Finding Your Roots

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Season 1 Episode 6 | 51m 11s

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the ancestral pasts of actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal: two individuals whose family histories can be traced far back through the centuries.

Aired: 04/28/12 | Expired: 12/31/69 | Rating: NR

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and by The Inkwell Society and its members Candace King Weir; Lloyd Carney Foundation; Jim and Susan Swartz; Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal; Anne Wojcicki; Hayward and Kathy Draper; and Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Extras From This Episode

• Education | A Long Journey

  Clip: S1 Ep6 | 5m

• Education | As American as it Gets

  Clip: S1 Ep6 | 5m 47s

• Education | Founding Mothers

  Clip: S1 Ep6 | 3m 20s

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