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Fake Russian

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146 feature instances
18 referencing feature instances

Fake Russian	type	FeatureClass
Fake Russian	label	Fake Russian
Fake Russian	page	FakeRussian
Fake Russian	comment	Very few characters from Russia (or the rest of the former Soviet Union, for that matter) in Western television are played by native Russians. This was a particular case in the Cold War, for obvious reasons. As with Fake American, Fake Brit and all types of Fake Nationality, the quality of the imitation of the Russian accents varies from the very good to the awful to the not-even-attempted. For convenience's sake, this trope covers the whole of the former Soviet Union on its post-World War II boundaries. Fake Russian text is The Backwards Я. As such, this also covers other ethnic groups in the Soviet Union. Examples
Fake Russian	fetched	2024-04-17T22:15:56Z
Fake Russian	parsed	2024-04-17T22:15:56Z
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Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to BigBad: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to BungouStrayDogs: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to ButNotTooForeign: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to ColonelBadass: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to DoomMetal: Not an Item - FEATURE
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Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to FakeBrit: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to Fauxreigner: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to ForeignWrestlingHeel: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to HumanAlien: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to InUniverse: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to LeningradCowboys: Not an Item - IGNORE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to SatireParodyPastiche: Not an Item - FEATURE
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Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to TheDragon: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to TheManFromUNCLE: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to TheRemake: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to TomLehrer: Not an Item - IGNORE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to TranslationCorrection: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingComment	Dropped link to huskyrusskie: Not an Item - FEATURE
Fake Russian	processingUnknown	TheManFromUNCLE
Fake Russian	processingUnknown	BungouStrayDogs
Fake Russian	isPartOf	DBTropes
Fake Russian / int_1037f39f	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_1037f39f	comment	The anime adaptation of Ginban Kaleidoscope had a terrific example of this in one of the episodes, where a Russian girl got lost in Japan. Not only is the accent so heavy, a native speaker would barely make out what the characters were saying, but the very way mother and daughter address each other is all wrong. You wouldn't believe it one bit if a mother called her daughter, well, actually "daughter", not by name; and especially the most formal form of the word, in Russian, which allows for tons of milder and friendlier word variations.
Fake Russian / int_1037f39f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_1037f39f	featureConfidence	1.0
Ginban Kaleidoscope	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_1037f39f
Fake Russian / int_1463a028	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_1463a028	comment	Several episodes of Law & Order: SVU feature bad Russian accents, most glaringly "Russian Love Poem" in the first season.
Fake Russian / int_1463a028	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_1463a028	featureConfidence	1.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_1463a028
Fake Russian / int_14b52449	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_14b52449	comment	Zlatko BuriÄ‡ (Croatian) as Yuri Karpov (the oligarch), Johann Urb (Estonian) as Sasha (the pilot), and Beatrice Rosen (again!!!) as Tamara (the oligarch's mistress) in 2012. Also, Zinaid Memisevic (Bosnian) as Sergey Karpenko (Russian president). His interpreter, played by Igor Morozov, is the only "true" Russian in the movie.
Fake Russian / int_14b52449	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_14b52449	featureConfidence	1.0
2012	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_14b52449
Fake Russian / int_15121102	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_15121102	comment	The film K-19: The Widowmaker, set aboard a Russian submarine, is 138 minutes of non-stop fake Russian. From Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard and Harrison Ford, of all people (Ford has stated in an interview that many were afraid to "invest in me with a Russian accent"). Neeson wisely gives up and reverts to his Irish brogue about halfway through the movie. Amazingly, the Russian dub happily rectifies all of the awkwardness. The translation and dubbing were apparently given much thought and labor, and the end result is suprisingly convincing, bold and heartfelt performances in Russian (even though some expressions still betray a little of the foreigner's perspective). Russian dub version of the movie shows very sure and organic performances of noble and humane Russian sailors in a (sorely lacking) Russian heroic-but-tragic war movie, with acting by Ford, Neeson, Sarsgaard and others as a cool bonus.
Fake Russian / int_15121102	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_15121102	featureConfidence	1.0
K-19: The Widowmaker	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_15121102
Fake Russian / int_16404929	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_16404929	comment	Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., played by the Scottish David McCallum (who would go on to play Ducky in NCIS).
Fake Russian / int_16404929	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_16404929	featureConfidence	1.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_16404929
Fake Russian / int_16aedea5	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_16aedea5	comment	All of the Russians working in the Soviet Embassy in Foreign Affairs (1966) were played by Brits - Ronnie Barker, Joe Melia, and Sonia Graham.
Fake Russian / int_16aedea5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_16aedea5	featureConfidence	1.0
Foreign Affairs (1966)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_16aedea5
Fake Russian / int_190c6ef5	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_190c6ef5	comment	In addition to the usual "British and Americans as Russians", Doctor Zhivago also stars Egyptian-born Omar Sharif as the title character.
Fake Russian / int_190c6ef5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_190c6ef5	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Zhivago	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_190c6ef5
Fake Russian / int_1a018c31	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_1a018c31	comment	Carry On Matron: The Deleted Role of Mrs. Putzova was played by the British Marianne Stone.
Fake Russian / int_1a018c31	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_1a018c31	featureConfidence	1.0
Carry On Matron	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_1a018c31
Fake Russian / int_21938c93	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_21938c93	comment	Black Widow also brought in more fake Russian people in Avengers: Age of Ultron (French Julie Delpy as coach Madame B.) and her solo movie (Brits Florence Pugh and Rachel Weisz as former Black Widows, while American David Harbour plays the Red Guardian). In those cases, there are Russian accents, which just shows that Natasha's lack of one is an indicator she has defected long ago (which also makes it funny on how in Natasha's solo movie, of four Russians who spent three years pretending to be an American family, only Natasha herself has learned to not sound Russian anymore).
Fake Russian / int_21938c93	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_21938c93	featureConfidence	1.0
Avengers: Age of Ultron	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_21938c93
Fake Russian / int_22119589	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_22119589	comment	Alias: Julian Sark is a borderline case as his exact nationality is never directly confirmed. He's played by American David Anders but the character speaks with an Irish-influenced British accent. The character is not British, however, he was merely educated in Britain and spent a lot of time in Galway. It's eventually revealed he's the son of a Russian diplomat and was sent to Britain at a young age to escape from his father's abusive behaviour. Andrian Lazarey is a Russian diplomat and descendant of the Romanov family. He's Sark's father and is played by American Mark Bramhall, making him a straight example of this trope.
Fake Russian / int_22119589	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_22119589	featureConfidence	1.0
Alias	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_22119589
Fake Russian / int_2212773a	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_2212773a	comment	In an Angel episode, Summer Glau played the ghost of a Russian prima ballerina. The accent was fairly decent, as was the ballet—she is a trained dancer.
Fake Russian / int_2212773a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_2212773a	featureConfidence	1.0
Angel	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_2212773a
Fake Russian / int_22147342	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_22147342	comment	Arrow has most Russians are played by non-Russians: Anatoliy is played by the Czech-Canadian actor David Nykl (known to Stargate Atlantis fans as Dr. Radek Zelenka). Gregor is played by David Meunier (American). Viktor is played by a Canadian actor (Mike Dopud). Kovar is played by the Swedish Dolph Lundgren (AKA Ivan Drago). Isabel Rochev is played by Summer Glau.
Fake Russian / int_22147342	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_22147342	featureConfidence	1.0
Arrow	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_22147342
Fake Russian / int_221ad0d3	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_221ad0d3	comment	Barry: Glenn Fleshler and Anthony Carrigan play Chechen mobstersâ€¦with Yugoslav names.
Fake Russian / int_221ad0d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_221ad0d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Barry	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_221ad0d3
Fake Russian / int_22211d68	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_22211d68	comment	Happens in-universe on Bones. In one episode, Booth and Brennan join a circus with a Knife-Throwing Act. The circus director tells them that they need a gimmick, and they decide on "Boris & Natasha and their Russian Knives of Death", complete with Booth/Boris in a humongous fur coat and a fake mustache.
Fake Russian / int_22211d68	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_22211d68	featureConfidence	1.0
Bones	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_22211d68
Fake Russian / int_222c2051	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_222c2051	comment	On Chuck, Russian Arms Dealer Alexei Volkoff is played by former James Bond, Timothy Dalton. His big reveal had him switch to a Russian accent, but he slips back into an English accent most of the time anyway. It starts to make sense when we learn that Volkoff was actually an English scientist accidentally implanted with the "Volkoff" cover identity during a CIA experiment.
Fake Russian / int_222c2051	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_222c2051	featureConfidence	1.0
Chuck	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_222c2051
Fake Russian / int_26674ed5	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_26674ed5	comment	Earl Boen seems to do this quite often, voicing Sergei Gurlukovitch in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Colossus in the first X-Men Legends.
Fake Russian / int_26674ed5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_26674ed5	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_26674ed5
Fake Russian / int_27f4c7fb	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_27f4c7fb	comment	Mr. Bobinsky in Coraline is voiced by English actor Ian McShane, complete with a funnily overwrought accent and surprisingly decent Gratuitous Russian.
Fake Russian / int_27f4c7fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_27f4c7fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Coraline	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_27f4c7fb
Fake Russian / int_2f3162e4	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_2f3162e4	comment	Lampshaded slightly on Sex and the City with Carrie's inability to pronounce Aleksandr's name. He finally says "Call me 'Bob.'"
Fake Russian / int_2f3162e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_2f3162e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sex and the City	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_2f3162e4
Fake Russian / int_30245f1	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_30245f1	comment	Shadow: War of Succession has the allegedly Russian agent Sasha "No von vill stand in my vay!" Romanoff.
Fake Russian / int_30245f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_30245f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Shadow: War of Succession (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_30245f1
Fake Russian / int_35e88987	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_35e88987	comment	The National Wrestling Alliance had promoted numerous Russian heels throughout its entire existence. The first time real Russians wrestled in an NWA ring did not occur until the 1990 edition of Starrcade when Victor Zangiev and Salman Hashimikov, two Soviet wrestlers from New Japan Pro-Wrestling (who in turn negotiated directly with the Soviet government to acquire them) took part in a tag team tournament. In a sign of the times, the two weren't presented as the stereotypical Foreign Wrestling Heel, but a show of the tournament being a legitimately international affair.
Fake Russian / int_35e88987	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_35e88987	featureConfidence	1.0
National Wrestling Alliance (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_35e88987
Fake Russian / int_3626dc6d	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_3626dc6d	comment	On Nikita, one of the main characters is Alexandra Udinov a.k.a. Alex, daughter of a Russian oligarch, played by the half-Portuguese Lyndsy Fonseca. They do say that she had lost her accent over time, wanting to conceal her identity. During flashbacks with an accent, the role is played by Canadian Eliana Jones.
Fake Russian / int_3626dc6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_3626dc6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Nikita	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_3626dc6d
Fake Russian / int_3692a962	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_3692a962	comment	Lord of War: Nicolas Cage as Ukranian-pretending-to-be-Jewish arms dealer Yuri Orlov. Funny how Orlov is not a very Ukranian surname.note Ukrainian surnames tend to have the suffixes "ko", "enko", "yuk" or none at all; "ov" is distinctly Russian. Although with the number of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, it wouldn't be out of place there either. Cage, as well as his brother played by Jared Leto, even manage several lines in Ukranian on-screen - surprisingly recognizable, at least compared to many other instances. Averted with several secondary characters, like Yuri's uncle, who are played by actual Ukranians and get their lines straight. Yuri's military uncle is played by Yevgeniy Lazarev, famed Belarusian actor—close, though not Ukrainian—who's got plethora of American and Russian film roles.
Fake Russian / int_3692a962	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_3692a962	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of War	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_3692a962
Fake Russian / int_36ee2abe	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_36ee2abe	comment	In Paranoia, members of the "Commies" secret society tend to speak in fake Russian accents. One rulebook recommends using Pavel Chekov's accent as a guide.
Fake Russian / int_36ee2abe	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_36ee2abe	featureConfidence	1.0
Paranoia (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_36ee2abe
Fake Russian / int_39f32df7	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_39f32df7	comment	From Russia with Love: Girl of the Week Tatiana Romanova, played by the Italian Daniela Bianchi, and Rosa Klebb, played by the Austrian-born Lotte Lenya.
Fake Russian / int_39f32df7	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_39f32df7	featureConfidence	1.0
From Russia with Love	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_39f32df7
Fake Russian / int_3aabfec3	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_3aabfec3	comment	Linka, the Ukrainian Wind Ring from the Planeteers in Captain Planet and the Planeteers was voiced by Kath Soucie, an American voice actress. She can be identified by misplaced inflections and occasionally misusing a phrase.
Fake Russian / int_3aabfec3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_3aabfec3	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain Planet and the Planeteers	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_3aabfec3
Fake Russian / int_3be31c4	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_3be31c4	comment	Averted, humorously enough in a scene from the first Modern Warfare game where you are attempting to ambush and capture Victor Zakhaev. Your character actually sits up in the guard tower with Griggs while Captain Price and Gaz go about Dressing as the Enemy Griggs says that Soap looks nothing like a Russian.
Fake Russian / int_3be31c4	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_3be31c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Modern Warfare (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_3be31c4
Fake Russian / int_3eb3a36f	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Assassination Classroom: Lovro, to an egregious degree in the dub. Kent Williams gives him a heavy Russian accent, but his lines are full of figurative and idiomatic expressions that would be unlikely for a non-native speaker to use.
Fake Russian / int_3eb3a36f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_3eb3a36f	featureConfidence	1.0
Assassination Classroom (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_3eb3a36f
Fake Russian / int_3fdf692a	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_3fdf692a	comment	White Nights cast Soviet defector and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov as a Soviet defector and ballet dancer who accidentally winds up back in the Soviet Union. Jerzy Skolimowski, a Pole, was cast as the chief KGB officer assigned to keep track of him. Isabella Rossellini (Swedish-Italian) is featured as a Russian. Helen Mirren (born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov), who is actually half-Russian, half-British.
Fake Russian / int_3fdf692a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_3fdf692a	featureConfidence	1.0
White Nights	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_3fdf692a
Fake Russian / int_3ff9ebf3	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_3ff9ebf3	comment	In The Bourne Supremacy, Russian FSB agent Kirill is portrayed by New Zealand actor Karl Urban. Urban delivers all of his lines in Russian, in an accent that one Russian speaking reviewer described as 'slightly mangled'.
Fake Russian / int_3ff9ebf3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_3ff9ebf3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Bourne Supremacy	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_3ff9ebf3
Fake Russian / int_417d77f9	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_417d77f9	comment	Doctor in Trouble has Joan Sims playing a Russian Captain.
Fake Russian / int_417d77f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_417d77f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor in Trouble	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_417d77f9
Fake Russian / int_4388e597	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_4388e597	comment	Not only does Chess have several Russian characters likely to be played by non-Russians, its creators made the mistake of naming one of them "Svetlana Sergievskynote For people not familiar with Russian naming conventions, "Sergievsky" is the masculine form of the name; Svetlana, being female, would more properly be "Sergievskaya".".The original Anatoly on the concept album (and the West End production) was Swedish performer Tommy Korberg. His accent is tough to place, sounding somewhere between English (to match the rest of the cast) and his native Swedish. Bjorn Skifs, the original Arbiter, is also Swedish, but his character's nationality is made intentionally ambiguous—pretty much the only thing we can say for certain is that he isn't American or Russian.
Fake Russian / int_4388e597	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_4388e597	featureConfidence	1.0
Chess (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_4388e597
Fake Russian / int_457b671e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_457b671e	comment	In 24: Julian Sands, a British actor, played Big Bad Vladimir Bierko. Mark Sheppard, also British, played Bierko's Dragon, and notably switched between British and Russian accents during his tenure on the show. However, since the nationality of those bad guys was Generic Central Asian it's rather pointless to discuss whether the names and accents were accurate to any particular real Central-Asian / Eastern-European country. Misha Collins, meanwhile, does a pretty good Russian accent as Alexis Drazen. In Season 8, Russian Big Bad Mikhail Novakovich is portrayed by Glasgow-born actor Graham McTavish. Likewise, Sergei Behzaev in the same season was acted by Berliner JÃ¼rgen Prochnow. Australian actor Nick Jameson played Russian President Yuri Suvarov in the fifth, sixth, and eigth seasons. Likewise, John Noble, also of Australian descent, played Anatoly Markov during season 6.
Fake Russian / int_457b671e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_457b671e	featureConfidence	1.0
24	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_457b671e
Fake Russian / int_468bebb0	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld, A.A. Pessimal gave up any attempt to reproduce a Russian accent in spoken Morporkian after a bout of Early-Installment Weirdness featuring his Far Ãœberwaldean note Russian witches, Olga and Irena. It just did not look or sound right on the page. They're still Discworld "Russians" but their Russian-ness is now inferred in other ways: the word ''govno!" crops up a lot, for instance, but that's as close as it gets.
Fake Russian / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_468bebb0
Fake Russian / int_49ad83ee	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_49ad83ee	comment	The voice emotes for Draenei PCs (and most NPCs) in World of Warcraft have Hollywood-Romanian accents.
Fake Russian / int_49ad83ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_49ad83ee	featureConfidence	1.0
World of Warcraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_49ad83ee
Fake Russian / int_4d551426	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_4d551426	comment	A Miracle of Science, though it's not clear whether this failure happened in or out of the 'Verse.
Fake Russian / int_4d551426	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_4d551426	featureConfidence	1.0
A Miracle of Science (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_4d551426
Fake Russian / int_4d5b6107	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_4d5b6107	comment	The Russian Keyser SÃ¶ze Expy Berlin (Milos Kirchoff) on The Blacklist is portrayed by the Swedish Peter Stormare, who has a history of being Typecast as this kind of character.
Fake Russian / int_4d5b6107	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_4d5b6107	featureConfidence	1.0
The Usual Suspects	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_4d5b6107
Fake Russian / int_4f1f3628	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_4f1f3628	comment	The Suite Life on Deck episode "Das Boots" had Sasha Matryoshka, a Russian junior chess champion played by Cody Kennedy.
Fake Russian / int_4f1f3628	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_4f1f3628	featureConfidence	1.0
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_4f1f3628
Fake Russian / int_4f2cea52	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_4f2cea52	comment	Curiously enough, the Tartars (derived from real life Tatars) in The Golden Compass speak perfect Russian! That can be considered a part of the Fake Russian phenomenon, because, well, real Tatar language is quite different from Russian. While it's arguably true for the book/movie (where one guesses the Muscovites had not united Rus', though it's not stated outright), it's worth noting that most real life Tatars do speak fluent Russian, Tatarstan being part of the Russian Federation, after all.
Fake Russian / int_4f2cea52	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_4f2cea52	featureConfidence	1.0
The Golden Compass	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_4f2cea52
Fake Russian / int_4f46b380	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_4f46b380	comment	X-Men: First Class features Englishman Jason Flemyng as Azazel (who's a demon in the comics, but turned into a Russian mutant in the film).
Fake Russian / int_4f46b380	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_4f46b380	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Men: First Class	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_4f46b380
Fake Russian / int_50e2e357	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009): Averted somewhat in how Anton Yelchin (Ensign Chekov) was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States as a baby. He would've done an accurate accent and was a native English speaker in Real Life, but he felt it more appropriate to exaggerate it to match Walter Koenig's original performance of the character.
Fake Russian / int_50e2e357	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_50e2e357	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek (2009)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_50e2e357
Fake Russian / int_526d4c5c	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_526d4c5c	comment	Juhani. The same voice actor went on to portray Jack in Mass Effect 2, who does not speak with anything remotely resembling a Russian accent.
Fake Russian / int_526d4c5c	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_526d4c5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_526d4c5c
Fake Russian / int_5320ab5e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5320ab5e	comment	In the Columbo episode "The Most Dangerous Match", the Russian characters are played by Canadians Jack Kruschen and Lloyd Bochner. In a scene, Bochner is speaking "Russian" on the phone - he is actually uttering gibberish lines, not at all sounding like actual Russian dialog.
Fake Russian / int_5320ab5e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_5320ab5e	featureConfidence	1.0
Columbo	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5320ab5e
Fake Russian / int_53a0bd8b	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): American Stefan Gierasch as the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations in "A Small Talent for War". The entire cast of "Red Snow".
Fake Russian / int_53a0bd8b	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_53a0bd8b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Twilight Zone (1985)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_53a0bd8b
Fake Russian / int_54277b38	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_54277b38	comment	Averted on Deadwood, where the Russian character Blazanov was played by Moscow native Pavel Lychnikoff.
Fake Russian / int_54277b38	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_54277b38	featureConfidence	1.0
Deadwood	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_54277b38
Fake Russian / int_560d1d8f	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_560d1d8f	comment	The New Mutants has American-born Anglo-Argentine Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik (Colossus' sister in the comics).
Fake Russian / int_560d1d8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_560d1d8f	featureConfidence	1.0
The New Mutants	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_560d1d8f
Fake Russian / int_585e37fa	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_585e37fa	comment	Boa: Brit Mark Sheppard shows up as a Russian terrorist sent to the Antarctic prison.
Fake Russian / int_585e37fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_585e37fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Boa	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_585e37fa
Fake Russian / int_59151283	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_59151283	comment	The Metal Gear series has many, most notably Revolver Ocelot (voiced by three Americans, but his mother is American). In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, however, which entirely takes place in Russia, nobody has an accent at all, as part of the Translation Convention. Well, except Granin.
Fake Russian / int_59151283	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_59151283	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_59151283
Fake Russian / int_5ada53ed	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5ada53ed	comment	An old habit in the James Bond series: From Russia with Love: Girl of the Week Tatiana Romanova, played by the Italian Daniela Bianchi, and Rosa Klebb, played by the Austrian-born Lotte Lenya. German actor Walter Gotell played General Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights. He also played Morzeny (probably Russian too) in From Russia With Love. There was also his secretary Rublevitch, played by the Austrian Eva Rueber-Staier. American actress Barbara Bach as KGB agent Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me, and her fellow KGB lover played by Michael Billington. Octopussy features General Orlov (played by British actor Steven Berkoff), who serves his Fake Russian with a side of Shatner speak and an order of Large Ham (it should be noted, however, that Berkoff's family has some roots in Russia, so it's mitigated). The film also had British actor Paul Hardwick as the Soviet Chairman (who may or may not be Leonid Brezhnev). John Rhys-Davies took a break from Egyptian and Scottish characters to play General Leonid Pushkin in The Living Daylights. He's actually Welsh. Robbie Coltrane (Scottish) portrayed Russian Valentin Zukovsky in GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. GoldenEye features many more of these characters, though Sean Bean's Alec Trevelyan/Janus has the excuse of explicitly growing up in Great Britain despite having Cossack parents. Natalya Simonova's actress, Izabella Scorupco, while she grew up and lives in Sweden, is at least Slavic (Polish), but still not Russian. Famke Janssen (Dutch) plays the Georgian sadomasochistic assassin Xenia Onatopp, German Gottfried John plays General Ourumov, Alan Cumming (Scottish) plays computer programmer Boris Grishenko. There's also TchÃ©ky Karyo (French of Turkish Sephardic Jewish and Greek descent) as Defense Minister Dmitri Mishkin. Robert Carlyle (also Scottish) played Russian terrorist Renard in The World Is Not Enough. No Time to Die: Kazan native Lyutsifer Safin is played by Rami Malek, an American of Coptic Egyptian descent. There's also Dr. Obruchev, who's played by Swedish-Danish actor David Dencik.
Fake Russian / int_5ada53ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_5ada53ed	featureConfidence	1.0
James Bond	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5ada53ed
Fake Russian / int_5c07d6ab	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5c07d6ab	comment	The Russian voice option in Saints Row: The Third is done by American voice actress Tara Platt. The same goes for Genius Bruiser Oleg Kirrlov, voiced by American Mark Allan Stewart.
Fake Russian / int_5c07d6ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_5c07d6ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5c07d6ab
Fake Russian / int_5c638d89	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5c638d89	comment	The Americans : Played straight by the protagonist couple (an American and a Welshman) and the handlers (Claudia and Gabriel), averted otherwise by most of the supporting Soviet roles. The creative team had an official rule in place that the roles were to be played by Russian actors who spoke the language fluently.
Fake Russian / int_5c638d89	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_5c638d89	featureConfidence	1.0
The Americans	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5c638d89
Fake Russian / int_5ce00127	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5ce00127	comment	The actor who plays Ivan Drago in Rocky IV is Dolph Lundgren, a Swede.
Fake Russian / int_5ce00127	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_5ce00127	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocky IV	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5ce00127
Fake Russian / int_5d354f8	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5d354f8	comment	In the revival of Red Dwarf, there was a Fanservice-y science officer called Katerina Bartikovsky, who spoke with some kind of accent.
Fake Russian / int_5d354f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_5d354f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dwarf	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5d354f8
Fake Russian / int_5db577ba	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight has Beatrice Rosen (French-American) as the Russian prima ballerina who lectures Harvey Dent, and Richie Coster (English) as the Chechen gangster (not Russian in the strict sense, but he portrays his character as a stereotypical Russian mafioso).
Fake Russian / int_5db577ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_5db577ba	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5db577ba
Fake Russian / int_5df88692	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_5df88692	comment	In Rounders, John Malkovich plays Russian gangster Teddy KGB. His accent is bizarre.
Fake Russian / int_5df88692	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_5df88692	featureConfidence	1.0
Rounders	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_5df88692
Fake Russian / int_605dd875	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: Stargate SG-1: Dr. Svetlana Markov [sic]; (corrected to Markova in the Russian dub) in the episode "Watergate", portrayed by Marina Sirtis. On the other hand, the two Russian sailors from "Small Victories" look rather authentic, being portrayed by Russians. The one with glasses speaks Ukrainian, almost without an accent. The other one alternates between Russian and Ukrainian. One of them asks what is that noise they hear from the torpedo tube and the other answers "maybe those are the bugs from the previous episode?". Garry Chalk, Canadian actor of English birth, plays Russian General Chekhov. Captain Daria Voronkova (likely as a nod to the mistake with Svetlana Markov's name, Daniel initially refers to her as "Voronkov") is played by the London-born FranÃ§oise Robertson. Canadian Mike Dopud played a Russian colonel in the same episode and would go on to play a number of one-off Human Alien characters in the show before becoming the regular character Varro in Stargate Universe. Averted by Radek Zelenka in Stargate Atlantis. He was originally supposed to be Russian, but the producers changed the character's nationality to fit the actor's Czech origins. While actor David Nykl can speak Czech fluently, having been born in the country to Czech parents, he left at a very young age with his family (after the Prague Spring of 1968) and his actual accent is Canadian. That and it appears he's actually been a fake Russian in the past. Nevertheless, Nykl's Czech accent is pretty much spot-on.
Fake Russian / int_605dd875	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_605dd875	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate-verse (Franchise)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_605dd875
Fake Russian / int_657b4c67	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_657b4c67	comment	Mandalay: Tanya Bodoroff is a Russian refugee living in British India. The actress who plays her, Kay Francis, is American. Katya Sergova, of Russian ascent, was considered for the role to avoid this. Alas, Francis proved to be a better fit for the role.
Fake Russian / int_657b4c67	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_657b4c67	featureConfidence	1.0
Mandalay	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_657b4c67
Fake Russian / int_691be369	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_691be369	comment	On The X-Files, we have Alex Krycek; he speaks fluent Russian (although his name sounds more Czech or Slovak), but claims his parents were 'Cold War immigrants') played by Canadian actor Nicholas Lea.
Fake Russian / int_691be369	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_691be369	featureConfidence	1.0
The X-Files	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_691be369
Fake Russian / int_699f37a1	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_699f37a1	comment	Silent Storm has Russian (and one stereotypical Ukrainian) characters voiced by non-Russians in the English version of the game. Then again, this applies to most nationalities in the game
Fake Russian / int_699f37a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_699f37a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Silent Storm (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_699f37a1
Fake Russian / int_69d15cc0	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Mickey Rourke plays Russian supervillain Ivan Vanko (a cross between Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash) in Iron Man 2. Rourke spent time in a Russian supermax prison just to absorb some local flavor and was coached on the language by his Russian girlfriend. In the same film, Scarlett Johansson makes her debut as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, who was Russian in the comics, but is not said to be Russian in the film, and nothing in her performance even hints at it. In The Avengers (2012), we see Natasha conversing in Russian while under interrogation (by a Russian officer played by Polish actor Jerzy Skolimowski, who is speaking Russian, but Not Even Bothering with the Accent). Later in the film, she tells Loki in a Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: "I'm Russian...or was" (which is true to the mainstream Marvel continuity, wherein Natasha naturalized herself and got American citizenshipnote In Russian, there's a distinction between russkaya (ethnic Russian, feminine form) and rossiyanka (citizen of the Russian Federation, feminine form; can include Tatars, Bashkirs, Armenians, etc.). Both are translated as "Russian" into English. Obviously, here Natasha means the latter, as one can't exactly change one's ethnic origins.). In the Fury's Big Week comic (prequel to the Avengers film), the mutated Samuel Sterns (a.k.a. the comics' Leader) drops a hint at Natasha being originally from Stalingrad (now Volgograd), after picking up on her accent. In-universe in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The titular Winter Soldier is made to look like a Russian assassin by using Russian-made weapons, speaking in Russian, and having a red star painted on his prosthetic arm, but in reality he's Bucky Barnes, an American from New York being controlled by American agents. And that isn't even the end of it. Those American agents happen to be members of HYDRA, a secret society that originated in Nazi Germany, and the Winter Soldier - as a consequence of being portrayed by a Romanian-American actor - speaks Russian with a Romanian accent. Is this the Logical Extreme of this trope? Probably. Black Widow also brought in more fake Russian people in Avengers: Age of Ultron (French Julie Delpy as coach Madame B.) and her solo movie (Brits Florence Pugh and Rachel Weisz as former Black Widows, while American David Harbour plays the Red Guardian). In those cases, there are Russian accents, which just shows that Natasha's lack of one is an indicator she has defected long ago (which also makes it funny on how in Natasha's solo movie, of four Russians who spent three years pretending to be an American family, only Natasha herself has learned to not sound Russian anymore).
Fake Russian / int_69d15cc0	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_69d15cc0	featureConfidence	1.0
Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_69d15cc0
Fake Russian / int_6ae6b4c7	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Pacific Rim is stuffed to the gills with Fake Nationality, but Sasha and Alexis Kaidanovsky, the Russian Battle Couple piloting the superheavyweight Cherno Alpha, are portrayed by Canadians Heather Doerksen and Robert Maillet respectively.
Fake Russian / int_6ae6b4c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_6ae6b4c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Pacific Rim	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_6ae6b4c7
Fake Russian / int_6b02efea	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_6b02efea	comment	Reilly, Ace of Spies features New Zealander Sam Neill playing a Ukrainian Jew pretending to be Irish. With Translation Convention being used throughout, a load of English actors play Russians using British accents.
Fake Russian / int_6b02efea	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_6b02efea	featureConfidence	1.0
Reilly, Ace of Spies	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_6b02efea
Fake Russian / int_6c2c4bf3	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series: In the original timeline, Colossus is portrayed by Canadian Daniel Cudmore. X-Men: First Class features Englishman Jason Flemyng as Azazel (who's a demon in the comics, but turned into a Russian mutant in the film). Deadpool (2016) depicts Colossus as a Husky Russkie instead of the non-specific nationality in the other movies... while played by a Serbian, Stefan Kapicic. The New Mutants has American-born Anglo-Argentine Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik (Colossus' sister in the comics).
Fake Russian / int_6c2c4bf3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_6c2c4bf3	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Men Film Series	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_6c2c4bf3
Fake Russian / int_6db63936	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_6db63936	comment	Dr. Andre Chezko from Speed Racer: The Next Generation. In-universe. For he is actually none other than Wilson "Sparky" Sparkolemew.
Fake Russian / int_6db63936	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_6db63936	featureConfidence	1.0
Speed Racer: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_6db63936
Fake Russian / int_70814599	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Dr. Svetlana Markov [sic]; (corrected to Markova in the Russian dub) in the episode "Watergate", portrayed by Marina Sirtis. On the other hand, the two Russian sailors from "Small Victories" look rather authentic, being portrayed by Russians. The one with glasses speaks Ukrainian, almost without an accent. The other one alternates between Russian and Ukrainian. One of them asks what is that noise they hear from the torpedo tube and the other answers "maybe those are the bugs from the previous episode?". Garry Chalk, Canadian actor of English birth, plays Russian General Chekhov. Captain Daria Voronkova (likely as a nod to the mistake with Svetlana Markov's name, Daniel initially refers to her as "Voronkov") is played by the London-born FranÃ§oise Robertson. Canadian Mike Dopud played a Russian colonel in the same episode and would go on to play a number of one-off Human Alien characters in the show before becoming the regular character Varro in Stargate Universe.
Fake Russian / int_70814599	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_70814599	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_70814599
Fake Russian / int_7260f96d	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_7260f96d	comment	Pitr from User Friendly - though he's a Life Embellished version of an Estonian co-worker, the author thought it would be funnier to give him a "blatantly fake Slavic accent." (Estonians, for the record, aren't Slavic, though he didn't actually say they were.) Pitr's fake-Russian dialect is actually justified - he spoke standard English at the beginning of the strip. He later adopted the accent to reinforce his "Evil Genius" persona. Pitr actually does have Russian ancestry, as indicated by his bio. At first, he pretended his accent was an attempt to be more connected to his family because he didn't want them to know he was trying to be evil.
Fake Russian / int_7260f96d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_7260f96d	featureConfidence	1.0
User Friendly (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_7260f96d
Fake Russian / int_72b783bf	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_72b783bf	comment	Austerlitz (1960) has the French Jean-Louis Richard as Tsar Alexander I.
Fake Russian / int_72b783bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_72b783bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Austerlitz	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_72b783bf
Fake Russian / int_73d7930f	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_73d7930f	comment	In the Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir", Nana Visitor (who plays Kira Nerys) is clearly putting on the most ridiculous faux-Russian accent and having loads of fun while at it. Explained by the fact that the holodeck program is clearly meant to be a James Bond-replica — fake Russian accents included (Kira was involved in a shuttle/transporter/holodeck malfunction, which is why she is so in-character).
Fake Russian / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_73d7930f
Fake Russian / int_76376304	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_76376304	comment	Surprisingly averted in the English version of the video game Metro 2033, whose voice actors happen to actually be Russian native speakers (in both the original and the dub), with the exception of Yuri Lowenthal and Steve Blum, who sound quite convincing. For some reason, people complained about the allegedly bad fake Russian accents being cartoonishly goofy and over the top. The voice work improved in the sequel, Metro Last Light. Despite the continued use of Russian actors in the dub, complaints still rolled in about the obviously fake and exaggerated accents.
Fake Russian / int_76376304	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_76376304	featureConfidence	1.0
Metro 2033 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_76376304
Fake Russian / int_79868ee1	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_79868ee1	comment	Thunder from Dirty Bomb may be an In-Universe example according to Sparks, who thinks that Thunder just created a whole new identity from nothing following the dirty bomb attacks on London and is just pretending to be Russian.
Fake Russian / int_79868ee1	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_79868ee1	featureConfidence	1.0
Dirty Bomb (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_79868ee1
Fake Russian / int_7b6c4921	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_7b6c4921	comment	In Degrassi, Russian-Canadian teen Zig Novak and his heavily-accented immigrant mother are played by Ricardo Hoyos and Shauna MacDonald respectively.
Fake Russian / int_7b6c4921	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_7b6c4921	featureConfidence	1.0
Degrassi: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_7b6c4921
Fake Russian / int_7f9dbbcd	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_7f9dbbcd	comment	Mikhail the Russian hitman in the Co-Op Mode of Far Cry 3 is voiced by an English actor.
Fake Russian / int_7f9dbbcd	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_7f9dbbcd	featureConfidence	1.0
Far Cry 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_7f9dbbcd
Fake Russian / int_81692f99	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Ensign Chekov from The Original Series: portrayed by an American, albeit one of Lithuanian descentnote If "Walter Koenig" sounds more German than Lithuanian to you—Koenig's family were Ashkenazi Jews (like half the actors on the bridge of the Enterprise), so he had a Germanic name. His surname, btw, means 'receipt-son'. Apparently a misspelling of Chekhov, which means 'of Czech descent'. In the Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir", Nana Visitor (who plays Kira Nerys) is clearly putting on the most ridiculous faux-Russian accent and having loads of fun while at it. Explained by the fact that the holodeck program is clearly meant to be a James Bond-replica — fake Russian accents included (Kira was involved in a shuttle/transporter/holodeck malfunction, which is why she is so in-character).
Fake Russian / int_81692f99	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_81692f99	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek (Franchise)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_81692f99
Fake Russian / int_8184b06e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_8184b06e	comment	The Russia House features American Michelle Pfeiffer and Austrian Klaus Maria Brandauer, both as Russians.
Fake Russian / int_8184b06e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_8184b06e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Russia House	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_8184b06e
Fake Russian / int_84823809	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_84823809	comment	In-Universe, Olaf the emperor penguin from Kaeloo. The Season 2 finale reveals that he is actually not from Russia, but from Planet Smileyland's equivalent of Antarctica.
Fake Russian / int_84823809	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_84823809	featureConfidence	1.0
Kaeloo	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_84823809
Fake Russian / int_88652dbc	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_88652dbc	comment	Krog and Surgeo from MixelsÂ both speak with Russian accents, but their respective voice actors, Dave Fennoy and Jess Harnell, are both American.
Fake Russian / int_88652dbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_88652dbc	featureConfidence	1.0
Mixels	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_88652dbc
Fake Russian / int_88b580f0	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_88b580f0	comment	In Werewolf: The Apocalypse core rulebook, there is a picture of a werewolf from the Silver Fang ("Ð¡ÐµÑ€ÐµÐ±Ñ€Ñ�Ð½Ñ‹Ðµ ÐºÐ»Ñ‹ÐºÐ¸" in Russian) tribe over the Cathedral of Vasily Blazhenny, titled: "Ð¡Ð•Ð Ð•Ð‘Ð Ð¯Ð�Ð«Ð¦ ÐšÐ›Ð«ÐšÐ¦". This has become a meme among Russian WtA fans. Perhaps compounded by the fact that the werewolf in question appears to be the signature character King Albrecht; while the Silver Fangs as a tribe are associated with Russia, Albrecht himself is thoroughly American (and, to top things off, once called a Russian Silver Fang he didn't like a "commie bastard").
Fake Russian / int_88b580f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_88b580f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_88b580f0
Fake Russian / int_8aa7c509	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_8aa7c509	comment	Buff Frog from Star vs. the Forces of Evil who speaks in a thick Russian accent, is voiced by an American actor Fred Tataiscore.
Fake Russian / int_8aa7c509	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_8aa7c509	featureConfidence	1.0
Star vs. the Forces of Evil	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_8aa7c509
Fake Russian / int_8d817ccb	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: British actress Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana Verdansky.
Fake Russian / int_8d817ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_8d817ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Lost	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_8d817ccb
Fake Russian / int_8dd8ec81	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_8dd8ec81	comment	In the two English dubs of the 39th/35th episode of Sailor Moon, the two Russian figure skaters, Misha and Janelyn/Janelle, were voiced by local actors.
Fake Russian / int_8dd8ec81	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_8dd8ec81	featureConfidence	1.0
Sailor Moon (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_8dd8ec81
Fake Russian / int_8dea9503	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_8dea9503	comment	Variously averted, subverted, and played straight in 2010: The Year We Make Contact. By the numbers: Dana Elcar is not Russian in any way, and his accent as Dimitri Moisevich is subpar to say the least. His radio transmissions in Russian had to be dubbed in. Helen Mirren as Tanya Kibruk is an interesting case. She is (of course) English and speaks no Russian, but she is ethnically Russian on her father's side (born Helen Lydia Mironoff) and can do a flawless Russian accent. The remaining Soviets are all either Czech or actually Soviet, even if some of them (e.g. Elya Baskin) aren't actually Russian per se (Baskin, for instance, is a Latvian from Riga—which at the time was part of the USSR).
Fake Russian / int_8dea9503	featureApplicability	-0.3
Fake Russian / int_8dea9503	featureConfidence	1.0
2010: The Year We Make Contact	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_8dea9503
Fake Russian / int_9022878e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_9022878e	comment	In-universe in Flight of the Swan:. All dancers in the ballet troupe have Russian names (Katia, Maya, Egorova, Natasha, Nadya, and narrator Masha), but two of them are Englishwomen. The name change is to give the impression that theirs is a Russian troupe.
Fake Russian / int_9022878e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_9022878e	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Swan	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_9022878e
Fake Russian / int_90d056dd	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_90d056dd	comment	Nobody: Araya Mengesha is really Canadian, with Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage. Here his character Pavel was half Russian, half Ethiopian.
Fake Russian / int_90d056dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_90d056dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Nobody	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_90d056dd
Fake Russian / int_91e45f5	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_91e45f5	comment	Played with in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney with Olga Orly. Orly is only pretending to be a Russian waitress (at a Russian restaurant known as the Borscht Bowl Club) in order to cover up her real job as a con artist.
Fake Russian / int_91e45f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_91e45f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_91e45f5
Fake Russian / int_924bb56e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_924bb56e	comment	In the first few episodes of Dollhouse, we are led to believe that the character Enver Gjokaj plays is that of Russian mob goon Lubov—of course, this is only an imprint and he is in fact the active named Victor. Worth noting here is that Gjokaj's accent was so good and his name so exotically Eastern-European (though he's actually Albanian) that a lot of viewers never thought to guess his character was anything but what he seemed at first. It's also later established that "Victor" is actually American.
Fake Russian / int_924bb56e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_924bb56e	featureConfidence	1.0
Dollhouse	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_924bb56e
Fake Russian / int_933be5cb	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_933be5cb	comment	Octopussy features General Orlov (played by British actor Steven Berkoff), who serves his Fake Russian with a side of Shatner speak and an order of Large Ham (it should be noted, however, that Berkoff's family has some roots in Russia, so it's mitigated). The film also had British actor Paul Hardwick as the Soviet Chairman (who may or may not be Leonid Brezhnev).
Fake Russian / int_933be5cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_933be5cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Octopussy	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_933be5cb
Fake Russian / int_976efc02	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Mike Nelson as a Soviet cosmonaut in a Joel-era episode.
Fake Russian / int_976efc02	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_976efc02	featureConfidence	1.0
Mystery Science Theater 3000	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_976efc02
Fake Russian / int_987ae287	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_987ae287	comment	The Trunkovs and Ivan's voice actors from Cars 2. At least the Trunkovs' character design was based on a real Soviet-era model, the ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets◊. Plot necessity forced Ivan to be based on a 1955-57 Chevy truck◊ like Mater - had they planned the sequel at the same time as the original movie they could've made Mater a 1956 Ford◊ so Ivan could be a ZIL-130◊.
Fake Russian / int_987ae287	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_987ae287	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars 2	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_987ae287
Fake Russian / int_994a18ad	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_994a18ad	comment	Snatch. has Rade Å erbedÅ¾ija, a Croatian actor, playing Boris the Blade, a.k.a. "Boris the sneaking fuckin' Russian". The character is from Uzbekistan however.
Fake Russian / int_994a18ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_994a18ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Snatch.	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_994a18ad
Fake Russian / int_995d6634	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_995d6634	comment	Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator has Grisha, who is obsessed with Russia despite being born and raised in London. His weak spot is insults involving his origins and (supposed) homeland, like "[Your country] [is not interesting] [and] [your beloved auntie] [was born in] [a cheese shop]!"
Fake Russian / int_995d6634	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_995d6634	featureConfidence	1.0
Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_995d6634
Fake Russian / int_998cbda3	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil: Russian brothers Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov in season 1 are respectively played by the very much American Gideon Emery and Australian Nikolai Nikoleff.
Fake Russian / int_998cbda3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_998cbda3	featureConfidence	1.0
Daredevil (2015)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_998cbda3
Fake Russian / int_9a7088bc	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_9a7088bc	comment	Ensign Chekov from The Original Series: portrayed by an American, albeit one of Lithuanian descentnote If "Walter Koenig" sounds more German than Lithuanian to you—Koenig's family were Ashkenazi Jews (like half the actors on the bridge of the Enterprise), so he had a Germanic name. His surname, btw, means 'receipt-son'. Apparently a misspelling of Chekhov, which means 'of Czech descent'.
Fake Russian / int_9a7088bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_9a7088bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Original Series	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_9a7088bc
Fake Russian / int_9e2dbb4d	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Thomas/Nikolai from Regular Show being voiced by Roger Craig Smith.
Fake Russian / int_9e2dbb4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_9e2dbb4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Regular Show	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_9e2dbb4d
Fake Russian / int_a54eef52	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_a54eef52	comment	From Hetalia: Axis Powers we have Russia, whose American actor has a distinct generic Russian accent, not that the fangirls seem to mind. Considering that the show is based on national stereotypes, this actually makes sense.
Fake Russian / int_a54eef52	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_a54eef52	featureConfidence	1.0
Hetalia: Axis Powers (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_a54eef52
Fake Russian / int_abfcff6a	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_abfcff6a	comment	A generation of kids learned how to speak with a bad Russian accent from Boris and Natasha spies from the fictional country of Pottsylvania on Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Fake Russian / int_abfcff6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_abfcff6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocky and Bullwinkle	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_abfcff6a
Fake Russian / int_acf36b57	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_acf36b57	comment	In the action/parody Cats & Dogs there's a villainous cat-burgler (that's a cat who is a burglar) armed with numerous spy-gadgets known only as 'The Russian', who naturally speaks in the stereotypical Russian accent used by Cold War villains.
Fake Russian / int_acf36b57	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_acf36b57	featureConfidence	1.0
Cats & Dogs	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_acf36b57
Fake Russian / int_ad41ee71	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ad41ee71	comment	SuperMarioLogan - Craig the Devil (voiced by American actor Chris Netherton, also known as Pablo "Pooby" SÃ¡nchez).
Fake Russian / int_ad41ee71	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_ad41ee71	featureConfidence	1.0
SuperMarioLogan (Web Video)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ad41ee71
Fake Russian / int_b3704ed0	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_b3704ed0	comment	Salt has two Polish actors playing the Soviet defector and the Russian president, and the American Corey Stoll playing one of the undercover agents (though like the rest of the agents in the movie, he's lived his whole adult life in America).
Fake Russian / int_b3704ed0	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_b3704ed0	featureConfidence	1.0
Salt	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_b3704ed0
Fake Russian / int_b3aba9af	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_b3aba9af	comment	On Six Feet Under, Ruth Fisher's Russian employer/paramour Nikolai is played by Ed O'Ross, a Pittsburgh-born and raised American of Czechoslovakian descent (his real last name is Orosz).
Fake Russian / int_b3aba9af	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_b3aba9af	featureConfidence	1.0
Six Feet Under	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_b3aba9af
Fake Russian / int_b4c6e7ef	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_b4c6e7ef	comment	Thorn from Kitty Is Not a Cat is voiced by New Zealand-born actress, Cal Wilson.
Fake Russian / int_b4c6e7ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_b4c6e7ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Kitty Is Not a Cat	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_b4c6e7ef
Fake Russian / int_b8eb4fe5	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Maria Tachibana in Sakura Wars is half-Russian, though the series plays up her Russian-ness so much that if not for her name you'd never know it's only half (though it's justified by her having a Russian upbringing). Her US voice actress in the anime decided to give her a Russian accent, which would have been a nice touch if she could imitate one worth a darn.
Fake Russian / int_b8eb4fe5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_b8eb4fe5	featureConfidence	1.0
Sakura Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_b8eb4fe5
Fake Russian / int_b9c33228	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_b9c33228	comment	Stiletto: Canadian-American Stana Katic, who has Croatian Serb ancestry, plays Raina, a Russian.
Fake Russian / int_b9c33228	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_b9c33228	featureConfidence	1.0
Stiletto	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_b9c33228
Fake Russian / int_ba366aa8	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ba366aa8	comment	Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain and Dark Mirror have Jennifer Hale, a Canadian, as Mara Aramov, and she doesn't handle the accent too well.
Fake Russian / int_ba366aa8	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_ba366aa8	featureConfidence	1.0
Syphon Filter (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ba366aa8
Fake Russian / int_bcdcf629	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_bcdcf629	comment	Jetstorm and Jetfire from Transformers: Animated are voiced with Russian accents.
Fake Russian / int_bcdcf629	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_bcdcf629	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers: Animated	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_bcdcf629
Fake Russian / int_bdae670d	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_bdae670d	comment	Yuri!!! on Ice has a few Russian characters that have the appropriate accents in the dub — Yurio (Micah Solusod), Victor (Jerry Jewell, using a much less exaggerated accent than he did in Hetalia), and Yakov (Daman Mills).
Fake Russian / int_bdae670d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_bdae670d	featureConfidence	1.0
Yuri!!! on Ice	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_bdae670d
Fake Russian / int_c1a76652	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_c1a76652	comment	Black Books has an episode with a Russian piano teacher played by Scottish actor.
Fake Russian / int_c1a76652	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_c1a76652	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Books	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_c1a76652
Fake Russian / int_c43df4d8	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who featured English actress Clare Jenkins putting on a fake Russian accent to play crewmember Tanya Lernov, in "The Wheel in Space". She was just one of the many British actors putting on a fake accent to play a member of the multinational crew of the Wheel space station in that story. Jenkins would briefly reprise her role the following season in "The War Games".
Fake Russian / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_c43df4d8
Fake Russian / int_c4a1d59e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty and Command & Conquer: Red Alert both has enough of linguistic and cultural pratfalls in "red balalaika" style that they are attractive for Russian-speaking players just because of the inherent hilarity (as great Easter Egg feasts). Not counting such obvious over-the-top things as paratrooper bears. The more "realistic" and "live" images are, the crazier they look. Starting from its trailer. On the other hand, as long as Ivana Milicevic◊ in that... "uniform" is there, who cares about what "regalia" she put on? The crowning bit has to be Tim Curry as the Soviet Premier - who cares about how good his accent is(n't) when he gets going? Strangely, though, unlike most Fake Russians he seems to know that "do svidania" roughly means "until next time" not "goodbye forever".
Fake Russian / int_c4a1d59e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_c4a1d59e	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Duty (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_c4a1d59e
Fake Russian / int_c7b51462	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_c7b51462	comment	Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortensen spent some time unaccompanied in the rural region of Russia his character is meant to originate from to not only absorb the dialect, but the regional culture as well. His costars did not however go to such lengths.
Fake Russian / int_c7b51462	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_c7b51462	featureConfidence	1.0
Eastern Promises	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_c7b51462
Fake Russian / int_c9280e49	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_c9280e49	comment	An American Tail: At least the parents try to put on Russian accents, Fievel and Tanya sound like regular Americans even before they emigrate to America.
Fake Russian / int_c9280e49	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_c9280e49	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_c9280e49
Fake Russian / int_c9a98ba0	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_c9a98ba0	comment	In the second season of True Detective, Frank Semyon's business partner, Osip Agranov, is played by Irish actor Timothy Murphy.
Fake Russian / int_c9a98ba0	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_c9a98ba0	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_c9a98ba0
Fake Russian / int_ca08598f	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ca08598f	comment	Sergei Malatov in The Wire, a Ukrainian played by American Chris Ashworth. His last name isn't even a Ukrainian name. This is likely intentional, as Malatov is part of an international criminal empire led by "the Greek", and most of the Greek's people are implied to be using undercover names and nationalities. At one point the Greek's Number Two casually shows another character a whole collection of passports from different countries, all with different names. This tendency towards fake names and nationalities even includes the Greek, who at one point is amused by the fact that the police have no information on him besides his nickname The Greek... and he isn't actually Greek.
Fake Russian / int_ca08598f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_ca08598f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wire	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ca08598f
Fake Russian / int_cac20f89	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_cac20f89	comment	On JAG, Harmon Rabb's half brother Sergei Zhukov is played by Canadian Jade Carter. Evidently he won the part over several Russian actors.
Fake Russian / int_cac20f89	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_cac20f89	featureConfidence	1.0
JAG	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_cac20f89
Fake Russian / int_cb6abef3	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_cb6abef3	comment	In The Avengers (2012), we see Natasha conversing in Russian while under interrogation (by a Russian officer played by Polish actor Jerzy Skolimowski, who is speaking Russian, but Not Even Bothering with the Accent). Later in the film, she tells Loki in a Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: "I'm Russian...or was" (which is true to the mainstream Marvel continuity, wherein Natasha naturalized herself and got American citizenshipnote In Russian, there's a distinction between russkaya (ethnic Russian, feminine form) and rossiyanka (citizen of the Russian Federation, feminine form; can include Tatars, Bashkirs, Armenians, etc.). Both are translated as "Russian" into English. Obviously, here Natasha means the latter, as one can't exactly change one's ethnic origins.).
Fake Russian / int_cb6abef3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_cb6abef3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Avengers (2012)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_cb6abef3
Fake Russian / int_ccf875f7	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ccf875f7	comment	The Criminal Minds episode "Honor Among Thieves," involving Russian emigres and the Russian mob, combined actors from all over the place: two were Polish, one was Croatian, several were Americans of Russian descent, and at least one or two were from Russia.
Fake Russian / int_ccf875f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_ccf875f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Criminal Minds	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ccf875f7
Fake Russian / int_cf69b21e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_cf69b21e	comment	Ravage from Beast Wars has a similar accent.
Fake Russian / int_cf69b21e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_cf69b21e	featureConfidence	1.0
Beast Wars	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_cf69b21e
Fake Russian / int_cf97a783	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_cf97a783	comment	Napoleon (2023) has the French Ã‰douard Philipponnat as Tsar Alexander I.
Fake Russian / int_cf97a783	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_cf97a783	featureConfidence	1.0
Napoleon (2023)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_cf97a783
Fake Russian / int_d0940549	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_d0940549	comment	St. Vincent (2014) has British Naomi Watts as a Russian prostitute.
Fake Russian / int_d0940549	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_d0940549	featureConfidence	1.0
St. Vincent (2014)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_d0940549
Fake Russian / int_d3381e70	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_d3381e70	comment	In-universe in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The titular Winter Soldier is made to look like a Russian assassin by using Russian-made weapons, speaking in Russian, and having a red star painted on his prosthetic arm, but in reality he's Bucky Barnes, an American from New York being controlled by American agents. And that isn't even the end of it. Those American agents happen to be members of HYDRA, a secret society that originated in Nazi Germany, and the Winter Soldier - as a consequence of being portrayed by a Romanian-American actor - speaks Russian with a Romanian accent. Is this the Logical Extreme of this trope? Probably.
Fake Russian / int_d3381e70	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_d3381e70	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain America: The Winter Soldier	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_d3381e70
Fake Russian / int_d3b72b58	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_d3b72b58	comment	Enemy at the Gates, set during the siege of Stalingrad, featured Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Joseph Fiennes as members of the Soviet army... plus Bob Hoskins as (rather unconvincing — he failed to Chew The Scenery enough) Nikita Khrushchev. All of them are Brits. None of them used fake-Russian accents in that movie, however. Some of the American actors affected British accents as well. Led to some oddity when the Germans were primarily American actors, using American accents.
Fake Russian / int_d3b72b58	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_d3b72b58	featureConfidence	1.0
Enemy at the Gates	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_d3b72b58
Fake Russian / int_d4fe0152	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_d4fe0152	comment	On Oz, prisoner Nikolai Stanislofsky is played by American actor Philip Casnoff. His Russian accent when speaking English isn't terrible, but his attempts to insert (phonetically memorized) "Russian" into his speech are quite indecipherable.
Fake Russian / int_d4fe0152	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_d4fe0152	featureConfidence	1.0
Oz	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_d4fe0152
Fake Russian / int_d7626bdd	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_d7626bdd	comment	Deadpool (2016) depicts Colossus as a Husky Russkie instead of the non-specific nationality in the other movies... while played by a Serbian, Stefan Kapicic.
Fake Russian / int_d7626bdd	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_d7626bdd	featureConfidence	1.0
Deadpool (2016)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_d7626bdd
Fake Russian / int_d8a88a1f	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_d8a88a1f	comment	Firefox. (No, not the browser, a movie with Clint Eastwood.) "You have to think think think in (fake) Russian (fake) Russian (fake) Russian...." Justified, as Eastwood's character is supposed to be half-Russian, and was born and raised in the United States. His accent being a bit off is understandable. How he manages to fool Russian soldiers with his horrible accent is a different matter.
Fake Russian / int_d8a88a1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_d8a88a1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Firefox	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_d8a88a1f
Fake Russian / int_d8ba9a46	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_d8ba9a46	comment	In Dr. Strangelove, the Russian ambassador is played by British actor, Peter Bull. Though to be fair he's not really fooling any-one.
Fake Russian / int_d8ba9a46	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_d8ba9a46	featureConfidence	1.0
Dr. Strangelove	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_d8ba9a46
Fake Russian / int_dae94b19	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_dae94b19	comment	Exile, the Russian husky from Road Rovers, is voiced by a Black actor of Jamaican descent, Kevin Michael Richardson.
Fake Russian / int_dae94b19	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_dae94b19	featureConfidence	1.0
Road Rovers	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_dae94b19
Fake Russian / int_daecb6c9	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_daecb6c9	comment	The Hunt (2012) has Nadja played by Alexandra Rapaport, a Swedish actress. Her parents are Polish and Spanish.
Fake Russian / int_daecb6c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_daecb6c9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hunt (2012)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_daecb6c9
Fake Russian / int_dc5658a2	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_dc5658a2	comment	"The Russian" in The League of S.T.E.A.M..
Fake Russian / int_dc5658a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_dc5658a2	featureConfidence	1.0
The League of S.T.E.A.M. (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_dc5658a2
Fake Russian / int_ded9acbd	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ded9acbd	comment	No Time to Die: Kazan native Lyutsifer Safin is played by Rami Malek, an American of Coptic Egyptian descent. There's also Dr. Obruchev, who's played by Swedish-Danish actor David Dencik.
Fake Russian / int_ded9acbd	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_ded9acbd	featureConfidence	1.0
No Time to Die	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ded9acbd
Fake Russian / int_df72e458	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_df72e458	comment	The President's Analyst - Severn Darden plays a sympathetic KGB agent with an accent like a toned-down Mischa Auer (comic actor known for "Mad Russian" roles) - when we first see him he is speaking in Russian with a superior.
Fake Russian / int_df72e458	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_df72e458	featureConfidence	1.0
The President's Analyst	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_df72e458
Fake Russian / int_e030b382	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_e030b382	comment	PlanetSide 2 has the "Comrade" voicepack for Terran Republic soldiers, with a hilariously fake Russian accent with gratuitously rolled Rs; "I need a r-llll-ide!". The female version is slightly better, though still fake.
Fake Russian / int_e030b382	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_e030b382	featureConfidence	1.0
PlanetSide (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_e030b382
Fake Russian / int_e1ec0e62	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Played with in Grand Theft Auto IV. Some of the voice actors for The Mafiya aren't Russian, but Dimitri Rascalov's voice actor is Russian-Israeli.
Fake Russian / int_e1ec0e62	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_e1ec0e62	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_e1ec0e62
Fake Russian / int_e214a513	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_e214a513	comment	None of the voice actors in Anastasia are Russian, and their accents (as well as the attempts to speak the language) are wildly off the mark.
Fake Russian / int_e214a513	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_e214a513	featureConfidence	1.0
Anastasia	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_e214a513
Fake Russian / int_e4732abc	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_e4732abc	comment	Averted by Radek Zelenka in Stargate Atlantis. He was originally supposed to be Russian, but the producers changed the character's nationality to fit the actor's Czech origins. While actor David Nykl can speak Czech fluently, having been born in the country to Czech parents, he left at a very young age with his family (after the Prague Spring of 1968) and his actual accent is Canadian. That and it appears he's actually been a fake Russian in the past. Nevertheless, Nykl's Czech accent is pretty much spot-on.
Fake Russian / int_e4732abc	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_e4732abc	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate Atlantis	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_e4732abc
Fake Russian / int_e5964cdb	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_e5964cdb	comment	Many chess champions were described as "Russian," due to their countries being a part of the Soviet Union, even though they were: Latvian: Mikhail Tal (Mihails Tals) Armenian: Tigran Petrosian Azeri: Garry Kasparov (though ethnic Armenian through his mother and Russian Jewish through his father; he did retain Russian citizenship after the fall of the USSR, though, and presently is active in the Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin as chairman of the Human Rights Foundation)
Fake Russian / int_e5964cdb	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_e5964cdb	featureConfidence	1.0
Chess (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_e5964cdb
Fake Russian / int_e6c615e1	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_e6c615e1	comment	Little Odessa: in this story set in a Russian-Jewish community of Brighton Beach, everybody except for some minor characters is played by Americans or Brits. Due to the fact that these are Russian-Americans, the lack of Russian accent and presence of American accent in the Russian dialogue would be intentional for some characters.
Fake Russian / int_e6c615e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_e6c615e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Little Odessa	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_e6c615e1
Fake Russian / int_e74c488c	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_e74c488c	comment	In Mortdecai, Romanov, the leader of the Russian criminals, is played by Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen. One of his henchmen is played by an actor born in Ukraine.
Fake Russian / int_e74c488c	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_e74c488c	featureConfidence	1.0
Mortdecai	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_e74c488c
Fake Russian / int_ea4f62db	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ea4f62db	comment	Subverted in one episode of Family Guy, in which the character Meg speaks fluent Russian, due to being voiced by Ukrainian-born actress Mila Kunis.
Fake Russian / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	-0.3
Fake Russian / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ea4f62db
Fake Russian / int_ebc16974	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ebc16974	comment	Street Fighter IV has Peter Beckman as Zangief. Starting with Street Fighter X Tekken, he adds the slightly broken grammar to it.
Fake Russian / int_ebc16974	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_ebc16974	featureConfidence	1.0
Street Fighter IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ebc16974
Fake Russian / int_eedac02b	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_eedac02b	comment	Simon the sushi tout in Durarara!!. His voice actor doesn't even bother himself with imitating Russian accent — he just uses a generic foreign one, which (as it is Japan, after all) just happens to be English. He's actually a Russian of African descent since his parents were African Americans who settled in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. His dub voice actor does adopt a Russian accent for the role—except when reading inner monologue. When Simon and Izaya try to converse in Russian in the anime, both their actors mangled the language so much that it didn't even register as Russian to the native ear.
Fake Russian / int_eedac02b	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_eedac02b	featureConfidence	1.0
Durarara!!	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_eedac02b
Fake Russian / int_ef0486a3	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_ef0486a3	comment	Brunsk the Barbarian, an NPC from the Yorkton Gamer Guild's recorded Pathfinder Actual Play sessions at RPGMP3, has a... characteristic accent.
Fake Russian / int_ef0486a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_ef0486a3	featureConfidence	1.0
RPGMP3 (Podcast)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_ef0486a3
Fake Russian / int_f0214f0f	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_f0214f0f	comment	Room in Rome: Natasha Yarovenko is actually Ukrainian, but played a Russian here.
Fake Russian / int_f0214f0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_f0214f0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Room in Rome	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_f0214f0f
Fake Russian / int_f15f622e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_f15f622e	comment	The MacGyver episode "Gold Rush" had several supposedly Russian characters. MacGyver full stop, really.
Fake Russian / int_f15f622e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_f15f622e	featureConfidence	1.0
MacGyver (1985)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_f15f622e
Fake Russian / int_f16adb7	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_f16adb7	comment	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull features Cate Blanchett (Australian) as an Eastern Ukrainian Soviet, and she reportedly did pretty well - while gleefully Chewing the Scenery. Cate Blanchett also played a glamorous Russian dancer in the earlier (and much lesser known) film, The Man Who Cried. Averted with Spalko's Dragon Colonel Dovchenko, who is played by the Moscow-born Igor Jijikine and speaks Russian without an accent. The character's last name indicates Ukrainian origins, though.
Fake Russian / int_f16adb7	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_f16adb7	featureConfidence	1.0
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_f16adb7
Fake Russian / int_f260b53c	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_f260b53c	comment	Gold Through the Fire: Charles Hanson was American, but puts on a passable Russian accent and speaks a bit of Russian in the film playing Russian emigrant Pyotr.
Fake Russian / int_f260b53c	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_f260b53c	featureConfidence	1.0
Gold Through the Fire	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_f260b53c
Fake Russian / int_f66326e	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_f66326e	comment	In the 1956 American film adaptation of War and Peace, the Russian characters are played by actors of various nationalities: the British-Dutch Audrey Hepburn, the Americans Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer, the Italian Vittorio Gassman, the Austrian Oskar Homolka and the Swedish Anita Ekberg.
Fake Russian / int_f66326e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_f66326e	featureConfidence	1.0
War and Peace (1956)	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_f66326e
Fake Russian / int_f74b5f80	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_f74b5f80	comment	Averted in Babylon 5 where Claudia Christian uses her own (American) accent for the Russian character Susan Ivanova. The new president at the end of the fourth season was accused of it, but the actress was Polish and also using her own accent. Ivanova was particularly notable for the subtle (and realistic) hints of Russian syntax inserted in her lines - most notably, the line "This, to me, is not a good combination" - which say that, despite her accent, she is a native Russian speaker. (Although some of these might have simply been jokes, as many Russianesque word orderings are similar to those of Yiddish, and Ivanova is explicitly, if not observantly, Russian Jewish.)
Fake Russian / int_f74b5f80	featureApplicability	-1.0
Fake Russian / int_f74b5f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon 5	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_f74b5f80
Fake Russian / int_f99f6e4d	type	Fake Russian
Fake Russian / int_f99f6e4d	comment	The Sum of All Fears: Irish actor CiarÃ¡n Hinds as the President of the Russian Federation.
Fake Russian / int_f99f6e4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Russian / int_f99f6e4d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sum of All Fears	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_f99f6e4d

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Fake Russian	processingCategory2	Characters and Casting
Fake Russian	processingCategory2	Trivia
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Who Killed Captain Alex? / int_bc191379	type	Fake Russian
VanossGaming & Company (Lets Play) / int_bc191379	type	Fake Russian
GideonEmery	seeAlso	Fake Russian
Russian Language	seeAlso	Fake Russian
WarrenClarke	seeAlso	Fake Russian
Strike Back / int_bc191379	type	Fake Russian
Dirge of Cerberus (Video Game) / int_bc191379	type	Fake Russian
Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator (Video Game) / int_bc191379	type	Fake Russian
WWE (Wrestling) / int_bc191379	type	Fake Russian
fakerussian	sameAs	Fake Russian

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