What is the personality type of Viola de Lesseps / Thomas Kent? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Viola de Lesseps / Thomas Kent from Shakespeare In Love 1998 and what is the personality traits.
Viola de Lesseps / Thomas Kent personality type is INFP, which means that she’s a Percipient, a Seeker, an Idealist and a Romantic.
Lesseps is the daughter of a former French diplomat, Jean-Marie de Lesseps, and his wife, the socialite and actress Hortense de Beauharnais, who was the granddaughter of Napoléon Bonaparte’s brother Jérôme. Her paternal grandfather was also a diplomat, Charles Maurice de Lesseps (1804-1892).
Hortense de Beauharnais met Thomas Kent in New York and they were married on 8 March 1866. Viola was born on 12 March 1867. Thomas Kent was a banker who had made a fortune in the lumber business. He served as collector of the Port of New York during the Civil War.
The couple had three children, Jean, Hortense and Louis-Philippe. They lived in a mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The family was very active in social affairs and entertained many famous people, including President Theodore Roosevelt.