Who Do You Think You Are? - Season 2

To know who you are, you have to know where you came from. In this captivating reality series, 8 celebrities share their life-altering discoveries. Working with genealogists, historians, and researchers, they travel the world to uncover the secrets and surprises in their family trees. With Vanessa Williams, Tim McGraw, Rosie O'Donnell, Kim Cattraill, Lionel richie, Steve Buscemi, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Ashley Judd.

Episode 1: Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams travels from New York to Washington, D.C., South Carolina, Baltimore, and Nashville to research the lives of her great-great grandfathers. One was born a free man, the other a slave, but both fought for justice.

Episode 2: Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw was 11 when he learned by accident that his real father was baseball legend Tug McGraw. Years later, Tim longs to know more about his fathers family, which has always been a void in his life. His search leads him back to the Founding Fathers.

Episode 3: Rosie ODonnell

Rosie ODonnells quest to discover her mothers roots is a roller-coaster ride of sorrow, joy, horror, and redemption as she journeys from New York to Montreal and eventually Ireland, where a 19th-century workhouse hints at what her ancestors suffered.

Episode 4: Kim Cattrall

For more than 70 years, Kim Cattralls family has lived with an unsolved mystery: why did Kims grandfather abandon his wife and young daughters to a life of poverty and hardship? The answers are bittersweet.

Episode 5: Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie has always wondered why his grandmother never spoke of her father, a man named John Lewis Brown. Digging deep, Lionel finds a man whose circumstances were remarkably similar to his own, despite the very different times in which they lived.

Episode 6: Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi is in search of an ancestor with a compelling story. Following the trail of his great-great-grandfather on his mothers side, he finds more than he bargained for: depression, desertion, suicidal tendencies, and a hard life that led to a paupers grave.

Episode 7: Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow is curious about both sides of her lineage. She knows a lot of family stories, but which are fact and which are fiction? Her search takes her to Barbados and a Manhattan synagogue, where she learns that her ancestors include brave women and a holy man.

Episode 8: Ashley Judd

Steeped in lore about her mother Naomis side of the family, Ashley Judd explores her paternal heritage. Shes stunned to find that one of her ancestors came to America on theMayflower, and that her own passion for social justice reaches back 12 generations.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 4 Maj, 2012