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).
Latinas are beautiful
She is born in the United States, which will make her black Hispanic according to the one drop rule and she has 21% of that drop. Most Dominicans are multiracial, but considered black Hispanics in the U.S.
She looks nothing like a black person though. Most people in America see her as a Latina. She’s not like Zoe Saldana, people consider her a black Latina.
Wow people on here are stupid. 21% black isn’t that much. It’s not even technically one black grand parents
Who is stupid? And well, she isn’t seen as white. Her African blood may be smaller but it’s obvious she isn’t full European.
More than likely her mother is probably half black and that’s where she get the 21% Black.
Yes her mom would half to be half black for her to get nearly 1/4th black thats high.
Would you people say she is a castiza?
Castizas were considered white in colonial times.
no, they weren’t.. they were considered castizo LOL hence the term.. if a castizo married a white person, their kids could be considered white though
@multiethnichick you seem to have alot of issues and racism towards black people.
She is mostly one spaniard girl with some blood Afro-Caribbean. She is beautiful anyway.
Very mestizo looking.
And since when is Puerto Rican an ethnicity?
She is mostly European with some African. The Amerindian heritage is very insignificant.
She is definitely more Amerindian/Mestizo than African.
I don’t see any African in her.
She got a dna test(?) done and she is more African than Amerindian(72% European, 20% African, and 6% Native American)
Some Latin American people who are mostly European can be mistaken as mestizos if their African heritage isn’t too obvious in phenotype.
Her African ancestry is clear lol… you might be thinking she looks Mestizo because of her Iberian ancestry.. remember her European ancestry is most likely that. So you associate Mestizos with Iberian ancestry as well and that’s why you think she looks Mestizo, but her African ancestry is way more obvious..