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    BRAMA, Jul 16, 2004, 1:00 am ET

    'Madam Hooch' rides her broomstick in from Odesa:
    Actress Zoë Wanamaker offers a glimpse into her family history
    By Tony Leliw

    Photo by Neil Genower
    Zoë Wanamaker

    Harry Potter fans know her as Madam Hooch - giving broomstick lessons to youngsters at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

    For British television audiences Zoë Wanamaker is the long-suffering Susan Harper in the popular sitcom My Family.

    But for Ukrainians and those slightly longer in the tooth - Zoë is the daughter of the late Sam Wanamaker, the American born actor, who starred in the 1962 epic Taras Bulba.

    Although she has little recollection of the film, Zoë, who must have been around 13 at the time, remembers it was the first film that her father did after being blacklisted during the McCarthy witch-hunt.

    "I think that makes the film Taras Bulba historically interesting," she says. "I also remember he had to shave his head for the part."

    It is ironic that her father, who played the fiery Filipenko, more keen on fighting the Turks and Tatars for their booty than liberating the steppes from the Poles, was to have a close connection with Ukraine, and from a place not a million miles from the Zaporozhtzi.

    Actor/Director
    Sam Wanamaker

    "My father's family came from Odesa," says Zoë, who herself was born in New York in 1949. "They were smuggled across Europe, and then put on a boat to Canada.

    "From there they were sent to America and ended up in Chicago where my father met my mother."

    On her mother's side Zoë is less clear about her ancestry, but believes it is highly probable they may also have been from Ukraine.

    It would be nice to see some old family photographs, but Zoë is having work done on her house and everything is in storage.

    An actor/director father, Sam's biggest legacy was his project to build a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, on the South Bank in London. Unfortunately he died of prostate cancer in 1993, four years before his dream was realised.

    In June 1997 Queen Elizabeth II opened the Globe and Zoë was the first person to speak on the stage reading a passage from Henry V.

    Although Zoë's parents never wanted her to follow them into the profession - her mother Charlotte Holland was an actress and radio star - Zoë is regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation.

    Over the years she has been nominated for many awards and has won two Best Actress Olivier awards, among others.

    Zoë is one of many in the British and American film and television industry, who are beginning to discover that their roots are not Russian, but Ukrainian-Jewish.

    * * * * *

    Tony Leliw is a London-based journalist whose articles have appeared in respected publications such as the London Evening Standard and The Times, as well as news services in Ukraine and the U.S.

    Feature stories by Mr. Leliw that have been published on Brama include :

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  • Jul 16 04 - 'Madam Hooch' rides her broomstick in from Odesa: Actress Zoë Wanamaker offers a glimpse into her family history
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    Email: tony@youwhat.fsnet.co.uk

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