Who are Rita Wilson parents: Meet Allan and Dorothy Wilson

Rita Wilson is an American actress, singer, and producer who began her career with a guest appearance on The Brady Bunch in the 1972 episode “Greg’s Triangle.”

Rita Wilson biography

Rita Wilson was born Margarita Ibrahimoff and was raised in Los Angeles. Dorothea Tzigkou, her mother, was Greek and was born and raised in Sotir, an Albanian town adjacent to Dropull I Siprm and the Greek border.

Her father, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff, was a Muslim (Pomak) from Bulgaria who was born in the Greek town of Oraio (Breshtene), not far from the Bulgarian frontier. When her father was a young boy, his family emigrated to Bulgaria. In 1949, he relocated from Bulgaria to the US.

After getting married, he converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity, and in 1960, he changed his name to Allan Wilson, naming himself after a nearby neighbourhood. Wilson’s father worked as a waiter in Los Angeles, where the family resided. Wilson was brought up as a Greek Orthodox Christian.

Tom Hanks, Wilson’s husband, claimed that her father could speak “Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek, a little bit of Italian, a little bit of French” in addition to Bulgarian. Hanks also claimed that his father-in-law served as the inspiration for the character Viktor Navorski in the movie The Terminal.

Rita Wilson movies

Her movies appearances include Volunteers (1985), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Now and Then (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Jingle All the Way (1996), The Story of Us (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), It’s Complicated (2009), and Larry Crowne (2011), and she appeared in the television series The Good Wife and Girls. Wilson has performed on Broadway, and has produced several films, including My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002). As a singer/songwriter, Wilson has released the albums AM/FM, Rita Wilson, Bigger Picture, and Halfway to Home. In March 2019, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Rita Wilson parents

Her mother, Dorothea Tzigkou was Greek, raised in Sotirë near Dropull i Sipërm in Albania, close to the border with Greece. Her father, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff was a Bulgarian Muslim (Pomak) born in Oraio (Breshtene), Greece, close to the border with Bulgaria. Her father’s family moved to Bulgaria when he was a child.

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