Via social media, the public got to know a bit more about Soledad's father, Edward O'Brien.
Soledad was born and raised in St. James, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. her father, Edward Ephrem O'Brien was a mechanical engineering professor at Stony Brook University, Her mother Estela (née Marquetti y Mendieta) was a French and English teacher at Smithtown High School West.
Her parents were both immigrants and met while they were students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father is from Toowoomba, Queensland in Australia and is of three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Scottish descent. Her mother is from Havana, Cuba, and is of Afro-Cuban descent.
Interracial marriage was illegal in Maryland before 1967, so in 1958 O'Brien's parents married in Washington, D.C., where marriage laws were less restrictive
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"He was brilliant—a star rugby player in his youth (in Australia),
he came to the US on a Fullbright and ended up focusing on fluid dynamics and fractals. |
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| Her father walking Soledad down the aisle in 1995. |
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| Her parents, 1995 |
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| Her father visits her in the studio at NBC |
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| With her mom and dad |
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| Out to lunch with her father a few months ago |
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