Linda Hunt
Hunt in 2009, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Lydia Susanna Hunt
Place of Birth: Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 2, 1945
Ethnicity: English, as well as distant German, French, Dutch, and Scottish, remote Belgian and Swiss-German
Linda Hunt is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Year of Living Dangerously, for 1983’s film year. She played Billy Kwan, a man of Chinese descent. Linda is the first person to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex.
Linda is the daughter of Elsie R., a piano teacher, and Raymond Davy Hunt, who was vice president of Harper Fuel Oil. Linda is married to psychotherapist Karen Klein.
Linda’s paternal grandfather was Charles Edwin Hunt (the son of Charles Phillips Hunt and Ella Maria Read/Reed). Linda’s grandfather Charles was born in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, and was of Colonial American/English descent. Linda’s great-grandfather Charles was the son of Charles Edwin Hunt and Marcia E. Phillips. Ella was the daughter of Milton Heywood Read and Eliza A. Ricker.
Linda’s paternal grandmother was Louise/Louisa Phipps Davy (the daughter of Manning Charles Davy and Helen/Ellen/Nellie F. Barter). Louise was born in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Manning was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, the son of Manning S. Davy, who was born in England, and of Joanna M. Haverstock, who was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Helen was of Colonial American/English descent, and was the daughter of James W. Barter and Frances R. Phipps.
Linda’s maternal grandfather was Howard Preston Doying (the son of James Doying and Mary Ann Cassell/Castle). Howard was born in Elmwood, Tuscola, Michigan, to Canadian parents. James was born in Ontario, and was the son of James Doying and Joanna/Johana Scott. Mary Ann was the daughter of Benjamin Cassell and Mary.
Linda’s maternal grandmother was Melissa/Mercy Almira Austin (the daughter of Edwin A. Austin and Susan Gordon). Melissa was born in Caro, Tuscola, Michigan. Edwin was the son of William Austin and Mary R., who was Canadian. Susan was the daughter of Canadian parents, Jacob/Jake Gordon and Martha.
Sources: Genealogy of Linda Hunt – https://famouskin.com
Marriage record of Linda’s parents – https://www.familysearch.org
Linda’s parents on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Linda’s father on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Linda’s paternal grandparents, Charles Edwin Hunt and Louise/Louisa Phipps Davy – https://www.familysearch.org
Linda’s mother on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Linda’s maternal grandparents, Howard Preston Doying and Melissa/Mercy Almira Austin – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Linda’s maternal great-grandparents, James Doying and Mary Ann Cassell/Castle – https://www.familysearch.org
She has German, French, Dutch and some Scottish ancestry too. Haverstock is definitely not an English surname, it traces back to Baden-Wuttenmbeg in fact, according to familysearch.org:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/KLWT-KXS
I am a straight man and fine with my gender. I hope you find stability.
The last name Rocket is of German origin
It’s Ricker, not Rocket, and it traces back to England, and evidently to the Jersey Island before that.
As for Glenn Close, the Taliaferro thing is in the text and that’s probably sufficient.
Does she have any Irish, Scottish, German…it says here one of her ancestors was born in French Canada
she looks like my ex teacher of English literature