From age three, Campbell attended the Barbara Speake Stage School and at 10 she was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where she studied ballet. On their return to London, she lived with relatives while her mother travelled across Europe with the dance troupe Fantastica. Ĭampbell spent her early years in Rome, Italy, where her mother worked as a modern dancer. Campbell is of Afro-Jamaican descent, as well as of Chinese-Jamaican ancestry through her paternal grandmother, whose surname was Ming. Her half-brother Pierre was born in 1985. She took the surname 'Campbell' from her mother's second marriage. In accordance with her mother's wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who abandoned her mother when she was four months pregnant and went unnamed on her birth certificate. Naomi Elaine Campbell was born in Streatham, South London to Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris on.
