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Her father is Pakistani and her mother is German. Discovered at the age of 17 in Canada, she quickly became one of the most sought after models in the world, appearing regularly in Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated, and working for the top fashion houses of Oscar de la Renta and Chanel. |
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Her mother is Filipina and her father is White.She is an author and psychologist who studies mixed-race people and interracial families. She wrote the books Love's Revolution : Racial Intermarriage and was the editor of Racially Mixed People in America and The Multiracial Experience : Racial Borders As the New Frontier. She also coined the Bill of Rights for Racial Mixed People. |
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Her mother is Japanese and her father is European-American. She is is an award-winning journalist with 12 years of experience interviewing young people and writing about the issues that concern them--from prejudice and peer pressure to divorce and drug abuse. She also is the Author of What Are You?. |
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Her mother is White (British-German) and her father is Japanese (Rocky Aoki the founder of the Benihana Restaurant chain). At barely 5 ft 6 in., California-born Aoki is one of the surprises of the fashion scene. She has appeared on the catwalks of Karl Lagerfeld, Betsey Johnson and Anna Molinari, among others. Last year she dramatically replaced Naomi Campbell as the Versace muse following a row between the Last Supermodel and Donatella Versace, sister of Gianni. Aoki is also the current face of Chanel, featuring in a striking multi-page ad campaign across the globe. |
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MTV.com says, "The youngest of three daughters from Roseland, New Jersey, with a striking mixed heritage--Filipino and Irish." Member of The Real World 10 New York cast. |
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Her mother is Japanese, and her father is a mixture of French, Scot-Irish and American Indian. She is the news anchor on NBC's Today Show. She is also a daytime anchor for MSNBC. In addition, Curry contributes reports to Dateline NBC, coanchors Dateline International on NBC Europe and is a substitue anchor for the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News. |
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She is a mix of Korean, Swiss and German heritages. Her look has graced hundreds of swimwear and fashion editorials the world over. Photographers marvel at how Lola transforms her look from one photo shoot to the next. Whether it's for the fun-loving Hawaiian Tropic Suncare Campaigns or edgy fashion editorials for Details Magazine. |
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Her mother is Japanese and her father is of Scottish and Swiss descent according to the bio on her official website. She was Miss February 1995 for Playboy magazine. She had some TV roles including appearances on Friends, Baywatch, High Tide, and Married with Children. She also was one of the featured models for the premier issue of Imagine Magazine and was named Mystique Magazine’s 2000 Model of the Year. |
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She is Korean and Irish (From an interview with Q Models). A model with the Q modeling agency. |
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Her mother is of Filipino/Hawaiin/Spanish descent and her father is English and German. She won an amateur championship at 15. Surfing magazine spotted her at a meet and a modeling career was born. She's taught Conan O'Brien to surf in a skit on Late Night, and she made People Magazine's 1998 list of the 50 Most Beautiful People. |
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Her background is Austro-Hungarian / Korean according to the KoreAm Journal. She is a two-time Emmy-nominated journalist who recently moved up from local news coverage to reporting national events with the Chicago bureau of ABC NewsOne. She has covered everything from the final days of the Clinton impeachment trial to the Columbine High School massacre. |
| His father is Arab and his mother is White (British). He had a successful career in the Jordanian army. He became the King of Jordan when his father King Hussein died in February 1999. | |
| Her mother is Swedish and her father is of Syrian-Lebanese descent. Wife of the late King Hussein for 21 years and now mother of Jordan’s Crown Prince Hamzah. She is patron of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), president of the United World Colleges, chair of advisory boards at the Center for the Global South at American University in Washington, D.C. and at the United Nations University International Leadership Academy, and director on the global board of The Hunger Project, to name only a few of her projects. | |
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Her father is Russian and her mother is Chinese. She began modeling on runways and in magazine editorials. She also did advertising work, including work for Dim lingerie, Evian, Byblos, Givenchy, among others. She starred in an independent film entitled "Hollywood Salome" |
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Her mother is Indonesian and her father is half Swiss and half English. She was Playboys Miss October 1999 and Playmate of the Year for 2000. Since her PMOY debut she's been on Make Ben Stein Laugh, The Martin Short Show, a Fox pilot, an ad campaign for D.U.G. Sportswear, hosted VH-1's Rock Across America, worked with the band Zebrahead on their Playmate of the Year song and album cover and was in Dude, Where's My Car? |
| His background is Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh. Since 1991, videomaker, novelist, slam poet, and spoken word performer Kip Fulbeck has been recognized as one of the world's premier artists exploring Hapa identity. Fulbeck combines improvisation, stand-up comedy, political activism, and inspiring personal stories to explore his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh background, media imagery of Asian men, interracial dating patterns, and icons of race and sex in popular culture. His videos and performance work have shown in over 20 countries, aired on PBS, and received numerous awards, while his first novel, Paper Bullets, was published in 2001 by the University of Washington Press. Fulbeck is also an ocean lifeguard, Lakers fanatic, guitar junkie, dubbed kung fu grandmaster, and Professor of Art and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. | |
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Claire Leka is of half Filipino and half German/Irish descent. She is a business reporter for CNN's affiliate feed service CNN Marketsource. She reports daily from the New York Stock Exchange for CNN affiliate stations: WSVN-TV Miami, WFLD-TV Chicago, WXYZ-TV Detroit, KABC-TV Los Angeles and Sunrise 7 in Australia just to name a few. Leka also produced and reported general assignment stories for Reuters and ABC NewsOne. Leka has covered a variety of stories ranging from the Dot-com crash to Dow 10,000 to the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center . She has also covered stories ranging from the Government Shutdown in 1996, Mexican Peso Devaluation, and The Asian Economic Crisis. Leka also interviewed various leading newsmakers including congressional leaders. Leka also filled in as a White House and Congressional reporter. Claire also participates in various Mentorship programs helping to guide the careers of young aspiring journalists at her former alma mater, The American University and the Asian American Journalists association. |
