Personal Life
Norman Jewison and Margaret Ann Dixon married on July 11, 1953. She died on November 26, 2004, the day following her 74th birthday in Orangeville, Ontario, from undisclosed causes. They have three children: Kevin, Jennifer and Michael. Jewison has five grandchildren: Ella, Sam, Megan, Henry, and Alexandra.
Notwithstanding his surname, as well as the fame he garnered for directing such films as Fiddler on the Roof and The Statement, Norman Jewison is not Jewish. He was raised in a Protestant family. However, he told Robert Osborne in a TCM interview that, as a child, he was routinely teased by schoolmates because of what they assumed to be his religion.
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