Are both Jean Genet and Nicola Black of European decent?
Jean Genet Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before putting him up for adoption. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provincial town of Alligny-en-Morvan, in the Nièvre department of central France. His foster family was headed by a carpenter and, according to Edmund White's biography, was loving and attentive. While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft.
Denise Black Denise Black (born 16 March 1958 in Emsworth, Hampshire) is an English actress, best known for playing Denise Osbourne in the ITV soap "Coronation Street" on and off from 1992 until 2007 and again from 2017, Hazel Tyler in Channel 4's "Queer As Folk" in 1999 and 2000 and "Cucumber" in 2015, both written by Russell T Davies and for playing Joanie Wright in "Emmerdale" from June to November 2013, and again from June 2015 until January 2017. She has also had a small appearance in ITV sitcom "Benidorm" playing Gloria.