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Thursday 10 June 2010

Famous TCKs...

Famous Third Culture Kid 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
Michel Gondry - film director
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 )


Taken from: http://www.tckid.com/group/famous-tcks/

2 comments:

  1. Please please don't forget Joe Strummer (lead singer of The Clash. Who's father was a ambassador in Turkey and Joe was born there.

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  2. Thanks for reminding us Josh!!!

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