Emily Blunt
Blunt in 2013, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Emily Olivia Laura Blunt
Place of Birth: Wandsworth, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 23 February, 1983
Ethnicity: English, as well as distant Scottish and Welsh
Emily Blunt is an English actress and singer. Her roles include the films My Summer of Love, The Devil Wears Prada, Irresistible, Wind Chill, The Jane Austen Book Club, Dan in Real Life, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Great Buck Howard, Sunshine Cleaning, The Young Victoria, The Wolfman, Wild Target, Gulliver’s Travels, The Adjustment Bureau, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Your Sister’s Sister, The Five-Year Engagement, Looper, Arthur Newman, Edge of Tomorrow, Into the Woods, Sicario, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, The Girl on the Train, A Quiet Place, and its sequel; Mary Poppins Returns, Wild Mountain Thyme, Jungle Cruise, and Oppenheimer; and, in voice-role, Gnomeo & Juliet, The Wind Rises, Animal Crackers, My Little Pony: The Movie, and Sherlock Gnomes; and television’s Henry VIII, Gideon’s Daughter, and The English. She also became a U.S. citizen in 2015.
Emily was born in Wandsworth, London. Her mother, Joanna Margaret (Dixon), is a teacher and actress, and her father, Oliver Simon Peter Blunt, is a barrister. Her uncle is Conservative Party politician Crispin Blunt (Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt), who has been a Member of Parliament for Reigate, since 1 May, 1997. Emily is married to American actor and filmmaker John Krasinski, with whom she has two children. Her sister, Felicity Blunt, is married to American actor Stanley Tucci.
Emily’s paternal grandfather was Major-General Peter John Blunt, CB, MBE, GM (the son of Albert George Blunt and Claudia Mabel Wintle). Peter was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, and was a British Army officer and businessperson. Albert was the son of Albert Blunt and Emily Emma Davies. Claudia was the daughter of Harry Wintle and Gertrude Ellen Freeth.
Emily’s paternal grandmother was Adrienne Richardson (the daughter of Thomas William Richardson and Jessie May Clarke). Adrienne was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. Thomas was the son of John Parkes Richardson. Jessie was the daughter of John Clarke.
Emily’s maternal grandfather is named Robert Dixon.
Emily’s maternal grandmother is Mary Evelina Hodgson (the daughter of John Hodgson and Annie/Ann Hodge). Mary was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England. John was the son of Robert Hodgson and Annie Smithson. Emily’s great-grandmother Annie was the daughter of Samuel Hodge and Ann Elizabeth Christie, whose father was Scottish.
Sources: Genealogy of Emily Blunt – https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Emily’s paternal grandfather, Major-General Peter Blunt – http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Marriage record of Emily’s paternal great-grandparents, Thomas William Richardson and Jessie May Clarke – https://www.familysearch.org
British as can be….
Hardly – more an Irish look! – her mother is Joanna Mackie, ex actress.
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/emily-blunt-love-you/196518543726263?sk=info&tab=page_info
So she is 1/64th Welsh
I have her Welsh ancestor as Ann Mary Jones (born 1849, Abergaveny, Monmouth, Wales), mother of Thomas Blunt, born 1866/88 in Warwickshire (who was the father of Albert G. Blunt).
I encountered the same ambiguity regarding her mother’s name. If her middle name was Mackie, we might suppose that ‘Mackie’ was her mother’s maiden name, but the two Janice M Dixons born 1951-1955 had mother’s maiden names Hodgson and Squire (this Janice M. Dixon was born in Middlesex in March 1953). If her mother was the one born in Middlesex, then her maternal grandparents were probably Joseph R. Dixon and Esther D. Squire.
This site lists her maternal grandfather as a Robert Dixon, no sources given: http://www.famechain.com/individual-family-tree/11278/emily-blunt
Hi I was told by my aunty that Emily’s grandmother is my aunty Mary, my dad’s sister his name was Vincent Samuel Hodgson and he was from Middlesbrough, so your comment about Hodgson would be right
He has lots of sisters Angela, Margaret, hilda (in Australia) and Ann.
I have never met Mary but know she lived in London.
I have never met or contacted Emily about a family connection but I love following her and watching her movies and am proud we are related.
Hope this helps with your genealogy.
If I got this correct, it looks like Welsh-born Ann Mary Jones was married to a Thomas Blunt in Wolverhampton in Dec 1866. They appear to have then lived in Thomas’ hometown of Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
There oldest child was Thomas James Blunt, who appears to have been born in 1868 or thereabouts. He appears to have married an Ellen Alice, but I can’t find her maiden name since I can’t find their marriage record. They first appear together in the 1891 Census where they are in their early 20’s.
Anyway, Albert seems to be their second child. But I can’t find Albert after a WWI military record until his death, and can find no marriage records for him connecting him to an Emily Emma.
I’ve mapped out her entire paternal side, but can’t get started on her mother’s ancestry. Do you know any more details?
Is her father entirely of English ancestry?
Emily’s maternal grandparents may have been Robert Dixon and Mary E. Hodgson.
Her father is about 1/32 Welsh.
I’ll scan the tree I have for her once I’ve found out all I can. It’s horribly unbalanced at the moment, though.
OK, I don’t have anything for Robert Dixon, but can go quite far back with Mary Evelina Hodgson. Her ancestry’s all NE English going back a number of generations. Do you think there’s a strong chance that they’re her maternal grandparents?
Who was her Welsh ancestor?
Blunt confuses me because reliable sources have stated that her mother is “the former Joanna Mackie”. British public records list her mother’s name as Joanna M. Blunt.
But marriage records list Blunt’s father as marrying Janice M. Dixon, and Blunt and her siblings have a mother’s maiden name of “Dixon”.
Perhaps her mother’s full name is Janice Mackie Dixon, and she used “Joanna” when she was an actress, and professionally.
I know Blunt’s mother is between 60 and 64 years old, and there might be only one Janice M. Dixon who fits that (the one whose parents were Robert Dixon and Mary Hodgson).
But I don’t feel confident in adding that without further evidence.
Hi I’d be interested in any information regarding Mary’s family tree as that is my father’s too.
Thanks
Hi I think her maternal Grandmother is my father’s sister his name was Vincent Samuel Hodgson born in Middlesbrough hopefully this helps.
Who is Emily’s maternal grandmother and who were her parents?
Hi it was Mary Hodgson her parents were John and Ann I never met them as they died when my father was young ill take a look at my family tree on ancestry to see more info.
My dad had a brother Michael that lived near to Newcastle, and sisters as above.
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she’s a celeb, at least