Liza Koshy
Koshy in 2016, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Elizabeth Shaila Koshy
Place of Birth: Houston, Harris, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 31, 1996
Ethnicity:
*father – Malayali Indian
*mother – Swiss-German, German, some English
Liza Koshy is an American actress, television host, comedian, media personality, and YouTuber.
Liza is the daughter of Jean and Jose Koshy. She has stated that her father is Indian, of Malayali descent, from Kerala, south India. Her mother is white. Liza’s parents are pictured here.
She co-starred in the film Work It. In the film Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016), Liza’s character, Aday Walker, was African-American.
Liza has said:
I just took a DNA test, turns out, I’m 6% Jewish and I’m invoicing my mother for my Bat Mitzvah and 23 years of Hanukkahs.
Liza’s maternal grandfather was John Asa Hertzler (the son of Asa Miller Hertzler and Rebecca Susanna/Susan Shenk). Liza’s grandfather John had mostly Swiss-German and German, along with some English, ancestry, with roots in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Bern and Zürich, Switzerland; and Northumberland, England. His family were mostly Pennsylvania Dutch (ethnic Germans in Pennsylvania). Liza’s great-grandfather Asa was the son of Joseph Kanagy Hertzler and Nancy J. Miller. Rebecca was the daughter of John M. Shenk and Frances Annie “Fannie”/Fanny Good.
Liza’s maternal grandmother was Rebecca Evans Henkels (the daughter of George Jacob Henkels and Johanna M. Hammer). Rebecca was born in Pennsylvania, also of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. George was the son of John S. Henkels and Mary E. Knight. Johanna was born in Pennsylvania, to parents from Germany.
Sources: https://www.youtube.com
Genealogies of Liza Koshy (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Liza’s maternal grandmother, Rebecca Evans (Henkels) Hertzler – https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net
Liza’s maternal great-grandparents, George Jacob Henkels and Johanna M. Hammer, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituaries of Liza’s maternal great-grandparents, George Jacob Henkels and Johanna M. (Hammer) Henkels – https://www.findagrave.com
Ethiopians and South Indians look alike?? That is crazy.
Some Mid Easterners
“i just took a DNA test, turns out, i’m 6% Jewish and i’m invoicing my mother for my Bat mitzvah and 23 years of Hanukkahs.”
https://twitter.com/lizakoshy/status/1179130339433672704
Apparently, her father has Malayali ancestry.
https://twitter.com/lizakoshy/status/371070988068601856
Does she not realize both her parents are Caucasian..?
I doubt her father can be considered “Caucasian”.
Neither of her parents are Caucasian, since neither are from the Caucasus.
Her father is Malayali. We Malayalis are Dravidians with bronzed skin, thick curly/wavy hair, broad noses and thick lips. WE ARE NOT WHITE.
What about Iranians, Arabs, etc?
UIndia is a multiracial nation,though Indians do descend from the ancient black race that once occupied ancient Egypt.However Dravidian Indians remained influencunprobably why a lot of them can pass as black and still retain the characteristics of the of the ancient black race such as wholly hair and dark brown-pitch black skin.
And the Elamites?
She played the daughter of two black parents in Boo! A Madea Halloween.
So I guess hiring a black person to play a black was just crazy. Tyler perry is doing the same thing the rest of Hollywood does
Well i don’t call anybody anything they don’t call themselves
Why are you upset. You insist mixed people are black but then when a mixed person plays a black person it’s an issue? Maybe if you and other one drop rule touting idiots accepted mixed people as mixed, black people would get to play the roles of black people.
because the people you Americans keep calling black people are not anywhere close to real black people but they’re actually brown folks whose ambiguous looks can be found in many parts of Latin America, Asia and Austronesia, hence the casting choice of an half-Indian girl.
Black people come in different forms . She played a black role because she can pass as a black person . Did you forget Africa and middle eastern are connected ? A lot of Indians are even mixed with black . Most of anyone that even has some curl in their hair is black or has black in them period ..
Actually not many Indians are “mixed with black”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddi
Europeans can normally have curly hair (think to redheads) while Black African have wooly ones. That’s not the same thing.
Indians descend from the ancient black race that once occupied Egypt/north Africa and horn Africa(sadly most people forget India is a multiracial nation) Though the ancient blacks weren’t the Bantu/subsaharan blacks we know today but they were genetically similar to blavks and had the same skin tone range plus its well known that Dravidian Indians are genetically similar to Africans.
@tina
Quote(And since when is bantu the only black?)
They’re the only group of people they will acknowledge as being black. Everyone else to them is just dark skin, that’s how they see it
Well I wouldn’t say mixed with black so to speak.Don’t forget that Dravidian Indians cone from the ancient black race that occupied Egypt/north and horn Africa. Plus if you do some googling its well known that Dravidian Indians are genetically similar to blacks(that’s why some can pass as black themselves),that probably explains why most Half white half Indian girls pass as brown/light skinned half white half black or even black girls.
Afrocentric rubbish
Dravidian Indians are genetically very far from “blacks”