History Main / Brownface

** Creator/ArnoldVosloo (Afrikaner) as the Ancient Egyptian priest Imhotep and Creator/OdedFehr (Ashkenazi Jew) as the Medjai Ardeth Bay. While they were tanned enough to believably play Egyptians, they did stand out among other Egyptians who were played by local actors, such as the Pharaoh, who was played by a Moroccan Jew. However, the [[ForeignFanservice exotic beauty]] Anck-su-namun was actually played by a Venezuelan actress.
** The second movie had the English Alun Armstrong as the Egyptian Baltus Hafez. Creator/RachelWeisz, an Ashkenazi Jew otherwise known for playing many an EnglishRose, briefly donned ethnic garb to play the Pharaoh's daughter in flashbacks.

* In the 1970s sitcom ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', the British Army's Indian bearer Rangi Ram was played by a white British actor, Michael Bates, with his skin darkened by makeup. Bates was born in India, and had served in the Indian Army. The other Asian characters were played by Asian actors.

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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', a Hylian (i.e. white human) merchant man named Vilia is DisguisedInDrag so he can enter [[BedlahBabe Gerudo]] Town, where [[LadyLand men are forbidden from entering]]. To further help this disguise, he also sports brownface to make himself look more like a Gerudo, though he leaves a patch unbronzed around his mouth that he instead covers up with a veil.
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* Ashton Kutcher once darkened his face to play a stereotypical Indian man in a Pop Chips commercial, in an example of No 1 and 2. Ironically, if he had retained his actual skintone, he would have still been within the range of Northern Indian Phenotypes and not come across as a jerk.

* Creator/IronEyesCody, famous as "The Crying Indian", was an Italian-American who passed himself off as Native American in real life for decades.

* The Maharajah of Branda from ''Film/DoctorAtLarge'' is played by Martin Benson, a British actor covered in makeup.

* Creator/ChristopherLee, an English actor , played Gandhi's Pakistani opposite number, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in the film ''Jinnah'', and needed very little make-up to do so since Jinnah was fairly light-complexioned, and Lee did have more than a passing resemblance to him. Casting a foreigner, especially one known in his home culture for his villains, still caused a lot of controversy. An example of Type 3.

* Jacob Black in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies is played by Creator/TaylorLautner, who has only "distant" Native American ancestry. He does not use makeup. Most of the other werewolves are played by people with more prominent Native American heritage.

* While still blonde, Elsa Pataky (Spanish actress of Romanian-Hungarian descent on her mother's side) is more tanned and has her hair darker than usual in her first Hollywood role, the passenger Maria in ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane''. This is completely avoided in her later role as Brazilian police officer Elena Neves in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise.

* Later on in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' canon it became common practice for actors playing Vulcan characters to have an olive or bronzed make-up foundation (which makes some sense considering their home planet is very hot, arid and dry, common factors connected to skin tone). The original Vulcan, Creator/LeonardNimoy, was Jewish (in "[[{{YellowFace}} Chinese yellow]]" makeup) and many of the later Vulcan actors had a similar background and appearance. It wasn't until the black Tim Russ was cast as Tuvok in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' (the first time establishing a distinct ethnic diversity in the Vulcan population) that the make-up practice took hold and the very pale Jolene Blalock was darkened to play T'Pol on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.

* Westerns filmed in America during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood would often cast Jewish, Italian or even Japanese-American actors as Native Americans, most famously with Espera Oscar "Iron Eyes Cody" de Corti. This was parodied in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' where Creator/MelBrooks, a very light skinned Ashkenazi Jew, cast himself as a [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]-speaking Native American chief.

* Westerns filmed in America during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood would often cast Jewish, Italian or even Japanese-American actors as Native Americans, most famously with Espera Oscar "Iron Eyes Cody" de Corti. This was parodied in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' where the very light skinned Ashkenazi Jew Creator/MelBrooks cast himself as a [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]-speaking Native American chief.

* Westerns filmed in America during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood would often cast Jewish, Italian-American or even Japanese-American actors as Native Americans, most famously with Espera Oscar "Iron Eyes Cody" de Corti. This was parodied in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' where the very light skinned Ashkenazi Jew Creator/MelBrooks cast himself as a [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]-speaking Native American chief.

* Westerns filmed in America during the GoldenAgeOfHollywood would often cast Jewish, Italian-American or even Japanese-American actors as Native Americans, most famously with Espera Oscar "Iron Eyes Cody" de Corti. This was parodied in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' where the very light skinned Ashkenazi Jew Creator/MelBrooks cast himself as a [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]-speaking Native America chief.

White actors pretending to be members of ethnicities that typically have tan skin such as UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans (sometimes called "redface" in this case), [[LatinoIsBrown Latin Americans]], Polynesians, South and Southeast Asians, Middle Easterners, or North Africans. This is often done with makeup or tanning, and sometimes hair dye.