Birth Name: Polly Carey Draper
Place of Birth: Gary, Indiana
Date of Birth: June 15, 1955
Ethnicity: English, German, some Scottish, along with 1/256 Portuguese, and distant Welsh, Jersey (Channel Islander), and French
Polly Draper is an American actress, writer, director, and producer. She is married to musician Michael Wolff, and their children are actors/musicians Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff.
Polly is the daughter of Phyllis (Culbertson), an administrator for the Peace Corps, and William Henry Draper III, a venture capitalist and a civic leader of the United Nations Development Programme.
Polly has a lot of English ancestry, as well as a grandmother who was of German descent, and some Scottish roots. Also, one of Polly’s maternal great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers, Antonio de Zocieur, was Portuguese (born in Terceira Island in the Azores). This makes Polly of 1/4 German and 1/256 Portuguese descent. Polly also has distant Welsh, Jersey (Channel Islander), and French, ancestry. She is a descendant of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, and of Captain Joseph Weld, one of the originators of the prominent Boston Brahmin Weld family.
Polly’s paternal grandparents were William Henry Draper II (the son of William Henry Draper and Mary Emma Carey) and Katherine Louise Baum (the daughter of George Baum and Julia Cook). Polly’s grandfather William was a diplomat, army officer, and banker. All of Katherine’s grandparents (Henry Baum, Katharina Emrich, Adam Cook, and Ann J. Scholtz) were German.
Polly’s maternal grandparents were William Howard Culbertson (the son of Claude Lanier Culbertson and Mabel Virginia Cosgrave) and Phyllis Barnard Nichols (the daughter of Clifford Nichols and Albertine Louise Barnard).
Sources: Genealogy of Polly Draper – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Polly’s father – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Polly’s paternal grandmother, Katherine Louise Baum, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Polly’s maternal great-grandmother, Albertine Louise Barnard – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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