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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2019, 10:36:22 PM »
Just remembered another famous person with dual nationality: Mike Myers.

"Though Myers is Canadian by birth, his parents are natives of Liverpool, England, and Myers holds dual nationality. Although the [Austin Powers] films parody the plots and characters of 1960s spy movies and the Swinging London fashion scene of the era, the humour is influenced by Myers's British heritage, particularly the Carry On films and the comedic works of Benny Hill and Peter Sellers, the latter of whom Myers is a self confessed fan (his favourite films being the Bond spoof Casino Royale and The Party).

'Austin Powers is everything I watched (on TV in the late sixties). My parents were from Liverpool, and there's no one more English than an Englishman who no longer lives there. Every molecule of British culture that came across the Atlantic was tasted and worshipped.'"
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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2021, 06:12:27 PM »
Although 6' 8" (2.03m) basketballer Elizabeth Cambage plays internationally for her mother's country of Australia, since her father was Nigerian, she could claim dual nationality. I have no idea if she has done so.
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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2022, 02:01:57 AM »
Turns out that Dune star Timothée Chalamet is bilingual in English and French, because he has dual citizenship with the United States of America and with France.

And all this time I thought he was just being fancy :D
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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2022, 06:43:12 AM »
British-Indian actress Katrina Kaif.  :)

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TheZookie007

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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2022, 03:35:39 PM »
British-Indian actress Katrina Kaif.  :)
Since her mother is of Swiss & British descent, Katrina may potentially have Swiss nationality as well. But for now, her Indian and her UK nationality is confirmed.

Fun fact: Katrina has six sisters and one brother, and they all attended her wedding to fellow Bollywood actor Vicky Kaushal in December 2021.
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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2022, 10:35:40 AM »
Turns out that Dune star Timothée Chalamet is bilingual in English and French, because he has dual citizenship with the United States of America and with France.

And all this time I thought he was just being fancy :D

Today I found out that he has a sister, who is also an actor: Pauline Chalamet. She was in Pete Davidson's film The King of Staten Island, and is one of the stars of the HBO Max original comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls, created by Mindy Kaling.
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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2023, 09:26:09 PM »
Watching The Vicar of Dibley and thought that the choirmaster looked familiar.

It's Simon McBurney, who also played Atlee, the director of MI6, in the film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015).

His father, Charles McBurney, was an American archaeologist and academic of Scottish descent.

His mother, Anne Francis Edmondstone (née Charles), was a British secretary of English, Scottish and Irish ancestry.

They were distant cousins who met during World War II.
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Re: People with dual citizenship
« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2023, 01:13:01 PM »
Director Christopher Nolan, although born in London, England, has a mother from the United States of America. So he has dual nationality through parentage. No idea if he has taken the Yanks up on it though.

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Yes, he does hold both USA and UK citizenship, having grown up on both sides of the Atlantic in his father's and his mother's countries.
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