Michelle Keegan

Michelle Keegan – Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards 2018 – Arrivals – Royal Festival Hall, South Bank – London, UK – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos

Birth Name: Michelle Elizabeth Keegan

Place of Birth: Stockport, Lancashire, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 3 June, 1987

Ethnicity: English, as well as one eighth Gibraltarian [Spanish, distant Italian], possibly some Irish and Welsh

Michelle Keegan is a British actress and model. She is married to television and radio presenter and model Mark Wright.

Michelle’s maternal grandfather was named Brian Joseph Turner. Brian was born in Barton upon Irwell RD, Lancashire. Brian’s maternal grandparents were John Kirwan and Elizabeth Hannah Lethbridge.

Michelle’s maternal grandmother is named Mary Elizabeth. Mary Elizabeth was the granddaughter of Alfred Edward Joseph Wiltshire and Anna Ada Elizabeth Evans on one side. Michelle’s grandmother’s mother was Leonor Orfila, who was the daughter of Miguel Orfila and Maria, who were from Gibraltar, with Spanish ancestry. Leonor married a British soldier station in Gibraltar at the time. Leonor had part Italian ancestry, from Genoa.

Sources: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
https://www.thesun.co.uk
https://www.irishmirror.ie

Genealogy of Michelle Keegan (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com

7 Responses

  1. Alice says:

    She has a varied background as maternal great-grandmother was from Gibraltar who then married a British soldier stationed in the country at the time.

    The star also has Irish ancestry on her father’s side of the family as well as has Italian from her seven times great-grandfather who emigrated to Gibraltar from Genoa.

    https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/michelle-keegans-rise-fame-make-25229575

  2. She looks like Catherine Zeta Jones now, when she was younger.

  3. Tia1 says:

    She looks more Spanish now thanks to her plastic surgery. Good for her though. spanish people are hotter than english

  4. andrew says:

    She very likely has some Irish and Welsh ancestry (Kirwan and Evans).

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