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JohnnyDepp Creole

JohnnyDepp Creole

Actor/Director. French/German/Spanish and Black-Indian Creole ancestry. Lives on a French Estate in France with his French wife and family. Depp's maternal great-grandmother "Minnie" was of Cherokee/black orgins she is usualy only refered to as 100% Cherokee Native Ameican but we all know how that goes;)


Angie Jolie Creole

Angie Jolie Creole

Modern day Creole. Mother is from France but Angie was born in the U.S. Since the term "Creole" can also be used to describe anyone of French bloodline who was born in the "New World"-this makes her 50% modern Creole. French on her mother's side and German on her father's side(actor John Voight)


Garcelle Beauvais Creole of Color

Garcelle Beauvais Creole of Color

Actress (Jamie Foxx Show)-A rare Louisiana Creole of Color descendant, whose ancestors returned back to the Carribean from Louisiana after the Civil War and settled in St.Marc Haiti-they maintained a Creole of Color status (didnt get absorbed into the Haitian community) for over a century before returning back to the U.S.
Former La. Creoles of Color(due to the exodus) make up the upper-class in parts of the Carribean, though most have been absorbed into the native cultures of Afro-Carribean or Afro-Hispanics.
AND WE WONDER WHY FRANCE PASSED LAWS FOR CREOLES OF COLOR TO STAY INSIDE AND WEAR HAIR WRAPS-I MEAN HOW COULD THE SETTLERS GET ANY WORK DONE WITH THESE CREOLES WOMEN WALKING AROUND?


Lynn Whitfield Creole of Color

Lynn Whitfield Creole of Color

Actress(Eve's Bayou, Oprah's "The Wedding" Oprah's "Women of Brewster's Place", "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" with Martin Lawrence)Another Creole beauty from Baton Rouge, La.-oriented from a Creole clan with roots in southern Creole aristocracy.


Marc Morial Creole of Color

Marc Morial Creole of Color

His father, Ernest "Dutch" Morial was the first recognized Creole of Color Mayor of New Orleans who was called a "Creole." Former Mayor Marc Moriel (now heads the Urban League) still acted as a silent Mayor while N.O. was under water and Ray Nagin went into hiding. There was even an effort by some citizens to change the law to extend the terms that a Mayor could serve in an effort to keep Marc Morial as the Mayor of the city when term limits had been met-perhaps people had a sixth sense of what was about to occur. Marc Morial would have been a better Mayor in charge during Hurricane Katrina.


Dinah Shore Creole

Dinah Shore Creole

Actress and of French/African/Native American Southern Louisiana Creole bloodlines. She created a buzz in the Southern La. Creole and White communites when she claimed that her parents didnt tell her that she had mixed-Creole blood. It was reported that she had full awareness that she had family from Lower Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana and it is common knowledge that everyone is mixed Creole down there!


Amel Larrieux Creole

Amel Larrieux Creole

R&B/Jazz Singer. Creole of Color


Don Vappie Creole of Color

Don Vappie Creole of Color

Musician/Actor. a New Orleans Creole of Color.


 General Honore Creole of Color

General Honore Creole of Color

General Russel Honore....Need anymore be said?


Jon Favreau Creole

Jon Favreau Creole

Actor/Producer of French-Creole & Italian backgrounds


Roseanna Arquette Creole/Cajun

Roseanna Arquette Creole/Cajun

Actress of 50% Creole/Cajun bloodlines and 50% Jewish


Lisa Bonet Creole

Lisa Bonet Creole

Actress (Cosby Show, Angel Heart, Enemy of the State with Wil Smith and former wife of Rocker Lenny Kravitz)
Father is Creole and Mother is Jewish.


Beyonce Creole of Color

Beyonce Creole of Color

Actress/Singer/Dancer. Has recently discovered that she wants to be identified as Creole since she fell in love with France(and numerous French reporters informed her that she was a Creole of French blood/heritage). 50% Creole on her mother's side(a fashion designer) who hails from Baton Rouge,La. and is a Creole of Color(French/Native American/African) while her father is African-American.


Ice T Creole

Ice T Creole

Rapper/Actor Tracy Morrow. Lost his parents at a young age due to a car accident and was forced to grow up in South Central Los Angeles with a relative.


Steve Martin Creole

Steve Martin Creole

French-Creole background. When I was a snot nose 19 year old kid-who had just left Louisiana this man gave me a free ticket to my first theatrical stage play. It was a French comdey performed in Westwood,Ca. near UCLA campus. (N. Duplessis)-Merci Mr.Martin


Sean Paul Creole of Color

Sean Paul Creole of Color

Jamican rapper-Sean Paul Henriques has stated that he is Creole. His grandfather is a Carribean Creole of Color.


Wyclef Jean Duplessis Hatian Creole

Wyclef Jean Duplessis Hatian Creole

Hatian Creole. Producer/Rapper


Suzanne Malveaux Creole

Suzanne Malveaux Creole

CNN Anchor/Reporter


Judge Milian Cuban Creole

Judge Milian Cuban Creole

Cuban Creole. Creoles who fled into Cuba(late 1700's) and then settled in New Orleans(1800's). The first cigar merchants during 1800 Louisiana were Free People of Color or Creoles of Color operating from the French Quarter.


Christina Milian Creole of Color

Christina Milian Creole of Color

Pop/R&B Singer/Actress/Dancer


You'll Know his name

You'll Know his name

em hmm. Yeah, he from the tribe. (sigh)
More like infamous instead of famous.


Selma Hayek

Selma Hayek

Mother of Louisiana Creole(French/African/Native American) Ancestry/Father is Arab-she was born in Mexico but educated in New Orleans Creole society.