Patricia Velásquez
Velásquez in 2005, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún
Place of Birth: Maracaibo, Venezuela
Date of Birth: 31 January, 1971
Ethnicity: Venezuelan [Spanish, Wayuu Indigenous]
Patricia Velásquez is a Venezuelan actress and model. She starred in The Mummy films, as well as in Mindhunters (2004), The Curse of La Llorona, and Malignant.
Her father was assigned to UNESCO, and she was partly raised in France and Mexico. Patricia has stated, “I’m half Indian. My mother is Indian from a village called Wayu, and my Dad is Venezuelan, and he’s a mix of Indian and Spanish.” Patricia founded non-profit The Wayuu Taya Foundation, to assist the Wayuu people.
Patricia has a daughter with her former partner Lauren.
she looks fully white to me, i don’t see the native in her phenotype, could easily pass for full spanish ancestry
there’s something exotic in any pic of this woman I’ve seen, the answer is no.
well clearly she is mixed, but i’m just just saying she looks fully white, i’ve seen spanish women who look very similar to her and she has fine features, clearly her white side overpowered in her phenotype
She’s clearly mixed.
But then again, Jordana Brewster and Angie Harmon (who look like her) are full white. In comparison though, she is still more “Mestizo” in appearance.
correction:
her mother is Amerindian (wayuu) and her father is mestizo Venezuelan
but she somehow calls herself “half indian.” I guess she got the fractions mixed up
Interview:
“I’m half Indian. My mother is Indian from a village called Wayu, and my Dad is Venezuelan, and he’s a mix of Indian and Spanish.”
http://cinema.com/articles/392/mummy-returns-the-interview-with-patricia-velasquez.phtml