Poll: Wait...WHO are you and WHERE are you from?

Results of 1,207 votes:

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   Ben Kingsley

    

   (Russian Jew/Kenyan Indian from Britain) has played Russian (Lenin: The Train), Middle Eastern (Moses, House of Sand and Fog, Prince of Persia), European and American Jews (Anne Frank: The Whole Story…
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   Gary Oldman

    

   (British) has played Russian (Air Force One), German (Immortal Beloved), Romanian/Transylvanian (Dracula), American (True Romance, Leon), Dutch (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), Roman (Jesus)
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   Meryl Streep

    

   (American) has played Polish (Sophie's Choice), Italian (The Bridges of Madison County), Australian (A Cry in the Dark), Danish (Out of Africa), British (The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Iron Lady),…
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   Erick Avari

    

   (Indian) has played Greek (Daredevil), Alien (Stargate), Pakistani (The West Wing), Egyptian (The Mummy), Libyan (Seaquest), French (Nothing Lasts Forever), Afghani (The Beast of War) and more
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   Yul Brynner

    

   (Russian) has played American (Magnificent Seven), continental European (Death Rage, The Battle of Neretva, Triple Cross), Thai (The King and I), Mexican (Adios Sabata), Argentinian (The Light at the …
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   Peter Stormare

    

   (Swedish) has played Russian (Bad Boys II), American (The Lost World: Jurassic Park), German (The Big Lebowski), Italian (The Brothers Grimm), French (Chocolat), Danish (Ekko), Norwegian (Tatt av kvin…
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   Peter Sellers

    

   (British) played Indian (The Party and The Road to Hong Kong), Chinese (Murder by Death, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu), French (What's New, Pussycat?), German (Doctor Strangelove) and more
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   Anthony Quinn

    

   (Mexican and Irish born in Mexico, raised in the US) played Middle Eastern (Road to Morocco, Lawrence of Arabia, Barabbas), French (Lust for Life), Greek (Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek) and many m…
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   Cliff Curtis

    

   (Maori from New Zealand) has played Latin American (Blow, Training Day), Middle Eastern (Three Kings, The Insider), Spanish (The Fountain) Chechen (Traffic) and more
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    Omar Sharif

     

    (Lebanese/Egyptian) played Russian (Doctor Zhivago), Spaniard (Behold a Pale Horse), Mongol (Genghis Khan), Argentinian (Che!), American Jew (Funny Girl) and many, many more
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    Alec Guinness

     

    (British) played Arabian (Lawrence of Arabia), Russian (Doctor Zhivago), Indian (A Passage to India), Japanese (A Majority of One), German (Hitler: The Last Ten Days) and more
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    Alfred Molina

     

    (Brit of Spanish and Italian descent) has played Russian (Anna Karenina and Letter to Brezhnev), various Hispanic/Latino characters (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Perez Family, Frida, Maverick), Middle…
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    Peter Lorre

     

    (Austrian/Hungarian Jew) played Japanese (the Mr. Moto films), Chinese (They Met in Bombay), French (Mad Love, Passage to Marseilles), Russian (Background to Danger), German (in many movies set in WWI…
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    Jürgen Prochnow

     

    (German) has played Hungarian (The Fall), Russian (The Fourth War), Kazakhstani (Air Force One), Calladan (Dune), Scottish (Macbeth), American (In the Mouth of Madness), British (Robin Hood), French (…
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    Tony Shalhoub

     

    (Lebanese-American) has played Italian (Wings, Big Night), Cuban-American (Primary Colors), alien (Men in Black) and more
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    Rita Moreno

     

    (Puerto Rican) has played American (Singin' in the Rain), Myanmarese (The King and I), Indian (Father Knows Best), Filipino (Pagan Love Song), Jewish-American (Slums of Beverly Hills), Mexico (Casa de…
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    Mark Ivanir

     

    (Russian-born Israeli) has played Polish in Schindler's List, French (Walker Texas Ranger), German (Monk), Yugoslav (The Terminal), Greek (Dollhouse) and more