Mathilda May
May in 2013, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Karin Haïm
Place of Birth: Saint-Ouen, Paris, France
Date of Birth: 8 February, 1965
Ethnicity:
*father – Greek Jewish, Turkish Jewish
*mother – Swedish
Mathilda May is a French actress. She has starred in the films Lifeforce (1985), The Cry of the Owl, and Naked Tango, among others.
Her father is Victor Haïm, a French playwright, who is from a Greek Jewish and Turkish Jewish family. Her mother is Margareta Hanson, a Swedish ballet teacher and choreographer. Mathilda has two children with her former husband, actor and singer Gérard Darmon. Gérard is of Moroccan Jewish/Algerian Jewish heritage.
Mathilda’s paternal grandfather was named Joseph Haïm Levy.
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