Neve Campbell
Campbell in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Neve Adrianne Campbell
Place of Birth: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: October 3, 1973
Ethnicity:
*father – Scottish
*mother – Dutch, Sephardi Jewish
Neve Campbell is a Canadian actress. She is known for starring as Sidney Prescott in the Scream films, as well as for her lead roles in The Craft, Wild Things, Skyscraper, and The Company, among many others.
Neve is the daughter of Marnie Neve and Gerry Campbell. Her brother, Christian Campbell, is also an actor. Her mother also acts. Neve has two children with her partner, American-British actor JJ Feild, the son of mystic and author Reshad Feild. Her brother Christian is married to American actress, singer, and model America Olivo.
Her father is a Scottish emigrant, from Glasgow.
Her mother is a Dutch emigrant, from Amsterdam. Neve has stated that her mother’s maiden name, Neve, comes from Sephardi Jewish ancestors, who moved to the Netherlands and later converted to Catholicism. Neve herself is Catholic. She has also said, “my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I’m Jewish, I say yes.” It is not clear precisely how much Sephardi Jewish ancestry Neve has.
Neve can be a Sephardi Jewish surname. In Italian, it means “snow,” and in Hebrew and Arabic, it means “oasis.”
Her maternal grandparents were said to have run a theatre in the Netherlands.
Source: http://www.canadiancontent.net
Neve works well with both sides of her heritage. Neve (spelled Niamh but pronounced the same) is also a very common Scottish girls name.
Niamh is an Irish name. Yes is is pronounced Neve. It is a name from Irish mythology. Niamh was the daughter of the God of the Sea.
WHY are you calling her “American Actress”?! She is Canadian!!
Neve love that name.Beautiful lady.
yeah she looks scottish
Really? And that’s the least exotic ethnicity out there.
She looks very exotic – I can see her Jewish side more.
Neve isn’t exotic. Most of her ancestry is Scottish and Dutch.
I see more Jewish in her. She has those coarse eyebrows and almond dark eyes. Lol…never seen a Scott who looks like that.
What you’ve never seen a dark haired or dark eyed Scot? Need To Travel More
Have you been to Scotland? I’m Scottish and there are loads of dark haired people here, as well as lots of people with brown eyes. If she lived here nobody in Scotland nobody would think for a second she was anything other than Scottish.
she’s a true beauty :)