Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in nearby Shaker Heights, the second son of Theresa Garth (née Fetzer, Fetzko, or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková; 1894–1982) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, Sr. (1893–1950), who ran a sporting goods store.
His father was Jewish, the son of Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish emigrants, from Hungary and Congress Poland, respectively.
Paul's mother was a practitioner of Christian Science. She was born to a Roman Catholic family in Peticse, Zemplén county, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern Ptičie, Slovakia). Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his elder brother, Arthur.
Newman showed an early interest in the theater; his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. At age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, and acted in their Curtain Pullers children's theater program. Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
| Date of Birth | 26th January 1925 |
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| Date of Death | 26th September 2008 |
| Age at Death | 83 Years |
| Zodiac Sign | Aquarius |
| Country | United States of America |
| Current City | Shaker Heights |
| Birth Place | Shaker Heights |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
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| Spouses | Joanne Woodward Jacqueline Witte |
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| Children | Scott Newman Nell Newman Melissa Newman |
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| Kenyon College, Yale School of Drama, Ohio University, Shaker Heights High School |
| Occupation | film producer, television actor, film actor, film director, racing automobile driver, actor, entrepreneur, screenwriter, stage actor, voice actor, director, philanthropist |
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