Birth Name: Jeanette Helen Morrison
Place of Birth: Merced, Merced County, California, United States
Date of Birth: July 6, 1927
Place of Death: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
Date of Death: October 3, 2004
Ethnicity:
*English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Swiss-German, remote French (father)
*Danish (mother)
Janet Leigh was an American actress, singer, dancer and author. She had two children from her marriage to actor Tony Curtis, actresses Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Janet’s paternal grandfather was John Beauregard Morrison, son of McHenry Henry Morrison and Susan Eliza Titchenal. Susan was the daughter of William H. Titchenal and Sarah Ann Dickason.
Janet’s paternal grandmother was Katharina Frances/Francis Reeb, daughter of George Reeb and Rosina Hunziker. George was born in Zutzendorf Bas-Rhin, France, to an ethnic German family. Rosina Hunziker was born in Switzerland, of Swiss-German descent.
Janet’s maternal grandparents were Danish immigrants Wilhelm/William Marius Anders Westergaard and Lita Olga Gordia Magelia Kofoed/Coffee. Lita was the daughter of Peter Lucius Kofoed/Coffee, from Ronne, and of Margarethe Kristine/Laura Larsen.
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