Samara Weaving
Weaving in 2016, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Samara Bezzina Weaving
Place of Birth: Adelaide, Australia
Date of Birth: 23 February, 1992
Ethnicity: Maltese, English, as well as one sixteenth Belgian [Walloon] and 1/32 Manx/Isle of Man
Samara Weaving is an Australian actress and model. She is known for starring in the horror/comedy films The Babysitter, Ready or Not, and Scream VI, and in Monster Trucks, Mayhem, Guns Akimbo, 100% Wolf, Last Moment of Clarity, Bill & Ted Face the Music, Snake Eyes, The Valet, and Babylon, and television’s Home and Away, Ash vs Evil Dead, SMILF, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Hollywood, and Nine Perfect Strangers.
Her father, Simon Weaving, is a filmmaker, who is artistic director of the Canberra International Film Festival. Her mother, Helena Bezzina, is an art therapist. Her uncle is actor Hugo Weaving. Samara has said that her mother is Maltese. Bezzina is a Maltese surname.
Her sister, Morgan Weaving, is also an actress. She was raised in Singapore, Fiji, and Indonesia, before finally settling in Canberra, Australia. Samara is married to creative producer Jimmy Warden.
Samara’s paternal grandfather was Wallace Henry Weaving, a seismologist (the son of Jack/John Henry Weaving and Doris Mabel Eleanor Wallace). Samara’s grandfather Wallace was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Jack was the son of Albert Henry Weaving and Fanny Smith. Doris was the daughter of Alfred Douglas Wallace, whose mother was born on Castletown, Isle of Man, and of Blanche Edith Green.
Samara’s paternal grandmother is Anne B. Lennard (the daughter of Earnest/Ernest William Lennard and Annette/Anna Madeleine Holden). Samara’s grandmother Anne was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Earnest was the son of William Lennard and Emma Kirchen/Kirchin. Samara’s great-grandmother Annette was born in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of Arthur Brockett Holden, who was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, and of Élise Emily/Emilie Leone/J. Briart, who was born in Hainault, Belgium, the daughter of Alphonse Briart and Elise/Elisa Deltenre.
Samara’s maternal grandmother is named Barbara.
looks A bit Hallstat or Anglo saxon type.
Good actress, i can tell it runs in the Weaving family vains.
About her mother’s Maltese surname (Bezzina), this University of Malta PDF states:
_ An apparent Arabo-Greek hybrid is Bezzina (5 Bezine; 11 Bezine), a variant of the less common (Maltese) Bezzini, from Arabic Bizīnī, attested in medieval Sicilian as Bizinas (1090) and Bizinias (1093), and the modern Sicilian surnames Bizzini and Vizzini. A toponym of Catania province, the name Vizzini is perhaps connected with Greek βυζίον ‘breast’, in reference to a local landform.
https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/8511/1/Late%20Medieval%20Maltese.pdf
Her full name is Samara Bezzina Weaving.
https://mobile.twitter.com/sweaving/status/126876239427420160
I think she is Jewish. Her mother Ian Helena Bezzina.
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Bezzina is only a Jewish surname.
I think it’s mostly Maltese, non-Jewish?
I confirm that is a common Maltese last name. It sounds Italian but I did not find any Bezzina in Sicily.
Is it really? When I looked online for the origin, it kept saying that it was Jewish.
Oh, well, Samara is part Maltese then like Britney Spears.
Because when I searched for the origin of Bezzina, all of the articles were saying that it was Jewish. None of them mentioned that it is a common non-Jewish Maltese surname. They made it seem as if the only Maltese with that surname are Maltese Jews. Therefore, I assumed that Samara’s mother must be a Maltese Jew.
Yes, Bezzina sounds very Italian, but it isn’t. It seems it is only a Maltese name.
Well, now that it is cleared up, Maltese has been added to Samara’s ethnicity.
Thank you, follers!