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Birth Name:
Olivia Jane Cockburn
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, US
Date of Birth:
March 10, 1984
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Irish, English, Scottish, Sephardic Jewish, German
The American actress is of Irish heritage on her father’s side. Her father is an Irish Journalist.
Her father’s ancestry is made up of Irish, English, Scottish, and Sephardic Jewish (Ralph Bernal, a great-great-great-great-grandfather of Olivia’s was Sephardic). Her mother’s ancestry is German, Irish, and from the Isle of Man.
Wilde has both American and Irish citizenship and lived in a small country town in the south east of Ireland as a young child, where she learned the strong Irish family values. She mentioned this in an interview on Media World.
Source:
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/wilde.htm
- http://www.observer.com/2007/wilde-heart
- http://www.thescifiworld.net/mediaworld/tucker-wilde-01.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bernal
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She’s actually stunning. She was raised in Waterford! I’m from there!
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Her father IS of Irish descent. His mother was Irish, from Cork. It’s on wikipedia that she was the granddaughter of Henry Arthur Blake, an Irishman from Limerick.
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Olivia Wilde isn’t part Asian at all. Unfortunately it seems to have become quite the habit for people to label racially homogenous indivicuals as biracial or multi-racial. That’s wrong.
For instance, there are numerous people who try to claim Rachael Bilson is part Asian, when her father Danny Bilson is Jewish, and her mother Janice Stango is of Italian-American. The same has happened to Miranda Kerr, who despite being of Western European heritage, has been branded as being part Asian. She has told various interviewers that this is not true.
I realize that some biracial and multi-racial people want others to be like them, but it is wrong for people to label racially homogenous people as biracial or mult-racial, just to satisfy their desire for the individual to be so.
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God bless you.
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Her father’s ancestry is English, Australian, Scottish, and Sephardic Jewish (a great-great-great-great-grandfather of Olivia’s was Sephardic). Her mother’s ancestry is German, Irish, and from the Isle of Man.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/wilde.htm
correction?
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thanks for that Dee. Nice find.
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Hey, I don’t see where the Sephardic Jewish part is? Where is it on the genealogy page? Which ancestor?
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See her great-great-great-grandfather Ralph Bernal-Osborne. His father, Ralph Bernal, was a Sephardic Jew.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bernal_Osborne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bernal
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Hey ethnic, can u post my other profiles I’ve submitted to u?
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With a gorgeous face like that she’s definately more Irish than anything, reminds me of Megan Fox a bit, another Irish-American.
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Pls mate Irish people ain’t that goodlooking I’m Irish and even I have to say that were not that nice looking for god sake we were pajamas when shopping haha
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Wow Cookiemouth talk about an inferiority complex!
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Haha cookiemouth only only the skanger types wear there pajamas to go outside the door.But that`s true.
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Her Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/wilde.htm
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I would suggest with a traditional Scottish name like Cockburn,there is some Scottish heritage there as well.
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Just wanted to let you know Olivia Wilde’s Paternal Grandfather was Francis Claud Cockburn who was a British Journalist and his Father was a British Diplomat who I’m guessing was probably more than likely English. Here’s a link to Francis’s wiki below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claud_Cockburn.
If you scroll down to the bottom it says he is the Paternal Grandfather of Olivia Wilde.
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Not saying this isn’t true, but plenty of Irishmen and Irishwomen migrated to the UK.
He could be English, but more than likely Irish.
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Yep, as far as we know Olivia Wilde says she’s Irish, thus it would be silly to call her something else she hasn’t admitted to being, i think she knows her family better than people on the internet do.
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Kira Id like to know what interview that was.
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She’s like part Japenese, she said in an interview.
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yeah she said that her grandfather was japanese i saw the interview too
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Would you elaborate on those claims more? unless it’s only heresay
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