Oscar and BAFTA-winning actress Olivia Colman had a 2000 years old connection with India, which she shared with the world in a youtube series.
The show is called 'Who Do You Think You Are', the channel is dedicated to discovering the heritage of popular faces, and embracing the global connections people share with lost pieces of history.
In the youtube videos series, The Lost Daughter actress discovers her great great great great grandmother was born in Kishanganj, Bihar.
On her trip to India, she meets historian Anuradha Chatterjee, who shares documents of proof. The marriage certificate and certificate proffered the marriage between her maternal great great great great grandfather Richard Campbell Bazett and his Indian wife Harriot Bazett.
“I’m so much more interesting than I thought I was…I hadn’t got a clue that India played any part of my family.” said Colman.
Harriot was born to an Indian local woman, but her father was a British official working for an East Indian company. Anuradha Chatterjee expands that many British men were living and having kids with Indian women in the 1800s, and thus the possibility of Harriot being Indian is most probable.
On her trip to India, Olivia is excited and amazed to see Indian streets, the tea gardens, and the clothes worn by the girls.
