Interesting people
by shaniawolf | created - 23 Dec 2015 | updated - 23 Dec 2015 | Public
1. Mrs. Jessie A. Andrews
Actress | A Daring Southern California Hold Up
Mrs. Jessie A. Andrews is known for A Daring Southern California Hold Up (1906).
Latvian heritage
2. Rashida Jones
Actress | Parks and Recreation
Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of media mogul, producer, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings by her father's other relationships. Her father is African-American and her mother is ...
Extensive ancestry, including Latvian
3. Rutanya Alda
Actress | The Deer Hunter
Rutanya Alda was born on October 13, 1942 in Riga, Latvia. She is an actress and writer, known for The Deer Hunter (1978), Mommie Dearest (1981) and Amityville II: The Possession (1982). She was previously married to Richard Bright.
Latvian-american
4. Peggy Lipton
Actress | Twin Peaks
She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban ...
Extensive european ancestry, including Latvian
5. Kidada Jones
Actress | Thicker Than Water
Kidada Jones was raised in Bel Air, where her home was often frequented by celebrities like Michael Jackson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. At an early age, Kidada battled an identity crisis. Her father is African-American and her mother was Ashkenazi Jewish. By the time she was 15 she had been expelled ...
Extensive european ancestry, including Latvian
6. Laila Robins
Actress | Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Laila Robins is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), An Innocent Man (1989), Live Nude Girls (1995), True Crime (1999), She's Lost Control (2014), Eye in the Sky (2015), and A Call to Spy (2019). Her television ...
Latvian-american
7. Brita Petersons
Self | America's Next Top Model
Brita Petersons was born on June 9, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Latvian model from ANTM Season 4
8. Cynthia Lynn
Actress | Hogan's Heroes
Cynthia Lynn was born on April 2, 1937 in Riga, Latvia. She was an actress, known for Hogan's Heroes (1965), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). She died on March 10, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
9. Ksenia Solo
Actress | Black Swan
Ksenia Solo is a Latvian-Canadian actress. She was born in Riga, Latvia in to an artistic family. She is a recipient of many prestigious Canadian awards, including 3 Gemini Awards and a nominee of the first ever Canadian Screen Awards. Ksenia was the youngest actor in Canadian television history to...
10. Natalia Ryumina
Actress | Their Finest
Natalia Ryumina is a Latvian born British actress. She grew up in a multilingual family, speaking Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian, English and German. After graduating from Jazep Medin Riga School of Music, where she had trained as a classical singer, she moved to London to study at Mountview Academy ...
11. Olga Dinnikova
Writer | Behind the Glass
Olga Dinnikova was born on February 5, 1985 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]. She is an actress and writer, known for Behind the Glass, Bleiben (2012) and Tandoori Love (2008).
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