Birth Name: Anthony Joseph Gilroy
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 11, 1956
Ethnicity:
*25% Irish
*12.5% Italian
*12.5% German
*50% Slovak
Tony Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He directed the films Michael Clayton (2007), Duplicity (2009), and The Bourne Legacy (2012).
He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and movie director and producer. His siblings are screenwriter Dan Gilroy and editor John Gilroy.
Tony’s paternal grandparents were Frank B. Gilroy (the daughter of Hugh Joseph Gilroy and Hannah McCarty) and Bettina Vasti (the daughter of Tony Vasti and Augusta Bachmann). Hugh was born in West, Sligo, Ireland. Hannah was born in Cork, Ireland. Tony was of Italian descent. Augusta was of German origin, the daughter of Ferdinand Bachmann and Millida Zigler.
Tony’s maternal grandparents were Joseph Gaydos and Mary. Joseph and Mary were ethnic Slovak immigrants.
Sources: Genealogy of Tony’s father – http://www.ancestry.com
Tony’s mother on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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