Taís Araújo
Araújo in 2012, photo by PR Photos
Birth Name: Taís Bianca Gama de Araújo
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of Birth: 25 November, 1978
Ethnicity: Brazilian [African, Austrian, Portuguese, possibly other]
Taís Araújo is a Brazilian actress, television host, and model.
Taís is the daughter of Mercedes de Araújo, an educationalist, and Ademir de Araújo, an economist. Her cousin is actor and singer Marcello Melo, Jr. She was raised partly in Méier, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, and Barra da Tijuca.
Taís has said:
My mother is dark skinned black, my father is the son of a light skinned black man and an Austrian woman. You look at my father, and he is very white, full of freckles, fat nose… But he is very mixed.
She is married to actor, television presenter, director, and writer Lázaro Ramos, with whom she has two children.
She looks a bit like Liya Kebede
You can find more pics of Tais Araujo and other famous black celebs at: http://www.ablackcelebrity.com/tais-araujo-pictures/
“CORRECTION”
I’m pretty sure that the woman in the picture is NOT Taís Araújo. Here’s a pic of her:
http://i0.ig.com/fw/8r/0i/ie/8r0iiem5pf8zxictctgi5c2rx.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wOOdQFWKn4k/TfpBgp5s88I/AAAAAAAAAMg/sl-VDzLyJmQ/s640/01tais_araujo2.jpg
This photo is not of Tais Araujo.
http://www.prphotos.com/store/category.cgi?category=search&query=%5Ephotowizard_efts.sql&searchtype=efts&index=brand_keywords&q2=Tais%20Araujo
She is the third right.
Correction
your right,the other women is the real one
right, I think this woman pictured above is Leila Lopes, Miss Universe 2011,ethnic should move this pic to her page.
To Me
Your right again
She is beautiful. She has African ancestry but her name is Galician or Portuguese so she must have one of these ancestries as well?
To Alice
Well she is Brazilian,so she most likely does have that heritage.However it’s not necessary for her to have said heritage to get a name like that.I don’t know what your background is,but when it comes to black people,they often adopt the names to fit into that culture.The black people in the U.S took or were given English names(or german, french etc).So the blacks in latin America,took latin names(many were baptized and given latin names(by the Spaniards and the Portuguese),other adopted names later .My grandfather took an English name when he came to the states,just to fit in(although he couldn’t change his latin accent as easy)
Thanks fuzzybear. I’m an Australian of Irish descent. So it is similar to what happened in the US.
So what happened in Brazil is similar to what happened in the US?
To Alice
As far as names go yes,a practice that spread all over Latin America.However there are some difference between the two countries
Taís is not an uncommon name in Brazil.