Sarah Hyland

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Birth Name: Sarah Jane Hyland

Place of Birth: New York, New York, U.S.

Date of Birth: November 24, 1990

Ethnicity: Irish,Scottish,Dutch,Welsh

The star of the ABC comedy, Modern Family is the daughter of actor Edward James Hyland and actress Melissa Canaday.

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Kevin Federline

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Birth name: Kevin Earl Federline

Place of Birth: Fresno, California, U.S.

Date of Birth: March 21, 1978

Ethnicity: German

Kevin Federline is an American hip hop artist, dancer and fashion model of German descent.

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Christel Khalil

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Birth Name: Christel Adnana Khalil

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Date of Birth: November 30, 1987

Ethnicity: African American, Pakistani

Christel Khalil is an American actress who is of African American and Pakistani heritage.

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Amandla Stenberg

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Birth Name: Amandla Stenberg

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Birth: 23 October 1998

Ethnicity: African American, Danish, Greenlandic

The name Amandla is a Zulu word meaning “power”. She is an American actress who was born to a father of Danish heritage and an African American mother.

On her Facebook page she stated that she is learning Danish. Also on her personal website she stated that she has a grandmother from Greenland.

http://www.amandlastenberg.com/

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Kina Grannis

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Birth Name: Kina Kasuya Grannis

Date of Birth: August 4, 1985

Ethnicity: Japanese, French, English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, Welsh, German

Grannis is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who was born to a Japanese mother and a Caucasian father.

Grannis is first came to notoriety by winning the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest and since then has played at various major events in the US and internationally.

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Dichen Lachman

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Birth name: Dichen Lachman

Place of Birth: Kathmandu, Nepal

Date of Birth: 22 February 1982

Ethnicity: Nepalese, German

Dichen is a Nepalese name. Her father is of German origin and her mother is Nepalese.

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Lucy Hale

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Birth Name: Karen Lucille Hale

Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.

Date of Birth: June 14, 1989

Ethnicity: Anglo American

The American actress was born in Memphis Tennessee and is well known for her role on the film, Pretty Little Liars.

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Anna Kendrick

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Birth Name: Anna Kendrick

Place of Birth: Portland, Maine, United States

Date of Birth: August 9, 1985

Ethnicity: English, Scottish, Irish

Kendrick is an American actress. She mentioned in an interview on Chelsea Lately that she is of English, Scottish and Irish heritage while she was talking about an amusing incident when a Russian woman asked her if she was Russian.

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Taylor Momsen

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Birth Name: Taylor Michel Momsen

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Date of Birth: July 26, 1993

Ethnicity: German, Russian

American actress, musician and model. In interviews in Russia, she stated that she has Russian ancestry: “I’m Russian, so I always wanted to come here…My distant ancestors came from Russia.”
Surname Momsen has German origin and also common in Sweden and Denmark.

http://www.tatler.ru/
http://www.loveradio.ru/video/512581.htm
http://lastnames.myheritage.com/last-name/Momsen

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Aubrey Plaza

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Birth Name: Aubrey Plaza

Place of Birth: Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Date of Birth: June 26, 1984

Ethnicity: Puerto Rican, Irish, English

Aubrey Plaza is an American actress who was born to a Puerto Rican father and an Irish/English mother.

She stated that she cant speak Spanish;

“My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

“My family speaks to me in Spanish,and I respond in English.”

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Shane West

January 10, 2012

Birth Name: Shannon Brice Snaith Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. Date of Birth: June 10, 1978 Ethnicity: French Cajun, English Shane West was born to a French Cajun mother named Leah Catherine Launey and a father named Don Snaith who was born in Jamaica. Photo by DFree / Shutterstock.com

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Darren Criss

January 9, 2012

Birth Name: Darren Everett Criss Place of Birth: San Francisco, California Date of Birth: February 5, 1987 Ethnicity: Irish, Filipino, Spanish, Chinese Criss is well known for his appearance in the television show, Glee.  He was born to a father of Irish descent and a Filipino mother of Filipino, Spanish and Chinese descent. In an [...]

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