Birth Name: Emayatzy Evett Corinealdi
Place of Birth: January 14, 1980
Date of Birth: Fort Knox, Kentucky, U.S.
Ethnicity:
*Panamanian (father)
*African-American (mother)
Emayatzy Corinealdi is an American actress. She was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, to a Panamarian father, Edward E. Corinealdi, and an African-American mother, Rosemarie Hilton, who is from Ohio. Emayatzy was raised between Germany and the U.S states of Ohio, Kansas, and New Jersey.
Her name was created by her father as a combination of his mother’s name, Emma, and the name of a princess from Panama, Yatzy.
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