Editing Christopher Guest (section)

== Early life ==
Guest was born 5 February 1948<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Rubinstein|editor-first1=William D.|editor-last2=Jolles|editor-first2=Michael|editor-last3=Rubinstein|editor-first3=Hilary L.|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|location=Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=2011|isbn=9780230304666|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC|page=386}}</ref> in New York City, the son of [[Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest|Peter Haden-Guest]], a British United Nations diplomat who later became the 4th [[Baron Haden-Guest]], and his second wife, the former [[Jean Haden-Guest, Lady Haden-Guest|Jean Pauline Hindes]], an American former vice president of casting at [[CBS]].<ref name="ny times" /> Guest's paternal grandfather, [[Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest|Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest]], was a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician, who was a [[Conversion to Judaism|convert to Judaism]]. Guest's paternal grandmother, a descendant of the Dutch Jewish [[Goldsmid family]], was the daughter of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] [[Albert Goldsmid]], a British officer who founded the [[Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade]] and the [[Maccabaeans]].<ref name=yar>{{cite book|last=Murray|first=William Henry|title=Adam and Cain: Symposium of Old Bible History, Sumerian Empire, Importance of Blood of Race, Juggling Juggernaut of the Leaders of the Jews, the Gothic Civilization of Adam and the Ten Commandments of His Church|publisher=Murray|year=1952}}</ref><ref name="guest1">{{cite journal|last=Rosen|first=Steven|title=Want to spoof Purim and the Oscars? Be our Guest!|journal=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|volume=21|issue=39|date=November 16, 2006|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16799|access-date=November 16, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122250/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16799|archive-date=September 29, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Russia.<ref name="ny times">{{cite news|last=Witchel|first=Alex|title=The Shape-Shifter|work=The New York Times|date=November 12, 2006|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/magazine/12guest.html|access-date=November 16, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204003914/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/magazine/12guest.html|archive-date=December 4, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Both of Guest's parents had become [[atheist]]s, and Guest himself had no religious upbringing.<ref name="guest1" /> In 1938, his uncle, [[David Guest (communist)|David Guest]], a lecturer and [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist Party]] member, was killed in the [[Spanish Civil War]], fighting in the [[International Brigades]].

Guest spent parts of his childhood in his father's native United Kingdom. He attended the [[High School of Music & Art]] (New York City), studying classical music (clarinet) at the [[Stockbridge School]] in the village of [[Old Curtisville Historic District|Interlaken]] in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts|Stockbridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. He later took up the [[mandolin]], became interested in [[country music]], and played guitar with [[Arlo Guthrie]], a fellow student at Stockbridge School.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nowt so queer as folk|author=Richard Grant|date=January 10, 2004|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/jan/10/features.weekend|magazine=[[The Guardian Weekend]]|access-date=December 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219172254/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/jan/10/features.weekend|archive-date=December 19, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Guest later began performing with [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] bands until he took up [[rock and roll]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Gross|first=Terry|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14081515|title=Christopher Guest Plays with Parody|work=[[Fresh Air]], [[WHYY-FM|WHYY]]|publisher=[[NPR]]|location=Philadelphia|date=September 14, 1989|access-date=August 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424030014/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14081515|archive-date=April 24, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> Guest went to [[Bard College]] for a year<ref name="guest1" /> and then studied acting at [[New York University]]'s [[Tisch School of the Arts#Graduate Acting Program|Graduate Acting Program]] at the [[Tisch School of the Arts]], graduating in 1971.<ref>{{cite web|title=NYU Graduate Acting Alumni|url=http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html|year=2011|access-date=December 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705121632/http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html|archive-date=July 5, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>