Elizabeth Lejonhjärta and Victoria Lejonhjärta
TV Personality · Model
Father: Gambian, Senegalese, Sierra Leonean · Mother: Swedish, Sami, Finnish [Tornedalian]
Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden
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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.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TV Personality
European [Irish, English], African-American
Keyser, West Virginia, 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.
Keyshia Cole
Musician · TV Personality
African-American, likely Mexican [Spanish/Portuguese, Indigenous]
Oakland, Los Angeles, California, United States
Langston Fishburne
Actor
Father: African-American · Mother: African-Bahamian, African-Trinidadian, possibly European
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
LeVar Burton
Actor · TV Personality
African-American, smaller amount of English
Landstuhl, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany (now Germany)
Liza Colón-Zayas
Actor
Puerto Rican [Spanish, African, as well as Indigenous], small amount of Basque and Guadeloupean
The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
