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* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': Takehiro Hira, a fully Japanese actor, plays Hiroshi Randa, the son of a white man and Japanese woman.

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* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': Takehiro Hira, a fully Japanese actor, plays Hiroshi Randa, the son of a white man and Japanese woman. His children Cate (Creator/AnnaSawai) and Kentaro (Ren Watanabe) who would both be a quarter white, are also played by actors of fully Japanese descent.
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* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': Takehiro Hira, a fully Japanese actor, plays Hiroshi Randa, the son of a white man and Japanese woman.
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* The film version of ''Film/TheCrow'' has Creator/MichaelWincott (white) as Top Dollar and Bai Ling (Asian) as his half-sister Myca. Lampshaded in dialogue:

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* The film version of ''Film/TheCrow'' ''Film/TheCrow1994'' has Creator/MichaelWincott (white) as Top Dollar and Bai Ling (Asian) as his half-sister Myca. Lampshaded in dialogue:
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* Kim Cattrall plays Gracie Law in ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'', who is (at least according to Lo Pan's magical test) a Chinese woman with green eyes. Given her interest in Chinatown and references to it being her people, it seems very likely she was intended to be a woman of mixed European and Chinese descent (or possibly born in Hong Kong to white parents). Kim Cattrall does not have any such ancestry.



* White Canadian Creator/AlysonCourt played the Chinese-American Jubilation Lee in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. The 2023 revival of this show, ''X-Men '97'', is averting this at Court's behest, so Jubilee will feature a new voice actor, and Court herself will play a new character.

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** Of the child actresses who played Hera, only the infant actress was Eurasian (Hera being born to the white human Helo and Asian Cylon Athena). The others were Caucasian and Latina. Actually, Helo's actor, Creator/TahmohPenikett, is part Native American, but that's not readily apparent aside from his first name.

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** Of the child actresses who played Hera, only the infant actress was Eurasian (Hera being having been born to the Helo, whose actor Creator/TahmohPenikett is half white human Helo half Native American, and Asian Cylon Athena).Athena, whose actress Creator/GracePark is Asian). The others were Caucasian and Latina. Actually, Helo's actor, Creator/TahmohPenikett, is part Native American, but that's not readily apparent aside from his first name.
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* In [[Film/TheKingOfFighters2010 the film adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', Kyo Kusanagi is played by the whitest guy ever while having a Japanese father and being called half-breed by Iori Yagami.

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* In [[Film/TheKingOfFighters2010 the film adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', Kyo Kusanagi is played by the whitest guy ever Creator/SeanFaris (a white man) while having a Japanese father and being called half-breed by Iori Yagami.
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* Fellow Capcom hero [[VideoGame/LostPlanet Wayne Holden]] goes in the opposite direction, being modelled after Korean actor Lee Byung-hun, despite being of mixed American and Japanese ancestry.

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* Fellow Capcom hero [[VideoGame/LostPlanet Wayne Holden]] goes in the opposite direction, being modelled Holden of ''VideoGame/LostPlanet'' is modeled after Korean actor Lee Byung-hun, despite being of mixed American and Japanese ancestry.
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[-[[caption-width-right:350:Caucasian Creator/JenniferJones (left) as Eurasian Han Suyin (right)]]-]

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[-[[caption-width-right:350:Caucasian Creator/JenniferJones (left) as Eurasian Han Suyin (right)]]-](right).]]-]
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** Of the child actresses who played Hera, only the infant actress was Eurasian (Hera being born to the white human Helo and Asian Cylon Athena). Actually, Helo's actor, Creator/TahmohPenikett, is part Native American, but that's not readily apparent aside from his first name.

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** Of the child actresses who played Hera, only the infant actress was Eurasian (Hera being born to the white human Helo and Asian Cylon Athena). The others were Caucasian and Latina. Actually, Helo's actor, Creator/TahmohPenikett, is part Native American, but that's not readily apparent aside from his first name.
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** The white actor Jamie Bamber plays Captain Lee Adama, the son of Commander Bill Adama, who is played by the Latino actor Edward James Olmos. Lee's mother Carolanne is played by a blonde white actress. To make Lee and Bill look more alike, Jamie Bamber's naturally sandy hair is dyed brown and EJO wears blue contact lenses over his naturally brown eyes.
** As per above, Commander Adama is played by Latino actor Edward James Olmos. In the prequel series ''Series/{{Caprica}}'', his father Joseph is played by the Latino actor Esai Morales and his mother Evelyn is played by the white actress Creator/TerylRothery. Which explains the blue eyes.
** Of the child actresses who played Hera, only the infant actress was Eurasian (Hera being born to the white human Helo and Asian Cylon Athena).

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** The white actor Jamie Bamber Creator/JamieBamber plays Captain Lee Adama, the son of Commander Bill Adama, who is played by the Latino actor Edward James Olmos.Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos. Lee's mother Carolanne is played by a blonde white actress. To make Lee and Bill look more alike, Jamie Bamber's naturally sandy hair is dyed brown and EJO wears blue contact lenses over his naturally brown eyes.
** As per above, Commander Adama is played by Latino actor Edward James Olmos. In the prequel series ''Series/{{Caprica}}'', his father Joseph is played by the Latino actor Esai Morales Creator/EsaiMorales and his mother Evelyn is played by the white actress Creator/TerylRothery. Which explains the blue eyes.
** Of the child actresses who played Hera, only the infant actress was Eurasian (Hera being born to the white human Helo and Asian Cylon Athena). Actually, Helo's actor, Creator/TahmohPenikett, is part Native American, but that's not readily apparent aside from his first name.
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* ''Series/TheConfessionsOfFrannieLangton'': Karla Simone-Spence is of fully black ancestry, while Frannie's biracial.
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* ''Film/{{Nobody}}'': Araya Mengesha plays Pavel, who's half-Ethiopian, half-Russian. Though Mengesha is ''half'' Ethiopian, he's also half-Eritrean, so only of black African ancestry.
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In real life, mixed-race individuals can be anywhere along the range of colors of any of the races in their makeup, up to and including the lightest and darkest extremes of skin and hair color (though this is rare). This nonetheless attracts criticism because RealityIsUnrealistic.

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In real life, mixed-race individuals can theoretically be anywhere along the range of colors of any of the races in their makeup, up to and including the lightest and darkest extremes of skin and hair color (though - though this is rare).extremely rare, and even then you usually can still infer the fact that they have mixed ancestry from their facial features. This nonetheless attracts criticism because RealityIsUnrealistic.
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* ''Film/{{Wasabi}}'': Ryōko Hirosue was born from Japanese parents, and she plays the Japanese-French ''hāfu'' (mixed-race) Yumi.

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* ''Film/{{Wasabi}}'': Ryōko Hirosue was born from Japanese parents, and she plays the Japanese-French ''hāfu'' (mixed-race) ("half-Japanese") Yumi.
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* ''Film/{{Wasabi}}'': Ryōko Hirosue was born from Japanese parents, and she plays the Japanese-French ''hāfu'' (mixed-race) Yumi.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameII'', fully white Creator/HaleyJoelOsment voices the half-white, half-Romani Zephyr.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameII'', fully white Creator/HaleyJoelOsment voices the half-white, half-Romani Zephyr. Said character also resembles a miniature version of his (white) father, with almost nothing from his Romani mother's features.

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