Tatyana Ali
Ali in 2010, Joe Seer/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Tatyana Marisol Ali
Place of Birth: North Bellmore, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 24, 1979
Ethnicity: Indian-Trinidadian, African-Panamanian
Tatyana Ali is an American actress, model, and R&B singer. She is known for playing Ashley Banks on the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Her father, Sheriff Ali, is of East Indian ancestry, from Trinidad and Tobago. Her mother, Sonia, is of African-Panamanian heritage. Panamanians are made up of predominantly mixed Amerindian and Spanish ethnicities, otherwise referred to as Mestizo. Her sister is television producer Anastasia N. Ali.
Ali speaks Spanish fluently, and some Hindi.
Tatyana is married to educator Vaughn Rasberry, with whom she has two children.
ummm…trinidad has almost 50% east indians residing there from the days of indentureship and the caribbean was given the name west indian was bcuz columbus thought he sailed to east india but the N.E. trades pulled his ship into the wrong direction. Anyways…she is half black half east indian…even though the indians live in the caribbean…they r still indian. SHEZ NOT JUST BLACK…its MIXED no matter what the mix is
shes is black obviously her mother is a black panamanian
well its true..da indians in da west indies are called east indians…thats my race too..am from guyana alzo..
yes that’s true, the West Indian islands consist of many different islands not all of them are African decent
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