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Birth Name: Tyriq Leshon Withers
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 15, 1998
Ethnicity: * father – African-American * mother – European
Tyriq Withers is an American actor. His roles include the films Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead , Me (2024), I Know What You Did Last Summer , Him (2025), and Reminders of Him , and television’s Horror Noire , The Game , and Tell Me Lies . He is 6′5″.
He is the son of Kimberly and Leon Withers. His father is black. His mother is white. A picture of Tyriq with his mother can be seen here .
He has said :
My dad’s a Black American from Chicago, and my mom’s white from Maine … I grew up in the Black experience, so I identify as a Black man, but I never want to take up space and say that my experience is just as difficult because [of] the way I look…
My dad’s a Black American from Chicago, and my mom’s white from Maine … I grew up in the Black experience, so I identify as a Black man, but I never want to take up space and say that my experience is just as difficult because [of] the way I look…
Tyriq’s paternal grandfather is the son of Bernice Pauline Withers. Bernice was born in Mississippi, the daughter of Charles Porter.
Tyriq’s paternal grandmother is the daughter of Clifford Yates.