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 looks 100% Taino
Are there any full-blooded Tainos left? Wikipedia says not.
No. The language became extict by like the 1500’s; like, 80-90% of Taino’s had died in the first 50 or so years of contact. As an individual culture, they’ve been gone for quite some time, maybe even as far back as the 1550’s.
That’d be so little that a single ancestor wouldn’t count as part of one’s ancestry, so I presume most people with Taino ancestry have it from Mestizo ancestors.
The Guanches of the Canary Islands and Tasmanian Aboriginals are also two ethnic groups with no full-blooded members left.
Well, yes, We know that over 60% of Puerto Ricans have some Taino DNA from the most recent study. There was extensive mixing very early on.
I wonder to what degree though? Single digit percentages? More?
Looks a bit polynesian.
Most definitely
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v_-BY4K3rC0/maxresdefault.jpg
Her Taino ancestry is probably a lot higher than the average Puerto Rican.
She tried to convince us her father is “Afro-Puerto Rican”
https://i.imgur.com/yYGmSiF.jpg
Nobody fell for it because we have eyes. Also, I highly doubt she has any Dutch ancestry.
She kinda looks Filipino.
Filipinos are exactly the mix of what she is thats why, triracials, Including the African. The aboriginals of the Filipinos are African looking “Aetas”. Link https://originalpeople.org/the-aeta-people-indigenous-tribe-of-the-philippines/
@midori
You. Not black.
https://www.instagram.com/hereisgina/p/yw9QE8nLjm/
One of her great-grandmothers was named Rosa.