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Corrin in 2019, photo by DFree /www.bigstockphoto.com/
Birth Name: Emma-Louise Corrin
Place of Birth: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 13 December, 1995
Ethnicity: English, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, Manx, Dutch, German, around 1/64th Italian, remote Belgian Flemish, Spanish, and Sephardi Jewish
Emma Corrin is an English actor. Among Emma’s roles are the series Pennyworth , The Crown , Ten Percent , A Murder at the End of the World , and Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie , and the films Misbehaviour , Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022), My Policeman , Deadpool & Wolverine , Nosferatu (2024), and 100 Nights of Hero ; as well as stage performances.
Emma’s parents are Juliette, a speech therapist, and Chris Corrin, a businessperson. Emma’s mother is from South Africa.
Emma’s paternal grandfather was Eric Stanley Corrin (the son of James Corrin and Minnie Gunn). Eric was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. James was born on Ballasalla, Isle of Man, the son of James Corrin and Margaret Kermode. Minnie was born in Liverpool, the daughter of William Gunn, who was from Inverness, Scotland; and of Sarah Mansell, who was from Shropshire.
Emma’s paternal grandmother was Hazel A. Daukes (the daughter of Wilfred Hicks Daukes and Cecile Nelly Paulus/van Pauwvliet). Hazel was born in Weymouth, Dorset, England. Wilfred was the son of The Rev. Samuel Whitfield Daukes and Lydia Hicks Peek. Emma’s great-grandmother Cecile was born in Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, the daughter of Josiah Paulus van Pauwvliet, who had small amounts of Belgian Flemish, Spanish, and Sephardi Jewish, ancestry; and of Cecile Arnoldine Carp, whose father was from Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Emma’s maternal grandfather was Edward Henry Robert “Bob” Womersley (the son of John Samuel Womersley and Mary Ellen Boyle). Edward was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, to parents from England. John was the son of Pelham Bertwhistle/Birtwhistle Womersley and Charlotte Stollery Cayzer. Mary Ellen was the daughter of Sydney Cuthbert Boyle and Ellen.
Emma’s maternal grandmother was Rosemary Joan Sibbald (the daughter of Dr. Douglas William Sibbald and Silvia Emilia Trillia). Rosemary was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Douglas was born in Mulgrave Street, Wellington, New Zealand, the son of William Robert Fraser Sibbald, who was from Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; and of Joanna Flanagan, who was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, to Irish parents, with roots in Birr, Offaly. Emma’s great-grandmother Silvia was born in Buenos Aires, the daughter of Robert Fessey/Fessy Trillia, who appears to have been of one quarter Italian and three quarters British Isles descent; and of Helen/Elena “Chulita” Nicholson, whose own father, Henry Richard Nicholson, was from Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh, Ireland, and whose own mother, Mary/Maria Potash, was born on Gibraltar. Mary’s father, Francis Potash, was from Oradea, then Hungary, now Romania.
Sources: https://twitter.com
Genealogy of Emma’s maternal great-grandmother, Silvia Emilia Trillia – https://www.eayrs.com