Background
Ethnicity:
Jordan's father is African-American and his mother, Lucinda Williams, is white, and has English ancestry.
Peele was born on February 21, 1979, in New York City. Peele was born to a white mother, Lucinda Williams, and a black father. His father, who passed away in 1999, exited Peele's life when Peele was about six, and he grew up on New York City's Upper West Side in a single-parent household. When a young Peele appeared on the ABC special "Kids Ask President Clinton Questions," he inquired how to help kids whose parents weren't paying child support.
Peele has admitted that being biracial often made him feel like an outsider, such as when he had to place himself in the racial category of "other" when taking standardized tests (he began selecting "African American" as he grew older). Some of his classmates didn't believe his mother was white, and growing up he sometimes felt his voice sounded too "white."