Julie Delpy
immigrant from France (born in France, a naturalized American citizen)
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Poll: Favorite French-American Heritage Celebrity
French-American Heritage Month is celebrated in July each year and honors the significant contributions made by those American citizens with French heritage. As of 2024, almost 13 million Americans self-identify as being of French descent with just over 2 million speaking French or a French-based dialect at home. Some French-Americans and their descendants came to reside in the United States, when the land they lived upon was acquired by the United States (i.e. 1803 Louisiana Purchase) by various treaties that formally set the USA's borders. Some immigrated from territories that were formerly part of New France, but now governed as a British commonwealth during a series of mass migrations of French heritage peoples into America that began with the British conquest of Acadia in 1710 and ran through the Great Depression era of the 1930s. These great influxes would form distinct ethnic pockets within the United States, such as the Louisiana Créoles, the Louisiana Acadians (Cajuns), the Maine Acadians and the French-Canadian Americans of New England, who previously identified as Québécois. Outside of these large streams, other individuals and families with French heritage would immigrate to the United States for the same economic, religious, educational, social and quality of life opportunities that drove most people to come to America from other countries. Each group of immigrants brought with them their own version of French culture and traditions to America.
Which of these selected current or former American citizens with French heritage is your favorite francophile influence on America?
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Charles Boyer
immigrant from France (born in France, a naturalized American citizen) -
Lily-Rose Depp
French-American with French, Québécois, French Huguenot and Belgian ancestry (born in France with dual French/USA citizenship) -
Claudette Colbert
immigrant from France (born Émilie Chauchoin in France, a naturalized American citizen) -
Timothée Chalamet
partial British-French-Russian-Austrian Jewish ancestry (born in USA with dual French/USA citizenship) -
Leslie Caron
French-American ancestry (born in France with dual French/USA citizenship) -
Brie Larson
partial Franco-Manitoban and Québécois ancestry (born Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers in USA with dual Canadian/USA citizenship) -
Jim Carrey
partial Québécois ancestry (born in Canada, a naturalized American citizen) -
Hervé Villechaize
immigrant from France (born in France with French American ancestry) -
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
French-American descent -
Rene Auberjonois
partial French descent / French-Swiss ancestry -
Groucho Marx
French-German Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry -
Harpo Marx
French-German Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry -
Chico Marx
French-German Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry -
Christopher Lambert
partial French descent -
Emily Deschanel
partial French descent -
Zooey Deschanel
partial French descent -
Madonna
partial Québécois and Swiss-French ancestry -
John Larroquette
partial French and French Cerole descent -
Chloë Sevigny
partial Québécois ancestry -
Nathan Fillion
partial Québécois ancestry -
Matt LeBlanc
partial Québécois ancestry -
Kelly LeBrock
partial Québécois ancestry -
Ali Landry Monteverde
partial French Cajun, with distant Belgian, Swiss-French, Belgian Walloon, Breton ancestry -
Ellen DeGeneres
partial French Cajun ancestry -
Shia LaBeouf
partial French Cajun ancestry -
Lacey Chabert
partial French Cajun and French Huguenot ancestry -
Jared Leto
partial French Cajun ancestry -
Beyoncé
partial Louisiana Creole, French, Acadian, Québécois, Breton, and Belgian Walloon descent -
Paul Levesque
Québécois ancestry (aka Triple H) -
Anthony Bourdain
partial French descent -
Tom Bergeron
partial Québécois ancestry -
JoJo
partial Québécois ancestry -
Solange
partial Louisiana Creole, French, Acadian, Québécois, Breton, and Belgian Walloon descent -
Josephine Baker
Another French-American Celebrity Not Listed Here Josephine Baker (as the pictured example)immigrant from United States (born in USA, a naturalized French citizen)
