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Carradine in 2011, pic by Prphotos
Birth Name: Sorel Johannah Carradine
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: June 18, 1985
Ethnicity: Polish (maternal grandmother), German, English, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/16th Danish, small amounts of Irish, Scottish, Swiss-German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, and Dutch, remote French
Sorel Carradine is an American actress. Her roles include the films The Good Doctor (2011), Nesting (2012), The Happy Sad , and Paper Tiger ; and the show Marvel’s Runaways .
She is the daughter of actress Sandra Will Carradine and actor, singer, and songwriter Keith Carradine. She is a half-sister of actress, singer, and model Martha Plimpton , a granddaughter of actors John Carradine and Sonia Sorel, a niece of actors Christopher Carradine and Robert Carradine , a half-niece of actors David Carradine and Michael Bowen , a cousin of actress Ever Carradine , who is Robert’s daughter; and a half-cousin of actress Kansas Carradine , who is David’s daughter.
Her father has English, Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, German, Swiss-German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. Her mother has Polish, as well as German, some Scots-Irish/Northern Irish and English, and distant Swiss-German, ancestry.
She is married to Polish-British film director and screenwriter Paul Kowalski, with whom she has one child.
Sorel’s paternal grandfather was John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine, the son of William Reed Carradine and Genevieve Winifred Richmond). John was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, and had English, some Irish and Scottish, and distant Welsh, German, and French, ancestry. William was born in Mississippi, and was a correspondent for the Associated Press. His father, The Rev. Beverly Francis Carradine, was a Methodist minister, author, and leading evangelist for the holiness movement, whose own father was planter. William’s mother, Sorel’s great-great-grandmother, was Laura Green Reid/Reed. Sorel’s great-grandmother Genevieve was born in Milford, Otsego County, New York, and was a surgeon. She was the daughter of Horace Culver Richmond and Winifred/Winnie Ryan, whose own parents were Irish.
Sorel’s paternal grandmother was Sonia Sorel, an actress (the daughter of Henry Robert Henius and Lillian Dorothy Fuess). Sonia was born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin. Henry was born in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, to Danish-born parents. Henry’s father, Max Henius, was a prominent biochemist, who specialized in the fermentation processes, and co-founded the American Academy of Brewing, in Chicago. He was a Danish Jew, who was born in Aalborg, to Polish Jewish parents, with roots in Torun. Henry’s mother, Sorel’s great-great-grandmother Johanne/Johanna Louise “Henne” Heiberg, was born in Nørresundby, Aalborg Kommune, Nordjylland. Through her Henius line, Sorel is a second cousin, twice removed, of Danish writer, novelist, poet, and journalist Suzanne Brøgger. Sorel’s great-grandmother Lillian was born in Belleville, St. Clair, Illinois, the daughter of Capt. Joseph Fuess, who was German, from Baden-Württemberg, and was President of the First National Bank of Belleville, and of the Fuess-Fischer Company; and of Anna Fischer, whose father was from Tirol, Austria, and whose mother was from Niederstocken, Verwaltungskreis Thun, Bern.
Sorel’s maternal grandfather was John Will (the son of John H. Will and Hortense Schrock). Sorel’s grandfather John was born in Indiana, and had German, some Scots-Irish/Northern Irish and English, and distant Swiss-German ancestry. Sorel’s great-grandfather John was the son of Weldon Will and Anna Elizabeth Clugston. Hortense was the daughter of Henry W. Schrock and Carrie J. Wolf.
Sorel’s maternal grandmother was Alice P. Strojek (the daughter of Peter Strojek and Helen Jaworska). Alice was born in Illinois, to Polish parents. Helen was the daughter of Leon Wojciech Jaworski and Władysława Paulina Bojkowska.
The surname Carradine is sometimes said to have an Italian or Spanish origin. Sorel’s last traceable patrilineal ancestor is believed to have been a man named Parker Carradine, who was born in Georgia, in North America, c. 1755. There is no evidence that Parker had Italian or Spanish ancestry.
Sources: Genealogies of Sorel Carradine (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com https://www.wikitree.com
Genealogies of Sorel’s father – http://famouskin.com http://www.familytreecircles.com http://www.findagrave.com
Sorel’s paternal great-grandmother, Lillian Dorothy Fuess, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Sorel’s paternal great-great-grandparents, Joseph Fuess and Anna Fischer – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Sorel’s maternal grandfather, John Will – https://www.familysearch.org
Sorel’s maternal grandmother, Alice P. Strojek, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org