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Explore the heritage, family histories, and connections of 18,574 people.
Amber Rose
Actor · Musician · Model
Italian (37.5%), one quarter Cape Verdean [African, Portuguese], Irish, as well as Scottish, Cornish, and English
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
America Ferrera
Actor
Honduran [Spanish, as well as Indigenous, some African], small amount of Ashkenazi/Sephardi Jewish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Anna Deavere Smith
Actor
African-American [including Igbo Nigerian, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Angola, Cameroon, Congo, and Senegal], English
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Azealia Banks
Actor · Musician
African-American, some Barbadian
Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Courtney B. Vance
Actor
African-American [including ancestry from Nigeria, Ivory Coast/Ghana, Cameroon/Congo, and Senegal]
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Dionne Warwick
Actor · Musician · TV Personality
African-American, with small amounts of English, Irish, and Scottish
East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, U.S.
Eric Schweig
Actor
Father: Dene First Nations, German · Mother: Yupik, Cape Verdean, Inuvialuk Inuit
Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada
Gabourey Sidibe
Actor
Father: Senegalese · Mother: African-American
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Halsey
Actor · Musician
Father: African-American, small amount of Irish · Mother: one half Italian, one quarter Hungarian, German, Irish
Edison, New Jersey, U.S.
Issa Rae
Actor · TV Personality
Father: Senegalese · Mother: African-American, Creole [African, French, distant Spanish], distant French-Haitian
Los Angeles, California, United States
Jenna Thiam
Actor
*25% Armenian *25% Belgian *25% Senegalese *12.5% English *12.5% French
Brussels, Belgium
Jesse Williams
Actor · Model
Father: African-American · Mother: English, Swedish
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Justine Skye
Actor · Musician · Model
African-Jamaican, one quarter Indian
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Langston Fishburne
Actor
Father: African-American · Mother: African-Bahamian, African-Trinidadian, possibly European
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.