Alejandro González Iñárritu
González Iñárritu in 2017, photo by Prphotos
Place of Birth: Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Date of Birth: August 15, 1963
Ethnicity: Mexican [Basque, Spanish (including Andalusian, Asturian, Castilian, and Extremaduran), small amount of Indigenous], remote French and Portuguese
Alejandro González Iñárritu, also credited as Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is a Mexican director, screenwriter, composer, and producer. He has twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Revenant (2015). He also directed Amores perros and Babel, among other films.
He is the son of Héctor González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu Cervantes. Alejandro is married to editor and graphic designer Maria Eladia Hagerman, with whom he has two children.
Alejandro’s paternal grandfather was named Gales González Oring.
Alejandro’s paternal grandmother was surnamed García.
Alejandro’s maternal grandfather was Alfredo Iñárritu Ramírez de Aguilar (the son of José Sixto Silverio del Corazón de Jesús Iñárritu Flores and María de la Luz Amelia Ramírez de Aguilar Gallardo). Alfredo was born in Oaxaca, and was a prominent lawyer and judge. Silverio was the son of Basque parents, Silverio Iñárritu Gardiazábal, of Gordexola, Biscay, and Elena Flores Mendizábal. Alejandro’s great-grandmother Luz was the daughter of Juan Ramón Ramírez de Aguilar Sandoval and Rosenda/Rosa Soledad de Jesús Arenas, later Gallardo Arenas.
Alejandro’s maternal grandmother was Luz María Iñárritu y Cervantes (the daughter of José María Miguel Luis Francisco Nicolás Hipólito Higinio Manuel Cervantes y Noreña and María Celada y Aguirre). Alejandro’s grandmother Luz María was born in Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal. Miguel was the son of Manuel María José de Jesús Rafael Brígido Úrsulo Pedro Pascual Francisco Javier y de Asís Juan Nepomuceno Cervantes Imaz and María de la Luz Noreña Garduño. Alejandro’s great-grandmother María was the daughter of José Epifanio Celada Tapia and Luz Aguirre Romero.
Alejandro’s matrilineal line can be traced to his third great-grandmother, María de Jesús Romero (c. 1810, Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico – between 1873 and 1889).
Sources: Genealogies of Alejandro González Iñárritu – https://www.geni.com
https://www.myheritage.com
his paternal grandfather’s mother carries an interesting surname, “Oring”. If that is the correct spelling, it’s a Germanic surname. On familysearch.org there are Orings from Romania, Austria and Sweden.
I can’t find his name on Mexican civil registration records. That’s a big problem for that.
his maternal great-grandfather José Sixto Silverio del Corazón de Jesús Iñárritu Flores’ parents were Basque. Gordexola is in Basque Country and Mendizábal is a Basque surname too.
Alejandro’s maternal grandfather was Alfredo Iñárritu Ramírez de Aguilar (the son of José Sixto Silverio del Corazón de Jesús Iñárritu Flores and María de la Luz Amelia Ramírez de Aguilar Gallardo). Alfredo was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca. Silverio was the son of a Spanish emigrant, Silverio Iñárritu Gardeazábal, of Gordexola, Biscay, and of Elena Flores Mendizábal. Alejandro’s great-grandmother Luz was the daughter of Ramón Agustín María de la Soledad Ramírez de Aguilar Sandoval and Rosenda Soledad de Jesús “Rosa” Arenas (later Gallardo Arenas).
Alejandro’s maternal grandmother was María Luisa Cervantes Celada (the daughter of José María Miguel Luis Francisco Nicolás Hipólito Higinio Manuel Cervantes y Noreña and María Celada y Aguirre). Luisa was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Miguel was the son of Manuel María José de Jesús Rafael Brígido Úrsulo Pedro Pascual Francisco Javier y de Asís Juan Nepomuceno Cervantes Imaz and María de la Luz Noreña Garduño. Alejandro’s great-grandmother María was the daughter of José Epifanio Celada Tapia and Luz Aguirre Romero.
Alejandro’s maternal line can be traced back to his third great-grandmother, María de Jesús Romero (c. 1810, Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico – between 1873 and 1889).
Genealogies of Alejandro González Iñárritu – https://www.geni.com/people/Alejandro-Gonz%C3%A1lez-I%C3%B1%C3%A1rritu/6000000030143505742
https://www.myheritage.com/person-1501054_372294841_372294841/private-gonzalez-inarritu
Alejandro’s Mexican ethnicity includes Spanish (including Andalusian, Asturian, Castilian, and Extremaduran), Basque, as well as small amount of Indigenous and Sephardi Jewish (through this ancestor https://www.geni.com/people/Antonio-de-Carvajal/6000000007151943341). Other ancestries include remote French and Portuguese.
Born in 1510? That’s probably less than 1/1024 ancestry, although he might have Jewish ancestry somewhere else on his family tree.
if people considered him white he wouldn’t win oscars
He’s Basque, Spanish and native Mexican.