Liza Colón-Zayas Emotional Over Discoveries in Family Tree | Finding Your Roots

Watch more: https://to.pbs.org/4pH4zhG | #FindingYourRoots Liza Colón-Zayas learns about her grandfather's hard job as Merchant Marine, the circumstances of her great-grandfather's birth and the name of an enslaved ancestor. Emmy Award winner Liza Colón Zayas stars as Tina Marrero in the critically acclaimed series The Bear. For her role, she received the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, making history as the first Latina to be awarded an Emmy in this category. Colón Zayas has also been nominated for a Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and SAG Award for the show's third season, and had previously received a SAG Award and two Imagen Awards for the role, as well. This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: https://www.pbs.org/donate Subscribe to the PBS channel for more clips: https://www.youtube.com/PBS/ Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR FOLLOW PBS: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PBS/ X: https://twitter.com/PBS/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PBS/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pbs Threads: https://www.threads.net/@pbs FOLLOW HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/henrylouisgatesjr Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HenryLouisGatesJr/ X: https://twitter.com/HenryLouisGates Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/henrylouisgates/ #findingyourroots #ancestry #genealogy #familyhistory Finding Your Roots For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.