Birth Name: Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson
Date of Birth: 19 February, 1911
Place of Birth: Bombay, British India
Date of Death: 23 November, 1979
Place of Death: Malibu, California, U.S.
Ethnicity:
*English (father)
*Indian, Irish, Māori (mother)
Merle Oberon was a British actress. She was born in India to a British father and an Indian mother who was of a mixed ethnicity. She hid her Eurasian ancestry for her entire life, fearing discrimination from Hollywood.
Merle was married to Dutch actor Robert Wolders, until her death. She had two children with her former husband, Italian-born industrialist Bruno Pagliai, who were adopted.