Is she Jewish?

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No.

No - she is Catholic

hes talking about race. not religion.


And youd be surprised when you find out how many actors directors and actresses that are jews.

Jeri Ryan looks much more typically Germanic than Palestinian/Kurdish/Armenian, like most modern Jews partially seem to be. But very hot chicks are very hot chicks, like half-Palestinian Emily Booth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkTBm_qXPUc

Jeri Ryan (aka Jeri Lynn Zimmermann) is a hot German/partially German chick alongside other German/partially German chicks like Summer Glau and Angelina Jolie (aka Angelina Voight), Jeri's a more "northern" Germanic type and Summer is more a "central" Germanic type, with Angelina Jolie pretty much a combination of the two other actresses.

But this thread is fecking silly. Is Jeri Jewish? Who cares! She's half Austrian, but then Jeri Ryan could also easily pass off as Welsh, Danish, Serbian, or Italian.

Being Jewish is not a race, case in point Sammy Davis Jr. converted to Judaism, it's a religion and an ethnicity. I find it interesting that Jews and Arabs share some common genetic traits yet they don't like each other because of their respective religious and political ideologies.

Besides what does it matter after they completed the Genome Project they found people in Germany who had distant common ancestors with Native American Indians, and according to the people they interviewed in both parties stated they had never been to the Americas, and the Native Americans stated they had never been to Germany.

I've met people with the surname of Zimmerman who were Jewish and others who were not, a young man I worked with had that same last name and he stated people always asked him or his father if they were Jewish and he said it didn't bother him that people asked, but he stated it bothered his father that people always assumed he was Jewish. But his father was born in Germany during WW II.

I am always curious why people want to know this about celebrities. She married two guys who weren't Jewish to best of my knowledge, the one guy who ran for Senator was a strange fetish guy according to her interviews and things in her divorce statements. Along the lines of the couple in "Eyes Wide Shut".

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

Traditionally, but not always the case today, German family names like Zimmerman or Klugman were identifiable as being Jewish if they only ended in one "n". Sadly, this was something the Nazis took note of during their early efforts in solving the Jewish "problem", and led to family name changes, as did prejudice elsewhere.

As for people wanting to know if people are Jewish, the reasons are likely extreme compared to simple curiosity. It's either prejudice or quite the opposite. (I'm sure some Jewish guys feel better that the chicks they lust after on film or TV happen to be Jewish. Less chance of their mothers having coronaries ;-) )

I don't think I would go by a last name to infer anything about anyone in the past or even now yes some people did and still do go by a last name, humans have been around for a long time, people change their names for all types of reasons.

This was asked about Lauren Cohen as well, and I don't thinks it's Jewish guys asking anymore than I think it's black guys who are asking the same types of question about black female actors.

If anything it's just the opposite the people asking the question are not usually a member of that ethnicity or race, but what to know because they could perhaps not see them self being attracted to someone outside their own ethnicity or race,but need some reason to justify why they're attracted to this person.

As I just responded to a topic on this very subject about the same question being asked about Pam Grier.

I had found a quote by the late entertainer Barbara McNair who is black and not mixed, and she once stated "Lenny Bruce used to say about me that I was a Caucasian, that someone took a paintbrush and painted me brown. White people are not aware that Negroes look all kinds of different ways."

Some people don't think a person is attractive unless they're mixed, and they also can't wrap their head around the fact that if the person has some traditional Anglo features the only explanation can be is that they must be mixed, but in the case of Lenny Bruce who was Jewish he thought Ms. McNair had to be mixed because she was so attractive and she did have many suitors who and a lot of them were white, and this was in the 50s and 60s which was the height of Ms. McNair's fame and popularity.

I think Ms. McNair's quote can be applied to any race or ethnicity, there are people who have a universal appeal to a lot of people world wide, and some are not mixed and some are racially and ethnically.

A perfect example that a last name means nothing as to a person's ethnicity, take Jenna Ushkowitz from "Glee" she's Korean, was born in Korea to Korean parents, but she was adopted as an infant, and raised Catholic, although if you go to her board their are comments on there that say she doesn't look Jewish.

I have a friend who was also born in Korea and who was adopted also and her maiden name is one that people also think is traditionally Jewish but her adopted parents used her Korean surname for her middle name so she would have something of her parents name to carry with her, she did the same when her daughter was born by giving her daughter the same Korean surname as her middle name.

I usually ask the OP and other people why they ask these types of questions, none of them rarely if ever respond. Which is odd, I usually have a reason and want an answer when I ask a question about anything, and if someone ask me why I asked I usually tell them even if it's just out of curiosity, but i find it interesting that most will not say why they want to know these things, at the end of the day what difference is it going to make, are they going to stop being attracted or liking that person?

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.