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Traya in 2005, photo by Starfrenzy /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Misti D. Traya
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 23, 1981
Ethnicity: * father – Filipino, Japanese * mother – English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Misti Traya is an American actress. Her roles include the series Joan of Arcadia , Huff , Living with Fran , and Getting Away with Murder , and the films In the Mix , Material Girls , and War Eagle, Arkansas .
She is the daughter of actress Kiersten Warren, who is from Creston, Iowa. Misti’s stepfather is actor Kirk Acevedo . She is married, and has two children.
Misti’s paternal grandfather was Melvin Traya (the son of Marcello/Marcelio Maxie Traya and Lillian Lizares). Melvin was born in Lahaina, Hawaii. Marcello was born in the Philippines, the son of Valentine Traya and Claudia Remiticado. Lillian was born in Lahaina, the daughter of Filipino parents, Vicente Lizares and Theodora/Teadora Laiba/Liba.
Misti’s paternal grandmother was Linda Kamisato (the daughter of Kaijiro Kamisato and Kameko Kaneshiro). Linda was born in Hawaii, to Japanese parents.
Misti’s maternal grandfather was The Rev. James Dennis “Jim” Warren (the son of Herman Charles Warren and Evelyn Frances Shepard). Herman was the son of Elijah Ellis Warren and Nancy Etta Boatwright. Evelyn was the daughter of Espy Arden Shepard and Jennie Dora Ahlberg, whose own parents were Swedish.
Misti’s maternal grandmother was Helen C. Sorensen (the daughter of Chris Krogsgaard Sorensen and Inez Theodora Ostebee). Misti’s great-grandfather Chris was the son of George/Jorgen J. Sorensen, who was Danish, and of Anna Katrina Willesen, whose parents were also Danish. Inez was the daughter of Lars Ostebee, who was Norwegian, and of Charlotte Nelson, whose father and maternal grandparents were Norwegian.
Sources: Obituary of Misti’s maternal grandfather, The Rev. James Dennis “Jim” Warren – https://www.ancestry.co.uk
Misti’s maternal great-grandmother, Evelyn Frances Shepard, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org Evelyn Frances Shepard on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Misti’s maternal great-grandmother, Inez Theodora Ostebee – http://iagenweb.org