Who Are 'You People' Star Lauren London's Parents?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Did you know that 'You People' star Lauren London's parents had a love tale similar to the only Amira and Ezra revel in in the movie?

Katherine Stinson - Author

Spoiler alert: The following article comprises spoilers for the Netflix film You People.

In You People, Lauren London's character Amira has parents that are understandably skeptical about her upcoming nuptials with her boyfriend Ezra (Jonah Hill). Amira's dad Akbar (performed with a stoic hilarity via Eddie Murphy) isn't rather sure if the dorky white Jewish guy Amira has her center set on is worthy of his daughter's love.

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In a interesting, real-life plot twist, Lauren London's actual parents had a love story similar to Ezra and Amira's. So, who are Lauren London's parents, and are they nonetheless together?

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Who are 'You People' star Lauren London's parents?

Lauren London is if truth be told Black and Jewish herself! Her mom was a Black woman, whilst her father was once a white Ashkenazi Jewish man.

The You People star published to the PEOPLE Every Day podcast (by way of Yahoo Entertainment) that operating at the film if truth be told helped her be informed extra about her personal Jewish heritage.

Lauren mentioned within the podcast, "I just grew up with my mother in my household. I didn't grow up with my dad living with us. My parents divorced when I was really young. I was three, so my experience is of my mother's experience, because I just grew up with a single Black mom."

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Lauren added that shooting You People felt in reality with regards to home, actually, explaining that "what felt personal was shooting in L.A. ... and some of those areas that we shot in and some of the places that we shot in. I liked that they were Jewish 'cause it was also some stuff that I got to learn via being in the movie that I didn't know."

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Lauren London's parents names have never been showed. It could also be because of the fact that Lauren needs to keep that information personal, particularly if her parents do not need to be in the public eye in any respect like their well-known daughter!

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What's next for Lauren after 'You People'?

Now that You People has hit Netflix for everyone's streaming excitement, what's subsequent for Lauren London? Does she have another films within the works this yr?

It doesn't glance adore it recently, if Lauren's IMDb page is anything else to move through. She has posted modeling pics on her Instagram for her 10 million fans debuting appears from her L.A. Love Story model assortment, which was once inspired by way of LA, the city that raised her, and her late boyfriend and father of her son Kross, Nipsey Hussle.

Lauren printed on the Drew Barrymore Show (by means of HotNewHipHop) that it took so much for her to really feel protected returning to acting after Nipsey's tragic death. She told Drew, "So, I’m very intentional on who I paintings with, and Kenya (Barris, the director and co-writer of You People) just created a actually protected area. And so did Jonah.”

You can flow You People now on Netflix.

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