Terrence Howard
Howard in 2006, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Terrence Dashon Howard
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 11, 1969
Ethnicity: African-American
Terrence Howard is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His many roles include the films Hustle & Flow, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Iron Man, Crash, Idlewild, Pride, and Prisoners. He is the son of African-American parents, Anita Jeanine Williams (née Hawkins), who was born in Ohio, and Tyrone Howard, who was born in Alabama. His parents are sometimes cited as having recent part European ancestry, although the degree is unclear.
Terrence is married to model and restaurateur Mira Pak. He has three children with his former wife Lori McCommas; and two with Mira.
Terrence’s paternal grandmother is named Minnie.
Terrence’s maternal grandfather is named William Milton Hawkins.
Terrence’s maternal grandmother was Marjorie O. Gentry (the daughter of Lloyd/Floyd Gentry and Minnie Lee Watson). Marjorie was born in Ohio. Lloyd was the son of Foster W. Gentry and Ida M. Calloway. Terrence’s great-grandmother Minnie was known as an actress under her married name, Minnie Gentry. Minnie was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of Taylor Watson and Marcie Bettie Annie Hayes.
Source: Obituary and picture of Terrence’s maternal grandmother, Marjorie O. (Gentry) Hawkins – http://www.houseoflawinc.com
Shoot I can’t remember where but I remember reading or watching something and it said his father was biracial and his mother was black. People made fun of him and called him white when he was growing up because of his hair and eyes.
thats unfortunate.
I guess I was lucky,because we didn’t grow up around people like that,I mean I’ve seen it the other way around,but they were usually just joking around;never serious.
okay. all of you bitches stop hating because he is mixed. just because you may not be mixed and you’re jealous because you don’t know your ancestry does not mean that you can just justify what another person is let alone their race. both of my parents are native american, west indian, and scottish/irish and my dad doesn’t look mixed with white, but he is so wtf?
To Drexxx
Yeah I’m not against it either,because if that was the case,I would be talking against myself and family.Also I heard how they are trying to brown up everyone.But like you said,it’s not going to change how people are.There will always be some kind of hatred,and trust me they’ll find something to hate you for.This reminds me of J. Edgar Hoover who ran the FBI,who kept hidden his black lineage;and did everything he could to destroy anything black.They try to defend him by saying,if mulattoes were seen as a different race;he wouldn’t have done all the cruel things he did;and that is just a bunch of crap
they’d rather think about the way their mixed baby look ( more caucasian feature, more beautiful no?? ) It’s just disgusting, and i think that is an other form of racism (under a blanket of pseudo tolerance and mixing,) but there are a lot of ways to mix different cultures each other, not by just fucking each other, pointless for the actual society.
I’m absoluety NOT against mixing, but if it could be done with love and respect, some “mulatto” persons would not be so lost and twisted.
Yeah i agree, that ‘s that i was trying to tell you in my previous comments, when white ppl (and also the media) are one dropping bi-racial ppl; the fact is it seems like bi-racial ppl want to create their own race, a “mulatto”(i hate this word, it’s for former slavemasters) race which genetically doesn’t exist. But Nowadays most of the persons who want only make mixed couples in order to have mixed babies consider that they’re fighting against racism !!!
I’m sorry to talk like this, but as a black woman if I fuck with a white, or arb boy, it doesn’t help to fight against racism !!!! But a lot (not all of them) of white girls(black girls) in france want to date only black men(white men) in order to have mixed babies, it’s sad, pointless, useless, and unfair to the future child, because the ones who are doing that never think about the culture they’ll teach to their mixed child (or future child).