Tracee Ellis Ross, real name Tracee Joy Silberstein, is an actress from the United States. Tracee Ellis Ross is well-known for portraying the main character in the television shows Black-ish and Girlfriends.

Early Life and Education

Tracee Ellis Ross was born on October 29, 1972, in Los Angeles, California to Motown singer/actress Diana Ross and music industry manager Robert Ellis Silberstein. She is 49 years old as of now.

Evan Ross, an actor, and singer is her half-brother while Rhonda and Chudney are her sisters. Her mother is African-American and a Baptist, while her father is Jewish. After her father dropped the name Silberstein, she chose the name Tracee Ellis Ross to keep both of her parents’ names.

Tracee Ellis Ross with her sibling and father at a young age source: The Guardian

Tracee got three step-siblings Katinka, Christoffer, and folk singer Leona Naess when her mother wed Arne Naess Jr. in 1985. She still has good relations with them. Ross Arne and Evan Ross, her two half-brothers, were born to her mother and Naess in 1987 and 1988, respectively before they got divorced in 2000.

Education

Ross enrolled at The Dalton School in Manhattan, Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. When she was an adolescent, she modeled.

She studied at Brown University, where she performed in plays, and acquired a theatre degree in 1994. Later, she worked in the fashion sector as a model and guest fashion editor for Mirabella and New York publications.