


Hammer lived in the Dallas neighborhood of Highland Park for several years. His paternal grandmother was from Texas, while his mother’s family is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.Īccording to research by, Hammer’s eighth great-grandfather was Cherokee Chief Kanagatucko, who was a “known advocate of peace and friendship” during the French and Indian War and the Seven Years’ War. from the (then) Russian Empire, and were of Ukrainian Jewish descent Armand’s father, Julius Hammer, was from Odessa (now in Ukraine, but then in the Russian Empire), and founded the Communist Party in New York.Īrmie’s paternal great-grandmother was Russian-born actress and singer Olga Vadimovna “Vadina” (from Sevastopol), the daughter of a tsarist general. His paternal great-grandfather was oil tycoon and philanthropist Armand Hammer, whose parents were Jewish immigrants to the U.S. Hammer has described his background as “half Jewish.” His mother, Dru Ann (née Mobley), is a former bank loan officer, and his father, Michael Armand Hammer, owns several businesses, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions, a film/television production company. Armand Douglas Hammer was born on August 28, 1986, in Santa Monica, California.
