Martin Sheen, Blair Underwood Among Celebrities to Be Featured on NBC's WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?, Premiering 2/3

NBC has announced that actor Martin Sheen, who received a Tony Award nomination for his role in 2009's 'The Subject Was Roses' will be among the celebrities featured in the upcoming season of WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?. Actor Blair Underwood, who will be making his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in this spring's revival of Tennessee Williams 'A Streetcar Named Desire', will also appear on the series.  Broadway veterans Edie Falco (The House of Blue Leaves), Helen Hunt (Twelfth Night), Reba McEntire (Annie Get Your Gun) and Rita Wilson (Chicago) will also be featured on the show.  

On NBC's WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?, returning for its third season on Friday, February 3 (8-9 p.m. ET), viewers can take an up-close and personal look inside the family history of some of today's most beloved and iconic celebrities. The celebrities who star in the series will also include Marisa Tomei, Rob Lowe, Rashida Jones, Jerome Bettis, Jason Sudeikis and Paula Deen.

From executive producers Lisa Kudrow ("Friends," "Web Therapy") and Dan Bucatinsky ("Lipstick Jungle," "The Comeback"), the series is an adaptation of the award-winning hit British television documentary series that leads celebrities on a journey of self-discovery as they unearth their family trees that reveal surprising, inspiring and even tragic stories that often are linked to crucial events in American history.

"We're very excited about the stories we have this season. This fantastic group of people we have will take us to countries we haven't visited before which is thrilling and gives us glimpses into crucial details of history that not only shaped their families, but our world," said executive producers Kudrow and Bucatinsky. "This is what we love about this series; it's so enriching for us the viewer, as well as the participants and their families."

From Ireland's freedom fighters to the American Revolutionary War, and from the African nation of Cameroon to Bulgaria, the series will reveal the fabric of humanity through everyone's place in history. Each week a different celebrity takes a journey into their family's past, traveling all over the world. While giving viewers an in-depth look into their favorite stars' family tree, each episode will expose surprising facts and life changing encounters that will unlock people's emotions, and show just how connected everyone is not only to the past, but to one another.

Ancestry.com continues in its role as NBC and Shed Media's official partner on the series, helping to provide the exhaustive research used to build each story. "'Who Do You Think You Are?' is such a beautiful showcase for the type of discoveries people can make through family history research," said Josh Hanna, Executive Vice President for Ancestry.com. "We are extremely proud to help produce a program that inspires so many to begin their own journey of discovery and are excited to see it grow more this season."

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