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Ozerov-Meyer in 2014, photo by kathclick /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Sydney Meyer
Place of Birth: London, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: September 15, 1995
Ethnicity: * father – Black South African * mother – English
Sydney Ozerov-Meyer, also billed as Sydney Meyer, is a Canadian actress. Her roles include the series Shadowhunters , Departure , V Wars , Grand Army , Slasher: Flesh & Blood , Y: The Last Man , and Beacon 23 .
Her father is a black South African. Her mother is English, and white. Sydney is also a British citizen. A picture of Sydney with her parents can be seen here . Sydney is married to Russian-Canadian actor Alex Ozerov-Meyer . The two have hyphenated their names, and she is now credited as Sydney Ozerov-Meyer. They appeared together in Slasher . She moved to Toronto at age fifteen.
Sydney has stated :
…my dad is Black and from South Africa. He came to Canada because he was born in South Africa when there was still Apartheid and it was not a good situation, so him and his family kind of fled and came to Canada… [My mom]’s like blonde hair and blue eyes, as fair as can be… I’m mixed – I don’t look it, I’m clearly very white passing. For me it’s always been something that’s been so close to my heart that that’s part of my heritage and part of where I come from… [With Slasher], it was this mixed character that was kind of white passing… caught in between these two worlds. I thought that was so exciting that I was going to play this mixed character for once.
…my dad is Black and from South Africa. He came to Canada because he was born in South Africa when there was still Apartheid and it was not a good situation, so him and his family kind of fled and came to Canada… [My mom]’s like blonde hair and blue eyes, as fair as can be… I’m mixed – I don’t look it, I’m clearly very white passing. For me it’s always been something that’s been so close to my heart that that’s part of my heritage and part of where I come from… [With Slasher], it was this mixed character that was kind of white passing… caught in between these two worlds. I thought that was so exciting that I was going to play this mixed character for once.