Naomie Harris discovers she has Irish roots!
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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
@readMEinkbooks
Жыл бұрын
Moneypenny from the Daniel Craig Bond films
@andreachambliss3383
Жыл бұрын
She was also in Pirates of the Caribbean.
@sugarfreegum123
Жыл бұрын
She's stunning
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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
@Pou1gie1
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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
@MATTIE1010101
Жыл бұрын
@@ebeleefobi969 what are you talking about? Prove it or stay off the internet.
@Laura-sg6ss
Жыл бұрын
@@ebeleefobi969 and I-
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
@@descendanttravels7639 Ofcourse I can't wait to prove the doubters wrong. Very soon be patient......
@a.v.london1952
Жыл бұрын
@@ebeleefobi969 🧢
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! 🤔 🙄 😳.
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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.
@carolinekamya2339
Жыл бұрын
@@ebeleefobi969 really? so sad...how about a doc on your story?
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
@@carolinekamya2339 who to share doc with and how to reach her? Any suggestions
@Introvertsan
Жыл бұрын
It happens
@user-dv3kq3rm4h
Жыл бұрын
@@ebeleefobi969 Tell the press if this is the truth. The KZread comment section isn 't the place.
Naomi Harris has such a beautiful voice & presence. We need to see her in more films please!!
@katrabbit
Жыл бұрын
Yes! I've loved her since seeing her in 28 Days Later. She's brilliant ❤
@decaprio7421
8 ай бұрын
In "The man who fell to earth", I was like, God damn buttery smooth voice is that?!
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
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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.
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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.
@Marcel_Audubon
Жыл бұрын
how could you type such a hackneyed phrase as, "the mind boggles," without dropping over dead from embarrassment?😮
@carolinekamya2339
Жыл бұрын
narcissistic parents
@katrabbit
Жыл бұрын
@@ebeleefobi969 I'm sorry that your mom has been telling you such things.
Beautiful "young" lady! Hard to imagine she's in her forties. Wow!
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.
@Nghilifa
Жыл бұрын
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.
@ancupola1994
Жыл бұрын
@@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
@noelienoelie8425
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@bowserjr.8779
Жыл бұрын
@@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 .
@DK-ee6qt
Жыл бұрын
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 think she looked so much like the picture of her father's mother, her grandmother
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 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
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".
I can't believe she never got to spend time with her grandparents, that's so sad.
@nicolad8822
Жыл бұрын
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.
@sahej6939
10 ай бұрын
@@nicolad8822ok but just listen
I'm currently reading The Tide Between US by Olive Collins and it talks about a similar family dynamic of Irish people in Caribbean
@johnroche7541
Жыл бұрын
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 is one very attractive young lady and her voice sounds so pleasant and calming
@lisareed5669
11 ай бұрын
46
Naomi Harris is beautiful, talented and one of my favorite Bond ladies! Loved seeing Naomi and Daniel Craig on screen.
One of the most beautiful women in the world.
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.
@noelienoelie8425
Жыл бұрын
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.
@oro7114
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@gammonsandwich1756
Жыл бұрын
@@noelienoelie8425 Please don't engage in ethnocide thank you.
@user-ze8yy8jg1f
Жыл бұрын
@@noelienoelie8425that comment is completely wrong English are not Gaels they are Saxons No British celt called that place England it was created by Saxons
@noelienoelie8425
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
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.
She was so great in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Thank you Naomi for sharing your story.
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
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...
@noelienoelie8425
Жыл бұрын
We didn't get a choice. It wasn't indentured servitude. And orphaned child can't give consent to something like that.
@sloughlin721
Жыл бұрын
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
@nicolad8822
Жыл бұрын
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.
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
@daithideburca98
Жыл бұрын
@@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
@KalK-ym7cd
Жыл бұрын
Get over it
@Bigbaz86
Жыл бұрын
@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
@riceire2445
Жыл бұрын
Facts
@CHRISANDREOU4199
Жыл бұрын
@daithideburca98 it soon will won't it only it will be African good luck muppets
It’s such a common thing for Trinis, Grenadians and Bajans to share a bloodline. That’s definitely my heritage.
@Drebrooklyn
Жыл бұрын
Yup with so many relatives island hopping back then and never returning
@coleyounger6498
Жыл бұрын
We're the same people 😅
@shanagervais1370
6 ай бұрын
And vincys
28 days later was an amazing movie, she's been in alot of other good films as well
The fact that she is 46 boggles my mind.
Naomie 🥰
Very interesting. I discovered my maternal great-great grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland.
@carthy29
Жыл бұрын
Now you must have a drink on paddy day every year, its the rules
@nicolad8822
Жыл бұрын
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.
Wow, she is so gorgeous
Naomie hope you can embrace your Irish roots , We all love u , Ireland ,
So sad to have relatives nearby & never to have known each other
@nicolad8822
Жыл бұрын
Happens all the time.
Such a lovely lady
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 ?
@thehoneyeffect
Жыл бұрын
I NEED TO KNOW WHY????? something must have happened
@nicolad8822
Жыл бұрын
Fleeting sexual encounters. No mystery.
OK Caribbean people my people i'm from Trinidad...
Hello from trinidad
What is the ppint of having roots of folks who didn't even claim you? I am going to LOVE WHO LOVES ME!!!
@NiKiMa023
Жыл бұрын
The point is to find out from whence one comes. Love whomever you’d like, this is about knowledge of self
@sahej6939
10 ай бұрын
I think Anne Sophia would have loved her!
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
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.
@nicolad8822
Жыл бұрын
All the same people basically.
@eoinh1
Жыл бұрын
@@nicolad8822 er no
@patrickforde6429
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@kierabyrnemusic
Жыл бұрын
@@nicolad8822Your ignorance is very clear.
@silverkitty2503
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
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.
Dad kinda looks like rue paul
Love her since Twenty eight days later
Her eye colour is very common in Ireland
No way, my family come from Grenada and Trinidad too.
What i have to go look for main street in St James..
Love her. I have some Irish ancestry as well. Wonder if we are related 🤔
@noelienoelie8425
Жыл бұрын
The Irish were the first slaves brought to the Bahamas.
@alanmacer5078
Жыл бұрын
Not with a name like yours
William Wallace Clark ain't no Irish name. He was a planter, no surprise then he was an overseer.
@helenaville5939
Жыл бұрын
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.
@sahej6939
10 ай бұрын
@@helenaville5939isn’t that true of every place ?😊
@helenaville5939
10 ай бұрын
@@sahej6939 No.
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
8 is nothing for a Trinidadian family in his time. My father's side had 13, which wasn't uncommon.
This crazy cause i just watched “rampage” then this shows up on my timeline “randomly”
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.
@samoday2992
Жыл бұрын
Probably from Northern Ireland
@printezstroman
Жыл бұрын
So you’re Naomi’s opps?
Oh my Miss Moneypenny
Who is she ? She's very pretty.
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.
Her dad is sooo handsome! Zaddy
@keyme52525
Жыл бұрын
Lies
Wow at the thumbnail but I don't expect anything less from the BBC
Is dad n daughter meeting for the 1st time?😮..
Shes such goddess
Naomie Harris❤
Calypso
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.
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.
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.
How did she not know her dad had 8 siblings?
@TranquiloTrev
Жыл бұрын
Her mother almost certainly knew, and never told her.
@johnsorzano
Жыл бұрын
All her mom's wonderful doing.
@nicolad8822
Жыл бұрын
Because she didn’t know her Dad. He shot and left.
@sahej6939
10 ай бұрын
@@johnsorzanoher dads doing you mean, obviously
Ours
She looks like her Dad.
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
@silverkitty2503
Жыл бұрын
its not irish unless you mean anglo irish
@user-ze8yy8jg1f
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@kelvinlambert4249
Жыл бұрын
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.
Her dad is identical to Frozone
Is she related to Noel Clarke?
2 strangers her and her dad
WHAT?! Another Brit? I had no idea she was British 😮
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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.
@nadianurun6259
Жыл бұрын
@@ebeleefobi969 are you being serious
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
@@nadianurun6259 Yes
@YautjaPrime-gw1on
Жыл бұрын
@@nadianurun6259 She's the troll of this board and by what she keeps writing is seriously delusional too.
So why didn't she meet her grandparents if they were so close geographically?
@Wiley_Coyote
Жыл бұрын
It's pretty obvious her father was little more than a sperm donor.
@miarrem
Жыл бұрын
They mentionned she has only been in contact with her father a few times over the years
@stephanieyee9784
Жыл бұрын
She only met her Father a handful of times so why would she meet her grandparents?
@radioqueenbee7008
Жыл бұрын
She had no relationship with her father so it stands to reason that she wouldn't have a relationship with his parents.
@garywagner2466
Жыл бұрын
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.
Uncomfortable viewing,,there is no connection not surprising to learn of his estrangement from the rest of his family,,
Mr freeze on the Incredibles
Her father looks like Frozone ; )
geeza looks like Frozone!
Poor lady findin out her family were all around her,,her ole man has no regrets apparently,William Wallace Clarke has to be Scottish
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.
@dac545j
Жыл бұрын
Is this aimed at somebody in particular?
She’s an Oxbridge educated theatrical lovey at the end of the day.
Her dad didnt seem tht sorry bout her not knowing her grand parents
Frozone?
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.
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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.
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
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
@ebeleefobi969
Жыл бұрын
I haven't seen our mother and ofcourse my twin sister in 40years
Have always loved how she talks. Great bedroom voice. 😳😘
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.
Everyone is Irish if you go back far enough.
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.
@larryy3133
Жыл бұрын
Those were my thoughts as she talking. That information was not a happy moment 😮
@anselmgachukia6809
Жыл бұрын
I have gotten something I didn't know ...Cotton plantations in the 21st century in the South,.. Pardon my ignorance for real....
@Marcel_Audubon
Жыл бұрын
@@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"
@Therealw1
Жыл бұрын
@@larryy3133 Slavery of the mind endures.
@skeletorlikespotatoes7846
Жыл бұрын
Highly debatable and variable
In harsher times the Irish had better taste
So there was a potato in the woodpile?
Where is the Irish roots connection?.
@user-ze8yy8jg1f
Жыл бұрын
Clarke is Both British and Irish it is a Latin name given to Irish and british scholars
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?
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?
@cynthiafulbright7389
11 ай бұрын
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.
Tia Dalma Out and about eh?
William Wallace does not sound like an Irish name. Possibly Ulster/Scots, if Irish at all.
@user-ze8yy8jg1f
Жыл бұрын
Are you slow😂 Gaelic is Gaelic both ulster and Scotland were created by Irish so they are both Gaelic decent
@graceygrumble
Жыл бұрын
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.
@user-ze8yy8jg1f
Жыл бұрын
@@graceygrumble Wallace isn’t Scottish it’s French from Normandy just like the Wallace family who landed in lowlands Scotland it means Welshman
@user-ze8yy8jg1f
Жыл бұрын
@@graceygrumble you say ulster /Scott’s ulster is Gaelic so are the majority of Scottish
@graceygrumble
Жыл бұрын
@@user-ze8yy8jg1f No. Ulster - as in a part of Ireland - where the Lowland Scots (Not Gaelic Highlanders) settled. Look it up and shut up!
Must of been ulster scotch wallace is a scottish name