Stephen Colbert ProfileStephen Colbert was born on May 13, 1964 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, on James Island, the youngest of eleven children in an Irish Catholic family. Many of his ancestors immigrated to North America from Ireland in the 1800s before and during the Great Famine. His father, James William Colbert, Jr., was the vice president for academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina. His mother, Lorna Colbert (née Tuck), was a homemaker.
