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06/11/2018 – Paxton – 2018 Dances with Films Festival – “An American in Texas” – Arrivals – TCL Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard – Hollywood, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Photography by E / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: Ojai, Ventura, California, United States
Date of Birth: February 23, 1994
Ethnicity: * father – English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Austrian, German, French, Swiss-French, Dutch, Irish, distant Welsh, remote Norwegian * mother – English
James Paxton is an American actor. His roles include the films The Greatest Game Ever Played , Term Life , Boogeyman Pop , Velvet Buzzsaw , Low Tide , Bit , The Fanatic (2019), Teenage Badass , The Cleaner (2021), Twisters , and Last Train to Fortune ; the series Texas Rising , Eyewitness , and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ; and the short films Alien: Containment and Alien: Alone .
He is the son of Louise Newbury and actor and director Bill Paxton . His mother is British.
James’ paternal grandfather was John Lane Paxton, an actor and producer (the son of Frank Paxton and Marjorie R. Lane). John was born in Missouri. Frank was born in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, and was President of the Frank Paxton Lumber Company. He was the son of John Gallatin Paxton and Mary Neill/Neil Gentry. James’ great-grandmother Marjorie was born in Missouri, the daughter of John Lewis Lane and Myrtle May Ruggles. A great-great-great-grandfather of James was Elisha Paxton, a lawyer and soldier, who had served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army at the American Civil War, and died in combat while leading the Stonewall Brigade during the Battle of Chancellorsville. A great-great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Gentry, was the founder of Columbia, Missouri, and its first mayor.
James’ paternal grandmother was Mary Lou Gray (the daughter of Wayne Charter Gray and Leonie Marie Turk). Mary Lou was born in Illinois. Wayne was born in Illinois, the son of Levi S. Gray and Olive M. Charter. James’ great-grandmother Leonie was born in Kankakee, Kankakee Co., Illinois, the daughter of Francis Joseph “Frank” Turk, whose father was Austrian and whose mother was German; and of Marie Leonie/C. Euziere, whose father was French and whose mother was Swiss-French.
Sources: Genealogy of James Paxton (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogies of James’s father – http://famouskin.com https://www.wikitree.com
James’ paternal great-grandmother, Leonie Marie Turk, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org