History Main / FakeMixedRace

* In KillBill, Sophie Fatale is stated to be half-Japanese, half-French but is played by the very white Julie Dreyfus.

* On ''{{Scrubs}}'', Carla is Dominican and the actress who played her has medium-brown skin and features that suggest some African ancestry. Her brother appeared in a few episodes, and he was played by a light-skinned actor of Puerto Rican descent who has no apparent African ancestry.

* TheLostWorld casts Jeff Goldblum's daughter with an actress who might not have a single white man anywhere in her family tree. Lampshaded in the film where another character mentions "Um... do they look related to you?" Then again, she might be adopted.

** I have two cousins who are both sisters. One looks white, and has blond hair and green eyes. The other looks like a dark skinned latina. They both identify themselves as Black Creoles. The former took more after her father. It happens.

* This happens in both sound film versions of the Jerome Kern musical, ''Show Boat''; the supposedly "miscegenated" Julie is played by the unmistakeably white Helen Morgan in 1936 and Ava Gardner in 1952 (though Lena Horne did sing one of the part's songs in ''Till The Clouds Roll By'').
** Ava Gardner was ''not'' "unmistakeably white." Read about it [[http://ethnicelebs.com/ava-gardner here]].

** I have two cousins who are both sisters. One has blond hair and green eyes. The other looks like a dark skinned latina. They both identify themselves as Black Creoles. One of them took more after her mother. It happens.

* TheMovie of ''TheHumanStain'' had main character Coleman Silk (who is mostly black with some white ancestry, and appears white) played by Anthony Hopkins (who just looks...white). In flashbacks, the young Coleman is played by Wentworth Miller (who actually ''is'' mixed-race and can "pass" for white).

* TheLostWorld casts Jeff Goldblum's daughter with an actress who might not have a single white man anywhere in her family tree.
** Lampshaded in the film where another character mentions "Um...do they look related to you?"
** Then again, she might be adopted.

** Ava Gardner was ''not'' "unmistakeably white." Read about it here.

* A classic example is ''KungFu'', where the titular son of a Chinese mother and white American father is played by David Carradine. He was originally planned to be full Chinese and played by BruceLee, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the suits]] didn't think the audience could relate to an Asian actor...

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* In season 7 of ''{{That 70s Show}}'' it was revealed that Hyde's real father is a black man. Hyde was played by the completely white Danny Masterson (although the character ''did'' have extremely curly hair).

* Admirably averted in ''OneFalseMove''. The black woman who accompanies the two murderers on much of their rampage has a troubled past involving Bill Paxton's small-town sheriff. He is secretly the father of her young child. Moreover, she alludes to herself as having been fathered by a white man as well, saying that she "looks kind of white." Casting is actually quite realistic--both her and her son are brown-skinned, but fair enough for this to be plausible. Moreover, this film took the high road and didn't try to use the "illegitimate black child" angle as a source of melodrama or a principal driving force for the plot.

* In season 7 of ''{{That 70s Show}}'' it was revealed that Hyde's real father is a black man. Hyde was played by the completely white Danny Masterson.

* An episode of the drama ''WithoutATrace'' featured the disappearance of a college student. It was revealed in the show's climax that the lily-white young man was... secretly the product of his white mother's romantic affair with a black man. An appallingly stupid handwave occurs when the mother confesses this to her son. Outraged, he voices the viewer's natural sentiment that this is not possible. The mother responds "It happens. You take after me."

* A classic example is ''KungFu'', where the titular son of a Chinese mother and white American father is played by David Carradine. He was originally planned to be full Chinese and played by BruceLee, but hey, [[ExecutiveMeddling the suits]] didn't think the audience could relate to an Asian actor...

* An episode of the drama ''WithoutATrace'' featured the disappearance of a college student. It was revealed in the show's climax that the lily-white young man was...secretly the product of his white mother's romantic affair with a black man. An appallingly stupid handwave occurs when the mother confesses this to her son. Outraged, he voices the viewer's natural sentiment that this is not possible. The mother responds "It happens. You take after me."

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* This happens in both sound film versions of the Jerome Kern musical, ''Show Boat''; the supposedly "miscegenated" Julie is played by the unmistakeably white Helen Morgan in 1936 and Ava Gardner in 1952 (though Lena Horne did sing one of the part's songs in ''Till The Clouds Roll By'').