Actors from white trash backgrounds

Wasn’t Brad Pitt from a working class background?

Shia Lebouf

Tom Cruise grew up poor, with an abusive father.

Steve Kazee

Joan Crawford

Jennifer Lawrence

Hilary Swank

Demi Moore

Miss Kay Lenz

Ava Gardner

Gwyneth Paltrow

Grace Kelly

Anne Hathaway

Diane Kruger

Uma Thurman

Susan Anspach

Emma Stone

The Wahlbergs.

I read a comment on a gossip forum years back that Gary Sinise was born white trash and remains white trash. I have NO idea if that's true or bullshit, but it stuck with me for years.

Grace Kelly was from a wealthy family.

Carol Burnett

Martha Plimpton

Dakota Fanning

Susan Hayward

Debra Messing

Mandy Moore

Ethel Barrymore

Susan Blakely

Cher

Candy Clarke

Emma Roberts

Season Hubley

Lois Nettleton

Marie Provost

Kathy Bates

Amy Adams

Cicely Tyson

Halle Berry

Jada Pinkett

Ms. Susan Anton

Deirdre Hall

Blac Chyna

Misty Copeland

According to GOOP, all of them!

Timothy Chalamy

Taylor Kitsch. He's stated in several interviews that he lived in a single wide trailer with his mother and older brothers when he was growing up in Canada.

DL fave Jeremy Renner, of course.

Lucas Black

r9, Messing is Jewish.

The tragic Brad Renroe.

R5 / R9 needs to follow directions.

And some of those actresses on R5 most certainly do not have "white trash" backgrounds.

For example, I believe Uma Thurman's father was a professor at NYU?

Uma’s father is famed historian, author, and Tibetan Buddhist Robert Thurman...um, as far from “white trash” you can possibly get.

elvis of course.

Jim Carrey was Canadian trailer trash before coming to America

Johnny Depp

Tom cruise, Brad Pitt

Channing Tatum and Johnny Depp

Ryan Phillipe

Brad Renfro

Some actors may not have a white trash background, but seem like it: Tom Hardy.

Chris Pratt

Lucas Black DID NOT come from a white trash background.

And the OP CLEARLY asked for ACTORS ONLY, NO ACTRESSES.

Woody Harrelson - his father was a hitman who died in prison.

I think I read that Johnny Depp is from low class Kentucky hillbilly trash.

R28, CALM DOWN, MARY!

Charlize Theron owns this thread.

[QUOTE]Ryan Phillipe

Ryan Phillippe is from the suburbs of Delaware.

Re: Ryan Phillippe

It's too bad he's from suburbia because hailing from a white trash background would at least make him interesting.

1. Just because someone doesn't grow up wealthy, it doesn't mean they're white trash.

2. Johnny Depp grew up in South Florida. Not trailer trash.

3. Why no actresses OP?

Jesus, R5. Is there like a "white trash backgrounds" website you went to for that list - I hope so, because if that came off the top of your head, that's scary.

R5 perhaps you just made up stuff. Most of those aren't white trash backgrounds at all.

[QUOTE]3. Why no actresses OP?

OP requested males so he could masturbate to the fantasies of their harsh upbringing. Turning tricks, drinking, doing drugs, having wild sex at parties, knocking up girls, stealing, fighting, committing acts of vandalism, getting thrown in jail with other sweaty, redneck teens every summer. White male pain is his gain.

R9 Blac Chyna is white trash??

McBongo rules this thread.

OP prolly masturbating as a predator in his mind. To him, white trash didn’t have any siblings.

McBongo may rule this thread, but Ed Furlong CLOSES it!

Wayward Fulrong

I don't doubt Ed Furlong was abused as a child by Hollywood.

McBongo's father was a college football player so if the father went to college that's an automatic exclusion from the trailer park.

HIs life was sketchy even before Hollywood, R44.

But he looked like what Hollywood preys upon.

Leo DiCaprio was at least lower middle class being dragged all over CA by his transient mom, no?

And his best bud Tobey Was even worse off. Tobey definitely had a trashy upbringing, of the California white trash variety.

Billy Bob Thornton

R30, that reminds me. Johnny Knoxville comes from an inbred mountain family. He talks about that and going to a male strip club, a little, here.

He surely did, R47. I liked Edward Furlong as an actor.

Reading the link at R43 he certainly had a rough go of it, but seems to be trying to get it together.

As off-putting as he looks these days compared to when he was a kid, it’s a great look for a dramatic cable series - like a Duck Dynasty sort of thing.

I hope someone gives him another shot and that he can keep his shit together.

haley joel osmont

Joaquin Phoenix. Although I think that family was more eccentric poor than white trash poor.

This feel-good thread reminds me it's not where you start, but where you end!

Joaquin Phoenix mother is Jewish from the Bronx and they were not white trash they were more like hippies. I met his aunt when I was in my teens and she was lovely.,

The Phoenix family was in that Children of God cult (until River became their meal ticket). Cult trash?

Judy Garland

Woody Harrelson

Jared Leto. Hot white trash.

OP is middle class and forgettable.

[QUOTE]Jared Leto. Hot white trash.

I wonder how many girls he drove to the clinic a few months after breeding them raw?

Kevin Spacey definitely.

Clearly most of you have no idea what white trash is. Redneck does not automatically mean white trash. Poor does not automatically mean white trash. Southern bred does not automatically mean white trash. But then, the vast majority of the posters on this thread are major league posers anyway.

R63, sounds like you're talking about yourself as well. Poseur!

As a Southerner, let me explain.. 'white trash' doesn't go to college, white trash lives in trailer parks, drives pick ups with Confederate flags on them and are meth addicts.

White trash comes in many different forms. It also depends on where you live.

TObey Maguire.

Seth Greene

Brad Renfro certainly. Poor boy.

I thought McBongo was from a well to do Texan family.

Tilda Swinton

Dina Merrill

Catherine Oxenburg

Ellie Kemper

Balthasar Getty

Edward Norton

Maybe he was white trash, but give Renfro a pass because the pedos who assaulted him sent him on a downward spiral....

Iggy Pop grew up in a trailer park and he says his parents were decent people.

[quote]Ellie Kemper

Yeah, Ellie is total white trash and she has ties to the KKK in Missouri. Look up her connection to the Veiled Prophet Ball.

Ms. Jeremy Renner is from a white trash background.

Mikey Day looks like he comes from white trash.

Judi Dench

I heard Ellie Kemper and her sister came from wealth

What is the difference between White Trash and Redneck ? Both seem proud to be uneducated, racist and quarrelsome.

[quote]I heard Ellie Kemper and her sister came from wealth

Their father is a trashy banking millionaire CEO. They lived in St. Louis which is totally trashy.

And what about British actors? Surely some of them are from working class backgrounds.

If things had been different Jeremy Renner would spend his days driving a forklift for Costco & his nights giving blowjobs for meth behind the McHenry Bowl.

Surely, white trash does not equal working class or blue collar, R79 ?

Johnny Depp Billy Bob Thornton Russell Crowe

I know OP outlawed actresses, but Leighton Meester owns this thread. She was literally born in a prison. Her mother is white trash.

Tilda Swinton?! Dina Merrill? Are you fucking kidding??

Some of these responses must be joke posts or the people clearly knows little about most performers backgrounds. Swinton is from a very wealthy family, British aristocracy. She lives in a fucking castle. From Wiki: "The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages. The family is one of only three British families (along with the Ardens and the Berkeleys) that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest."

Dina Merrill, was an heiress, she was the only child of Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, Wall Street stockbroker Edward Francis Hutton, founder of E. F. Hutton!

Joel Edgerton

Legit PWT: Cruise, Billy Bob, Jim Carrey, and Shia LeBeouf

This thread is more proof that classism, not racism, is what's really wrong with the country. So OP..single or double-wide?

[quote] You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you … all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars … while you could only dream of getting out … getting anywhere … getting all the way to the FBI.

Jeremy Renner is from Modesto, CA which is White Trash Central.

[quote]What is the difference between White Trash and Redneck ? Both seem proud to be uneducated, racist and quarrelsome.

Rednecks refer specifically to people from the South who come from the backwoods and have a distinctive "culture" (if you could call it that). They act and dress a certain way, like certain things (like hunting and eating "road kill", listening to country music), have "Southern" first names (especially two first names, like Billy Joe) and tend to be racist. Think: Larry the Cable Guy and the movie, Deliverance.

White trash are very poor white people who live a life that middle and upper class whites consider "low class", such as being on welfare, living in trailer parks, constant run-ins with the law, having baby mommas, substance abuse, being tatted up and acting like a "wigger." They're the equivalent of "chavs" from the UK or "ghetto trash" in the African-American community. They can be from anywhere (not just the South) and aren't necessarily racist. Kenny from South Park is a stereotype of white trash.

There's a difference of having come from a financially poor background and that of coming from white trash.

Got it, R89. You were very clear.

[quote] And what about British actors? Surely some of them are from working class backgrounds.

There used to be more. But recently Helen Mirren (from a poor Russian immigrant family herself) has argued that to make it in british acting these days you have to be from a wealthy family or go to Oxbridge or both, and she deplored that.

Okay, I know OP wanted just males but I think the best example is Anna Nicole Smith. Not only was she openly called that by the press while she was alive, she proudly embraced it later on in her career.

Only DL will quibble about who and what constitutes 'white trash'. A rose by any other name is still a 🌹....

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Martin Freeman is white trash.

R48: DiCaprio's family was more bohemian.

James McAvoy was born and raised in one of the slummiest areas of Glasgow.

Jason Statham!

McBongo was born in Uvalde (town of about 10,000 an hour and a half west of SA) to middle to upper-middle class parents--his mother was a teacher I believe. He grew up in a nice part of Irving (DFW area) when his dad took a transfer. His parents might come from working class backgrounds but he grew up comfortable.

Ryan Phillippe's father is an exec with DuPont.

Brad Pitt's family, even before Brad hit the big time was in that area between middle and upper middle class.

Most of Data Lounge doesn't have a clue what white trash truly means. They use it as a means for putting down Caucasians they do not like or approve of. Case in point: The Trump Family. They are not white trash, they are uncultured nouveau riche boors, but they are not white trash.

Truth be told, I doubt that many of you here have ever had any interaction with true white trash, other than possibly watching Here Comes Honey Boo Boo on TV. Many southerner who you might not want to be friends with are rednecks---but they are certainly not white trash. They own their home, they have always been gainfully employed, they go to church and they are prone to shouting, " USA! USA!" at international sporting events.

And yes, they likely voted for Trump. I would say that the percentage of rednecks who did not vote for Trump is commensurate with the number of black women who did vote for Trump.

White Trash Actors with HUGE COCKS - Go!

R89 is conflating rednecks and hillbillies which are not the same thing.

Rednecks can and often do have money (land).

Hillbillies are distinct from the former.

[QUOTE]White Trash Actors with HUGE COCKS - Go!

Jared Leto

Well after rereading r89 it sorta clarifies that at the end.

Anyway. It’s a shame... they were mostly harmless up until a few years ago.

Brad Pitt as mentioned was brought up solidly middle class. Not a Tammy fan but Cruise was raised middle class as well, he went to high school in middle class NJ. His family wasn't well off as his mom was single but they were hardly 'trash'.

Johnny Depp may come closest to the description, he was born in Owensboro to poor parents. They moved to S Florida later. Renner also very blue collar but as mentioned, that doesn't make them 'white trash'.

Mark Wahlberg owns this thread.

Aaron Paul was born in Emmett, Idaho, to a Baptist minister. He was born a month premature in his parents' bathroom. After graduation from High School, he drove to Los Angeles in his sixteen year old 1982 Toyota Corolla with his mother and $6,000 in savings. Prior to gaining fame, he appeared on an episode of The Price Is Right. He also worked as a movie theater usher at Universal Studios in Hollywood.

per Wikipedia

Who the fuck is Aaron Paul?

Three time Emmy winner for Breaking Bad

Most people know him as Jesse from Breaking Bad. Hardly anyone knows his real name.

[quote] Who the fuck is Aaron Paul?

Really R109, I have never watched a single episode of Breaking Bad and I knew who Aaron Paul is, next time you might want to trying googling what you don't know.

Claims to have been a working model. I don't see what he could have had, young.

I am going to go out on a limb and assume the dueling banjo boy from Deliverance.

R101 I also associate "white trash" rather with something like Honey Boo Boo and I can't think about any famous actors who have such background (Maybe Tobey Maguire but not sure).

RE106 Cruise had an abusive father and I don't think he had a really normal childhood...

I also remember all these actors: Shia LeBeouf, DiCaprio, Jared Leto are from hippie families which for me doesn't mean anything particularly good (drugs and living on the road).

TRUMP has always wanted to be an actor. (FACT) The TRUMPS are definitely white trash along with the Kushners. Their all nothing more than glorified trash with money. I don't care what anyone says.

The TRUMPS are all trash. It's that simple.

R114, Nice picture of Martin Short

Classic R1 response. No, his father owned a trucking company and his mother was a school counselor.

R113 There are THREE "he"'s in that photo. Who the fuck are you talking about?

Mr. Michelle "ManCut" Williams is from a white trash Montana family.

R116 Of course you are free to use any term you wish.

But let me be the first to "oh dear" you, as your definition of white trash is as off the mark as it would be if you called an elephant a car.

As I said, new money with no breeding