Finding Your Roots (2012)
Finding Your Roots (2012)
Network & Production Companies


Plot.
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
Where to Watch.











Currently Finding Your Roots is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, The Roku Channel, PBS, Hoopla, Pluto TV, Spectrum On Demand, Plex, Plex Channel
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host / Executive Producer / Writer

Anita Hill
Self

Lisa Vidal
Grip

Shana Darabie
Intern

Andrew Gibbs
Intern

Nya Archie
Intern

Michaela Echols
Intern

Jack Hillyer
Intern

Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Director

Josh Gleason
Director

Jesse Sweet
Director

Phil Bertelsen
Director

Ben Howard
Editor

Vivian Z. Hu
Assistant Editor

Kevin Fanning
Assistant Editor

Natalia Stevenson
Assistant Editor

Aaron Prieto
Assistant Editor

Natalia Warchol
Producer

Deborah Clancy Porfido
Supervising Producer

Robert Yacyshyn
Line Producer

Peter W. Kunhardt
Executive Producer

Dyllan McGee
Executive Producer

Donna Brazile
Self

Kara Walker
Self

Bill Maher
Self

Bill O'Reilly
Self

Dustin Hoffman
Self

Sterling K. Brown
Self

Sasheer Zamata
Self

Jon Batiste
Self

Harry Connick Jr.
Self

Branford Marsalis
Self

Cory Booker
Self

John Lewis
Self

Geoffrey Canada
Self

Barbara Walters
Self

Kevin Bacon
Self

Kyra Sedgwick
Self

Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Self

Yasir Qadhi
Self

Rick Warren
Self

Robert Downey Jr.
Self

Robert Downey Sr.
Self

Naomi Foner
Self

Maggie Gyllenhaal
Self

Samuel L. Jackson
Self

Condoleezza Rice
Self

Ruth Simmons
Self

Margaret Cho
Self

Sanjay Gupta
Self

Martha Stewart
Self

Margarett Cooper
Self

John Legend
Self

Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)

Wanda Sykes
Self

Linda Chavez
Self

Adrian Grenier
Self

Michelle Rodriguez
Self

Stephen King
Self

Gloria Reuben
Self

Courtney B. Vance
Self

Billie Jean King
Self

Rebecca Lobo
Self

Ken Burns
Self

Anna Deavere Smith
Self

Ben Affleck
Self

Khandi Alexander
Self

Ben Jealous
Self

Ming Tsai
Self

Carole King
Self

Deepak Chopra
Self

David Sedaris
Self

Jessica Alba
Self

Derek Jeter
Self

Anderson Cooper
Self

Tom Colicchio
Self

Angela Bassett
Self

Valerie Jarrett
Self

Alan Dershowitz
Self

Tony Kushner
Self

Sally Field
Self

Tina Fey
Self

Nas
Self

Deval Patrick
Self

Aarón Sánchez
Self

Sting
Self

George Stephanopoulos
Self

Shonda Rhimes
Self

Keenen Ivory Wayans
Self

Norman Lear
Self

Richard Branson
Self

Frank Gehry
Self

Maya Lin
Self

Patricia Arquette
Self

John McCain
Self

Sean Combs
Self

LL Cool J
Self

Sandra Cisneros
Self

Neil Patrick Harris
Self

Gloria Steinem
Self

Julianna Margulies
Self

Azar Nafisi
Self

Larry David
Self

Bernie Sanders
Self

Fred Armisen
Self

Carly Simon
Self

Christopher Walken
Self

Ted Danson
Self

William H. Macy
Self

Mary Steenburgen
Self

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self

Janet Mock
Self

Oswald Mosley
Self (archive footage)

Paul Rudd
Self

Bryant Gumbel
Self

Tonya Lewis Lee
Self

Suzanne Malveaux
Self

Carmelo Anthony
Self

Ana Navarro
Self

Gaby Hoffmann
Self

Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Self

Phil McGraw
Self

Aziz Ansari
Self

Maya Rudolph
Self

Amy Schumer
Self

George R. R. Martin
Self

Andy Samberg
Self

Felicity Huffman
Self

Michael Kenneth Williams
Self

Christiane Amanpour
Self

Kal Penn
Self

Sheryl Sandberg
Self

Michael Strahan
Self

CeCe Moore
Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert

Paul Ryan
Self

Marco Rubio
Self

Tulsi Gabbard
Self

Josh Meyers
Self (archive footage)

Seth Meyers
Self

Tig Notaro
Self

Sarah Silverman
Self

Michael Moore
Self

Chloë Sevigny
Self

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Self

Marina Abramović
Self

Ty Burrell
Self

Mia Farrow
Self

Anjelica Huston
Self

Isabella Rossellini
Self

Melissa McCarthy
Self

Eric Stonestreet
Self

Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Mitchell Pritchett (archive footage)

Queen Latifah
Self

Jeffrey Wright
Self

Jeff Goldblum
Self

Terry Gross
Self

Marc Maron
Self

Steve Carell
Self / Michael Scott

Amy Ryan
Self

Sigourney Weaver
Self

Justina Machado
Self

Harold E. Varmus
Self

Shirley Ann Jackson
Self

Francis Collins
Self

Soledad O'Brien
Self

Jimmy Kimmel
Self

Ava DuVernay
Self

John Turturro
Self

Questlove
Self

Lisa Ling
Self

Marisa Tomei
Self

S. Epatha Merkerson
Self

Laura Linney
Self

Diane von Fürstenberg
Self

Narciso Rodríguez
Self

RuPaul
Self

Bill Hader
Self

Julianne Moore
Self

Lidia Bastianich
Self

Scarlett Johansson
Self

Lupita Nyong'o
Self

Téa Leoni
Self

Ann Curry
Self

Kehinde Wiley
Self

Joe Madison
Self

Gayle King
Self

Jordan Peele
Self

Issa Rae
Self

Nancy Pelosi
Self

Norah O'Donnell
Self

Zac Posen
Self

Glenn Close
Self

John Waters
Self

Andy Cohen
Self

Nina Totenberg
Self

Jane Lynch
Self

Jim Gaffigan
Self

John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)

Christopher Meloni
Self

Tony Shalhoub
Self

Pharrell Williams
Self

Kasi Lemmons
Self

Clint Black
Self

Rosanne Cash
Self

Johnny Cash
Self (archive footage)

Vivian Liberto
Self (archive footage)

John Lithgow
Self

Maria Hinojosa
Self

Wes Studi

Lena Dunham

Michael Douglas

Anthony Ramos

Tracy Morgan

Dionne Warwick

Danielle Brooks

Jesse Williams
Media.



















Details.
Release DateMarch 24, 2012
StatusReturning Series
Seasons11
Episodes114
Running Time1h
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
dna
celebrity
ancestry
genealogy
Wiki.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS. In each episode, celebrities are presented with a "book of life" that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists that allows them to view their ancestral histories, learn about familial connections and discover secrets about their lineage.
All episodes air on Tuesdays. Season 10 began airing on January 2, 2024, and ended on April 9.
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