Celebrities: Jewish or Not? 

Celebrities you might not have known are Jewish….or maybe you did…

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Josh O’Connor – Jewish

Josh O’Connor grew up Catholic, but has Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish ancestry through his matrilineal great-grandmother.

O’Connor is an English actor. He starred in the romantic drama God’s Own Country in 2017, for which he received the BIFA Award for Best Actor. Since then, he has starred in Netflix’s The Crown (2019-2020), La chimera (2023), Challengers (2024), The Mastermind (2025), Wake Up Dead Man (2025) and, most recently, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day (2026).

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