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Sandra Bullock:
Her mother (Helga Meyer) was an opera singer & voice teacher from Germany.
Her Father was in charge of Army Military Postal Service, stationed in Nuremberg, later he worked at the Pentagon.
Tony Goldwyn - Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. One of his maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maryland Governor and Senator William Thomas Hamilton.
A biography published in 1990 alleged that family members' "recent disclosures... indicate" that Sanders' father was the out-of-wedlock son of a Russian noblewoman of the Tsar's court, and a prince of the House of Oldenburg who was married to a sister of the Tsar.[4] At the time of Henry Sanders's birth, the Anglo-Russian Sanders family were living at Saint Petersburg; the mother, Dagmar, was a lady-in-waiting to the Dowager Empress, and it was said to be through this connection Henry came to be adopted by the Sanders family.[5]
In 1917, at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, Sanders and his family moved to Great Britain.[6][7] Like his brother, he attended Bedales School and Brighton College, a boys' independent school in Brighton, then went on to Manchester Technical College, after which he worked in textile research.[8][9]
Sanders travelled to South America, where he managed a tobacco plantation. The Depression sent him back to Britain. He worked at an advertising agency, where the company secretary, aspiring actress Greer Garson, suggested that he take up a career in acting
Her origin is very interesting. She was born in the Belgian city of Brussels, her mother being the Dutch baroness Ella van Heemstra. Her mother’s family therefore belonged to the Dutch aristocracy, and her mother’s father, Baron van Heemstra, was governor of the Suriname colony in South America.
Audrey’s father was of English descent, but was born in the Bohemia. Allegedly he was descended from James Hepburn, husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Due to her multi-ethnic origin, Audrey had a great talent for languages ​​and had no problem speaking English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Francis began dealing in art in New York City for a wealthy uncle by marriage, Stephen Howard Young,[2][3] later, a friend of Dwight Eisenhower after World War II.[4]
Taylor married stage actress Sara Sothern (whose real name was Sara Viola Warmbrodt and who was also from Arkansas City) in 1926 in New York.[2]
They were the parents of Howard Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor.
Within a few years of his marriage, Taylor was transferred to Young's art gallery in London, England, where he and Sara lived for several years, and where their children were born. In April 1939, five months before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, they returned to the United States.
Taylor later ran an art gallery at The Beverly Hills Hotel in California.[5]
He died at age 70 in Los Angeles, California. He is interred beside his widow in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles.
Their family cemetery, The Sedgwick Pie, has its own Wikipedia entry.
Kevin Bacon (Kyra’s husband….and also her ninth cousin….although I don’t think they knew that until after they were married)………his father Edward Bacon was a well known urban planner, the Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, and authored the noted Design of Cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Bacon_(architect)
Edward Norton is also from a prominent family dealing with architecture, development, and planning. His maternal grandfather, James Rouse, founded The Rouse Company (which was a public company for 46 years) and he left after 28 years to nurture his non profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rouse
Their family cemetery, The Sedgwick Pie, has its own Wikipedia entry.
Kevin Bacon (Kyra’s husband….and also her ninth cousin….although I don’t think they knew that until after they were married)………his father Edward Bacon was a well known urban planner, the Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, and authored the noted Design of Cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Bacon_(architect)
Edward Norton is also from a prominent family dealing with architecture, development, and planning. His maternal grandfather, James Rouse, founded The Rouse Company (which was a public company for 46 years) and he left after 28 years to nurture his non profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rouse
Mia Farrow - Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow was born February 9, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, the third child and eldest daughter of Australian film director John Farrow and his second wife, the Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She is one of seven children, with older brothers Michael Damien, Patrick, younger brother John Charles, and younger sisters Prudence, Stephanie, and Tisa. Her godparents were director George Cukor and columnist Louella Parsons.
Joan Fontaine/Olivia de Havilland - born in Tokyo City, in the then Empire of Japan to English parents. Their father, Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), was educated at the University of Cambridge and served as an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo before becoming a patent attorney. Their mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse de Havilland Fontaine (1886–1975), was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a stage actress who left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband. Their mother returned to work with the stage name "Lillian Fontaine" after Joan and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland achieved prominence in the 1940s. Joan's paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), an aircraft designer known for the de Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name. Her paternal grandfather, the Reverend Charles Richard de Havilland, was from a family from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands.
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