biological father

They told her all about the biological father she would never get to meet.

In 2016, Mr Welby revealed his biological father was the late Sir Anthony Montague Brown - Sir Winston Churchill's last private secretary - after making the discovery through DNA evidence.

When he revealed that Sir Anthony was his biological father, Mr Welby said it came as "a complete surprise" and that he had believed his father was Gavin Welby, who raised him.

His mostly absent biological father exposed Vance to his conservative Pentecostal church in Ohio when Vance was a teenager, according to his memoir Hillbilly Elegy.

But to Shawkat’s character, he’s her blood, as are the aunts, uncles and cousins in her biological father's village threatened by the Taliban.