Blake Lively
Lively in 2011, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Blake Ellender Brown
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: August 25, 1987
Ethnicity: English, as well as Scottish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and Welsh, remote French-Canadian
Blake Lively is an American actress, model, and homemaking expert. She is known for starring on Gossip Girl, as Serena van der Woodsen, and for her roles in the films The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and its sequel; Accepted, Simon Says, Elvis & Annabelle, New York, I Love You; The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Town, Green Lantern, Hick, Savages, The Age of Adaline, The Shallows, Café Society, All I See Is You, A Simple Favor, The Rhythm Section, and It Ends With Us.
Blake is the daughter of actor Ernest Lively (born Ernest Wilson Brown, Jr.) and acting teacher and talent scout Elaine Lively (born Willie Elain McAlpin). Lively is the surname of her mother’s previous husband, Ronnie Lively. She is the sister of actor Eric Lively and the half-sister of actors Lori Lively, Jason Lively (Ronald Jason Lively), and Robyn Lively, from her mother. Blake is married to Canadian actor and entertainer Ryan Reynolds, with whom she has four children.
Blake has English, as well as Scottish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, and remote French-Canadian, ancestry.
Several L’Oréal commercials featuring Blake describe her ancestry as being partially Cherokee (Native American). It is not clear if this Cherokee Native American ancestry has been verified/documented. No Cherokee Native Americans appear among Blake’s recent and relatively recent ancestors.
Blake’s paternal grandfather was Ernest Wilson Brown, Sr. (the son of Harry Thomas/F. Brown and Sister Tiny/Tina Clark). Ernest was born in Carington, Virginia. Harry was the son of William H. Brown and Zora A. Sister was the daughter of James Granville Clark and Lucy Nicely.
Blake’s paternal grandmother was Beatrice Gray/Grey Walton (the daughter of Eric Ivan Walton and Myrtle Ellen Rigsby). Beatrice was born in West Virginia. Eric was the son of John Henry Walton and Phoebe/Pheobe Luemma “Emma” Gumm/Gum. Myrtle was the daughter of James Rigsby and Mattie Ethel/Ellen Sparks.
Blake’s maternal grandfather was James Olin McAlpin (the son of Robert Alexander McAlpin and Laura/Lara Smith). James was born in Georgia. Robert was the son of Thomas Jefferson McAlpin and Elizabeth Jane/Louisa Brown. Laura was the daughter of William Harvey Smith and Sarah Evelyn Sewell. Robert McAlpin’s great-grandfather, Blake’s great-great-great-great-grandfather Alexander McAlpin, was born in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Blake’s maternal grandmother was Willie Inez Thrash (the daughter of Isaac Farmer Thrash and Mattie Lee Smith). Willie was born in Alabama. Isaac was the son of John Allen Thrash and Celia Blake. Mattie was the daughter of Javan Jefferson Smith and Eliza Jane Owens.
Sources: Genealogies of Blake Lively – http://gw.geneanet.org
http://www.wikitree.com
https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Blake’s father – https://www.findagrave.com
Blake’s paternal grandfather, Ernest Wilson Brown, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Blake’s paternal grandmother, Beatrice Gray/Grey Walton, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Blake Lively (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.familycentral.net
Blake’s maternal grandmother, Willie Inez Thrash, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Just heard that she was among the 90 percent of celebrities who claim to be part Native American. This says she’s isn’t. Not surprised
She is the whitest an American can get. People are still going to find “Native American” features, lol. People here are a joke.
She, or whichever parent is said to have that heritage, needs to take a DNA test.
What about Native American ancestry? Do Europeans have slanted (“”””hooded”””””) eyes? Same with Ryan Reynolds. Both of them look Native American.
She admittedly lied about it, as well someone said she was part-“Spanish” and I haven’t found that proven yet. Blake Lively used to be awfully racist to a point she said on “having a LA face and Oakland booty” to jokingly claimed she’s part -“black”. She has changed her attitudes about race and joined the social justice movement, just like Mel Gibson unlearned his high amount of bigotry against Jews, Blacks, Women and LGBT people over the years, even his ex-wife he believed can’t enter heaven because she’s an Anglican, not Roman Catholic – he was in the pre-Vatican II traditional arch-conservative minority.
Of course they have hooded eyes sometimes. It doesn’t mean they are part Native or Asian. That’s a dûmb take.
Also, hooded eyes are not “Asian” — lots of white people have them.
See the difference. ➤➤ https://i.imgur.com/ySdx1Ew.jpeg
Hooded eyes are not “Asian” — lots of white people have them. Also, it doesn’t mean someone is mixed if their eyes are slanted.
See the difference: https://i.imgur.com/ySdx1Ew.jpeg
I have an opinion, which admitted, is mostly conjecture.
I think the admixture events that occurred several thousand years ago in Europe, between Europeans and Ancient North East Asians, is what brought the genes to cause hooded eyelids. It happened in small numbers, but the offspring of those unions spread the genes throughout Europe, through travel and conquest.
I realize monolids are not entirely localized in East Asia and the Pacific, there’s tribes in Africa that have them. I just think the way the trait entered the gene pool in Europe, was because of several admixture events thousands of years back.
Samis/Lapps, Scandinavians, etc, spread their genes all over Europe and into the British Isles, and they passed along their inherited genes from Anicient North East Asia.
The genetic link has already been established between the two populations. We just have to wait to see if they can determine the origin of the genes, that cause hooded eyes in Europeans. I suspect it is the ANA heritage. I could be wrong though. Perhaps it’s just an adaptation to environment, where people with hooded eyelids just were more well equipped to survive and breed in certain environmental conditions, and that’s how it spread, like most distinct features.
@passingtime85
This hypothesis falls apart when you look deeper into the real data and evidence. The most prominent East Asian shape altering the upper-lid crease, EDAR V370A, is almost zero in most Europeans — large genome studies record it at virtually zero south of Finland as well, and Finns themselves carry it only in minute amounts. Most of those eyelid-related genes found in Japanese and Chinese studies are basically just as rare in Europeans.
Few non-northern Europeans carry more than a bare fraction of one percent Siberian ancestry, and even supposing each such fragment of ancestry carried these “Asiatic” alleles (as indeed it does not), sheer numbers predicts that fewer than half a percent of Europeans would be so endowed, consistent with their extremely low observed frequency.
Ancient DNA makes it clear: original Scandinavian hunter-gatherers carried EDAR V370A, but there was no sign of it in Bronze- and Iron-Age Scandinavians, so the allele died out rather than continuing to spread. Eyelid shape is polygenic, i.e., several hundred small-effect genes and others of that sort like aging, fat distribution, and climate draw eyes towards or away from a typical “Asian” look.
So yeah, that’s why you might see hooded eyes or epicanthic folds in random populations with no East Asian lineage.
But overall, the most likely cause for these traits is that they just showed up naturally, e.g., Europe, mostly through normal adaptation and a dash of gene variability with absolutely no need to resort to a wide-ranging Siberian or some other “North Asian” gene/wave.
I appreciate the response, not many commentators engage in genetically inclined conversation. I did specifically say we have to wait to find the genes*, plural. I understand several genes typically cause attributes. I also ended my conjecture, that it could just be an independently developed feature.
Perhaps I have misinterpreted the study I read, but I believe upwards of 20% modern of Europeans carry ANE heritage. I’m not researcher, statistician, or a geneticist, so it’s certainly possible I am in error.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4170574/
I am however a little perplexed that in the same response you can cite 1 protein receptor/gene, and then say that the characteristic in question, is also polygenic.
I read one study on EDAR V370A, the strongest affected characteristics were the type of chin and shape of earlobe, with weaker, but still quite significant, correlation to type of forehead, upper lip thickness, and the epicanthic fold.
I am still not entirely convinced this is evidence, that characteristic of hooded eyelids, isn’t an adapted version of a true epicanthic fold, inherited through admixture events. I could be wrong, and the link may not, or cannot ever be established, but I still believe it could* be discovered.
Northern and Eastern Euros have strong Asian because they ARE partly Mongoloid not because of climate adadadaptation all their facial features are related to the Ching Wong Ching’s and to Down Syndrome.
Moron.
Nonsense. Not backed by any facts, just a racist non-white rambling.
There are actual, verified, significant MENA admixtures in all italians. Lol.
Pretty
Correction. Blake also has French-Canadian ancestry as well. Through her Thrash ancestry she is a descendant of a woman named Catherine Dufour and her husband Étienne Charles LAJEUNESSE who were French-Canadian.