Sasha Grey
Grey in 2011, admedia / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Marina Ann Hantzis
Place of Birth: North Highlands, Sacramento, California, United States
Date of Birth: March 14, 1988
Ethnicity: English, Greek, Polish, Irish, Scottish
Sasha Grey is an American actress, model, writer, musician, and DJ. She was an adult film star, and is now a mainstream actress, having starred in the films The Girlfriend Experience, Smash Cut, I Melt with You, The Girl from the Naked Eye, Would You Rather, Open Windows, and The Scribbler, and on television’s Entourage. She was a co-founder, singer, and writer of industrial music band aTelecine, and wrote The Juliette Society trilogy of novels. She is also known as Anna Karina and Sasha Gray.
Her father was a mechanic. She was raised Catholic.
Sasha’s paternal grandfather was Nicholas Demetrius Hantzis, Jr. (the son of Nicholas Demetrius Hantzis and Pearl Lucretia Staley). Sasha’s great-grandfather Nicholas was Greek.
Sasha’s paternal grandmother was Lillian/Lilian Jones Mann (the daughter of Clarence William Mann and Maud/Maude Beatrice Jones Mann). Lillian was English, and had moved to California with her family. Clarence was born in Yorkshire, the son of William Mann and Hannah Elizabeth Widd. Maud was the daughter of Benjamin Mann and Mary C. Hinsworth.
Sasha’s maternal grandfather was Gerald Mantych (the son of Harold Mantych and Monica Marie Doorley). Harold was the son of Martin Mantych and Constance Slachetka, who were of Polish descent. Monica was the daughter of Martin Edward Doorley and Ellen Kehoe, and had Scottish and Irish ancestry.
Sasha’s maternal grandmother was named Ann McVeigh.
Sources: Interview where Sasha mentions her background – http://www.xcritic.com
Genealogy of Sasha’s paternal grandfather, Nicholas Demetrius Hantzis, Jr. – https://www.findagrave.com
Sasha’s paternal grandmother, Lillian/Lilian Jones Mann, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Sasha’s paternal great-grandparents, Clarence William Mann and Maud/Maude Beatrice Jones Mann – https://familysearch.org
jones=welsh name
Shes likely 2 have plustic surgery on her face
Her parents are Richard Alan Hantzis and Eileen M. Mantych. From the California Birth records.
Her paternal grandmother’s last name was “Jones” and her maternal grandmother’s last name was “McVeigh”.
Her maternal grandparents are listed in the link below.
It would appear that her ancestry is Greek and English (father’s side) and Polish, Scottish, and Irish on her mother’s side. Mantych is a Polish name.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:3163807&id=I153
correction
think shes Greek only from her dad’s side..
what is your obsession with greek ancestry? are you greek?
yeah I am.. and I find it weird how sometimes in America they call someone Greek or whatever other ethnicity but he doesnt look like it and after a bit of search you find out its because he is half..
Mena Suvari or Zach Galifianakis Greek?.. If they werent famous and come to Greece everyone they d think they are foreigners.. but no one could say Eva Longoria or Antonio Banderas dont look Greek..
You are right.. stil none of them looks even a bit Greek.. :/
Sometimes I think you stereotype your own nation, Mena. Voula Papachristou is 100% Greek and looks more like Jennifer Aniston than she does Antonio Banderas. It’s like when people say everyone in Spain looks like Antonio Banderas when a lot of them actually look like Gerard Pique, Xabi Alonso, Sergio Canales, Fernando Torres, Helen Lindes, and the like.
I believe Mena Suvari is Greek, Estonian, and English, and Zach Galifianakis is Greek and Irish. So neither one are just Greek. They are of other ethnic groups as well. I don’t know who says they are just Greek. They are mixed among ethnic groups.
Its like they say Halle Berry is African American where in reality she is and looks like shes mixed..
Nasty.
She reminds me of Angie Harmon.