Sam Mendes
Mendes in 2013, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Samuel Alexander Mendes
Place of Birth: Reading, Berkshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 1 August, 1965
Ethnicity:
*father – Portuguese, Italian
*mother – Ashkenazi Jewish
Sam Mendes is a British film and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for American Beauty (1999). He has also directed the films Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, the James Bond movies Skyfall and Spectre; 1917, which he also co-wrote, and Empire of Light, which he also wrote.
Sam is the only child of Valerie Mendes (born Valerie Helene Barnett), a novelist, children’s writer, and poet, and Jameson Peter Mendes, an academic. His father, who was born in New York, to parents from Trinidad and Uruguay, respectively, has Portuguese Madeiran and Italian ancestry. Sam’s mother is an English Jew.
Sam is married to trumpet soloist, arranger, and producer Alison Balsom. He has a son with his former wife, actress Kate Winslet; and a daughter with Alison.
Sam’s paternal grandfather was Alfred Mendes (Alfred Hubert Mendes, the son of Alfred Mendes and Isabella/Isabelle/Belle Jardine/Jardim). Sam’s grandfather Alfred, a writer, was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, of what is sometimes described as “Portuguese Creole” origin. His World War I experiences inspired Sam’s film 1917. Sam’s great-grandfather Alfred was the son of Portuguese parents, from Madeira, Francisco Mendes and Risa/Rose d’Andrade/de Andrade. He served as vice-consul for Portugal, from 1931 to 1948.
Sam’s paternal grandmother was Ellen Perachini (the daughter of Santiago Peracchini/Perachini and Virginia Giannetti). Ellen was born in Uruguay, to Italian parents. Santiago was born in Florence, Tuscany.
Sam’s maternal grandfather was named Reuben Barnett.
Sam’s maternal grandmother was named Jane Herschman/Hersham. Jane was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
Source: Genealogy of Sam Mendes (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
he looks like one of those triracials who just happened to fall into the lighter skin spectrum
I’d not want to quote you, but your “comments” are hilarious.
They were kinda funny for like 10 days, but now they just come across as rants by a mentally ill person.
You are so mentally ill that you consider Selton Melo a White man
If that Selton Mello is not white, what he is then?
For the Hispanic andrew every mixed is white lolol Mello has a bit non-white because of his features as tan and in some angles we see it more and much more on his brother Danton .
Non stavo parlando con te, signorina.
I think the same thing about your comments
apparently you’ve been on this site for a long time and being over 30 years old, you have nothing else to do other than keep quoting me all the time????
Can you write less silly things?
Hahahahaha!!!
obviously a very diluted trirrrracial, but still identical to Sam Mendes
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Alfred_Mendes%2C_circa._1916.jpg
his grandfather is obviously half black, just like Sam Mendes I never saw Sam Mendes as a white man look at this photo of him, he appears to be mixed race with strong black features
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6PjZn63JRpSAuGsKCcyLtA9xf6KQmFpBe2zO7GWWZw51e2lZxLb2hN9bK&s=10
in fact he looks identical to his grandfather, just in a “discolored” version
Highly unlikely his grandfather was biracial, hard to imagine a brown skinned person in a early 20th century british army.