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Birth Name: Elizabeth Joanna Robertson
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: March 27, 1970
Ethnicity: * mother – English, one quarter Norwegian, one eighth Scottish, one eighth Swedish, 1/64 Welsh
Elizabeth Mitchell is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films Frequency , Nurse Betty , The Santa Clause 2 , and its sequel, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause , Running Scared (2006), Answers to Nothing , The Purge: Election Year , and Queen Bees ; on the series ER , Lost , V , Revolution , Once Upon a Time , Dead of Summer , The Expanse , Outer Banks , and The Santa Clauses , and in the made-for-tv movie Gia .
She was raised mostly in Dallas, Texas, by her mother, Josephine, and stepfather, Joseph Day Mitchell, who adopted her, both of whom are lawyers. Elizabeth has a son with her former husband, improvisation actor Chris Soldevilla.
Elizabeth’s maternal grandfather was Joseph Alton Jenkins (the son of Joseph Jenkins and Bessie Pearl Iverson). Joseph was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Elizabeth’s great-grandfather Joseph was the son of John Laird Jenkins, a Scottish emigrant, from Shieldhill, and of Emma Louisa Taylor, an English emigrant, from Faston Ash, Gloucestershire, who was also of one eighth Welsh ancestry. Bessie was the daughter of Norwegian emigrants, Andrew Iverson, from Lunner, Opland, and Julia Matilda Olsen, from Christiania, Akershus.
Elizabeth’s maternal grandmother was Bette Josephine Everett (the daughter of Joseph Alma Freestone Everett and Josephine Monson Morris). Bette was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joseph was the son of English emigrants, from Suffolk, George Everett, from Mendham, and Emma Freestone, from Saint Cross. Josephine was the daughter of Robert Morris, an English emigrant, from Barrowden, Rutlandshire, and of Cicilia Maria “Mary” Monson, a Swedish emigrant, from Svanhalla, Blekinge.