Bollywood has welcomed talent from around the world and we have seen a lot of foreigners working in the movies. However, there are a few Indian actors that have foreigner looks and are always mistakenly considered to be a foreigner. We are here to bust the myth. We have done the hard work and picked out 3 such actors.
Have a look at our specially curated list of these Indian actors who looks like foreigners but are Indian by birth.
Tom Alter
Tom Alter was Born in Mussoorie in present-day Uttarakhand,[8] Alter was the son of American Presbyterian missionaries of English, Scottish, and Swiss-German ancestry and lived for years in Mumbai and the Himalayan hill station of Landour. He was an Indian actor, born in India but of American descent and thus the looks. He worked in a lot of movies in Indian cinema, predominantly in Hindi films. He has received a lot of accolades for his work, such as Padma Shri by the Government of India. He died in 2017 at the age of 67 and we lost a star.
Luke Kenny
Luke has got his foreigner looks from his Irish grandfather. His Irish grandfather was originally from Burma, but moved to India after WWII and married Luke’s British grandmother. While Luke’s father was born in Delhi, he was born in Kolkata. His father was a musician. He is himself is not only an actor but also a film director, producer, music director, composer, and former VJ. He even started his career as a VJ. He became famous and came under the limelight after his movie Rock on. However, soon after that, he disappeared only to come back with a zombie movie. Recently, Luke came back into prominence for his role as the hired mercenary Malcolm Murad in the Netflix India series Sacred Games.
Gavin Packard
Another actor with Irish looks was Gavin Packard. He was very popular back in the days for playing villainous roles. Packard was born on 8 June 1964 in the city of Kalyan in Maharashtra state He was the eldest of the five children. His grandfather John Packard was an Irish American who had come to India in Bangalore as a member of the US Army and chose to settle there. This is where he got his looks from. He was a trainer to a couple of Bollywood actors. He died at the age of 47 in 2012. He has not only done a Hindi movie, but he had also appeared in a few Malayalam movies.
These were the Indian actors who looked liked foreigners but were born in India. Did you know about them or did you always thought of them as foreigners?