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English:

  • Averted in some areas:
    • Tracer, British, is played by the British Cara Theobold.
    • Widowmaker, French, is played by the French Chloe Hollings (who also played her in the French dub).
    • Genji and Hanzo, Japanese, are played by Gaku Space and Paul Nakauchi, a Japanese-born and Japanese-American respectively who are both fully fluent in the language.
    • Mei, Chinese, is played by the Chinese Zhang Yu (who also voiced her in the Mandarin Chinese dub).
    • D.Va, South Korean, is played by Korean-Japanese-American Charlet Chung.
    • Symmetra, Indian, is played by Anjali Bhimani, an American of Indian descent.
    • Soldier: 76, Reaper, and Cassidy are Americans voiced by Fred Tatasciore, Keith Ferguson, and Matthew Mercer, who naturally are all Americans themselves.
    • Ana, Egyptian, is played by Aysha Selim, an Egyptian from Cairo.
    • Moira, an Irishwoman, is voiced by Irish Genevieve O'Reilly.
    • Swedish actress Matilda Smedius plays the Swedish Brigitte Lindholm.
    • Baptiste, Haitian, is voiced by Haitian-Canadian Benz Antoine.
    • Kiriko, Japanese, is voiced by Sally Amaki who's a nisei note that's fluent in both languages.
    • Lifeweaver, Thai, is voiced by Bangkok native Phuwin Tangsakyuen.
  • Played straight in other instances:
    • Lúcio, a Black Brazilian, is voiced by Jonny Cruz, a Hispanic American.
    • The Swiss Mercy is voiced by Lucie Pohl, a German-American. While Switzerland's official language is Swiss German, that's a completely different language compared to High German.
    • The Egyptian Pharah is voiced by American Jen Cohn.
    • Keith Silverstein is an American as the Swedish Torbjörn.
    • Feodor Chin is an American of Chinese descent portraying the Nepalese (robot), Zenyatta.
    • German Reinhardt is voiced by the American Darin De Paul.
    • The Mexican Sombra is played by Colombian-born American Carolina Ravassa.
    • Roadhog and Junkrat are both Australians voiced by Americans, Josh Petersdorf and Chris Parson respectively. While the latter uses an applicable accent, the former doesn't bother at all.
    • Zarya, Russian, is played by the Ukrainian Dolya Gavanski.
    • British born Jamaican/St. Vincentian actress Cherrelle Skeete plays the Nigerian robot Orisa.
    • Dutch-based American of Sierra Leonean descent Sahr Ngaujah plays Nigerian Doomfist.
    • Half example regarding Jennifer Hale, who portrays Ashe, an American. She's Canadian but holds dual citizenship and currently lives in the United States.
    • Echo doesn't have a definite nationality (aside from Switzerland being her former base of operations), but Dr. Mina Liao is explicitly Singaporean. They're both voiced by Jeannie Bolet, a British actor of Chinese, Vietnamese and French descent.
    • John Tui is a New Zealander of Tongan descent, voices Mauga, a Samoan.
  • Zig-Zagged with Venture, who is Mexican-Canadian and is played by Mexico-born Valeria Rodriguez. Venture is identified primarily as a Canadian citizen, but appears to be ethnically Mexican, speaks Spanish, and has close family in Mexico.

International dubs:

  • In the Japanese dub, the Egyptian Pharah by the Korean-Japanese Romi Park, technically speaking. And for obvious reasons Hanzo and Genji's voice actors are native Japanese like their characters.
  • In the French version, the only characters whose voice actors correspond to their nationalities are Symmetra, Sombra and Widowmaker. Everyone else is this.
  • For very obvious reasons, the Mexican Sombra is the only character in the Latin-American Spanish dub voiced by someone who matches her nationality (Lourdes Arruti). The Nigerian Doomfist is voiced by Colombia-born Juan Carlos Tinoco.

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