Oberon began acting at the age of 9 when she joined the Calcutta Amateur Theatrical Society after her family moved to what is now Kolkata, India. More from NextShark: K-pop girl group Apink debuts single ‘Copycat’ with first sub-unit Chobom In reality, she was born Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson in 1911 to a British father and a part Sinhala and part Maori mother in what is now Mumbai.Ī London publicist has reportedly staged the falsification of her new background, claiming that Oberon’s birth records were destroyed in a fire and that she moved to India after the death of her British father. “Since my films have been circulated, several people have turned up in strange parts of Australia to call me relatives… I don’t know much about them because my family had an argument with them a while ago.” “I was born in Tasmania but stayed there as a child,” Oberon said in a 1934 interview with The West Australian. More from NextShark: #BoycottMulan Trends again after Donnie Yen celebrated Hong Kong’s return to ‘motherland’ Oberon claimed at the time that she was originally from Tasmania, an island nation in Australia. Not only was casting actors of color frowned upon, but there were self-imposed industry restrictions known as the Hays Code that made it virtually impossible. More from NextShark: Filipino couple power duo swing into the grand finale of America’s Got Talent.Īlthough her reasons for doing so are not fully known, it has been widely speculated that this was partly due to her ambition to succeed in the entertainment industry, as NextShark previously reported.īack then, it was nearly impossible for non-white actors, especially women of color, to break into the industry.
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