Fred Armisen was born in the town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi on the 4th of December 1966. His mother, Hildegard is originally from Venezuela while his father Fereydun Herbert Armisen had a German mother and a Korean father. Fred Armisen, therefore, has a multiracial background being part Venezuelan, part German and part Korean. His nationality is American. Armisen previously believed that his Grandfather, Masami Kuni was Japanese. However, in 2017, he appeared on the PBS series Finding Your Roots where he learned that his grandfather was Korean, not Japanese and was born Park Yeong-in in Korea in 1908.
His grandfather was a renowned dancer who performed for the German Army during the Nazi Era. Some people also believe that he was a spy for the Japanese empire though there is no evidence to support this. It was while performing in various German and European cities that Armisen’s grandfather met his grandmother, a German girl with whom he had an affair. Not much is known about Armisen’s family including whether he had siblings. We, however, do know that he grew up and had his high school education in Valley Stream, a village in Nassau County, New York.
