Christina Milian

Milian in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Birth Name: Christine Marie Flores

Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.

Date of Birth: September 26, 1981

Ethnicity: Cuban [African, Spanish]

Christina Milian is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She has starred in the films Love Don’t Cost a Thing, Torque, Man of the House, Pulse, and Falling Inn Love, and on television’s Movie Surfers and Grandfathered. She has also been credited as Christine Flores-Nash, the latter name from her former husband; Christina Flores, Christine Flores, and Christine Milian.

She was born in New Jersey, to Cuban immigrants, Carmen and Don Flores, who are of African-Cuban descent, with Spanish ancestry. A picture of her father can be seen here. She uses her mother’s surname. Christina was raised mostly in Waldorf, Maryland.

Christina is able to speak Spanish.

Christina has a daughter with her former husband, singer, songwriter, and record producer The-Dream; and two children with her partner, French singer and songwriter M. Pokora.

Christina’s paternal grandfather was Cuban boxer Jose Ramon Flores.

Pictures of Christina’s paternal grandparents can be seen here and here.