Bree Turner

Turner in 2008, photo by Prphotos

Birth Name: Bree Nicole Turner

Place of Birth: Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States

Date of Birth: March 10, 1977

Ethnicity: English, Scottish, Danish, Norwegian, Welsh

Bree Turner is an American actress and dancer. She has starred on the series Grimm.

She is the daughter of Russell and Kevin Turner, who was a professional football player, a linebacker for the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks, and Cleveland Browns. A picture of her father can be seen here. A picture of her mother can be seen here. Bree has two children with her former husband, orthopaedic surgeon Justin Saliman.

Bree’s paternal grandmother’s surname is Brown.

Bree’s maternal grandfather was Val R. Russell (the son of George Barber Russell and Ida May Rawson). Val was born in Utah. George was born in Utah, the son of Adam Russell, who was Scottish, and of Hannah Maria Child. Ida was born in Idaho, the daughter of William John Rawson and Nancy Etta Southwick, whose father was English.

Bree’s maternal grandmother is Betty Petersen (the daughter of Norman Louis Petersen and Jemima “Myme” Fallis). Norman was born in Utah, the son of Louis Herman Petersen, whose parents were Danish, and of Gertrude Norman, whose father was Norwegian, and whose mother was the daughter of a Welsh father and an English mother. Bree’s great-grandmother Jemima was born in Idaho, the daughter of William Henry Fallis and Sarah Stuart, whose parents were from England and Wales.

Sources: Obituary of Bree’s maternal grandfather, Val R. Russell – https://www.legacy.com

Obituary of Bree’s maternal great-grandmother, Jemima “Myme” (Fallis) Petersen – https://www.familysearch.org