Tawny Cypress
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Birth Name: Tawny Marie Cypress
Place of Birth: Point Pleasant, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 8, 1976
Ethnicity:
*father – African-American, Accawmacke Native American
*mother – German, Hungarian
Tawny Cypress is an American actress. She is known for her role as Simon Deveaux in the series Heroes.
Her father is African-American and Accawmacke Native American and her mother has German and Hungarian ancestry. She is married to Tom Dillon, with whom she has one child.
She has stated that she would like to visit Germany to see the Berlin Wall.
African-Native American (Accawmacke) would be more accurate. She’s called herself black in some interviews so it’s clear her dad is a black man of native ancestry/tribal membership.
On her IMDb page it says: “Her mother is Hungarian and German and her father is African-American and Native-American with some European-American ancestry.”https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0194241/bio?item=nt0074971#trivia
Born: Tawny Marie Cypress
This could be her grandfather. He and his wife resided in New Jersey and were from Northampton County, Virginia, and Tawny is said to be of Accawmacke descent (a tribe from that county in Virginia). He was black though, don’t know if he or his wife had any Native ancestry.
https://obits.nj.com/obituaries/trenton/obituary.aspx?n=henry-cypress&pid=185181185&fhid=15136
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVB1-PD8B
Tawny’s mother’s surname was possibly Rouf.
Wait so is her dads Native American ancestry or tribal membership even verified? If not then I guess she’s one of those celebs who claims to be part native when they likely aren’t.