Lyndsy Fonseca
Fonseca in 2010, photo credit: Cameron Yee
Birth Name: Lyndsy Marie Fonseca
Place of Birth: Oakland, Alameda, California, United States
Date of Birth: January 7, 1987
Ethnicity:
*75% Portuguese [including Azorean]
*25% mix of English and German
Lyndsy Fonseca is an American actress. Her roles include the films Hot Tub Time Machine and Kick-Ass, and television’s The Young and the Restless, How I Met Your Mother, Big Love, Desperate Housewives, Nikita, and Agent Carter.
When describing her curves, she stated:
I’m half Portugese, so I’m built more like a Latina girl. I don’t think I’m fat. It’s hard to be around sometimes girls that are so thin but you just gotta own what you’ve got.
Her half-sister, Hannah Leigh, is also an actress. Lyndsy is married to actor Noah Bean, with whom she has two children.
Lyndsy’s paternal grandfather was James Victor “Jimmy” Fonseca (the son of Tony Fonseca and Laura). James was born in California, to Portuguese parents.
Lyndsy’s paternal grandmother was Lilia Costa (the daughter of Francisco Martins and Maria Santa Christo Corvele). Lilia was born in Sao Miguel, Azores Islands, off the coast of Portugal.
Lyndsy’s maternal grandfather was Michael J. Bergmann (the son of William John Bergman and Frances E. Pyatt). Michael was born in California. William was born in New York, and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants. Frances was born in California, the daughter of Robert E. Lee Pyatt and Esther Ellen Story. Frances had English ancestry.
Lyndsy’s maternal grandmother was Joan Marie Semas (the daughter of Leonard Furtado Semas and Maria Costa Lopes). Joan was born in Massachusetts, and was of Portuguese descent. All of Joan’s grandparents were Portuguese emigrants. Leonard was the son of John Furtado Semas and Rosalina Perreira. Maria was the daughter of Manuel da Costa Lopes and Maria Angelina Mello.
Sources: Genealogy of Lyndsy Fonseca – http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com
Lyndsy’s paternal grandfather, James Victor “Jimmy” Fonseca, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Lyndsy’s paternal grandmother, Lilia (Costa) Fonseca – https://alamedasun.com
Someone might want to also inform Lyndsy that the Portuguese are not Latin American. She has nothing in common with Eva Longoria or Jennifer Lopez, and while Portuguese is spoken in Brazil, it has a myriad of races and ethnicity .
And someone should inform you that the word Latino/a is derived from Latin the ancient language that is the root of the Romance Language group (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc…) and all people that speak it or has a cultural similarity with Latin culture then they are Latino.
so french and italian people are considered latinos? dude, i know that you americans list everything is mediterranean or from south the border as ‘latino’ but it isn’t right for europeans. one thing is sure and you pointed it out too: french, spanish, portuguese, italian and romanian are neo-latin languages since they took origin from the ancient latin. but here in europe ‘latino’ is referred to people that have anchestry in latin america that means from mexico to go. if you want to list southern italian, spanish and southern french people as something then you can list them as mediterraneans if you want to be correct. these cultures are not the same as the latin american ones and they’re not even the same between them. but please, don’t label people.
Then if southern Europeans are not latino then Latin Americans are not latino.Latin Americans are latino because Southern Europeans. Latin is only about languages, languages that also southern europeans share. I am Latin American ant really the only thing that makes us close to other Latins is language.
she looks white because of her german side.
She looks white because she is. Portuguese and Germans are European, idiot.
The chances are when they mix their child will come out white . . . given they are both white.
Oh, why bother? I suppose you think Tom Hanks and Britney Spears are not white either, right?
Latina ?
Portugese aren’t latina xd
But yeah , same last name, don’t know her.
Maybe she is unaware that the Portuguese are European?
Technically, they are Latin because their language is a Latin-based language. However, Lyndsy seems to think they are comparable to the likes of Eva Longoria or Jennifer Lopez . . . which is not the case. She also seems to think it is a race. /:
How can one be so ignorant about their own heritage?
May be, because She was raised in USA, where media and most peope think that, including “latinos”. If she were raised in Portugal or Latin America, she would not think like that.
How come there are not many Americans of Portuguese descent? The only other actor I can think of who shares a common background with her is Tom Hanks, who has a Portuguese mother.
One of most pretty girl, i never seen on tv.