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Rose in 2007, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Shiva Rose Afshar
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: February 8, 1969
Ethnicity: * father – Iranian * mother – English, one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Welsh
Shiva Rose is an American actress, activist, and blogger. She owns a natural beauty product line. She has also been billed as Shiva Rose McDermott.
Shiva is the daughter of Carol June and Parviz Gharib-Afshar. Her father is Iranian. Her mother has English, one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry.
She has two children with her former husband, actor Dylan McDermott .
Shiva’s maternal grandfather was Glenn Fred Ward (the son of Fred Lorenzo Ward and Lillie Agnes March). Glenn was born in Illinois. Shiva’s great-grandfather Fred was born in Illinois, the son of Lorenzo Dow Ward and Ruth E. Dean. Lillie was born in Illinois, the daughter of Horatio Arnold March and Rachel Elizabeth Wood.
Shiva’s maternal grandmother was Rose Marie/Rosamarie Beerman/Beermann (the daughter of Gustave/Gustav W. Beerman and Mary Edith Griffeth/Griffith/Griffiths). Rose was born in California. Gustave was born in California, the son of Jewish emigrants, Adolph/Adolf Beermann, from Schweringen, Lower Saxony, Germany, and Rosalie Weisskopf, who was born in Kassejowitz, Bohemia. Shiva’s great-grandmother Edith was born in Montana, the daughter of John T. Griffiths, who was Welsh; and of Sarah Clementine Prickett, who was from Iowa.
Sources: Genealogy of Shiva’s maternal grandmother, Rose Marie/Rosamarie Beerman/Beermann (focusing on her own father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Shiva’s maternal grandmother, Rose Marie/Rosamarie (Beerman/Beermann) Ward – http://www.legacy.com
Genealogy of Shiva’s maternal great-grandfather, Gustave/Gustav W. Beerman – https://www.findagrave.com
Shiva’s maternal great-grandfather, Gustave/Gustav W. Beerman, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org