World-famous Hollywood actresses with Hungarian ancestors! – PHOTOS
Ema Horvath
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
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
Her father was Spanish. Her mother was Romanian; however, the actress took her name in honour of her Hungarian grandmother.
Rachel Weisz
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
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
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
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
Besides African and Indian ancestors, the beautiful Hollywood celebrity has Hungarian Hungarian ascending line as well – Jessica’s father is Hungarian.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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
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
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