Christine Teigen

American model Christine Diane Teigen was born in Utah to a Norwegian father and Thai mother.

She is also known as Mrs. John Legend.

Misty Copeland

American ballet dancer, Misty Copeland is described as the first African American female soloist for the American Ballet theatre. She is of African American, German American and Italian American descent.

Kristin Kreuk

Canadian actress, Kreuk was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the daughter of two landscape architect parents. Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch descent; her mother, Deanna Che, is of Chinese descent, but was born in Indonesia; and her maternal grandmother was a Chinese Jamaican

Timothy Olyphant

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Timothy David Olyphant is of English, Scottish, Iirish, Dutch, German and Ashkanazi Jewish heritage.

Meaghan Rath

Rath is Austrian from her father's side and Indian from her mother's side, and has a younger brother named Jesse who is also an actor.

Alexa Chung

English television presenter, model and contributing editor at British Vogue, Alexa Chung was born to a half Chinese, half English father and her English mother,

The Carradine family

American actor, John Carradine was born Richmond Reed Carradine of Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Cherokee descent. Three of his sons, David, Keith and Robert, also became actors, as well as Keith's daughter, Martha Plimpton.

Left to Right: John, David, Keith, Robert and Martha.

Sir Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE
English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theater and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter Peter Ustinov is of Russian, Jewish German, French, Italian and Ethiopian descent.

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is of Jewish-Belarusian, Jewish-Polish, German and English descent.

The Van Salees

Anthony and Abraham van Salee were the ancestors of the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Humphrey Bogart.
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Jackie Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, icon of the '60s and wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. A descendent of the Van Salees family.

Cree Summer

Born Cree Summer Francks - best known as Cree Summer, an African-Canadian Aboriginal actress, musician and voice actress.

Jared Padalecki

American actor Jared Tristan Padalecki is of Polish American and Western European American ancestry.

Nicole Scherzinger

Best known as lead singer with the Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger was born in Honolulu. Her father is Filipino and her mother is of Hawaiian and Russian descent. She is quoted as saying, "I’m Filipino-Russian-Hawaiian, but people think I’m from Pakistan."

Edward Furlong

American actor Edward Walter Furlong is of Mexican, Russian and Native American descent.

Jack Dempsey

American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey was of Irish and Cherokee descent.

André 3000

American performer André Lauren Benjamin is of African American and Native American descent.

Kevin Costner

American actor and director Kevin Michael Costner has German, Irish and Cherokee ancestry.

Charisma Carpenter

Best known as Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American actress Charisma Lee Carpenter is of Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, Spanish, French and German descent.

Ben Harper

Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Benjamin Chase Harper is of African American, Cherokee and Jewish descent.