Michelle Rodríguez
Rodríguez in 2009, photo by Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Mayte Michelle Rodríguez
Place of Birth: Bell, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 12, 1978
Ethnicity:
*Puerto Rican (father)
*Dominican Republic (mother)
Michelle Rodríguez is an American actress, DJ, and screenwriter. She had her breakthrough with Girlfight, and has starred in The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, and Machete franchises, on the show Lost, and in the films 3 A.M., Blue Crush, S.W.A.T., BloodRayne, The Breed, Battle in Seattle, Gardens of the Night, Avatar, Trópico de Sangre, Battle: Los Angeles, Turbo, The Assignment (2016), Milton’s Secret, Widows, She Dies Tomorrow, Crisis, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
She is the daughter of Carmen Milady Pared Espinal, a native of the Dominican Republic, and Rafael Rodríguez Santiago, a Puerto Rican. Her father served in the U.S. Army. Michelle lived with her mother in the Dominican for a few years during her childhood, then Puerto Rico, and Jersey City, New Jersey.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012) stated that Michelle’s genetic ancestry is:
*72.4% European
*21.3% African
*6.3% Native American
Michelle’s paternal grandfather was Juan Valerio Rodríguez González (the son of Zenón Rodríguez Vargas and Pilar González Cruz). Zenón was the son of Reyes Rodríguez and María Josefa Vargas López. Pilar was the daughter of Francisco González and Josefa Cruz Camacho.
Michelle’s paternal grandmother is the daughter of Juan Santiago Rodríguez and Juana Santiago Santiago. Michelle’s great-grandfather Juan was the son of Juan Santiago Pérez and Juana Rodríguez Vargas; Juana was the sister of Michelle’s great-grandfather Zenón Rodríguez Vargas, making Michelle’s paternal grandparents first cousins, once removed. Michelle’s great-grandmother Juana Santiago Santiago was the daughter of Loreto Santiago Rivera and María Higinia Santiago López.
Michelle’s maternal grandfather was named Alfredo Pared (the son of Victoria Pared).
Michelle’s maternal grandmother was Sarah Espinal (the daughter of Hilario Piña Batista and Raymunda Espinal).
“Woaw” u are a dumb ignorant piece of sh!t. There are blacks in mexico. Slaves were brought to mexico long before the US. Most dwell in the southern coast of mexico. On top of that the very first knowned people of the americas were the Olmecs. The olmecs were of negro decent, and that was said to be true by researchers in mexico. So learn some facts. And I am mexican myself, and I know my true history and heritage.
Lol, the Olmecs were not Black, they were Native. That’s only Afrocentric nonsense that’s insulting to true Native people.
i hate it when black people try to claim people who may be mixed with the black genes as their own. maybe i am not going to have kids with a black guy after all since its only going to be black and my precious genes will have dissapeared anyway.
Facts for the persons saying Mexico has no blacks: Tens of thousands west african slaves were brought to Mexico by the spaniards and tens of thousands black slaves from the US crossed the mexican borders to escape because Mexico abolished slavery before the USA. N***a please.
Come on peoples, she’s so bad she’s cool. She doesn’t bow down 2 Hollywood. who cares if she’s puerto rican, dominican, black or purple. My grandkids are mixed w/ puertorican, black, mexican, irish & native american. Yes that mix makes 4 some beautiful kids. It’s all in the mix brothers & sisters. Much love!
Are you my grandma? Joking! Your grandkids sound like me!
You mixing nationalities(Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Irish) with race native American and black. You can be black and still be Puerto Rican infact many Puerto Ricans have African ancestry. And you can be Mexican and be native American. There are many Mexican Natives. Sounds like you grand kids are only mixed with white, black, and native.
Ok I go to Mexico all the time and there are no black people. So I’m offended by fuzzybear saying Mexico has some black people cause they clearly don’t. We have every culture but black.
To woaw
Yet another one,look it’s called assimilation .Certain traits disappear in favor of others.Ok I’m not going to write all that stuff again.Go to eva longoria and read all the stuff I left there,just look for my name.Now if you still don’t believe after all that,I don’t know what to tell you
you might aswell call every one black then, if I keep reading you saying that almost everyone is black or has some.But still its what they most identify with right.I mean you black people have mix too,so it goes the same with other ethic,but I guess its whatever is dominent,so that makes everyone mix.
To hapa
It’s not that I’m calling everyone black,because that’s clearly not true.All I’m saying is,if Africa is the source,then that means everyone has that heritage.Now whether it be 1000’s of years,or last week,it’s there.It’s everybody else that freaks out and starts crying I’m not black,your lying.Then you have cultures where the recent black blood has been assimulated into the group,and no traits can be seen.Also since everyone has been taught that black or African people come one way,and no one because what they’ve been taught,and the evil way people with any kind of visible black heritage are treated,no one wants to claim any black heritage.I’ve shown tricks they do to cover-up black heritage,like saying they’re jewish.Oh yes yes we black people have mixed to,lol.However that shows even more that except for what we look like on the outside,were the same on the inside,if we weren’t we couldn’t do that .
you like being the kno it all huh? basically when I said that black people have mix in them,its because when you said that all these other races having black in them,I’m saying that well black people have mix in them too.It might be true that other people wouldn’t want black in them,but there other people who do,to me I remember when I was little I wanted to be black and other races,but I like what I am now so yeah,not saying that I didn’t want to be myself but that it would of been cool or whatever to have all these races and stuff and be apart of it all.
To hapa
Hey hey hey,just wait a minute.We voted on who was going to be the sites( know it all),and I won by 51%.It is a thankless job,but someone has to do it.Anyhow,lots of people want to be part of another culture,that’s just normal.Look at all the other cultures that copy black people.They don’t want to be black,but they like the attitude or the swagger black people have.Even I thought someone culture was cool.I saw this movie once called (once were warriors),and looking at their/your ceremonial dance,I thought that was the baddest thing every.I went to the bathroom,unbraided my hair,took my shirt off and started slapping on my chest ,doing the dance.After looking at kung fu movies,I tried jumping off roofs,almost broke my arm.I wanted to do that russian dance,where they kick on the ground(kozachok).Wanted to be a Samurai,I’m sorry,as you can see I can go on for hours with this
just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. there are traits that are probably in you that you have no idea about and with mexico being as big as it it i’m sure you haven’t been in every city in the country. so how would you know who’s there and who isn’t? because you don’t see it? that’s very close-minded of you
Yeah there is blacks in Mexico. Why are u offended are u racist? I’m Mexican and I know my history. The blacks in Mexico are in southern Mexico. Such as Veracruz. Look it up if you realy don’t believe me and see for yourself.
To Jesse
Those are just the ones with visible traits down there.The rest have assimilated into the population all over Mexico
Yeah I know but I’m just trying to tell people where the visble afro Mexicans are. I’m pretty sure I have African blood in me very little tho when I grow out my I get a afro and my features to. I have a very wide nose and big lips. Not being racist jus saying
Understood.Oh btw the other version,the Caucasian nose is just as big,just pointy.So don’t let your wide nose bother you,lol
It doest bother me but yeah I have seen a lot of Caucasian people wit wide noses too.
to Woaw,
sweetheart there were many slaves that were brought to mexico especially the coast. there are still sub groups in mexico today and some joke that everyone has the “black grnadma in the closet” you should really watch the documentary “black in latin america” that came on PBS by Henry Louis Gates… he focuses on the afro-peruvian, domincan, cuban, brazilian and mexican populations and interviews people as well. the mulatto or african population in mexico was mostly assimilated into the larger mestizo population which skyrocketed
The average Mexican has 5% African ancestry. Mexico actually received more slaves than I believe any other Spanish speaking country in the Western Hemisphere. People who are 25% black usually don’t look black, let alone 5%. People who are hateful and in denial confuse you saying there are blacks there, for everyone there is black. Further proof that they’re dumb. I would say that most Mexican Americans that I’ve come accross don’t know about African history in Latin America. It’s interesting because, I have met many families that have a member or two that have visible ancestry that aren’t mixed with African American.
I hate to call a person stupid. But I hardly doubt that you combed the country with a fine tooth comb. Have you ever been to Costa Chica? How about Nacimento de los Negros? There may not be many blacks, but there are many people of African descent besides the people who call themselves black in Mexico. People who are racist and want nothing to do with blacks are quick to confuse the two. I bet if they took a dna admixture test they would claim that afro-centrics tainted their results just to prove a point.
Yeah right you wish you didn’t have any blacks. About 400,00 blacks or people of African ancestry are in Mexico. Get educated. And the average Mexican has about 5-8 percent African