When Olivia Colman discovered that she had an Indian connection

The actress Olivia Colman, who won the Oscar for best actress for The Favorite maintains ties with India, as it was revealed last year in the British documentary series Who do you think you are? In season 15 of the series, Olivia Colman traveled to India to discover her roots, which are found in the Kishanganj of Bihar. Ms. Colman learned that Kishanganj was the birthplace of her great-great-great-grandmother, Harriot, in 1807. To learn more about her Indian ancestry, Olivia Colman traveled to Kishanganj from the north. -is. "It's very mysterious at the moment." The thought that my family has lived here is incredible, "she explains in the video published in September 2018.

During her visit, Olivia Colman s & # 39; is presented at the former British Club of Kishanganj and met with the historian Anuradha Chatterjee. During the meeting, the marriage record of Harriot Bazet was shown to him. Ms. Chatterjee also revealed that she could not find Harriot's birth certificate and added that there was a good chance that Harriot's mother would be a Kishanganj resident rather than a British man. . When Harriot was three or four years old, his father died and was sent to England

Harriot returned to Calcutta (now Kolkata) from England in his twenties. Her first marriage ended shortly after the death of her husband and later she married Charles Young Bazet.

Watch the video here. and The Night Manager, won her first Oscar today for her performance as Queen Anne in The Favorite with Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. The Favorite is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.