Ralph Macchio
Birth Name: Ralph George Macchio
Place of Birth: Huntington, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: November 4, 1961
Ethnicity:
*75% Italian
*25% Greek
Ralph Macchio is an American actor. He is known for playing Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid films and on the Cobra Kai series, and for his roles in the films Up the Academy, The Outsiders, Teachers, Crossroads (1986), Distant Thunder, Too Much Sun, My Cousin Vinny, Naked in New York, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, Can’t Be Heaven, Artie Lange’s Beer League, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, Hitchcock (2012), He’s Way More Famous Than You, and Lost Cat Corona, on the shows Eight Is Enough, Ugly Betty, and The Deuce, and in the made-for-tv movies The Three Wishes of Billy Grier and Psych: The Movie.
He is the son of Rosalia Desantis and Ralph Macchio. His father is of half Italian and half Greek descent. His mother is of Italian descent, the daughter of parents from Province of Avellino, Campania, Italy. He also has roots in Naples. Ralph is married to nurse practicioner Phyllis Fierro, with whom he has two children.
Ralph’s paternal grandfather was named Saverio Macchio. Saverio was born in New York, of Italian descent.
Ralph’s paternal grandmother was named Edna Chamas. Edna was born in New York, of Greek ancestry.
Source: http://www.irpinianews.it
Southern Italians = Greeks, dumbass.
He defiantly looks Italian but Italians and Greeks look very similar so it’s hard too tell just like Spanish and Italians look very similar it’s hard too tell them apart.
Wow,I always thought he was hispanic
Macchio is part Italian. Before the Arab invasions the Italians were white. Look at the old Roman statues. Do they look like Macchio? Of course not.
He is part Arab, so his ethnicity should be Italian and Arab.
being made of white marble. Ralph as kid with his parents
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lmao some of these decade old comments are beyond astonishing xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
lol But Southern Europeans, the people that we call “Mediterraneans” in the western part are mixed with north Africans. Not Arabs. While in the Balkans (that’s where I’m from) they’re mixed with numerous Turkic ethnicities.
That’s a fact that they will tell you themselves.
His ethnicity should not be “Italian and Arab”. Just Italian/Greek. I can tell you’re american by the way.
Luv The Karate Kid!
I wonder if the new one compares to the original??
To Ethnic
Shouldn’t it be called the kung fu kid
yep they totally messed up on the name.
I Honestly Don’t Care, All I Know Is That Jaden Smith Is Sick….I’m So Gonna Watch The Remake.