Amanda Seyfried comes from Siegfried

Amanda Seyfried loves to have German roots. "It's been a very long time, but my family's ancestors come from Germany and Scotland," she says. She was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1985.

"I'm so American, it's barely American" joked the actress at the German news agency.

Seyfried also mentioned the origin of his surname. "If you go back to our family tree, we were supposedly called Siegfried in the past, but the name changed with Seyfried, so I'm a little German."

Seyfried is currently in the movies in the movie Mamma Mia! Here we go again. The role of the daughter Sophie, that she plays there, that she had already incarnated in the first part in 2008.

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