Bárbara Mori
Mori in 2010, image via kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Bárbara Mori Ochoa
Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Date of Birth: 2 February, 1978
Ethnicity: Uruguayan [Japanese, Spanish, Basque, Lebanese], some Mexican
Bárbara Mori is an Uruguayan-Mexican actress, model, producer, and writer. She is known for her role in Rubi, a Mexican soap opera that had scored high ratings and popularity around Latin America.
She is the daughter of Rosario Ochoa and Yuyi Mori Robles. Her father is Uruguayan, and is of half Japanese descent. Her mother is sometimes described as being Mexican. Barbara was raised in both Uruguay and Mexico, and is a citizen of both countries. She also has Basque and Lebanese ancestry. Her sister is actress Kenya Mori.
Bárbara has a son with her former partner, actor Sergio Mayer.
Bárbara’s paternal grandfather was named Saburo Mori. Saburo was from Himenoi, Kōchi, Japan.
Bárbara’s maternal grandmother is named Gladys Julia Vazquez Rodriguez.
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The japanese and middle eastern are obvious in her eyes,nose,hair,body…
she doesn’t look just eurasian(biracial),the arab and mestizo are visible in her,she looks multiracial.
just your opinion, she doesnt look Eurasian nor “Arab” or Mestizo, if her 1/4 Japanese wasnt revealed I wouldn’t have guessed it. She looks quite European as she is for the most part
http://media.glamsham.com/download/wallpaper/celebrities/images/b/barbara-mori-03-12×9.jpg
yeah i wouldnt have guesses that eitheir she looks whitish, but probably because she is mostly white
Just your opinion imo she looks Eurasian Latina too.. but mostly Arab she has Arab eyes those are not European eyes plus dark hair she has an exotic appearance very mixed
At the end she is latin not european anyhow
the surname Mori is Italian. not a Spanish or Basque name. Being from Uruguay, no big deal. Italians are about half of the whole population of this small country
Sorry to burst your bubble, sir, but in her context, Mori (森) is a Japanese surname, which means “Forest” in English. Where does it say anywhere that she’s Italian?
Mori is a common Italian surname, how can be Japanese? It means “brunette”. Uruguay is like Argentina, a Spanish speaking country where actually more than 50% of population has Italian roots
uh it can be Japanese because it’s also Japanese? what the hell kind of a question is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mori
I just discovered Mori can be Japanese too.
Barbara Mori is 1/4 Japanese at most btw
Mori is a japanese surname.Barbara looks part japanese and a multiracial woman. However she can pass for a exotic italian,she looks a bit like the ex-girlfriend of Mario Balotelli,Raffaela Fico.
i thought this site only featured famous people? she’s a nobody
Well, Bárbara Mori is famous in Mexico and much of Latin America for the 2004 Mexican telenovela (Latin television soap opera) series “Rubí” and the 2005 Mexican movie “La mujer de mi hermano” (“My Brother’s Wife”; in India, it is known as “A Beautiful Wife” in English and “Spanish Beauty” in Hindi), and in India for starring with Indian actor Hrithik Roshan in the much publicized 2010 Bollywood film “Kites.”
Add the populations of Latin America and India together, and one gets well over a billion people.
Mori has not crossed over into doing Hollywood films – like Mexican-born, naturalized American citizen Salma Hayek has – so she is not really familiar to the general American public.
So she’s like a quarter Japanese??
well, thats what it says
As I have documented here on EthniCelebs and elsewhere – and there are many sources in English and in Spanish which say so – Bárbara Mori is part (one quarter) Japanese.
You can google images of Bárbara Mori, her older sister Kenya Mori, and younger brother Kintaró Mori:
http://www.google.com/search?q=barbara+mori
http://www.google.com/search?q=kenya+mori
http://www.google.com/search?q=kintaro+mori