Birth Name: Vaitiaré Eugenia Hirshon
Place of Birth: Tahiti, French Polynesia
Date of Birth: August 15, 1964
Ethnicity: Tahitian, Maori, Cook Islander, English, French, German Jewish
Vaitiare Hirshon previously known as Vaitiare Bandera and Vaitiare Hirshon-Asars,is an American actress best known for her appearances in Stargate SG-1.
She was born in Tahiti, French Polynesia and grew up in Southern California. She is of Tahitian, Cook Islander, English, French and German Jewish descent. She has an older brother and a younger half-brother. Her parents met during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando.
Her mother, Georgina Toomaru, came from a French, English, Polynesian / Cook Island (Royal Makea family) mix, was a young model and the first airline stewardess in Tahiti. It is through her mother, Vaitiare is able to trace her roots to the Royal House of Makea, located in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, where her Grand Cousin, Tinomana Ariki Puaikura, was the “Queen of Queens”. Vaitiare is a 17th generation Makea with 11 Documented King and Queen Ancestors in her genealogy. It is at her grandfather’s house in Tahiti where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Tales of the South Pacific”, James A. Michener, wrote “Return to Paradise”.
Her father, Charles Heimata Hirshon, was born in Tahiti, of half American German-Jewish and half Tahitian-Maori descent, and started the movie theaters in the South Pacific. Her grandfather, Lewis Hirshon, a stockbroker, was from New York.
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