Which non-white celebrities pass as white?

June 2024 · 14 minute read

The first one I think of is Tyler Hoechlin.

by Anonymousreply 108November 16, 2020 9:09 AM

Mariah Carey. Didn't knew she was half black untill recently. Also, Rashida Jones.

by Anonymousreply 1July 18, 2020 9:41 PM

The Rock, maybe? It’s funny to see pictures of him as a little boy.

by Anonymousreply 2July 18, 2020 9:44 PM

There is no proof Tyler Hoechlin is anything but a white guy with a "great great grandma was a Cherokee princess" family myth, is there?

Anyway Halsey owns this thread.

by Anonymousreply 3July 18, 2020 9:46 PM

R6 "His father is of African-American, Jamaican, German, and English ancestry" So is his father mixed as well?

by Anonymousreply 7July 18, 2020 9:54 PM

[quote] Mariah Carey. Didn't knew she was half black untill recently. Also, Rashida Jones.

You’re the only person on the planet who did not know. She’s always been open about it.

As far as Jones, she’s Quincy Jones daughter. Who doesn’t know that?

by Anonymousreply 8July 18, 2020 9:58 PM

Wentworth Miller's father is a light skinned mixed race black man. His name is also Wentworth Miller, if you can believe that.

by Anonymousreply 10July 18, 2020 10:00 PM

R8 I remember her talking about having a black (venezuelan father) and white mother since the beginning of her career

by Anonymousreply 12July 18, 2020 10:02 PM

R5 Halsey owns this thread!

by Anonymousreply 13July 18, 2020 10:04 PM

Slash from Guns N’ Roses. I remember kids in high school were shocked. They thought he was Italian. Same with Jennifer Beals (this was back during Flashdance before she was open about being biracial).

Jennifer Tilly. I did not know she was half Chinese until last year.

by Anonymousreply 15July 18, 2020 10:09 PM

Dinah Shore. You KNOW it's true.

And that phony "white" Merle Oberon. Shit.

John Gavin. Hell. He has bean and garlic breath. And Anthony Quinn. Short for quinceanera, I'd say. And, no, I'm not putting the fucking fag tilde in it.

And Carol Channing. Hell, she even passes for female, but she could have saved money by hiring herself as her own maid.

Fuck. Commies. And NO I'm not queer. Look, I proposed to Janet Gaynor. And Virginia Valli and I were married a long time. Sure I had a breakdown when Fred Thomson died. But that just means I liked him.

Fucking Commies. Where's McCarthy when you need him?

Does my place look like a queer built it?

But, hey, a LOT of good folks knew their place and stayed in it in Hollywood. Why care about a few phonies who lied about what they were?

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by Anonymousreply 17July 18, 2020 10:25 PM

Meghan Markle does her best to pass as white, mostly successfully.

by Anonymousreply 18July 18, 2020 10:35 PM

[Quote] There is no proof Tyler Hoechlin is anything but a white guy with a "great great grandma was a Cherokee princess" family myth, is there?

Basically

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by Anonymousreply 20July 19, 2020 8:18 AM

Chantal Biya (in yellow). White skin now, but no mistaking her fabulous black african stylings.

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by Anonymousreply 22July 19, 2020 11:57 AM

Chantal again, greeting the black children

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by Anonymousreply 23July 19, 2020 12:00 PM

chantal, blonde hausfrau realness

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by Anonymousreply 24July 19, 2020 12:01 PM

It goes without saying that I have the entire world fooled. Shhhhh.

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by Anonymousreply 29October 20, 2020 5:55 AM

Angela Lansbury, Susan Hayward and Merly Oberon.

by Anonymousreply 30October 20, 2020 6:06 AM

Jennifer Beals was a major one that passed under the radar for most people.

Mariah Carey has always looked biracial and she talked about it constantly. I don't understand how anyone would look at her and say - looks like a white girl. Nuh-uh.

by Anonymousreply 32October 20, 2020 6:14 AM

R18 The only family she invited to her wedding were black and she paraded her black mother all over England. I highly doubt she's trying her "best to pass." Even before joining the RF she talked about being biracial on her lifestyle blog "The Tig.". She's always been very open about it.

by Anonymousreply 33October 20, 2020 6:23 AM

I thought Freddie Mercury was white until the movie came out.

by Anonymousreply 34October 20, 2020 6:27 AM

This woman isn't anywhere near passing as white, she looks light-skinned biracial at best. R24

by Anonymousreply 35October 20, 2020 6:29 AM

Phillipa Soo; Isaac Powell

by Anonymousreply 36October 20, 2020 6:31 AM

OP/mein Führer is this white enough for you?

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by Anonymousreply 37October 20, 2020 6:36 AM

Mariah and Megan Markle both look biracial. No question that they are mixed.

by Anonymousreply 38October 20, 2020 6:53 AM

R1 I don't know Mariah Carey is mixed race either. She looks like any other white person after she dye her hair blond. R6 I love wentworth miller. He is introvert and sexy. There is a post that said he is a insatiable bottom. I bet he will drink every lost drop on a man cum with his beautiful buttocks at night. And do it again in the morning.

by Anonymousreply 41October 20, 2020 9:30 AM

R41 I have met Mariah Carey and she definitely appears mixed race in person. Photos can be photoshopped, etc - but in real life, she looks biracial.

by Anonymousreply 44October 21, 2020 8:32 AM

Dinah Shore rumors were disproved

by Anonymousreply 45October 21, 2020 8:56 AM

Shannon Elizabeth if Arabs count as non-white. Her real last name is Fidal.

by Anonymousreply 46October 21, 2020 9:05 AM

Martin Gore from Depeche Mode is half African American but I suspect his father was verrrrry mixed.

by Anonymousreply 47October 21, 2020 9:21 AM

Miss Kay Lenz is 3/4 black.

by Anonymousreply 48October 21, 2020 6:07 PM

R41 is blind. It is obvious Mariah Carey is biracial - even during 'Vision of Love' lol. This thread reminds me of the pathetic, ugly, racist fag hag in college who hated black students, but had a HUGE crush on the closeted, gay Calculus professor - who was biracial. Yet, to her, since he had light skin and curly hair, he HAD to be Puerto Rican/Spanish. No way was he black!😱

by Anonymousreply 49October 22, 2020 4:04 AM

African actress Meryl Streep

by Anonymousreply 50October 22, 2020 5:23 AM

[quote] Miss Kay Lenz is 3/4 black.

Any relation to Lens Dunham?

by Anonymousreply 51October 22, 2020 5:55 PM

Eddie Van Halen. Had no idea he was half indonesian until he died.

by Anonymousreply 52October 22, 2020 5:58 PM

R52 Wow, he managed to hide it his whole life and was outed in his obituary?

by Anonymousreply 53October 22, 2020 5:59 PM

No, R52, but I wasn't exactly spending my time googling some hard rock, 80s legend. I'm glad you had the time, though, hon. Bless your heart.

by Anonymousreply 55October 22, 2020 6:13 PM

mariah carey has tried to erase many of her more "black" features as most Hollywood losers do. You know, the ethnic cleansing of the nose, lightening of the skin, blonding of the hair, etc. Just once it'd be nice to see someone pull a Nina Simone

by Anonymousreply 56October 22, 2020 6:16 PM

That's really not true R56. Why would Mariah look like Nina Simone? Nina was a dark skinned woman who had two black parents. One of eight kids born to a very poor family in North Carolina. Viola Davis is dark skinned and has spoken about it. She found her glamour. Miss Ross is not white. Nor is Naomi Campbell and what the fuck has this got to do with anything? Yes, it's likely that Mariah had a nose job, but great singers rarely risk that procedure. And she became more blonde. As her music and her collaborations became more black. Mariah has NEVER pretended to be white.

She was a cute tough long island girl to begin with. It seems she is addressing the conflicts of growing up biracial in her memoir. I'm not a big fan of her singing, but she's a unique star with a lot of talent and a very unique personality.

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by Anonymousreply 57October 23, 2020 12:38 AM

R56 I agree about the hair but the nose job is a stock medical procedure every famous woman gets. White women try to look less "ethnic" too by shaving down their noses to get a cute button nose. It's not a "Northern European standard of beauty" because women in Northern Europe have huge, long noses.

by Anonymousreply 58October 23, 2020 12:41 AM

"Boardwalk Empire" and "The Irishman" co-star Stephen Graham's father is black

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by Anonymousreply 60October 23, 2020 12:48 AM

There ought to be a law preventing these blacks from deceiving people. I could have fapped to a black! It is very upsetting

by Anonymousreply 61October 23, 2020 1:03 AM

[quote] a very unique personality.

?

by Anonymousreply 62October 23, 2020 4:54 AM

Your mother, OP, when she was sucking dick for $5 a toss.

And your grandmother, who worked truckstop dick her whole life for even less.

And your great-grandmother, who wanted to be a whore but couldn't charge because she was too ugly and dumb.

Did you have any other questions you wanted to ask us today, honey?

by Anonymousreply 64October 23, 2020 5:06 AM

Yeah, she has a very unique most unusual special and different unique way of being a person.

Fuck off grammar fag.

by Anonymousreply 65October 23, 2020 5:07 AM

Being biracial was always part of Mariah's brand. She never tried to hide her blackness.

by Anonymousreply 66October 23, 2020 7:47 AM

[quote]Being biracial was always part of Mariah's brand. She never tried to hide her blackness.

In the beginning of her career, she would give the laundry list of her mixture, with black being last on the list. It was the common thing to do, back in the day.

by Anonymousreply 69October 23, 2020 9:24 AM

Mark-Paul Gosselaar aka Zsack Morris from SBTB is part Indonesian like the late Eddie Van Halen.

No wonder they had to bleach his hair to play All-American Zack.

With his dark hair you really can tell.

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by Anonymousreply 70October 23, 2020 11:40 AM

On what planet does The Rock look white? Are we not talking about Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson?

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by Anonymousreply 71October 23, 2020 2:18 PM

I always assumed Jennifer Beals was Italian

by Anonymousreply 72October 23, 2020 2:23 PM

I was a Suits fan early on (and actually think that Meghan was good in her role), and I was super confused when they brought out Wendell Pierce as her father.

by Anonymousreply 73October 23, 2020 2:27 PM

Why do people assume anything based on skin tone and features? Because they're racist. Against black people, to be specific. Keanu Reeves is half English and Pacific Asian. People don't go on about it all the damn time. They think he's cute. Or he used to be.

Mariah had some difficulties being biracial growing up. But she's identified far more as a black woman than white. Same as Halle Berry and others. It doesn't matter if they have a nose job or lighten your hair?? What are you - all 80 fucking years old? Black hair is difficult hair to style and keep looking good. People who wear wigs and weaves or go blonde are not denying their racial heritage. Straight black men be wrapping their heads at night too. Or we shave it off. Black hair is W O R K.

by Anonymousreply 74October 23, 2020 11:59 PM

[quote] Black hair is difficult hair to style and keep looking good. People who wear wigs and weaves or go blonde are not denying their racial heritage. Straight black men be wrapping their heads at night too. Or we shave it off. Black hair is W O R K.

Black is not difficult to style. I had a stylist who whipped my hair into shape under an hour. The challenge lies in damaging it and some women choose to wear protective styles as opposed to daily wear and tear.

by Anonymousreply 75October 24, 2020 10:57 AM

R74 Keanu has always passed for white though:

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by Anonymousreply 76October 27, 2020 4:52 PM

R17. Lol. I was going to say Dinah Shore too, it’s not true but there was that story, hotly denied by her ex husband, what was his name? George Montgomery I think... that Dinah had given birth to a black baby during their marriage. I still can’t get over that Dinah was Jewish. Jewish Jewish too. From an observant family I believe. I never cared much for her singing, but Dinah herself was a helluva dame..

by Anonymousreply 77October 27, 2020 5:06 PM

I really want to punch whoever posted r17.

by Anonymousreply 78October 27, 2020 5:19 PM

Are any of these people from 2020 actually trying to pass as white? If they're not hiding their racial background they aren't passing, they just look how they look.

by Anonymousreply 79October 27, 2020 5:28 PM

Black, Brown and Asian are all more beautiful looking people than whites anyways. We know it too.

by Anonymousreply 80October 28, 2020 12:03 AM

Elizabeth Warren. She is an Native American.

by Anonymousreply 81October 29, 2020 3:28 PM

Let's clarify one point: People like Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Beals are not "passing" as white, they just get CAST AS white people some of the time. Because they look white.

They've been open about their racial background since the beginning, and most of the parts they play don't specify what race their characters are (same with Dwayne Johnson). But sometimes, well, Jennifer Beals played Brendan Fraser's sister and Gary Marshall's daughter in a bad 90s film about a Jewish family with a gay son, you could call it color-blind casting before color-blind casting was cool.

by Anonymousreply 82October 29, 2020 9:48 PM

Carly Simon's grandmother was of African-Caribbean ancestry

But Carly has been open about her mixed-race ancestry as far as I know

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by Anonymousreply 83October 29, 2020 9:59 PM

The two leads from Flashdance, Michael Nouri and Jennifer Beals.

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by Anonymousreply 85October 30, 2020 4:44 PM

Mariah Carey has never looked like a white woman and not mixed race in my opinion.

by Anonymousreply 86October 30, 2020 5:04 PM

[quote] Black, Brown and Asian are all more beautiful looking people than whites anyways. We know it too.

In my experience, people who are absolutely drop-dead gorgeous are usually a mix of different races.

Speaking of beautiful mutts, Mariah Carey's sister looks more obviously biracial, and she must have been stunning in her youth (and before the drugs). Lovely hair and skin tone.

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by Anonymousreply 87October 30, 2020 5:55 PM

Or maybe I should have said, people that [bold]I[/bold] find drop-dead gorgeous usually turn out to be a mix of different races. 'Purebreds' of any race (including my own) usually leave me cold.

by Anonymousreply 88October 30, 2020 6:02 PM

Kane Brown (the new-ish country singer) gives me all the tingles. He'd be reprimanded by DL for his tats, hence I include a link to a pic with him in formal attire. Kudos to him for being a success in the country music genre, which notoriously discriminates against black artists (minus Charley Pride and Darius Rucker). For the record, Kane is black, white, and Native American.

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by Anonymousreply 89October 30, 2020 6:22 PM

You people know the difference between race and ethnicity, right?

by Anonymousreply 90October 30, 2020 6:54 PM

I just rewatched Underworld, and Wentworth Miller def looks mixed race in this movie.

by Anonymousreply 91November 4, 2020 2:07 AM

Alan Dershowitz (sub Saharan black according to HL Gates) Kevin Costner (part NA) Elvis Presley (Melungeon)

by Anonymousreply 92November 4, 2020 3:03 AM

Costner is not NA, has no tribal affiliation. He DID make a movie with the Lakota Sioux, but he is not and never has been a member of any NA tribe.

Just stop with these tropes of actors such as Costner and Depp having NA descent.

by Anonymousreply 93November 4, 2020 9:27 AM

"Just stop with these tropes of actors such as Costner and Depp having NA descent."

I can believe it of Depp, he really does look it. Which may be for real or may be coincidence, I know he's mostly German.

by Anonymousreply 96November 4, 2020 10:23 PM

Wentworth does look mixed when he has a full had of hair.

Mariah looks mixed too but also can pass for Mediterranean or dark Irish in some photos, so people thinking she's white is not far-fetched. She's racially ambiguous. In videos, you can see her Afro mixture more as she's in motion and you can tell by her accent that she associated with black people her whole life.

Rashida Jones, Pete Wentz, Logic, Halsey and Jennifer Beals all look pretty white.

Megan Markle does look mixed too, she just had a nose job, straightens her hair and uses makeup which makes her look more "white".

by Anonymousreply 97November 16, 2020 1:37 AM

Heather Locklear. Half Native American.

Carrie Ann Inaba. scottish/irish/asian/hawaiian, but people think she's just "asian."

by Anonymousreply 98November 16, 2020 1:42 AM

Wentworth with hair looks either half-black/half-white or Jewish/Middle Eastern.

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by Anonymousreply 99November 16, 2020 1:42 AM

Dean Cain, Meg Tilly, and Jennifer Tilly, all part-Asian (half, maybe).

by Anonymousreply 103November 16, 2020 2:19 AM

Henry Golding actually passes as Chinese, he's half white.

by Anonymousreply 105November 16, 2020 2:42 AM

R81 I have high cheekbones, bitch.

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by Anonymousreply 106November 16, 2020 4:25 AM

Hey! Who you callin’ “you people,” R92?

by Anonymousreply 107November 16, 2020 9:08 AM

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