Birth Name: Q’orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher
Place of Birth: Schweigmatt, Germany
Date of Birth: February 11, 1990
Ethnicity: Quechua-Peruvian (father); Swiss-German (mother)
Family info: Q’orianka Kilcher is an American actress, best known for her role as Pocahontas in the 2005 film The New World, directed by Terrence Malick.
Her father is of Quechua-Huachipaeri descent from Peru. Her mother, Saskia Kilcher, is a human-rights activist of Swiss-German descent, born in Alaska and raised in Switzerland. Kilcher’s maternal grandfather was Ray ‘Pirate’ Genet, a famous Alaskan-born mountaineer, her cousin is Grammy-nominated singer Jewel Kilcher, and the founding patriarch of their family in Alaska, Senator Yule Kilcher, was a state legislator and delegate to the Alaskan constitutional conference who was originally from Switzerland.
When Kilcher was two years old, she and her mother moved to Kapaa, Hawaii.
Her name Q’orianka means “Golden Eagle” in Quechua.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q’orianka_Kilcher
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