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All About J’Wan Roberts’ Parents, Elbe Brathwaite and Jeff Roberts

Basketball is in J’Wan Roberts’ blood — just ask his parents, Elbe Brathwaite and Jeff Roberts.
“He was actually born to play basketball if you ask me,” his father told WTJX in April 2025. But the Houston Cougars forward’s athleticism isn’t unique in his family. Like their son, Elbe and Jeff also played college basketball and decided to move him from the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he was born and raised, to Texas to increase his exposure for recruitment opportunities.
J’Wan and his younger sister, Jasonique Roberts, lived with his aunt until they graduated from high school. After receiving multiple scholarship offers, J’Wan chose to join the University of Houston in 2018, per The Houston Roundball Review.
So who are J’Wan Roberts’ parents? Here’s everything to know about Elbe Brathwaite and Jeff Roberts.
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Elbe and Jeff raised J’Wan in the U.S. Virgin Islands
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Elbe and Jeff welcomed their son, J’Wan Andone Roberts, on Sept. 19, 2001, and raised him in St. Thomas, which is a part of the Virgin Islands. The collegiate basketball player told PaperCity in 2022 that he could see the beach from the porch of his childhood home.
“I miss it,” J’Wan said. “Surrounded by water … It gets kind of hot down there. Real hot. That’s a good hot. You can go out to the beach and just swim for hours. You can swim all day. You can sleep on the beach … If I could go to the beach every day I would.”
They moved him to Texas to help his basketball career
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The summer after he completed eighth grade, Jeff and Elbe sent J’Wan to Killeen, Texas, to live with Elbe’s sister so the aspiring athlete could further develop his basketball skills. He described the move to his aunt’s house as a “really big step” to The Virgin Island Daily News — one that really helped him grow as a player.
“Back home, everybody who’s got big talent, you go out and hoop, you do your thing,” J’Wan told the outlet in 2021. “But when I moved [to Texas], there was a system I had to play into. It wasn’t just go out there and hoop, go out there and score 50 [points], it was about helping your team win and knowing your role on the team.”
They’re both former basketball players
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J’Wan isn’t the only collegiate athlete in his family. Elbe was a championship player for the University of the Virgin Islands’ Lady Buccaneers basketball squad.
Jeff, who told WTJX that he played the sport with his son from an early age, also played at the junior college level. Though an injury kept him from pursuing the game further, he said that he’s thrilled to watch his son’s success on the court.
“I’m excited for him, happy for him,” he said. “It’s part of the game. It’s what he signed up for. It’s about going out there and just playing ball, you know, leave everything else on the side.”
Jeff runs J’Wan’s youth basketball charity
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When he’s not cheering his son on from the sidelines, Jeff is running J’Wan’s foundation. He’s served as the president of the J’Wan Roberts Foundation since it was founded in 2024. The organization supports the youth of St. Thomas through basketball mentorships.
They have multiple children
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In addition to J’Wan, Elbe and Jeff also share a daughter together: Jasonique. She didn’t follow her family’s footsteps into college basketball and instead enrolled in the U.S. Navy after graduating from Robert M. Shoemaker High School in 2022.
Jasonique was recognized as the Navy’s “Murph of the Week” in 2024. She told The St. Croix Source that she joined to travel the world and “to become a better person and build a foundation for myself, to help my family in the long run and take care of those who took care of me.”
She continued, “My aunt has always wanted to be in the military and never had the chance to. She is one of the reasons that I’m here today.”
J’Wan also has two other siblings, Genique Smalls and Keith Nicholson, per his Houston Cougars bio.
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Barry Williams on His Dad’s ‘Jealousy’ That He Out-Earned Him as a Teen Actor

Barry Williams found success as a child and teen actor — but it did come with a price.
On the April 15 episode of The Real Brady Bros podcast, Williams and his co-host Christopher Knight were joined by their Brady Bunch costars Susan Olsen and Mike Lookinland. Williams, 70, played eldest sibling Greg Brady. Knight, 67, played Peter, while Olsen, 63, and Lookinland, 64, played the youngest Bradys, Cindy and Bobby.
During the episode, the four on-screen siblings reminisced about how they joined The Brady Bunch and how they got started as young actors.
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Williams said that when he auditioned for The Brady Bunch, “I’d been working for a while.” He remembered appearing on TV shows like Gomer Pyle, That Girl and The Mod Squad. Getting asked to do The Brady Bunch, he said, “was like manna from heaven.”
“I just thought, ‘Oh my gosh. This is gonna be a series,’ ” he remembered. He was particularly excited to play the oldest sibling since in real life, he was the youngest of three boys. The fact that “it was going to be a series, so I probably wouldn’t have to audition as much” was part of why he was “very, very excited,” he added.
However, his newfound success from The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974, led to some difficulties with his dad, Frank Blenkhorn. “He never was, at any point, exactly approving of the fact that I was in show business,” he explained. “As the show became more successful, I think he was more disenchanted. And I think there was a point where I may have had more opportunities, or there was a year or two where I was literally making more money than he was.” Williams said that only happened when his dad’s business would have a “down period” once in a while.
“He was very sharp with me about ego, about, you know, about making sure that I wasn’t getting too big for my britches, which probably was deserved,” Williams continued. “But I sensed a bit of jealousy.” His dad, he thought, felt frustrated that “a kid” didn’t have to go through “25 years” of work and instead had success “handed to him.”
Williams said he also thought his success took “a toll on his brothers” as his family’s life began to revolve around him and what he needed. “There was some resentment,” he said.
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Knight said that in some ways, he could relate. His mother, Wilma, “was absolutely vociferously opposed to whatever the show was standing for, which was a challenge.” He explained that in retrospect, as an adult, it caused his mother “internal grief” that her real family couldn’t live up to the Bradys.
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Meanwhile, his father, Edward, had been a Shakespearean actor and felt The Brady Bunch was not “high art.” His dad didn’t do any TV at all, he said, because he felt, “It was beneath actors that did stage.”
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Johnny Depp unrecognizable as silver fox in movie ‘Day Drinker’

Johnny Depp transformed into a silver fox for his Hollywood comeback.
Lionsgate announced Monday that production was underway on the Marc Webb-directed thriller “Day Drinker” and shared a photo of Depp on set with a drink in his hand.
The 61-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” star looked unrecognizable with a full gray beard and blue contact lenses in place of his dark brown eyes.
He traded his signature shaggy brunette hair for a full salt-and-pepper look.
Although Depp starred in the French historical drama “Jeanne du Barry” in 2023, the upcoming film marks his first movie from a major distributor since 2018’s “Harry Potter” spinoff “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”
He plays a “mysterious” guest onboard a private yacht who “forms an unlikely bond with a grieving bartender,” played by Madelyn Cline, according to IMDb.
The two “soon find themselves entangled with a criminal figure,” played by Depp’s longtime collaborator Penélope Cruz.
The “Edward Scissorhands” star and Cruz, 50, previously co-starred in 2001’s “Blow,” 2011’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express.”
Depp took a step back from Hollywood amid his highly publicized defamation trial with ex-wife Amber Heard in 2022.
The “Alice in Wonderland” star won all three counts against Heard, 38, over a 2018 op-ed she wrote alleging domestic abuse. He was awarded $15 million in damages, which was later reduced to $10.3 million.
Although the jury mostly sided with Depp, the actress also won one of her three defamation counterclaims and was awarded $2 million in damages.
While Heard appealed the decision, the two later agreed to a settlement that saw her pay the actor $1 million, which he donated to charity.
The “Aquaman” actress has since left Hollywood behind and now lives in Spain.
Depp, for his part, moved to a “quiet” neighborhood in London, where he has been “prioritizing his health and well-being.”
“He’s taking advantage of being in this better headspace,” an insider told People last year. “There’s a lot of good energy, and he surrounds himself with a good group of people.
“It is more of a quiet life, but filled with painting and music,” they added. “He’s jamming out with friends and playing solo in times when he’s not focused on filmmaking.
While Depp laid low for a while after the trial, he is ready to get back to work on the big screen.
However, he doesn’t view his return as a “comeback,” previously telling journalists that he doesn’t “feel much further need for Hollywood.”
“I keep wondering about the word ‘comeback,’ because I didn’t go anywhere,” he said. “Maybe people stopped calling out of whatever their fear was at the time, but I didn’t go anywhere.”
He added, “Saying ‘comeback’ is almost like I’m going to come out and do a tap dance — dance my best and hope you approve.”
“Day Drinker” is expected to come out sometime next year.
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Maya Hawke Makes Red Carpet Debut with Boyfriend Christian Lee Hutson

Maya Hawke stepped out for a night on Broadway with her boyfriend Christian Lee Hutson, marking the couple’s red carpet debut.
Hawke, 26, attended the opening night of John Proctor Is the Villain in support of her Stranger Things costar Sadie Sink at New York City’s Booth Theater. Hutson, 34, accompanied the actress to the theatrical premiere. Hawke wore a pleated skirt paired with a collared sweater, leather trench coat, and Prada loafers. Hutson donned a sporty, casual look with a denim-on-denim outfit paired with a brown turtleneck and white Converse sneakers.
The couple met four years ago through their work in the music industry. Hutson is known for his indie folk music style and collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers, whom he supported on her 2021 Reunion tour.
The musical couple collaborated on Hawke’s 2024 album Chaos Angel, featuring the notable single “Missing Out.” In July 2024, Hawke opened up about working with her boyfriend on the Zach Sang Show.
“It is awesome. I mean, I cannot recommend highly enough dating your friends. It’s the best. They know you, and as a human being who has dated other people. They really know you as a person who has feelings … not just a piece of paper for them to project their image of perfect girlfriend onto,” the actress told host Zach Sang.
Hawke first costarred with Sink, 22, on Stranger Things in 2017, when both actresses joined the cast. Several other Stranger Things cast members walked the carpet in support of Sink, including Natalia Dyer, Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo.
Sink stars as high school student Shelby Holcomb in John Proctor Is the Villain. The play, written by Kimberly Belflower and directed by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor, follows a group of Georgia high school students reading Arthur Miller’s classic Salem Witch Trials play The Crucible.
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The play sees the students “as they delve into the American classic, the students begin to question the play’s perspective and the validity of naming John Proctor the show’s hero,” according to an official synopsis. The show marks Sink’s third Broadway credit.
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At opening night, Sink exclusively told PEOPLE, “Kimberly’s writing is so brilliant and truly captures teenagers and such an authentic light and deals with some uncomfortable topics, but in such a digestible, honest way.”
The actress continued, “So I’m incredibly more proud of our team and the message that this show has.”
The fifth and final season of Stranger Things has wrapped production and will premiere on Netflix later this year with an exact date to be announced, per Tudum.
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