Emmanuelle Chriqui
Chriqui in 2011, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui
Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Date of Birth: December 10, 1975
Ethnicity: Moroccan Jewish
Emmanuelle Chriqui is a Canadian film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the films Snow Day, Wrong Turn, In the Mix, and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, and on the shows Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Entourage, The Mentalist, and Superman & Lois.
Emmanuelle was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, the daughter of Jewish emigrants from Morocco. Her mother was born in Casablanca and her father in Rabat, and Emmanuelle has relatives in Israel. Her family practiced Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardi tradition. Her mother was an aesthetician. Emmanuelle’s family moved to Toronto, Ontario, when she was a small child, settling in Markham. She became a U.S. citizen in 2017.
Her ancestors also include Italian Jews, Spanish Jews, and Portuguese Jews.
Emmanuelle’s maternal grandfather was named Jacob Benisty. Jacob was born in Ben Ahmed, Settat.
Emmanuelle’s maternal grandmother was Esther Elkaim (the daughter of Aaron Elkaim and Hnina Ruimy). Esther was born in Casablanca. Aaron was the son of Mimoun Elkaim and Estreilla Ruimy. Hnina was the daughter of Abrahm Ruimy and Aicha.
Sources: https://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com
Genealogy of Emmanuelle Chriqui (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just because she has darker skin doesn’t mean she’s mixed with Black.
LOL
Sefaradi isn’t an ethnicity or race, its a religious denomination. People of the sefaradi rite are hebraic in ancestry and cluster exactly with most ashkenazi jews on genetic plots. Many gene studies have been carried out and both of these religious groups are predominately of middle eastern ancestry. They are hebraic, not arabic or germanic.
Chriqui is Moroccan Jewish like me. Her ancestry is hebraic. Jews from europe and north africa cluster nearly identical and according to autosomal dna tests they are virtually the same. Our ancestors are israelites.
In this picture she is obviously sun tanned. When ashkenazi jews tan they can get just as dark as her.
Middle easterners are white/caucasian by race. They are just darker than the average white american. Plenty of sefaradi jews have light hair and eyes. Plenty of ashkenazi jews have black hair and olive skin, like Jeff Goldblum (when he tans, he is just as dark as chriqui).
There is nothing black about her or non-white. And she is not an arab either. Moroccan Jews are not ‘arab jews’. The term is a misnomer and is only used by radical anti-zionists in an attempt to demonize Israel and erase our hebrew origins which are historical.
Its a fact that jews cluster with other jews more so than with their host populations. Its also a fact that jews look more like other jews than they do their host populations. Its because of hebrew ancestry.
Morocco is a berber country. Arabs colonized it later. Sefaradi Jews are racially the same as Ashkenazi Jews (in most cases). Sefarad is hebrew for Spain, and sefaradim come from spain (europe).
All Jews autosomal dna have at least 5% African ancestry. The y dna is E1a1 or E1b1b both originated in Africa (North,East) and spread to Western Asia. Terms like Caucasian is a recent category of the notion of “race”, however is a phenotype of a certain face. “Black”,”White” is a social/political term.
you had to specifify “North Africa”
She looks like she has some black in her
She definitely doesn’t. Maybe her skin tone is a bit darker than the common European’s, but that’s within the range of Caucasians. (And usual when you are in the warm south.) But skin tone is the most shallow feature and even depends on where you just have been. Her face is completely Caucasian (Oriental).
Btw: Don’t judge a person by just one picture. I have seen her by far lighter-skinned than on this.
There’s nothing Negroid about Emanuelle, she is an Iberic-West Asian intermediate.
To be honest, when I first saw her, her face reminded me of Northern Europeans/Northern Germans, just that she was too dark for that.
Looks Spanish to me, the real Spanish, not the Latino ‘Spanish’.
Spanish not latin American.Spanish are latino too.
Well, that’s how Middle Eastern women generally look like, as do those from North Africa.
They do tend to resemble Spaniards and some Italians. But that’s because they’re just closer to that region.
“spanish” you must be stupid to say that
Beautiful Indian woman.
she is not Indian..