Alessandra Ambrosio
Ambrosio in 2010, image via Joe Seer/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Alessandra Corine Maria Ambrósio
Place of Birth: Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Date of Birth: 11 April, 1981
Ethnicity:
*father – Italian, Polish
*mother – Portuguese, some Polish
Alessandra Ambrosio is a Brazilian model and actress.
She is the daughter of Lucilda Nivia de Mello and Luiz Nicolau Ambrósio. She has Polish, Italian, and Portuguese ancestry. She has two children with her former fiancé, businessperson Jamie Mazur. Alessandra has acquired U.S. citizenship.
Alessandra’s parents and daughter are pictured here.
Alessandra’s paternal grandfather was Silvino Hegydio/Egydio Ambrósio (the son of Pedro Ambrósio and Maria GIacomelli). Silvino was born in Rio Grande do Sul. Pedro was born in Rio Grande do Sul, to Italian parents, Bartolomeo Ambrogio (or Bartolomeu Ambrósio in Portuguese) and Stella. Maria was born in Rio Grande do Sul, also to Italian parents, Giacomo Nicolò Giacomelli, who was from Predazzo, Trentino, and Caterina/Cattarina/Catharina Dellasega/Della Sega, who was from Transacqua, Trentino.
Alessandra’s paternal grandmother was named Joana Eugênia Groch (the daughter of Nicolau Groch and Maria). Joana was born in 1924, in Marynka, Przemyśl, Poland, and moved to Brazil in 1929.
Alessandra’s maternal grandfather’s surname is de Mello. The name is Portuguese.
Alessandra’s maternal grandmother is Cristina Casanoski (who likely is the daughter of Francisco Czarnowski and Otalia Trindade). Cristina was born in Rio Grande do Sul. Francisco was born in Rio Grande do Sul, the son of João Pedro Czarnowski and Susana/Suzana Glincowski, and was of Polish origin.
Sources: http://hotalessandraambrosio.blogspot.com
http://www.jornalboavista.com.br
http://www.corriere.it
Information about Alessandra’s father’s family – http://auonline.com.br
Obituary of Alessandra’s paternal great-uncle (grandmother’s brother) – http://jornaldesantacatarina.clicrbs.com.br
shes polish italian. but she looks more italian percentage-wise than polish.
Just because brazil has a lot of african n native doesn’t mean all the brazlian girls are native and african she looks more polish n a lil italian
Just like Gisele Bündchen she likes to get tanned just like 90% of the Brazilian population even black people get tanned
I agree that besides her coloring she does look very Polish.
She comes from Erechim! Everybody there is white in fact almost everybody in Rio Grande Do Sul are white. 95 percent to be exact! She is full Polish and Italian ancestry