Eva Marcille
Marcille in 2009, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Eva Marcille Pigford
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: October 30, 1984
Ethnicity: African-American, as well as at least one eighth English
Eva Marcille is an American actress, model, and television personality. She was previously credited under her birth name Eva Pigford. Eva was the winner of the third cycle of America’s Next Top Model. She was the first African-American contestant to win the program. She founded CBD oil company cEVAd.
She is the daughter of Michelle Yvette and Evan Anthony Pigford. Her middle name, Marcille, is a combination of the names of her grandmothers, Marjorie and Lucille.
Eva is sometimes described as having Puerto Rican ancestry. It appears that this is not accurate. One of her grandmothers lived in Puerto Rico for a time.
Eva has a daughter with her former partner, rapper, musician, actor, and record producer Kevin McCall; and two children with her former husband, attorney Michael Sterling.
Eva’s paternal grandfather was named Major Lincoln Pigford (the son of Abraham Lincoln Pigford and Clara Belle Johnson/Smith). Major was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents from Texas. He was African-American. Abraham was the son of Wright Pigford and Lucy/Lula Harrison.
Eva’s paternal grandmother was Marjorie Florence Rolls (the daughter of Percy Joseph Rolls and Marjorie Florence Pells). Eva’s grandmother Marjorie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Percy was born in West Virginia, to African-American parents, Marshall Rolls and Margurette Black. Eva’s great-grandmother Marjorie was born in London, United Kingdom, to English parents, John Pells and Florence Swarder.
Eva’s maternal grandfather is named Lester Smith.
Eva’s maternal grandmother is named Lucille Tomlin (the daughter of Riley T. Tomlin). Riley was born in Texas, the son of William H. Tomlin and Lina Evans.
Sources: Information about the Tomlin family – http://www.tomlinfamilyreunion.org
Marriage record of Eva’s parents – https://familysearch.org
Eva’s paternal grandfather, Major Lincoln Pigford, on the 1930 U.S. Censuses – https://www.familysearch.org
Major Lincoln Pigford on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Naturalization record of Eva’s paternal grandmother, Marjorie Florence Pigford – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Eva’s paternal great-grandfather, Percy Joseph Rolls – https://www.newspapers.com
Obituary of Eva’s paternal great-grandmother, Marjorie Florence (Pells) Rolls –
https://www.newspapers.com
YOU CAN NOT BE 100% BLACK WITH FEATURES SHE HAS. I AM MIXED AND I KNOW ALL YA’LL THAT THINK U CAN BE BLACK AND LOOK LIKE THAT ARE DUMB
ur a stupid b****
Actually my dad has those same color eyes, and same complexion and both of his parents are black. NONE of them are biracial, not even triracial or a “quadroon”. Skin tone and eye color can be passed down from an ancestor long ago. It’s called GENETICS.
Her hair texture, and facial features indicate heavy admixture. Yes, you can be 1/8 white and have green eyes but what about your fathers facial features and hair texture?
no actually some scientists think that traits like that started from africans in the 1st place. If u look it up you will find straight african people with blue and green eyes.
shut the fuck up you have no idea what the hell your talking about…… (YA’LL THAT THINK U CAN BE BLACK AND LOOK LIKE THAT ARE DUMB?????????????)
My younger cousin is dark skin and has blue eyes and so does her little brother…. and guess what their black, people always think I’m Hispanic or mixed and i’m not i’m light skin and have light brown eyes with curly hair and both me and my parents are black so don’t flatter yourself and watch what you say because I find your comment extremely offensive .
I thought she was of somali origin like imani whatever she is let her be. But bottom line ur hot pretty and hope you tamed your acts from Antm
Which is why I said “background”, KD. Approximately 35-40%(yeah, I’m pulling numbers out my a**, more or less though) of AA and Black Caribbeans have another race in their background.
This mixed crap was started by CAUCASIANS as a way to separate blacks from each other. Have the lightskinned and dark skinned blacks hating each other. But they do it today to try to claim black people, esp. black women can’t be beautiful unless their mixed. Every beautiful black woman, white people desperatly try to find out and disclose every shred of ethnicity other than black. But they don’t do the same with mixed people who are unattractive, like Tiny. The idea is to make black women feel inferior and subliminally separate our men from us (by making them falsely see light skin or more caucasian features as more desirable) because of the white races inborn inferiority complex.
But eva is obviously mixed. You sound like a racist that just hates mixed people.
One thing about Black people I can’t stand is when they ask another, “Are you mixed?”. They try to argue you down that you’re not. Stop asking the question then! You know the one drop rule so I wish everyone would just shut the f up, especially the ones that look 100% pure African. You know most of us have something else in us but who would ever know since most of us don’t have a family tree we can trace. Its always the ones who don’t look mixed that want to start this nonsense.
”especially the ones that look 100% pure African. ” how ignorant u sound, what is wrong with being 100% African? Is it a disease or if ur African automatically ur ugly? Don’t tell me u feed into wat white people make u believe that black women (especially African) are ugly. OMG if u want to be recognised as white or mixed so BE IT u r free, let the dark skinned ones alone ain’t nothing so special about being mixed urgh and this is coming from an extremely mixed mulatto person. I just had to say something after reading ignorant comment. Since everybody and their mamas want to be everything but BLACK, let us the ones who accept being black alone, don’t insult us for being black, tchip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahahaha! get it girl! Africans are a beautifull people group coming in all shades. We are very diverse and are a beautifull people. Some need to just accept that! :)