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Christina Cox – No Kill L.A. Charity Event for Pets at Fred Segal Cafe in West Hollywood on April 2, 2013 – Fred Segal Mauro Cafe – West Hollywood, CA, USA – Keywords: Orientation: Portrait Face Count: 1 – False – Photo Credit: Glenn Francis / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: July 31, 1971
Ethnicity: * father – English, German, Irish, Cornish, Northern Irish, Scottish, Dutch * mother – Jamaican
Christina Cox is a Canadian film and television actress and stuntperson.
Her father was an automotive executive. Her parents are pictured here . Christina is married to football player and television personality Grant Mattos, with whom she has a daughter.
She is of half Jamaican ancestry. She has also said :
It’s just that I’m Canadian, and it’s more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here. I also don’t have a face that lends itself to period pieces because I’m ethnically diverse. You go back as little as a hundred years ago and you were Scottish, or Scottish and Irish maybe. You weren’t Indo-Caribbean-Japanese-African-Latino. It’s just not something that came up and if it did, it was pretty rare. Now if you’re ethnically diverse, it serves you better to just be a human being. It’s all moving that way, anyway.
It’s just that I’m Canadian, and it’s more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here. I also don’t have a face that lends itself to period pieces because I’m ethnically diverse. You go back as little as a hundred years ago and you were Scottish, or Scottish and Irish maybe. You weren’t Indo-Caribbean-Japanese-African-Latino. It’s just not something that came up and if it did, it was pretty rare. Now if you’re ethnically diverse, it serves you better to just be a human being. It’s all moving that way, anyway.
Christina’s paternal grandfather was Clarence Louis “Fliv” Cox (the son of Albert Francis Cox and Ethel Blanche Pingle). Albert was the son of English parents, David Cox, from Oxfordshire, and Mary Clapton, from North Leigh, Oxford. Ethel was the daughter of Thomas Cadwell Pingle, who was of German descent, and of Ann Francis Burton, who had English ancestry.
Christina’s paternal grandmother was Helen Anna Darch (the daughter of Albert Leslie Darch and Florence Emeline Dineen). Albert was the son of David Darch, who was the son of a Cornish father and an Irish mother; and of Mabel Ann Fletcher, who was the daughter of a Canadian father, with Scottish, English, and Dutch ancestry, and of an Irish Protestant mother, from County Cavan. Christina’s great-grandmother Florence was born in Illinois, U.S., to a Canadian father, John Dineen, whose parents were Irish; and to an American mother, Anna Ernestine Auguste Lisette Henriette Stöwsand, whose parents were German.
Christina’s maternal grandfather’s surname was McNamee.
Sources: https://mobile.twitter.com
Obituary of Christina’s father – https://www.dignitymemorial.com
Genealogies of Christina’s paternal grandparents, Clarence Louis “Fliv” Cox and Helen Anna (Darch) Cox – https://www.findagrave.com