Joshua Sasse

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Sasse in 2013, photo by Prphotos

Birth Name: Joshua Seymour Sasse

Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 9 December, 1987

Ethnicity: Irish, English, Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, Scottish, 1/32 Belgian

Joshua Sasse is a British actor and producer. He starred on the show Galavant.

Joshua is the son of Mary Rosalind and Dominic Sasse, a poet. His father died on the crash of PIA Flight 268 in 1992. He was raised Catholic. His ancestry includes Irish, English, Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, Scottish, and 1/32 Belgian.

Joshua is married to Louisa Ainsworth. He has a son with his former partner, Italian socialite Francesca Cini; and two children with Louisa.

Joshua’s paternal grandfather is Frederick Hugh Sasse (the son of Cecil Duncan Sasse and Zara Herrmann). Cecil was the son of Frederick Charles Sasse and Anna Grant; Frederick’s father, Joshua’s great-great-great-grandfather, Frederick Richard Sasse, was born in Belgium. Joshua’s great-grandmother Zara was born in Australia, and was from a Jewish family.

Joshua’s paternal grandmother is Deirdre I. S. Rider (the daughter of Thomas Sampson Rider and Jessie Hetty Kerven). Thomas was the son of Thomas Rider and Mary Matilda Samson. Jessie was the daughter of Frederick Abraham Kerven and Alice Maria Yeomans.

Joshua’s maternal grandfather is William Perine Macauley (the son of Timothy Alfred Macauley and Margaret Patricia Scanlon Conway). Joshua’s grandfather William was Canadian, and was of Irish ancestry. Timothy was the son of Thomas Francis McAuley and Catherine Murphy.

Joshua’s maternal grandmother was Diana Phyllis Berry (the daughter of William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, and of Mary Agnes Corns). Joshua’s great-uncles, Joshua’s maternal grandmother’s brothers, were Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, a nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor, and Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, a newspaper proprietor and journalist. Joshua’s great-grandfather, the 1st Viscount, was a newspaper publisher, born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, the son of John Mathias Berry and Mary Ann/Anne Rowe. Joshua’s matrilineal great-grandmother Mary Agnes was English, from London, the daughter of Thomas Corns and Agnes Bennett.

Sources: Genealogy of Joshua Sasse – https://www.geni.com

Genealogy of Joshua Sasse (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.thepeerage.com

7 Responses

  1. lelo4 says:

    But Ashkenazi Jews are MENA themselves

  2. phaedra says:

    His Jewish side stands out a lot.

    • sarahle says:

      oh really, how?
      dark hair? c’mon…

      then explain colin farrell to me… 100% irish…

      stereotyping is low minded…

      • phaedra says:

        Er no…Look at this skin tone, eye shape and hairy chest. He looks exotic, like northern Indian (who posses light eyes).

        Colin Farrell looks very European in contrast to him.

        And what’s wrong with saying that some Europeans look “exotic”? Amazing how people in here get so agitated when somebody says this.

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