She is fluent in French and German, a language that she learned as a child from her German-born mother.

DiCaprio was born to an Italian American father, George Leon DiCaprio, and a German-born mother, Olga Anne Jacobs (Dec. 23, 1904- May 16, 1984).

Her father Hugh Cassidy, a retired teacher, sculptor, musician, former army medic and world champion powerlifter, is of Scottish and Irish descent, while her German-born mother was a horticulturist.

My German-born mother, married to a naturalized United States citizen who died in 1941, became an "enemy alien," no longer protected by her husband's citizenship, and was interned in 1942.

Bana's father was a logistics manager for Caterpillar, Inc., and Bana's German-born mother, Eleanor, was a hairdresser.

Also on tap is the avant-garde filmmaker Su Friedrich's portrait of her German-born mother, "The Ties That Bind," a film that expressively and tenderly weds the personal to the political.

His presentation began with portraits of Mr. Nikolais's German-born mother and Russian-born father, and the bakery they ran in Southington, Conn.

Lindesmith was born in Clinton Falls Township, Steele County, Minnesota, and gained an early fluency in German from his German-born mother.

He is estranged from his German-born mother; his father died when he was fourteen.

Hanna Piper (née Landsberg) is the German-born half-Jewish mother of Sabeth.