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Favourite performance from an actor where the part they played was that of a foreign national?

Asked by ucme (50047points) November 17th, 2011

Morgan Freeman playing Mandela, Meryl Streep doing Maggie Thatcher, that kind of thing.

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rebbel's avatar

Brad Pitt as Mickey O’Neil an Irish Gypsy (source).
And another vid.

Mat74UK's avatar

@rebbel – totally agree with you there! ”Caravan fo me Ma!”

ddude1116's avatar

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi in Gandhi.
Peter O’Toole as TE Lawrence in Lawrence Of Arabia.

GladysMensch's avatar

Pete Postlethwaite as Kobayashi in The Usual Suspects

tom_g's avatar

@rebbel – Great choice. And of course, the fight scene that ends with The Stranglers’ “Golden Brown”.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau

Rheto_Ric's avatar

Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil.
Even more ridiculous, Mickey Rooney plays a Japanese man in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

filmfann's avatar

Peter Sellers as Chance, the Gardener

rebbel's avatar

@filmfann Thanks man, I loved that movie but couldn’t remember the name of it, or the actor who starred in it, but now I do!

MilkyWay's avatar

Laurence Fishburne as Dr.Larabee in Akeelah and the Bee.

Kardamom's avatar

@ddude1116 Really did pick the best one, Ben Kingsley in Gandhi.

Contenders:

Alan Rickman in Something the Lord Made

Scarlett Johannsson in Girl With the Peal Earring

filmfann's avatar

@rebbel Being There is a great, great movie.

fundevogel's avatar

I’m rather fond of Craig Ferguson playing a Scottish viking. It’s got me all confused that he’s playing a Scottish Scot in Brave.

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