Nathalie Emmanuel

People's Choice Awards 2016 - Arrivals

Emmanuel in 2016, photo by Prphotos

Birth Name: Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel

Place of Birth: Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 2 March, 1989

Ethnicity: English, Saint Lucian, Dominican

Nathalie Emmanuel is a British actress. She is known for her performances in The Fast and the Furious and The Maze Runner franchises, as well as on the series Hollyoaks, Game of Thrones, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, in voice role; and Die Hart, and in the films Twenty8k, The Titan, Holly Slept Over, Army of Thieves, Last Train to Christmas, and The Invitation (2022).

Nathalie is the daughter of Debbie (James) and Matthew Emmanuel. She is of English, Saint Lucian, and Dominican descent. Both Saint Lucia and Dominica are Caribbean countries whose majority population is black/biracial black. Nathalie has said:

my mum and dad are both mixed with British and Caribbean.

A picture of Nathalie’s mother and grandmother can be seen here.

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48 Responses

  1. bablah says:

    So her mother is deffinitely from DR and not from Dominica?

  2. Kimmel says:

    She’s got nice skin (I know that sounds a bit freaky). So, she’s more or less full Caribbean. Great mix from her parents.

  3. phaedra says:

    Curly hair is beautiful on dark women, but she can’t pull it off. She should have straight hair. Would go very well with her.

  4. slowdive says:

    30% black in my opinion. She is a beauty!

    • midori29 says:

      @slowdive no way she is at least 50-60% black African. At 30% African mixed people look dark Mexican, dark Indian or dark white ie. Jennifer Lopez types thats quadroon category, 30% or less would not have kinky curly Afro textured hair, thats black African hair. Singer Mariah Carey looks alot whiter than her and Mariah is 40% black African

      • ses101 says:

        It’s possible for a very dark African and a pale blonde woman to have 50/50 kids, black kids and white kids. There are no guarantees how black or white any kid will look. As it is, if I didn’t know her ethnicity I’d have guessed she had maybe a white mum and mixed race dad – she looks like she has more white than black in her.

      • Multiethnicchick says:

        Mariah is a quarter black, and this woman looks more white than black. 50/50 biracials are Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates and the mowry sisters(well they’re 53% white)

      • Jarap says:

        Both of her parents are already super mixed since Caribbean have admixture of other races not just Black and they both have an English parent which will make her more than 70% white.

        • fuzzybear44 says:

          well that is just an assumption. I mean her Caribbean side could have maintain most of their African ancestry,Also who says the European side was pure. I’m not saying you’re wrong, just throwing the possibilities in there

    • midori29 says:

      @slowdive actress Rashida Jones is 30% black

      http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429069/

      • ses101 says:

        In that picture she looks more or less white, maybe with a bit of distant south asian, etc in her. Her sister looks closer to mixed race, which again shows how brothers and sisters don’t always reflect their ethnicity equally.

    • Peanut says:

      yes. average saints lucians are genetically 74,5% black, 18% white, 7,5% amerindian. dominicans are 35,5% black, 58% white, 6,5% amerindian, so theoretically she would be 58,5% white, 36,375% black, 5,125% amerindian. seems about right, based on her looks.

  5. fuzzybear44 says:

    Man, Caribbean people love moving to Europe. I thought she was African stock

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