F.Murray Abraham Parents: Who Are Josephine Abraham & Fredrick Abraham

F. Murray Abraham is the son of Fahrid Abraham, an auto-mechanic, and his wife Josephine.

His father emigrated with his family from Muqlus, Ottoman Syria, a small village in the Valley of the Christians, at age five due to the famine of Mount Lebanon, his paternal grandfather was a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.

His mother, one of 14 children was Italian American and the daughter of an Italian immigrant who worked in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania. He had two younger brothers Robert and Jack, who were killed in separate car accidents.

Abraham added F to his stage name in honour of his father, Fahrid. He stated that “Murray Abraham just doesn’t seem to say anything. It just is another name so I thought I’d frame it”.