Birth Name: Diane Allie Delano
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: January 29, 1957
Ethnicity: English, 1/8 Swedish, some Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, distant Belgian [Walloon]
Diane Delano is an American actress.
Diane’s uncles were actors Lane Bradford (John Myrtland La Varre, Jr.) and Bob LaVarre (Robert Edwin La Varre)
Diane’s patrilineal “Delano” line can be traced back to Philippe de Lannoy (1602–1681), a Walloon emigrant from Leiden (now in Netherlands). U.S. Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge are among Phillippe’s descendants.
Diane’s maternal grandfather was actor John Merton (Myrtland Vivian LaVarre, the son of William Johanne/John LaVarre and Leilia Goddin Haynes). William was the son of William John LaVarre and Jane “Jennie” Gray Andrews. Leilia was the daughter of William Boyce Haynes and Adelaide Victoria Goddin.
Diane’s maternal grandmother was named Esther. She was born in New York, to a father also from New York and a Swedish mother.
Source: Genealogy of Diane’s mother (focusing on her own father’s side) – https://wc.rootsweb.com
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