How Ya Going? 9 of Our Favorite Celebs Of Trinidadian Descent (There’s Some Surprises!)

July 24th, 2012 - By Victoria Uwumarogie

We’ve covered many people of a wide variety of backgrounds on our site, but it has come to my attention lately that yes, everyone and their mommas…and their momma’s mommas, are of Trinidadian descent. From reality TV stars, to musicians, actors, famous bloggers and more, there are many folks that are American and of Trinidadian descent, or who were born and bred on the island. We thought we would showcase a few folks, and while not everyone is literally a “favorite” of ours, we thought we’d show love anyway. Be ready to click!

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Jackée Harry

Everyone’s favorite annoying yet voluptuous TV neighbor from “227,” Jackée Harry has been making a name for herself as an actress since her early days of acting on stage and since her first TV role on the show, “Another World” in the early ’80s. But out of all the things we know about her, including that her ex-husband has a whip-worthy mane of hair, did you know that Harry was of Trinidadian descent? Born Jacqueline Yvonne Harry, her mother is straight from Trinidad and her father was African American. Now that you know, spread the word…

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  • http://www.facebook.com/donelle.dumpkins Donelle Dumpkins

    Basketball legend, Kareem Abdul Jabbar is also from Trinidad. You forgot him. He is a Trini too.

  • Genet

    Lola Monroe was born in Ethiopia to Ethiopian and Tigray parents. Why are you trying to pass off Malaku Abebe as a Trinidadian?

  • http://www.facebook.com/vanessa.henry91 Vanessa Henry

    i thought alfonso was domincan ?

  • Tropic_Redbone_QOD

    Stokely Carmicheal!!!! Never would have guessed!!!!

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  • Adrian Khan (The Soca Warrior)

    Ultimately their all black.And being Trini means nothing if you weren’t born there.

  • Amber Nefertari

    This totally made my day! I am also Trinidadian! Trini fashion blogger reppin! <3

  • oh

    WOW–I didn’t even recognize that was Foxy Brown. . .

  • sassywow

    Tatyana Ali ( Ashley Banks from Fresh Princes) also has some trinidadian decent. Her parents are from Trinidad and Panama

  • angelfaceash1234

    I don’t like karlie redd on the show she seems like a snake

  • http://twitter.com/Maniak718 Maniak

    I love how people confuse Ethnicity and Nationality.

    • Adrian Khan (The Soca Warrior)

      Don’t tell Dominicans that.

  • CBlenman

    You left out Steve Stoute. Born to Trinidadian parents from Success Village, Laventille.

  • eestoomuch@gmail.com

    erm…get ur facts straight!
    However, Carmichael soon began to distance himself from the Panthers. The Panthers and Carmichael disagreed on whether white activists should be allowed to help the Panthers. The Panthers believed that white activists could help the movement, while Carmichael thought as Malcolm X, saying that the white activists needed to organize their own communities first. In 1969, he and his then-wife, the South African singer Miriam Makeba, moved to Guinea-Conakry where he became an aide to Guinean prime minister Ahmed Sékou Touré and the student of exiled Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah.[27] Makeba was appointed Guinea’s official delegate to the United Nations.[28] Three months after his arrival in Guinea, in July 1969, he published a formal rejection of the Black Panthers, condemning the Panthers for not being separatist enough and their “dogmatic party line favoring alliances with white radicals”.[2]
    It was at this stage in his life that Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture to honor the African leaders Nkrumah and Touré who had become his patrons. At the end of his life, friends still referred to him interchangeably by both names, “and he doesn’t seem to mind.”[3]

  • Baddvixentype

    is it just me or does Romany Malco’s mustache look crooked??

  • Jen

    How in the world did all three kids in a show about a Black American family end up being Trinidadian?

    • KamJos

      Lol. I’m West Indian and I never ever knew those folks were Trini. Kinda funny once you phrase it like that.

  • http://twitter.com/CrysValentine CRYSTAL VOISIN

    Tatiana Ali is trini as well…that’s funny how there were 4 trinis on Fresh Prince

  • KAramel

    You’re missing Tatiana Ali and Aaaron Fresh.

  • Ms. Kai

    Can we get an article on Celebs with Bajan background. I know of LL Cool J, Doug E Fresh, Ryan Leslie. Are there any more?

    • Bajan

      so true!!! soooo many more

    • flyer27

      ryan leslie is trinidadian.

  • Chanda

    Seems like the most beautiful celebrities are from the Islands and Africa.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pepita.rodriquez Pepita Rodriquez

    Billy Ocean and Haddaway are of Trinidadian heritage

    • Chanda

      Yes, I was going to bring up Billy Ocean. I know he’s old school but how could they forget him. I always assume Haddaway was from the islands, too.