Birth Name: Gina Deborah Belafonte
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Birth: September 8, 1961
Ethnicity:
*62.5% Jewish (Ashkenazi, some Sephardi)
*25% Afro-Jamaican
*12.5% Irish and Scottish
Gina Belafonte is an American actress and producer. She is the son of actress and costume designer Julie Robinson and singer and actor Harry Belafonte. Her half-sister is actress and model Shari Belafonte. Gina is married to actor Scott McCray, with whom she has a child.
Gina’s father is of one half Afro-Jamaican, one quarter Dutch Jewish, and one quarter Irish-Scottish, ancestry. Gina’s mother is Jewish, of Russian Jewish descent.
Gina’s paternal grandfather was Harold George Belanfanti/Bellanfanti. Harold was born in Jamaica, the son of a Dutch Jewish father and a black Jamaican mother.
Gina’s paternal grandmother was Melvine Love (the daughter of William Love and Sarah Jane Clarke). William was a black Jamaican. Sarah was white, of Irish and Scottish descent, and was the daughter of Henry Clarke and Alice “Elsie” Allen.
Sources: Genealogy of Gina’s father – https://www.geni.com/people/Harry-Belafonte/6000000011791733394
Information about Gina’s paternal grandmother’s family – http://www.genealogy.com/forum/regional/countries/topics/jamaica/6986/
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