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Sydney Sweeney & Marilyn Monroe Share a Surprising Family Secret
MyHeritage said the two actresses share a paternal family line that converges on 17th-century settler Ezra Perry, deepening long-running comparisons.
- Genealogy platform MyHeritage revealed this week that Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe are ninth cousins, once removed, according to newly released research connecting the two actresses.
- Their family trees converge at Ezra Perry, an early settler in Sandwich, Massachusetts, with Sweeney linked through her father Steven Sweeney and Monroe through her biological father Charles Stanley Gifford.
- Sweeney wore a 73-year-old vintage Ceil Chapman gown at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in February that recalled Monroe's iconic 1952 LIFE magazine cover, fueling their long-standing visual comparison.
- MyHeritage Director of Research Roi Mandel said the long-standing comparison inspired the investigation, noting "Uncovering their shared branch was incredible, it's a powerful reminder" of human interconnection.
- Beyond genealogy, the two share parallel religious interests; Page Six reported this week Sweeney is discussing converting to Judaism, a faith Monroe adopted in 1956 before marrying playwright Arthur Miller.
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MyHeritage found out that Sweeney and Monroe are ninth cousins in second grade.
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