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Famous TCKs! (Third Culture Kids)
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Barack Obama - Multiracial TCK born in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up in Indonesia and Chicago.
ACTORS
Keanu Reeves – US actor ( Lebanon )
Reese Witherspoon – US actor ( Germany )
John Rys-Davies – UK actor ( “Africa” )
Dominic Monaghan – UK actor ( Germany )
Colin Firth – UK actor ( Nigeria )
Brendan Fraser – US actor ( US, England, Italy )
Uma Thurman – US actor ( India )
Mel Gibson – US actor ( Australia )
Glenn Close – US actor ( Zaire, Switzerland )
Julie Christie – UK actor ( India )
Kathleen Turner – US actor ( Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, England )
Viggo Mortensen – US actor ( Venezuela, Argentina, Denmark )
Hugo Wallace Weaving – UK actor ( Nigeria, Australia, South Africa )
Santiago Cabrera – Chilean actor ( England, Romania, Spain )
River Phoenix & Joaquin Phoenix – US actors ( Venezuela, ? )
Romola Garai – UK actor ( Hong Kong, Singapore )
WRITERS
JRR Tolkien – UK writer ( South Africa )
Pearl S. Buck – US writer ( China )
JG Ballard – UK writer ( China )
Martin Booth – UK writer ( Hong Kong )
Pico Iyer – ? writer ( UK, US )
John Hersey – US writer ( China )
Jean Fritz – US writer ( China )
Isabel Allende – writer (Peru, Lebanon)
Judith Martin – “Ms. Manners” writer ( Greece & ? )
Amélie Nothomb – Belgian writer ( Japan, China, Bangladesh, US, Burma )
Carlos Fuentes – Mexican writer ( Panama , US, Chile, Argentina )
Alexandra Fuller – US writer ( Zimbabwe, Zaire …? )
Barbara Kingsolver – US writer ( Congo )
Michael Arndt – US screenwriter ( India, Sri Lanka )
SINGERS
Michael Hutchence – Astralian singer for INXS ( Hong Kong, US )
Manu Chao (born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao) – Spanish singer ( France )
POLITICIANS & THEIR SPOUSES
Madeline Albright – US politician ( Czech Republic (then a citizen there), Yugoslavia, London, Switzerland )
Barak Obama – US politician ( Indonesia )
Elizabeth Edwards – US politician’s wife (Japan)
Theresa Heinz – US politician’s wife ( Mozambique )
John Kerry – US politician ( TCK, Germany )
Dominique de Villepin – French Prime Minister ( Morocco )
OTHERS
Greg Mortenson – US humanitarian / philanthropist ( Tanzania )
Richard Dawkins – evolutionary biologist, writer ( Kenya )
Lorenzo Michael Murphy Odone – depicted in “Lorenzo’s Oil” ( Comoros )
Kobe Bryant – US athlete ( Italy )
Christiane Amanpour – US journalist ( Iran )
Henry Luce – US media mogul ( China )
General Norman Schwarzkopf – US soldier ( Iran )
Katharine Teresa Gun – US whistle-blower ( Taiwan )
Rachael Renee Smith – Miss USA 2007 ( Panama )
“I still find it interesting when I discover famous people/popular artists that are TCKs as well (because there aren’t that many).”
“I am sure there are several [famous TCKs] and they seem to be settling quite well returning to their home countries, but I’m not sure I can do that myself. I wonder how they felt.”
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June 21st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart), Taiwan. Their father and grandfather are both officers in the United States Marine Corp
Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek (America) All three are English-American and fellow Air Force Brats
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July 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England on September 26th 1948; her family moved to Australia when she was 5. Her mother was German, daughter of the physicist Max Born, her father was Welsh, a professor of German at Cambridge and Melbourne. I guess that qualifies!
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July 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I was watching an interview with Kobe this week where he was able to speak Spanish to the Spanish press because he speaks Italian. Wickid!?
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July 12th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I said this on the facebook group, but Sabra, the 2007 winner of So You Think You Can Dance is a TCK.
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August 29th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Mohsin Hamid, novelist
Mervyn Peake, author and illustrator
Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost
Michel Gondry - film director
Santiago Cabrera - actor, Hero
Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
Julie Christie, actress - “Julie’s father ran a tea plantation in India, where she grew up.”
John Kerry, former US presidential candidate - Attended boarding school in Switzerland while his father was a US diplomat in Germany.
Teresa Heinz - Kerry’s wife, born in Mozambique.
Elizabeth Edwards - wife of John Edwards, US vice-presidential candidate - “Edwards is the daughter of a Navy pilot and lived in a dozen places by the time she was 18. ‘There is no better experience’ in preparing someone for the madness of a presidential campaign, she says.” New York Times, July 17, 2004
Katharine Gun, whistle-blower:
Scott Foley, actor “Foley relocated often during his childhood due to his father’s career in international banking. He lived all over the world, including Sydney, Australia, and Tokyo, Japan.”
Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist - born in Kenya
Joss Whedon, screenwriter and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - partly schooled in the UK
Kathleen Turner, actor - diplomatic “brat”
Hugo Weaving, actor - born in Nigeria, has lived in Australia, South Africa, England.
John Rhys-Davies, actor - “Rhys-Davies spent his formative years in Wales and East Africa, returning to the UK when he was nine.”
Viggo Mortensen, actor: “I remember coming to the U.S. and not only having to learn the accent but the slang,” Mortensen says, adding that being forced to adapt quickly helped him later on. “Out of habit you assume that you have something in common with people no matter how different they seem.” Washington Post
Cordwainer Smith - A science fiction writer who spent many of his formative years in China and was bilingual in Chinese and English.
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August 31st, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Peter Sarsgaard - actor, mil-brat
Sarsgaard was born at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where his father was an Air Force engineer. His family moved over twelve times during his childhood, following his father’s job.
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September 28th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
In interviews with major American newspapers and in The God Journey podcasts, Young has spoken frankly about his difficult years as a child of Canadian missionaries, living in the highlands of New Guinea with the Dani tribe until he was 10 years old (he calls himself a “third culture kid”).
In The New York Times article, The Shack, a Christian novel, becomes a surprise best seller (June 24, 2008), Young also said that he spent a decade in therapy after an extramarital affair 15 years ago.
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2008/9/28/lifebookshelf/2116237&sec=lifebookshelf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Young
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October 22nd, 2008 (5 weeks ago) at 7:15 pm
Writer:
Edward Said…. Political thinker and the mastermind behind “Orientalism”
His autobiography “Out of Place” deals with growing up internationally, losing his cultural homeland of Palestine, growing up as an American in the Middle East, being a “native” in British colonial society, and growing up Arab in America.
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October 24th, 2008 (4 weeks ago) at 1:34 pm
wow that´s so interesting…
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November 13th, 2008 (1 weeks ago) at 4:34 pm
http://cominganarchy.com/2007/09/19/things-change/
“Modern day members of the Tokugawa clan—the xenophobic dynasty of Shoguns that shut Japan off from the world for centuries—are up in arms because the man set to one day become head of the family has married a non-Japanese. Iehiro Tokugawa, who is poised to one day become the 19th head of the clan that ruled the country as Shoguns from 1603 to 1868 and maintained a rigid ban on foreigners entering Japan, has tied the knot with a Vietnamese woman.”
And he’s a TCK :p
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