World-famous Hollywood actresses with Hungarian ancestors! – PHOTOS

Ema Horvath

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The beautiful Hollywood actress is starring in Lord Of The Rings TV series. The ‘th’ ending of Ema’s surname can be considered as a giveaway, revealing that she has Hungarian blood running through her veins.

Mariska Hargitay

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The world-famous Hollywood actress – starring in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – is among the highest-paid actresses. Few may know that Mariska Hargitay is half of the Hungarian origin – her father, Miklós Hargitay was born in Budapest. Later on, he emigrated to the USA to build his career as a bodybuilder. In 1955, he won the Mr Universe title.

Elsa Pataky

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Her father was Spanish. Her mother was Romanian; however, the actress took her name in honour of her Hungarian grandmother.

Rachel Weisz

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Rachel Weisz, the world-famous Hollywood actress, is semi-Hungarian: her father György Weisz was a Hungarian engineer and inventor. In 1938, the family emigrated and later settled down in Great Britain where Rachel was born in 1970.

Drew Barrymore

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Few may know that one of Charlie’s Angels also has a Hungarian ancestor – Drew Berrymore’s mother, Ildikó Makó is Hungarian.

Goldie Hawn & Kate Hudson

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Both mother and daughter have Hungarian blood running through their veins – Hawn’s mother, Laura Steinhoff was born in Hungary and emigrated to the USA before the Second World War. Goldie Hawn was born in Washington in 1945.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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The world-famous actress of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has two Hungarian ancestors – her great-great-grandfather was born in the Hungarian settlement Sátoraljaújhely, while her great-great-grandfather in Tiszabercel.

Jessica Szohr

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Besides African and Indian ancestors, the beautiful Hollywood celebrity has Hungarian Hungarian ascending line as well – Jessica’s father is Hungarian.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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Her father, the legendary Tony Curtis was semi-Hungarian; as a child, Tony communicated only in Hungarian, as her father (grandfather of Jamie Lee Curtis) was Hungarian.

Mayim Bialik

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According to the Hungarian news portal Origo, the world-famous actress known from The Big Bang Theory, also has a Hungarian ascending line – one of her grandparents was Hungarian, who later emigrated to the USA. Mayim Bialik was born in San Diego.

Julianna Margulies

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The American actress (starring in The Good Wife) and producer also has European ascending lines – her grandparents emigrated to the USA from Hungary, Austria, Romania and Italy.

Source: origo.hu