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British Actresses. Childhood & Early Life. Anna Kashfi was born Joan O’Callaghan on September 30, 1934 in Darjeeling, India, to William and Phoebe. His father was an Irishman stationed in the British occupied India and moved his family to Kolkata (then Calcutta) for his job at the Indian railways.
Phoebe simply told the AP: “There is no Indian blood in my family or my husband’s family.”. According to Kashfi, she’d always traveled through Europe with an Indian passport — she was ...
Actor Richard Burton tells in his diaries that Anna Kashfi was actually Welsh Cardiff born instead of Indian. And when Marlon Brando found it out, he immediately asked for divorce. Mother of Christian Devi Brando a.k.a. Christian Brando , grandmother of Michael Brando .
- September 30, 1934
- August 16, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 · The New York Times, citing immigration records, said that Ms. Kashfi had given her name as Joanna O’Callaghan when she came to the United States to make the film. Marlon Brando is slapped by...
Aug 25, 2015 · By Mike Barnes. August 25, 2015 11:47am. Everett Collection. Anna Kashfi, an alluring and ethnically ambiguous actress who was the first wife of Marlon Brando, has died. She was 80. Kashfi died...
Aug 26, 2015 · “Is she Indian? Is she Irish? Is she Welsh? It depends,” The Washington Post said earlier this year in recounting the controversy. “The most fascinating revelation from Kashfi’s story may be...
Early life. Kashfi was born in Chakradharpur, India, to William Patrick O'Callaghan, a traffic superintendent on the Indian State railways, who was a Londoner of Irish descent, and his Welsh wife, Phoebe. She was raised in Calcutta until she was 13, when the family relocated to Cardiff, Wales.