Rossy de Palma
de Palma in 2015, photo by magicinfoto/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Rosa Elena García Echave
Place of Birth: Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Date of Birth: 16 September, 1964
Ethnicity: Spanish [Asturian], Basque
Rossy de Palma is a Spanish actress and model. She is known for her work with Pedro Almodóvar.
Rossy was born in Palma de Mallorca, the daughter of Carmen Echave and Pedro García, a bricklayer. Her father is from Asturias, and also has a Cuban ancestor. Her mother was born in Olite, Navarra, and is of mostly Austrian, and more distant Basque, descent. Both her parents have roots in Avilés, Asturias. Rossy has two children.
She has stated:
I’m quite mixed. My nose embodies the Basque part of my DNA. My parents are from Asturias and there is Celtic blood in my family.
Sources: https://www.elcomercio.es
https://www.lavanguardia.com
https://www.lne.es
Very Basque nose indeed.
The remark about Celtic blood is funny and sad at the same time, Asturian and Galician nationalism have done unsalvageable damage to the Spanish society, they actually managed to delude their population into thinking they’re the only ones with Celtic blood in Iberia, when in reality most people all across Spain and Portugal have so called Celtic haplogroups (branches of R1b), oh well…
She stated that her father has a Cuban ancestor : https://www.lne.es/sociedad/2022/05/06/rossy-palma-confiesa-calleja-asturiana-65774889.amp.html
Her mother is mostly Asturian with more distant Basque ancestry.