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Things got very, very emotional for The Bear<\/a> star Liza Col\u00f3n-Zayas<\/a> when she stepped into the hot seat for Finding Your Roots\u2018 latest episode, \u201cCaribbean Roots.\u201d The actress was one of two stars with ties to the region (alongside Delroy Lindo<\/a>) to get a guided tour through their previously undiscovered ancestry with host Henry Louis Gates, Jr.<\/a> And while the Bronx native might\u2019ve been expecting to find out some heavy truths about where her forebears came from, she was still brought to tears by what she learned in the session. Col\u00f3n-Zayas learned from Gates that her great-grandfather was the son of a woman, Maria Juliana Adolfo, who had been…<\/div>\n

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Things got very, very emotional for The Bear star Liza Col\u00f3n-Zayas when she stepped into the hot seat for Finding Your Roots\u2018 latest episode, \u201cCaribbean Roots.\u201d The actress was one of two stars with ties to the region (alongside Delroy Lindo) to get a guided tour through their previously undiscovered ancestry with host Henry Louis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2243206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2243205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Finding-Your-Roots-Liza-Colon-Zayas-Brought-to-Tears-Learning-About.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243207,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243205\/revisions\/2243207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}