Birth Name: Joan Henrietta Collins
Place of Birth: London, United Kingdom
Date of Birth: May 23, 1933
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*French, English (mother)
Joan Collins is a British actress. Her sister is writer Jackie Collins and one of her ex-husbands was actor Anthony Newley.
Joan’s father, Joseph William Collins, who was from South Africa, was Jewish (he had Dutch Jewish and German Jewish ancestry, as well as English-born Jewish ancestors). Her mother, Elsa (Bessant), was English and from a Christian background, and also had French ancestry.
Joan’s paternal grandparents were Isaac Hart (who later changed his surname to “Collins”) and Henrietta “Hettie” Assenheim (the daughter of Joseph/Judah Assenheim and Leah Miriam Aullert).
Source: Genealogy of Joan Collins (focusing on her father’s side) – http://www.geni.com
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