Examples of casting in the role of a foreign ethnicity, and yet passing well in that ethnicity

[Incal]

Jeanette Goldstein as private Vasquez:

[Ayetooey]

Robert De niro is only 25% Italian, with his other 75% being Irish, English and other NW Euro groups, but he looks fully Italian-American to me.

[Latinus]

Catherine Zeta Jones, Welsh actress, playing Elena De La Vega, a criolla, in the Zorro movies.


Nobody in Latam would see her face as "gringa looking". Totally passable/convinceable as white Latina

[Gredos]

Spanish characters

Mandy Patinkin as Iñigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)




Charlton Heston as Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid)




Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, and Liam Neeson as Jesuits (The Mission)




Michael Fassbender as Aguilar De Algarrobo (Assassin’s Creed)




Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali (Midnight In Paris)



Russell Crowe as Maximo Meridio (Gladiator)




Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga (The man with the golden gun)




Hugh Jackman as the Captain Tomas Verde (The Fountain)




Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso (Surviving Picasso)




Sigourney weaver as Queen Isabella, Armand Assante, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin Dunn, Michael Wincott, etc. (1492: Conquest of paradise)




Errol Flynn as Don Juan de Maraña (Adventures of Don Juan)



Natalie Portman as Inés (Goya's Ghosts)



Viggo Mortensen (Alatriste)

[Incal]

Franco Nero as Sergei Kowalski "The Polack":

[Peter Parker]

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[Peter Parker]

Alfred Molina (British actor of Italian/Spanish descent) as a Peruvian character (Satipo) in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981):

[PlattitüdenPaule]

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas and Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes in 300.