Gina Rodriguez
Rodriguez in 2011, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Gina Alexis Rodriguez
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 30, 1984
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican [African, Spanish, Taíno], other
Gina Rodriguez is an American actress, model, and writer. Her roles include the series The Bold and the Beautiful, Jane the Virgin, Carmen Sandiego, as the voice of the title character; Diary of a Future President, Lost Ollie, and Not Dead Yet; the films Filly Brown, Enter the Dangerous Mind, Sleeping with the Fishes, Sticky Notes, Deepwater Horizon, Annihilation, Miss Bala, Someone Great, Kajillionaire, Awake (2021), I Want You Back, and, in voice performance, The Star (2017), Ferdinand, Smallfoot, and Scoob!; and the made-for-tv movie My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2. She has also directed episodes of Jane the Virgin and Diary of a Future President.
Her parents, Magali and Genaro Rodriguez, are Puerto Rican. A picture of Gina with her parents can be seen here. Gina is married to actor, model, and MMA fighter Joe LoCicero, with whom she has a son.
Gina was raised Catholic. She is a practicing Christian.
One of Gina’s great-grandmothers was named Rosa.
Gina has said that her father is of African-Latino descent.
She has stated (at 46:10) that her maternal grandmother’s father was Jewish, a French Jew.
She also added:
I have Dutch in me and Taíno. Possibly some Italian too. I’m all the things!
On diversity in casting, Gina has said:
Television and film are supposed to be a reflection of reality, right? We just want to see a slice of life. We want to be able to connect. We want to cry. We want to look at our lives on screen. It’s clear to me that execs need to step outside of their office and really look at life. We are in interracial relationships. We speak multiple languages. We’re multiple religions inside of that. I have Jewish ancestors. My sister converted to Judaism. I have Christians and Catholics and Buddhists in my family. I have multiracial, multiethnic relationships. We need to start casting color-blind because there is no specific anymore.
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She’s Puerto Rican get over it you dicks, I can’t stand people who want somene to claim their culture or race so bad, she’s Puerto Rican both of her parents are Puerto Rican, get fuckin over it.
Look up Puerto Rican demographics, you’ll see we are very mixed.
whoever says she does not look Puerto Rican must not been to Puerto Rico, New York or Boston, there is no “Puerto Rican” look you ignorant fucks,
what the hell, she looks straight up south east asian or polynesian
I’m guessing that her Asiatic look comes from possible Native American Taino genes…
She’s beautiful and flawless. She looks like a mestiza Mexican, Colombian or Brazilian not Puerto Rican though.
Colombian and brazilia mestizo doen´t look like that. Those are triracial or mulattos.
Looks like a mestiza, which is odd for a Puerto Rican, especially seeing how the average PR is only like 5% Native American.
Its not odd. Puerto is very diverse mixture: A recent genetic DNA study conducted in Puerto Rico suggests that between 52.6% and 84% of the population possess some degree of Amerindian mtDNA in their maternal ancestry, usually in a combination with other ancestries. In addition, these DNA studies show Amerindian ancestry in addition to the Taíno.[198][199][200][201]
One genetic study on the racial makeup of Puerto Ricans found them to be roughly around 61% West Eurasian (overwhelmingly of Spanish provenance), 27% Sub-Saharan African and 11% Native American.[202] Another genetic study from 2007, claimed that “the average genomewide individual (ie. Puerto Rican) ancestry proportions have been estimated as 66%, 18%, and 16%, for European, West African, and Native American, respectively.”[203] Other study estimates 63.7% European, 21.2% (Sub-Saharan) African, and 15.2% Native American; European ancestry is more prevalent in the West and in Central Puerto Rico, African in Eastern Puerto Rico, and Native American in Northern Puerto Rico.[204]
And according to DNA Tribes SNP Admixture Results by Population 2013, Puerto Ricans are 72.2% West Eurasian (49% European, 18.3% Saharan-Arabian, 4.9% West Asian), 12.7% Native American, 12.5% Sub-Saharan African, and 1.4% Northeast African.[205]
most puerto ricans look 75% spaniard and 25% african, and its pretty rare for a puerto rican to have that much native in them most have around 6% native in them, and many canary islanders migrated to puerto rico, canarians are a mix of spaniard and ancient berbers, many canarians do look somewhat mestizo but its not due to having any amerindian blood, you’ll find pure berbers that look very mestizo
Wtf? She looks Filipino.
Gina is most definitely mixed race. Filipino and Latin. She is clearly Filipina because her father is Filipino and looks Filipina. Why she denies this part of her heritage is odd. It’s hurtful to a culture.
@west final
Well I’ve seen where she has stated , that her father is Afro-latino, but not Filipino