Sydney Meyer
Meyer in 2014, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: London, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: September 15, 1995
Ethnicity:
*South African (father)
*English (mother)
Sydney Meyer is a Canadian actress. Her roles include the series Slasher: Flesh & Blood, V Wars, and Shadowhunters. Her father is a black South African and her mother is English, and white. Sydney is also a British citizen. A picture of Sydney with her parents can be seen here.
Sydney is married to Russian-Canadian actor Alex Ozerov. The two have hyphenated their names, and she is now billed as Sydney Ozerov-Meyer.
Sydney has stated:
…my dad is Black and from South Africa. He came to Canada because he was born in South Africa when there was still Apartheid and it was not a good situation, so him and his family kind of fled and came to Canada… [My mom]’s like blonde hair and blue eyes, as fair as can be… I’m mixed – I don’t look it, I’m clearly very white passing. For me it’s always been something that’s been so close to my heart that that’s part of my heritage and part of where I come from… [With Slasher], it was this mixed character that was kind of white passing… caught in between these two worlds. I thought that was so exciting that I was going to play this mixed character for once.
Good pic. She somehow resembles Anne Hathaway indeed (with a bigger nose).
About her father being a “Black South African”, he is actually a Coloured in the lighter spectrum.
Found a pic of her parents: https://www.instagram.com/p/n3aSqcq3jg/?utm_medium=copy_link
So her father is definitely a person of color but he’s of mixed background (“Coloured”). Black people from SA don’t carry Afrikaner surnames like Meyer to begin with, but Zulu, Xhosa or other African languages ones.
Also during Apharteid, the Coloureds had an higher social status than Black African groups, who had little to no chance at all to move away from SA.
In other word she said a lot of crap, including the “white passing” nonsense.