Brenton Thwaites

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Thwaites in 2014, photo by PR Photos

Place of Birth: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date of Birth: 10 August, 1989

Ethnicity: English, possibly other

Brenton Thwaites is an Australian actor. He has starred in the films Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Save Your Legs!, Oculus, Maleficent, The Giver, The Signal, Son of a Gun, Ride, Gods of Egypt, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Office Uprising, An Interview with God, A Violent Separation, Ghosts of War, and I Met a Girl, and on television’s Slide, Home and Away, and Titans.

Brenton is the son of Fiona Middleton and Peter Thwaites. A picture of Brenton with his father and sister can be seen here. A picture of Brenton’s mother can be seen here. He has two children with his partner Chloe Pacey.

Brenton’s parents both have English surnames. Nothing else appears to be publicly known about his ancestry.

Brenton’s maternal grandfather is likely named Terry Middleton.

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Thwaites in 2012, photo by PR Photos

78 Responses

  1. tinasheeeee says:

    He is not just English… He has to be mixed with something

  2. J.J. says:

    i live in australia and there aren’t any anglo australians of british and/or irish descent that look like him, he could pass for south american (mestizo) or even a mix e.g. half anglo, half arab. however since he’s several generations australian and there aren’t records of his ancestry and it’s safe to assume he wouldn’t even know/care about his own ethnicity as most anglo australians don’t, it’s safe to assume there would be some aboriginal in him

    • ashash says:

      How do you know he is several generations Australian?

      • J.J. says:

        because if he weren’t his ethnicity would be known and he’d most likely state it

        • ashash says:

          Most people don’t state their ethnicity unless they are something “exotic” and even then they may not. The only reason why Miranda Kerr did is because someone started a rumor that she was Filipino, Turkish, Persian, and Serbian and an interviewer asked her for her ethnicity.

          • J.J. says:

            and as i’m aware miranda kerr said a ridiculous statement that most australians of several generations say when asked their ethnicity; “i’m pretty much just australian”, before answering the question correctly. Many several generation australians are quite ignorant/uneducated when it comes to ethnicities and are more proud to claim their ethnicity as “just australian” than answer the question properly/truthfully by saying either; anglo, celtic, birtish or that they’re not too sure. it’s not really anything to do with being exotic (exotic means foreign) it’s just how distant their ancestry is, australian’s of 1-3 generations are more inclined to state their ethnicity even if it’s common like british/irish, but aussie’s of 4+ generations even if they have ancestry a little less common like french or german will still most likely identify as; “just australian”, it’s really very pathetic. This guy would obviously be of predominately european ancestry from the british isles and would obviously have some non european ancestry judging by his look (most likely aboriginal), but i’m very certain he either doesn’t know or just doesn’t care to state it and i’m very sure if someone were to ask him on twitter or in an interview what his ancestry is, he’d state; “just australian”

          • ashash says:

            I don’t know what his ethnicity is and have no clue if he is Aboriginal. You’d have to ask him.

          • ashash says:

            I do take what you say with a grain of salt because you are often wrong. You stated that Cheryl Cole couldn’t be just British and that one of her great-grandparents had to be some kind of Asian. Turns out they aren’t. You said her half-brother also looked Asian and it turns out he isn’t. You also stated that Leighton Meester was part Asian or African and it turns out that she isn’t.

            You are more wrong than you are right. Same with most people in the comment’s section. Brenton could be part Aboriginal, but I’ll wait until follers gets back to us on that because that person is usually right.

          • J.J. says:

            cheryl cole does not look full british nor does her mother, her brother looks part middle eastern (west or central asian), as for leighton meester, going by the darkness of her eyes and size of her forehead it is quite possible she is part black. i still stand by my opinions, doesn’t necessarily mean the information on the site is wrong, just my opinion, there is such thing as unknown ancestry and recessive genes. i doubt there would be documentation of brenton thwaites having aboriginal, but he does look like he could be, he definitely doesn’t look full british but just like cheryl cole, i bet all the documentation will point to europe. I’m not saying the information should list what i say as i have no sources, i’m just giving my statement on what i think the celebrities ancestry would be

          • ashash says:

            Cheryl’s half-brother does not look part Middle Easterner. He looks like Seth MacFarlane and they are more or less of the same ancestry. Cheryl isn’t any more “exotic” than Catherine Zeta-Jones. Leighton isn’t part black either. Like I said, you’ve been wrong most of the time, so I take it with a grain of salt. But you’re entitled to your opinion.

        • Kimmel says:

          Fully agree with you on they typical Aussie response to ethnicity. And yeah, I agree about Cheryl Cole. There’s more there than British blood.

    • follers says:

      Anyway, I don’t know what his ancestry is and there’s little available on it, but he could easily be just English or whatever else that’s similar.

  3. ashash says:

    Native American? He isn’t even from the Americas.

  4. shobohunter says:

    not every western European person are super pale..

    I know few of them look dark. like Italian or even look bit Arabic..

  5. WTF says:

    just english? dude be lookin like a mexican tho. maybe he has some native american. he doesn’t look fully white

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