20 Actor Nationalities You've Been Getting Wrong All Your Life

2. Mila Kunis

"Oh, I know this one! I actually do! I made a point of looking it up when I was browsing pictures of Mila Kunis online for, uh, research purposes... she's Russian or something, right?" Sure, "Research Purposes..." The beautiful Mila Kunis was actually born in Chernivtsi, in the Ukraine, and moved to the United States when she was seven-years-old. At this time, she didn't speak a word of English, and had to get to grips because... well, she had no other choice. Lots of people forget that Mila isn't American, though, be she hardly has a trace of "foreignness" in her voice. And she's Meg.

1. Tommy Wiseau

"Oh, man. Oh, man, oh, man. Tommy Wiseau, that alien creature of a man who helmed what is arguably the best bad movie ever made. What gives with this guy? What planet did he hail from? He's American, I'm sure, but his accent sounds as though he was brought up on the edge of a Cajan swamp... in France. Okay, I give up: where in the world is this f*cking guy from?" Uh, To Be Totally Honest With You... Nobody actually knows. Not even Tommy himself, apparently, who said he was born in New Orleans, Louisiana (but with that accent?) before he moved to France for a while. But then The Room actor Greg Sestero claims that Tommy told him once that he might have been born in Czechoslovakia, before moving to France to work as a dishwasher named "Pierre." You can't make this stuff up. Like this article? Let us know in the comments section below.
 
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