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** Denzel Washington as [[Malcolm X]], who was 25% white, (his mother was of mixed race, due to ''her'' mother's rape by a white man) and far lighter-skinned than Washington is.
* In [[Kill Bill]], Sophie Fatale is stated to be half-Japanese, half-French but is played by the very white Julie Dreyfus.
* In the second ''[[
* Juni Cortez in [[Spy Kids]] is played by the Jewish/German Daryl Sabara, who actually looks even whiter than his ancestry implies.
** Not so bizarre considering his mother is obviously very Nordic white and his father is a Spaniard, ie European.
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* [[Richard Gere]] plays a half-Japanese man in [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s ''Rhapsody in August''.
* One of the common complaints about the ''[[Billy Jack]]'' film series is the half-Indian title character is played by the VERY white Tom Laughlin. The films try to justify it by having all the characters recognize him as an Indian, but that just makes it all the more laughable.
* The title character of ''[[
* Armando Munoz, aka Darwin, is half-Mexican and half-African American. In ''[[X
* Inverted in ''[[Street Fighter:
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of the drama ''[[
* An episode of [[Law and Order]] had a woman accused of killing her ex's new wife because she was going to reveal that the man was black (he'd been passing for white for decades). The prosecution contended that the woman's motive was racism, while the defense claimed that she panicked over the possible ramifications for her son, who would now be "revealed" to be black. It might have had more impact had the actor playing the boy not been so obviously white.
* An episode of ''[[
** Another features a "black" woman who has "passed" as white for the last 60 years. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376716/ Take] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231942/ a look] at the actresses that portray her.
* Subverted in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', when Barney meets the father of his black half-brother and thinks the guy is his father as well, and he's just never realised he was mixed race.
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