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It is well known that most of the Game of Thrones cast is European. By European, I count people that have at least one nationality being inside Europe in the large meaning (so I don't restrict to EU). Also, I mean to find actors who have a distinctively speaking role in the show. I tried to find them all from Wikipedia, but I could only name three:

  • Peter Dinklage (playing Tyrion Lannister)
  • Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo)
  • Pedro Pascal (Oberynn Martell)

I probably missed some, so who are all the actors in Game of Thrones who fulfil the following conditions?

  • Must have no European nationality: for instance, if an actor is both English and American, he's considered European; Iceland is not part of the EU, but still part of Europe, so Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is also considered as European.
  • Must have a distinctively speaking role. This question doesn't include actors who do not speak on screen unless the role is named, at least minor and meant to be silent; also people only shouting in unison shouldn't make the list.
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  • Among the dominant characters, I'm pretty sure that Peter Dinklage, Jason Momoa, and Pedro Pascal are the only non European actors in a heavily british cast. Unless you consider Lena Headey, who was born in Bermuda, which is still a British Overseas Territory – yondaime008 Jul 20 '16 at 10:08
  • @yondaime008 I believe that Lena Headey has the British nationality, so she's considered as European according to my criteria. – Olivier Grégoire Jul 20 '16 at 10:13
  • Alexander Siddig is Sudanese / British I think. – Paulie_D Jul 20 '16 at 10:21
  • Okay, so it seems this question is bad (two downvotes, no upvote). Can anyone tell me why before I delete it? Because according to the tour, it's still acceptable? – Olivier Grégoire Jul 20 '16 at 11:58
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    @OlivierGrégoire i didnt downvote, but i think this question is more suitable for http://movies.stackexchange.com/ – Vahx Jul 20 '16 at 12:21
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    @OlivierGrégoire Not my DV, but frankly I don't see the point of this. It's trivia knowledge at best. – BCdotWEB Jul 20 '16 at 12:24
  • Thanks. I don't mind the downvote itself. But I just don't understand how I can grasp how to make better questions by downvotes only. I don't have enough rep, but isn't there a close-vote for "other community" such as the one on Stack Overflow? – Olivier Grégoire Jul 20 '16 at 12:28
  • Close Votes are for Questions which are against asking policy. Your Question is not against the Policy (Although I always consider lists to be very close to too-broad). But just because a question is acceptable by established policy does not mean it's a Good question – Aegon Jul 20 '16 at 12:41
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    I did downvote. This seems to be similar to other questions that have come up in the past (such as http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89693/black-actors-in-game-of-thrones?rq=1) and just seems trivial. It's on topic, I just don't think it's a good question. – kuhl Jul 20 '16 at 12:53
  • also related to http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59521/why-are-most-of-the-main-characters-white-english-in-game-of-thrones?noredirect=1&lq=1, http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133018/why-does-everyone-in-game-of-thrones-have-a-british-accent?noredirect=1&lq=1 – kuhl Jul 20 '16 at 13:19
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    Questions like this that are about the production process, cast, behind-the-scenes etc of a TV show or film tend to be more positively received at http://movies.stackexchange.com This site tends to be better for in-depth within-the-fictional-world stuff. Both are on topic on both sites, it's just a matter of what the regulars tend to be most interested in. If it was my question, I might ask for it to be migrated to the other site – user56reinstatemonica8 Jul 20 '16 at 13:53
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    I didn't downvote but it seems a pointless question to me. How many of the cast are left-handed? How many speak more than one language? How many are over six feet tall? It seems similar to these other pointless questions. – TheMathemagician Jul 20 '16 at 14:58
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    I'm not super interested in the question, but it was good enough I came here to read it, and it's well written, so here's an upvote. – DCShannon Jul 20 '16 at 23:29
  • @TheMathemagician the difference between this question and those is, at least one person cares about the answer to this, which is why it's been asked, while no-one cares about the answer to those, which is why they haven't been asked. If you don't care, you can simply not click. – user56reinstatemonica8 Jul 23 '16 at 10:02

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Main Actors

Out of the main actors as listed here, Peter Dinklage (Tyrion) and Jason Momoa (Drogo) are both American. Peter Dinklage is of European descent, however I've disregarded the fact as that is mostly from European settlers. Jason Momoa is of Hawaiian and Native American descent, however his mother is also of German and Irish descent.

Some more actors

As noted above, Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell) is Chilean. Keisha Castle-Hughes (Obara Sand)1 is Australian. Dar Salim (Qotho) is also Iraqi (Bearing in mind he moved to Denmark as a refugee at age six). Alexander Siddig (Prince Doran Martell) was also born to a Sudanese father (albeit English mother) in Sudan. Joe Naufahu (Khal Moro)2 is from New Zealand, with Samoan, Tongan, Portuguese and German descent.

Note: These were most that I could find. I also found this image everyone in more than 5 episodes supposedly, don't know how authentic it is though.

1 Thanks to @DariM for pointing that one out!
2 Thanks to @Mooz for pointing that out!

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  • Thanks! As European, the "descent" are mostly a (North-American) thing. Also, I mentioned "nationality" and I don't see other meaning that the one usually meant. – Olivier Grégoire Jul 20 '16 at 10:16
  • The image is wrong on one count at least. The handmaiden shown to be from Nepal is born to a Nepalese Father but she holds Norwegian nationality. I think they got the British, American and Dutch characters absolutely right though. – Aegon Jul 20 '16 at 11:18
  • Ye, sorry I could only look at it on my phone, and I haven't exactly delved into the World of Ice and Fire enough to be able to know all the characters by sight yet. – Edlothiad Jul 20 '16 at 11:31
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    @Jvizzles Keshia Castle-Hughes is a New Zealander who was born in Australia – DariM Jul 21 '16 at 03:08
  • @DariM, I just went off of what Wikipedia has as her birth place and looked for any mentions of European Nationality. Guess I missed the New Zealander part. – Edlothiad Jul 21 '16 at 07:28
  • Joe Naufahu who plays Khal Moro (speaking role) is from New Zealand – Möoz Aug 25 '17 at 05:58
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Robin Arryn is played by a Brazilian actor (Lino Faccioli).

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