JohnnyDepp Creole
Actor/Director. French/German/Spanish and Black-Indian Creole ancestry. Lives on a French Estate in France with his French wife and family. Depp's maternal great-grandmother "Minnie" was of Cherokee/black orgins she is usualy only refered to as 100% Cherokee Native Ameican but we all know how that goes;)
Angie Jolie Creole
Modern day Creole. Mother is from France but Angie was born in the U.S. Since the term "Creole" can also be used to describe anyone of French bloodline who was born in the "New World"-this makes her 50% modern Creole. French on her mother's side and German on her father's side(actor John Voight)
Garcelle Beauvais Creole of Color
Actress (Jamie Foxx Show)-A rare Louisiana Creole of Color descendant, whose ancestors returned back to the Carribean from Louisiana after the Civil War and settled in St.Marc Haiti-they maintained a Creole of Color status (didnt get absorbed into the Haitian community) for over a century before returning back to the U.S.
Former La. Creoles of Color(due to the exodus) make up the upper-class in parts of the Carribean, though most have been absorbed into the native cultures of Afro-Carribean or Afro-Hispanics.
AND WE WONDER WHY FRANCE PASSED LAWS FOR CREOLES OF COLOR TO STAY INSIDE AND WEAR HAIR WRAPS-I MEAN HOW COULD THE SETTLERS GET ANY WORK DONE WITH THESE CREOLES WOMEN WALKING AROUND?
Lynn Whitfield Creole of Color
Actress(Eve's Bayou, Oprah's "The Wedding" Oprah's "Women of Brewster's Place", "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" with Martin Lawrence)Another Creole beauty from Baton Rouge, La.-oriented from a Creole clan with roots in southern Creole aristocracy.
Marc Morial Creole of Color
His father, Ernest "Dutch" Morial was the first recognized Creole of Color Mayor of New Orleans who was called a "Creole." Former Mayor Marc Moriel (now heads the Urban League) still acted as a silent Mayor while N.O. was under water and Ray Nagin went into hiding. There was even an effort by some citizens to change the law to extend the terms that a Mayor could serve in an effort to keep Marc Morial as the Mayor of the city when term limits had been met-perhaps people had a sixth sense of what was about to occur. Marc Morial would have been a better Mayor in charge during Hurricane Katrina.
Dinah Shore Creole
Actress and of French/African/Native American Southern Louisiana Creole bloodlines. She created a buzz in the Southern La. Creole and White communites when she claimed that her parents didnt tell her that she had mixed-Creole blood. It was reported that she had full awareness that she had family from Lower Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana and it is common knowledge that everyone is mixed Creole down there! This is still contested by many that claim that she is of Jewish immigrant descent only.
Lisa Bonet Creole
Actress (Cosby Show, Angel Heart, Enemy of the State with Wil Smith and former wife of Rocker Lenny Kravitz)
Father is Creole and Mother is Jewish.
Beyonce Creole of Color
Actress/Singer/Dancer. Has recently discovered that she wants to be identified as Creole since she fell in love with France(and numerous French reporters informed her that she was a Creole of French blood/heritage). 50% Creole on her mother's side(a fashion designer) who hails from Baton Rouge,La. and is a Creole of Color(French/Native American/African) while her father is African-American.
Ice T Creole
Rapper/Actor Tracy Morrow. Lost his parents at a young age due to a car accident and was forced to grow up in South Central Los Angeles with a relative.
Steve Martin Creole
French-Creole background. When I was a snot nose 19 year old kid-who had just left Louisiana this man gave me a free ticket to my first theatrical stage play. It was a French comdey performed in Westwood,Ca. near UCLA campus. (N. Duplessis)-Merci Mr.Martin
Sean Paul Creole of Color
Jamican rapper-Sean Paul Henriques has stated that he is Creole. His grandfather is a Carribean Creole of Color.
Judge Milian Cuban Creole
Cuban Creole. Creoles who fled into Cuba(late 1700's) and then settled in New Orleans(1800's). The first cigar merchants during 1800 Louisiana were Free People of Color or Creoles of Color operating from the French Quarter.
Selma Hayek
Mother of Louisiana Creole(French/African/Native American) Ancestry/Father is Arab-she was born in Mexico but educated in New Orleans Creole society.
phyllis montana leblanc
Author: Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc's memoir, "Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Katrina."
Ellen Degeneres
Actress, comic and ...umm.....Dancer
New Orleans French-Creole
(Yes I should have been added Ellen to this list-but it takes time to confirm with people about their heritage)
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