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19/05/2011

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.

18/05/2011

The Van Salees

Anthony and Abraham van Salee were the ancestors of the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Humphrey Bogart.
Click for more info on the Van Salees family.

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.

24/02/2011

Cree Summer

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

08/10/2010

Jared Padalecki

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

01/06/2010

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."

Mixed Race/Culture

"The 2001 National Census revealed Mixed Race as the third largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group in the UK."
"In 2000, the US National Census revealed that there were nearly 7 million multiracial people living in the country. Mixed-race children under 18 make up the fastest-growing segment of the population."

From Elvis to Barack Obama, this is a light-hearted celebration of well-known people/celebrities who are, racially or culturally, of mixed heritage. I've left out people who are a mix of any of the Western European countries and American (such as Viggo Mortensen who is half American, half Danish) and people who are a mix of any nationality, but all of them Jewish (such as Natalie Portman - both her parents are Jewish even though they are of Austrian/Russian and Polish/Romanian descent respectively). Had to draw the line somewhere!