Celebs You Didn't Know Were Multiracial

[veronicamars]

Which one of Wentworth Miller's parents is black?

[Coffeecakes]

Lynda Carter and Linda Ronstadt(sp?) are both half-Mexican. As for Wentworth Miller, I believe it is his father who is black.

[winstonwolfe]

Of course, considering where she grew up it could be Melungeon ancestry.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "Melungeon"? Is that near Muskegon?

[jennipoo]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "Melungeon"? Is that near Muskegon?

It refers to a group of people living in the mountains of North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. The ones I have seen are absolutely striking. Here's a website for more information:Melungeons. Of course, there are tons out there and there is some conflict as to the origin of these people.

[panther]

Val Kilmer - Is part Cherokee Indian

Rashida Jones - Mixed race. Quincy Jones and Peggy Liptons daughter

Ben Kingsley - father (half Indian and half English descent), mother (Jewish-European)

l read in an interview that when Anthony Hopkins went to the dermotogist he was told that genetic traces from Morroco were found. Also in the same interview it was mentioned that Wentworth Miller's father looks like Anthony Hopkins!

[veronicamars]

How the hell could a dermatologist tell that?

Pushkin, the great Russian poet had black ancestry, as did Alexandre Dumas, who wrote the Three Musketeers.

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Heather Locklear, Tom Hanks, and Elvis are rumored to be Melungeon.

[winstonwolfe]

JenniPoo, thanks for the link to the Melungeon info site...until I read it here, I'd never heard the word. It really does pay to read this thread!

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WinstonWolfe said:

JenniPoo, thanks for the link to the Melungeon info site...until I read it here, I'd never heard the word. It really does pay to read this thread!

Me, too! Wow, you learn something new everyday. And I am quite sure that reading everything ever printed on this topic will be my new obsession in life. Gee, thanks a lot. ;-)

[chiqui]

Ace Frehley (guitarist for the rock group KISS) is one-quarter Cherokee Indian. And Gene Simmons was a native-born Israeli, though both his parents are Hungarian.

Isn't Phoebe Cates half-Philipino?