Birth Name: Aleksander Łukasz Jogałła
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: June 3, 1991
Ethnicity: Polish
Pico Alexander is an American stage and film actor. His parents, Magdalena Deskur and Lukasz Jogałła, are Polish immigrants. His father is a cinematographer.
His stage first name, “Pico”, is a nickname.
He is from a prominent Polish family, and has many aristocratic ancestors, including Princes and Princesses. On many lines, his ancestry can be traced back to the 1500s and before.
Pico’s paternal grandparents are Jerzy Jogałła (born Jerzy Jan Jogałła, the son of Franciszek Jogałła and Janina Maleszyk) and Elżbieta Maria Stefania Turowicz (the daughter of Jerzy Turowicz and Anna Gąsiorowska). Pico’s grandfather Jerzy Jogałła was also an actor. Pico’s great-grandfather Jerzy Turowicz was a prominent journalist, and was editor of the Catholic newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny for approximately 50 years.
Pico’s maternal grandparents are Józef Deskur (the son of Andrzej Deskur and Stanisława Kossecka) and Helena Świeżawska (the daughter of Stefan Świeżawski and Maria Helena Stadnicka z Nawojowej). Józef Deskur’s brother, Andrzej Maria Deskur, was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church and a President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Pico’s great-grandfather Stefan Świeżawski was a prominent historian.
Among Pico’s ancestors are Count Sebastian Lubomirski (c. 1546-1613), general and politician Jan Piotr Sapieha (1569-1611), prominent military figure and Castellan of Krakow Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski (1634-1702), politician Dominik Mikołaj Radziwiłł (1643-1697), Prince Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski (1669-1731), Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734-1823), general and diplomat Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko (1768-1844), politician and landowner Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski (1775-1856), politician and statesman Leon Sapieha (1803-1878), Princess Izabela Maria Lubomirska (1808-1868), and landowner Adam Stanisław Sapieha (1828-1903).
Pico’s matrilineal line can be traced back to his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Teresa Cieplińska, who was born c. 1772, and to Teresa’s parents, Stanisław Kostka Ciepliński and Anna Sikorska.
Sources: Genealogies of Pico Alexander – http://genealogia.grocholski.pl
http://www.sejm-wielki.pl
http://www.geni.com
Another genealogy of Pico Alexander (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://chimtic.netfirms.com