Rita Wilson (born October 26, 1956)
[Birth date confirmed at the State of California, California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Date of birth for Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California is October 26, 1956.[1]] is an American actress and
producer.
Early life
Wilson was born
Margarita Ibrahimova in
Los Angeles, California. Her father, a
Pomak (
Muslim Bulgarian)
who worked at a
racetrack, was born in
Greece; he later converted to Orthodoxy. Before emigrating to the
U.S., he had lived in
Bulgaria and
Turkey;
her mother, Dorothy, was born and raised in an ethnic
Greek village (Sotira) on the
Albanian side of the border.
["My Big, Fat, Greek Mystery" – Terry Mattingly on religion.] Wilson's family changed their surname from "Ibrahimoff" to "Wilson," which was a name of a local street in
Southern California.
