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My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.

My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.