Actors/Celebrities You May Not Realize Have Hispanic or Latino Ancestry

Paternal grandfather was Spanish and Basque

Father was Mexican (some sources say he was Spanish); mother is German

Mother was Mexican actress Margo; father was American actor Eddie Albert

DIED September 22, 2006, age 55, of lung cancer

Is Cuban

Paternal grandmother was Puerto Rican; is married to actress Odette Annable

Mother is Cuban; father is Ashkenazi Jewish and Italian born in Colombia

Birth name was Odette Juliette Yustman; married to actor Dave Annable

Is Puerto Rican; birth name was Charlotte Lopez

Father is Uruguayan; mother is Italian, Russian, German, and Serbian

Speaks fluent Spanish; married to actress Stephanie Block

Mother is Honduran; father is Basque, Danish, and German

Mother is Venezuelan; father was German and Korean

Mother is Puerto Rican, Spanish, and Argentinian; father has Polish, Englsh, and Irish ancestry

Birth name was Jake Austin Szymanski

Mother is Mexican; father is German

Father was Mexican; mother had English and Scottish ancestry

Father is half Mexican and half Greek; mother is English and Irish

Maternal grandmother is Mexican; also has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry

Is Cuban; birth name was Esteban Ernesto Echevarria

Surname Bauer is from his maternal grandfather who was German Jewish; formerly married to actress Melanie Griffith

Father is Argentinian; mother is Italian

Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominee for her role in "The Artist"

Father is Mexican; mother is Italian; birth name was Brianna Monique Garcia-Colace; twin sister of Nikki Bella

Father is Mexican; mother is Italian; birth name was Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace; twin sister of Brie Bella

Father was Salvadorean; mother was Nicaraguan; birth name was Mauricio José Morales

Father is Spanish; mother has English and French ancestry

Mother is Brazilian with Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian ancestry; father is American actor Stephen Baldwin, who has English, Irish, French-Canadian, and German ancestry

Is married to singer Justin Bieber

Both parents are Afro-Panamanian; birth name was Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III

Is married to rapper Maya Jupiter

Mother is Mexican; father is English, Polish, and Italian

Father is half Puerto Rican and half Italian; mother is Russian Jewish; birth name was David Blaine White

Mother is Afro-Cuban; father is Icelandic; birth name was Thorsteinn Sindri Baldvinsson Blyden; was born in Reykjavik, Iceland

Mother is half Spanish and half Dutch; father is English

Father was French and Spanish; mother is Ashkenazi Jewish with ancestry from Ukraine and Austria

DIED June 8, 2018, age 61; committed suicide by hanging himself

Is Colombian; was adopted by Italian-American parents

Mother was Mexican actress Movita Castenada; father was iconic American actor Marlon Brando, who had English, Irish, German, and Dutch ancestry; birth name was Miko Castenada Brando

Mother is Peruvian; father is German and English

Mother is Brazilian; father has English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry; Jordana was born in Panama

Father is Honduran; mother is English; birth name was Chloe Suazo

Is Mexican; birth name was Allyson Brooke Hernandez

Father is Mexican; birth name was Reba Sabrina Hinojos

Mother is Spanish; father is German; birth name was Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo; was born in Spain

Maternal grandmother was Panamanian and Greek

DIED May 29, 1997, age 30, of accidental drowning

Mother is Costa Rican; Burstein is the last name of his stepfather, who raised him

Father is half Mexican

Grandfather was Mexican; birth name was Christian Minnick

Mother is Cuban; father is Italian; birth name was Roberto Cannavale

Father was African-American and Venezuelan; mother is White with Irish ancestry

Mother is Spanish

Both parents were Mexican; birth name was Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona

Mother was Nicaraguan; father was White; birth name was Barbara Kingsbury; Carrera was her mother's maiden name

Mother is Colombian; father is Syrian and Lebanese

Birth name was Sofia Daccarett Char

Maternal grandfather was Spanish

Mother is Mexican; father was English, German, and Irish

Lynda's birth name was Linda Jean Cordova Carter

Father was Mexican and Italian; mother is German

Father is Chilean; mother is actress Geraldine Chaplin; Oona was born in Spain

Is the granddaughter of legendary actor Charlie Chaplin and great-granddaughter of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill

Mother is Peruvian; father is Danish

Mother was Spanish, German, and French born in Mexico; father was Dutch

Was the first "Bond Girl," appearing on TV in "Casino Royale"; birth name was Blanca Rosa Welter

DIED July 22, 2011, age 87, of colon cancer

Is Cuban; married to actress/singer LeAnn Rimes

Paternal grandmother was Mexican; paternal grandfather was Hungarian Jewish Lived in Mexico City until age 7; Spanish is his first language; birth name was Louis Czekely

Maternal grandmother was half Basque

Father was Spanish violinist and orchestra conductor Joseph Fernandez Coca

DIED June 2, 2001, age 92, of Alzheimer's disease

Mother is Mexican; father is German; maternal grandfather was actor and comedian Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez

Is married to actress Francesca Eastwood, daughter of actor-director Clint Eastwood and actress Frances Fisher

Great-great grandmother was Chilean and Spanish; mother was heiress and fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt

Father is Panamanian; mother is African-American

Mother is Puerto Rican; father is Irish

Maternal great-grandmother was Mexican

Father is Puerto Rican and 1/4 Portuguese; mother is Native Hawaiian, Portuguese and Chinese

Was born in Oahu, Hawaii

Mother is half Spanish and half Greek; father had English and Scottish ancestry

Father was Mexican and African-American (some sources say he was full Mexican); birth name was Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi

Both parents were Spanish; they immigrated to Cuba when he was 3 years old; Cugat was born in Girona, Spain

Birth name was Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu

DIED October 27, 1990, age 90, of heart failure

Mother is Peruvian; father is Scottish; Henry was born in Peru

Father is Filipino, Spanish and Chinese; mother is Chinese and Irish

Mother is half Mexican, half German

Maternal great-grandfather was Cuban; birth name was Linda Rae Wildermuth

Was Puerto Rican; birth name was Enrique Tomas Delgado

DIED March 14, 2021, age 87, of natural causes

Mother is Mexican; father is African-American and Barbadian

Father was Spanish and Finnish; mother was Dutch and Asian; mother of actress Alexa Davalos

Mother is actress Elyssa Davalos, who is Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, and Asian; father is Ashkenazi Jewish with Russian and Lithuanian ancestry

Mother was Spanish, Afro-Cuban, and African-American

DIED May 16, 1990, age 64, of throat cancer

Mother is Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican; father is Irish

Mother is Cuban; father is Venezuelan and Italian

Mother was Dominican; father was Puerto Rican; birth name was Oscar Arístides Renta Fiallo

DIED October 20, 2014, age 82, of cancer

Mother was Spanish; father was purported to be Italian; birth name was Francine Canovas; was the ex-wife of French actor Alain Delon

DIED January 21, 2021, age 79, of pancreatic cancer

Mother is Puerto Rican

Mother is Mexican; father is Vietnamese; birth name was Nicholas Nguyen

Maternal great-grandfather was Mexican; is the son of writer, producer, and TV host Dominick Dunne; brother of actress Dominique Dunne

Paternal grandmother is Mexican; birth name was Gerald Earl Gillum

Great-grandmother was Mexican

Grandfather was Argentinian singer Andres Osuna, also known as Osvaldo Ribo; is the daughter of actress Olivia Hussey; half-sister of actor Alexander Martin

Mother is Ecuadorian; father is Iranian

Paternal grandfather was Spanish; son of actor Martin Sheen and brother of actor Charlie Sheen; ex-husband of singer and dancer Paula Abdul

Father is Spanish; mother is English; birth name was Paloma Faith Blomfield

Father was Afro-Cuban; mother was African-American

Is Spanish and Irish

Father was Puerto Rican; mother was from Trinidad and Tobago

Was Mexican; birth name was Baldemar Garza Huerta

DIED October 4, 2006, age 69, of lung cancer

Was Puerto Rican; birth name José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón

Was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award; father of actor Miguel Ferrer

DIED January 26, 1992, age 80, of colorectal cancer

Father was legendary Puerto Rican actor Jose Ferrer and mother was American actress Rosemary Clooney; was the first cousin of actor George Clooney

DIED January 19, 2017, age 61, of throat cancer

Paternal grandfather was actor and director Jose Ferrer, who was Puerto Rican; mother is singer Debby Boone, daughter of singer and actor Pat Boone

Granddaughter of singer Pat Boone; niece of actor Miguel Ferrer; cousin of actor George Clooney

Father was Cuban; not related to actors Jose Ferrer and Miguel Ferrer

DIED June 8, 2008, age 90, of heart failure

Maternal grandmother was half-Mexican; paternal great-grandfather was half-Mexican

Mother is Mexican

Father is Mexican and French; mother is Italian

Mother is Mexican; father is Dutch

Mother is Cuban; father is Irish