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Teddy Horne left the family when Lena was three years old and moved to an upper-middle-class African-American community in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 5][ 6] Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron, was an actress with a Black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. [ 7]
Her mother, actress Edna Louise Scottron, was of the same ethnicity as her husband. She was fair-skinned, with green eyes. Horne’s grandfather, Edwin Sr., was of British and Native American ancestry, with blue eyes, while her maternal grandmother was of Native American and Afro-Portuguese ethnicity. LENA HORNE’S RACE BACKGROUND & ETHNICITY
Apr 2, 2014 · Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born on June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a banker/professional gambler and an actress. Both parents had a mixed heritage of African American...
Her mother, Edna, was an actress with an African American theater troupe and traveled extensively. Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. Yet, she still moved a great deal in her early years because her mother often took her with her on the road.
May 14, 2010 · Gail Lumet Buckley (left) and her mother, Lena Horne, at an awards ceremony in 1987. Buckley's book, The Hornes: An American Family, charts her family's roots. G. Paul Burnett/AP
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Nov 3, 2022 · This undated filed photo taken in the 50s shows Lena Horne (Lena Mary Calhoun Horne ), a US actress and Jazz singer, born in 1917 in New York.