Ayo Edebiri has been called the “Princess of Ireland” and “Princess of Ireland” after winning the Golden Globe Award, but is she really from Ireland?
Actress Ayo Edebiri won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series, while her co-star Jeremy Allen White won the same award. bear.
Ayo has been an actress since 2014 and became famous for her roles in: abbott elementary schoolbottoms, And of course, bear. On Hulu’s hit show, she plays Sidney Adam, a sous chef at The Bear (also from The Original Beef of Chicagoland days).
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Everyone who watched her take home the award saw her heartfelt and tense speech, but the internet had nothing but praise for the “Irish” actress. Other Irish actors like Cillian Murphy also won awards on the same night, but is Aiyo really from Ireland? The answer is a little complicated because it involves a long-running joke on the internet.
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Is Ayo Edebiri from Ireland?
Despite comments online that the actress is of Irish origin, there is nothing in her family history to suggest that she is Irish. Ayo actually grew up in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, and her family has no ties to Ireland. Ayo’s girlfriend’s mother is from Barbados, her father is Nigerian, and her connections to Ireland and the Caribbean make it possible that she has Irish roots, but she is not actually from Ireland. .
But that didn’t stop this from becoming a long-running joke for the actress. She and her fans have long joked about her heritage on social media, which led to her country unofficially adopting her. She is also called “.princess of ireland“By people online.
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The Film in Dublin Twitter account congratulated her on her BAFTA nomination, writing:unique to irelandOf course, this caused some confusion in the replies to the tweet, with some taking it as confirmation that the actress was from the Island. But Film in Dublin’s Twitter account only reinforced the point.
“For the record, I know where Edebiri is actually from (Ireland),” he tweeted.
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She previously joked in an interview with Letterboxd that she spent four months in Ireland. Banshee of Inisherin, Although she wasn’t actually in the movie. During her interview, she spoke with an Irish accent, and at the end she walked out saying, “She’s back again.”
“I was literally there, right? I was back in it again,” she joked to the interviewer.
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“The Irishman is here. She is now claimed,” one TikTok user commented on the Letterboxd video.
“I watched the movie because I wanted to meet her.” [because] “It wasn’t until I saw this clip that I realized she wasn’t actually in the movie,” another commenter confessed. Before you watch the two-hour movie, you can be sure that Jenny the Donkey is not a real character. Insherine Banshee.
Ayo may not actually have anything to do with Ireland, but there’s no denying that her accent is accurate (even if it’s fake). It’s good to know that even if she were cast as a country girl, she would definitely be accepted with open arms.