Father: African-American

Interesting fact:

• He originally became known for playing character Jimmy Brooks on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
   
• As a rapper, he performs under the mononym Drake.Drake continued to recognize a close affiliation with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment

Father: White

"As I got into high school, I tried to start a theater company. We were going to do "The Miracle Worker" and they wouldn't even let me be a blind kid. They were like 'you have to be a maid'. I was like 'I just want to be a blind girl. I don't have to be Helen'. They wouldn't let me so in the end I scrapped the whole idea. That's when I came home and I remember saying 'I guess I'm going to have to write my own parts' and I still think that's true. "

 

Interesting fact:

• True teamed up with Essence Atkins to star in the UPN comedy, Half & Half
   
• Her role in The Craft (1996) as Rochelle was originally intended for a white actress

Father: English

Interesting fact:

• Her first novel "White Teeth" won the 2000 Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book award.
   
• Studied English Literature at King's College, Cambridge University, England (1994 - 1997), after attending public (state) schools. She said she chose to apply only to Cambridge because that's where all her favorite British authors were educated.
   
• Was nominated for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for the novel On Beauty (but didn't win).

Father: African-American

“I had absolutely no idea where I belonged in life, I mean position and in school…I don’t know, growing up is so hard…It was really weird,” she told Ebony magazine. “because, like you know, the Black kids would call me ‘Oreo,” and I just didn’t feel totally at home and accepted with all those, you know, White rich people.”

Interesting fact:

• She legally changed her name to Lilakai Moon. She named her son Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa.
   
• Bonet is best known for her role as Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show and its spin off, A Different World.

Father:  Jewish-American

"According to the casting world, I'm a black actress," Ross told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "But I always say that I'm a woman of color--several colors, because I'm black and Jewish. And that's been a great blessing in my life."

Interesting fact:

•  She starred in hit TV series, Girlfriends; She worked as a fashion editor for Mirabella and New York magazine.
• Her mother is the legendary singer, Diana Ross.

Father: British (White)

On her mixed background:

Newton said that her mixed background is sometimes an asset in Hollywood. "I'm thrilled that I can get right past prejudgements. I walk into a room in L.A. and [the way people see me] might seem to be a racial thing. But as soon as I open my mouth, it isn't about being Black anymore. Suddenly it's about being English," Newton told People magazine. "At other times she finds the movie industry is baffled by the idea of a dark skinned woman with a posh British accent. "I get stuff here in Hollywood. Really high-powered people who make really, really, really dodgy suggestions about what it is to be Black. Honestly, it would leave your mouth open. It's stupid, stupid, stupid!" Newton told Time.

 Interesting fact:

• Her full name, Thandiwe, means "beloved" in Zulu;

• She named her daughter Ripley after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien;

Father: African-American

Interesting fact:

• Demps has also played for the New York Giants and Houston Texans. He is the older brother of former NFL safety Marcus Demps.
   
• Demps can speak conversationally in Korean

Father:  Jewish-American

"I absolutely do not choose labels that society tosses at me, though when pressed I say that my ancestry is African American, Russian Jew and Cherokee with some Irish thrown in," Walker told Black Issue Book Review. "To the question, `What are you?' I might say those four and add student of Buddhism, or I might simply say `I am a being.'"

Interesting fact:

• Walker was named by Time magazine as one of the 50 future leaders of America.
   
• She is the author of Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2000). 
   
•  Her mother is novelist Alice Walker.

 PERSIA WHITE, Actress/Musician                                                                                     
D.O.B.: 10/25/1972 (Scorpio)       

Father: Bahamian-American (Black)

Interesting fact:

• She's a vegan

• She practices Scientology;

Father: Caucasian, born in Nicaragua

• Richardson is the current Governor of New Mexico (as of 2009).
   
• Prior to becoming governor, he served as Energy Secretary and U.S. Ambassador to the U. N. under the Clinton administration.
   
• He was also a U.S. Congressman, chariman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. 
   
• On December 3, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama designated Richardson for appointment as Commerce Secretary, however,  Richardson announced his decision to withdraw his nomination as a result of an investigation into improper business dealings in New Mexico.