Emmy Raver-Lampman
LOS ANGELES – FEB 12: Raver-Lampman at the premiere of Netflix’s ‘The Umbrella Academy’ at ArcLight Hollywood on February 12, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, Joe Seer/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Emily Christine Raver-Lampman
Place of Birth: Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 5, 1988
Ethnicity: African-American, European
Emmy Raver-Lampman is an American actress and singer. Her roles include the films Untitled Horror Movie, Blacklight, Dog (2022), Gatlopp, and The Beekeeper, and the series The Umbrella Academy and Central Park, the latter in voice performance; as well as many stage works.
She was adopted as a newborn, by Sharon Raver-Lampman, a professor at Old Dominion University, and Greg Raver-Lampman, a writer and teacher, who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has described herself as biracial. Her adoptive parents are white. They hyphenated their surnames together. Due to her mother’s work, she has lived in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and India, among other countries.
Emmy has one child with her fiancé, actor, rapper, and singer Daveed Diggs.
Greg Raver-Lampman is the son of Clifford Erle Lampman and Marguerite R. Hardy. Clifford was born in Valley City, Barnes, North Dakota.
Sharon Raver-Lampman was born in Yokosuka, Japan, to American parents, while her father was in the military. She is the daughter of James A. Raver and Ann Elizabeth “Nanci” Monahan. James was born in Cutler, Indiana. Nancy was born in New York, New York.
https://observer.com/2020/08/emmy-raver-lampman-interview-umbrella-academy-central-park/
“I think there are now conversations that can be had—and I’m just speaking specifically about Central Park—that can be had about Molly that can involve me, and what it was like for me as a biracial teenager growing up. It broadens the ability to tell stories. Now having a biracial woman voicing a biracial character, we can actually have her talk about the struggles of finding the right hair product when you’re half white and half Black.”