Faizon Love
Love in 2009, photo by Featureflash Photo Agency/shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Langston Faizon Santisima
Place of Birth: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Date of Birth: June 14, 1968
Ethnicity: African-Cuban
Faizon Love is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his roles in the films Friday (1995), Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Elf, The Perfect Holiday, and Couples Retreat.
Faizon was raised by Ernestine and Richard P. Love. He was evidently born Langston Faizon Santisima in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Faizon has described himself as “Cuban Black.” It appears that he is of African-Cuban background, and was adopted by his African-American parents (see here and here for said intimations). Because of his adoptive father’s U.S. Navy career, Faizon was raised a military brat, living in Southeast San Diego, California, and Newark, New Jersey.
Richard P. Love was born in Georgia, the son of Richard O. Love, who was also born in Georgia, and Dorothy/Patience Duncan, who was born in South Carolina.
Ernestine Love was the daughter of John Henry Parmer and Lois Lewis, who were born in Greenville, Alabama.
Source: Obituary of Faizon’s adoptive maternal grandmother, Lois (Lewis) Parmer – https://www.newspapers.com
Maternal grandmother’s obituary:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97949269/obituary-for-lois-parmer-aged-63/
Faizon’s maternal grandfather was John Henry Parmer (the son of Clark Parmer and Fannie Mae Purifoy). John was born in Greenville, Alabama.
Faizon’s maternal grandmother was Lois Lewis (the daughter of Charlie Lewis and Maggie Jones). Lois was born in Greenville, Alabama.
He refers to himself as “Cuban Black” in this tweet: https://twitter.com/faizonlove/status/768118644513574912
correction tag should be african-cuban by all, also with afro-haitian
He was born where I was born? OMG!!!! loving it
wow so he is cuban
i rmember there was so much discussion going on about hes ancestry lmao
so he was born to afro-cuban parents or was just born in cuba to african american parents because he’s father was in the army??
He was born in Cuba to an African American father who was stationed there and an Afro-Cuban mother.