Joe Manganiello

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Fifth great grandson of Plato Turner.
Manganiello was born in Pittsburgh to Susan (née Brachanow) and Charles John Manganiello.
His mother is of German and Armenian descent.
Manganiello's maternal great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian genocide where her husband and seven of her children were murdered and her eighth child drowned during the escape.
She later encountered a German soldier in an internment camp for survivors, whose child she gave birth to, Manganiello's grandmother.
Manganiello's father was born outside of Boston.
In the early 2020s, Henry Louis Gates and the researchers of PBS' Finding Your Roots uncovered that Manganiello's legal grandfather, surnamed Manganiello, was not his biological grandfather; and that his biological paternal grandfather was a mixed-race African-American man.
Using this information, they traced his paternal lineage back to Manganiello's fifth great-grandfather, an African slave Plato Turner, Rev War soldier who was freed before slavery was abolished in Massachusetts, who then went on to fight for the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manganiello (21 January 2023)

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Joe Manganiello is an American actor. His professional film career began when he played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. His breakout role was as werewolf Alcide Herveaux in five seasons of the HBO series True Blood.

He is also known for his roles in films such as Magic Mike, Magic Mike XXL, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, What to Expect When You're Expecting, and Sabotage. In late 2013, he became a published author when his first book, Evolution, was released by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books. His directorial debut came in 2014 with the documentary feature La Bare, which he also produced and financed. He is also known for his role as Brad Morris in How I Met Your Mother. In 2017 he won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy as the narrator of the documentary Pittsburgh Is Home: The Story of the Penguins, which documented the first 50 years of history of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. He is active with several charities, primarily UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for which he serves on the board of trustees. In 2016, he was cast as Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in the DC Extended Universe, making his first appearance in 2017's Justice League. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• "Joe Manganiello." Wikipedia, revision of 12 July 2022. < link > Accessed 19 July 2022.
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