Birth Name: Tahmoh Penikett
Place of Birth: Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Date of Birth: May 20, 1975
Eye Color: green
Hair Type/Color: dark brown
Ethnicity: English (father) Upper Tanana Native North American (mother)
Tahmoh Penikett is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Karl “Helo” Agathon on the Sci Fi Channel’s television series Battlestar Galactica and as Paul Ballard in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse.
In reference to his heritage, Penikett has said “I’m proud of where I come from, my diverse ethnicity.”
“My mother is First Nation; I guess you guys would call Native American down there…My father is British.”
Family info: His mother is Lulla Sierra Johns. She is from the Upper Tanana tribe in White River First Nation, Canada.
His father Tony Penikett is from England but immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 12. He served as the former Yukon premier.
Source:
http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tahmoh-penikett/bio/193912
http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Penikett,_Tahmoh/Biography/
http://tahmohpenikett.blogspot.ca/2005/10/chat-transcript-with-tahmoh-now-online.html
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