Birth Name: Katherine Elaine Hendrix

Place of Birth: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.

Date of Birth: December 28, 1970

Ethnicity:
*mother – one quarter Italian, one quarter Danish, one quarter Irish, one eighth Scottish, one eighth English

Elaine Hendrix is an American actress, model, producer, singer, dancer, and activist. She is known for her supporting role in the 1998 remake The Parent Trap.

Elaine is the daughter of Mary and Thomas Hendrix.

Elaine’s maternal grandfather was Robert Edwin DePersio (the son of Dominick/Domenic John DePersio and Martha McCarthy). Robert was born in New York. Dominick was born in New York, to Italian parents, John DePersio and Mary D’Alessandro. Martha was born in New York, to Irish parents, John McCarthy and Katherine Aherne.

Elaine’s maternal grandmother was Rosemary Elizabeth Nelson (the daughter of Alfred H. Nelson and Alice M. MacDonald/McDonald). Rosemary was born in New Jersey. Alfred was born in Connecticut, to Danish parents, from Copenhagen, John Peter Neilson and Anna Peterson. Alice was the daughter of John MacDonald/McDonald, who was born in Canada, to Scottish parents, and of Frances C. Baker, who was English.

Sources:

Obituaries of Elaine’s maternal grandparents, Robert Edwin DePersio and Rosemary Elizabeth Nelson –

Elaine’s maternal great-grandmother, Alice M. MacDonald/McDonald, on the 1900 U.S. Census –