“But mom’s story was a big question mark.” “We had our dad’s story, which was great,” said Darrow Samberg, one of Samberg’s two daughters.
Watch the episode of Finding Your Roots featuring Andy Samberg.īut the question of the identity of Samberg’s birth parents had been a frequent topic of discussion at the Samberg home in the Claremont neighborhood of Berkeley, and the children knew how much their mother yearned to see what her parents looked like. He and his wife, Joanna Newsom, don’t, for example, post photos of their child on social media. Andy, according to his mother, father and sisters, is exceedingly private. He had turned down similar requests before. The producers of Finding Your Roots approached Andy to see if he would be on the show. That led to an acting job on Saturday Night Live and fame. He grew up in Berkeley, went to Berkeley High and made a name for himself performing with his BHS classmates Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone in the group The Lonely Island. On Tuesday, the show, which does genealogical research on celebrities, broadcast a segment about Samberg’s son, Andy Samberg, the comedian who just co-hosted the Golden Globes and who stars in the television comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. That is, until the PBS show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., stepped in. A private detective that Samberg and her family later hired dug up some other biographical details - including the fact she had an aunt who was a famous opera singer - but nothing that led to the discovery of Samberg’s birth parents. It could only give out descriptive information, such as the fact that Samberg’s mother was Jewish, her father was not, her maternal grandfather had been a doctor and her grandmother had been a therapist. Samberg wrote to the institution seeking answers but, under New York’s closed adoption laws, the agency could not release the names of her parents. Samberg learned that in 1946, when she was three months old, her parents had adopted her from Louise Wise Services in New York, an agency that placed Jewish infants with Jewish families. “As I got older, I was constantly thinking ‘who was my birth mother? Who was my birth father?’” said Samberg, who worked with deaf children at John Muir Elementary School in Berkeley for more than 20 years. But the question of who gave birth to Samberg never went away and grew even stronger after she moved to Berkeley in 1970, married Joe Samberg, a photographer, in 1978, and started having children.
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The house was full of books, conversations about politics and art, and love. Her mother was an artist, although she never forged a public career. Her father was an industrial psychiatrist who authored 11 books. Samberg had a close and loving relationship with her family growing up in post-World War II New York.
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