Birth Name: Joel Theodore Stransky
Place of Birth: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Date of Birth: 16 July, 1967
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*English (mother)
Joel Stransky is a South African rugby union player and television commentator. He is known for scoring the dramatic winning drop-goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.
Joel is the son of Isabel/Ishbel and Barry Stransky.
He was raised in a Jewish household, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. The Stransky family is of Czech Jewish origin. It appears that Joel’s mother is of English, non-Jewish, background.
Joel’s maternal great-grandparents were born in England. They later moved to South Africa.
Joel was played by Scott Eastwood in the 2009 Clint Eastwood-directed film Invictus.
Sources: http://jewishgen.blogspot.com
Interview with Joel Stransky – https://www.jewishtelegraph.com