Anna Kashfi (born Johanna O'Callaghan on September 30, 1934) is a former film actress, who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s and is best known for having been married to Marlon Brando.
According to Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick O'Callaghan of Cardiff, Wales, who were interviewed by The New York Times in October 1957, Kashfi was their estranged daughter, born Joan O'Callaghan in Darjeeling, raised in Calcutta and Wales where the family move...
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Anna Kashfi (born Johanna O'Callaghan on September 30, 1934) is a former film actress, who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s and is best known for having been married to Marlon Brando.
According to Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick O'Callaghan of Cardiff, Wales, who were interviewed by The New York Times in October 1957, Kashfi was their estranged daughter, born Joan O'Callaghan in Darjeeling, raised in Calcutta and Wales where the family moved in 1947. O'Callaghan was a London-born steel worker of Irish descent, who had been a traffic superintendent on the Indian State railways; his wife was English and told the press "there is no Indian blood in my family or my husband's family." In her book, Brando for Breakfast, published in 1979, however, Kashfi claimed that she really is half-Indian and that the press incorrectly believed that William O'Callaghan was her real father when he was, she stated, her stepfather. Kashfi wrote that her biological father was Indian and that she was...
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