Naomie Harris discovers she has Irish roots!
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2023
- James Bond star Naomie Harris traced her family history in the Caribbean when she appeared on Who Do You Think You Are?
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I have heard her name but didn't know who is. This was in 2019 and she was 42 years old. Holy cow, amazing genetics . I thought she was 20 something. Beautiful woman
Moneypenny from the Daniel Craig Bond films
She was also in Pirates of the Caribbean.
She's stunning
She is my twin sister and I even look way much younger than herself. Our mother needs to speak the truth about separating twin sisters at the age of 5. We had relocated down to Nigeria 40years ago when my father wanted us closer to him. But the community people ganged up against my mother and called her a stranger embarrassed her and she left without speaking to our father. She left me at the house of our then nanny and took my sister Naomie which ofcourse aren't her real names because she changed her names. Naomie doesn't know this, she and I have been told a lie for years until I uncovered this hidden secret. Let the world know that Naomie has an older twin sister in Nigeria. If my mother claims I'm telling a lie, let her provide my sister's original birth certificate and arrest me after a DNA is done. I'm ready for whatever comes. Enough of these lies
@@ebeleefobi969 How would you be her older sister if you are twins?
The bit with her father was painful. What a loss for him not to know his lovely daughter.
That is because my mother acted on impulse when she was ganged up on in a community in Nigeria and called a stranger. She left with my twin sister. Naomie Harris isn't her true identity. She has a twin sister in Nigeria
@@ebeleefobi969 what are you talking about? Prove it or stay off the internet.
@@ebeleefobi969 and I-
@@descendanttravels7639 Ofcourse I can't wait to prove the doubters wrong. Very soon be patient......
@@ebeleefobi969 🧢
Naomi Harris has such a beautiful voice & presence. We need to see her in more films please!!
Yes! I've loved her since seeing her in 28 Days Later. She's brilliant ❤
In "The man who fell to earth", I was like, God damn buttery smooth voice is that?!
It's obvious Naomie didn't share a close relationship with her dad or his side of the family. To not know she had 7 aunts/ uncles and grandparents who possibly lived blocks away from where she grew up is mind-blowing, WOW! 🤔 🙄 😳.
Naomie and myself are twins. We were separated at age 5. She's Nigerian/Jamaican and british by birth as well as myself. Born 6th sept 1976. I've also been separated from my mother and twin sister for 40years and my mother is too ashamed to let this truth be out because she has lied to my sister her whole life and even changed her names. Whoever can get through to my sister tell her to ask her mother for her original birth certificate and also to trace her roots down to Nigeria. What happened to us was destined, there's a purpose for the separation that happened in the past.
@@ebeleefobi969 really? so sad...how about a doc on your story?
@@carolinekamya2339 who to share doc with and how to reach her? Any suggestions
It happens
@@ebeleefobi969 Tell the press if this is the truth. The RUclips comment section isn 't the place.
Beautiful "young" lady! Hard to imagine she's in her forties. Wow!
Naomie is a beautiful soul. My heart aches for her that her Dad was never involved. He wasn't even apologetic about that. No remorse at all. How could you have such a wonderful daughter standing in front of you and not be proud of her. The mind boggles. Sending you love Naomie x
Naomie Harris is Nigerian/Jamaican and british by birth. She was separated from her twin sister at the age of 5. Our mother hasn't told her the truth about changing her real identity. Thise aren't her real names. The truth needs to be told.
Her dad was not involved because our mother separated from him in Nigeria and returned to London. Naomie is my twin sister, and those aren't her real names.
how could you type such a hackneyed phrase as, "the mind boggles," without dropping over dead from embarrassment?😮
narcissistic parents
@@ebeleefobi969 I'm sorry that your mom has been telling you such things.
She's so pretty. I remember her in 28 Days Later. I'm glad she's succeeded in Hollywood.
Thank you Naomie for sharing your family history with us all. You are a wonderful person and actor.
I think she looked so much like the picture of her father's mother, her grandmother
I love Naomi Harris. She is a talented actress. I enjoy her work so much. Would like to see her in more roles.
She's absolutely stunning
By the way, the Irish suffered terribly under Cromwell and this included Irish people being enslaved and shipped to the West Indies so it is not surprising that many people from the Caribbean have Irish ancestry as well as West African.
No. They were indentured servants, which means that it was voluntary, as it's a contractual agreement. No one can force you into becoming an indentured servant.
@@Nghilifa This is not entirely true there is ample evidence of slavery especially to Barbados. Cromwell wrote about this and it is stated in his former home in Ely
@@Nghilifa No they weren't. Go or you were killed. It's not a choice. They sold 150,000 orphaned children. They certainly didn't sign any documents.
Also we have the letters from the plantation owners in the Bahamas. It's plainly obvious these are slaves.
@@Nghilifa They were forced into it and they were treated worse than slaves with the majority dying before their contract ended. Having a contract meant owners had a limited time to force as much labour out of them so they pushed them much harder than the slaves who they owned for life. Owners were also incentivized to see to it that the servant didn't make it to the end of their contract so not to have to make good on paying out compensation. Other servants who were forced into it by debt (usually offered as payment for someone else's debt) were set up to never be able to pay their way out .
The Irish owned slaves in Montserrat. Cromwell did persecute rebels in Cork and they were treated as slaves but don't buy into and sell these universal victim narratives
I can't believe she never got to spend time with her grandparents, that's so sad.
I didn’t, we weren’t estranged they were just 300 miles away, they didn’t have space for us to visit nor were they particularly amenable to coming to stay with us.
@@nicolad8822ok but just listen
Families are not all storybook, my family were not close but lived nearby, I never knew anything about my family's family, and that old odd age springs to mind, "You don't miss what you have never had".
For the English and Scots claiming in the comments that her family origins must be from their countries, I have only this to say ... the Irish didn't ship themselves to the Caribbean, Virginia, Amazon Basin, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere ... that's where you guys come in, making money from human misery
@@steptay our population hasn't reached the same level as pre famine so its a constant reminder suppose you say the jews should forget the holocaust as well cause it happend in the last century
Get over it
@daithideburca98 our population will return to those levels thanks to unvetted mass migration from Asia and Africa courtesy of FG FF LAB GP SF political parties. Our country is dying thanks to this
Facts
@daithideburca98 it soon will won't it only it will be African good luck muppets
I'm currently reading The Tide Between US by Olive Collins and it talks about a similar family dynamic of Irish people in Caribbean
Irish people were sent to Barbados too as slaves by the English tyrant Oliver Cromwell during his ruthless campaign in Ireland in the mid 17th century.
She was so great in Pirates of the Caribbean.
I was surprised to find out that I have more Irish ancestry than I thought. 40%. I thought that I was English, but English is very little. You’re beautiful Naomi Harris.
The actual "English" are basically extinct. They would share a lot of Gealic dna. The more Norman or Saxon dna you have the less English you actually are. The Cornish would be one of the original English tribes.
@@noelienoelie8425 not Gaelic, Brythonic like Welsh and Cornish people. That said the origin on the word English is from the Angles the Germanic people who conquered the Celtic people living in what is now England.
@@noelienoelie8425 Please don't engage in ethnocide thank you.
@@noelienoelie8425that comment is completely wrong English are not Gaels they are Saxons
No British celt called that place England it was created by Saxons
@@user-ze8yy8jg1f? I think you misread my comment. I said the original inhabitants of "England" would have shared dna with Gealic people but they were killed off and the "English" people of today are Saxons/Norman's.
She is one very attractive young lady and her voice sounds so pleasant and calming
46
Naomi Harris is beautiful, talented and one of my favorite Bond ladies! Loved seeing Naomi and Daniel Craig on screen.
The Irish were shipped to the Carribean as 'indentured servants' in the aftermath of the Crowellian conquest of Ireland. Montserrat is known as the 'Emerald isle' of the Carribean. Irish names are still prevalent there and throughout the Caribbean... The Irish connection is never a surprise...
We didn't get a choice. It wasn't indentured servitude. And orphaned child can't give consent to something like that.
It was not indentured servitude, it was slavery. After the Irish people had their land taken off them, they were were given a choice of moving west of the river Shannon to Connaught, travelling to the new world as a slave, or be tortured to death
There were plenty who went of their own volition. They may have been working for the landed British families but they were happy to be able to build their own wealth.
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Naomi for sharing your story.
I am now finding out about my family history. My Father's mother, whose name I just learnt, Ivy Allison, was Charles William Wallace Clarke's daughter. This man is my grea greandfather!! Thank you relative Naomi for this piece of research, which I recently befan to do.
One of the most beautiful women in the world.
It’s such a common thing for Trinis, Grenadians and Bajans to share a bloodline. That’s definitely my heritage.
Yup with so many relatives island hopping back then and never returning
We're the same people 😅
And vincys
The fact that she is 46 boggles my mind.
28 days later was an amazing movie, she's been in alot of other good films as well
Very interesting. I discovered my maternal great-great grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland.
Now you must have a drink on paddy day every year, its the rules
Like a good bit of the British population then?
Aww, so lovely to see her discovering more about the side of her ancestors she knew nothing about.
Naomie 🥰
So sad to have relatives nearby & never to have known each other
Happens all the time.
Wow !
Her own father, yet she has only seen him a 'handful of times' and didn't know any of her family that lived in the next street ?
What strange family, perhaps we will find out why later ?
I NEED TO KNOW WHY????? something must have happened
Fleeting sexual encounters. No mystery.
Wow, she is so gorgeous
Naomie hope you can embrace your Irish roots , We all love u , Ireland ,
What is the ppint of having roots of folks who didn't even claim you? I am going to LOVE WHO LOVES ME!!!
The point is to find out from whence one comes. Love whomever you’d like, this is about knowledge of self
I think Anne Sophia would have loved her!
Such a lovely lady
She looks so much like her paternal grandma😮
'Charles William Wallace Clarke' is a British name, not an Irish name. This man will have been descended from British people who lived in Ireland for some length of time (possibly centuries) before he went from Ireland to Grenada. It's misleading to tell Naomi she's of Irish heritage. The story is more complicated than that.
All the same people basically.
@@nicolad8822 er no
@@nicolad8822 As an Irish person whose rich neighbour was Anglo Irish, I can tell you they made sure we knew we were not the "same people". Even though their family was in Ireland since the battle of the boyne 300 years ago, they still had English accents.
@@nicolad8822Your ignorance is very clear.
@@nicolad8822 Nope not even close. As defined by law ..still to this day in ireland they are culturally different from us even in the south and in the north its a very segregated community.
Her dad is sooo handsome! Zaddy
Lies
Dad kinda looks like rue paul
Hello from trinidad
Love her since Twenty eight days later
This dad is wo a clue clearly very selfish. The fact that Naomi had no idea her grandparents were streets away is so sad to me.
history keeps getting made it doesn't stop and will continue long after we are all gone - understanding ones history no matter how bright or grim is a worldwide phenomenon there are tv programs & books written about it in the form of ones ancestry I use to love watching these shows more so when it involved UK NZ or Australian celebrities
Her eye colour is very common in Ireland
OK Caribbean people my people i'm from Trinidad...
Love her. I have some Irish ancestry as well. Wonder if we are related 🤔
The Irish were the first slaves brought to the Bahamas.
Not with a name like yours
No way, my family come from Grenada and Trinidad too.
What i have to go look for main street in St James..
Who is she ?
She's very pretty.
Interesting that one of her ancestors had "William Wallace " as his middle names. One of my ancestors betrayed William Wallace. We are Graham of Montrose.
Probably from Northern Ireland
So you’re Naomi’s opps?
8 is nothing for a Trinidadian family in his time. My father's side had 13, which wasn't uncommon.
Shes such goddess
William Wallace Clark ain't no Irish name. He was a planter, no surprise then he was an overseer.
Indeed. People too often fail to distinguish between the occupied (native Irish) and the occupiers (British) when they speak of people "from" Ireland during those times. Just because they "came" from Ireland does not mean they were Irish in the authentic sense.
@@helenaville5939isn’t that true of every place ?😊
@@sahej6939 No.
Oh my Miss Moneypenny
Shame on her dad… imagine knowing your daughter but not being super close to her, I just can’t understand that
I feel as though this conversation should have happened off screen, it seems like they barely know each other.
This crazy cause i just watched “rampage” then this shows up on my timeline “randomly”
Wow at the thumbnail but I don't expect anything less from the BBC
Is dad n daughter meeting for the 1st time?😮..
Clarke and Browne, both spelled with an 'e' at the end are indications of English and Irish names. Scots do not have an 'e' at the end of their surnames.
O Cleiragh, is the oldest Irish name and all Clearks have their roots in that old Irish name as does Cleary , and Clery, reflecting from the book Irish origins…… THE FOUR MASTERS
Ours
My grandfather was from the Ukraine and escaped from a German work camp, ended up meeting my Irish grandmother in the UK, both where big drinkers unfortunately
Naomie HARRIS, has Irish roots ? What a shocker lol
Beautiful lady! Usually love Irish roots - seems nothing here to cheer me.
Calypso
I thought she was really young to have an OBE- not that young after all! Gorgeous woman and how sad to discover that she lived merely streets away from so many relatives. Odd interview with father. Family dynamics can be so stressful.
For people in the comments who clearly have no clue where names come from
Clarke has no direct country it is both British and Irish it means scholar
Wallace is not British it is French and came from Normandy just like the Wallace family
It is both Scottish Welsh and Irish. The Scottish Wallace is from Normandy and was a Irish clan in the Scottish lowlands
its not irish unless you mean anglo irish
@@silverkitty2503 no not Anglo Irish
Anglo Irish is Irish with Anglo decent
Clarke does not have a origin it is a label more than a surname. They were named after their job and can come from east part of Britain and Ireland
Wallace is Norman so it can be anglo Norman or Irish Norman.
Before people could write their own names, spelling was determined by whoever took the census/bmd certificates/church record etc and was often misspelt because of strong accents.
2 strangers her and her dad
How did she not know her dad had 8 siblings?
Her mother almost certainly knew, and never told her.
All her mom's wonderful doing.
Because she didn’t know her Dad. He shot and left.
@@johnsorzanoher dads doing you mean, obviously
She looks like her Dad.
Naomie Harris❤
So why didn't she meet her grandparents if they were so close geographically?
It's pretty obvious her father was little more than a sperm donor.
They mentionned she has only been in contact with her father a few times over the years
She only met her Father a handful of times so why would she meet her grandparents?
She had no relationship with her father so it stands to reason that she wouldn't have a relationship with his parents.
Her parents separated before she was born. Obviously something serious caused the rift, so her mother likely forbade any contact. At least she reconnected with her father before he died, but not before her grandparents passed away. Families are very odd.
Her dad is identical to Frozone
WHAT?! Another Brit? I had no idea she was British 😮
And she has no idea she is Nigerian too and has a older twin sister living in Nigeria. And my mother changed her names, those names she bears isn't her true identity.
@@ebeleefobi969 are you being serious
@@nadianurun6259 Yes
@@nadianurun6259
She's the troll of this board and by what she keeps writing is seriously delusional too.
Is she related to Noel Clarke?
Her father looks like Frozone ; )
She’s an Oxbridge educated theatrical lovey at the end of the day.
Poor lady findin out her family were all around her,,her ole man has no regrets apparently,William Wallace Clarke has to be Scottish
geeza looks like Frozone!
Perhaps the USA just can't keep up with your speed of delivery of ideas presented via "big" words! Perfectly illustrated by the farce of Good morning Joe appearance in the past.
Keep it up. Love listening to your show.
Is this aimed at somebody in particular?
I wonder if the rift between she and her father were for typical reasons; things don't work out between two ppl and the child(ren) they share suffers because of that, because, I'll say that I was a bit taken aback that she didn't know her father had 7 siblings. How is your father alive and living in somewhat close proximity to u and u don't even know that u have 7 aunts and uncles. It's like her knowledge of her father's side of the family is completely nonexistent...I could be assuming, but that's what it seemed like.
Because she was lied to, that wasn't her father or real paternal family. The world will be a better place if we can all speak the truth at all times. Naomie Harris(not her real identity) because our mother changed her names. We are twins, I'm her older twin sister. She is Nigerian/Jamaican and British by birth. We were separated at the age of 5. I just uncovered this hidden secret and I'm trying to reach my twin sister to tell her the truth. Our whole lives has been a lie.
I need help to get through to my twin sister please someone out here should help me. I've tried messaging her on social media platforms but I'm not sure she has seen any of my dm's
I haven't seen our mother and ofcourse my twin sister in 40years
Charles (Protestant) William Wallace (Braveheart = Scottish, not Irish) Clarke (Catholic). Bit of a turn in the family, something going on there, perhaps the family had to leave.
Uncomfortable viewing,,there is no connection not surprising to learn of his estrangement from the rest of his family,,
Have always loved how she talks. Great bedroom voice. 😳😘
Frozone?
That's her dad but she barely knows anything about him? ... Strange.
Wow she didn't even know his family who lived close by?
Why?
The slave trade was abolished in the early 19th century in the British Empire. However, it was roughly the same as sharecropping in the US after the Civil War and reconstruction. Think of it as the cotton plantations that still thrived in the south up until the 21st century. It wasnt slavery but it was damn close and appalling.
Those were my thoughts as she talking. That information was not a happy moment 😮
I have gotten something I didn't know ...Cotton plantations in the 21st century in the South,.. Pardon my ignorance for real....
@@anselmgachukia6809 plantation denotes a farm where they principally plant things vs raise livestock. Yes there are cotton plantations in the South to this very day, but don't assume a connotation of slavery just because of the word "plantation"
@@larryy3133 Slavery of the mind endures.
Highly debatable and variable
In harsher times the Irish had better taste
Amazing that kids don't ask where their past is. 🤔
William Wallace does not sound like an Irish name. Possibly Ulster/Scots, if Irish at all.
Are you slow😂
Gaelic is Gaelic both ulster and Scotland were created by Irish so they are both Gaelic decent
Oh boy, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The Ulster Scots were Lowlanders, not Highlanders. Different people, altogether.
William Wallace was a Lowlander, not a Highlander. Now, shush.
@@graceygrumble Wallace isn’t Scottish it’s French from Normandy just like the Wallace family who landed in lowlands Scotland it means Welshman
@@graceygrumble you say ulster /Scott’s ulster is Gaelic so are the majority of Scottish
@@user-ze8yy8jg1f No. Ulster - as in a part of Ireland - where the Lowland Scots (Not Gaelic Highlanders) settled.
Look it up and shut up!
I don’t know how old your grandmother is, but I’m just guessing that her father was entered into your family tree within the last hundred years which means after slavery was over with. So his circumstances were obviously different. Did your grandmother tell you how he became her father?
She’s English. England ended slavery in 1808 so fifty or so years earlier. Her great great grandmother would have been free. Probably born free.
I can never take in what she’s saying because I’m too distracted by her beauty and voice. I guess that’s the main reason we shouldn’t get married.
Hahahahaha good one !
Tia Dalma Out and about eh?
Scots Irish also predated any idea of Scotland in the Irish Kingdom of Del Riada
Not really though. Scotti were literally Gaels from Ireland that settled the West coast and the Highlands and of which the country is named after. "Scots Irish" are descendants of lowland Protestant Scots that originate from Saxons from Northumbria.
Face it- everyone is Irish.
No, she's not even Irish. That's not an Irish name
@@Sean-jc6cu Almost none of a person's ancestors are likely to share that person's last name.
@@kindnessfirst9670 That makes absolutely no sense at all
@Leo Murray Anglo-Irish maybe. It's definitely not Irish in origin.
@Leo Murray It can be, but in this case, it's likely English. Harris can be an English form of the Gaelic 'OhEarchadha', but most often originates from the plantation of Ulster and the arrival of settlers from the British mainland.
Where is the Irish roots connection?.
Clarke is Both British and Irish it is a Latin name given to Irish and british scholars
So there was a potato in the woodpile?