Birth Name: Rebecca Sara Newton
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut
Date of Birth: July 4, 1978
Ethnicity: English, Czech, Norwegian
Becki Newton is an American actress. She is known for starring in the series Ugly Betty. Her older brother is actor Matt Newton. Her aunt is violinist Stephanie Chase. Her husband is actor Chris Diamantopoulos.
Becki’s maternal grandparents were Bruce Chase (Robert Bruce Chase, a composer and arranger, the son of George Robert Chase and Alice Lillian Collins), and Fannie Bernice Paschell (a violinist and teacher, the daughter of Peius Frank Paschell and Mattie Marie Hanson). Peius was Austrian, and likely of ethnic Czech descent. Mattie was Norwegian.
Source: Becki’s maternal grandmother, Fannie Bernice Paschell, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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