8.7/1068 votesLoading...#1 - Kelly Clarkson
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/2013
Singer Kelly Clarkson explores her lineage and uncovers an ancestor deeply rooted in American history; she comes face-to-face with her 3x great grandfather's wartime bravery and sacrifice.
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8.5/1039 votesLoading...#2 - Ginnifer Goodwin
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 7/26/2015
In the Season 7 premiere, Ginnifer Goodwin hopes to connect her father with the grandparents he never knew, and uncovers a dark side of her family tree that includes instability and drug addiction.
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- 8.4/1047 votesLoading...
#3 - Tim McGraw
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/2011
The country music superstar uncovers his father's heritage among the Founding Fathers.
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- 8.3/1075 votesLoading...
#4 - Lisa Kudrow
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/2010
Lisa Kudrow journeys to the small Jewish town of Ilya where she discovers how her great-grandmother died in the Holocaust. Yet, Lisa finds hope when she uncovers a 60-year old family mystery.
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- 8.3/1042 votesLoading...
#5 - Brooke Shields
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/2/2010
Brooke learns a tragic secret about her grandmother and then discovers a connection to royalty through her paternal roots.
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8.3/1043 votesLoading...#6 - Vanessa Williams
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/2011
Vanessa Williams sets out on a journey to find out if her ancestors were also trailblazers.
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- 8.3/1031 votesLoading...
#7 - Blair Underwood
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/2012
Actor Blair Underwood utilizes a DNA test to dig deeper into his family's roots, where he discovers the secret of his family's origin.
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8.3/1039 votesLoading...#8 - Reba McEntire
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/2012
Country music star Reba McEntire heads to Raleigh, North Carolina as she explores her mother's ancestry.
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8.3/1029 votesLoading...#9 - Rita Wilson
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/30/2012
Actress Rita Wilson travels to Greece and Bulgaria to learn more about her late father.
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8.3/1037 votesLoading...#10 - Rashida Jones
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 5/4/2012
Actress Rashida Jones learns about her family history on her mother's side.
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8.3/1025 votesLoading...#11 - America Ferrera
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 4/12/2015
America Ferrera learns about her great-grandfather's pivotal role in Honduran history, and seeks a connection to the father she hardly knew.
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- 8.2/1065 votesLoading...
#12 - Sarah Jessica Parker
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/2010
Sarah Jessica Parker is a celebrated icon in film and television as well as fashion, who recently served as a producer and reprised her Emmy Award-winning role as Carrie Bradshaw for the screen adaptation of the hit HBO series "Sex and the City." The actress took an emotional journey from coast to coast in search of her family's roots, crossing paths with the California Gold Rush and the Salem Witch Trials.
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- 8.2/1043 votesLoading...
#13 - Steve Buscemi
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/25/2011
Steve Buscemi seeks a compelling story on his mother's side of the family, and finds it in his great-great-grandfather Ralph B. Montgomery.
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- 8.2/1038 votesLoading...
#14 - Courteney Cox
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/2017
Courteney Cox traces her maternal line back to ambitious and ruthless relatives who plotted and murdered their way to power in medieval times; and she's shocked to discover an ancestor who's one of European history's most famous characters
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- 8.2/1015 votesLoading...
#15 - Molly Shannon
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 6/11/2018
Actress Molly Shannon heads to Ireland in search of her mother’s unknown family tree. She finds desperate ancestors forced to choose between their faith and survival; uncovers a family legacy of bravery; and meets Irish cousins for the first time.
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- 8.1/1046 votesLoading...
#16 - Kim Cattrall
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2011
Kim Cattrall travels to her native England to discover what happened to her grandfather, who abandoned his family to poverty when Kim's mother was only eight years old.
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8.1/1035 votesLoading...#17 - Rob Lowe
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 4/27/2012
Actor Rob Lowe examines his family history.
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8.1/1039 votesLoading...#18 - Jason Sudeikis
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 5/11/2012
Actor Jason Sudeikis heads to Chicago to research the life and death of his paternal grandfather and makes a discovery about his great great grandfather in Pennsylvania.
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- 8.1/1036 votesLoading...
#19 - Valerie Bertinelli
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 8/13/2014
Valerie Bertinelli goes on the hunt to unlock her family’s mysteries. She tracks down courageous ancestors who suffered through hardship and tragedy, and discovers a royal lineage dating back centuries that she never dreamed possible.
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- 8.1/1023 votesLoading...
#20 - Minnie Driver
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 8/27/2014
Minnie Driver unravels the deep family secrets her late father kept hidden. She discovers how the ravages of war nearly destroyed him, tracks down a long lost relative for the first time, and forms an unlikely bond with an ancestor she never knew existed.
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- 8.1/1025 votesLoading...
#21 - Megan Mullally
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 5/28/2018
Megan Mullally explores a shocking pattern of dysfunction in her father's line; she finds her two-times great grandmother was bravely defying societal norms in order to fight for her family's survival, while struggling to hang on to her own sanity.
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8.1/1024 votesLoading...#22 - Hilary Duff
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 6/4/2018
Actress Hilary Duff uncovers the tale of an ancestor who bravely led an American colony to battle a notorious gang of pirates; she dives centuries-deep into her Scottish roots and is shocked to discover that she descends from a heroic medieval king.
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8.0/1043 votesLoading...#23 - Christina Applegate
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/2013
Actress Christina Applegate investigates her paternal grandmother - a stranger to her and her father. Uncovering dramatic details along the way, Christina gains insight into the life and hardships of the woman she and her father loved, but never knew.
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8.0/1054 votesLoading...#24 - Zooey Deschanel
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 8/13/2013
Actress Zooey Deschanel searches for rumored abolitionists in her father’s Ouaker family background. Her journey takes her around Pennsylvania where she uncovers, and follows, the story of a remarkable ancestor who sacrificed everything for her beliefs.
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- 8.0/1020 votesLoading...
#25 - Scott Foley
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/2016
Tracing his patriotic roots, Scott Foley finds a relative who risked his life for one of America’s founding fathers, and an ancestor who suffered unspeakably during one of this nation’s darkest times.
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The Best Episodes of Who Do You Think You Are?
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"Kelly Clarkson" is the best rated episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?". It scored 8.7/10 based on 68 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/23/2013. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Ginnifer Goodwin".