Ana Golja
Ana Golja – 2011 Five-Star PR Holiday Party – Arrivals – Rubix Hollywood – Hollywood, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Robert Delgadillo / PR Photos
Birth Name: Muazana Golja
Place of Birth: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: January 31, 1996
Ethnicity: Albanian, some Spanish, possibly some Greek, German, and Jewish
Ana Golja is a Canadian actress and singer. She has starred in the Degrassi franchise and Full Out. Her parents are Albanian. She has said that she is also “part Spanish.” She has also stated:
I have very mixed roots, both my parents were born and raised in Albania, but we have some Spanish, some Greek, some German and Jewish. I am first generation, born and raised in Toronto.
Source: http://www.fyimusicnews.ca
“Not many people know but I’m part Spanish. I don’t identify with it only because I consider myself Canadian, through and through. And my parents were both born in Albania(and have passed on the language and traditions to me). That said, I have very mixed roots that do in fact, include Spain.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByHPyN_lo5J/
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I doubt she has any significant, if any Spanish roots at all. It seemed like this was a response to criticism about her interest in Latin/Hispanic/etc culture and (at the time) her msuic collaboration with an artist/singer of Guatemalan heritage. Even her most famous role involved her playing a character of presumed Hispanic/Latin origin (“Zoe Rivas” on Degrassi).
Now she’s also mentioning that she also has “some Greek, German and Jewish” roots as well? This was oddly not mentioned in her Instagram post and it seems to me that there’s extra emphasis on her saying “some”.
* Albanian, possibly other