Fake Mixed Race: Difference between revisions

** 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.

** This would make the very dark-skinned Wayne Brady's character half-white.

* A classic example is ''[[Kung Fu]]'', where the son of a Chinese mother and white American father is played by David Carradine. He was originally planned to be full Chinese and played by [[Bruce Lee]], but [[Executive Meddling|the suits]] didn't think the audience could relate to an Asian actor.