Alicia Silverstone — actress (clueless) with roots in the Russian Empire
Alicia Silverstone rose to global fame as Cher Horowitz in Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995), defining a generation's cultural vocabulary. She also starred in three Aerosmith videos and earned a Golden Globe nomination for the TV film Beauty (1998).
"Paternal grandmother fled the Russian Empire circa early 1900s amid widespread Jewish emigration to Western Europe."
Migration storyTracing the roots — Russia (Jewish)
Silverstone's paternal grandmother emigrated from the Russian Empire, part of the mass Jewish emigration of the late 19th and early 20th centuries driven by pogroms and economic hardship. That migratory chain eventually produced her father, Monty Silverstone, a British-born property developer who later settled in California.
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Russia (Jewish). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.