Tatiana Maslany
Maslany in 2011, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Tatiana Gabriele Maslany
Place of Birth: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date of Birth: September 22, 1985
Ethnicity: Ukrainian, German, Austrian, Polish, Romanian
Tatiana Maslany is a Canadian actress and producer. Her roles include the series Orphan Black and the films Two Lovers and a Bear, Destroyer, Stronger, and The Vow.
Her first language is German, and she learned French in elementary school. Her brother, Daniel Maslany, is also an actor, as well as a producer and composer. She is married to American actor and singer Brendan Hines.
Tatiana’s paternal grandfather was named Joseph Maslany. Joseph was born in Zahutyn. He was an ethnic Ukrainian. He came to Canada in the late 1940s.
Tatiana’s paternal grandmother was named Gabriele Josephine Altenhoff (the daughter of Josephine). Gabriele was born in Neuötting, Bavaria, Germany.
Tatiana’s maternal grandfather is named Josef/Joe Kratz. Josef was from Germany.
Tatiana’s maternal grandmother is named Irma Anna Hanowski (the daughter of Josef Hanowski and Maria). Irma was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Sources: Obituary of Tatiana’s paternal grandfather, Joseph Maslany – https://www.newspapers.com
Obituary of Tatiana’s maternal grandmother, Irma Anna (Hanowski) Kratz – https://leaderpost.remembering.ca
Correction.
Please change learnt to learned. Technically learnt can be used, but to my American ear, it sounds like uneducated drivel.
lol, they are not hear to cater to your personal tastes concerning the English language. “Learnt” is entirely grammatical in British English. I honestly can’t believe you posted this.
It’s “learnt” the correct version.
Regardless, my request was accommodated.
Americans calling anyone uneducated, now that cracks a chuckle
@notreally, America is a great country regardless of what haters like you think. Why don’t you chuckle about how many people want to become Americans if we are so awful
Mexicans and other latin-Americans from 3rd world countries who neighbour the US (latin-America as a whole I mean), want to become Americans, woah man, colour me surprised.
I wonder how many people from developed countries want to become Americans, in most cases their quality of life would simply lower to varying degrees so….cope harder
I just said it’s funny how an American, a country in which people are not particularly well educated at large, wuld call someone uneducated, but hey, there’s that for you.
It is no more right than “learned.” It’s just that it’s also not more correct. English doesn’t have an academy or any such thing.
It’s petty and nonsensical to not only ask for it to be changed, but call another version of the word – from the people who invented the language, no less – “uneducated drivel.”
I can’t imagine someone of the gentry saying turnt, it sounds like something someone with a cockney accent would say, ie uneducated. It’s just my perception, most likely incorrect, but it doesn’t matter. Ethnicelebs is an American website and my request was accommodated. At least one of the moderators seems to agree with me.
There’s tens of thousands of English words that are considered obsolete these days. Turnt should be among them, in my opinion.
Whoops, learnt*.
Excuse me, but who the f%ck cares what the “gentry” has to say anymore than what anyone else has to say?
“Learnt” is neither grammatically incorrect nor is it archaic. Just because your world is narrow doesn’t make it so.
The word was changed. Apparently my opinion and the preferred American spelling trumped the British version, at least in the eyes of Ethnic or Follers, or another moderator that may be unknown to myself. Either way, the narrow views of Americans won a very very trivial issue. Go USA.
Ps learnt still sounds incorrect regardless of validity.
“You like potayto, I like potahto; you like tomayto, I like tomahto; potayto, potahto, tomayto, tomahto, let’s call the whole thing off!”
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68341251/obituary-for-joseph-maslany-1920-2003/
Tatiana’s paternal grandfather was named Joseph Maslany. Joseph was born in Zahutyn*.
*the obituary says Ukraine, but I’m pretty sure it’s the Ukrainian village Zahutyn in Poland.
Tatiana’s paternal grandmother was Gabriele Josephine Altenhoff (the daughter of Josephine). Gabriele was born in Neuötting, Bavaria, Germany.
Tatiana’s maternal grandfather is named Josef Kratz.
Tatiana’s maternal grandmother is named Irma.
Is she mostly German then?
Yes. Her maternal uncle has a few pictures of her grandparents on instagram and they’re tagged with #germany and #german. I suspect both of them might be immigrants.
Her brother, Daniel Maslany, is also an actor
I’m almost certain her paternal grandparents were Joseph Maslany and Gabriele Josephine.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149940363
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149940335/gabriele-josephine-maslany
They are buried in Regina, and Tatiana’s middle name is Gabriele.
correction; her eyes are green and her hair is dark brown (brunette)