Frank Dillane
Dillane in 2016, photo by prphotos
Birth Name: Frank Stephenson N. E. Wirthner Dillane
Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 21 April, 1991
Ethnicity:
*father – English, Irish, Scottish, remote Manx
*mother – African-Jamaican, German
Frank Dillane is a British actor. His roles include television’s Fear the Walking Dead, The Girlfriend Experience, and The Essex Serpent, and the films Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, Papadopoulos & Sons, In the Heart of the Sea, Astral, How to Build a Girl, and Viena and the Fantomes.
He is the son of actors Stephen Dillane and Naomi Wirthner. His father is of English, Irish, Scottish, and remote Manx [Isle of Man], ancestry. Frank’s mother is the daughter of a white father, with German ancestry, and of a black Jamaican mother. His uncle is actor Richard Dillane.
A picture of Frank’s maternal grandfather can be seen here. A picture of Frank’s maternal grandmother or great-grandmother can be seen here.
Frank’s paternal grandfather is named John B. Dillane. John was born in Australia, and likely has Irish ancestry.
Frank’s paternal grandmother is Bridget M. Curwen (the daughter of Stanley Patricius Lamplugh Curwen and Lilian Frances Skinner). Bridget was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. She has English ancestry, with some remote Manx [Isle of Man] roots. Stanley was a Protestant minister, and was the son of Alfred Francis Curwen and Beatricia Cervinia Hills. Lilian was the daughter of Charles Lancelot Andrewes/Andrews Skinner and Lady Sara Kathleen Ponsonby.
Frank’s maternal grandparents possibly were Michael J. Wirthner and Frances Petch-Clark. Frank’s grandfather likely descended from Alphonse Wirthner. Alphonse was an ethnic German from Russia.
Sources: Genealogy of Frank Dillane (focusing on his father’s side) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogies of Frank’s paternal great-great-grandparents, Charles Lancelot Andrewes/Andrews Skinner and Lady Sara Kathleen Ponsonby – http://www.thepeerage.com
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This is bad results of someone chemically processing their hair, which I can only assume is more tightly curled than that — now it just looks frizzy.
Didn’t see that one coming. Guess he looks “white” because Jamaicans are mixed themselves.
his mother looks whiter than him, google her.
Johnny Depp?
He looks like Rafi Gavron to me.
There are claims on the internet that his father Stephen mentioned in a 2006 Australian interview that reggae changed his life and that he ended up marrying a Jamaican woman. I haven’t found the interview, though.
His mother has a Jamaican accent in this clip, though it is not clear if it is exaggerated.
https://soundcloud.com/naomi-wirthner/marley-reading
he is biracial according to imdb