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
YOU CAN’T BE JEWISH IF YOU’RE A PRACTICING CATHOLIC. I swear, celebrities can be SO stupid.
You do realize Jewish is a religion AND an ethnicity, right?
The irony of you calling someone stupid.
I agree. Unless they have been here (the UK) how the hell do they know what people look like here? There are all types of looks here, and I’m not including people of obvious foreign blood. Celts, Anglos-Saxons, Normans, Vikings, etc have all mixed over the last thousand plus years.
Definitely looks more Jewish. She looks rather exotic.
Have to admit I sometimes thought she looked mestiza.. with some Spanish influence or something…
she looks almost exactly like josh hartnett. i always thought they were siblings
I agree. I also keep thinking she has Sami heritage.