Is Oscar Award Winner Kate Winslet Scandinavian?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ม.ค. 2023
- Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet follows a rumour of Scandinavian ancestry on her mother's side of the family and is delighted to find that she has Swedish heritage.
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As a Swede I am very happy to see Kate Winslet so excited realising her relatives came from Sweden 😊 Would have loved to be able to see the whole program and hear more about the story behind!
My Great- Grandparents came from Sweden to escape conscription. Beautiful people,
YES!
Me too!!
Love her and her attitude.
I wish to have seen Kate, going to Enslöv and finding out some more!
Verkligen! Heartwarming to see how happy and excited people get finding out things about their family or long lost relatives. Family history is so interesting and important!
I like Kate Winslet so much and the fact she has Swedish Roots makes me even happier, Greetings from Sweden.
kate is gorgeous
Swedish TV will defo do a follow up on this and invite her to Sweden to tell her more about her ancestry. Mark my words.
I truely hope so.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kate always had this very Germanic beauty about her, almost reminiscent to the recently late supermodel Tatjana Patitz, who was half German and half Estonian, but raised in Sweden.
How about Claudia Schiffer?
Well the English are Germanic, so yeah she looks Germanic
Born British I did my DNA test, turns out I'm 90%Scandinavian and 10% scottish 🤣🤣
A potent mix 😊👍
Sorry about the Scottish😥
@@KillerKlipsch 😄
That 10% explains the bar fights.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 We're just the friends Perle needs.
LOL, her style is so typical swedish woman. Down to earth, relaxed yet an elagance about it.
Nailing it. Swedish blood flowing through her veins.
@@victorsamsung2921 one great great grandfather, that’s nothing.
Would you say that about me as a non famous person? Doubt it. Yet I am more Scandinavian than K Winslet 😅😂 it’s so cringe and rather sad and pathetic people “claiming” people as theirs. Yet only if they are well known 😂😂😂😂
@@RebeccaC2007 Stop lying about things and people you do not know. Winslets style is like many scandinavian women. This says nothing about her ancestry and only her style.
@@RebeccaC2007 I checked your page. I saw nothing about Scandinavia. You could be proud of who you are instead of being offended, about what I recognised with Winslet's style. This has nothing to do with anyone's fame.
Being Swedish and interested in family history, there is a pattern in Sweden that most of us start off with a family name ending with son. It is not unusual, in the end of the 19th century, start of the 20th, when people left the countryside and moved to the city (or England) , as a sign of moving up in society that they took a new family name.
My guess is that Alfreds father is named Johan and that Alfred is the one choosing to go by the name of Lindman.
You are correct. Also not uncommon that you chose a different last name when you became a recognized craftsman. My great grandfather was also a tailor and chose a different last name. I would guess this is why he has a different name.
Som...sen im danish scandinavians has made big footsteps around and lets be proud of that
Nej dom heter Lidman som härstammar från Norrland!
I came to think of Pamela Anderson. She has Finnish roots and would have been called Hyytiäinen if her great-grandfather hadn't realized the name didn't work in Canada. And she's related to two former presidents lol.
The name of the father, plus adding "son", was the tradition for many centuries. Towards the end ogf the 19th century, you could choose another name, often connected to nature, like "Bergström", which means "mountainstream" in Swedish. But people also started to stick with one name, and stopped using the fathers Chrsitian name, and kept one surname.
I am going to love this one. I have so much respect and love for Kate Winslet.
My 7th great grandfather emigrated to Prussia from Sweden in 1657. His name was Johann. My last name was Americanized in 1851 when my great grandfather came from Germany to America. His last name was Schwederjohann and it became Schwierjohann. In 1899 my grandfather changed it again to Schwierjohn. Swedish John!!
I just adore her!
Celebrated Christmas in that church in London some years ago. Great service, and an amazing "julbord" buffet as well! Had a lovely time!
She is my icon, I adore her beauty, her strength, her talent.
"The great Swedish famine of 1867-1869, caused by consecutive wet and dry years, followed by a year of mass epidemics, led to the migration to the US of 60,000 Swedes during that period--the start of the mass migration." from Wikipedia, your probably found some went to the UK.
Oh that's interesting. My great grandmother was born in 1872 and her father was Swedish. We're in Canada though.
People have a distorted idea of historical Sweden, being one extremely wealthy country today. It became so only in the last 80 years and was (at the start of the XX century) one of the poorest countries in Europe.
@@antoniousai1989 Sweden poor? And where you live?
Omg as a swede this is so cool! She's one of my favorite actors!
My grandfather’s name was Lundquist. He moved from Sweden to Minnesota and then to Canada,
with his family when he was a teenager. It’s very interesting.
Nice, it is a common swedish surname(spelled differently "Lundkvist, Lundquist, Lundqvist)
The meaning is, if you´re interested, "Lund" = Grove and "Quist" = twig
Ps. "Lund" is also a city in Sweden with much history, and there are one town in USA named after it. Lund is also a surname used by many in denmark/sweden/norway.
cheers :)
She is just awesome and charming.
I am also part Swedish on the otherwise 'English' side of my family. My x3 great grandfather came to Sunderland as a ship builder in the late 19th century, but his son, my great-great grandfather, later migrated to Canada.
I am from Halland and lives in the county to I always loved Kate Winslet
I have a 5th Grandfather named Nils Svensson his son was named Sven Swan Swen Nilsson.
I love it !!! I am so engrossed in my families tree. So much work , but also rewarding with the family name's and feeling such a connection with those name's.
Wow Enslöv parrish is like 10 minutes away from where I live. I was in their church just 2 weeks ago attending a funeral.
We love you. So happy for you, as you so happily screamed when you realised ❤
This fabulous actress is ours! Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
So take the old sl .., we don't need her
So that's where she got her good looks from 👌🇸🇪
So excited to see this one. She seems a remarkable person, and I would love to know her history. Who and what made her so wonderful?
Her parents?
this IS her history. Famous actress.
Herself!!! she is a Libra & some of the most wonderful people when they want to be & do the work this is the end result.
Do not forget that before the Peace of Roskilde 1658 - Skåne, Halland and Blekinge was part of Denmark.
And your point is?
That is very helpful thank you
Oh my gosh she is my absolute favourite actress. I'm so happy she's swedish too!
Happy Yule!
But she isn’t.
I've known since early childhood that my family had a Swedish coat of arms. My aunt would tell us stories of Sweden. As an adult I found my family in Sweden, just by calling operators there.
Over 1 million swedes emigrated to America in 1850’s and In the UK we all saw Vikings and The last kingdom tv series.
OMG, I’m so excited to see because she’s one of my biggest role models 😭
Good for Kate!
As a Swede who's two sets of great and great grandparents move to America settled in Idaho territory and became farmers I'm very proud Kate is embracing her Swedish Scandinavian roots.
Hi. Did your Swede ancestors land in Minnesota before Idaho? My 2 great grandfather landed in Minnesota, settled in Bismark, South Dakota. Asking because I have a list of all the generations to 1700 in Sweden to modern times with surnames of in-laws up to a few generations ago. I mean, all the Swede people who married into mine, I have names of them.
When I got my ancestry dna results back, I was SHOCKED when I found out I was 25% Scandinavian. My Uncle always said we were descendents from the vikings, but wow. So cool.
It you were descendent from Vikings the percentage Scandinavian genes would have been much lower since it’s 900 years ago that the Viking age ended. Your Scandinavian heritage probably started when one of your ancestors migrated around late the 1800s to early 1900s.
I got 25% Scandinavian too .. I’m from the northeast of uk. But I did get 25% Irish/Scottish and 50% English 😆
if you were viking you would more than likely have irish dna
Sure you are.
When I got my dna results back, I was surprised and a bit shocked to see I was 30.9% English, but when you think about how the vikings raided from Denmark, it's not surprising at all that I have that high percentage of English in me
Canada, love that women, talented, superbe actrice, beautiful not enough of her.
I love that she played a tailor ❤❤
My great grand parents were from Sweden too! 💕🇸🇪Sister.👍
Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
Cool. Most of my relatives are from Halland!
Mine too! My great great grandmother Nilsdotter her family owned a winery before she married Persson and came to America
I was told my grandmother on my mother’s side was half Walloon, otherwise as far as I'm aware I'm 100% Swedish but I've always had an interest in my family tree and would love to do more research
Beautiful Kate
I don't know why this was suggested to me by the algorithm but I thoroughly enjoyed it!
If Kate Winslet is Scandinavian, it's Not Impossible ,because her Facial Feature says so,in my Own Opinion,Many Scandinavians,Men and Woman are Goodlooking and she is Beautiful.
Well, if only her great great grandfather is Swedish, she would be 1/16th Swedish which is frankly not a lot.
No wonder why she was so brilliant in The dressmaker. It's in her blood after greatgreatgrandpa!
OMG she is one beautiful creature.
And this beauty even shows up in her pure and clear voice! I never knew before that she has such a beautiful, slightly deep voice because I only saw and heard her in dubbed movies so far. I should find the original versions of her movies, I think..!
Congratulations
Nice to see that there are people excited to be Swedish, or being of Swedish decent... /Swede
My Grandfather was always a proud Swede and loved to tell us where we were from and about our family. He would have been excited to learn I have traced our family back to the 1700s Malmöhus, Sweden
I'm also part Swedish, but my relatives were from Vastra Gotaland and Smaland, while Kate's relations are from Halland, so we're probably not related, but it's still cool!
Halland is a part of västra götaland so you cant rule anything out:)
@@GregsterG No it's not. It borders Vstragötaland but Västra Götaland is one Landskap and Halland is another. Halland used to be Danish Västra Götaland has been Swedish since Sweden was united.
@@MarcusSjolander Halland is not part of either.
Wonderful Story like a novel.
I´m Swedish living in Halland. Hello Kate 😍
She's beautiful. Of course she has Scandinavian genes.
she is an english rose
Kate is Swedish and Scarlett is Danish. My grandfather's ancestry originally were Scandinavian vikings.
I always loved Scandinavian women and viking history.
1. Scarlett Johansson
2. Rebecca Ferguson
3. Kate Winslet
4. Ingrid Bergman
5. Greta Garbo
6. Alicia Vikander
All Scandinavian actresses
Always gorgeous
Kate may also be part Norwegian, Danish and/or Finnish. Lots of traveling around the area.
True!
Not quite true!
@@Vinterfrid My maternal grandparents and paternal great grandfather came from Sweden. Yet my sister's DNA shows Norwegian and Finnish as well as Swedish. Didn't say Kate was definitely something besides Swedish, but that she may be.
Eller hur mina Svenska tittare!😎
I love Kate Winslet as an actress ...I always felt a kinship with her. She like I, have Swedish roots. My Great Great Grandmother was from Sweden 🇸🇪 too. She was a Pierson. I do have know her father's name as well. Ludwig. Dont know where they are from yet ??
Aww I would have likes to know more....
This is extra cool, since swedes were also one of the largest groups on the Titanic after americans and british/irish people.
yes Jack's bunkmates are Swedes (Sven lost the bet in the café)
I think because of Britain's closeness to Scandinavia and the history and mingling of Scotland and Danish and Norwegian trade and fishing, plus Britain was invaded by the Viking raiders more than a thousand years ago. I will bet you that a very high percentage of native Scots and English men have some kind of Scandinavian heritage in their family's history or background.
I love love love the fact that i can "claim" Kate Winslet as one of our own! hahah
I have Lidman relatives still living in Sweden.
She looks Swedish. I’m not surprised ❤
she looks english
I'm just a few years older than she is, and my Swedish relatives left Sweden within a few years of her noted family's time. It seems there was a definite "had to" going on, but I've only identified possibly a famine. I'm not sure.
There was a famine here, like it was for the irish. The rich also had made laws to stop, what we now call the class journey. A politician in the heginning of the 20th century made the rich stop it, beaucause how can country function without the working class. 25 %, about a million left.
Also running from the law or conscription...
Some sailors stayed because they met a girl.
Oh yes, the country was dirt poor and famine kept coming, a fourth of the entire population ended up leaving for (mainly) the americas.
A quick look at Enslöv
birth record for 1857. Can't find any Alfred born April 21. but there is an Alfred Born June 21 and the mother's name was Anna Johansdotter and the father J.C Svärd. (if I interpret the text correctly).
I am Swedish myself and have always thought that Kate Winslet looks Swedish actually.
She also has lots of lookalikes in Finland as well, especially around the western parts.
@@wardeni9603 Since Finland was a part of Sweden for 700 years it's hardly surprising
@@frespe8230 Very true
Kate's looking real fine!
My 2nd Great Grandfather came from Sweden. My Great Grandfather took his oath as a US Citizen when the Dakotas became US States. He was born in a Swedish settlement in the Frontier, Territory of Minnesota. My grandmother grew up reading Swedish in Bismarck, South Dakota. My Swedish great uncle was the patriarch of our Swedish family. So, I grew up with family origin stories about my Swedish Frontiersman Great and great Grandfather's and generations back to 1700. I have hundreds of Swedish ancestor and relative names. I grew up with 3-5 cousins. My Ansrican Swede Great Grandfather had ten children who had over thirty children who had over forty children when he died. I was two years old, 1969. Moral, I have thousands of Swede American cousins all over the US. Plus, my 2nd Great Grandfather had a brother who stayed in Sweden. Through time, our Swede American family kept in touch with our Swede relatives. So, to this day, my 2nd Great Uncle's granddaughter, my cousin is on Facebook, friends with all my Swede American extended family. I was raised within my mother's Swede side of my family. I know more about my Swede heritage than my other ancestry even thoygh 23andme does not recognize it. Other ancestry sites pick up my Swedish. 23andme lucks up my mother's Swedish and to the village our ancestors came from which we had in our records. In any case, I know i have Swede American relatives who likely no nothing about our Swede heritage. But I posted what I inherited from my Great Uncle and Aunts for extended family to find on ancestry dot com to pass on what I was given.
you bore me even more than Sarah Jessica Parker bores me!! get an editor!, ain't nobody gonna read that manifesto!!
Lidman is not pronounced as in pot lid, but as in Leeds. Liiidman...
It is funny because I took a DNA test and found that I'm 5% Scandinavian. Is not a lot but it's a surprise because I'm very much Mediterranean. My family was Iberian for generations and my surnames come from France and Italy. Then I saw some little trends, like my dad being pale and tall, his grandfather was also super pale and ginger. Who knew.
Being a ginger is always a give away!😉
Likely visigoth ancestors.
@@user-KiTc48f59Gj6kkTf Goths and visigoths are more likely, as a lot of them settled there. It is quite a lot earlier, around 200 AD
The Visigoths who ruled over the Iberian peninsula in the post-Roman era came originally from southern Sweden, and lots of Spanish and Portuguese surnames are actually latinised Germanic names
@@SIC647 Could be viking they served in the royal guard of the caliphs of cordoba. Also the vikings sold slaves tey captured all over including in their own lands in muslim spain.
I'm Swedish by ancestry, too, on my father's side.
Well, Hellquist kind of gives the game away. It doesn’t get much more Swedish than that…
Swedish beauty ☺️
She is of Swedish origin who played Rose in Titanic Jack is her boyfriend who’s actor has Italian roots Jack’s friend Fabrizio is Italian who’s girlfriend is Nowegian
Actually Fabrizios girl in Titanic is Norwegian not Swedish
Hellquist you say… cousin Kate?
Ummm it’s pretty common that any English person has Viking blood.
I’m an Aussie with 57% Irish dna , Scottish English welsh 24% and 6% Scandinavian 🤷🏻♀️
My family Ancestry is from the Caribbean we share Swedish, Danish, Finish ancestry amongst others. Just goes to show when you get down to DNA we are all One human race.
Nice.
My affirmation (morning, night, even during the day) is that "I am Kate's best friend!" (Winslet) And so it is! Why!? Because that's what I decided, and imagination manifests itself, always! I love you, Kate!
I am related to Kate. She is my mum
Enslövs (modern spelling) socken (parish) is today a part of Halmstad municipality.
I live in the municipality just north of Halmstad and Enslöv rang a bell but I couldn't place it.
The area is apparently a part of my "standard" motorcycle route if I'm heading south. xD
I thought I was Italian but found out my maiden name is Scandinavian
There was many hostels in Britain which Scandinavian fisherman setup.
She must be a viking because she's stolen my heart
Congratulations Kate soo you are swedish:)
So interesting!!!
Si llega a salir que es de Sevilla 😂
Because of the extensive Swedish digital church register, it would be to hard find Kate’s relatives and her family history. It’s a matter of a few days research.
I knew it she has germanic teutonic viking genes.she is a strong woman and smart too
Teutonic is German, Vikings came from further north into Scandiland
If Lily and Alfred were really brother and sister, Lily would have been about 23 younger than her brother! (Alfred born in 1857, Lily died in 1964 at the age of 84).
Perfectly possible. My gran was youngest of 13 children, the oldest sibling was 31 years older than her. Their parents married at 17/16!
From an archaeologist perspective it is not intereresting if mrs Winslets earlier relatives have moved from us to denmark or vice versa or stayed in place for a very long time.
Thats why she's good looking for a woman on that island 😉
Love from Denmark 😘
She is not even that Swedish, Her Great, Great Grandfather was 100 Swedish that makes her like 5-10 percent Swedish genetically.
Very interesting. I am. 55 and my father's family was all Swedish but came from a part of Finland called jacobstad. They came over to Minnesota where I still live. My grandfather worked in the iron orr mines . Many have told me I must be Finnish but my grandparents wrote and spoke Swedish
Finland was and is bilingual. Your ancestors probably considered themselves to be Swedish-speaking Finns.
@@juulimarkkanen134 not sure. Unfortunately I never got to meet them. But my father said they were 100 percent Swedish 🤷 i should do a DNA test. Wonder if it can distinguish Swede from Finn. Not that it matters. Just curious. May I ask is you are you Finnish? Your last name looks like it.
@Marcus interesting thanks. I will definitely do a DNA test just to see. Take care
Ah, cool - my mom was a Hellquist as well 😀
Swedish princess Sofia is Hellqvist (quist is not a Swedish ending).
It's a play on the word kvist, twig and has existed in variants for centuries in Sweden. Other variants are kwist, qwist, qvist. Hell is also an older spelling or variant of häll, meaning exposed piece of mountain. It was a common soldiers name. I don't know where your idea that quist isn't Swedish comes from, but if you have any information of value, feel free to share. @@Kahdeksanpenninen123
Somewhere in my heritage there's a scandinavian ancestor. To my surprise I am 20 % scandinavian. I have no clue how and who...
This world is so much more diverse now. None of these "discoveries" should surprise no one, and should be celebrated.
Globalist...
Now she knows what ALL (non-Native) Americans feel like. You know you’re all-American or all-British, but by blood, you understand you’re actually something else.
always need separate,who you are by living country and by blood and ancestry...America is a great country,built by imigrants,like Australia too,but,most of all,lost their identity,not all.and i cant name it like American or Australian nation,society,socium,yes.
One million
I mean lets face it. Most of us in the UK are descended from Scandinavia. 😆
Not Sweden, though.
@@gaynor1721 Oh really?
With a Swedish grandparent and both his parents being Swedish and so on and so on, DNA testing reveals that no one was pure Swedish. Even though the family lived and died in Sweden for over 400 years.
😀😁🇸🇪
Shes the "mommy" everyone wanted
❤️👍😍