Russell Brand
Brand in 2011, photo by s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Russell Edward Brand
Place of Birth: Grays, Thurrock, Essex, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 4 June, 1975
Ethnicity: English, as well as 1/64th German
Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, and radio host. His films include Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, Despicable Me, Hop, Arthur (2011), and Rock of Ages.
He is the son of Barbara Elizabeth and Ronald Henry Brand, a photographer. Russell is married to Scottish lifestyle blogger and restaurateur Laura Gallacher, with whom he has three children.
Russell’s paternal grandfather was Henry George Brand (the son of Henry George Brand and Alice Sarah Truman). Russell’s grandfather Henry was born in Stepney, London, England. Russell’s great-grandfather Henry was the son of Mark Henry Brand and Lydia Bond. Alice was the daughter of George Truman and Maria Louisa Bruford. Maria Louisa’s grandfather, Johann Heinrich Kohler, was German.
Russell’s paternal grandmother was named Janet Marjorie White (the daughter of William Henry White and Maud Lilian). Janet was born in Stepney, London. William was the son of William Robert White and Eleanor Mary White.
Russell’s maternal grandfather was Frederick William Nichols (the son of Frederick William Nichols and Theresa Jessie Bennett). Russell’s grandfather Frederick was born in Hackney, London, England. Russell’s great-grandfather Frederick was the son of Edward Henry Nichols and Elizabeth. Theresa was the daughter of Robert Bennett.
Russell’s maternal grandmother was Nellie A. Miller (the daughter of Bertram Miller and Nellie Minnie A. Hale). Russell’s grandmother Nellie was born in Marylebone, London, England. Russell’s great-grandmother Nellie was the daughter of William Hale.
Sources: Family history of Russell Brand – http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Genealogy of Russell Brand – http://www.geni.com
Russell’s paternal grandmother, Janet Marjorie White, on the 1911 England and Wales Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Brand in 2014, photo by Prphotos
Katy Perry is sooo lucky hes hawt.
average female faces
http://i.imgur.com/lO9OV.jpg
That picture is all the same picture someone just photoshopped it and morphed them differently, its not accurate though. Most English look nothing like the girl in the photo same with the african american girls, africans etc, most English are dark haired with some looking like Russel brand, others of mediterranean looking variety like Christian Bale and Victoria Beckham (Posh spice/ from Spice girls), and a few “Nordic” looking ones, however English are far from being all “Nordic” anymore, they’re as mixed as the Italians are racially. The English commonly look like The Beatles did, that is the common English look, as a race the majority of them look like a cross between Anglo & Med.
Also english almost never look like David Beckham those types are EXTREMELY rare, and while you might find some of them in England its not as common as say Scandinavia.
David Beckhams & Fedrik Ljunberg’s come by the dozens in places like Sweden etc.
But what about those whose ancestors were all living in England prior to the Renaissance and the “Age of Discovery?”
Among those whose roots run deep, more than half of the DNA came from the Iberian Peninsula towards the end of the last major Ice Age speaking a language similar to Basque. No later invasion has contributed more than 5%, with the possible exception of the mass immigration to England that has occurred since the 1960’s.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2006/10/mythsofbritishancestry/
The Beatles were from a major port city (Liverpool) and all had non-English ancestors within several generations. Some, such as John Lennon http://ethnicelebs.com/john-lennon may not have had any English blood at all.
Here is the corect link:
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2006/10/mythsofbritishancestry/
“Correct”
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2006/10/mythsofbritishancestry/
John lennon was 1/2 english, 1/4 welsh and 1/4 irish
Do you actually live in England or is this just an uneducated opinion? Christian Bale does not look Mediterranean at all and young David Beckham was a very average looking English person. Some of you lot have very narrow views on ethnic groups.
If he is in fact only of English descent, it just goes to further validate my theories.
All the full-blooded English people seem to end up moving to other countries and marrying people with little, if any, English blood. It’s mostly been going on since the 19th century.
Winston Churchill, while I’m not sure about his father, his American born mother is said to have been of French Huguenot and Iroquois ancestry. Few if any Presidents of the USA can say they have that much Native American blood.
Then there is Gwyneth Paltrow “Paltrow’s father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent and her mother is a Quaker of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry” according to one source, on here it includes some http://ethnicelebs.com/gwyneth-paltrow . But what is Chris Martin?
John Krasinski: Polish and Irish, http://ethnicelebs.com/john-krasinski married to Emily Blunt (yet to see what her ancestry is)
Those are just a few examples, I could go on and on.
http://tinyurl.com/5r9ra3r when he was younger (and fatter) he didn’t look as english as he does now to me. If english is all that he is, I didn’t know english people had dark skin too! well, I thought he was part romanian (is that how you spell it?) too.
I mean I did know there were black people in england, obviously.
And here I thought he was part Romanni!