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HOLLYWOOD – AUGUST 27: Holly at the TV Guide Emmy After Party, August 27, 2006, in Social, Hollywood, CA. s_bukley /bigstock.com
Birth Name: Lauren Michael Holly
Place of Birth: Bristol, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 28, 1963
Ethnicity: English, one eighth Danish, Latvian, Scottish, Irish, Cornish, German, distant French and Welsh
Lauren Holly is an American actress. Her roles include the films Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story , Dumb and Dumber , Beautiful Girls , and What Women Want , and the shows Picket Fences , NCIS , and Motive .
Her father, Grant Innes Holly, is a screenwriter and a professor of literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her mother, Michael Ann Holly, is an art historian, who was the Starr Director of Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and a professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She was raised in Geneva, New York.
She has three children, who are adopted, with her former husband, Canadian investment banker Francis Greco. Lauren acquired Canadian citizenship while married to Francis.
Lauren’s paternal grandfather was Grant Wilson Holly (the son of Grant Brooker Holly and Ellen Margareth Lytthans). Lauren’s grandfather Grant was born in New York. Lauren’s great-grandfather Grant was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Grant Holly and Augusta Emily Brooker, and had deep roots in the U.S. Ellen was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Danish emigrants, Harry Emil Lytthans, from Copenhagen, and Annie Grashoff. Harry’s paternal grandmother was born on St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
Lauren’s paternal grandmother was Marjorie Ingram Innes (the daughter of Walter Ingram Innes and Doris Landsborough Fraser). Marjorie was born in Staten Island, New York. Walter was a Scottish emigrant, from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, and was the son of William Paterson Innes and Margaret Clark Grant. Lauren’s great-grandmother Doris was an emigrant, from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, and was the daughter of Samuel Fraser and Emma Grant Warren. Doris had English, Scottish, Irish, and Cornish ancestry.
Lauren’s maternal grandfather was Merwin Henry Ward, Jr. (the son of Merwin Henry Ward and Eda Danberg Ahrgal). Lauren’s grandfather Merwin was born in Alton, Illinois. Lauren’s great-grandfather Merwin was born in Lewiston, Maine, the son of Albert Henry Ward, whose parents were English, and Allie Retta Libby, whose parents were from Maine. Lauren’s great-grandmother Eda was an emigrant from Valmiera, Latvia, then the Soviet Union, and was the daughter of Daniel Ahrgal/Ārgals and May Danberg, who was from “Roujene,” Russia.
Lauren’s maternal grandmother was Peggy Jane Sober (the daughter of Harry Reed Sober and Mary Katherine Henderson). Peggy was born in Louisiana, Missouri, and had deep lines in America. Harry was born in Grant City, Missouri, the son of William Reed Sober and Odessa Mary Walton, whose maternal grandfather was a minister. Mary Katherine was born in Pike, Missouri, the daughter of Joseph Calvin Henderson and Nonie Belle Williams.
Source: Genealogy of Lauren Holly (through her brother) – https://www.familysearch.org