Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Season 11

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Season 11

Season 11

In the new season of the Emmy(R) nominated series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., nineteen celebrity guests will sit down with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to dive into their ancestral history and solve mysteries that have plagued their families. In addition to the all-star line-up, Gates will have his own familial mystery solved when the tables are turned and the celebrated host becomes a guest on an eagerly anticipated episode of the new season.

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Episodes10
DatesJan 7, 2025 - Apr 8, 2025
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Episodes

Larger Than Life
Season 11Episode 160 min

Larger Than Life

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters they've played on stage and screen. Moving from a naval base in the Philippines to a small town bakery in Pennsylvania to steamships on the Atlantic Ocean, Lea and Amanda hear stories of relatives who survived wars, murders, and heart-wrenching ordeals.

Jan 7, 2025
La Famiglia
Season 11Episode 260 min

La Famiglia

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Italian roots of Joy Behar & Michael Imperioli.

Jan 14, 2025
Stranger Than Fiction
Season 11Episode 360 min

Stranger Than Fiction

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals inspiring ancestors of novelist Amy Tan & poet Rita Dove.

Jan 21, 2025
Dreamers One and All
Season 11Episode 460 min

Dreamers One and All

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the ancestry of actor Sharon Stone & model Chrissy Teigen.

Jan 28, 2025
Family Recipes
Season 11Episode 560 min

Family Recipes

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the ancestry of celebrity chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman, traveling from small-town Spain to Native American lands in the Dakotas to reveal his guests' hidden connections to history—and to food.

Feb 4, 2025
Latin Roots
Season 11Episode 660 min

Latin Roots

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales - interweaving stories from across Latin America. Along the way, both guests learn secrets that their ancestors tried hard to conceal.

Feb 11, 2025
The Ties That Bind
Season 11Episode 760 min

The Ties That Bind

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard—a married couple who whose ancestors had some remarkable similarities. Telling stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals, Gates compels the pair to reimagine their family trees.

Feb 18, 2025
The Butterfly Effect
Season 11Episode 860 min

The Butterfly Effect

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made bold decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a fruit stand in NY City to the wilds of New Zealand, Gates introduces his guests to relatives who took great risks, overcame enormous hardships—and unwittingly transformed the lives of their descendants.

Feb 25, 2025
Moving on Up
Season 11Episode 960 min

Moving on Up

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the long-lost roots of actor Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch—two African Americans whose ancestor's broke boundaries and forged families as they moved from slavery to freedom.

Apr 1, 2025
Finding My Roots
Season 11Episode 1060 min

Finding My Roots

In a unique and highly emotional episode, actor Laurence Fishburne is joined by scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—who finds himself a guest on his own show for the first time. Both men have been haunted by profound family mysteries for years. Cutting-edge DNA detective work will solve those mysteries—introducing Laurence and Henry to ancestors whose names they have longed to hear.

Apr 8, 2025

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