Selenis Leyva
Levya in 2016, photo by Prphotos
Place of Birth: Baracoa, Cuba
Date of Birth: May 26, 1972
Ethnicity: Cuban, Dominican Republic, some Jamaican and Haitian
Selenis Leyva is an American actress. She was born in Baracoa, Cuba, and was raised in The Bronx, New York City, New York. She has a daughter.
Selenis has said:
Hey, I’m Cuban-Dominican, with Jamaican and Haitian roots, so [Santeria] is not foreign to me. My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas. She was a midwife, so she was very in tune with earth and religion and a lot of that came with Santeria.
I thought I read somewhere that she had Jamaican ancestry as well. One of her great grandmothers on her Cuban side was Jamaican. There’s a large population of people of Jamaican descent in Cuba. I would consider her an Afro-Latina.
correction, dominican republic
It’s not, that’s her skin tone. Hater
I doubt that he is hating, that makeup does make her skin look weird . Plus, the light is not helping at all. Not hating just saying
Didn’t know she was Dominican also she always seem to be bragging about her cuba side
Maybe she identifies with her Cuban side more so than her Dominican side?
probably right