Kevin Kline — actor with roots in the Russian Empire
Kevin Kline is an American actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and has built one of the most varied careers in American theatre and film — from Hamlet and Henry V at the New York Shakespeare Festival to comedies, musicals, and character dramas spanning four decades.
Tracing the roots — Germany / Russia
His father Robert Kline had German and Russian-Jewish ancestry — part of the Eastern European Jewish diaspora in America. Kline grew up in a Jewish household in St. Louis, and the combination of classical training and natural comedy that defines his career carries the cultural DNA of that immigrant intellectual tradition.
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Germany / Russia. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.