Jasika Nicole
Nicole in 2015, photo by kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Jasika Nicole Pruitt
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 10, 1980
Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*European (mother)
Jasika Nicole is an American actress and illustrator. She is known for her roles, as Astrid Farnsworth on the series Fringe, and on Scandal and The Good Doctor.
On growing up in a mixed-race family in Alabama, she has said:
I was influenced largely by my environment which was almost all white, and anti-black. I understood that my light skin and the fact that I was biracial gave me the point of view that a lot of black girls my age didn’t have, in terms of how others treated us. People would tell me I was pretty, but it was because I have lighter skin. They weren’t saying that to my black cousin.
Jasika is married to CJ Savage.
Nicole, who has a black dad and white mom, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where she said racial tensions were high. “It’s still so segregated and antiquated in a lot of the roles people have in that city. I left home to go to college in North Carolina, then in New York. Each time I returned, I felt more and more different. I felt I was having to squeeze myself into who I was there and I wasn’t that person anymore.”
http://swaay.com/jasika-nicole-breaking-barriers-playing-roles-matter/
“I was influenced largely by my environment which was almost all white, and anti-black. I understood that my light skin and the fact that I was biracial gave me the point of view that a lot of black girls my age didn’t have, in terms of how others treated us. People would tell me I was pretty, but it was because I have lighter skin. They weren’t saying that to my black cousin.”
Quote(I was influenced largely by my environment which was almost all white, and anti-black.)
She thinks she had it bad, My two 2nd cousins ( fathers family) are all KKK members
Correction she is bi-racial.
Do you have a source?
She gorgeous.