Birth Name: Tadanobu Satō
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Date of Birth: November 27, 1973
Ethnicity:
* 75% Japanese
* 12.5% Dutch
* 6.25% Norwegian
* 3.125% French-Canadian
* 1.5625% English
* 1.5625% Scottish
Tadanobu Asano is a Japanese actor. His stage surname derived from his mother, Junko (Asano). His father, Yukihisa Satō, is an artist. He was married to singer Chara.
Tadanobu’s maternal grandparents were Willard Nelson Overing (the son of Jacob “Jake” Overing and Ella Belle Severson) and Ichiko Asano. Willard was a United States Army personnel, of Dutch, English, French-Canadian, Norwegian, and Scottish descent. Ichiko was Japanese. Jacob was the son of Dutch immigrants Johannes “John” Oevering and Baukje “Bertha” Wijnsma, both of het Bildt, Friesland. Ella Belle was the daughter of Norwegian immigrant Ole Severson and Amy Amanda Besaw. Amanda was American, and was the daughter of French-Canadian immigrant Nelson Besaw (possibly born Besau) and Mary Ellen Hesselgrave, whose father Edward Hesselgrave, was an English immigrant, from York, and whose mother, Elizabeth “Betsy” Boyd, was a Scottish immigrant, from Longforgan, Perth and Kinross.
Sources: Death record of Tadanobu’s maternal great-grandfather, Jacob Overing – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDWQ-KYZ
Birth record of Tadanobu’s maternal great-grandmother, Ella Belle Severson – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDQK-699
Birth record of Tadanobu’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Johannes Oevering – https://www.openarch.nl/show.php?archive=tre&identifier=618a679a-dcdf-f73c-9953-f2d1e20a3492&lang=en
Birth record of Tadanobu’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Baukje Wijnsma – https://www.openarch.nl/show.php?archive=tre&identifier=2012d538-1a20-89e9-2f1e-f47c81d4fbaf&lang=en
Tadanobu’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Amy Amanda (Besaw) Loitz, on Find a Grave – http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136078402
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