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Jeffrey Tambor

Джеффри Тэмбор

Arrested Development and Transparent star with Hungarian-Ukrainian Jewish ancestry

🇺🇸 Fame: USA🇷🇺 Origin: 👤 Family
JT
Profile #461
ProfessionActor
Russian originUSA
AncestryFamilyHungary / Ukraine
RussianUnknown
CategoryCinema & TVTier B
Biography

Jeffrey Tamboractor with roots in the Russian Empire

Jeffrey Tambor is an American actor best known for playing George Bluth Sr. in Arrested Development and Maura Pfefferman in Transparent, for which he won two Emmy Awards. Over a five-decade career he has been one of television's most respected character actors.

Russian Connection

Tracing the roots — USA

Tambor's family has Hungarian and Ukrainian Jewish roots — coming from communities within the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement and the Austro-Hungarian borderlands. This Eastern European Jewish heritage connects him directly to the Russian civilisation diaspora this database charts.

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Jeffrey Tambor🇺🇸 USA
Family
Hungary / Ukraine
Origin
USA🇷🇺
Key Achievements

A career defined by ambition

01
Transparent (Amazon, 2014–2017) — 2 Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy
02
Arrested Development (Fox/Netflix, 2003–2019) — George Bluth Sr.
03
The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) — Hank Kingsley
04
4 Emmy Award nominations total
05
Golden Globe Award for Transparent (2015, 2016)
Russian diaspora
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