# Russell Brand's Ethnicity

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**Created:** [December 5, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brands-ethnicity/562978 "2010-12-05T00:02:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![PAVLOVA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@PAVLOVA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PAVLOVA)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brands-ethnicity/562978/81 "2022-09-03T01:50:45Z")

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He’s black. Mulatto. May have Indian or Middle Eastern.

Much of the world looks like this.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brands-ethnicity/562978/82 "2022-09-03T02:13:36Z")

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> [@PAVLOVA](#):
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> He’s black. Mulatto. May have Indian or Middle Eastern.

What is your source for this claim?

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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brands-ethnicity/562978/83 "2022-09-03T03:35:35Z")

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[Wikipedia says:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand)

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> Russell Edward Brand was born in Orsett Hospital in [Grays](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grays,_Essex), Essex, England. He is the only child of Barbara Elizabeth (_née_ Nichols) and photographer Ronald Henry Brand.

[Here’s a picture of him as a young schoolboy.](https://newslines.org/russell-brand/russell-brand-born-in-essex-england/)

I don’t know of any reason to care what Brand’s ethnicity is, but if you do happen to care, I don’t know of any reason to infer that it’s anything but common-or-garden brunet Celtic-type white southern British.

He favors the long-hair-and-beard style that admittedly reads more “Middle Eastern-ish” than typical white British, but that doesn’t change his ethnicity.

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