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10/27/2017 – O’Reilly – 5th Annual UNICEF Masquerade Ball – Arrivals – Clifton’s Republic Restaurant, 648 S Broadway – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Andrea Mariele Brewster O’Reilly
Place of Birth: San Mateo, California, United States
Date of Birth: September 21, 1984
Ethnicity: English, Irish, smaller amounts of Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, more distant French, German, and Powhatan Native American
Ahna O’Reilly is an American actress. Her roles include the films Nancy Drew (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall , 0s & 1s , From the Head , The Help , The Time Being , Fruitvale Station , Jobs (2013), As I Lay Dying , The Big Ask , CBGB , Lucky Them , Get On Up , She’s Funny That Way , The Sound and the Fury (2014), No Way Jose , Elvis & Nixon , In Dubious Battle , All I See Is You , Sleepwalker , Marshall , Big Bear , Totem (2017), Our Friend , Bombshell (2019), and Where the Crawdads Sing ; and the series Kingdom , The Morning Show , and Bodkin .
Her father is from the British Isles. Her mother was born in Germany after WWII, to American parents. She is married to writer and producer Dave Andron.
Ahna’s paternal grandfather was Dr. Sean M. O’Reilly, MD (the son of James P. O’Reilly and Mary C. Harris). Sean was Irish, born in Killarney, County Kerry.
Ahna’s paternal grandmother was Anne May Hillam (the daughter of Walter Hillam and Margaret McKenna). Anne was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Walter was born in Manningham, Bradford, the son of James Edward Hillam and Annie Shaw Firth. Margaret was the daughter of Francis McKenna and Margaret Nolan, who likely were Irish or had Irish ancestry.
Ahna’s maternal grandfather was William Russell Brewster, Jr. (the son of William Russell Brewster and Leona May Wright). Ahna’s grandfather William was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, and had deep roots in the U.S., especially in Vermont and Massachusetts. Ahna’s great-grandfather William was the son of James Russell Brewster and Jennie Wyman Perkins. Leona was the daughter of Walter Victor Wright and Bertha Augusta Blanchard.
Ahna’s maternal grandmother was Harriet/Harriett Overton Bullitt (the daughter of Alexander Scott Bullitt and Dorothy Frances Stimson). Harriet was born in Seattle, Washington, to a prominent family with deep roots in the U.S., and had English, along with Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and more distant French, German, and Powhatan Native American, ancestry. Harriet was a well-known conservationist and philanthropist in the northwest. Alexander was the son of Thomas Walker Bullitt and Annie Priscilla Logan. Dorothy was a broadcasting pioneer who founded KING Broadcasting. She was the daughter of Charles Douglas “C.D.” Stimson, who owned Seattle’s largest sawmill, and whose father was born in Ontario, Canada, to American parents; and of Harriet Mary Overton.
Sources: Genealogy of Ahna’s father – https://www.familysearch.org
Ahna’s mother on the 1950 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Ahna’s maternal grandmother, Harriet Overton (Bullitt) Brewster – https://www.king5.com