Birth Name: Sorel Johannah Carradine
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 18, 1985
Ethnicity: Polish (maternal grandmother), German, English, 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/16th Danish, small amounts of Swiss-German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Irish, and Dutch
Sorel Carradine is an American actress. She is the daughter of actress Sandra Will Carradine (Sandra A. Will) and actor, singer, and songwriter Keith Carradine. Her uncles are actors Christopher Carradine and Robert Carradine, and her half-uncles are actors David Carradine and Michael Bowen. Her cousins are actress, singer, and model Martha Plimpton and actress Ever Carradine.
Sorel’s paternal grandfather was John Carradine, an actor (born Richmond Reed Carradine, the son of William Reed Carradine and Genevieve Winifred Richmond). John was born in New York, and had English, with distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. William was the son of The Rev. Beverly Francis Carradine, who was a Methodist religious author, and of Laura Green Reid. Genevieve was the daughter of Horace Calver/Culver Richmond and Winifred/Winifrede Ryan.
Sorel’s paternal grandmother was Sonia Sorel, an actress (born Sonia Henius, the daughter of Henry Robert Gustav Henius and Lillian Dorothy Fuess). Sonia was born in Wisconsin. Henry was born in Illinois, the son of Max Henius, a prominent biochemist, who was a Danish Jew, and of Johanne Louise “Henne” Heiberg, who was Danish. Lillian was the daughter of Joseph Fuess, who was German, from Roentgen, Baden, and of Anna Fischer, who was of German and Swiss-German descent.
Sorel’s maternal grandfather was John Will (the son of John H. Will and Hortense Schrock). Sorel’s grandfather John was born in Indiana, and had German, some Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) and English, and distant Swiss-German ancestry. John was the son of Weldon Will and Anna Elizabeth Clugston. Hortense was the daughter of Henry W. Schrock and Carrie J. Wolf.
Sorel’s maternal grandmother was Alice P. Strojek (the daughter of Peter Strojek and Helen Jaworska). Alice was born in Illinois, to Polish parents. Helen was the daughter of Leon Wojciech Jaworski and Władysława Paulina Bojkowska.
Sources:
Obituary of Sorel’s maternal grandfather, John Will – https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGPB-Q9BK
Sorel’s maternal grandmother, Alice P. Strojek, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSL8-R8H
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