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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 01:25 AM
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What celebrity doesn't look like they fit any existing ethnicity?
For example, if you didn't know Michael Jackson's history, and you saw him for the first time today, you wouldn't be able to figure out what the hell his background is.

What I don't mean are the people who could be a lot of things, like Lou Diamond Phillips, Anthony Quinn or Rosario Dawson, who can pass as half the ethnicities on earth.

I mean Christopher Walken. He has played Sicilian, Irish, every stripe of European ethnicity, and he never seems to look right in any of them.

Or Leonard Nimoy. I think his parents were Russian Jews, and he even played Golda Meir's husband in a TV movie, but he "looked" out of place and awkward.

Does anyone else have celebrities like this or am I crazy?
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 02:59 AM
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1. Shannon Elizabeth and Eva Longoria.
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Kickin_Donkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 08:18 AM
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2. Nicole Richie ...
Rae Dawn Chong
Carrot Top
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 08:27 AM
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3. Maya Rudolph...EOM
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 08:38 AM
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4. Julia Louis Dreyfus.
Remember the episode where she and her date could not figure out eachothers ethnicity? She could play a lot of different ethnicities.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 08:49 AM
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5. Jackie Chan could play any roll...
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 09:10 AM
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6. Mariah Carey
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cedahlia Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:47 PM
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7. Vin Diesel
I believe his production company is called "One Race" or something like that...it's supposed to be a send up to his multi-etnic background (which I don't think he has ever officially given specifics on.)

He played an Italian-American guy in Boiler Room, and I believe he has played a few African-American roles as well (?) And IIRC, he starred in and directed a short film called Multi-facial, which was again, I believe, referencing his multi-ethnic background.

And I know there's a lot of Vin-haters out there, but I like him! There! I said it. :hide:
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:49 PM
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8. Dean Cain
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