25- Nova Scotia
• Paul Bettany - 20 - Ireland **
• Rosie Perez - 26 - Nova Scotia
  
  Not a banner result this time 
  * denotes further work would make it much closer
  ** this is an interesting one for me - the first emerging from a correction to Burke's Landed Gentry and also the fascinating in law relationship to the Phillips (actually Molesworths - even though in law is pointing to DNA matches)

Answer 3

I am most closely connected to Dolly Parton at 23 degrees.

Answer 4

I am most closely connected to Tracee Ross at 20 degrees of separation.

• 20 degrees from Tracee Ross
• 22 degrees from John Lithgow
• 23 degrees from Gillian Anderson
• 23 degrees from Dolly Parton
• 24 degrees from Stephen Colbert
• 25 degrees from Michael Douglas
• 25 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda
• 29 degrees from Rosie Perez
• 29 degrees from Jason Sudeikis
• 30 degrees from Paul Bettany
• 31 degrees from Kate Winslet

Answer 5

*26 degrees from Jason Sudeikis, 

*20 degrees from Gillian Anderson, 

*25 degrees from Paul Bettany, 

*22 degrees from Stephen Colbert, 

*22 degrees from Michael Douglas, 

*20 degrees from John Lithgow, 

*21 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda, 

*19 degrees from Dolly Parton, 

*27 degrees from Rosie Perez, 

*21 degrees from Tracee Ross, 

*28 degrees from Kate Winslet 

How do I get rid of the space between them?

Comments

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Answer 6

I'm closest to John Lithgow, at 18 degrees, through Bridge, Batchelder, Herrick, and Richardson connections.

Answer 7

Dolly Parton is my 20th cousin once removed! This the most excited I've been about any relative!

Answer 8

16 degrees from Dolly Parton (12th cousins, 3x removed)
19 degrees from John Lithgow (10th cousins, 1x removed)
20 degrees from Tracee Ross
21 degrees from Michael Douglas (9th cousins, 2x removed)
22 degrees from Gillian Anderson (18th cousins, 1x removed)
23 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda (17th cousins, 1x removed)
23 degrees from Stephen Colbert
24 degrees from Rosie Perez
27 degrees from Kate Winslet
27 degrees from Paul Bettany
30 degrees from Jason Sudeikis

Answer 9

She won her Emmy in 1969 and isn't profiled on Wikitree, but Susan Saint James is my 2nd cousin (5 degrees).

Answer 10

19 degrees from John Lithgow. 14th cousin thrice removed. MRCA Robert Corbet (1477 -1513).

19 degrees from Dolly Parton. 10th cousin twice removed. MRCA Jean (Jordan) Palmer (abt 1595 -1622).

19 degrees from Stephen Colbert.

20 degrees from Tracee Ross. 15th cousin. MRCA Margerie (Elliot) Bridger (1527 - 1580,) Disclaimer. It is through a bogus line,.disproved by DNA testing, but that's what WikiTree shows.

21 degrees from Gillian Anderson. 18th cousin once removed. MRCA Philippa Hemmys (1399 - 1427.)

21 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda. 16th cousin once removed. MRCA Philippa (Hulse) Brereton (abt 1416 - 1463.)

22 degrees from Michael Douglas. 13th cousin 4 times removed. MRCA James Hamilton (abt 1475 - abt 1529.)

23 Degrees from Paul Bettany.

27 degrees from Jason Sudekis.

27 degrees from Rosie Perez.

29 degrees from Kate Winslet.

Answer 11

• 29 degrees from Jason
• 21 degrees from Gillian, 21st cousin once removed
• 28 degrees from Paul
• 24 degrees from Stephen
• 22 degrees from Michael, 19th cousin five times removed
• 20 degrees from John, 9th cousin three times removed
• 23 degrees from Lin-manuel, 17th cousin three times removed
•  20 degrees from Dolly, 12th cousin twice removed
• 23 degrees from Rosie
•  23 degrees from Tracee
•  30 degrees from Kate
•  20 degrees from Marsha

Answer 12

Closest to John Lithgow and Dolly Parton, at 19 degrees.

And John is also a 9th Cousin 1R.   I really like his sense of humor, DNA, I must just get him.

Dolly is a 16th C 2x R, but we have a closer connection through marriage, just love Dolly.

Answer 13

• 17 degrees from John Lithgow; and 18/1xr cousins via Edmund Dutton
• 20 degrees from Michael Douglas; and 21st cousins via Robert de Holland 
• 22 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda; and 18/4xr cousins via Theobaud de Verdun
• 23 degrees from Dolly Parton; and 14/1xr cousins via Catherine (Hewitt)Stone
• 24 degrees from Gillian Anderson; and 20/3xr cousins via Robert de Pulford

Answer 14

Which do you consider closest--a 19th cousin, an 18th cousin once removed, or a 17th cousin twice removed? These relationships correspond respectively to Dolly Parton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Michael Douglas.

Answer 15

First, just for fun, I want to mention my closest relative who won an Emmy, back in 1974 (The Snoop Sisters), my second cousin, twice removed, Mildred Natwick.  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Natwick-16

This was a fun group to look at!  It looks like a lot of us have some distant cousins in this group, from the responses so far.

Dolly Parton is my closest connection, at 19 degrees.  She is also a distant cousin--14th cousins, once removed.

Some more distant cousins in this group:

John Lithgow--11th cousin

Lin-Manuel Miranda--17th cousins, once removed

Gillian Anderson--18th cousins, twice removed

Michael Douglas--19th cousins, twice removed

From MyConnections, I also found out that Kyra Sedgwick is my 9th cousin, once removed, and Cloris Leachman is my 10th cousin.

Answer 16

My closest (and favorite) on the list is Dolly Parton, at 18 degrees. She's also my 12th cousin once removed.

Answer 17

20 degrees from John Lithgow.

Answer 18

14 degrees from John Lithgow (1 marriage)

22 degrees from Tracee Ross (blood relationship)

Answer 19

Dolly Parton is a tenth cousin once removed. But, it is through my Sizemore family line and there is an awful lot of confusion with that family, so who knows.

Answer 20

Henry Fonda 8th cousins twice removed.

Patricia Neal 8th cousins twice removed.

Patrick Swayze 10th cousins twice removed.

Anthony Perkins 11th cousins once removed.

Humphrey Bogart 7th cousins three times removed.

Shirley Temple 10th cousins twice removed.