Birth Name: Anna Deavere Smith
Place of Birth: Baltimore, MD
Date of Birth: September 18, 1950
Ethnicity: African-American (including Ivory Coast, Ghana, Angola, Cameroon, Congo, and Sengal) British Isles, remotely Scandinavian, Finnish, Russian, Italian, and Greek
Family Background: Anna Deavere is an American actress, playwright, and professor. According to a DNA test on, “Finding Your Roots” Anna is 50.7% European and 48.9% African. 41% of her European ancestry is from Great Britain. Anna’s African ancestry was mainly from Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Source: Finding Your Roots book season 2 page 126
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