Everyone's always surprised when they learn certain celebrities are Jewish, but what about the reverse? Has anybody ever been surprised to learn that actors you swore were Chosen People turned out to be gentiles?
Pic related, Alex Rocco is renowned for playing Jewish stereotypes on screen, but as the name suggests he was Italian - Catholic for most of his life but he converted to Ba'hai later in life.
When I first watched Some Like It Hot, I thought Jack Lemmon was Jewish and Tony Curtis wasn't, but it turned out Tony Curtis was originally named Bernard Schwartz and Jack Lemmon was as Irish as they come.
Oliver Diaz
Despite his last name, the fact he looks like Spielburg's brother, and that his most famous work is directing Fiddler on the Roof (arguably the most famous piece of Jewish fiction), Norman Jewison is in fact a white Protestant
I could have sworn Kristen Schaal was Jewish, was surprised to find out she wasn't. Made me like her without the Jew hangup. Was a good day.
Jonathan Moore
wtf, Levi is a jewish surname but it's actually his second name
Jaxson King
Don Adams, famous for playing Maxwell Smart in Get Smart and voicing Inspector Gadget in the cartoon, was born to a Jewish father and a Spanish mother; he was raised Catholic while his brother was raised Jewish.
He is amazing doing Greene here, but you can spot a specific moment in the "I TALKED TO BARZINI" scene in which a movement of the hand betrays he is italian. And Coppola paid particular attention in instructing him, but it happens. Not a bige deal, I have friends that start to move the hand like italians when interacting too long with then. I remember chinese and french and slavs doing the usual "what" movement, to my amusement.
In the OC; Ryan Atwood the Jew was played by Benjamin Mackenzie the goyim. Seth Cohen who technically was a goy (mother was not a Jew) is played by Adam Brody, a legit Jew. GOYCEPTION.
most ethnicities of the Mediterranean are more or less genetically identical
Brody Lopez
>When Woody Allen cast Jason Biggs, he was under the impression that Biggs was Jewish. During filming, Allen began talking to Biggs about the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah. Biggs did not know what to say and told Allen that he was in fact a Catholic. Allen said at the Venice Film Festival, "I saw him in that pie movie (American Pie (1999)) and I thought he was a Jew."
>Driver was born in San Diego, California, the son of Nancy Wright (née Sneedham), a paralegal, and Joe Douglas Driver. Driver was raised Baptist; he had a religious upbringing and sang in the choir at church.
This is a thread where jews try to hide their ethnics with some religious labels. Even saying that people with names like Schlomo Mc Levistein are not jewish, but x religion.