History Main / FakeNationality

* In ''Film/ShortCircuit'' and its sequel, Fisher Stevens (an American Jew) plays the Indian-American Ben in {{brownface}}.

* UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} and UsefulNotes/{{France}} have their own equivalent of LimeyGoesToHollywood, in that a ''lot'' of Belgian actors are cast in French films as French characters (overwhelmingly Walloons, who can speak French without accent), including the likes of Cécile de France, Creator/JeremieRenier, Creator/EmilieDequenne, Creator/BenoitPoelvoorde, Creator/DeborahFrancois, Bouli Lanners, Yolande Moreau etc.

* UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} and UsefulNotes/{{France}} have theor own equivalent of LimeyGoesToHollywood, in that a ''lot'' of Belgian actors are cast in French films as French characters (overwhelmingly Walloons, who can speak French without accent), including the likes of Cécile de France, Creator/JeremieRenier, Creator/EmilieDequenne, Creator/BenoitPoelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, Yolande Moreau etc.

*** Hermoine Baddeley and Robert Gillespie both play French.

** ''Film/CarryOnHenry'': Creator/JoanSims, Julian Orchard, Creator/PeterGilmore, Creator/GertanKlauber, and David Davenport all play French characters, while the Italian Conte Filippo di Pisa is played by the British Alan Curtis.

* Spectacularly averted in ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines''. Nearly every character in this cast of {{Funny Foreigner}}s is played by an actor or actress of their own nationality. Stuart Whitman plays the spirited CombatPragmatist American pilot Orvil, James Fox is the stuffy British eccentric Richard, Alberto Sordi is the devout and boisterous Italian Catholic, Gert Fröbe is the efficiency-obsessed Prussian, Jean-Pierre Cassel is the suave Frenchman more interested in wooing beautiful women than actually competing, and Yujiro Ishihara plays... [[HiddenDepths an intelligent and articulate Japanese pilot with a love of fine scotch whiskey]].

** ''Film/CarryOnSpying'': Polish-born John Bluthal plays the Viennese head waiter.

* ''Film/CarryOnRegardless'': British-born Creator/BettyMarsden plays UsefulNotes/MataHari.

* Used ''a lot'' in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute''. The entire production used four voice actors: Creator/CharlieAdler (Cobra Commander [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades for the first time]], Flint, Gung-Ho, Stalker, and Hard Master) Creator/EricBauza (Storm Shadow, Destro, and Tunnel Rat), Creator/SteveBlum (Duke, Ripcord, Roadblock, Zartan, Wild Bill, and Doc), and Creator/GreyDeLisle (Scarlett, Baroness, Dail Tone, and Cover Girl). Both Alder and Blum are Jewish-American, Bauza is Filipino-Canadian, and [=DeLisle=] is an American of mixed Dutch/French/Irish/Mexican/Norwegian descent and outside of {{Gender Flip}}ping Dial Tone and ''Resolute'' following ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''[='=]s lead of {{Race Lift}}ing Ripcord into an African-American, the characters still retain the nationalities and races of most other incarnations (Destro being Scottish; Baroness being Russian; Doc, Roadblock, and Stalker being African-American; Tunnel Rat being Chinese-American; Zartan being Australian[[note]]despite one file card saying he's French[[/note]]; and Storm Shadow and Hard Master being Japanese).

* It's probably not surprising that something as {{Camp}} as ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' has this as well. It features the English Creator/TimCurry as Russian, the Welsh Jonathan Pryce as English, the Swedish Peter Stormare also as a Russian, and the Native Hawaiian-Chinese-English Kelly Hu as Japanese. Averted by Japanese-American Creator/GeorgeTakei playing the Japanese Emperor. This is just fine, however, since the setting is non-stop HamToHamCombat, and Tim Curry's Russian accent is ''hilarious''.

** New Zealand-born Australian in ''Film/Evil Angels'' (AKA ''A Cry in the Dark'').

** [[FakeAmerican American]] - ''Pushing Tin'', ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'', ''[[Film/TheGift2000 The Gift]]'', ''Film/{{Bandits}}'', ''Film/TheShippingNews'', ''Film/TheMissing'', ''Film/TheAviator'', ''Film/{{Babel}}'', ''Film/ImNotThere'', ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'', ''Film/{{Hanna}}'', ''Film/BlueJasmine'', ''Knight of Cups'', ''Film/{{Carol}}'', ''Film/{{Truth}}'', ''Film/{{Tar}}''

** Australian in ''A Cry in the Dark''.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' featured a Finnish character... using a [[FakeRussian Russian]] accent (which sounds nothing like Finnish). The Israeli-British Brian George also plays the Pakistani restaurant owner Babu Bhat.

** Manuel, who's from Barcelona, is played by a German-born Jewish British actor.
** The "American" in the "Waldorf Salad" episode was a Canadian actor that made a career of being the token North American on British shows.