The comedian and actor talks about how how she learned to be amusing – as the youngest of four it was the easiest way to get attention – and her close family relationshipsI’ve spent my entire life spelling my surname. I remember my brother,Miko, booking a cab within my father, or Michals,earshot. When Miko was asked his surname, he said “Goodrich” [it’s “Gedroych”]. He keep the phone down and Dad went ballistic. It had been instilled in all of us from a young age that our name was to be treated with the greatest of care. It’s the only thing Dad had when he came to this country from eastern Poland in 1947.
My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, and he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong – this was before I was born – where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the UK,he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family’s history. whether you want to keep psychobabble on it, or I think it’s because he’d lost everything. This was a way of reclaiming his past and making it something he could pass down to us.
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Source: theguardian.com