Makkena in 2012, pic by Prphotos
Birth Name: Wendy Allegra Rosenberg
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 4, 1958
Ethnicity:
*87.5% Jewish [Ashkenazi, small amount of Sephardi]
*12.5% Cuban
Wendy Makkena is an American actress.
She is the daughter of Diana, an astrologer, and Werner Rosenberg. Wendy’s father was born in Berlin, Germany, and was Jewish. He was a Holocaust survivor. Wendy’s mother was born in New York, and was of three quarters Jewish (Alsatian Jewish, Austrian Jewish, German Jewish, English Jewish, French Jewish, and Jamaican Jewish) and one quarter Cuban descent.
Wendy’s paternal grandparents were named Ludwig Oskar Rosenberg and Erna Bein/Bien.
Wendy’s maternal grandfather was Edward Adolphus Kline/Klein (the son of Edward A. Kline and Lulu/Luisa Harberger). Wendy’s great-grandfather Edward was born in Austria-Hungary, the son of Jacob Kline and Sallie Rosenberg. Lulu was the daughter of Leo Harburger, who was born in Germany, and Sadie/Sarah Bernal Hassan, whose father, Abraham Hassan, was born in Ohio, to English Jewish parents, and whose mother, Esther Bernal, was born in Jamaica, and was likely Sephardi Jewish.
Wendy’s maternal grandmother was Frances Esther Steinhardt (the daughter of Irving David Steinhardt and Clara Aurora Luis). Irving was Jewish, and was the son of Julius Lester Steinhardt, who was born in Berlin, Germany, and of Rachel Lyons, who was born in New York, to an Alsatian Jewish father, Hyman Lyons, and a mother, Esther Ezekiel, who was born in New York, to English Jewish parents. Clara was born in New York, to Cuban parents, Jose Jacinto Luis and Francisca Yraola.
Sources: Genealogy of Wendy Makkena – https://www.geni.com
Wendy’s maternal grandfather, Edward Adolphus Kline, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Edward Adolphus Kline on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Wendy’s maternal great-grandmother, Lulu/Luisa Harberger, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Wendy’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Sadie/Sarah Bernal Hassan – https://www.findagrave.com
Wendy’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Sadie/Sarah Bernal Hassan, on the 1860 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Sadie/Sarah Bernal Hassan on the 1870 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Wendy’s maternal great-great-great-grandfather, Abraham Hassan, on the 1850 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Abraham Hassan on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Wendy’s maternal grandmother, Frances Esther Steinhardt, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Frances Esther Steinhardt on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Wendy’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Julius Lester Steinhardt and Rachel Lyons, on the 1881 Canada Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Wendy’s maternal great-great-great-grandparents, Hyman/Herman Lyons and Esther/Hester Ezekiel – https://www.familysearch.org