Eddie Marsan
Marsan in 2014, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Edward Maurice Charles Marsan
Place of Birth: Stepney, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 9 June, 1968
Ethnicity: English, small amounts of Scottish and Spanish-Gibraltarian
Eddie Marsan is an English actor. His roles include the films Gangster No. 1, Vera Drake, The New World, V for Vendetta, Mission: Impossible III, Sixty Six, Hancock, Happy-Go-Lucky, Me and Orson Welles, Sherlock Holmes (2009), and its sequel; Tyrannosaur, War Horse, Snow White and the Huntsman, The Best of Men, Jack the Giant Slayer (2013), The World’s End, Still Life, Concussion (2015), Their Finest, The Exception (2016), Atomic Blonde, Entebbe (2018), Deadpool 2, White Boy Rick, Vice (2018), Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Choose or Die, and Fair Play (2023), and the series Ray Donovan, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Ridley Road.
He was born to a working-class family, with a lorry driver father. He is married to make-up artist Janine Schneider, with whom he has four children.
He has stated that he has some Spanish-Gibraltarian ancestry on his mother’s side. He has also said that a DNA test showed him to have a remote amount (likely less than 1%) of genetic ancestry from West African, Ashkenazi Jewish, South Asian, and Scandinavian communities.
Eddie’s paternal grandfather was Maurice Emanuel Marsan (the son of Clement Maurice Marsan and Jane Langley). Clement was born on Trinidad and Tobago, the son of D. Marsan. Jane was the daughter of James Henry Langley and Margaret/Martha Curruthers/Craddis, who was Scottish.
Eddie’s paternal grandmother was Alice Matilda Warren (the daughter of James/Henry Warren and Caroline Louisa Dipnall). Alice was born in St. George In The East, London, England. Henry was the son of Henry Haythorpe Warren and Elizabeth Ann Vincent. Caroline was the daughter of Alexander Matthias Dipnall and Emily Williams.
Eddie’s maternal grandfather was surnamed Philpot.
On this post he claims that in the 18th Century his ancestors were West African, Ashkenazi Jewish, South Asian & Scandinavian. Why are these celebrities with English names so keen on claiming anything but their English?
https://twitter.com/eddiemarsan/status/917129190515736576?s=20&t=dQ4C_alXTeGZ1E23yJhalQ
Maybe because he is not that English? Not surprising given the way he looks.
He doesn’t seem exotic in England, and he’s obviously mostly or almost entirely of English descent.
Also, I haven’t seen English actors incorrectly claim to have overseas ancestry very often. Marsan probably just got DNA fractions of one percent or less on his test.
Agree, he does not seem “exotic” enough to stick out in a crowd, though he has unusual features.
https://mobile.twitter.com/eddiemarsan/status/1447337817387016196?lang=ar
Some people from Gibraltair are basically North Africans, wondering if his West African is from there or Trinidad. British people score 0% SSA.
Margaret/Martha Curruthers/Craddis was born in Scotland.
Clement Maurice Marsan was born in Trinidad and Tobago.
He also claims to be Spanish-Gibraltarian on his maternal side.
https://humanists.uk/what-i-believe/