Maria Dizzia

Dizzia in 2010, photo by prphotos.com

Birth Name: Maria Teresa Dizzia

Place of Birth: Cranford, New Jersey, U.S.

Date of Birth: December 29, 1974

Ethnicity: Italian, Lithuanian, possibly other

Maria Dizzia is an American actress. She is the daughter of Lorraine and John Dizzia. She is married to playwright Will Eno, and has one child.

Maria’s maternal grandfather was Albert A. Bladis (who likely was the son of Felix Joseph Bladis and Mary Markowitz). Felix and Mary were Lithuanian, and Catholic by religion.

Maria’s maternal grandmother was named Virginia Ruggiero. Virginia was born in Newark, New Jersey.

Sources: http://blog.roundabouttheatre.org

Likely Maria’s maternal great-grandparents, Felix Joseph Bladis and Mary Markowitz, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Felix Joseph Bladis and Mary Markowitz on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Obituary of Maria’s maternal grandmother, Virginia (Ruggiero) Bladis – http://obits.nj.com

6 Responses

  1. madman says:

    Markowitz = Jewish?

    • follers says:

      I doubt Felix was Jewish, so Mary probably wasn’t, either. They named their son “Felix”, after the father (unusual among Eastern European Jewish immigrants of the time), and another son “Vincent” (which I think Jews generally avoid to this day), and their religion was Catholic.

      I think “Markowitz” is just “Markowicz”. It’s really the same name.

  2. andrew says:

    Dizzia -> from “D’Izzia”, a Sicilian surname from Ragusa.

  3. bablah says:

    Couldn’t find Albert nor Virginia on census, but I did find a Bladis family in Newark, NJ, and they were Lithuanian.

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