Jason Momoa
Momoa in 2011, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 1, 1979
Ethnicity:
*father – Native Hawaiian, small amount of English
*mother – German, possibly other
Jason Momoa is an American actor, model, director, writer, and producer. He plays Arthur Curry / Aquaman in the DC Cinematic Universe. His roles also include the films Johnson Family Vacation, Conan the Barbarian (2011), as the title character; Bullet to the Head, Road to Paloma, which he also directed and co-wrote; Debug, Wolves (2014), Sugar Mountain, The Bad Batch, Braven, Sweet Girl, Dune (2021), Slumberland, and Fast X, and the series Baywatch: Hawaii, North Shore, Stargate Atlantis, Game of Thrones, The Red Road, Frontier, and See.
Jason was born in Honolulu, the son of Coni, a photographer, and Joseph Momoa, a painter. Jason’s father is from a Native Hawaiian family, with a small amount of English ancestry, from Massachusetts. Jason’s mother is of mostly German descent, and is from Norwalk, Iowa, where Jason was raised. Jason’s mother is also said to have Irish and Native American ancestry. Her own maternal grandfather was adopted, and it is not clear what his biological ancestry was.
Jason has two children with his former wife, actress Lisa Bonet. His stepdaughter was actress Zoë Kravitz.
Jason’s paternal grandfather was Louis Kuulei Momoa, Jr. (the son of Louis Kuulei Momoa and Jennie/Jenny Kini Malaya). Jason’s grandfather Louis was born in Hawaii. Jason’s great-grandfather Louis was the son of Leonard Puakanui Momoa and Julia Kuuianao Kaluna. Jennie was the daughter of John Kane “Johnny” Malaya/Malaea/Malia and Sarah/Syria Thomas Williams.
Jason’s paternal grandmother was Phyllis Rose Leilani Kaeo (the daughter Joseph Namakaha Kaeo, Jr. and Edith Kahili Keaulana). Phyllis was born in Hawaii. Joseph was the son of David Kawaihalau Namakeha Kaeo and Lucinda Kinia Wright, whose grandfather was from Massachusetts.
Jason’s maternal grandfather is Delaine William Lemke (the son of Erich Albert Nicholas Lemke and Edna Anna Vohs). Delaine was born in Iowa. Erich was born in Iowa, to German parents, Peter Lemke and Wilhelmina Feige. Edna was also born in Iowa, also to German parents, from Holstein, Wilhelm F. Vohs and Dorothy “Dora” Marie Grutmacher Schroeder.
Jason’s maternal grandmother is Mabel L. Hoult (the daughter of Louis Smith Hoult and Edith Mae Wenzel). Mabel was born in Iowa. Louis was adopted by George C. Hoult and Fannie Doyle, who was born in Ireland; Louis was the biological son of George Sinkey. Edith was the daughter of John Adam Wenzel, who was born in Illinois, to German parents, and of Emma Susan Ritzhaupt, who was born in Iowa, to German parents, Balthasar/Balzar/Baltzer Ritzhaupt and Wilhelmina “Minnie” Bettleman.
Sources: Genealogy of Jason Momoa – http://www.geni.com
Jason’s paternal grandfather, Louis Kuulei Momoa, Jr., on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Jason’s paternal great-grandmother, Jennie/Jenny Kini Malaya, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Jason’s paternal great-great-grandfather, John Kane “Johnny” Malaya/Malaea/Malia, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Draft record of Jason’s paternal great-great-grandfather, John Kane “Johnny” Malaya/Malaea/Malia – https://www.familysearch.org
Birth record of Jason’s paternal great-great-grandmother, Sarah/Syria Thomas Williams – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Jason’s paternal great-grandfather, Joseph Namakaha Kaeo, Jr. – http://files.usgwarchives.net
Jason’s maternal great-grandparents, Erich Albert Nicholas Lemke and Edna Anna Vohs, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Jason’s maternal great-grandmother, Edna Anna Vohs, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituaries of Jason’s maternal great-grandparents, Louis Smith Hoult and Edith Mae Wenzel – http://www.findagrave.com
Jason’s maternal great-grandmother, Edith Mae Wenzel, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
HES NOT WHITE
obviously. he’s biracial
who said he was?do people here just sprout out random crap for no reason?
What? And I thouht, he’s white.lol
hawaiians are decendents from the marquesas islands not samoa….i know im pure hawaiian
Im Samoan But i always knew Hawaiians wernt from SAMOA. But if you think about it the Marquesan people came from samoa but thats what im just saying. But no matter becoz we are all polynesian brothers and sisters cheehoo
King kamehemeha was samoan and yeah hawaiians descended from samoa! The true native hawaiians know that! …just these hawaiian half bloods that deny cuz they’re so mixed in bloodlinessmh!
Umm have you done your research??? only the noble aliis of Hawaii can trace their ancestry back to Samoa but overall they came from the Marquesas who came from Samoa…. DUrrr
First of all… it is believed that the Samoans were the first to occupy Hawaii. According to the accounts of King Kalakaua – King Kamehameha was also a descendant of Pili who traveled from Samoa.
Second…. The first queen of Samoa was the daughter of Lavea Ulufanua Sese’e (a Samoan Warrior) and his own niece Tilafaiga the twin sister of Taema. The story states that the two girls swam from Fiji to Samoa without names. Thats why their names come from the rubbish floating past them while they were swimming back to Samoa. The first Samoa Queen was Nafanua (She too was a warrior like her father). The story was funny because no-one knew that their war leader was a woman until her titi lauti (skirt) fell off. She fought, conquer and unite Samoa for the first time.
The story of the malie-toa malo-tau is much much recent for your infomation
actually hawaiian and samoan are the same race, pacific islander with decent from asia which would classify you as a branch of mongoloid. the adaptation of being larger, than say, a southeast asian is due to isolation on a location with an over adequate amount of sunlight, vegitation, and food.
Omlyf what is this Mongloid, Caucasoid BS man. We are all HUMAN BEINGS for goodness sakes. Your making it sound like we are all aliens living on different planets yet we all live on earth. Stop with all this CLASSIFYING GEEEEEEEEEEEzzzzzz
Pacific Islanders are a separate race entirely, they aren’t asians
Their dna is quite similar as they migrated from asia relatively recently.
Yeah, they’re Mongoloid/Asian, but way taller, bigger and brown-skinned