Freya Mavor
Mavor in 2011, photo by Prphotos.com
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Date of Birth: 13 August, 1993
Ethnicity: Scottish, Irish, some Danish
Freya Mavor is a Scottish actress and model. Her roles include the shows Skins, The White Queen, New Worlds, The ABC Murders, Twice Upon a Time, and Industry, and the films Not Another Happy Ending, Sunshine on Leith, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, Cézanne and I, The Sense of an Ending, Dead in a Week or Your Money Back, The Emperor of Paris, The Keeper (2018), Balance, Not Symmetry; Rogue Agent, About Joan, and My Policeman. She has appeared in several French-language films and productions.
Freya was born in Glasgow, and grew up in Inverleith, Edinburgh. Her father, James Mavor, is an award-winning playwright. He leads the MA screenwriting course at Napier University. Her mother is an illustrator. Freya’s mother is Irish. Freya also has a smaller amount of Danish ancestry.
Freya’s paternal grandfather was Ronald Bingo Mavor (the son of James Bridie, born Osborne Henry Mavor, and of Rona Locke Bremner). Ronald was The Scotsman’s theatre critic in the early 1960s, and was director of the Scottish Arts Council. James Bridie was a playwright, screenwriter, and surgeon. He was the son of Henry Alexander Mavor, an electrical engineer and industrialist, and Janet Osborne. His grandmother’s maiden name was Bridie.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Yes apparently her mother is Irish. She says in this DailyMail article.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2564663/The-world-according-Freya.html
I have a correction.
She has stated that her mother is Irish and that she has a little bit of Danish in her from a grandmother, hence her name.
The articles are on this fan page but from legit interviews. All on this site: http://freyafans.org/
In ES magazine: “Mavor’s family, an Irish illustrator mother, Scottish playwright father and older brother Zander, lived in La Rochelle on the southwest coast of France until she was nine” also mentions her mother is Irish in the You magazine interview below the first one: “My mum’s a crazy, red-headed Irish woman and the wisest person I know.”
It’s mentioned that she has distant Danish in the Scots man interview: “she’s a Scots girl at heart (with a touch of Danish from a grandmother, hence the name) ”
Please correct.