ER and Dr Who actress Alex Kingston has “embraced her inner Jew” after tracing her family’s Jewish heritage in the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? genealogy series, screened on Wednesday.
The experience included the revelation that her Jewish great-great-grandmother had run a brothel.
Viewers saw Ms Kingston visit the Jewish Museum in north London, to learn more about immigrants arriving in the East End.
The Los Angeles-based actress worked with Hull University historian Nicholas Evans, who specialises in Jewish migrant history and has regularly helped celebrities on the series discover the truth about their backgrounds.
