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Actor Daniel Radcliffe was born on 23 July 1989 in London and is 35 years old. He is famous to millions for playing Harry Potter in the film adaptations of the beloved children’s books.<\/p>
At the start of his episode of Who Do You Think You Are?<\/a><\/em>, Daniel says that he owes a lot to his parents, Marcia and Alan, for supporting him after he became famous at the age of 11. <\/p> \u201cTo steer a kid through that with as much humour and calm as they did is, I think, very impressive,\u201d he says.<\/p> So who were the people whose lives equipped Marcia and Alan with the emotional intelligence to deal with such an extraordinary situation?<\/p> Daniel begins his research with his mother\u2019s family. He expects to find Eastern European Jewish ancestry and, perhaps, to understand the story behind the suicide of his great grandfather, Samuel Gershon. A family tree compiled by Daniel\u2019s \u2018Granny Pat\u2019 offers early lines of research. Pat changed her surname<\/a> from Gershon to Gresham, but why? Daniel also learns that Samuel, one of nine siblings, was the first in his generation to be born in England.<\/p> Daniel is surprised to learn that his 2x great grandparents, Louis Gershon and Jessie Greenwall, were married in South Africa. He heads to North London<\/a> to meet one of the couple\u2019s descendants, also called Louis Gershon.<\/p> Louis senior, it turns out, was a diamond prospector, who later set up a business in Hatton Garden, the historic centre for London\u2019s jewellery trade. An old photograph<\/a> shows that Daniel strongly takes after his forebear.<\/p>