Tatyana Ali
Ali in 2010, Joe Seer/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Tatyana Marisol Ali
Place of Birth: North Bellmore, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 24, 1979
Ethnicity: Indian-Trinidadian, African-Panamanian
Tatyana Ali is an American actress, model, and R&B singer. She is known for playing Ashley Banks on the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Her father, Sheriff Ali, is of East Indian ancestry, from Trinidad and Tobago. Her mother, Sonia, is of African-Panamanian heritage. Panamanians are made up of predominantly mixed Amerindian and Spanish ethnicities, otherwise referred to as Mestizo. Her sister is television producer Anastasia N. Ali.
Ali speaks Spanish fluently, and some Hindi.
Tatyana is married to educator Vaughn Rasberry, with whom she has two children.
I thought, she’s a daughter of M. Ali alias Clay
There are not a lot of coloured americans named Ali
http://www.nndb.com/people/930/000108606/
scroll down for additional info on Ali’s Ethnic background
She does look Trini and in India she could easily pass for South Indian.
I have also thought that she was very pretty as well. For some odd reason, I believed a rumor about her and Chilli being paternal sisters, for so long! And to find out that they weren’t was as disappointing as an innocent child finding out that mythical holiday characters don’t exist. All in all, she is beautiful and I think that she has blossomed so well. She and myself share some similar features. Pretty girl.
She was in the most recent magazine of Essence talking about being half afro-latina.
Well its because Her mother is Afro-Trinidadian
And Her father is Indio-panamanian.
So culturally she is Trinidadian, and Panamanian (Latino), but Racially she is South Asian and African decent.
Trill shit bro
You got it in reverse. Her father is Indo Trinidadian her mother is Afro Panamanian.