Birth Name: Maya Khabira Rudolph
Place of Birth: Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 27, 1972
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*African-American (mother)
Maya Rudolph is an American film and television actress and comedian. She is the daughter of producer Richard “Dick” Rudolph and soul and R&B singer Minnie Riperton (Minnie Julia Riperton). Maya’s mother died when Maya was seven years old. Maya has four children with her partner, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.
Maya’s father is Jewish (from a family from Lithuania, Russia, Germany, and Hungary). Maya’s mother was African-American.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2016) stated that Maya’s genetic ancestry is:
*67.3% Caucasian
——–*49.9% Ashkenazi [Jewish]
——–*6.5% British and Irish
——–*0.4% Scandinavian
——–*7.3% Broadly Northern [European]
——–*0.8% Broadly Southern European
——–*2.4% Broadly European
*31.8% Sub-Saharan African
——–*26.5% West African
——–*3.2% Central & South African
——–*2.1% Broadly Sub-Saharan African
*0.7% Southeast Asian
*0.2% Unassigned
Maya’s paternal grandfather was Sidney J. Rudolph (the son of Judel/Julius Abraham Rudashevsky/Rudashevski/Rudolph and Nellie Ellashof/Elishof/Eliashof). Judel was a Jewish immigrant from Vilna, Lithuania, the son of Yisroel Dovid Rudashevsky and Sora Gordon. Nellie was born in either Kovno, Lithuania, Minsk, Belarus, or Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, Samuel Eliashof and Hannah “Annie”.
Maya’s paternal grandmother is Muriel Eileen Neufeld (the daughter of Ralph Newfeld/Neufeld and Blanche Edith Toffler). Ralph’s father, Nathan Newfeld/Neufeld, was a Jewish immigrant from Germany. Ralph’s mother, Rebecca W. Wolf, was born in Louisiana, to Jewish parents from Germany. Blanche was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, to Hungarian Jewish parents, Alex Toffler and Meriam/Mary/Marie Toffler.
Maya’s maternal grandfather was Daniel Webster Riperton (the son of George R. Riperton and Molly/Mollie Grigsby). Daniel was an African-American from Kentucky. George was the son of Henriette Lily Meaux. Molly was the daughter of James Grigsby and Delia Crow.
Maya’s maternal grandmother was Thelma Inez Matthews (the daughter of Chester/Ed A. Matthews and Elizabeth/Minnie “Bettie” Grundy). Thelma was an African-American from Mississippi. Chester was the son of John Edward Matthews and Isabella McIntosh. Elizabeth was the daughter of William Grundy and Ella Smith.
Sources: http://news.google.com
Genealogy of Maya Rudolph – http://www.geni.com
Maya’s paternal grandfather, Sidney J. Rudolph, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Maya’s paternal great-grandfather, Ralph Neufeld, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Maya Rudolph (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://i.imgur.com
Maternal family history of Maya Rudolph, from Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2016) – http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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She is one of these so-called biracials but is actually only 1/3 Subsaharan African.
Biracial,I don’t like using that word, but you guys insist on it. Okay saying someone is biracial is very tricky especially on this side of the hemisphere. That 31% is what she inherited, her brother Marc could have more. Dna is funny, you inherit 50% from each parent, but it’s no telling what 50% you get, it a crap shoot. No Biracial person going to be the same
Clearly her mom isn’t just African American if Maya is only 31% European. Her mom is mixed race like Quincy Jones. 34% white.
I TOTALLY agree
Cleary neither one seem to understand what African American means, even though it’s been explained atleast a few dozen times
correvtion: neither one of you
So she is 50 percent Jewish, about 30 percent African and rest mostly European. Pretty interesting mix…the European and Jewish ancestry explains her lighter skin which accounts for like 70 percent. She is significantly African and diverse for sure.
Finding Your Roots focusing on her maternal line: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3406847/Emotional-moment-Maya-Rudolph-broke-learning-ancestors-slaves-including-one-bravely-fought-won-freedom.html
Maternal Family tree: http://i.imgur.com/okijRJu.jpg
Thank you.
The family trees on ancestry.com failed me yet again. They listed the wrong parents for Maya’s grandfather across the board. One tree listed the wrong paternal grandparents for Bill Maher, which last week’s show corrected.
http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&gss=sfs28_ms_db&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Daniel&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Riperton&gsln_x=0&mssng0=Thelma&mssns0=Matthews&MSAV=1&uidh=iav
Looks Persian or Arab.
Anybody can look like an Arab, you have 22 countries to pick from, with people from pale to ebony in them.
only reason certain groups outside the Arabian Peninsula are considered “Arab” (Iraqis, Lebanese, Syrians, etc) is because the Arabs conquered those Arabs and Arabized those people by instilling Arab culture into the area.
original Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula and were a Semitic-speaking Middle Eastern people.
Maya does not look “Arab” (at least not typically) anyway. she doesn’t look Persian, either.
Arabs conquered those areas*
she looks Mexican
correction
her mother was not only african american
she looked very mixed
on some pictures she looks like ITS NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE dena dietrich
her african american mom looked good ! she was rather pretty
but she is ugly :-(
and you are brainless :-(
sadly thats true
i looked up her mom she was called a singer who sounded like a bird and looked like sweet bird
she is ugly
look could be her brother
he is also half black and half caucasian
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Kate_Hall_-_Detlef_D!_Soost.JPG
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIn4phV31rw0aFAeBEkM8lX2YuHcPKV9zVonPB6ehxdASELKb5lSHsP8A
LMFAO and I’m sure you’re so f_cking gorgeous right???!!! Who the hell made you the authority on who looks good or not? I hate assholes who talk shit about people ANONYMOUSLY. I bet she looks one million times better than you. I’m so f_cking sick and tired of people (MEN especially) judging women like that, coward ass bitches. F_ck your ideas on how women should look! Women weren’t made to please you by standing there, looking pretty. Prick!
@M
Sorry i didn’t want to say offensive things about her
but as her mother was good looking i was surprised that she is not that looking
http://mustune.com/fotos/minnie-riperton-535073bfb289b3.84949412.jpg
In my eyes she looks good, at least interesting and very likeable. Perhaps you should see other pictures of her:
http://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/mayarudolph1__131113082916-275×319.png
No she isn’t ugly but you are an idiot :)
Ugly is a little harsh, I would consider her below average.
Nice example how different espedially multi-ethnic people can look, depending on the perspective or light. On this picture, she looks Jewish Ukrainian and a light shade of African. On another picture that I found (my favourite) she looks like a German-African mix:
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/600full-maya-rudolph_195.jpg
Who said she’s ugly?
totally agree
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/600full-maya-rudolph_195.jpg
here she looks like JENNIFER GREY circa 1987 with brown skin #:-)
i can definitely see the ukrainan or russian jew in her face + african
She could pass as White and acted mostly in White roles in movies/series.
you know that’s a gotdamn lie lmfaoo she could pass for a hispanic chick before a white chick. she still looks too ethnic to pass as white
Hispanic is not a race.How Americana invented this lié?
What an odd looking woman! This goes to show you that not all mulattoes are attractive. She is so weird and ugly!
Did anyone ever notice how she is so lightskinned yet her brother is so darkskinned?
She reminds me of my mom. My mom is black and white, but consider herself just black. My mom’s biological mother was white mostly German or English descent and her dad was an Afro-Cuban.
Why would she pretend to be monoracial?
Sorry I made a mistake I meant fully white.
I thought she was fully black wow I am surprised.
O_o
No, you didn’t.
She is mulatto.
There’s not a single fully black person that looks like her. Do you even know what a black person looks like?
I grew up listening to Minnie Riperton and have her cds (and mp3s). I’m not sure that it matters that she was light-skinned..lol!
Minnie Riperton of ‘Loving You’ fame was quite light skinned.
No. Minnie was medium brown skinned not light skinned. She was about the same complexion as myself and I don’t consider myself light at all, just medium. She looked like the typical black women to me. I am fan of her music. I have listened to her music since I was a young child. She was amazingly talented!! I miss her so much.
Minnie Riperton definitely doesn’t look like the typical black woman. She looks at least 30% mixed and most black people in the states have 1/8-1/5 admixture.
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