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Birth Name:
Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Birth Place:
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Ethnicity:
Italian, Irish and Cherokee
The film director was born in Tennessee to an Italian American Father and an Irish Mother of part Cherokee ethnicity. This was stated on an article on BBC.co.uk.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3712013.stm
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He looks very Cherokee
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Wow, he is of Czech descent… cool :) (YES, Zastoupil is CZECH surname, which means something like “barred”)
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His mother’s married name is Zastoupil, it was his stepfather who was an Armenian American. They married when he was a toddler.
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Mermaid, You’re a Dumbass
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looks African American–his dad looks completely black!
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he by rayshal… he by rayshal
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You fools this is me and I’m Greek yes Greek I like butt fuming
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I like movies he make…….but he has the only chin.
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hairy brows JUST like joe jonas!!
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its czeckrtbgyrdbgslovakian.
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Zastoupil is NOT greek it is CZECH. who the hell wrote this????
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He is also may be part Greek. His mother’s maiden name is Greek.
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Marc B, thats a very good observation. I looked around the net and so far there is no evidence of Greek heritage.
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