World celebrities with Ukrainian roots
'29.08.2017'
ForumDaily Woman
All these names have long been known. These are talented people - actors, writers and directors. But how far they really come from is not known to everyone.
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich is an American actress of Russian-Serbian origin, musician, model and fashion designer. Milla was born in Kiev in 1975, grew up in Russia, in Moscow until the age of 5, and then the whole family moved to London.
Recently Milla admitted that she calls her younger daughter Dashiel at home simply Dasha, in the Slavic manner.
Despite the origin, Jovovich does not consider himself a Ukrainian, although she supported her compatriots during the Euromaidan period.
The actress told me that she loves music, drawing, and is interested in art history. He also likes to cook, in America he buys Russian products and, “like all Russian women,” spends a lot of time in the kitchen.
Sylvester Stallone
Stallone was born in New York in 1946. His father was an immigrant from Sicily, and his mother, Jacqueline, was the daughter of the famous Washington attorney John Paul Leibofish. Not so long ago, Jacqueline was restoring her family tree and found out that her mother and father, Leibovich, had come to America from Odessa shortly before Jacqueline was born. In Odessa, they were wealthy and respected people.
Olga Kurilenko
Olya was born in Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, in 1979 year. Olga's mom has Russian-Belarusian roots. Kurilenko moved to France in 16 years after graduation.
Her fate is like the story of Cinderella. A scout from a European modeling agency approached the girl on the street and offered to take part in the tests. From this began her modeling career.
In 2006, she played in the film “Paris, I love you!”, Which brought her fame.
After marriage with a French photographer, Olga changed her citizenship.
David Duchovny
David William Duchovny was born on 7 August 1960, in New York, USA. His mother, Margaret, an immigrant from Aberdeen, UK, taught at a school for people in the poorer parts of Manhattan.
Father, Amram Duchovny, a native of Brooklyn from a family of Jewish immigrants, a publicist, playwright, author of several books, including an autobiographical novel.
Father’s grandfather, Moyshe Dukhovny, emigrated to the USA from Berdichev in 1918, was a journalist and a permanent employee of the daily Morgan Magazine published in New York in Yiddish, the grandmother emigrated from the Russian part of Poland.
The well-known “Agent Mulder” recently learned that he is an ethnic Ukrainian. For David, this information was a revelation.
“I grew up thinking that I was Russian, but only now I realized that in fact I was Ukrainian. It's never too late to change, ”he wrote on his Twitter.
Serge Gainsbourg
Serge is a French poet, composer, songwriter, actor, film director and screenwriter. Lucien Iosifovich Ginzburg was born on April 2, 1928 in Paris.
His father, uncle, grandfather and his other paternal relatives lived in Feodosia. Father - Joseph Karlovich Ginsburg pianist and composer, graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in composition class, was born in Kharkov.
Mother, Olga Borisovna Besman - chamber singer, also studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. She came from a family of baptized Jews, lived in St. Petersburg, although she was born in Feodosia, in the Crimea.
Lucien and his sister Liliana were born already in Paris. Over time, Lucien changed his name, becoming Serge. His songs and image as a whole will be a landmark for the entire generation of 60-70-x.
Чак Паланик
Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer and freelance journalist.
Grandfather Palanick was a Ukrainian who emigrated to the United States via Canada and settled in New York in 1907. Chuck himself has not visited Ukraine yet, although his brother lives there.
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein is a French theater and film actor, director, producer, artistic director of the Marigny Theater. He became famous for his role as Joffrey de Peyrac in films about Angelica.
Robert Hossein was born in Paris to a musical family. His father, violinist and composer Andre Ossein, of Azerbaijani (by father) and Iranian (by mother) origin, was from Samarkand.
Before World War I, Andre Ossein studied for some time in Moscow, in 1921, he went to Germany, where he studied at the Stuttgart and Berlin Conservatories, having adopted Zoroastrianism.
In Germany, he met a pianist and comedian theater actress Anna Minkowska of Jewish origin and a native of Forty (Bessarabian province).
After the wedding in 1925, the couple settled in Paris. Thanks to his mother Ossein knew Russian and married the daughter of immigrants Marina Vlady.
Leonardo DiCaprio
American actor and producer was born in Los Angeles in 1974 year. Father has half Italian roots, half German.
The mother was born in West German Or-Erkenshvik in a bomb shelter with the German Wilhelm Indenbirken and Russian émigré Helena Indenbirken (nee Elena Stepanovna Smirnova), who after the October Revolution was taken by parents to Germany. In 1955, Wilhelm and Helena emigrated to the United States.
The parents called their son Leonardo, because this name was in harmony with the surname. But in memory of the German grandfather, the boy was given a second name - Wilhelm.
