Camila Mendes
Camila Mendes – Marie Claire Celebrates “Fresh Faces” with an Event Sponsored by Maybelline – Arrivals – Doheny Room Lounge, 9077 Santa Monica Boulevard – West Hollywood, CA, USA, 2017 – Photo Credit: PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Camila Carraro Mendes
Place of Birth: Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 29, 1994
Ethnicity: Brazilian [Portuguese, Indigenous, possibly other]
Camila Mendes is an American actress. She stars as Veronica on the show Riverdale.
She is the daughter of Gisele (Carraro) and Victor Mendes.
Camila’s parents are Brazilian. Her father is from Brasília and her mother is from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Her father’s surname is usually Portuguese. Her mother’s surname can be of Italian origin. Growing up, Camila lived in Plantation, Florida, for several years, and for a year in Brazil.
Camila has stated:
For me, being an ‘American Latina’ means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.
Source: http://www.glamour.com
Never would’ve guessed she was brazillian
being her mother white (and with a Venetian surname) her father is definitely mixed-race
Most people from Brasília are. I’m quite sure her father has some Amerindian roots.
she looks Polynesian
LOL. She doesn’t look Polynesian whatsoever. She looks many Native admixed Latinos I’ve seen.
I assume you and many others don’t consider Camila “white” but I have friends who say otherwise. It depends on perspective I guess. To my friends they see anyone pale skin as “white”. And that includes many East Asians who have white skin (and when European explorers first arrived in East Asia, they originally described them as “white”).
And in Camila’s own home country she can definitely pass and identify as “white”. There are “White” Brazilians with some African or Native ancestry and look more “ethnic” than her but still pass and identify as “white”.
I am not sure she may be considered branca (white) in his home country.
It’s true native Tongans or Samoans are much more brown than her, but I’ve seen her phenotype in Cook Islands women.
@alexgxo She is not white passing. East Asians are not “white” and never will be simply because…they aren’t. Whats wrong with being asian? Also many East Asians aren’t TRULY pale. Most East Asians have brown areolas/genitalia. Most turn a fine golden color under the sun. Having light skin doesn’t automatically make you pale.
There are more white people in Brazil than mixed people actually.