Deborah Kerr

Few people have embodied prim, proper British elegance quite like Deborah Kerr. Pronounced "car," as MGM repeatedly reminded audiences to ensure they didn't think she rhymed with "fur," Kerr was the quintessential mid-century lady. Whether tumbling in the surf with Burt Lancaster in 'From Here to Eternity' or waltzing around the palace in enormous hoop skirts in 'The King and I', she radiated a level of poised, tea-sipping aristocracy that practically screamed British Empire.

Naturally, that meant she had just about zero connection to the chosen people. Born Deborah Jane Trimmer in Glasgow, Scotland, her lineage was steeped entirely in Scottish Presbyterianism. She played a troubled Anglican nun in 'Black Narcissus' and was married to an English gentleman and later a German-born novelist, but her ancestral tree holds nary a bagel nor a bobby-dazzler of a Jewish relative.

She holds the rather agonizing Academy Award record for the most nominations for Best Actress without a single competitive win—six nominations, zero statuettes, though they eventually tossed her an Honorary Oscar in 1994 to soothe the burn. It’s the kind of dignified suffering that any Jewish mother could sympathize with, but unfortunately for the Jew Score, empathy doesn't count as ancestry.