Place of Birth: Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: 1987
Ethnicity:
*father – Japanese
*mother – English, as well as distant Dutch, Scottish, and German
Philip Nozuka is a Canadian-American actor.
He is the son of Holly Sedgwick Stern and Hiromitsu Nozuka. His father is Japanese. His mother was raised in Canada, the daughter of American parents, Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and Helen Phillips Burroughs, who were both of New England WASP ancestry.
Philip is the brother of George Nozuka, an R&B singer, Justin Nozuka, a musician and actor, and Henry Nozuka, a musician. His uncle is American jazz guitarist Mike Stern, who is his mother’s brother, and his aunt is actress Kyra Sedgwick, who is his mother’s half-sister.
Both of Philip’s maternal grandparents remarried to Jewish spouses. Philip’s grandfather’s re-marriage to Patricia Rosenwald produced Kyra, and Philip’s grandmother’s re-marriage to Philip Maurice Stern, an author, philanthropist, and Rockefeller fellow, resulted in his uncle Mike and mother’s name change to Stern.
Philip’s maternal grandfather is Henry Dwight Sedgwick V (the son of Robert Minturn Sedgwick and Helen Peabody). Henry was born in Massachusetts, and is from a prominent family that has lived in New England since the 1600s. He is of English, and distant Dutch, Scottish, and German, descent. Robert was the son of Henry Dwight Sedgwick III and Sarah Mary/May Minturn. Helen was the daughter of The Rev. Endicott Peabody, a minister, and of Fanny/Frances Peabody, who were born with the same surname.
Philip’s maternal grandmother was Helen Phillips Burroughs (the daughter of Robert Phillips Burroughs and Dorothy Hall Wellman). Helen was born in New Hampshire. Robert was a prominent lumber executive, and was the son of Sherman Everett Burroughs and Helen Sophie Phillips. Dorothy was the daughter of James Albert Wellman and Florence Vincent.
Sources: Partial genealogy of Philip’s mother (through her half-sister, Kyra Sedgwick) – http://famouskin.com
Marriage record of Philip’s maternal grandparents, Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and Helen Phillips Burroughs – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogies of Philip’s maternal grandfather, Henry Dwight Sedgwick V – http://www.geni.com
https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Philip’s maternal great-grandparents, Robert Phillips Burroughs and Dorothy Hall Wellman – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Philip’s maternal great-grandfather, Robert Phillips Burroughs – https://www.nytimes.com
Genealogical information about Philip’s maternal great-great-aunt, Wellman, Harriet V. (the sister of Philip’s maternal great-grandmother, Dorothy Hall Wellman) – https://www.nhhistory.org
Genealogy of Philip’s maternal step-grandfather, Philip Maurice Stern – https://www.geni.com