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When an actor plays a native of a nationality or area other than their own. Not counting those actors who play an extraterrestrial, who are never from the same place as their character. Probably. Nowadays can be known as Colorblind Casting (though that focuses more on the actor and character's race than their nationality). Israeli Jewish and Arab actors tend to wind up playing each other quite frequently (though Israeli-for-Arab is more common than the other way around). Gung-ho movies made during World War II featured every kind of Asian except Japanese, since the Japanese-American actors were otherwise occupied. Many Nazi characters were played by Jewish actors, with some of the actors being European Jews who fled Nazi persecution. And very few Russian characters during the Cold War were played by native Russians. For foreign actors who are frequently employed to play foreign characters, see Plays Great Ethnics. This is much more common in voice-acting because the actor's appearance is irrelevant, and a good voice actor can hide their accent or imitate well a foreign one. The Queen's Latin is a related trope where characters in Ancient Grome or other classical-to-medieval settings are usually played by Brits, no matter what part of Europe they're actually from. See also: Fauxreigner where the character is pretending to be a nationality they aren't (or acting more stereotypical than they actually usually do). If you are actually from the area in question, you may remember one or more of these examples as "That foreigner with a strange accent. Where are they supposed to be from?" On the other hand, some actors are really good at it. An added complication is that human appearance varies even within nationalities and ethnicities. As a result when playing a historical character the foreigner might have been selected because they greatly resembled the original. An actor who often does this well Plays Great Ethnics. When done poorly, it can result in Questionable Casting. Compare Irony as She Is Cast. See Pass Fail when, for whatever reason, the actor isn't convincing as another nationality. |
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The third episode of Sherlock has British actress Haydn Gwynne playing a Czech women. Gwynne is fluent in French and Italian, so she often plays different nationalities. | |
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Tower Prep: The Japanese Suki is played by a Taiwanese-American. | |
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The Comanches in Prey are played by Amber Midthunder (Fort Peck Sioux), Dakota Beavers (Ohkay Owingeh), Michelle Thrush (Cree), Julian Black Antelope (Blackfoot), and Stefany Mathias (Squamish). | |
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Super Troopers has Brian Cox (Scottish) play Captain John O'Hagan of the Vermont Highway Patrol, an American of Irish descent, based on his last name and his catch phrase being "I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet" in a fake Irish accent. The catch phrase and the accent are later mocked by Farva near the end of the film. One of the running gags in the film is the fact that no one can quite figure out Ramathorn's ethnicity, if only by the process of elimination, due to him being Ambiguously Brown (he's not black, Mexican, or Arab). The actor Jay Chandrasekhar is actually American of Tamil descent. |
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CMLL's Legión de Puerto Rico and Los Boricuas power stables were almost entirely made up of non Puerto Ricans. Even after they returned as El Comando Caribeño, a good deal of the members still weren't from the Caribbean (although Veneno was from Panama and El Hijo del Pierroth from The Dominican Republic). In the case of Comandante Pierroth, it could be considered a case of Boomerang Bigot and Les Collaborateurs since he was known as a Mexican before joining but all the same, Julio Estrada was the only Puerto Rican in of these groups initially and wasn't even the main focus. With the return of Camando Caribeño Estrada wasn't even around any longer, Zeuxis taking his place as the only Puerto Rican. Veteran Puerto Rican wrestler Rico Suave also associated with them when passing through Mexico, bringing the real Puerto Ricans to 16% of the group's alumni, Caribs 25%. | |
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Let's Go Luna! - Can apply to the whole show, because all of the voice actors are from Canada, and the characters on the show span the whole globe except for Canada. In particular, Carmen is Mexican but is voiced by Saara Chaudry, who is of Indian and Pakistani descent. | |
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Sabu, in reality an American-born wrestler of Lebanese descent, has been billed as hailing from Saudi Arabia, and from Bombay, India. Sabu attempts to maintain the illusion by not speaking in public, though he has been overheard speaking to his opponents during matches in a perfectly American accent. At one point, ECW were billing him as from "Bombay, Michigan" as an in-joke. At the same time, his tag-team partner, Rob Van Dam, was billed as being from "Battle Creek, India". | |
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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Brits Natalie Dormer and Rory Kinnear as Germans Elsa Branson and Dr. Kraft. Dormer also plays Mexican-American Rio and American Alex Malone. Elsa, Alex and Rio being all different manifestations of Humanoid Abomination Magda, their nationalities are also fake In-Universe. |
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The Moorish title character in Othello is often played by a white man (with or without blackface) in settings without many African actors. The first actor of African descent to be recorded playing Othello was in 1825, more than 200 years after the play was written. One thing to note is that "Moor" in Shakespeare's time usually referred to North-African Berbers, while most people of African decent in the Anglosphere derive from sub-Saharan Africa, so even modern actors commonly look very different from how the role was probably envisioned. | |
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Control Z: Zión Moreno is a Mexican-American from Texas who plays Isabela, who's supposed to be Mexican. However, on a couple occasions she speaks a bit of English with an American accent. | |
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Most of the Tibetans in 2012 were not played by actual Tibetans: Tenzin is played by Singaporean Chinese actor Chin Han, and his brother Nima by Canadian Chinese actor Osric Chau. Also, the Croat-Danish actor Zlatko Buric portrays the Russian Yuri, and his also-Russian girlfriend Tamara is played by French actress Beatrice Rosen, who also pulled a Fake Russian in The Dark Knight. | |
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Russian Jew in Fiddler on the Roof (on stage). | |
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Controversy surrounded Miss Saigon when it was being transported to Broadway after a successful run in London. The Actor's Equity Association would not allow Jonathan Pryce, who had created the role of The Engineer in London, to play the role on Broadway. According to them, allowing Pryce, a white man, made up to look like an Asian in the show, would be an affront to Asian actors. A counterargument was that the Engineer is of mixed descent (French-Vietnamese), and Pryce was being discriminated against for being white. After pressure from Cameron Mackintosh, the producer, the general public, and its own members, the AEA relented and Jonathan Pryce was allowed to recreate his role on Broadway. | |
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The Green Hornet: Kato in its various adaptations has always been Filipino but has never been played by one. The first radio actor to voice the role was apparently Japanese (Raymond Hayashi), American Roland Parker voiced him for most of the series run, while American Mickey Tolan played the role towards the end. In the film serials, Kato's nationality was specified as Korean, but the role was played by Chinese actor Keye Luke. And in the TV series Kato was played by Chinese-American actor Bruce Lee. | |
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Rusev and Lana are Bulgarian and American, respectively, but were both billed in the WWE from Russia. | |
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Desperate Housewives: Swedish actress Helena Mattsson was cast as a Russian gold-digger. | |
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Foreign Affairs (1966): Monsieur Dubois from "The Foreign Body" was played by the British Bryan Kendrick. | |
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Shock Treatment: The Viennese Bert Schnick was played by the Australian Barry Humphries. | |
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Holocaust 2000: The Israeli Sara Golan is played by Italian actress Agostina Belli. | |
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In for a Penny: Ali, a Pakistani man, was played by Kevork Malikyan, who was Greco-Armenian. | |
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The only major character in Samurai Jack voiced by a Japanese actor was Big Bad Aku, who was voiced by the late Mako. The title character is voiced by African-American Phil LaMarr; when the series was revived, Aku was voiced by his FusionFall voice actor, Greg Baldwin, who's white and Ashi, introduced in the final season, is voiced by Canadian-American Tara Strong. | |
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A Russian in Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif's brother, at that) | |
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Homeland has Pakistani characters played by Suraj Sharma, who is Indian, and Shavani Seth, who is a Brit of Indo- and Afro-Caribbean descent. | |
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The Frisco Kid has Italian-American actor Val Bisoglio as a Native American chief. | |
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PAW Patrol: African American Mayor Goodway is voiced by the white Deann Degruijter. From Season 7 onward, she's voiced by the black actress Kim Roberts. | |
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...a M�ori in the Ender's Game film. | |
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Kofi Kingston was originally billed as being from Jamaica, an artifact from NECW that probably got him hired since WWE apparently wanted Jamaican wrestlers at the time. He was actually born in Ghana (and raised in America), which WWE finally admitted. | |
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...an Iranian in House of Sand and Fog. | |
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The Welsh actor Hugh Griffith played various English characters in Shakespearean theater and English and French characters on film. He had a tour de force performance as the Arab Sheikh Ilderim in Ben-Hur (1959) and was nominated for a Tony for playing American Southerner W.O. Gant in Look Homeward Angel. He did get to play Welshmen now and then. | |
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The Damned (1969) provides one of the more extreme examples. While a few of the main cast (Helmut Griem, Albrecht Schoenthals, Rene Koldehoff) are German, most are a bizarrely eclectic mix of nationalities. Most speaking English in their native accents, at that! Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling (English); Helmut Berger (Austrian); Ingrid Thulin (Swedish); Umberto Orsini and Nora Ricci (Italian); Renaud Varley (French); Florinda Balkan (Brazilian); John Frederick (American) |
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Rescue Me: African-American Daniel Sunjata plays the Puerto Rican Franco Rivera. | |
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Sokovia (Eastern Europe): Elizabeth Olsen (American), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (British), and Daniel Bruhl (German-Spanish) | |
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Big Sky: Americans Janina Gavankar, Vinny Chhibber and Bernard White play a Canadian crime family. | |
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On BoJack Horseman, the Vietnamese-American Diane Nguyen is voiced by white American Alison Brie. The creator, Raphael Bob-Waksberg has stated that if he was creating the show now he would cast an Asian actress. | |
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Bones: Arastoo is played by Paj Vehdat, an American actor of Persian descent. Cuban Rudolfo Fuentes is played by Argentinian actor Ignacio Serrichio. |
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Enterprise has a Korean-American (Linda Park) playing a Japanese woman (Hoshi). But in general, the later series were more accurate, with human characters either played by actors of appropriate nationality, or being from worlds other than Earth. | |
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New Amsterdam (2008): Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, a Dane, plays John Amsterdam, a NYC cop who is actually an immortal Dutchman doomed to walk the earth until he found his soul mate and went through an interesting string of relationships and Americanized aliases. His American accent was good enough to fool most viewers. | |
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French - The Monuments Men | |
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Margarita: Nicola Correia-Damude is a Guyanese-Canadian, playing a Mexican woman. | |
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NYC 22: Ahmad Kahn is an Afghan refugee-turned-NYPD rookie. His actor is British of Arab or Persian descent. | |
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Lampshaded in a Wings episode: "Joe, please explain to the nice man with the gun that I am not a Libyan terrorist." | |
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Carry On... Series: Carry On Regardless: British-born Betty Marsden plays Mata Hari. Carry On Spying: Polish-born John Bluthal plays the Viennese head waiter. Carry On Up the Khyber: Kenneth Williams and Angela Douglas play the Indian Khasi and his daughter, the Princess Jelhi, while Bernard Bresslaw played Bungdit Din, an Arab. Carry On Henry: Joan Sims, Julian Orchard, Peter Gilmore, Gertan Klauber, and David Davenport all play French characters, while the Italian Conte Filippo di Pisa is played by the British Alan Curtis. Carry On Abroad has Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Ray Brooks, Alan Curtis, Hugh Futcher, Gertan Klauber, Brian Osborne, and Olga Lowe as Spaniards. Carry On Emmannuelle stars Kenneth Williams and Suzanne Danielle as a French couple. |
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Carry On Spying: Polish-born John Bluthal plays the Viennese head waiter. | |
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The One Man Gang, a white guy from South Carolina was portrayed as Akeem the African dream. | |
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Omar Sharif and Keenan Wynn as Mexicans, and Julie Newmar and Ted Cassidy as Apaches in Mackenna's Gold. | |
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The Namesake: Zuleikha Robinson, a Briton with Indian, Burmese, English, Scottish and Iranian ancestry plays an Indian-American, Moushimi. | |
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Robert Maillet and Heather Doersken (both Canadian) play the Russian pilots Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky. | |
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Man on Fire: Several of the Mexican characters are played by non-Mexicans. The Ramos family are portrayed by US actors. At least the wife is supposed to be an American immigrant... but is played by an Australian! Manzano is played by Italian Giancarlo Giannini. This gets a Lampshade Hanging when his character mentions that he worked for Interpol in Rome for a few years before returning to become director of the AFI. Aurelio Rosas Sanchez, the Voice's brother, is played by a Brazilian actor. Mariana Garcia Guerrero, the reporter who helps Creasy, is played by Rachel Ticotin (mixed American with a Puerto Rican mother and a Russian-Jewish father). |
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Cuban in The Perez Family. | |
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Eureka: The Australian animal hunter in was played by Canadian-American Matt Frewer. | |
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The Magic School Bus: Lisa Yamanaka is Japanese-Canadian, but she voices Wanda, who is Chinese-American. | |
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Abby Hatcher: The Chinese-American title character is voiced by white voice actress Macy Drouin. | |
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Winx Club: For the Atlas Oceanic dub, black voice actress Kimberly Brooks voices the white Stormy. | |
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Muhammad Hassan was actually from New York and of Italian descent, despite playing a terrorist gimmick. | |
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French, as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart. | |
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A lot of the cast of Into the Storm (2009). Brendan Gleeson is an Irishman portraying the Englishman Churchill, the actor who portrays FDR is actually Canadian, the King of England is portrayed by Iain Glein, a Scot, India-born Englishman Ismay is portrayed by a Welshman, and Clement Attlee is played by another Scot. | |
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The World Unseen: Sheetal Sheth (an Indian-American), Lisa Ray (an Indian-Canadian) and Parvin Dubas (an Indian) play South Africans of Indian descent. | |
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1999's The Mummy is a festival of Fake Nationality. Its Egyptian/Arabic characters include Ardeth Bey (portrayed by Israeli Oded Fehr), professor Terrance Bey (Erick Avari, British-Indian), Gad Hassan (Omid Djalili, British-Iranian), and of course its titular mummy Imhotep, played by Arnold Vosloo (Afrikaner South African) as well as his ancient girlfriend Anck Su Namun (Patricia Velasquez, Venezuelan). The Mummy Returns adds in The Scorpion King, played by Dwayne Johnson (Samoan–Black Canadian–American). It gets better: Arab-British Evelyn Carnahan (she states her mother was Egyptian) is played by Jewish-English actress Rachel Weisz, while her brother (presumably from the same mother) is played by Scottish actor John Hannah, and American Rick O'Connell, is played by Canadian Brendan Fraser. Fehr himself is something of an expert in Fake Nationality, as he also played Saudi terror mastermind Faris Al-Farik in the TV show Sleeper Cell. His character in Sleeper Cell even lampshades this by pretending to be Jewish. There's also Benny, who according to supplemental materials is supposed to be Hungarian, is played by Chicago-born Irish-American Kevin J. O'Connor. |
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The 2017 The Mummy again has a mummy that is African but not Egyptian, with Princess Ahmahnet played by an Algerian, Sofia Boutella. | |
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Feel Good: American actress Lisa Kudrow is playing Canadian Linda, Mae's mom. | |
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The True Jackson, VP movie has an actor sloppily juggling an American and Scottish accent...while playing a Frenchman. | |
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In Heroes, we have the Indian-American actor Sendhil Ramamurthy playing the Indian character Mohinder Suresh; at the beginning of the show he attempted to do some kind of Indian accent (possibly Tamil?), but after a few episodes he settled on a (relatively good) straight British accent. We also have the Korean-American actor James Kyson Lee playing the Japanese (and Japanese-speaking) character Ando Masahashi, presumably under the tutelage of his authentically Japanese colleague Masi Oka. | |
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The Conqueror has John Wayne playing Genghis Khan. | |
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The Spanish Princess: Englishwoman Charlotte Hope plays the titular Catherine of Aragon. | |
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The Indian Detective: English actress Christina Cole plays Canadian Robyn Gerner. | |
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Red Cliff mostly averts this, with a largely Chinese cast. Ken Watanabe was originally selected to play Cao Cao, but was replaced with Zhang Fengyi after protests from Chinese audiences. However, the half-Japanese-half-Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro was apparently Chinese enough to play Zhuge Liang. The only other non-Chinese (including Taiwanese) actor was Shido Nakamura as Gan Ning. | |
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Strange Empire: American Melissa Farman played Rebecca Blithely, a Canadian. | |
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Marie-Antoinette (2022): Almost nobody who played a French character is actually French, including the English James Purefoy as King Louis XV. The only exception is the French Gaia Weiss as Madame du Barry. Emilia Schüle was born in Russia from an ethnic German family, so it kind of fits with the Holy Roman Empire, though if one goes into details with the empire's subdivisions, Marie Antoinette was technically Austrian. Similarly, the Swiss Marthe Keller as the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa (Marie Antoinette's mother). | |
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Ellery Queen: Subverted in one episode, in which an Indian man is obviously played by a white guy with makeup. It turns out that, in-universe, he is a white guy in makeup playing an Indian. | |
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The character of Christmas Eve in Avenue Q is an immigrant who sings about how her life sucks, in part, because she worked in a Korean deli (or, in some versions, a Chinese restaurant) upon coming to America, despite being Japanese. In the Australia/New Zealand tour, she is played by Filipina Christina O'Neill. | |
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Roswell, New Mexico: Rosa is a Mexican-American Latina played by Native American (Sioux) Amber Midthunder. | |
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The Report: Iraqi-Canadian Fajer Al-Kaisi plays Lebanese-American Ali Soufan. | |
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In TNA the stable Mexican America had no Mexican members. On top of that only one of them was even ethnically Mexican, Anarquia, who was an American from California. Both Hernandez and Rosita are Americans of Puerto Rican decent, but were from Texas and New York. Hernandez was even still wearing tights with the Puerto Rican flag on them when the angle began. Finally Sarita is Canadian and not even Hispanic. However her inclusion can be justified because she was the only one that could fluently speak Spanish. | |
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House of Cards (US): The Cuban-American Linda Vazquez is played by Indian-American Sakina Jaffrey. Russian president (and Putin Expy) Viktor Petrov is played by the Danish Lars Mikkelsen. |
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Community: Abed and his dad are Arab-Americans: Danny Pudi (Abed) is half-Indian and half-Polish (and grew up speaking Polish), while Iqbal Theba (Abed's dad) is Pakistani. The Arabic they speak, however, is real. Señor Chang, a.k.a. El Tigre Chino ("The Chinese Tiger"), is played by Korean-American actor Ken Jeong. |
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1900 is set in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna with a huge amount of characters. It's All-Star Cast includes American (Robert De Niro, Sterling Hayden, Burt Lancaster), French (Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda), one lone Canadian (Donald Sutherland), and German actors playing the locals (Werner Bruhns, Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer, Ellen Schwiers). | |
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Hawaii Five-O: Khigh Dhiegh plays "yellow peril" Asian villain Wo Fat. In real life, he founded the Taoist Institute in Hollywood. But he was born Kenneth Dickerson in New Jersey, of mixed Anglo and North African/Arab heritage, with no trace of East Asian-ness. Ricardo Montalbán, a frequent victim of this trope who often complained that he was cast as just about every nationality but Mexican in productions not made in his native country, played as European race car driver Alex Pareno in "Death Wish on Tantalus Mountain" and Japanese man Tokura in "Samurai". In The Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Lord of Limbo", he played a Confederate soldier called Noel Bartley Vautrain. * Among the many roles played by Mark Lenard was an amnesiac Japanese ninja. |
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Under the Skin features the American Scarlett Johansson as an alien disguised as an English woman. | |
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The Cherry Queen: Two out of three of the German Goldfisch sisters aren't played by German actresses — French actress of Sicilian descent Delphine Sérina as the older sister, Gretchen, and another French actress, Clémence Boué, as Käthe, the younger sister. | |
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Freshman Year: CJ's father Chukwumah is a Nigerian who immigrated to the US. His actor Benjamin Ochieng is Kenyan-American. | |
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The Boys (2019): Frenchie's actor, Tomer Capon, is Israeli, not French. Karen Fukuhara, who plays The Female, is American, not Japanese (although she is Japanese-American). Aya Cash, an American, plays Stormfront, who was born in Germany in 1919. |
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Similarly, Monostatos in The Magic Flute is referred to as a moor in the libretto, but is not always portrayed as black. It helps that (in North America, at least) operas rely on subtitles, so phrases like "the wicked moor" can be given as "the wicked Monostatos". | |
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Highlander: Besides Fake Scot Adrian Paul as MacLeod, there’s Belgian Alexandra Vandernoot as the French Tessa and Methos, who somehow has Peter Wingfield’s British accent despite being of unknown descent and having lived all over the world. It is possible for him to be fair skinned if he was from someplace in Europe as we might infer from his Bronze Age pillaging of Europe, but we don’t know. | |
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He's a former East German in Commando | |
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Carry On Regardless: British-born Betty Marsden plays Mata Hari. | |
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Emily the Criminal: Theo Rossi (mixed Italian, North African, Spanish and Syrian descent) plays Youcef, a Lebanese man. Jonathan Avigdori (Israeli-American) plays his cousin Khalil. | |
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Rusty Rivets: the Latina Ruby Ramirez is voiced by Ava Preston, who is white | |
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A Polish woman in The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler. | |
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Machete brings us American Steven Seagal as a Mexican drug lord. And no, he doesn't try at an accent. | |
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French (Mad Love, Passage to Marseilles) | |
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Ringer: Henry's American wife Gemma is - well, was - played by British actress Tara Summers. Averted on the same show by Ioan Gruffudd and Jaime Murray, however, who do indeed play Brits. | |
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...the French Inspector Clouseau, | |
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Discussed in the Das Racist song "Fake Patois" that lists musicians and actors who have put on a fake Jamaican accent for their work. | |
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Power Rangers Samurai has the sort-of Mexican Antonio played by a Thai-German-American actor. | |
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In Moonraker, the minor villain Chang has a Chinese name, but was played by a Japanese actor. | |
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Discussed in Cracked, which calls the accent dissonance arising from Fake Nationality The Single Stupidest Way Movies Deal with Foreign Languages. | |
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold: Due to being filmed in Australia, a number of the minor characters are either Australians or New Zealanders playing Americans. Sammy was Hispanic American but played by Aboriginal Australian Madeleine Madden. | |
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Ugly Betty: Betty's father in is Mexican, but the actor who played him, Tony Plana, is Cuban. Her extended family from the episode "A Tree Grows in Guadalajara" was composed of Justina Machado (Puerto Rican-American), Rita Moreno (Puerto Rican) and Lillian Hurst (Puerto Rican). The episode also had Lilyan Chauvin (French!) playing a Mexican native. | |
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The 100 has among others Australian Eliza Taylor as Clarke, Greek-Canadian Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia, English Ricky Whittle as Lincoln, and Scottish-Peruvian Henry Ian Cusick as Kane. | |
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Yet Skarsgård is the sole Swede in the main cast of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) (four others, including Joel Kinnaman, have smaller roles), which features lots of Brits and Americans speaking with Swedish accents. | |
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Les Misérables (2000) gave us the American John Malkovich as the French Javert as well as the Italians Asia Argento and Enrico Lo Verso as the French Eponine Thénardier and Marius Pontmercy, respectively. | |
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Young Frankenstein has three Transylvanian characters (Transylvania is part of Romania). In ascending order: Inga (Teri Garr, American), Frau Blucher [WHINNY] (Cloris Leachman, American) and Inspector Kemp (Kenneth Mars, American). Plus all the folks playing the villagers. | |
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In High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens, who is of Filipino, Irish, Spanish, Chinese, and Native American descent portrays Mexican-American Gabriella Montes. | |
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Colette: All of the French characters are played by British or Irish actors. | |
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White American actor Toby Huss voices the Laotian Kahn in King of the Hill. Similarly, series co-creator Mike Judge impersonates George Takei when voicing Kahn's Laotian friend Ted Wassanasong. | |
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Mighty Joe Young: Naveen Andrews plays an African. Add an Arab, that's three ethnicities by the same guy. | |
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Carlo Rota, a British-born actor of Italian ancestry, plays the Lebanese Yasir Hamoudi (note that on 24 Rota plays Morris O'Brian, whose ethnicity has not been specified but is likely Irish, and on an episode of This is Wonderland he played an Italian hotdog vendor). | |
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The 1998 adaptation of The Man in the Iron Mask featured an eclectic array of fake Frenchmen. Most notable were Englishman Jeremy Irons as Aramis, Irishman Gabriel Byrne as D'Artagnan, American John Malkovich as Athos, American Peter Sarsgaard as his son, and American Leonardo DiCaprio as King Louis XIV, none of whom particularly bothered to disguise their country of origin. This was made particularly noticeable by having an actual Frenchman, Gérard Depardieu, round out the cast. Hilariously, the only accents that did match were John Malkovich and Peter Sarsgaard, playing father and son, and only because both men happen to hail from St. Louis. | |
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The Closer: In Season 1, Marina Sirtis, of Deanna Troi fame, plays an Iranian woman. Though Greek, she plays a sleuth of Middle Eastern and Levant characters. Marina Sirtis is British but born of Greek parents. |
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In Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Borat does this In-Universe, pretending to be a (very stereotypical) American. His co-star Maria Bakalova, who plays his daughter, is Bulgarian. | |
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1958's The Inn of the Sixth Happiness took this to Questionable Casting levels by having Swedish blonde Statuesque Stunner Ingrid Bergman as Gladys Aylward, the short dark-haired Cockney maid-turned-missionary whose story the movie was based on; Robert Donat as the Mandarin of Yang Cheng (after Sean Connery didn't get the role), and German-Austrian Curt Jürgens as Captain Lin Nan. | |
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Pocahontas: Disney used Native American actors as the voice talent for the main Native American characters (Irene Bedard, Michelle St. John and Russell Means). But of course they cast Mel Gibson as the Englishman John Smith. The main (British) villain is also played by an American, David Ogden Stiers. | |
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The Love Guru has Canadian Mike Myers as an American, while actual American Jessica Alba plays a Canadian, with Justin Timberlake playing a French-Canadian. | |
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In Code Lyoko: Evolution, Yumi, a Japanese girl, is played by Mélanie Tran, an actress of Vietnamese descent. | |
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Bubble Guppies: The Ambiguously Brown Molly is voiced by white voice actresses Brianna Gentiella, Bailey Gambertoglio, and Taylor Kaplan. Oona, who is implied to be Asian, is voiced by white voice actresses Reyna Shaskan, Tori Feinstein, and Colby Kipnes. | |
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Slumdog Millionaire's titular Mumbai "slumdog" is played by (ethnically Indian) Briton Dev Patel. | |
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United States of Al: The titular character Awalmir "Al" Karimi, who is Afghani, is played by Indian South African actor Adhir Kalyan. | |
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The Mandarin (a character usually associated with the region in China) in Iron Man 3. Though it's a ruse, and the Mandarin is actually a hired British actor, making this an in-story example. | |
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Very few Belgians have the 'Belgian accents' depicted in movies. Most Belgian Francophones have an accent similar to that of Northern France (not including Paris). In Belgium, the stereotypical 'Belgian accent' tends to be either played for laughs or bashed mercilessly; the few people who do have this accent often face prejudice. Van Damme has used a few variations of his French accent including Cajun (Universal Soldier, Hard Target) or French-Canadian (Sudden Death). Not mentioning Legionnaire, where he is French. | |
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In Red Heat, his thick Austrian accent is twisted into a thick Russian accent, since most viewers won't be able to tell the difference. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had Thuy Trang, a Vietnamese-American actress, playing a character of mixed Taiwanese and Korean ancestry (if you count the comics as canon). In the show, her ancestry is straight-up ambiguous, as the actor playing her father is Japanese, while the actors playing her Uncle Howard, her mom, and her cousin Sylvia are all of obvious, but different, Asian nationalities. It's entirely possible that if she'd not left the show, her heritage might have been revealed at some point beyond just being Asian-American. | |
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Days of Betrayal: Czechoslovakian actors played some foreign parts such as Jaroslav Radimecký as the British Neville Chamberlain, Martin Gregor as the French Édouard Daladier, Rudolf Krátký as the German Dr. Paul Schmidt (Adolf Hitler's interpreter) and Rudolf Jurda as the German Hermann Göring. | |
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The Flash has the Spanish Maribel Verdú as the American Nora Allen. Downplayed in that, by the sound and look of it, this incarnation of Nora is of Spanish descent. | |
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The Wild Wild West: Both played straight and subverted in the pilot episode "The Night Of The Inferno". Nehemiah Persoff, born in Jerusalem, plays a Mexican; Victor Buono plays a Chinaman... who turns out to be another Mexican in disguise, making this a case of Fake Nationality in-universe (but still being a Fake Nationality). (While the nationality of Buono's villain Count Manzeppi was never made clear, he definitely plays an American in one of the two reunion movies; Persoff, on the other hand, plays a Chinaman in "The Night of the Deadly Blossom" and an American in "The Night of the Underground Terror".) Ricardo Montalbán, a frequent victim of this trope who often complained that he was cast as just about every nationality but Mexican in productions not made in his native country, played a Confederate soldier called Noel Bartley Vautrain. |
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X-Men: First Class features German-Irish Michael Fassbender as Magneto (who according to the comics is either German or Polish, but definitely not Irish). | |
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Most non-French film adaptations of The Three Musketeers qualify: The Three Musketeers (1993) had exactly one French person in the cast (Julie Delpy), which is still one more than The Three Musketeers (2011), The Three Musketeers (1973) had a grand total of three (and none of them were even filmed in France!). 2023's The Three Musketeers has Anne of Austria, a Spanish princess who became queen of France, played by Vicky Krieps, who hails from Luxembourg. She kept her native accent, besides. |
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Ready Jet Go!: In season 1, Sydney (who is black) was voiced by Dalila Bela (who starred in fellow PBS series Odd Squad), who is of English, French, Brazilian, Panamanian and Spanish ancestry. In season 2, they replaced her with an actual black girl, Vienna Leacock. However, the Hispanic Mindy and the Asian Lillian were voiced by white girls (Jaeda Lily Miller and Amelia Shoichet-Stoll) for the entirety of the series. | |
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An English girl in Jane Eyre. | |
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Star Trek (2009): African Nyota Uhura. | |
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First Girl I Loved: Brianna Hildebrand plays Sasha, who is a Latina (though it's not emphasized). However, she reportedly has Mexican ancestry. This plus her looks being similar to the actors playing Sasha's parents make the casting work (she also never speaks Spanish, unlike Clifton). | |
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Carry On Up the Khyber: Kenneth Williams and Angela Douglas play the Indian Khasi and his daughter, the Princess Jelhi, while Bernard Bresslaw played Bungdit Din, an Arab. | |
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Below Her Mouth: Erika Linder is Swedish, not Canadian. A couple of minor characters are American and Slovak. | |
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Wind River: Kelsey Chow, who played Natalie (a Native American), is half Chinese and half white. As a result of the film, she claimed to be part Cherokee, but there's no evidence for this. | |
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Uncle Frank: Lebanese actor Peter Macdissi plays Saudi Walid/Wally. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): Canadian Page Fletcher as the Frenchman Guillaume de Marchaux in "Cat and Mouse". | |
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Power Rangers Dino Charge had the Brazilian-born American actor Davi Santos and the white New Zealand actor Jarred Blakiston both playing rangers from Zandar, a fictional European country. | |
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Attachment: A partial example. Ellie Kendrick plays a Jewish Englishwomen with Danish descent on her mom's side. Kendrick does not have either Jewish or Danish ancestry. Leah's Jewish mother, Chana, is played by Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl, a gentile. |
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And he plays another Central European (this time of unknown nationality) in The Grand Budapest Hotel. | |
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The New Mutants has Brazilian Alice Braga as the American of Puerto Rican descent Cecilia Reyes. | |
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Italian American Guido in The Misfits. | |
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In the original DuckTales (1987), the Scottish Scrooge McDuck was played by Alan Young, a Canadian-American who was born in England. Averted in the 2017 series, where he's played by an actual Scot. On the other hand, in the 2017 series Flintheart Glomgold (who was retconned from Boer to Scottish in the 80s series) is returned to his South African Roots... while in-universe pretending to be Scottish as a way of one-upping Scrooge. | |
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The Godfather has several Italian-American characters played by non-Italian actors, including Marlon Brando (German, Dutch, Irish, English), James Caan (German-Jewish), Abe Vigoda (Russian Jewish), Richard Bright (Scottish), and Eli Wallach (Polish-Jewish). It also, ironically, stars Italian-American actor Alex Rocco as Kosher Nostra Moe Greene. | |
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Carry On Abroad has Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Ray Brooks, Alan Curtis, Hugh Futcher, Gertan Klauber, Brian Osborne, and Olga Lowe as Spaniards. | |
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Henri Dupont from No Kidding is a Frenchman played by the British Michael Sarne. | |
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Burqua-clad Syrian valet Raisha Saeed is portrayed by American Melissa Anderson, AKA "Future Legend" Cheerleader Melissa and Alissa Flash. | |
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The 1962 adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate, in addition to Khigh Dhiegh (American of Egyptian and Sudanese descent), has Henry Silva (Sicilian-American) as a Korean, and Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey as Americans, Not Even Bothering with the Accent. The 2004 remake/second adaptation didn't follow this trope and cast Americans as Americans, Englishmen as Englishmen, and this one guy of European extraction played by a Swiss actor. | |
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Polish in Sophie's Choice. | |
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James Bond has many examples. In Dr. No, the titular villain was Chinese-German, played by a Jewish Canadian actor. Both Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill feature many characters who are nationals of fictitious countries. In Moonraker, the minor villain Chang has a Chinese name, but was played by a Japanese actor. For Your Eyes Only has three fake Greeks, a fake Belgian, two fake East Germans and a fake Russian, at least. That's before we get to the Liverpudlian character who's putting on an Austrian accent. Vincent Schiavelli, an Italian-American, stole his brief scene in Tomorrow Never Dies as the German Dr. Kaufman. No Time to Die has David Dencik (Swedish-Danish) and Rami Malek (American of Egyptian descent) as fake Russians. |
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Turning Red: While otherwise doing a good job at averting this, there are still some non-Canadian actors, such as the Americans James Hong, Ava Morse, and Lori Tan Chinn. Additionally, Sandra Oh (Ming) is Korean Canadian, not Chinese Canadian. | |
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Revenge has a number of Canadians playing Americans (Emily VanCamp, Henry Czerny, James Tupper) plus at least one Brit (Josh Bowman). There's also Karine Vanasse as Margaux, who's another Canadian. French-Canadian, but Canadian. | |
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American in Spider-Man 2 and Identity. | |
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Peter Gadiot is Ambiguously Brown enough to play a character descended from Zuleikha Robinson, an actress of South Asian ancestry. He is part Dutch and part Mexican. | |
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Big Brother (2018): Zufa is Pakistani. His actor, Gordon Lau, is half-Nigerian and half-Hong Konger. | |
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Girls Like Magic: Jamie is of Iranian and Indian parentage. Actress Shantell Yasmine Abeydeera is ethnically Sri Lankan though. | |
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India Sweets And Spices: Sophia Ali, who's Pakistani-American, played Indian-American main character Alia Kapur. Sheila Kapur, an Indian-American, is played by Nepali Manisha Koirala. |
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Wakanda (Southeast Africa): Chadwick Boseman (American of West African descent), Winston Duke (Tobagonian-American), Daniel Kaluuya (British of Ugandan descent), Letitia Wright (Guyanese-British), and Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett (both Americans). Partially averted with Lupita Nyong'o (Kenyan-Mexican), John Kani (South African), and Danai Gurira (Zimbabwean-American). Played with Michael B. Jordan who is an American yet his character is of both African-American and Wakandan descent. | |
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Played straight in The Wolverine with Korean Will Yun Lee playing Japanese Kenuichio Harada. Averted with all the other plot-important Japanese characters who are portrayed by actual Japanese actors. | |
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Mind of Mencia: The Honduran comedian Carlos Mencia (real name Ned Holness) made a career out of exploiting Mexican and Mexican-American stereotypes. He did this in both his stand-up routine and on this show. In his early stand-up career he tried to avert this by telling jokes about how he was always mistaken for Mexican. However he eventually decided to embrace the confusion, and identify himself as Mexican. | |
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In Blue's Clues, French-accented Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are voiced by Nick Balaban (the former) and Penelope Jewkes and Spencer Kayden (the latter), who are American. | |
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The King of Armenia in The Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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The Dark Knight Trilogy is another festival of Fake Nationality, mostly of British actors pretending to be American, such as Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, and Tom Wilkinson. Other Fake Americans include Irishmen Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson (note: it was never stated Ducard was American, but Neeson uses an American accent), Dutch Rutger Hauer, and Australians Heath Ledger and Ben Mendelssohn. In fact, the only actual principal American actors on set were Morgan Freeman, Katie Holmes, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart. Singaporean Chinese actor Chin Han played the Chinese Lau, and French actress Beatric Rosen pulled a Fake Russian as Natascha, prima ballerina of the Moscow Ballet. The third film retcons Ducard as vaguely Middle Eastern, though he doesn't look the part. It's also possible he was simply an American in the employ of the warlord. And his daughter is played by a Frenchwoman who passes as Fake American. And from the same place comes Bane (half-British and half-Latin American in the comics), played by a Brit. | |
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300: Very few members of the Persian army even look Persian, much less are played by Persians. Xerxes is played by a Brazillian. The Spartans are played predominantly by British and Irish actors rather than Greeks. They speak the Queen's Latin. Fittingly, when Spartan dialogue in classic literature was translated into English, it was usually given a Scottish Funetik Aksent to evoke the similar stereotypes embodied by the Spartans and Scots in their respective cultures. |
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Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: The Ambiguously Brown Xavier and Yadina are voiced by Aidan Vissers and Zoe Hatz, who are both white. However, the historical figures are almost always played by people of their respective heritage — for example, the indigenous Isabella Beaver as Sacagawea. | |
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Almost everyone in Ever After, Hugo and In Secret is British playing a French character. The exceptions are Americans and other non-Brits playing French characters with English accents like Drew Barrymore in the first, Chloë Grace Moretz in the second, and Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Lange and Oscar Isaac (born in Guatemala to Guatemalan and Cuban parents) in the third - the fake nationality triple play. Hugo lead actor Asa Butterfield is English and has played a German, a Frenchman and an American before his fifteenth birthday*Based on filming dates, with Ender's getting 18 months' post-production. Kid's gunning for Christian Bale's record. |
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Mr. Lucky: Ross Martin, a Polish-American Jew, was so convincing as the Hispanic Andamo that he became typecast for a time in such roles. | |
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Crazy Rich Asians: None of the Singaporean main cast are played by Singaporean actors. Henry Golding (Nick) is British-Malaysian, Michelle Yeoh (Eleanor) and Ronny Chieng (Eddie) are Malaysians, Awkwafina (Peik Lin), Ken Jeong (Wye Mun), and Jimmy O. Yang (Bernard) are Americans, Gemma Chan (Astrid) and Jing Lusi (Amanda) are British, Chris Pang (Colin) is Australian, Sonoya Mizuno (Araminta) is British-Japanese, Remy Hii (Alistair) is Australian-Malaysian, and Nico Santos (Oliver) is Filipino-American. Ironically, the American protagonist Rachel Chu's mother is played by one of the few actual Singaporean actors to appear in the film, Tan Kheng Hua. | |
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Some Girls has Anna Hitchcock, who is from New Zealand and is Viva's stepmother. Her actress, Dolly Wells, is actually English. | |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has some noteworthy examples: Iranian-Jewish actor Shaun Toub as the Afghan Ho Yinsen The Norwegian-American Erik Selvig is portrayed by a Swedish actor, Stellan Skarsgård. Thor played by Chris Hemsworth, an Australian pulling off an RP accent British Andy Serkis as South African bandit Ulysses Klawe Brits Tom Holland and Benedict Cumberbatch as the American Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. Cases from two fictional countries: Sokovia (Eastern Europe): Elizabeth Olsen (American), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (British), and Daniel Bruhl (German-Spanish) Wakanda (Southeast Africa): Chadwick Boseman (American of West African descent), Winston Duke (Tobagonian-American), Daniel Kaluuya (British of Ugandan descent), Letitia Wright (Guyanese-British), and Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett (both Americans). Partially averted with Lupita Nyong'o (Kenyan-Mexican), John Kani (South African), and Danai Gurira (Zimbabwean-American). Played with Michael B. Jordan who is an American yet his character is of both African-American and Wakandan descent. Chinese-Canadian Simu Liu playing the Chinese-American Shang-Chi. |
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Russian Oleg Menshikov and Lithuanian Ingeborga Dapkunaite played a Bosnian Serb and a Bosnian Muslim, respectively, in Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness. | |
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In Pacific Rim, Max Martini (American) and Robert Kazinsky (British) portray Hercules and Chuck Hanson, the Australian pilots of Striker Eureka. American Raleigh Becket is portrayed by the British Charlie Hunnam. The Chinese Wei triplets are played by the Vietnamese Luu triplets. Robert Maillet and Heather Doersken (both Canadian) play the Russian pilots Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky. Newt and Hermann (both German) are played by an American (Charlie Day) and a Brit (Burn Gorman but born in the states) |
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Whereas some of Overwatch's voice actors share heritage with their characters, most don't. Some standout examples include Mercy (a Swiss medic voiced by German-American actress Lucie Pohl), Sombra (a Mexican hacker voiced by Colombian-American actress Carolina Ravassa) and Zarya (a Russian weightlifter voiced by British-Bulgarian actress Dolya Gavanski). | |
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In The Name of the Rose he plays the Englishman William of Baskerville, whom Umberto Eco created as a composite of Sherlock Holmes, William of Ockham, and Roger Bacon. | |
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Americans of varying accents in X-Men Film Series, Finding Forrester, Almost Famous, 25th Hour and The Irishman. | |
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Kung Fu (1972): David Carradine, who was an American of Cherokee, English, Irish, Italian, Scottish, German, Spanish, Ukrainian and Welsh descent, played the half-Chinese Shaolin Master Kwai Chang Caine. Carradine's half-brother Keith portrayed a teenage Caine, while an equally non-Asian Radames Perá played young Caine. | |
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Irish Australian Joe Byrne in Ned Kelly. | |
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Outsourced is a very egregious example. A lot of actors are from different backgrounds than the characters they play. For example, Rizwan Manji who is an Ismaili Muslim plays Rajeev Gidwani who is a Sindhi Hindu. Rebecca Hazelwood who plays Asha in Outsourced is part Indian, part English has played a lot of Indian characters of various backgrounds (although she is a decent enough of an actress to pull it off). All of the other Indian characters are played by American and British actors with Indian ancestry. | |
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In the first and third Die Hard movies, Englishmen Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons played German terrorist brothers Hans and Simon Gruber. A scene was added to the first film when the producers discovered how well Rickman could also fake an American accent. | |
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Farewell, My Queen: Diane Kruger, who's German (and now American), plays Austrian Marie Antoinette. | |
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Crossing Lines: English actress Lara Rossi plays the Dutch Arabela Seeger. Goran ViÅ¡njić, who's Croatian-American, plays Italian Marco Constante. | |
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Please Turn Over has Joan Sims playing Madeline. | |
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Shalhoub memorably created an entire language and accent for his cab-driver character in the comedy film Quick Change. (Or it would be memorable if anyone had ever seen the flick.) | |
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Although it's never stated in the movie, in the book Fezzik is Turkish. André the Giant, who plays him, was a French-born son of Bulgarian and Polish immigrant parents. | |
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Spectacularly averted by the main cast in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Nearly every character in this cast of Funny Foreigners is played by an actor or actress of their own nationality. Stuart Whitman plays the spirited Combat Pragmatist American pilot Orvil, James Fox is the stuffy British eccentric Richard, Alberto Sordi is the devout and boisterous Italian Catholic, Gert Fröbe is the efficiency-obsessed Prussian, Jean-Pierre Cassel is the suave Frenchman more interested in wooing beautiful women than actually competing, and Yujiro Ishihara plays... an intelligent and articulate Japanese pilot with a love of fine scotch whiskey. | |
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The Vampire Diaries: Hispanic Michael Trevino plays the white Tyler Lockwood who is descended from Native Americans. Also, neither Paul Wesley or Ian Somerhalder who play the Italian-American Salvatores have any Italian in them and none of the actors who play the Originals have any Scandinavian ancestry, except for Riley Voelkel | |
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The "Somali" pirates in The Expendables are very obviously not Somali, but played by Americans of West African descent. Peoples from those two regions look nothing alike. | |
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The Color of Friendship: Nearly all of the South Africans are played by Americans, except for Merle Bok (South African actress Susan Danford portrayed her). | |
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Lee Byung-Hun is a Korean actor playing the Japanese Storm Shadow. As a boy, he's played by a Chinese-American, Brandon Soo Hoo (who also played a Vietnamese drug lord in Tropic Thunder). | |
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The L Word: Iranian/Spanish-American Sarah Shahi played Mexican-American Carmen. Indian-American Janina Gavankar as Papi, who's a Latina. |
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The Saint: In the episode "The Careful Terrorist", Simon Templar has to rescue a kidnapped American girl in Rome. Said girl is played by English actress Sally Bazely. | |
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The Wilds: All of the Ojibwe characters are played by actors of different ancestry. Jenna Clause is Cayuga. Kimberly Guerrero is from a mix of three other Indigenous peoples. Michael Teh is a mixed race man from Australia. Erana James meanwhile is Maori. | |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past has Mexican Adan Canto as Sunspot (Brazillian) and Canadian Brendan Pedder as Apocalypse (Egyptian). | |
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Seinfeld featured a Finnish character... using a Russian accent (which sounds nothing like Finnish). The Israeli-British Brian George also plays the Pakistani restaurant owner Babu Bhatt. | |
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The Colbert Report: One skit had Stephen Colbert playing Esteban Colberto, the Hispanic host of the Colberto Reporto Gigante. | |
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21 Jump Street both subverted this in Real Life, and played it straight In Universe. Vietnamese Dustin Nguyen played Japanese character Ioki. Then it turns out Ioki is Vietnamese, and just pretending to be Japanese (including having taken on the name of "Ioki"). | |
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Spanish in The Da Vinci Code. | |
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Danish in Out of Africa. | |
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Welcome to Sweden: Invoked. Pepe/Gary, Amy Poehler’s assistant, uses his vague ethnicity to his advantage, pretending to be Latino and unable to speak English when he’s really Cherokee and doesn't speak Spanish. | |
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Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: In the sequel series to Kung Fu (1972), David Carradine played another Kwai Chang Caine, this one the American-born grandson of the original, in. This character's son Peter Caine was played by Chris Potter, a white Canadian. (It is, therefore, entirely possible that this Caine and his son could be as little as 1/8 and 1/16 Chinese, respectively.) | |
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Elisabeth: All over the place. The most notable case: All three of the principal Elisabeths in the German/Austrian productions (the Bavarian princess who became empress of Austria) are Dutch - Pia Douwes, Maya Hakvoort, and Annemieke van Dam. Actual Austrians are rare in the cast. The real Luigi Lucheni was Italian. In the musical he's almost always played by a German actor (or a Turkish actor, in the case of Serkan Kaya). Inevitable in the international productions. The Japanese versions (both Takarazuka and Toho) have Japanese actors playing Austrians/Italians/Germans. Ditto with the South Korean versions. |
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Sound Horizon usually does this for their live shows out of necessity. The band is Japanese, but almost all of the Rock Opera albums are set outside of East Asia (Ancient Greece, 14th century Germany, France, etc). Obviously, it's rather difficult to find German or French performers that can sing live in fluent Japanese, so Japanese people playing Westerners it is. | |
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The Spencer Sisters: American Lea Thompson plays Canadian Victoria Spencer. | |
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Used a lot in G.I. Joe: Resolute. The entire production used four voice actors: Charlie Adler (Cobra Commander for the first time, Flint, Gung-Ho, Stalker, and Hard Master) Eric Bauza (Storm Shadow, Destro, and Tunnel Rat), Steve Blum (Duke, Ripcord, Roadblock, Zartan, Wild Bill, and Doc), and Grey DeLisle (Scarlett, Baroness, Dail Tone, and Cover Girl). Both Adler and Blum are Jewish-American, Bauza is Filipino-Canadian, and DeLisle is an American of mixed Dutch/French/Irish/Mexican/Norwegian descent and outside of Gender Flipping Dial Tone and Resolute following G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra's lead of Race Lifting Ripcord into an African-American, the characters still retain the nationalities and races of most other incarnations (Destro being Scottish; Baroness being Russian; Doc, Roadblock, and Stalker being African-American; Tunnel Rat being Chinese-American; Zartan being Australiannote despite one file card saying he's French; and Storm Shadow and Hard Master being Japanese). | |
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: He plays a Frenchman. | |
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...the Chinese Sidney Wang and Fu Manchu in the parodies Murder by Death and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, respectively (acknowledging how common this trope was in the days of Asian characters like Charlie Chan), | |
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Shalhoub's character of Fred Kwan spoofed this practice in Galaxy Quest when he mentioned that Kwan is a stage name used to fit his character of Tech Sergeant Chen's Asian nationality. Interestingly, when the Thermians are naming the crew, he narrows his eyes when his character's name is spoken. Apparently, that's supposed to be enough to make him seem Chinese. | |
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Star Trek has a lot of these: The character of Khan Noonien Singh, a Punjabi Sikh played by Mexican Ricardo Montalbán. In Star Trek Into Darkness, Khan is played by the white British Benedict Cumberbatch. Chicago-born Walter Koenig, son of two Russian Jews, as Russian Pavel Chekov. Star Trek: The Original Series has a Canadian (William Shatner) playing an American (James T. Kirk), another Canadian (James Doohan) playing a Scotsman (Scotty), an American (Nichelle Nichols) playing an African (Uhura), and a Japanese-American (George Takei) playing a non-Japanese Asian-American (Sulu). The only regular character portrayed by an actor of the same nationality was McCoy, a U.S. Southerner played by a Georgia-born actor with a slight-but-legit Southern accent (DeForest Kelley). Star Trek: The Next Generation has an Englishman (Patrick Stewart) playing a Frenchman (Picard), an American (LeVar Burton) playing an African (Geordi LaForge), and another American (Denise Crosby) playing someone of Ukrainian descent (Yar). Admittedly, Yar was not Earth-born; she was born and raised on a human colony on a completely different planet. LaForge's actual origins are deliberately vague—he's a Military Brat whose parents moved wherever Starfleet sent them. All we know for sure is that his mother was in Africa when he was born. Enterprise has a Korean-American (Linda Park) playing a Japanese woman (Hoshi). But in general, the later series were more accurate, with human characters either played by actors of appropriate nationality, or being from worlds other than Earth. |
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Super Mario Bros.: Even the most famous video game character of all, Mario, is an example of this. He, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi are all given their unmistakable Italian accents by French-American voice actor Charles Martinet. | |
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Are You Being Served?: Andrew Sachs, Glyn Houston, and Karan David all play Spaniards. | |
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation have quite a few (given they went from "real American heroes" to multinational, not surprising): Both Jonathan Pryce (Welsh) and Sienna Miller (English, born in NYC) are Fake American (the President of the US and Anna Lewis/The Baroness). Snake-Eyes is American but is played by the Scottish Ray Park. Lee Byung-Hun is a Korean actor playing the Japanese Storm Shadow. As a boy, he's played by a Chinese-American, Brandon Soo Hoo (who also played a Vietnamese drug lord in Tropic Thunder). The possibly European Zartan is played by South African actor Arnold Vosloo. French-Cambodian actress Elodie Yung plays the Japanese Jinx. The Irish Ray Stevenson plays a Southern-American, Firefly. |
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Fiennes played an Austrian in Schindler's List. | |
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Scottish - Charlotte Gray and How to Train Your Dragon 2.(ALLEGEDLY, in the latter case.) | |
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Iranian-Jewish actor Shaun Toub as the Afghan Ho Yinsen | |
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The Last Kingdom: The Anglo-Saxons used the word "Dane" to refer to any Scandinavian Viking raider, so the numerous Swedish and Norwegian actors playing "Danes" are not necessarily this. However, some non-Scandinavian actors have also played Danes: Uhtred, a Saxon by birth and a Dane by upbringing, is played by Alexander Dreymon, who was born in Germany and grew up in the United States, France, and Switzerland.. Brida is also a Saxon by birth and a Dane by upbringing, but Emily Cox is Austrian. Ravn is played by Dutch actor Rutger Hauer. Sihtric is played by Lithuanian actor Arnas Fedaravi�ius. Gisela is played by German actress Peri Baumeister. Tekil is played by German actor Marc Rissmann. Jackdaw is played by Dutch actor Tygo Gernandt. Many Danish Bit Characters and extras are played by Hungarians. |
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In Ramona and Beezus, Selena Gomez, who is of Mexican and Italian descent, portrays fully-white Beezus. | |
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Portuguese in Silence | |
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Margarita with a Straw: Leila is played by French-Indian actress Kalki Koechlin, who was born in India to French parents and descendant of Eiffel Tower engineer Maurice Koechlin. In the film however she's just Indian, and looks absolutely nothing like her on-screen parents (played by Indian actors). Khunam meanwhile is Pakistani-Bangladeshi and portrayed by the Indian actress Sayani Gupta. | |
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Jinder Mahal, an Indian-Canadian, is billed from Punjab, India. | |
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30 Rock: Fred Armisen guest-stars as Liz's Middle Eastern neighbor whom she immediately suspects is a terrorist. He just wants to participate in The Amazing Race. | |
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While we're in Indiana Jones: Alison Doody said she didn't expect to play Elsa in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, "since they were asking for an Austrian 30-year-old, not an Irish 22-year-old". Also, the only villain with his or her own nationality is Mola Ram: Paul Freeman and Ronald Lacey are British, Belloq is French and Toht is German; Julian Glover is British, Donovan is American (but considering he played a Greek James Bond villain...); and Cate Blanchett is Australian, Irina Spalko is Soviet - Ukraine, actually. Glover's (natural?) Scottish-sounding accent slips in a scene near the end, when he is saying: "The Nazis want to write themselves into the Grail legend....take on the world." I don't think this hurts the film too much; I just took it to mean that Donovan either was an immigrant or had one or two foreign-born parents, and so grew up with that accent before he tried to change it. |
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In Taking Lives, most of the main French Canadian characters are played by French actors using their own French accents. The difference between Quebec French and Metropolitan French is as big as the one between British English and American English. Even more bizarre, the movie itself was shot in Quebec City and there are some bona fide French Canadians as secondary characters. | |
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In the 2015 US tour of Matilda, one of the three girls in rotation for the eponymous role was a Filipina, Gabby Gutierrez. | |
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Next (2020): Shea is a Honduran-American, having been born in Honduras. Her father Nacio also later arrives from Honduras. Brazilian-American actress Fernanda Andrade plays her, while Nacio's played by Puerto Rican actor David Zayas. | |
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...the American playwright Clare Quilty in Lolita, and the American gardener Chance in Being There, | |
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Lost has Briton (of Indian descent) Naveen Andrews as Iraqi Sayid Jarrah, New Zealander Alan Dale as the British Charles Widmore, and the Australians in flashbacks are overwhelmingly played by non-Australians faking the accent. Additionally, Frenchwoman Danielle Rousseau is played by Croatian actress Mira Furlan, while Russian Mikhail Bakunin is played by Venezuelan-born Andrew Divoff, but at least he's half-Russian and speaks the language. Nigerian Eko is played by British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, but this is justified since his parents are Nigerian and he does the accent right for once. Similarly, Korean-born American Daniel Dae Kim plays a Korean...who can't speak English at first (ironically, he had to be re-taught Korean by his on-screen wife Yunjin Kin, similar to how in-character Sun teaches English to Jin). | |
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NCIS The Israeli Ziva David is played by Cote de Pablo, whose parentage is Chilean. Ari the Big Bad is played by Rudolf Martin, a German. American (of Irish and Italian ancestry) Armand Assante as Frenchman Rene Benoit. |
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On M*A*S*H, Asians of every nationality and descent were used to play the native Koreans. In the later part of that series, Korea itself was cast as Vietnam. | |
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Vida: The American-born Lyn is played by Mexican actress Melissa Barrera. Likewise, Elle Paris Legaspi, who played Lyn as child, is of Filipino and Italian descent. | |
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Power Rangers Ninja Steel had Will Shewfelt (American, Arab, Desi heritage) and Jordi Webber (New Zealand, Maori heritage) playing American Latino brothers. | |
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...the Italian thief in After the Fox, and he impersonates an American tourist at one point... | |
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Moloch: The actors are all Russians playing Germans (Austrian-born in Adolf Hitler's case), although they were all voiced over by German actors. | |
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A French Village: Belgian actors Patrick Descamps, Nade Dieu, Nicolas Gob, Marie Kramer and Fabrizio Rongione all play French characters. The Danish actor Peter Bonke plays German character Kollwitz. | |
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: The black Miss Elaina was voiced by Addison Holley, who's white, for the first four seasons. In season 5, they replaced her with an actual black girl, Markeda McKay. | |
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And Molina's character in Boogie Nights, Rahad Jackson, was loosely based on Palestinian-born Eddie Nash (née Adel Gharib Nasrallah). | |
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Wild Kratts: the Hispanic Aviva is voiced by Athena Karkanis, who is of Greek and Egyptian descent. Koki, who's Black, is voiced by the White Heather Bambrick until Season 7, when they took note of this and replaced her with Sabryn Rock, who herself is Black. | |
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Up the Front: Hungarian Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Dutch Mata Hari. Lance Percival, Peter Bull, Gertan Klauber, Stanley Lebor, Vernon Dobtcheff, and Patricia Quinn play Germans. Hermione Baddeley and Robert Gillespie both play French. |
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The Brothers Grimm had Jonathan Pryce playing the French baddie, complete with a hilarious French accent. Pretty much everyone in the film is this trope: Matt Damon (American) and Heath Ledger (Australian) as the titular German brothers, Peter Stormare (Swedish) as the Italian Mercurio Cavaldi, Lena Headey (English) as Angelika (German), and Monica Bellucci (Italian) as the Mirror Queen (presumably German). |
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Cannonball has German driver Wolf Messer played by American James Keach. | |
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Dollhouse: the white Mark Sheppard plays Graham Tanaka, a white FBI agent with an Asian last name. | |
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Sleepy Hollow:Ichabod's wife, rhe very English Katrina, is played by Swedish Katia Winter; Ichabod's dad is played by Canadian Victor Garber, and Lyndie Greenwood (Jennifer Mills) is also Canadian in real life. | |
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Operation Finale has the Indian-British Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann, and the Guatemalan-American Oscar Isaac as an Israeli Mossad agent. American Nick Kroll also plays an Israeli, but he at least is Jewish. | |
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Scarlet Heart: Most of the Mongolian characters are played by Chinese actors. Only the Mongolian king is played by an actor of Mongolian descent. | |
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South American (Peruvian?) in Raiders of the Lost Ark. | |
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a Viennese psychiatrist in What's New Pussycat?. | |
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Dark Desire: Mexican Brenda Castillo is played by MarÃa Fernanda Yepes, who's Colombian. | |
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The Retreat (2021): English actress Celina Sinden plays Layna, who's Canadian like the other characters. | |
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Vladimir Kozlov, an Ukrainian playing a Russian | |
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Mulan at least has three Chinese-Americans (Mulan, Shang, and Chi-Fu), otherwise Mushu is African-American, Shan Yu is Irish-Puerto Rican, Fa Zhou is Korean-American, Yao is Jewish-American, Chien-Po, Ling, the head Ancestor, and the Emperor are Japanese-American, Mulan's singing voice actor is Filipina, and Shang's singing voice actor is a white American. | |
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Sniper 2 had Tom Berenger as the titular sniper battling villainous Hungarian-speaking Serbs in Cuban-style military uniforms through the streets of Budapest, Serbia (the actual capital is Belgrade, Budapest is the capital of Hungary). Three cheers for looking up basic facts on the Internet... | |
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Spring: Italian Louise is played by Nadia Hilker, who's German. | |
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Daredevil (2015) : English actor Charlie Cox plays the titular Irish-American Daredevil. | |
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Dad's Army (1971): Paul Dawkins, Sam Kydd, George Roubicek, Scott Fredericks, and Franz Van Norde are all Brits playing Nazis. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series has a Canadian (William Shatner) playing an American (James T. Kirk), another Canadian (James Doohan) playing a Scotsman (Scotty), an American (Nichelle Nichols) playing an African (Uhura), and a Japanese-American (George Takei) playing a non-Japanese Asian-American (Sulu). The only regular character portrayed by an actor of the same nationality was McCoy, a U.S. Southerner played by a Georgia-born actor with a slight-but-legit Southern accent (DeForest Kelley). | |
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The 2018 film The Lie has Canadian actors Cas Anvar and Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs. Anvar's character Sam is established to be of Pakistani origin. Anvar is the son of Iranian parents. Yet the actress playing his daughter is indigenous. Jacobs was born in Kahnawa:ke Mohawk territory. | |
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Played for laughs in the DVD extras of Knocked Up, where he participated in a skit in which Judd Apatow hired him for the male lead role (played in the movie by Seth Rogen) thinking he would use an American accent, which he refuses to do, leading Apatow to assume that he just can't. Bloom tries to play it off by saying that a British man can get a woman pregnant just as easily as an American man can. | |
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West Side Story (1961): Maria is a Puerto Rican character. The folks in charge of casting looked at the Russian-American Natalie Wood and said, "Eh, close enough." Maria's brother, Bernardo, is played by George Chakiris, a Greek-American. | |
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Elsewhere, Willem Dafoe has played a Mexican in Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Jesus in The Last Temptationof Christ. | |
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The Three Musketeers (1993) had exactly one French person in the cast (Julie Delpy), which is still one more than The Three Musketeers (2011), The Three Musketeers (1973) had a grand total of three (and none of them were even filmed in France!). | |
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2023's The Three Musketeers has Anne of Austria, a Spanish princess who became queen of France, played by Vicky Krieps, who hails from Luxembourg. She kept her native accent, besides. | |
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...Indian characters in The Party, The Millionairess and The Road to Hong Kong... | |
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A Scotswoman in The Piano. | |
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In War, Inc. Hilary Duff plays a Central Asian pop star, and unlike some people with Fake Nationality she doesn't drop the accent when singing. | |
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I Can't Think Straight: Tala is Jordanian-Palestinian, played by Canadian Lisa Ray who's of Indian and Caucasian ancestry. Leyla is British Indian, and played by Sheetal Sheth who's an Indian-American. | |
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Blue's Clues & You!: French-accented Mr. Salt is voiced by Canadian voice actor Brad Adamson. Averted with Mrs. Pepper, who is voiced by French-Canadian voice actress Gisele Rosseau. | |
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'Allo 'Allo!: The cast of is made up of dozens of English actors playing French, German, Austrian, Italian and Swedish characters. Only three characters in the show are British. Despite that, everyone talks English, but they pretend they can't understand each other and speak with different accents. | |
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Fiennes played a Hungarian at least twice, both from the same era: in The English Patient, as noted above, and also in the less-well known Sunshine, which was about a Hungarian Jewish family during World War II. | |
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In Double Impact he plays twins of who were orphaned at birth by gangsters who killed their British parents. The French accent of both is explained by one twin baby being taken in and raised by French nuns (in Hong Kong!) while the other was taken to France to hide him from the gangsters, and raised there. | |
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The Emperor's New Groove: None of the characters are voiced by actual Peruvians, with most voiced by white people (Cuzco, Pacha, Kronk) or for Eartha Kitt who voiced Yzma who's black. | |
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Kim's Convenience: A few members of the cast, while still Canadian, are not Koreans: Andrew Phung (Kimchee) is of Vietnamese descent. Simu Liu (Jung) is Chinese. Hiro Kanagawa (Pastor Choi) is Japanese. |
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding is full of this. Nia Vardalos is a Greek-Canadian playing a Greek-American. Again it is a subversion similar to Adam Sandler in You Don't Mess With the Zohan, since she is in fact Greek. Lainie Kazan is of Russian and Turkish Jewish descent. Andrea Martin is an Armenian-American; the scene where Rodney & Harriet try to recall the ethnicity of Rodney's secretary, which turns out to be Armenian, may be a reference to this. Joey Fatone is Italian-American. |
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In the 1982 film version of Annie, Trinidadian actor/choreographer Geoffrey Holder played Warbucks' Indian bodyguard Punjab. | |
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Nighthawks: The German Heymar "Wulfgar" Reinhardt is played by Dutch actor Rutger Hauer. Shakka turns out to be a Moroccan, played by the Indian actress Persis Khambatta. |
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For Your Eyes Only has three fake Greeks, a fake Belgian, two fake East Germans and a fake Russian, at least. That's before we get to the Liverpudlian character who's putting on an Austrian accent. | |
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Trigonometry: Ray is half French and half English. Actress Ariane Labed is fully French and has acquired Greek citizenship as well. | |
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Metal Gear Solid has Sniper Wolf, a Kurdish sniper voiced by Tasia Valenza, a New Yorker. She sounds like an American trying to sound like a Russian trying to do an Iraqi accent. | |
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In Moonstruck, the Italian-American Castorini family includes Cher (Armenian-American), Olympia Dukakis (Greek-American), and Feodor Chaliapin (Russian). | |
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Occurs in-universe in The Most Popular Girls in School. Saison Margeurite tries to pass herself off as French when she's from Montreal. | |
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The Producers: In the original film, Lee Meredith, an American actress from New Jersey, plays the Swedish Ulla. In an interview, she said that her use of stilted, formal Swedish, and her fake, vaguely Scandinavian accent, made Norwegians assume she was rural/small town Swedish, while the Swedes thought she was Norwegian. In the 2005 musical remake, Ulla is played by Uma Thurman, who, although American-born, is at least half-Swedish. |
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The Big Wedding: Englishman Ben Barnes plays Alejandro, a Colombian-born American. | |
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Orphan Black: Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany plays characters of British, American, German, Ukrainian, French, Italian and Austrian origin. This is due to the fact they're clones whose creators performed in-vitro fertilization on women from various counties. | |
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Party of Five (2020): Brandon Larracuente is a Puerto Rican American, playing Mexican-born Emilio Acosta, who was raised in the US. Emily Tosta, who's playing Lucia Acosta, is Dominican. Elle Paris Legaspi, who plays Valentina Acosta, is of Filipino and Italian descent. Garcia is also American, although playing Matthew, who's Mexican. Chilean Fernanda Urrejola plays Mexican Gloria Acosta. Argentine Sol RodrÃguez plays Natalia, who is also Mexican. |
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Birds on the Wing: Achmed Abdul Uskudar from the episode "Mr Uskudar's Con Nearly Goes Wrong", was played by the British John Nettleton. | |
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Erick Avari, an Indian who grew up in the Himalayan foothills, has played members of over 24 nationalities, including ancient Egyptian in both the original Stargate movie and in Stargate SG-1. | |
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Cinderella Chef: Xia Chun Yu (Chinese) is played by Bie Thassapak Hsu, AKA Xu Zhi Xuan (Thai-Taiwanese). | |
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Dracula (2013): Irishman Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays a Romanian (playing an American) who also has an English accent in private. | |
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Once Upon a Time in America is about Jewish-American mobsters in the 1920s and 30s yet almost none of the characters are played by actual Jewish actors, with the exceptions of Larry Rapp as Moe, Estelle Harris as Peggy's mother, and Jennifer Connelly as young Deborah. | |
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Garth Marenghis Darkplace: An In-Universe example in which British actor Todd Rivers plays Hispanic doctor Lucien Sanchez. You can even see the eye makeup used to make him look Hispanic. The Temp is played by an American (and Dagless mistakes him for one), but a poorly written speech given as he was dying reveals the Temp to be from Bermuda. |
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Jin Yan was one of the most famous actors of early Chinese cinema, appearing in Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood, Wild Rose (1932), and many other productions over a span of 30 years, 1928-1958. He was called the "Film Emperor". He was Korean. | |
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Nearly every Spaghetti Western ever filmed has Spaniards playing Mexicans, since they were shot in Spain and Spanish actors were more readily available than genuine Mexicans. Also, for obvious reasons, Italians played characters from both sides of the border. And then, in a class by himself, we have New Yorker [Eli Wallach as Tuco Ramirez, "The Ugly". | |
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In Dr. No, the titular villain was Chinese-German, played by a Jewish Canadian actor. | |
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Help!: All the cultists from 'the East' are played by English actors. This is Lampshaded when the Beatles visit the Indian Restaurant "seeking enlightenment as to rings" from someone from "the mystic East" but quickly learn that everyone working there is English. | |
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...the French Georges Meliès in Hugo. | |
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Noah has Hebrews played by New Zealanders (Russell Crowe and Marton Csokas), English (Emma Watson, Ray Winstone and Douglas Booth), a Welshman (Anthony Hopkins), Americans (Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman (who is Jewish), Madison Davenportnote the ill-fated Na'el and Finn Witrocknote the young version of Winstone) and at least one Canadian (Dakota Goyonote the young Crowe). Several of them, notably the American actors, go for a Fake Nationality triple by donning English accents. | |
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Russian in Salt (but it fits as Salt is supposed to be a Deep Cover Agent... and she is one among many Fake Russians there). | |
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Troy (2004) featured Greek and other Mediterranean characters, but not a single Greek actor. A sampling: American Brad Pitt as Achilles (with an atrocious British accent). British Orlando Bloom as Paris. German Diane Kruger as Helen of Troy. Australian Eric Bana, who is of Croatian descent as Hector. Irish Brendan Gleeson as Menelaus. Irish Peter O'Toole as Priam. Scottish Brian Cox as Agamemnon. Australian Rose Byrne as Briseis. Welsh Owain Yeoman as Lysander. British Saffron Burrows as Andromache. |
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The Heroes of Olympus: In-Universe. Piper's famous Cherokee father has never played any Native American roles in his movies. | |
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The Shoes Of The Fisherman: Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn played the Ukrainan Kiril Lakota. Sir Laurence Olivier portrayed the Russian Premier Kamenev. The Australian actor Leo McKern portrayed the Italian Cardinal Leone. |
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The Princess Bride: Mandy Patinkin, who plays Inigo Montoya, is an American Jew, not Spanish. Although it's never stated in the movie, in the book Fezzik is Turkish. André the Giant, who plays him, was a French-born son of Bulgarian and Polish immigrant parents. Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) is not actually Sicilian and is also Jewish. |
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In You Only Live Twice, a portion of the plot revolved around making Connery into a Japanese guy. All they really did was dye his hair black, use eyeliner to fake epicanthic folds, and dress him in a kimono. And while James Bond is English, Ian Fleming eventually made him the son of a Scotsman specifically on the account of Connery. | |
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Cloud Atlas: In a way, since multiple non-Asian actors, including Hugo Weaving and Halle Berry, appear in heavy makeup as Koreans in the Neo Seoul storyline. Also, actress Doona Bae, a South Korean, appears as a Hispanic in the San Francisco story and as a white woman in the 1849 story. | |
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In Star Trek Into Darkness, Khan is played by the white British Benedict Cumberbatch. | |
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House of Whipcord: Penny Irving is British playing the French Anne Marie. | |
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Both Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill feature many characters who are nationals of fictitious countries. | |
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Fawlty Towers: Manuel, who's from Barcelona, is played by the German-born Jewish British actor Andrew Sachs. The "American" in the "Waldorf Salad" episode was played by Bruce Boa, a Canadian actor who made a career of being the token North American on British shows. |
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Frenchman Balian in Kingdom of Heaven (again, with his British accent). | |
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He also played Uruguayan Carlitos at the beginning of Alive. | |
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Borat: He's Kazakhstani. The "Kazakh" village in the movie is in Romania, as are the extras (who are Roma, or "Gypsies") playing Borat's family. His cameraman Azamat, was played be Ken Davitian, who is of Armenian descent. | |
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Bruno: An Austrian | |
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Clara: The film is set in Toronto, so Troian Bellisario (who's American) must be playing a Canadian here. | |
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Congo has Tim Curry playing Romanian. | |
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The cast of the 2006 film adaptation of Perfume: Story of a Murderer has British actors/actresses, and German actresses playing Frenchmen/women. Only Dustin Hoffman, an American, was playing an Italian living in France. | |
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Mexican in Frida and Maverick | |
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Keanu Reeves (a Canadian of British, Chinese, Hawaiian and Portuguese descent) and Winona Ryder (an American Ashkenazi Jew) play British characters. Like with many of his roles, Gary Oldman plays the Romanian Dracula. Welshman Anthony Hopkins plays the Dutch Van Helsing. |
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In Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain and Dark Mirror, Canadian-American actress Jennifer Hale voices both Mara Aramov (Russian) and Maggie Powers (British). | |
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Logan: Laura is the child of an unknown Mexican woman who was impregnated with Logan's genetic material. She's played by Dafne Keen, who is mixed English and Spanish. | |
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...the Spaniard hero in The Bobo. | |
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Most of the cast in the American remake of The Debt (the main Israeli characters are played at various points in the film by England's Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson, Ireland's Ciarán Hinds, Australia's Sam Worthington, New Zealand's Marton Csokas and the USA's Jessica Chastain). | |
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In The Heat Kaitlin Olson cameos as Tatiana, a Bulgarian prostitute. | |
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Notably averted in Inglorious Basterds, in which every character with a speaking role is played by an actor of the correct nationality. | |
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The Bridge: German actress Diane Kruger plays American Sonya Cross, while Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno plays Mexican Alma Ruiz. | |
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Sleeper Cell: The Saudi Muslim Farik is played by the Jewish Israeli Oded Fehr. The Bosnian Illija is played by the half-French, half-Italian American Henri Lubatti. The Frenchman Christian is played by the Franco-American Alex Nesic (he holds dual US and French citizenship). The Iraqi British Salim is played by the Iranian-American Omid Abtahi. It's lampshaded by Farik, who says he's passed for an Iranian, Sephardic Jew and also other ethnic backgrounds in the past. | |
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Caribbean Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean. | |
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BOB �� ABISHOLA: Most of the actors playing the Nigerian characters are this. Only Folake Olowofoyeku (Abishola), Bayo Akinfemi (Goodwin), Tony Tambi (Chukwuemeka) and Dayo Ade (Tayo) are actually Nigeriannote Though Tambi was raised in Cameroon and Ade was raised in Canada. Shola Adewusi (Olu), Gina Yashere (Kemi) and Anthony Okungbowa (Kofo) are of Nigerian descent, but are British-born and raised. Barry Shabaka Henley (Tunde) Travis Wolfe, Jr. (Dele) and Kimberly Scott (Ogechi) are American. | |
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The 1978 film adaptation of The Boys from Brazil features Gregory Peck (American) as the German Josef Mengele and Laurence Olivier (British) as Austrian Jew Ezra Lieberman. | |
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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: the Ambiguously Brown Nick was voiced by the White Jacob Ewanuik in the first two seasons. Luckily, in the third and final season, he's voiced by Deandray Hamilton, who is Black. | |
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In The Night of the Generals, almost all of the Germans are played by British actors (Peter O'Toole, Donald Pleasence, Charles Gray etc), although the most egregious example of the Egyptian Omar Sharif as Grau. There's also the French Pierre Mondy as Sergeant Kopatski. | |
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Baghdad Central: The Iraqi characters were mostly played by Israeli Arab and Palestinian actors. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Indian-Americans Isaac and Sari Sumdac are played by Tom Kenny and Tara Strong, who are white-Americans. | |
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Subverted by Peter MacNicol's character Janosz in Ghostbusters II: He spouts a bizarre accent throughout the movie, and when someone finally asks him where he's from, he replies in confusion: "The upper vest side." | |
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In Valdez is Coming, the Hispanic Bob Valdez is played by Burt Lancaster, an American of Irish descent (all four of his grandparents emigrated from Northern Ireland). | |
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An Arab Bedouin in Lawrence of Arabia | |
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In From the Cold: Invoked when Russian-American Jenny pretends she's Spanish-American as part of getting close with terrorists in Spain. | |
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Jojo Rabbit, befitting its absurdist Black Comedy, has Adolf Hitler (or, rather, Jojo's Imaginary Friend version of him) played by the film's writer and director, Taika Waititi. Taika is of mixed M�ori, Irish, and Ashkenazi Jewish descent. And that's only the start of a cast of Fake Germans. | |
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All-American Girl (1994) did this in spades: Margaret Cho was the only Korean-American in the main cast of the show. The actress playing the grandmother (Amy Hill) was Japanese-American, as was father Clyde Kusatsu; mother Jodi Long and brother B.D. Wong were Chinese-American. | |
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The Thorn Birds miniseries, set in Australia, is rife with this. The only Australian in a major role is Bryan Brown, who played Luke. Meanwhile, Americans and Brits play people from New Zealand (Fee and most of the Cleary children), Ireland (Ralph, Paddy, and Mary), Australia (Justine and Dane), and Germany (Rainier), while Canadian actor Christopher Plummer plays an Italian cardinal. Adding insult to injury, only three of them make any effort at at sounding the way they should. | |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice adds Israeli Gal Gadot as the Themysciran Greek Wonder Woman to the Fake American Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel. | |
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The Last Queen: The French-Algerian Dali Benssalah as Aruj "Barbarossa"/Oruç Reis, who was born on the isle of Lesbos and was of Greek and Ottoman Turkish descent. | |
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In Team Fortress 2, there is not a single character who is of the same nationality as their voice actor. The Australian Sniper is actually American, the German Medic is actually a Brit, and so on. This was done on purpose, to make the characters' accents sound stereotypically exaggerated. This even goes for the American accents in the game! The Scout and Engineer are both Americans voiced by Americans, but both actors are from different parts of the US than their characters. The Californian Nathan Vetterlein voices the Scout, a Bostonian trying to pretend to be a New Yorker, for example. Grant Goodeve, the voice actor for the Texan Engineer, isn't even Texan himself; he was born in Connecticut. Who knows where the Pyro is from, anyways? |
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In Behind Enemy Lines, all of the Serbian characters were portrayed by Croatian actors. | |
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In the film The Peacemaker, with George Clooney, the Bosnian terrorist trying to nuke the United Nations building is played by Marcel Iureº, a Romanian. | |
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Strike Back: Done with each of the leads. American Philip Winchester plays British Sgt. Michael Stonebridge, while Aussie Sullivan Stapleton plays Ex-Delta Force soldier Damien Scott. | |
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The Prince of Egypt has Jewish voice actors for Aaron (Jeff Goldblum) and Yocheved (Ofra Haza), but all the other characters are non-Jewish and non-Egyptian (Miriam's singing voice and her younger voice are provided by Jewish actresses Sally Dworsky and Eden Riegel, respectively). | |
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Due to time constraints the crew of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic were unable to get a Swahili voice actress for Zecora, so they asked Brenda Crichlownote who's still black, but not Swahili to "ad-lib some African sounding gibberish." Then-producer Lauren Faust justified it by imagining Zecora's not speaking Swahili, but "Zebra".◊ | |
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Doctor Who: In, "Marco Polo" British actors play Asians, and an Italian in the case of Marco Polo. "The Aztecs": all the Aztec characters are played by white British actors in Brownface. "The Reign of Terror": All the French characters (i.e. almost the entire guest cast) are played by British actors. "The Crusade": All the Arab characters are played by white British actors in Brownface. "The Evil of the Daleks": Trinidadian wrestler Sonny Caldinez plays Kemel the Turk. It helps that he doesn't have any dialogue. "The Enemy of the World" : Patrick Troughton (British) plays Mexican dictator Ramon Salamander, complete with Brown Face and a fake accent. "Fury from the Deep": The Dutch technician Van Lutyens is played by British actor John Abineri. "The Wheel in Space": The multinational crew of the Wheel is played almost exclusively by British actors. Eric Flynn puts on a Fake Australian accent to play Leo Ryan. Clare Jenkins puts on a Fake Russian accent to play Tanya Lernov. Michael Goldie seems to be trying for a Dixie accent as Elton Laleham and misses by light years. Donald Sumpter plays Enrico Casali with a fake Italian accent. Derrick Gilbert puts on a fake French accent to play Armand Vallance. Peter Laird puts on Yellow Face and an excruciatingly fake Asian Speekee Engrish to play Chinese crewmember Chang. James Mellor puts on a Fake Irish accent to play Sean Flannigan. "The War Games": The German and French soldiers and the Mexican Arturo Villar were played by British actors. In "The Green Death", the Welsh Professor Cliff Jones was played by English actor Stewart Bevan putting on a Welsh accent. Having Welsh parents helped him to get it right. In "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", Chinese character Li H'sen Chang was infamously played by British actor John Bennett in Yellowface. In "Black Orchid" the indigenous South American tribesman Latoni, is played by the Asian-British actor Ahmed Khalil. In "The Two Doctors", neither of the credited Spanish characters is played by a Spaniard: The Doña Arana is played by English actress Aimée Delamain. Anita is played by Gibraltarian actress Carmen Gómez. In "Vincent and the Doctor", the titular Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh was played by the Scottish actor Tony Curran. "Let's Kill Hitler" features two English actors as Nazis: Albert Wenning as Adolf Hitler. Mark Killeen plays a Nazi officer. "It Takes You Away": Ellie Wallwork, a Brit, plays Norwegian character Hanne with a mostly quite passable accent. "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror": Serbnote Serbian as in ethnic Serb; he was born in present-day Croatia Nikola Tesla is played by Croatian actor Goran ViÅ¡njić. |
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Night Train to Lisbon: Most of the main cast who play Portuguese characters are not. They're largely English (Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Huston, Christopher Lee) with the French Mélanie Laurent, Swiss Bruno Ganz, Swedish Lena Olin and Swiss Sarah Spahl as well. | |
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In the live-action adaptation of the life of the Mexican comedian Cantinflas, the titular character is played by the Spaniard actor Óscar Jaenada. Keep in mind Cantinflas in Real Life spoke with a very thick lower-class accent, and even Mexicans themselves struggle to imitate that kind of accent, but Jaenada himself manages to pull a really good accent anyway. For a better analogy for English-speaking audiences, it's like a classical British actor trying to imitate the stereotypical American ebonics accent. | |
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Greek-Cherokee-Mexican bandit Cacopoulos in the '68 Western Ace High. | |
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Canadian in Dudley Do-Right. | |
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The Grey Zone: Most the characters are German or Hungarian. Most are played by Americans, with the rest Irish or British actors. | |
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Mexicans Calvera in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Tuco in The Goodthe Badandthe Ugly and Max in Don't Turn the Other Cheek. | |
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Amsterdam (2022): British Christian Bale, British Anya Taylor-Joy and Australian Margot Robbie play Americans. Canadian Mike Myers plays the British Paul Canterbury. In-Universe: American Valerie poses as a French nurse during the War. |
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Deutschland 83: Ugandan-German actress Florence Kasumba plays Rose Seithathi, who's South African. | |
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Special Ops: Lioness: Stephanie Nur is Syrian-Austrian, playing Saudi woman Aaliyah Amrohi. | |
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French in Chocolat. | |
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John Van Dreelen, the son of a Dutch actor, fled Nazi-occupied Holland to go into the family business in America. He spent his career playing characters from just about everywhere in Europe, including Germans in World War II-set films like Von Ryan's Express and series like Combat! (1962). | |
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Mortal Kombat: The Movie has an interesting, if complicated example with the character of Kano. In the video game his character was supposed to be of Japanese/American descent, but for the film, his character was played by the white, Australian accented Trevor Goddard. Unfortunately, Goddard was a Brit who only pretended to be an Australian in the belief that it would further his acting career, and his fake Australian accent makes Kano sound more like some sort of iffy Cockney. Thus not only did the character have a Fake Nationality but the man portraying him did as well. If that wasn't enough, the game developers liked Goddard's performance so much that they eventually decided to Retcon the character to be wholly Australian, but since the actor's nationality was fake it meant that the character's still was too. | |
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An odd aversion occurred in the film Shattered Glass. The real Kambiz Foroohar is Iranian-American. Upon watching himself portrayed in the movie, he posted an entry on a popular Iranian-American blog lamenting that although he was the first Iranian character depicted on film after 9/11, he had been portrayed as "generic ethnic guy", by an actor he had been told by the film's producers was Indian-Canadian. The "Indian-Canadian" actor in question then wrote into the same blog and clarified that actually, he was Iranian as well. Awkward... | |
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Although billed as being from the Soviet Union (specifically Lithuania), Nikolai Volkoff (born Josip Nikolai Peruzović) was actually from Yugoslavia (Croatia, to be exact). Boris Zhukov (born James Harell), his ostensibly Soviet tag team partner and later rival, was in fact born and raised in Virginia. | |
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan: The American Adam Sandler plays the Israeli titular character. Though it's somewhat of a subversion since like the character, he is Jewish. Emmanuelle Chriqui, a Canadian of Sephardic (Jewish) Moroccan descent plays the Palestinian hair salon owner and Love Interest of Adam Sandler. The Italian-American John Turturro plays a Palestinian terrorist. Rob Schneider, an American of Filipino and Jewish descent, plays a Palestinian cab driver who bears a grudge against Zohan for taking his goat. |
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Missing (2023) has the Portuguese Joaquim De Almeida as a Colombian. | |
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...an Egyptian Pharaoh in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. | |
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An Indian in A Passage to India | |
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Plays a Mexican again in Desperado and its sequel, in which he played El Mariachi. | |
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The Rookie (1990) cast Puerto Rican Raúl Juliá and Brazilian Sonia Braga as Germans. | |
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Hightown: Osito is Dominican, played by African-American Atkins Estimond. On a minor note, the Cote Verdeans are also played by African-Americans. | |
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British in The Tourist and the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films. | |
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In The George Lopez Show, Carmen, who is of Mexican and Cuban ancestry, is played by Masiela Lusha, who was born in Albania. Her Cuban-American mother Angie is played by Constance Marie, who is Mexican. Angie's niece Veronica is played by half-Mexican, half-Puerto Rican Aimee Garcia. | |
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The Emperor of Paris has the German August Diehl as the French (Alsatian) Nathanael de Wenger and the American Mark Schneider as the French Napoléon Bonaparte. | |
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The Haunting of Hill House (2018): The Dutch Michael Huisman plays the American Steven Crain, matching the accent of his character's American family pretty flawlessly. | |
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956) had Shirley MacLaine as an Indian princess. | |
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Mystery Diners, a reality show, caught a group of people doing this to convince a business investor they were Russians so they could fool him into helping fund their scam. | |
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In Paddington (2014), the Peruvian bears are voiced by the English Ben Whishaw, Imelda Staunton and Michael Gambon. The English villain is played by Australian Nicole Kidman. The German Mr Gruber is played by English Jim Broadbent. Scottish-Italian Peter Capaldi and English Julie Walters have essentially swapped nationalities. | |
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Power Rangers RPM has a New Zealander playing the extremely Scottish Flynn McAlisteir. He made a game effort on the accent, at least. Not to mention the full cast of Fake Americans in nearly every season from 2003-2009 (SPD being the only exception)''. When Saban got the series back, they began casting Americans as the core Rangers again, though filming's still taking place in New Zealand and therefore there are plenty of extras, mentors, and side characters who fall into this. Power Rangers Samurai has the sort-of Mexican Antonio played by a Thai-German-American actor. Power Rangers Dino Charge had the Brazilian-born American actor Davi Santos and the white New Zealand actor Jarred Blakiston both playing rangers from Zandar, a fictional European country. Power Rangers Ninja Steel had Will Shewfelt (American, Arab, Desi heritage) and Jordi Webber (New Zealand, Maori heritage) playing American Latino brothers. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had Thuy Trang, a Vietnamese-American actress, playing a character of mixed Taiwanese and Korean ancestry (if you count the comics as canon). In the show, her ancestry is straight-up ambiguous, as the actor playing her father is Japanese, while the actors playing her Uncle Howard, her mom, and her cousin Sylvia are all of obvious, but different, Asian nationalities. It's entirely possible that if she'd not left the show, her heritage might have been revealed at some point beyond just being Asian-American. |
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The Spanish Queen Isabella in Amistad. | |
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Carry On Henry: Joan Sims, Julian Orchard, Peter Gilmore, Gertan Klauber, and David Davenport all play French characters, while the Italian Conte Filippo di Pisa is played by the British Alan Curtis. | |
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Tiger Bay: German actor Horst Buchholz played a Polish man very convincingly - his accent only slipped in a single scene. | |
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A League of Their Own (2022): Esti is Cuban, played by Priscilla Delgado, who's a Puerto Rican. | |
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The Train Now Standing...: One of the German blokes from "Double Top", Herr Muller, was played by the England-born Paul Humpoletz. | |
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The Promise (2016): Of the main cast who play Armenians, only Angela Sarafyan actually is (she's a US citizen, as her parents moved there when she was four). However, most of the Turks really are played by actors at least ethnically Turkish. | |
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All the Road Rovers, except for Hunter, are voiced by American actors instead of their nationalities, including black actor Kevin Michael Richardson as Exile and Jeff Bennett as German Blitz. | |
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Sicilian Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll. | |
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Done in-universe in The Legend of Korra, where Bolin (half-Fire Nation, half-Earth Kingdom) plays "Nuktuk, Hero of the South(ern Water Tribe)". A important note here is that both Water Tribes are by far the darkest skinned of the peoples in the Avaverse and Bolin and his co-star Ginger are both fair skinned. | |
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has two of the Jewish main characters played by non-Jews Rachel Brosnahan and Tony Shalhoub. Ironically, the Jewish actress Alex Borstein plays the Ambiguously Goyish Susie. | |
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Once Upon a Time: The second season added the character of Mulan, based on the Chinese Ballad of Hua Mulan, played by a Korean-American. | |
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Averted in Godzilla (2014). Alongside Serizawa, the power plant workers, Ford Brody's teacher, the teenage Yanki boy, his parents, and the boy (who Ford Brody bonds within the train scenes) and his parents are all actually Japanese. Played straight with Aaron Taylor-Johnson himself, who is from England. | |
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No Time to Die has David Dencik (Swedish-Danish) and Rami Malek (American of Egyptian descent) as fake Russians. | |
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Highlander: The Scottish Sean Connery plays an Egyptian masquerading as a Scotsman. Frenchman Christopher Lambert plays a Scotsman and tries his best to hide his accent, which gets called out in the film. The Kurgan, hailing from Neolithic Russia, is played by an American, Clancy Brown. | |
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Unknown (2011) has Liam Neeson as a Fake American (and one of the backup passports implies Martin is really Canadian), Swiss Bruno Ganz as a former East German, and German Diane Kruger as a Bosnian (hence she sports a thick East European accent when speaking English, but her German is flawless). | |
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...Otto Frank (father of Anne), a German Jew, in Anne Frank: The Whole Story. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel used this: Americans David Boreanaz, James Marsters, Juliet Landau and Alexis Denisof playing the Irish Angel and British Spike, Drusilla, and Wesley respectively. The California-born Marsters took this to an extreme in the Buffy episode "Doomed" (4x11). Playing the British vampire Spike, he replicates a Brit's very poor imitation of an American accent when Spike tries to change his speech to avoid detection by the vampire-capturing Initiative. This rather remarkable feat can be considered the linguistic equivalent of "chicken-fried chicken": chicken pretending to be cube steak pretending to be chicken. In Boreanaz's case his character's nationality wasn't revealed until two seasons in, and he has some Irish ancestry. His Irish accent in flashbacks was rather poor, so he didn't bother using the accent when Angel was temporarily reverted to his teenage personality in one episode. |
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Yoga Hosers: Most of the Canadians were played by Americans or other foreigners. | |
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The entire cast of Up Pompeii is made up of Brits playing Pompeiians and Romans. | |
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Carry On Emmannuelle stars Kenneth Williams and Suzanne Danielle as a French couple. | |
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Subverted when The Iron Sheik, an Iranian, had a brief run in the early 90s as Col. Mustafa, an Iraqi. He was still identified as being the Iranian born Sheik but had changed his allegiance to the nation that was now America’s main enemy. | |
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This is endemic to the cast of Pride (2014). It's based on the true story of gay and lesbian activists in London organizing to help Welsh miners during the 1984-85 strike. Most of the Welsh characters are played by English actors: Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, and Paddy Considine; an exception is Gethin, played by Irishman Andrew Scott. And the hero of the film, English-born/Irish-raised Mark Ashton, is played by New Yorker Ben Schnetzer. Oddly, this doesn't at all detract from the quality of the film. | |
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New Zealand-born Australian in Evil Angels (AKA A Cry in the Dark). | |
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In the Fade: Not entirely fake, but Numan Acar plays an ethnic Kurd while he is a Turk by ethnicity, though both come from Turkey. | |
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Deadly Class: Marcus is half-Nicaraguan, half-American. Benjamin Wadsworth's half-Mexican, half-American. Maria Salazar, who's Mexican, is played by Venezuelan Maria Gabriela de Faria. Vietnamese-American Lana Condor plays Japanese Saya Kuroki. El Alma del Diablo, a Mexican, is played by Puetro Rican actor David Zayas. |
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A great deal of the major or supporting characters in Mortdecai are played by someone not from the same country as them. Spinoza, apparently a Frenchman, is played by Welsh actor Pal Whitehouse. Emil Strago is definitely not an Australian, but his actor, Jonny Pasvolsky, is. Hong Kong gangster Fang Fat is played by Phillipine actor Junix Inocian. |
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Firefly: Adelai Niska, a crime boss of indeterminate Eastern European ethnicity (though he tells his henchman to cut off Mal's ear in Czech), is played by New Yorker Michael Fairman. | |
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American (Oregon) Drew Baylor in Elizabethtown. | |
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The Gnomes of Dulwich: The Chinese Empire Gnomes - Plastic, Dolly, and Rita - were played by Leon Thau (Palestinian), Anne de Vigier, and Lynn Dalby (both British). | |
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Canadian (though of Italian descent) Anthony Carelli playing Italian Santino Marella. Before that, in OVW, he was Russian wrestler Boris Alexiev. | |
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...a Hispanic in Death and the Maiden. | |
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Colombian Cataleya in Colombiana. The film also has M�ori actor Cliff Curtis playing a Colombian-American gangster. | |
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Sheila from Spyro: Year of the Dragon is voiced by British actress Edita Brychta speaking with an Australian accent. | |
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Parodied with the WWF/E's The Machines, a supposedly Japanese tag team whose membership included "Giant Machine" (obviously André the Giant in a mask), and "Hulk Machine" (Guess Who?) The group was actually part of a Charlie Brown from Outta Town angle when Andre was suspended for no-showing an event. note The angle itself was a cover for Andre's filming of The Princess Bride, a tour of Japan and tending to health problems. | |
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My Animal: Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Amandla Stenberg, both Americans, play Canadians. | |
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The Mask of Zorro gives us Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones (both Welsh) as the original Don Diego and his daughter. Spanish-born Antonio Banderas plays a Mexican... who goes undercover as a Spaniard. The antagonists of the film - evil governor Don Rafael Montero (probably Spanish as it takes place during the war of independence) - and its sequel - French Jerk Count Armand - are played by Englishmen. | |
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The 2000 Korean movie Joint Security Area: Korean actress Yeong-ae Lee plays Swiss army Major Sophie E. Jean, who's supposed to have grown up in Switzerland. The film includes some daring stunt linguistics with Sophie opposite a more senior Swiss officer, played by Christoph Hofrichter (who is German). For some reason, they speak mainly English. He gives a reasonable approximation of a Swiss German accent. She just has a thick Korean accent. The same movie has a Swedish officer played by a German actor. The looks work, the accent doesn't. |
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Up Pompeii films: The entire cast of Up Pompeii is made up of Brits playing Pompeiians and Romans. Up the Front: Hungarian Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Dutch Mata Hari. Lance Percival, Peter Bull, Gertan Klauber, Stanley Lebor, Vernon Dobtcheff, and Patricia Quinn play Germans. Hermione Baddeley and Robert Gillespie both play French. |
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Tony Randall played the titular Chinese wizard in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. Although as the title also implies, the character can appear in pretty much whatever form he wants. | |
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On Voltron: Legendary Defender, Cuban American Lance and Afro-Samoan American Hunk are voiced by Caucasians Jeremy Shada and Tyler Labine, while Japanese American Shiro is voiced by Josh Keaton, who is of mixed Peruvian/Ashkenazi Jewish descent and Italian American Pidge is voiced by Bex Taylor-Klaus, who is of German Jewish descent, respectively. | |
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Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul: Gus Fring, a Chilean immigrant, is played by Giancarlo Esposito, born in Denmark to an Italian father and African-American mother and raised in Manhattan, New York City. | |
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Killer Khan, a Japanese wrestler playing a Mongolian. | |
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The early '80s film Night Crossing, about a family that escaped East Germany by balloon, featured British actors in the main adult roles, Americans as the kids, and Germans in practically every other role. | |
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American Todd Blackburn in Black Hawk Down. | |
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Revenge (2017): French Jerk Richard is played by Belgian actor Kevin Janssens. The latter can be given a pass due to Belgium being straight north of France and having French as one of three official languages. | |
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Never Have I Ever: Devi's uncle Aravind, an Indian immigrant, is played by Pakistani actor Iqbal Theba. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: The eponymous villain is now played by the Guatemalan-American Oscar Isaac, an Australian as Nightcrawler, and another American as a young Storm. | |
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Irish - Veronica Guerin | |
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The 2002 remake of The Four Feathers has Heath Ledger (Australian), Kate Hudson and Wes Bentley (American) playing upper class Victorian English people. In a movie directed by Shekhar Kapur (Indian), to boot. | |
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In Mission: Impossible, Leonard Nimoy, as the Master of Disguise, went undercover as a Japanese person and did kabuki. Alos, as The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier pointed out, when he disguised himself as the villain (played by Wo Fat himself, Khigh Dheigh) he somehow became several inches shorter... | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Australian Sam Reid plays the Frenchman Lestat de Lioncourt. Armand is hinted to be a Crimean Tatar, and he's portrayed by British Bangladeshi Assad Zaman. |
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Cinema Paradiso: Alfredo, adult Salvatore, and adult Elena are all Siclians, and are all played by French actors (Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, and Brigitte Fossey, respectively). | |
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Babylon 5: The Russian Susan Ivanova was portrayed by the American actress Claudia Christian, whose parents were of German and Irish descent. | |
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...a Persian in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and The Physician. | |
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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Xin Zhi Lei (Chinese) as Kim Ok-yeon/Jin Yu Yan (Korean). None of the Mongolian characters are played by Mongolian actresses. Xiangjian is from a fictional kingdom in East Turkestan. Her actress Li Qin is Chinese. |
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In Sky Riders, French-Armenian Charles Aznavour plays a Greek cop. | |
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Not Like Everyone Else: Brandi is half white and half Cherokee. The actress playing her, Alia Shawkat, is half white and half Iraqi. | |
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Despite the multiple British actors playing American characters throughout the X-Men movies, ironically the one British X-Man, Psylocke, has only been played by American actresses: Meiling Meloncon in X-Men: The Last Stand and Olivia Munn in Apocalpse. (though the latter's Asian heritage fits how Psylocke is effectively in a Japanese woman's body) | |
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The Man in the High Castle features Americans Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Trade Minister Tagomi), Joel de la Fuente (Inspector Kido), and Louis Ozawa Changchien (Kasoura) as Japanese characters. Danish Carsten Norgaard plays the German Rudolph Wegener. Of all the German characters in the film, only one (Adolf Hitler) is actually played by a German actor, while the rest are played by an assortment of Australian, Danish, French, Canadian and Irish actors. | |
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Besties: Concerns the ancestry and not the nationality per se. Actress Lina El Arabi is French of Moroccan descent while her character in the film, Nedjma, is French of Algerian descent. | |
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In Sunday in the Park with George, this is guaranteed to happen, because the first act is set entirely in France with French characters (with two Americans and two Germans in the company), and the second act is set in America, with American characters. | |
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In Short Circuit and its sequel, Fisher Stevens (an American Jew) plays the Indian-American Ben in brownface. | |
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Impulse (2018): Nikolai, a Romanian (who may be a naturalized Canadian), was played by British-born Canadian actor Callum Keith Rennie. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation has an Englishman (Patrick Stewart) playing a Frenchman (Picard), an American (LeVar Burton) playing an African (Geordi LaForge), and another American (Denise Crosby) playing someone of Ukrainian descent (Yar). Admittedly, Yar was not Earth-born; she was born and raised on a human colony on a completely different planet. LaForge's actual origins are deliberately vague—he's a Military Brat whose parents moved wherever Starfleet sent them. All we know for sure is that his mother was in Africa when he was born. | |
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