Olwen Fouéré

Place of Birth: Galway, Ireland

Date of Birth: 2 March, 1954

Ethnicity: Breton

Olwen Fouéré is an Irish actress. She is known for her extensive stage career, and made her film debut in 2011. Her roles include the films This Must Be the Place, The Survivalist (2015), Beast (2017), Mandy (2018), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Animals (2019), Zone 414, She Will, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), The Northman, Sunrise, Tarot, and The Watchers (2024); and the shows Cursed (2020), The Tourist, and Halo.

She was born in Galway, Ireland, the daughter of Marie-Magdeleine Mauger and Yann Fouéré, who was a Breton nationalist and European federalist. Her father was born in Aignan, Gers, Occitania, France. He was born Jean Adolphe Fouéré, a French name, because French birth certificates did not allow Breton names; he was also known as Seàn Mauger. Her father left France after its liberation by the Allies in 1945, and moved to Ireland. Yann founded the Breton nationalist Parti pour l’organisation d’une Bretagne libre/”Movement for the Organisation of a Free Brittany,” and co-founded the Celtic League, a pan-Celtic organization, with Alan Heusaff; as well as the regionalist European Free Alliance.

The name Olwen comes from Welsh mythology.

Olwen’s paternal grandfather was named Jean Fouéré. Jean was a civil servant in the Mortgage Department, from Côtes-du-Nord.

Olwen’s paternal grandmother was named Marie Liégard (the daughter of Adolph Liégard). Marie had roots in Callac.

Sources: https://theglossdaily.wordpress.com
https://fondationyannfouere.org
https://bibliotheque.idbe.bzh