Famous Third Culture Kids Celebrities (TCKs)
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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.”
February 16th, 2009 at 2:10 am
Khaled Hosseini - author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid suns is originally from Afghanistan (Iran, France, US)
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February 16th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Hey guys,
didn’t see this posted so I thought you might be interested to know that Bryan Adams is a Canadian TCK diplobrat…even went to one of my schools, AIS in Israel.
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February 16th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Another note,
Another personal favorite musician third culture kid of mine is Lila Downs…as an anthropologist I lived and did fieldwork in the town she’s from on her mother’s side…and besides her music is awesome!
Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures. Here’s a Wikipedia entry on her!
Downs is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sánchez and Allen Downs, a Scottish/English-American[1] professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. She grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. state of California as a teen, and Minnesota as an adult where she graduated from the University of Minnesota in voice and anthropology
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June 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Nichkhun Horvejkul
He’s member of 2pm, famous
Korean singing group
He’s also Thai TCK who lived in
Thailand, NZ, and USA before
He lives in Korea now for his career
and can speak Thai, English, and Korean
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