Christina Cox
Christina Cox – No Kill L.A. Charity Event for Pets at Fred Segal Cafe in West Hollywood on April 2, 2013 – Fred Segal Mauro Cafe – West Hollywood, CA, USA – Keywords: Orientation: Portrait Face Count: 1 – False – Photo Credit: Glenn Francis / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: July 31, 1971
Ethnicity:
*father – English, German, Irish, Cornish, Northern Irish, Scottish, Dutch
*mother – Jamaican
Christina Cox is a Canadian film and television actress and stuntperson.
Her father was an automotive executive. Her parents are pictured here. Christina is married to football player and television personality Grant Mattos, with whom she has a daughter.
She is of half Jamaican ancestry. She has also said:
It’s just that I’m Canadian, and it’s more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here. I also don’t have a face that lends itself to period pieces because I’m ethnically diverse. You go back as little as a hundred years ago and you were Scottish, or Scottish and Irish maybe. You weren’t Indo-Caribbean-Japanese-African-Latino. It’s just not something that came up and if it did, it was pretty rare. Now if you’re ethnically diverse, it serves you better to just be a human being. It’s all moving that way, anyway.
Christina’s paternal grandfather was Clarence Louis “Fliv” Cox (the son of Albert Francis Cox and Ethel Blanche Pingle). Albert was the son of English parents, David Cox, from Oxfordshire, and Mary Clapton, from North Leigh, Oxford. Ethel was the daughter of Thomas Cadwell Pingle, who was of German descent, and of Ann Francis Burton, who had English ancestry.
Christina’s paternal grandmother was Helen Anna Darch (the daughter of Albert Leslie Darch and Florence Emeline Dineen). Albert was the son of David Darch, who was the son of a Cornish father and an Irish mother; and of Mabel Ann Fletcher, who was the daughter of a Canadian father, with Scottish, English, and Dutch ancestry, and of an Irish Protestant mother, from County Cavan. Christina’s great-grandmother Florence was born in Illinois, U.S., to a Canadian father, John Dineen, whose parents were Irish; and to an American mother, Anna Ernestine Auguste Lisette Henriette Stöwsand, whose parents were German.
Christina’s maternal grandfather’s surname was McNamee.
Sources: https://mobile.twitter.com
Obituary of Christina’s father – https://www.dignitymemorial.com
Genealogies of Christina’s paternal grandparents, Clarence Louis “Fliv” Cox and Helen Anna (Darch) Cox – https://www.findagrave.com
Marion McNamee is her mother. This man was born in Jamaica, lived in Canada, and has a sister named Marion:
https://canadianobituaries.com/durham/131511-barrington-mcnamee-july-11-2020.html
If he’s her mother’s brother (which it seems like he is), then:
Christina’s maternal grandfather was Claud Wesley McNamee (the son of George Ayres McNamee and Susan Eliza Maria Farquharson McNamee). George was the son of Edward Charles Ferguson McNamee and Elizabeth Jane Ayres, whose parents were English. Susan was the daughter of William Henry Farquharson McNamee and Rose Ann Blake.
Edward and William were brothers and were the sons of an Irish father and a British mother.
Christina’s maternal grandfather was Dorothy Lucille Allen (the daughter of Thomas Ebenezer Allen and Sarah Elizabeth “Liz” Allen). Thomas was the son of Daniel Allen, whose parents were English, and of Mary White. Sarah was the daughter of Louis Allen and Mary Louise Ayres, whose parents were English.
I see someone on reddit said that Cox “posted her obviously Black grandfather.” I haven’t seen the picture myself. There are pictures of Claud Wesley McNamee on ancestry.com, and he doesn’t seem very black. But who knows.
I would be slightly surprised if her white mother had an “obviously Black” father, but I guess it wouldn’t be the weirdest thing I’ve seen here. If Jeremy Renner’s mother can be half black, so can Christina’s.
Jeremy Renner mother is not “half black”…that is a ridiculous thing to say. And about Cox mother, just check her insta.
Jeremy Renner is a black man.
Technically if he has Jamaican ancestors, I am still working on it (I found a Spain-based doctor from Panama who I believe is related to him, and looks part black as they say in US).
Her mother looks white by the IG pics she posted
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/aurora-on/ab-cox-8197731
https://sv.findagrave.com/memorial/149450243/clarence-l_-cox
https://sv.findagrave.com/memorial/149450299/helen_a_cox
Her father’s ancestry is English, German, Irish, Cornish, Northern Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
Christina’s paternal grandfather was Clarence Louis “Fliv” Cox (the son of Albert Francis Cox and Ethel Blanche Pingle). Albert was the son of English parents, David Cox and Mary Clapton. Ethel was the daughter of Thomas Cadwell Pingle, who was of German descent, and of Ann Francis Burton, who had English ancestry.
Christina’s paternal grandmother was Helen Anna Darch (the daughter of Albert Leslie Darch and Florence Emeline Dineen). Albert was the son of David Darch, who was the son of a Cornish father and an Irish mother, and of Mabel Ann Fletcher, who was the daughter of a Canadian father, with Scottish, English, and Dutch ancestry, and an Irish protestant mother. Florence was born in Illinois, U.S., to a Canadian father, John Dineen, whose parents were Irish, and an American mother, Anna Ernestine Auguste Lisette Henriette Stöwsand, whose parents were German.
Christina’s maternal grandfather’s surname was McNamee (assuming the wife in the obituary is Christina’s mother).
I’m not sure she refered to herself when she said “Indo-Caribbean-Japanese-African-Latino” in that quote. I think she’s just saying that many people today are descended from more than one or two ethnicities.