Daniel Zovatto
Daniel Zovatto – HBO’s “Here and Now” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Boulevard – Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2018 – Photo Credit: Photography by Eugene / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Daniel Zovatto Blanco
Place of Birth: San José, Costa Rica
Date of Birth: June 28, 1991
Ethnicity: Argentinian-Costa Rican [Italian, Spanish, possibly other]
Daniel Zovatto is a Costa Rican actor. He is known for his roles in the films Beneath (2013), Laggies, It Follows, Don’t Breathe, Lady Bird (2017), Newness, The Pope’s Exorcist, and Woman of the Hour, and on the shows Revenge, Fear the Walking Dead, The Deleted, Here and Now, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, and Station Eleven.
Daniel is an immigrant to the U.S. He is the son of Sylvia Blanco (Sylvia Elena Blanco Acuña), a television presenter, and Daniel Zovatto Garetto, who works for the intergovernmental organization, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, as Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. Daniel’s father is from Argentina.
Daniel’s maternal grandmother is named Ana Ligia Acuña Solera.
birth name: Daniel Zovatto Blanco
son of Daniel Zovatto and television presenter Sylvia Blanco (Sylvia Elena Blanco Acuña). “Zovatto” is a Venetian surname.
His father is the Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean of International IDEA, an intergovernmental organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_for_Democracy_and_Electoral_Assistance
*Costa Rican [Italian, Spanish, possibly other]
his father:
https://www.idea.int/about-us/people/daniel-zovatto
https://www.brookings.edu/experts/daniel-zovatto/
As it’s usual for Latin American actors, he has an upper-class background.
His father Daniel Zovatto Garetto is Argentinian.
I believe his maternal grandfather was the son of Gonzalo Blanco Calderón and Marina Castro Umaña (but I’m not really sure).
Daniel’s maternal grandmother is Ana Ligia Acuña Solera.
I’m also not sure if Ana Ligia is the daughter of José María Acuña Venegas and Lidia Solera Valverde, since she’s much younger than their children, but she also appears in this article alongside them (and is mentioned as one of the owners of the property in question and as sister of Virginia who is definitely the daughter of the aforementioned couple):
https://www.nacion.com/viva/cultura/duenos-donan-la-botica-solera-a-la-municipalidad-de-san-jose/7YBWGNXMONBOBPFWKLWO4NLVCM/story/
Garetto is a Piedmontese surname.
Italian immigrants to South America usually came from Northern Italy, that makes sense.