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Birth Name: Mette Cathryn Gooder Towley
Place of Birth: Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States
Date of Birth: May 31, 1991
Ethnicity: * father – Swedish (five eighths), one quarter British Isles [English, Irish], approx. one eighth Norwegian, remote German * mother – African-American
Mette Towley is an American dancer, actress, and singer. Her roles include the films Hustlers , Cats (2019), The Old Guard , and Barbie (2023). She is also known as METTE and Mette Narrative.
Her father is an engineer and her mother is an accountant. Her father is white. Her mother is black. She was raised in Severn, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia.
Mette’s paternal grandfather was Carl Kahrs Mattson Towley (the son of Carl Kahrs Towley and Violet E. C. Mattson). Mette’s grandfather Carl was born in Minnesota. Mette’s great-grandfather Carl was born in Minnesota, the son of Gabriel Heiberg Towley, whose parents were Norwegian, and whose mother also had partial roots in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany; and of Victoria I. Almen, whose parents were Swedish. Mette’s great-grandmother Violet was born in Minnesota, the daughter of Peter August Mattson, who was Swedish, and of Emma Anna Olson, whose parents were Swedish.
Mette’s paternal grandmother was Carolyn Marie “Care” Gooder (the daughter of Alfred Leonard Gooder and Edna Johnson). Carolyn was born in Minnesota. Alfred was born in Iowa, the son of Nimrod Gooder, whose parents were English, and of Elizabeth A. Burns, whose parents were Irish. Edna was born in Minnesota, to Swedish parents, Andrew Johnson and Charlotte Peterson.
Sources: http://twincities.com
Obituary of Mette’s paternal grandfather, Carl Kahrs Mattson Towley – http://legacy.com
Obituary of Mette’s paternal grandmother, Carolyn Marie “Care” (Gooder) Towley – http://inforum.com