.amirahvann: 'To me, as a New York Afro-Latina, I've always advocated for both sides of myself. I've always felt both sides are important, and I've always fully felt a part of both communities.'
, was raised in the Black Baptist Church, and she brought this understanding to her portrayal in the film.Hailing from Far Rockaway, Queens, Vann was born to a Puerto Rican mother from Santurce, and a Black American Brooklynite father. “I’m fully Puerto Rican and I’m fully African American,” she says. Vann grew up with her older sister, a visual artist and former assistant principal, and credits her Queens upbringing with getting to live alongside so many diverse communities from a young age.
Her father passed away when she was very young, but Vann’s mother, a retired bilingual kindergarten teacher, immersed her fully in, food, and music. Growing up with her mom’s extended Boricua family, including her abuelita and 10 tíos, she fondly remembers early memories, like “making music with pots and pans,” dancing salsa with cousins, and singing coritos at her first church, a Spanish-speaking Pentecostal church.
On a trip back to Puerto Rico in her early 20s, she joyfully saw parts of herself reflected in her fellow“I’ll never forget the peace that came over me, ‘Wow, no me tengo que cambiar,’” Vann says. “I’m not the outlier. I never felt that until I got there and found peace on the other side of it.” Vann’s Afro-Indigenous roots run deep, too.
In recent years, the Fordham University and New York University Tisch School of the Arts alumna has portrayed a plethora of multi-dimensional Black women onscreen. Vann’s career is currently in ascension mode, stemming from her breakout role as Ernestine, the complex and audacious enslaved head of house on, for which she received an NAACP Image Award nomination.
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