Who Is Anna Deavere Smith Husband? Her Family Ethnicity and Children
Anna Deavere was born to an African-American family, the daughter of Anna Rosalind, an elementary school principal, and Deaver Young Smith Jr., a coffee trader.
She has four younger brothers and sisters. She began attending school shortly after the city began integrating public schools, and she attended both majority-black and majority-white schools during her elementary and secondary school years.
Smith is a graduate of the famous all-girls Western High School.
She studied acting at Beaver College (now Arcadia University), where she graduated in 1971 as one of seven African-American women in her class.
She began to identify as Black during her college years. She later moved to the West Coast for graduate school, where she earned her M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater.
