Rodrigo Santoro

Santoro in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Birth Name: Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro

Place of Birth: Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date of Birth: 22 August, 1975

Ethnicity:
*father – Italian
*mother – Brazilian [Portuguese, including Azorean, possibly other]

Rodrigo Santoro is a Brazilian actor. He is known for his roles in the films Love Actually, 300, Che, Rio, and Hemingway & Gellhorn, and on HBO’s Westworld. His father, Francesco Santoro, is Italian, and is an engineer from Paola, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy. His mother, Maria José Junqueira dos Reis, who is Brazilian, has Portuguese ancestry, including some Azorean roots.

Rodrigo has a daughter with his partner, television host, actress, and singer Mel Fronckowiak.

Rodrigo’s paternal grandfather was named Salvatore “Salvador” Santoro. Salvatore was born in Paola, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.

Rodrigo’s paternal grandmother is Eva Melucci (the daughter of Paolo Melucci and Isabella Santoro). Eva was born in Paola.

Rodrigo’s maternal grandfather was Francisco Prudente Junqueira Reis (the son of Gabriel Junqueira Reis and Maria Henriqueta Junqueira). Gabriel was the son of Prudente dos Reis Meirelles and Francisca Ribeiro de Carvalho Junqueira, and had ancestors in Felgueiras, Porto; Horta, Faial Island, Azores; Trancoso, Guarda; Vila do Conde, Porto; and Ovar, Aveiro, all in Portugal. Rodrigo’s great-grandmother Maria Henriqueta was the daughter of Francisco Olyntho Fortes Junqueira and Adelina Clara Diniz.

Rodrigo’s maternal grandmother was Maria Antonietta Ribeiro Bueno (the daughter of José Prado da Silva Bueno and Maria José Ribeiro).

Sources: Genealogy of Rodrigo Santoro (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://geneall.net

Obituary of Rodrigo’s paternal grandfather, Salvatore Santoro – https://www.diariodepetropolis.com.br

Immigration record of Rodrigo’s paternal grandmother, Eva (Melucci) Santoro – https://www.familysearch.org

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39 Responses

    • passingtime85 says:

      His father looks like actor Jack Riley.

      • andrew says:

        Who was of Irish descent.

        • Jonas says:

          @andrew Exactly, he looks like him, this man is as white as it gets, would not say he looks “typically irish” since he’s not irish, but he’s totally white euro… Rodrigo’s ancestry is very well documented, going back several generations, it’s really not a controversial case. There’s no point in arguing with mentally ill people.

          • myfellowwhitepeople says:

            Go to other places and articles, forums, etc… besides this site and you will see that several people say that this man is not White, just as Gisele Budchen is not White either. the only crazy person here is you, a real White person always knows how to recognize another White person

          • Urimnak says:

            Exactly only for you non Europeans he’s white in the Old Continent he looks only a colored Hispanic and Arab man.
            Both of the old men his father and the fake Irish have very big large nose the type I see only on the multiracial Americans and the others ultramixed non-Europeans.
            So if his father and his mother are fully Europeans why he pops out so dark and her sister has Asiatic eyes?

  1. jonasbsjr says:

    classic example of white brazillian with ”mixed” portuguese and italian ancestry, there are litarally millions like him in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, and Espiríto Santo, in these 3 states, at least 25% of the population is of either full portuguese or full italian ancestry, and the ones with both this ancestries are up form at least 40% of the population all togheter

  2. stlucas says:

    Rodrigo’s paternal grandfather was Salvatore “Salvador” Santoro. Salvatore was born in Paola, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.

    Rodrigo’s paternal grandmother is/was Eva Melucci (the daughter of Paolo Melucci and Isabella Santoro). Eva was born in Paola, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.

    Obituary of Rodrigo’s paternal grandfather, Salvatore Santoro – https://www.diariodepetropolis.com.br/integra/morre-salvatore-santoro-120994

    Immigration record of Rodrigo’s paternal grandmother, Eva (Melucci) Santoro – https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8HR-Q59

  3. stlucas says:

    He has a daughter with Mel Fronckowiak. (http://ethnicelebs.com/mel-fronckowiak)

  4. stlucas says:

    Rodrigo’s maternal grandfather was Francisco Prudente Junqueira Reis.

    His parents were Gabriel Junqueira Reis (the son of Prudente dos Reis Meirelles and Francisca Ribeiro de Carvalho Junqueira) and Maria Henriqueta Junqueira (the daughter of Francisco Olyntho Fortes Junqueira and Adelina Clara Diniz).

    Prudente’s paternal grandfather, João de Sousa Meireles, was from Felgueiras, Porto, Portugal. João was Rodrigo’s great-great-great-great-grandfather.

    Francisca’s paternal great-grandparents, Francisco Ribeira da Cunha and Mariana Gonçalves, hailed from Trancoso, Guarda, Portugal. Francisco and Mariana were Rodrigo’s great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.

    Francisca’s maternal great-grandfather, João Francisco Junqueira, was from Vila do Conde, Porto, Portugal. João’s wife, Helena Maria do Espírito Santo, was born in Brazil to a Portuguese father (from Ovar, Aveiro) and an Azorean Portuguese mother (from Horta, Faial Island, Azores).

    Rodrigo’s maternal grandmother was Maria Antonietta Ribeiro Bueno (the daughter of José Prado da Silva Bueno and Maria José Ribeiro).

    Genealogy of Rodrigo Santoro (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://geneall.net/pt/nome/620929/rodrigo-santoro/

    • stlucas says:

      João de Sousa Meireles’ wife, Mariana Antónia de Jesus, also had ancestry from Horta, Faial Island, Azores.

    • Jonas says:

      His ancestry is well documented, i have seen his relatives many times in brazillian media, they’re ALL standard upper-class white brazillians from the southeast, with Portuguese and Italian ancestry. Since he’s southern euro he has a strong olive a that makes he tan easily, but that’s it. I have seen him in many roles where he has no tan and he’s natural complexion is completely in line with his southern euro ancestry. Only trait in hum that can be considered “non-white” is his eyes, but there’s plenty of full euro born men with those eyes as well, and his nose is totally italian-like. Some people on this site like to troll way too much.

      • Jonas says:

        *he has a strong olive complexion

      • jorger65 says:

        a interesting thing is that he’s descended from the “três ilhoas” who were 3 Portuguese sisters from the Azores islands who were among the first European settlers in São João D’el Rey, Minas Gerais state, just like a lot of celebrities in Brazil apparently https://noticiasdetv.com/2018/09/03/exclusivo-cinco-atores-que-nao-sabem-que-sao-primos-de-sangue/

      • Urimnak says:

        Since you’re Brazilian/Hispanic with no knowledge of Euro races like the 99% of the users here because you and them never have been in Europe and you have your personal idea of us,
        unlike me because I am a European from real, can’t and don’t open up your hybrid mouth.
        He can be only someone mixed to Arabs and Turkish, not the average white European Southern man cause his skin is dark and his face isnt’ European the real Southerns are very different, seems a dark Slav of Turkish root also.
        You’re the one who always said the Iberians like the Southern Portuguese you are related are Celtic-Germanic very light and Nordic roft! Now you change your version, choose what to say brasilero!
        Take a breath and calm down you taliban, I say this because you look like the same ones from Middle East we see from tv.
        His surname is Sicilian and can be in fact this ethnicity but of real Semitic Levantine origin due to the very ancient Arab background, like others, of these people and other Southern Italians, the source? Me a native from this place, but my real roots are Spaniard from North Spain cause the South have had multiple foreigner invasions.
        In the feedback you ask no more “racism” which is only real spread of informations and not lies like your own but yourself love to target some races like the ones you talk about.
        What a double-face you are.
        Stop to pretend you Hispanics are the same of us because you aren’t and because you hate to not be white and you don’t accept your race, you’re not Europeans and will never be you must welcome yourselves.

        • andrew says:

          @urimnak AKA muricansareallmutts

          You are so dyslexic it hurts, and full of hate for everybody. You need help.

          Santoro is a pan-Southern Italian surname, not just Sicilian. And nothing to do with “real Semitic Levantine origin due to the very ancient Arab background” (?).
          What?

          His dad: https://s2-gshow.glbimg.com/V-YJlo3Q1drsXwdpHErCMDfldh4=/0x0:1054×1280/600×0/smart/filters:gifv():strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_e84042ef78cb4708aeebdf1c68c6cbd6/internal_photos/bs/2024/j/A/1K5z3CQyGSJuUcP4Mv1g/whatsapp-image-2024-02-18-at-13.13.05.jpeg

          He does not even looks Mediterranean, but an Alpine/Central Euto type.

          I know a woman with this surname, she is tall, slender, blond, blue-eyed and tans like a lobster.

          • Urimnak says:

            Ya understand? Only Hispanic and Semitic not Alpine, Central and every European races which match zero to him.

      • myfellowwhitepeople says:

        even though he is upper/middle class he is still not a white man anywhere other than Brazil

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