Tyler Posey
Posey in 2011, image via Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Tyler Garcia Posey
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: October 18, 1991
Ethnicity:
*father – English, Scottish, Irish, German, distant French
*mother – Mexican
Tyler Posey is an American actor, musician, model, director, and producer. In film, he has appeared in Collateral Damage, Maid in Manhattan, Legendary, White Frog, Scary Movie 5, Yoga Hosers, Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare (2018), The Last Summer, and Alone (2020). On television, he has starred in the Teen Wolf franchise, as well as on the series Doc, Brothers & Sisters, Lincoln Heights, Jane the Virgin, Now Apocalypse, Scream, and, in voice-role, the Marvel Rising specials and Fast & Furious: Spy Racers.
Tyler is the son of Cyndi Garcia and actor John Posey (John Sanford Posey). Tyler’s father has English, smaller amounts of Scottish, Irish, and German, and distant French, ancestry. Tyler’s mother was of Mexican descent. He was raised in Santa Clarita. Tyler is married to singer Phem.
Tyler’s paternal grandfather was William McCutcheon “Bill” Posey, Jr. (the son of William Posey and Lucy B. McCutchen). Tyler’s grandfather William was born in New York. Tyler’s great-grandfather William was the son of Alfred Posey and Christine Eliza Cook, who was Scottish. Lucy was the daughter of Charles Wesley McCutchen and Mary Josephine Kennard.
Tyler’s paternal grandmother is Joan Armstrong (the daughter of Ellsworth Armstrong and Margaret Illingsworth Wheatley). Joan was born in Connecticut. Ellsworth was the son of Ralph Morehouse Armstrong, whose father was Canadian, and of Hazel Anne Sanford. Margaret was the daughter of Louis Frederick Wheatley and Leila Madeline Illingworth. Leila’s father was English.
Tyler’s maternal grandfather was Manuel Cabral Garcia (the son of Pablo Garcia and Leofila Cabral). Manuel was born in Los Angeles, California, to Mexican parents.
Tyler’s maternal grandmother was Esther Moya (the daughter of Victor Moya and Jeanette Núñez). Esther was born in Los Angeles, California. Victor was born in California, of Mexican descent. Jeanette was Mexican.
Sources: Biography of Tyler Posey (which mentions his background) – http://www.tylergposey.com
Obituary of Tyler’s paternal grandfather, William McCutcheon “Bill” Posey, Jr. – http://www.legacy.com
Tyler’s paternal great-grandparents, William Posey and Lucy B. McCutchen, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Tyler’s paternal great-grandfather, Ellsworth Armstrong, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Tyler’s paternal great-grandmother, Margaret Illingsworth Wheatley, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Tyler’s maternal grandparents, Manuel Cabral Garcia and Esther Moya – https://www.familysearch.org
Death records of Tyler’s maternal grandparents, Manuel Cabral Garcia and Esther (Moya) Garcia – https://www.findagrave.com
Is there a mixture of genetics that can cause someone to have crooked facial features?
no?
He looks Mexican as hell, didn’t even know he was mixed.
Bullshit. He looks all European.
He does not look full European to me. I have a sharp eye for Amerindian heritage that the average American wouldn’t notice.
His Armenian ancestry is only by the max 25 percent and probably lower. To me looks like a brown haired, brown eyed Caucasian and am sure most seem him like that. He’s white.
He looks like a castizo to me. For yeah sure, if someone is mostly white the average person will see them as white.
Actually he is probably Amerindian than the average castizo. His mother looks very indigenous.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8xnhw9qIo1r4a9iko1_500.jpg
@ Gurrl he is most likely a “harnizo” rather han a true castizo, since his mom is a very dark, very ethnic type of mexican a so called “xolo”. Xolo+white= harnizo
LMFAO whatever you say, bro. Fucking idiot.
I guess you couldn’t tell by looking at his surname.
Cute guy.
Agreed, except with Pakistani.
They look like Indians, he can’t pass for Pakistani but he can pass for Southern Europe and certain Middle Eastern ethnicties and a lighter Mexican castizo.
South europeans and middle easterners look completely different, they have different facial features and skin tones. He looks like a mexican guy.
15% black maybe.
wtf you must be crazy. he does not look black at all.
he actually could pass for multiple ethnicities. he looks a bit pakistani, italian, greek, turkish, spanish (from spain), mexican, and any type of hispanic (excluding afro-latinos)
Nah, it’s because he’s half-Mexican. Most Mexicans, and Latinos in general, are about 1-5% Sub-Saharan African. Look at any DNA test by a Latino, especially a Mexican, and most have a little bit of Sub-Saharan African in them. Definitely not 15%, not that much unless they are mixed with recent African admixture or are of the more African admixed Mexican and Latino ethnic groups. But he doesn’t look black. But I’ve seen Latinos with up to 10% Sub-Saharan African, and they still don’t look it. *shrugs*
Take a look at some of these: http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?139905-Latino-23andMe-genetic-results-with-pictures
That’s a bit of a stretch to claim, to say the least. His mother was most likely a mestizo.
He looks castizo.
Nah. Most poor/recent mexican immigrants are “xolos” than true mestizos. Also the presences of black blood intermingling for centuries all across mexico has lowered the european % within the mestizo population. Long story short he can’t be a castizo.