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Max Thieriot was born in 1988 in Los Altos Hills, California, and has two siblings. He was raised in Occidental, CA, and graduated from Sonoma Country Day School in 2002 and El Molino High School in 2006. He started acting when he took an improvisation class and modeled for GAP. He was also in two short films before making his big-screen debut in _Catch That Kid . In 2013, Max married Lexi Murphy, his long-time girlfriend. Max is the great-great grandson of Michael Henry de Young, who co-founded the San Francisco Chronicle in 1865. His father is from California and his mother is from Minnesota. Max is of German, English, Norwegian, Danish, Irish, Dutch Jewish, French Jewish, Scottish, and Northern Irish ancestry.
Did all of his own singing in The Pacifier .
Has 19 pets.
His last name is pronounced "Teer-ee-ut".
Max is of German, English, Norwegian, Danish, Irish, Dutch Jewish, French Jewish, Scottish, and Northern Irish descent (most "Thieriot" families come from Germany).
Maxs paternal grandmother was born in Manila, in the Philippines, to American parents, from Virginia (who were of English, and some German, descent). Maxs paternal grandparents died in the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria, the Italian ocean liner, in 1956.
Maxs paternal great-great-grandfather, Michael Henry "M. H." De Young, co-founded the San Francisco Chronicle, with his brother, Charles De Young, when they were both teenagers (the paper was then called The Daily Dramatic Chronicle). The De Young brothers were the children of Henry De Young, a Dutch Jewish immigrant (from Amsterdam), and of Amelia Morange (a French Jewish immigrant, from Gironde). Amelias father, Maxs great-great-great-great-grandfather Benjamin Morange, had served as the Minister from France to Spain, under Napoleon.
On his fathers side, he is the grandson of Ferdinand Melly Thieriot and Frances Harrison Dade. On his mothers side, he is the grandson of Donald Ross Snyder, Jr. and Nancy Jo Neuhalfen.
Max, a vintner in his own right, co-owns vineyards in his Sonoma County hometown of Occidental.
