Shiva Rose

Birth Name: Shiva Rose Afshar

Place of Birth: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: February 8, 1969

Ethnicity:*father – Iranian*mother – Irish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh

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Shiva Rose is an American actress, activist, and blogger. She owns a natural beauty product line. She has also been billed as Shiva Rose McDermott.

Shiva is the daughter of Carol June and Parviz Gharib-Afshar. Her father is Iranian. Her mother has Irish, Welsh, and one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, ancestry.

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She has two children with her former husband, actor Dylan McDermott.

Shiva’s maternal grandfather was named Glenn Ward.

Shiva’s maternal grandmother was Rose Marie/Rosamarie Beerman/Beermann (the daughter of Gustave/Gustav W. Beerman and Mary Edith Griffeth/Griffith/Griffiths). Rose was born in California. Gustave was born in California, the son of Jewish emigrants, Adolph/Adolf Beermann, from Schweringen, Lower Saxony, Germany, and Rosalie Weisskopf, who was born in Kassejowitz, Bohemia. Shiva’s great-grandmother Edith was born in Montana, to a father from Wales and a mother from Iowa.

Sources: Genealogy of Shiva’s maternal grandmother, Rose Marie/Rosamarie Beerman/Beermann (focusing on her own father’s side) –

Obituary of Shiva’s maternal grandmother, Rose Marie/Rosamarie (Beerman/Beermann) Ward –

Genealogy of Shiva’s maternal great-grandfather, Gustave/Gustav W. Beerman –

Shiva’s maternal great-grandfather, Gustave/Gustav W. Beerman, on the 1930 U.S. Census –