Place of Birth: Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
Date of Birth: 10 January 1984
Ethnicity: French, German, Polish, remote Swiss-German
Kalki Koechlin is an Indian actress and writer.
Her parents, Joël Koechlin and Françoise Armandie, are French immigrants, from Angers, Maine-et-Loire.
Kalki’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her fifteenth great-grandfather, Hans (or Jean in French) Koechlin, of Stein am Rhein, Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Kalki’s paternal grandparents were Jean René Guy Koechlin (the daughter of Guy Koechlin and Violette Antuszewicz) and Jacqueline Knoell. Kalki’s great-grandfather Guy was the son of Horace Koechlin and Cécile Julie Widemann. Violette was the daughter of Ernest Antuszewicz and Marie Reber.
Sources: Genealogies of Kalki Koechlin (focusing on her father’s side) – http://gw.geneanet.org
http://gw.geneanet.org
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