Naya Rivera
Rivera in 2010, Helga Esteb/ Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Naya Marie Rivera
Date of Birth: January 12, 1987
Place of Birth: Valencia, Santa Clarita, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Death: July 8, 2020
Place of Death: Lake Piru, Ventura County, California, U.S.
Ethnicity:
*50% Puerto Rican
*25% African-American
*25% German
Naya Rivera was an American actress, singer, and model. She played Santana Lopez on the television show Glee.
Naya was the daughter of Yolanda Marie (White), a model, and George Michele Rivera. Her father is of Puerto Rican and German descent. Her mother is of half black and half Puerto Rican ancestry. Naya had stated this on the talk show The View. She described herself as “half Puerto Rican, a quarter German, and a quarter African American.”
She was the sister of professional football player Mychal Rivera and runway model Nickayla Rivera. Pictures of her brother can be seen here.
Naya had a son with her former husband, actor Ryan Dorsey. She was also credited as Naya Rivera Dorsey.
Naya’s paternal grandfather was named George Rivera.
Naya’s paternal grandmother was named Anna.
Naya’s maternal grandmother was named Clara Esther White.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com
For the people saying puertorican is not black newsflash idiots the Puerto Rican ethnicity is a mixture of:
Spaniards, Taino Indians and African slaves there for we have black in us thank you now stop being ignorants and educate yourself.
Yes there are BLACK Puerto Ricans, I have been to Puerto Rico, there are some midnight black, tar colored Puerto Ricans. African slaves were transported there by the Spanish.
she looks triracial.Mestiza and mulatto in same time.
Mestiza is mullato too. Puerto Ricans are part African themselves.
Beautiful girl. However, Puerto Rican is not a race or ethnicity. Puerto Ricans are Mestizos. They are Taino’s, (native Caribbean Peoples) called Arawaks in Jamaica, African and Spanish descent. Even if Puerto Ricans are as black as a Sudanese they tend to not mention their African ancestry.
@Jamangel
Your first person I’ve seen on here ,use Mestizos the way it was original meant(simply mixed)
Puerto Rican is not black. They’re their own race.
Really I guess you are a non Caribbean person. Is American a race?
Puerto Rican is NOT a race it is a culture. You really need to travel.
She unfortunately, looks very different now. She’s apparently had a lot of work done :/
Her sister looks more African American than she does. To me Naya looks Latina.
Naya Rivera played a role of an African American girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZ82yvd8zE
But even with curly hair and before the plastic surgeries, she looked triracial.
how do you know that she’s had any work done whatsoever? Is this fact or just an assumption? I’m multiracial myself and when I went to my 20-year high school reunion some people thought I had some work done, which I had nothing. Peoples looks change as they age–it’s normal, it doesn’t mean you had any work done…This is very apparent with people of multiracial descent…My European ancestry shows more now than it did when I was a child…when you’re a child you have a pudgy face and nose….when you grow up, your features become more refined and if one of your white parent has a narrow nose, you could have one too when you’re grown…. People seem to assume that it must be ‘work done’ when it could just be just simple growing up! …Funny how people just assume stuff when they have no facts to support their statements.
That’s actually very true with mixed people. We do grow up strangely – kind of morph into one or another race LOL. One of my best friends is biracial (white russian, black african, and distant mongolian) – she had really light brown blue eyes, platinum blond hair, and darker skin when she was a baby up to 5, then slowly her skin was getting lighter, her hair darker, and her eyes became a steel blue ( grayish blue ). Her nose got thinner and her lips got thinner too – well by the time we reached out twenties she looked like every other russian girl with dark blond hair, blue eyes you see on the fashion runways and you wouldn’t even be able to tell that her dad is straight up charcoal black LOL and no she never had any surgeries done (yet)
Hello, Michael Jackson! people’s looks don’t change THAT much! That’s not nature!
@ Exotiq
Hello, Michael Jackson! people’s looks don’t change THAT much! That’s not nature!
@The Beautiful Ones….No one was talking about Michael Jackson….except you! …Of course he had surgeries!!! …DUH!!! ….Unless you lived under a rock, everyone would know that. Don’t compare him to everyone else though!! HELLO!!! ….Use a better argument, cause that one didn’t work… lol
@Islander_Miss
(Her sister looks more African American than she does. To me Naya looks Latina.)
You get different looks like that,when comes down to mixed famiies