Giada De Laurentiis

 Giada Pamela De Benedetti was born August 22, 1970 in Rome, Italy, the oldest daughter of actress Veronica De Laurentiis and her first husband, producer-actor Alex De Benedetti. 5 De Benedetti was a close partner of Giada's maternal grandpa film producer Dino De Laurentiis. Giada was a child and frequently spent time in the kitchen of her family, DDL Foodshow. Giada's parents got married in February 1970, however they divorced afterward. After the divorce of her parents, Giada and her siblings moved to Southern California, where they adopted the surname of their mother. After having graduated from Marymount High School in Los Angeles, De Laurentiis attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning her bachelor's degree in Anthropology in 1996. Her maternal great-grandmother was English and her mother was British-Italian film star Silvana Mangano. 5: De Laurentiis's paternal grandmother, Pamela De Benedetti, nee Leslie-Jones (1923-1998) was English. Eloisa is her sibling and Enzo Alexander II is Dino Alexander II, a Hollywood movie editor who passed away from melanoma in 2003. Her stepfather producer Ivan Kavalsky, is her mother.