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In the second photo remindes me of Giorgos Samaras.
So Greek?
That actor is from the Hobbit movies. So I'm gonna say Dwarf of the Lonely Mountain (Erebor).
Could fit very well as Italian.
Aiden Turner...Irish actor...and in many pictures he looks southeastern European if not Near Eastern to me.
Only in certain pictures would I have guessed British Isles.
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This is Welsh Tom Ellis doing the part of a Spanish Barman in Mirandas Sitcom on BBC :
Watching a BBC show is why I started wondering about Aiden Turner. I confess...I like romantic costume dramas. In this case, they've just started showing "Poldark" on our local public broadcasting station.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jslnf
I don't think this specific kind of phenotype is particularly common anywhere in the British Isles, but it exists, and a good number of British actors seem to be drawn from that pool, at least the ones cast in fantasy and romance.
The casts of things like crime dramas seem to me to be more "typically" British, if a foreigner can even make such a judgment. I'm thinking of shows like "A Touch of Frost" or "Midsommer Murders", or "Endeavor".
Watching a BBC show is why I started wondering about Aiden Turner. I confess...I like romantic costume dramas. In this case, they've just started showing "Poldark" on our local public broadcasting station.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jslnf
I don't think this specific kind of phenotype is particularly common anywhere in the British Isles, but it exists, and a good number of British actors seem to be drawn from that pool, at least the ones cast in fantasy and romance.
The casts of things like crime dramas seem to me to be more "typically" British, if a foreigner can even make such a judgment. I'm thinking of shows like "A Touch of Frost" or "Midsommer Murders", or "Endeavor".
you are correct but as a popular believe dark haired folks seem to be more common in Ireland and Wales and there were some myths about it too.
Welsh Tom Jones
I don't think this specific kind of phenotype is particularly common anywhere in the British Isles, but it exists
As a Scot this doesn't surprise me. When on holiday in Southern Europe I usually get mistaken for Spanish/Italian and peole are surprised when they find I am Scottish. Most Scots and Irish peole I know are dark and although we have more red heads than most countries they are still only a small percentage of the population. My ancestors came from various Hebridean Islands and if you look at old photos of the Islanders it would be easy to assume they were Italian/Greek/Spanish.
According to the British anthropologists of the 19th-20th century (Beddoe, Thurnam, Huxley, Phillips, etc.) these "darker" (compared to the more "Nordic" types) phenotypes are actually quite common, specially in the western parts of the British Isles.
Anthropologists have pointed out that the Highlands (and also some of the large urban areas of the south, like Glasgow) is the area of Scotland where these "darker" types are more common, so I suppose they also included the islands to the west (Orkney Islands to the north would not qualify; this island is consistently said by anthropologists to be in fact the lightest pigmented area of Scotland.)
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