Sissy Spacek
Spacek in 2013, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Mary Elizabeth Spacek
Place of Birth: Quitman, Smith, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 25, 1949
Ethnicity:
*Moravian/Czech, German (father)
*English, Irish (mother)
Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980).
Sissy is the daughter of Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek. Her father was of three quarters Bohemian (Czech) and one quarter German descent. Her mother had English and Irish ancestry. The surname Špaček means “starling” in Czech, and is used as a slang word for “cigarette.”
Sissy’s first cousin is actor and comedian Rip Torn, who is her father’s sister’s son. Sissy is married to production designer, art director, and director Jack Fisk, with whom she has two children, including actress, singer, and songwriter Schuyler Fisk.
Sissy’s paternal grandfather was Arnold Adolph Špaček (the son of Frank John Špaček and Julia/Julie Anna Gloeckner/Gloekner). Arnold was born in Texas, and was mayor of Granger, Texas in Williamson County. Frank was born in Bordovice, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic), the son of František/Frank Špaček and Antonia. Julia was born in Neustadt, Germany, the daughter of William Gloekner and Johanna Kirsch.
Sissy’s paternal grandmother was Mary Julia Červenka (the daughter of Josef Friedrich Červenka and Anna Machu). Mary was born in Texas, to a father from Huckvaldy, Moravia (now the Czech Republic) and a mother from Senince Usti, Vsetin Valley, Moravia (also now the Czech Republic). Anna was the daughter of Pavel Machu and Rozina Talica.
Sissy’s maternal grandfather was Thomas Hall Spilman (the son of Thomas Percival Spilman and Almira H. Randall). Sissy’s grandfather Thomas was born in Iowa. Sissy’s great-grandfather Thomas was the son of John Dyke Spilman and Amelia Percival. Almira was the daughter of Benjamin Randall and Miranda Lathrop, who was born in Canada.
Sissy’s maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Allen Holliday (the daughter of Joseph Evans Holliday and Virginia Jenny Prichard Baker). Elizabeth was born in Mississippi. Joseph was the son of Isaac Newton Holliday and Elizabeth A. “Lizzie” Tisdale. Virginia was the daughter of Samuel Smith Baker and Eliza Jane Austin.
Sources: Genealogies of Sissy Spacek – https://www.geni.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Sissy Spacek (focusing on her father’s side) (through Sissy’s cousin, Rip Torn) – http://www.wargs.com
Genealogy of Sissy Spacek (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.wargs.com
You screwed up everything on her paternal grandfather’s side. Revise.
Everything? That’s a bit harsh.
Well, yes, but adding almost wouldn’t have sounded as good. Anyway, Julia wasn’t from Germany proper, she was an ethnic German from the Czech Republic, hence why I changed it in Rip’s profile. I don’t know where you get Neustadt from.
From the Wargs.com reference.
Where do they get it from? Censuses say she was from Czech Republic. Not that it’s really important or anything…
I don’t know, though it was a very specific location.
Maybe it’s Neustadt an der Mettau or Neustadt an der Tafelfichte?
Her suname “Špaček” means starling or it is using for slang word of cigarette.
She needs a revision rhinoplasty. She’s so cute btw.
i swear i can recognize the czech when i see them
they have very special clear blue eyes .
many europeans do have blue eyes but they are different from the eyes of those czechs
here is a real “celeb”
if u mean for “celebs” ppl who made a sextape or trash tv shows I agree.
I think, she would be ashamed to be put together
with Karadshian-Jenner herd
Sex tape? Are you crazy??
No, as Sissy and James began their career, the
world was still not crazy. It would be the end of
their career
Ah, James Deen.
He should make a sex tape with Demi Moore.