In a teaser for the newest episode of PBS family tree collection Finding Your Roots, host Henry Louis Gates Jr. knowledgeable the actor that the Native American lady, also called Amonute, was his twelfth great-grandmother. Ed’s household had identified of a doable connection to Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe for a few years. “Oh my God,” he responded to the affirmation. “This is about as far back as you can go, unless you’re a Viking. It makes you realise what a small piece of the human story you are.”
Edward Norton stunned to learn he is related to Pocahontas
