NEW YORK-DEC 16: Actor Joey Diaz attends the premiere of “Grudge Match” at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 16, 2013 in New York City. Debby Wong
Birth Name: Jose Antonio Diaz
Place of Birth: Havana, Cuba
Date of Birth: February 19, 1963
Ethnicity: Cuban (Spanish, smaller amounts of African, Taino, Chinese, and Jewish)
Joey Diaz is a Cuban-American comedian, actor, and podcast host, he was born in Havana, Cuba, and he immigrated to the United States at a very young age, he has been in many roles such as My Name is Earl and the Many Saints of Newark.
On his podcast, the Church of Whats Happening Now, he mentioned that he took a 23andMe test, which revealed most of his genetic ancestry came from “the Fort” in Spain, which he was probably referring to Andalusia, with smaller traces of African, Chinese, Russian Jewish, and Indigenous American, he did not specify the percentages of the DNA test.
There isn’t really much documentation on Diaz’s parents or grandparents.
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