Birth Name: Shannon Bruce Snaith
Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Date of Birth: June 10, 1978
Ethnicity:
*English-Jamaican, likely Portuguese Jewish-Jamaican (father)
*Cajun (French), distant Spanish (mother)
Shane West is an American actor.
Shane’s father was born in Jamaica, and Shane has described his father’s background as “Jamaican-British Portuguese”. Most people of Portuguese origin in Jamaica are of Portuguese Jewish (Sephardi Jewish) descent, so it is likely that Shane’s father is of at least part Jewish heritage.
Shane’s mother is from a Cajun (French) family, and also has distant Spanish ancestry.
Shane’s maternal grandparents are John Glynn Launey (the son of Aloysius Launey and Bertha DuBois) and Leah Jacqueline Ardoin (the daughter of Charles Burkman Ardoin and Bessie Marie Guillory).
Source: Genealogy of Shane’s mother (focusing on her own mother’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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