A Star Is Born
Hollywood superstar and worldwide heartthrob Clint Eastwood was born to parents Clinton and Ruth Eastwood on May 31st, 1930, in San Francisco, California, United States. At birth, Eastwood weighed a whopping 11 pounds 6 ounces and was nicknamed “Samson” by the hospital nurses as a result. Although he was his parents’ first-born, he does have a younger sister named Jeanne Bernhardt.
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Eastwood’s ancestry is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch, with his ancestors originally coming across the Atlantic to America on the Mayflower passenger ship 12 generations before he was born. One of these ancestors of particular relevance was William Bradford, the eventual Plymouth Colony Governor.