Stars with Slavic roots: Anderson, Kunis and other artists with a Russian soul

The actress is closely associated with the image of the Californian: burnt hair, a snow-white smile, tanned skin, a toned figure and a deep neckline. However, the “typically American” Pam has Russian roots. Her great-grandfather Juho Hyytiyainen left Finland for the United States in 1908, and the celebrity’s great-grandmother was from Russia. She first went to Holland, then to Canada.

By the way, Anderson does not forget about her origin, and Russia beckons beauty: a few years ago, the actress came to Vladivostok for an international conference, where she met with the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Sergei Donskoy. And before her visit to Russia, Pamela wrote letters to President Vladimir Putin asking him to stop poaching.

The daughter of the leader of the Aerosmith group, Stephen Tyler, who somehow pleased Moscow with his concert in honor of City Day, also has Russian roots. True, Liv herself does not remember exactly who left Russia at any given time – great-grandfather or great-grandmother. In any case, the Russian roots made themselves felt: Tyler played the role of sweet Tatyana Larina in the American-British film adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin”.

Natalie was born in Israel, where her parents moved from Chisinau. When the future actress was three years old, the family left for the United States. The celebrity’s maternal ancestors are Jews from Russia and Austria-Hungary, and on the paternal side are from Poland and Romania.

Mila’s early years in the United States were not easy. The future celebrity with her parents left Ukraine for America at the age of eight. At that time, Mila did not know a single word of English and found it difficult to adapt.

“I didn’t understand the culture. I didn’t understand people. I did not understand the language. My first sentence in my college application essay was, “Imagine being deaf and blind at age seven.” That’s how I felt about myself when I moved to the United States,” Mila admitted in an interview.

Mila managed not only to build a successful career, but also to become a happy mother and wife. Mila married actor Ashton Kutcher and had a daughter. During the time that Mila lives in Los Angeles, the actress, of course, has become Americanized, nevertheless, sometimes she demonstrates her origin and switches to Russian.

Who knew swarthy beauty Nicole Scherzinger had Russian roots! Moreover, the singer’s full name sounds like Nicole Praskovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger. It turns out that the singer’s mother is half Hawaiian, half Russian. Grandmother Nicole was born in Vladivostok, and the artist herself feels Russian and admits that even her friends sometimes call her Pasha.

Jovovich is an American actress of Russian-Serbian descent. Mila herself has repeatedly emphasized that she feels Russian or Ukrainian (more Orthodox), despite being an American citizen. Mila was born in Kyiv, her father Bogdan Jovovich is from Montenegro and her mother Galina Loginova is Russian. The first years in the United States at school, no one communicated with Mila, because her parents were from the Soviet Union. Later, the girl’s father went to prison due to health insurance fraud, and at that time her mother began to promote her daughter in the cinema, and at the same time she is herself. even returned to acting.

“I am very proud of my Russian roots. The will that I feel in myself, I owe it entirely to my origin, ”said Mila in a conversation with journalists.

The actress was born in affectionate California, but Gwyneth’s father is a scion of the noble Paltrovich family, who lived in Russia before the revolution. After moving to the United States, the spelling of the surname changed and acquired an American sound. In numerous interviews, Gwyneth called Russians wonderful people and admitted that she did not forget her roots and was proud of them.

Singer Amy Winehouse died four years ago, and more recently it turned out that the artist was of Russian descent. British experts examined the archives and found recordings of a certain Abraham Grandish, who indicated “Russia” in the “origin” column. Already in the UK in the family of Abraham a daughter, Fanny, was born, who married Benjamin Winehouse. They are Amy’s great-grandparents.

It turns out that the funny blonde Fibby Buffay from the series “Friends” is also almost “ours”. The ancestors of Lisa Kudrow left the Russian Empire in 1921. By the way, they lived in the village of Ilya, which is now on the territory of Belarus. Lisa’s paternal grandmother, who immigrated to the United States, was named Grunya. The parents of the future celebrity grew up in New York Brooklyn, after which they moved to California.

Winona was born in the United States, in Minnesota. The actress’s parents, Cynthia and Michael Horowitz, are descendants of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire and Romania. The ancestors of the actress bore the Russian surname Tomchin. When Winona’s grandfather fled Russia with his family, US authorities screwed up and the Tomchins were registered as Horowitz. Winona herself knows a little Russian, but she doesn’t dare speak it. By the way, the younger brother of the actress is called Uri (in Russian Yuri) in honor of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Michelle Trachtenberg, star of the Eurotour film and the TV series Gossip Girl, was born into a Jewish family in New York. Her father is German and her mother was born in the USSR. Michel is fluent in Russian and admits that to communicate with his grandmother, willy-nilly, she had to learn Russian. Now her grandmother lives in Israel, and Michelle says she celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas.

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