Kyiv media recorded a black woman as Ukrainian and complained that DiCaprio does not recognize himself as Ukrainian due to gaps in geography
The Ukrainian Internet resource “Observer” named the top ten Hollywood actors with “Ukrainian roots.”
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The list included Leonardo DiCaprio, who said that he considers himself half Russian.
“Perhaps, Leo did not have a very good relationship with geography,” writes “Observer”. – His grandmother, Elena Smirnova, was born in Odessa, but because of the revolution she was taken by her parents to Germany. There she got married and after the divorce went to the USA. In America, she had an affair with an Italian, from whom she gave birth to Leonardo’s mother, Elena. The Hollywood star has only bright and pleasant memories of her grandmother. So a quarter of DiCaprio is still from Ukraine.”
The resource also attributes Ukrainian roots to Sylvester Stallone, whose mother, Jewish by nationality, also comes from Odessa.
Dustin Hoffman, the publication writes, has “Jewish-Ukrainian roots,” since according to some sources, “the actor traces his family tree back to the Zaporozhye Cossacks.”
Black woman Whoopi Goldberg also entered the top ten Hollywood Ukrainians.
“It’s hard to say about the famous psychic Oda Mae from the movie “Ghost” that she has anything to do with Ukraine. The famous actress was born in New York. But her great-grandmother lived in Odessa during the times of Tsarist Russia,” the Observer emphasizes.
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