 Philippe Cousteau Jr. was born in Santa Monica, California in 1980 to Jan Cousteau, the widow of Philippe Cousteau, who died six months before the birth; he is the grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.Cousteau grew up in France and the United States.He attended high school at St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, and later graduated from St. Andrews University in Scotland where he earned an M.A.