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Heritage: Academy Award for Best Actress Clear all

Helen Hunt

Actor

*75% English *25% Ashkenazi Jewish

Culver City, Los Angeles, California, United States

Helen Mirren

Actor

Father: Russian · Mother: English

Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.

Hilary Swank

Actor

one quarter Mexican [Spanish and Indigenous], as well as English and German, and smaller amounts of Swiss-German, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, and Dutch

Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.

Holly Hunter

Actor

English, as well as Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, German, and Swiss-German

Conyers, Georgia, U.S.

Ingrid Bergman

Actor

Swedish, German

Stockholm, Sweden

Jane Fonda

Actor · TV Personality · Model

Dutch, English, Scottish, French-Canadian, around 1/64th Italian, smalls amount of German and Belgian [Flemish], remote Norwegian and Cornish

New York City, New York, U.S.

Jane Wyman

Actor · Musician

English, Scottish, some Irish, distant Welsh and French

Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, U.S.

Janet Gaynor

Actor

Father: Irish, English · Mother: German

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Jennifer Jones

Actor

English, small amounts of Welsh, Scottish, and German

Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.

Jennifer Lawrence

Actor

English, German, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, distant Welsh, remote French and Swiss-German

Indian Hills, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States

Jessica Chastain

Actor

Mother: English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, Dutch, German * likely biological father – Basque, Castilian/Spanish, Greek, English, and German

Sacramento, California, United States