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***Baker's Dozen: Foreigners playing iconic roles/people from other countries Part 2*** (Closed)


The idea was foreigners playing iconic fictional or actual characters from other countries.

Results from first game;

1. Kevin Costner - Played Robin Hood, iconic English hero.
2. John Lithgow as Winston Churchill in The Crown
3. Henry Cavill as Superman / The Witcher
4. Daniel Day Lewis - Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln 2012
5. British Vivien Leigh playing southern belle from bestselling book made into movie, Gone with the Wind (1939)
6. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
7. Clark Gable - Played Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty
8. Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler - Schindler's List 1993
9. Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart
10. James Mason - Erwin Rommel - The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
11. Tom Hiddleston - as Hank Williams, I Saw The Light
12. Kristen Stewart playing Princess Di in Spencer
13. John Adams (HBO miniseries) - Stephen Dillane as Thomas Jefferson, Tom Wilkinson as Benjamin Franklin, Rufus Sewell as Alexander Hamilton

New Game;

1. Daniel Day Lewis - Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

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Wasn't Tom an American playing an American?

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Oh yeah... Oops!

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No worries, I wasn't sure if I missed something about his character.

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1. Daniel Day Lewis - Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Daniel Davis - Sherlock Holmes in two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes

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Moriarty.

Great Pick I loved his performance

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oops, you're right. Moriarty. Data was Holmes.

He totally fooled me! I really did think he was British :)
I love those two episodes.

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Me too I couldn’t believe it either!

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1. Daniel Day Lewis - Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Daniel Davis - Sherlock Holmes in two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
3. Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (2006)

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1. Daniel Day Lewis - Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Daniel Davis - Sherlock Holmes in two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
3. Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (2006)
4. Mick Jagger - Ned Kelly - Ned Kelly (1970)

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1. Daniel Day Lewis - Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Daniel Davis - Professor Moriarty in two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
3. Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (2006)
4. Mick Jagger - Ned Kelly - Ned Kelly (1970)
5. Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

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? Both American, no?

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Colonel Parker was born in the Netherlands may never have gained US citizenship.

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Cool. Didn’t know that (obviously)

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People speculate that Elvis never toured internationally because Parker discouraged it as he (Parker) would be exposed as a non-citizen.

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1. Daniel Day Lewis - Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Daniel Davis - Professor Moriarty in two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
3. Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (2006)
4. Mick Jagger - Ned Kelly - Ned Kelly (1970)
5. Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
6. tom hanks - tom parker
7. Elizabeth Taylor - Cleopatra (1963)

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1. Daniel Day Lewis - Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Daniel Davis - Professor Moriarty in two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
3. Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (2006)
4. Mick Jagger - Ned Kelly - Ned Kelly (1970)
5. Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
6. tom hanks - tom parker
7. Elizabeth Taylor - Cleopatra (1963)
8. Anthony Hopkins - Richard Nixon - Nixon (1996)

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