Julia Roberts Recently Discovered That She Is Related To Edward Norton
glamour.comjust found out that she is related to another person who is very famous on this planet (no, it's not , although that would be iconic).
The Oscar-winner is distantly related to star (and three-time Oscar nominee) Edward Norton. Roberts and Norton discovered they are connected in the season premiere of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr, which aired on Tuesday, January 3.
Gates walked both actors through their family trees before telling them that they share a distant cousin. The unnamed distant ancestor has not been nominated for any This discovery was made after Roberts's and Norton's DNA was compared to the DNA of everyone who had appeared on the series, including each other. “You and Ed share a long, identical stretch of DNA on your ninth chromosomes," Gates said to Julia Roberts. “This means that you inherited this shared DNA from a distant ancestor, somewhere in the thick of this family tree.” Roberts replied with an emphatic "what?" and said she's met Norton, but she's never worked with him.
Norton, on the other hand, pointed out that he wasn't as lucky in the gene pool. “How come I didn’t get the teeth and the smile?” he said.
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