

TV SeriesDocumentary
Finding Your Roots
6.2(21)201213 seasons · 127 ep
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
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- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host

CeCe Moore
Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert

Derek Jeter
Self

Anderson Cooper
Self

Tom Colicchio
Self

Angela Bassett
Self

Valerie Jarrett
Self

Alan Dershowitz
Self

Tony Kushner
Self

Sally Field
Self

Tina Fey
Self

Nas
Self

Aarón Sánchez
Self

Sting
Self

George Stephanopoulos
Self

Maya Rudolph
Self

Ty Burrell
Self

Mia Farrow
Self

Soledad O'Brien
Self

Jimmy Kimmel
Self

Ava DuVernay
Self

John Turturro
Self

Questlove
Self

Lisa Ling
Self
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Crew
Directing
- Hazel Gurland-PoolerDirector
- Phil BertelsenDirector
- Jesse SweetDirector
- Josh GleasonDirector
Writing
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Writer
Production
- Dyllan McGeeExecutive Producer
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Executive Producer
- Peter W. KunhardtExecutive Producer
- CeCe MooreProducer
- Robert YacyshynLine Producer
- Kevin BurkeProducer
- Jack HillyerProduction Assistant
- Deborah Clancy PorfidoSupervising Producer
Camera
- Lisa VidalGrip
Editing
- Ben HowardEditor
- Vivian Z. HuAssistant Editor
- Natalia StevensonAssistant Editor
- Kevin FanningAssistant Editor
- Aaron PrietoAssistant Editor