Markle goes on to explain that “being ‘ethnically ambiguous’, as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role… [but] sadly, it didn’t matter. I wasn’t black enough for the black roles and I wasn’t white enough for the white ones, leaving me somewhere in the middle as the ethnic chameleon who couldn’t book a job.”

It is for this reason that Markle was so happy to be offered the role of Suits’ Rachel Zane – a confident and intelligent para-legal and part-time associate at Pearson Spectre Litt.

“The show's producers weren't looking for someone mixed, nor someone white or black for that matter,” she says. “They were simply looking for Rachel. In making a choice like that, the Suits producers helped shift the way pop culture defines beauty.”

However, despite securing a huge fan-base and receiving acclaim for the role in the first series, Markle was shocked at the backlash the show received when they cast Wendell Pierce, a “dark-skinned African-American man” to play her father.

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