Actors and Actresses from Countries outside MDL

Please add  Actors and Actresses who  are from countries outside the ones listen on MDL: but take part in projects found on MDL. 

In other words actors and actresses that DO NOT have  Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, The Philippines, Thailand or Japan listed as their nationality


NOTE! Actors and actresses who have South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and or Japan  listed as their nationality on MDL will be deleted from this list. 


You may wan to check out this list by HipHop 123

And these by xxmai 
Asians with Non-MDL Nationality:
Male = https://mydramalist.com/list/1dOP5GJ4
Female = https://mydramalist.com/list/45GbwD2L

Western Foreigners on MDL:
Male = https://mydramalist.com/list/3bgl6PA4
Female = https://mydramalist.com/list/47aqybAL

81 People Love 34 Voters Report
  • Choi  Woo Shik

    1. Choi Woo Shik

    Canadian
    1,191 points by 12 voters
    Choi Woo Shik is a Korean-Canadian actor. Choi pursued acting full-time, and supporting roles followed in television series such as “Rooftop Prince” and “Special Affairs Team TEN”. In 2014, Choi starred in ...more
  • Ahn Hyo Seop

    2. Ahn Hyo Seop

    Canadian
    990 points by 10 voters
    Ahn Hyo Seop (also known as Paul Ahn) is a Canadian actor based in South Korea under Starhaus Entertainment. He was born in Seoul, South Korea. When he was seven years old, ...more
  • Ma Dong Seok

    3. Ma Dong Seok

    South Korean
    981 points by 10 voters
    Ma Dong Seok (born Lee Dong Seok) is a Korean-American actor under Big Punch Entertainment . Under his westernized real name Don Lee and before he turned to acting, he was once ...more
  • Michelle Yeoh

    4. Michelle Yeoh

    Malaysian
    867 points by 9 voters
    Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian actress and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s. Born in ...more
  • Steven Yeun

    5. Steven Yeun

    American
    778 points by 8 voters
    Steven Yeun (Born: Yeun Sang Yeop) is a Korean American actor best known for portraying Glenn Rhee in the US TV series, The Walking Dead. Steven Yeun was born in Seoul, South ...more
  • Dylan Sprouse

    6. Dylan Sprouse

    American
    489 points by 5 voters
    Dylan Sprouse is an American actor and entrepreneur. He is the twin brother of Cole Sprouse and is known for his role as Zack Martin on the Disney Channel series The Suite ...more
  • Harry Shum Jr.

    7. Harry Shum Jr.

    American
    485 points by 5 voters
    Harry Shum, Jr is a Costa Rican-American. Shum was born in Limón, Costa Rica, the son of Chinese immigrants. His mother is a native of Hong Kong and his father is from ...more
  • Crystal Liu

    8. Crystal Liu

    American
    382 points by 4 voters
    Liu Yi Fei (Born: An Feng), also known as Crystal Liu, is a Chinese-American actress, singer, and model. She is widely known as Fairy Sister in the entertainment industry. She was named ...more
  • Daniel Henney

    9. Daniel Henney

    American
    377 points by 4 voters
    Daniel Phillip Henney is an American actor and model under Echo Global Group, known for ´X-Men Origins: Wolverine’’. Henney was born to a Korean mother and an Irish - American father. He ...more
  • Samuel

    10. Samuel

    American
    298 points by 3 voters
    Samuel Kim Arredondo (born January 17, 2002; formerly known as Punch), referred to as Samuel, born in Los Angeles, California is a Mexican-Korean. Kim Samuel is an American born singer based in ...more
  • Mackenyu

    11. Mackenyu

    American
    295 points by 3 voters
    Mackenyu Maeda, known simply as Mackenyu, is a Japanese-American actor born in Los Angeles and is the son of a famous Japanese actor, producer, director, and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended ...more
  • Matt Damon

    12. Matt Damon

    American
    291 points by 3 voters
    Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He is ranked among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Damon ...more
  • Luke Ishikawa Plowden

    13. Luke Ishikawa Plowden

    American
    290 points by 3 voters
    Luke Ishikawa Plowden is a Japanese-American model and actor based in Thailand. He grew up in the USA, graduating from State College Area High School in Pennsylvania before going on to graduate ...more
  • Tilda Swinton

    14. Tilda Swinton

    British
    285 points by 3 voters
    Katherine Matilda Swinton is a British actress.
  • Chris Evans

    15. Chris Evans

    American
    280 points by 3 voters
    Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre.
  • Melvin Sia

    16. Melvin Sia

    Malaysian
    198 points by 2 voters
    Melvin Sia is a Malaysian Chinese actor, model and singer. He won the Best Actor Award at the inaugural Golden Awards for his role in "Romantic Delicacies". He also won Most Popular ...more
  • Stephanie Lee

    17. Stephanie Lee

    American
    194 points by 2 voters
    Stephanie Lee is a Korean American model and actress. Born on September 14, 1993, in Boston, Massachusetts, she began modeling in the United States after being inspired by the reality modeling competition ...more
  • Olga Kurylenko

    18. Olga Kurylenko

    French
    192 points by 2 voters
    Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko is a French actress and model. Of Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian ancestry, Kurylenko was born and raised in Ukraine; she was discovered as a model at age 13 and ...more
  • Willem Dafoe

    19. Willem Dafoe

    American
    192 points by 2 voters
    Willem Dafoe is an American actor.
  • Henry Lau

    20. Henry Lau

    Canadian
    191 points by 2 voters
    Henry is the multi-talented Canadian (of Taiwanese / Hong Kongese descent) singer-songwriter, rapper, producer, and actor from Toronto. He is multi-lingual and boasts varying degrees of fluency in English (his mother tongue) ...more
  • Clara Lee

    21. Clara Lee

    British
    190 points by 2 voters
    Lee Sung Min, born in Switzerland, is a British model and actress, based in South Korea, represented by EYAGI Entertainment. Lee Sung Min made her entertainment debut under her birth name in ...more
  • Milla Jovovich

    22. Milla Jovovich

    American
    189 points by 2 voters
    Milica Bogdanovna "Milla" Jovovich is an American actress, model and musicianHer starring roles in numerous science fiction and action films led the music channel VH1 to deem her the "reigning queen of ...more
  • Anupam Tripathi

    23. Anupam Tripathi

    Indian
    187 points by 2 voters
    Anupam Tripathi is an Indian actor based in South Korea. He graduated from Korea National University for Arts. He has appeared in various South Korean television series and films. Many of his ...more
  • Bryan Wong

    24. Bryan Wong

    Singaporean
    185 points by 2 voters
    Bryan Wong is a Singaporean actor and television host. He is also known as one of the Hosting Kings (综艺阿哥) of MediaCorp and frequently co-hosts with Kym Ng. Wong began his career ...more
  • Brad Pitt

    25. Brad Pitt

    American
    184 points by 2 voters
    Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award for his acting, in addition to another Academy Award, ...more
  • Keanu Reeves

    26. Keanu Reeves

    Canadian
    182 points by 2 voters
    Keanu Charles Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 2, 1964, the son of Patricia (née Taylor), a costume designer and performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr. His mother is English, ...more
  • Christopher Lee

    27. Christopher Lee

    Malaysian
    182 points by 2 voters
    Christopher Lee Meng Soon is a Malaysian actor, host, and singer managed under Catwalk Production House. Based in Singapore, Lee started as a model before becoming an actor under TCS (now MediaCorp). ...more
  • Jake Gyllenhaal

    28. Jake Gyllenhaal

    American
    179 points by 2 voters
    Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor.
  • Jung Ryeo Won

    29. Jung Ryeo Won

    Australian
    100 points by 1 voters
    Jung Ryeo Won is a is a Korean-Australian actress under H& Entertainment. Jung Ryeo Won was born in Seoul but emigrated to Australia in 1992 with her family. She has Australian citizenship. ...more
  • Jet Li

    30. Jet Li

    Singaporean
    100 points by 1 voters
    Li Lian Jie (born April 26, 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese-born Singaporean martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was ...more
  • Tiffany Young

    31. Tiffany Young

    American
    100 points by 1 voters
    Stephanie Young Hwang (Korean name: Hwang Mi Young), known by the stage name Tiffany, is a Korean-American singer, TV presenter, promotional model, rapper, dancer, actress., and member of both the South Korean ...more
  • Charlotte Kate Fox

    32. Charlotte Kate Fox

    American
    100 points by 1 voters
    Fox was born Charlotte Elizabeth Demo Varney in Santa Fe, New Mexico to her parents, Cynthia Demo and Edward Latin Varney III, on August 14, 1985. Edward (Ted) was in the construction ...more
  • Pierce Brosnan

    33. Pierce Brosnan

    British
    100 points by 1 voters
    Pierce Brosnan is an Irish actor, film producer and activist.
  • Joey Chua

    34. Joey Chua

    Malaysian
    99 points by 1 voters
    Chua Zhuo Yi (English name: Joey) is a Malaysian-Chinese actress, singer, model, and makeup artist. She is previously married to her boyfriend Ivan Soh in 2016 but they got divorced in 2019. ...more
  • Juliette Binoche

    35. Juliette Binoche

    French
    99 points by 1 voters
    Juliette Binoche is an French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 60 feature films, been the recipient of numerous international awards, and has appeared on stage and in ...more
  • Pedro Pascal

    36. Pedro Pascal

    American
    99 points by 1 voters
    Pedro Pascal is a Chilean-American actor. He is known for playing Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, Javier Peña in the Netflix biographical crime ...more
  • Samuel Kamanguza

    37. Samuel Kamanguza

    Ethiopian
    99 points by 1 voters
    Samuel Kamanguza is a Beijing-based actor from Uganda.
  • Thomas Kretschmann

    38. Thomas Kretschmann

    German
    99 points by 1 voters
    Thomas Kretschmann was born in East Germany, but he currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Before he became an actor, he trained to become an Olympic swimmer. He has three children, Nicolas, Stella, ...more
  • Mike Colter

    39. Mike Colter

    American
    99 points by 1 voters
    Mike Colter is an American actor best known for his role as Luke Cage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the streaming television series Luke Cage (2016-2018), The Defenders and Jessica ...more
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers

    40. Jonathan Rhys Meyers

    British
    98 points by 1 voters
    Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Irish actor, model and musician.
  • Maeda Gordon

    41. Maeda Gordon

    American
    98 points by 1 voters
    Maeda Gordon is an American Japanese actor and model. He was born into a family of actors: his parents are actors Sonny Chiba and Chiba Tamami, and his older brother is actor ...more
  • Sebastian Castro

    42. Sebastian Castro

    American
    98 points by 1 voters
    Sebastian Castro is an American actor. Born in Long Island, New York, of Peruvian and Japanese descent. At age 17, Castro was disowned by his parents for being gay. He financed his ...more
  • Christian Bale

    43. Christian Bale

    British
    98 points by 1 voters
    Christian Bale is a Welsh actor. The family lived in different countries throughout Bale's childhood, including England, Portugal, and the United States. He is an excellent horseman, an avid reader and has ...more
  • Chan Bin Hwang

    44. Chan Bin Hwang

    French
    97 points by 1 voters
    Thanks to the influence of his Korean stepmother who married his French father, Deporte learned Korean in France from the age of five, and is fluent Korean. His debut was Tamra the ...more
  • Ellis Gage

    45. Ellis Gage

    American
    97 points by 1 voters
    Ellis Gage is an American actor and vocalist who's been working in theatre since the age of ten. He graduated from St. Mark’s School in 2017 where he is credited with single-handedly ...more
  • Terris Brown

    46. Terris Brown

    American
    95 points by 1 voters
    Terris Brown is an American singer and actor based in South Korea. He is with a Trinidadian background. He first gained the attention of the Korean public back in 2016 in a ...more
  • Anna Sawai

    47. Anna Sawai

    New Zealander
    95 points by 1 voters
    Anna Sawai (アンナ サワイ, 澤井杏奈, Sawai Anna, born June 11, 1992) is a Japanese–New Zealander actress, dancer and singer. She began her film career in 2009 in a supporting role in the martial arts film Ninja Assassin, and ...more
  • Carson Allen

    48. Carson Allen

    American
    94 points by 1 voters
    Carson Allen is an American Instagram star, model, and actress. Born in Florida, USA , Carson moved to Korea at the age of 14 and has been living there since. She is ...more
  • Alfred Sng

    49. Alfred Sng

    Singaporean
    94 points by 1 voters
    Alfred Sng is a Singaporean male singer, actor and model. He graduated from the Graphic Design Department of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Lin Min Chen

    50. Lin Min Chen

    Malaysian
    93 points by 1 voters
  • Joakim

    51. Joakim

    Swedish
    93 points by 1 voters
    Joakim Björn Sörensen is a Swedish actor, TV personality, and is also somewhat considered as an ambassador for Sweden-Korea relations. Despite working in Korea in TV, Bjorn originally graduated with a degree ...more
  • Qiu Feng Ze

    52. Qiu Feng Ze

    Singaporean
    92 points by 1 voters
    Qiu Feng Ze (born Qiu Yin Long) is a Singaporean singer and actor based in Taiwan. He is a member of Taiwanese five-piece boy group W0LF(S) (五堅情), as well as its sub-unit ...more
  • Gina Alice Redlinger

    53. Gina Alice Redlinger

    German
    91 points by 1 voters
    Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Gina Redlinger had her first piano lesson when she was just four years old and hasn’t looked back since. By age eight, she was receiving tuition from popular ...more
  • Ike Nwala

    54. Ike Nwala

    American
    91 points by 1 voters
    While in college as a Japanese video shop worker in Seattle's Chinatown, he was shocked by Junji Takada's early morning bazooka corner of the comedy programm Tensai Takeshi no Genki ga Deru ...more
  • Natasha Liu Bordizzo

    55. Natasha Liu Bordizzo

    Australian
    90 points by 1 voters
    Natasha Liu Bordizzo is an Australian actress. She was born in Sydney. Natasha deferred a university degree to pursue work in film. She also holds a strong background in sports - particularly ...more
  • Aloysius Pang

    56. Aloysius Pang

    Singaporean
    89 points by 1 voters
    Aloysius Pang was a Singaporean actor managed under NoonTalk Media, best known for his involvement in multiple Mediacorp dramas. He died due to serious crush injuries sustained from a military accident while on Operationally ...more
  • Ben Yeo

    57. Ben Yeo

    Singaporean
    88 points by 1 voters
    Ben Yeo is a Singaporean host, actor, and celebrity chef. As a “Daddy Chef,” Ben has released his cookbooks, sharing healthy recipes for children. He has his own cooking series on YouTube ...more
  • JuJu Chan

    58. JuJu Chan

    American
    86 points by 1 voters
    Born in Hong Kong, JuJu Chan Szeto (aka JuJu Chan) is a Chinese American actress, best known for her fight action. She graduated with a Masters degree from the prestigious New York ...more
  • Germaine De Leon

    59. Germaine De Leon

    American
    82 points by 1 voters
    Germaine was born in San Francisco, CA. He moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, and with a friend's encouragement began studying with acting teacher Lorrie Hull. This quickly lead to him ...more
  • Eugenia Yuen

    60. Eugenia Yuen

    American
    81 points by 1 voters
    Eugenia Yuen is the daughter of Hong Kong star, Cheng Pei Pei. She started out her career not as an actress, but as a champion rhythmic gymnast for the U.S. Olympic Team. ...more
  • Mark Dacascos

    61. Mark Dacascos

    American
    80 points by 1 voters
    Mark Dacascos is an actor, director, martial artist, and television personality. Whether seen on the big screen or small, playing the good guy or the bad, Mark has been making audience stand ...more
  • Jiang Coco

    62. Jiang Coco

    British
    79 points by 1 voters
    Coco Chiang, born in Changzhou, Jiangsu as Yi Chiang, is a Chinese model and actress. Although born in China, she has British citizenship.
  • Emily Chan

    63. Emily Chan

    Malaysian
    78 points by 1 voters
  • Steven Dasz

    64. Steven Dasz

    Argentinean
    76 points by 1 voters
    Esteban Adrian Rilo Lacquaniti (stage name: Steven Dasz) is an Argentinian actor based in Asia. He started Tae Kwon Do training when he was ten years old; in 1992, Dasz initiated his ...more
  • Desmond Tan

    65. Desmond Tan

    Singaporean
    75 points by 1 voters
    Desmond Tan is a Singaporean actor and singer who started his acting career after joining Star Search 2007, a Singapore TV reality talent competition. Desmond won his first Rocket award at the ...more
  • Tay Ping Hui

    66. Tay Ping Hui

    Singaporean
    74 points by 1 voters
    Zheng Bin Hui, born as Tay Ping Hui in Singapore, is a Singaporean actor, host, singer and director. He graduated from the National University of Singapore. He was a general manager of ...more
  • Shaun Chen

    67. Shaun Chen

    Malaysian
    73 points by 1 voters
    Shaun Chen is a Singapore-based actor from Malaysia. He started his career hosting for the hit variety programme, City Beat. His great hosting performance earned him a role in the TV series ...more
  • Li Nan Xing

    68. Li Nan Xing

    Singaporean
    72 points by 1 voters
    Li Nan Xing is an Actor born in Singapore. Li is also a Film Director and Film Producer. His English name is Jonathan Lee Nam Heng and may be the best-known male ...more
  • Lee Long Shi

    69. Lee Long Shi

    Singaporean
    71 points by 1 voters
    Lee Long Shi, nicknamed Long, is an actor and former Muay Thai trainer. Born in Singapore to a Singaporean father and a Thai mother, Long graduated from the School of Management (Aviation ...more
  • Paulyn Sun

    70. Paulyn Sun

    Singaporean
    70 points by 1 voters
    She is the Miss Singapore 1994.
  • Fann Wong

    71. Fann Wong

    Singaporean
    69 points by 1 voters
    Fann Wong is a Singaporean model, actress, and singer. She became the first actress to win both Best Actress and Best Newcomer Star Awards (1995). She also became the first actress from ...more
  • Florence Tan

    72. Florence Tan

    Malaysian
    68 points by 1 voters
    Florence Tan is a Malaysian actress based in Singapore. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1997 to 2006 and managed by Lafeng Entertainment but continues to film on an ad-hoc ...more
  • Jeanette  Aw

    73. Jeanette Aw

    Singaporean
    67 points by 1 voters
    Jeanette Aw Ee Ping, better known by her stage name Ou Xuan, is a Singaporean actress and author. She has been a full-time Mediacorp artist for 15 years and is managed by ...more
  • Yvonne Lim

    74. Yvonne Lim

    Singaporean
    66 points by 1 voters
    Yvonne Lim is a Singaporean actress. She also recorded and released a solo Mandarin album in the year 2000. Since September 7, 2014, he has been married to ex-Taiwanese boy band B.A.D ...more
  • Michelle Saram

    75. Michelle Saram

    Singaporean
    65 points by 1 voters
    Michelle Saram is a singer and actress from Singapore. She is notable for being one of the very few celebrities of Chindian descent, her father is Indian and her mother is Chinese. ...more
  • Jun Vũ

    76. Jun Vũ

    Vietnamese
    64 points by 1 voters
    Vũ Phương Anh, popularly known as Jun Vũ, is a Vietnamese actress and model born in Hanoi, Vietnam. She moved to Thailand with her family when she was 15 years old. While ...more
  • Vu Nguyen Viet Linh

    77. Vu Nguyen Viet Linh

    Vietnamese
    63 points by 1 voters
    Viet Linh is a Vietnamese actress.
  • Jiyun Kim Huong

    78. Jiyun Kim Huong

    Vietnamese
    62 points by 1 voters
    Jiyun Kim Huong is a professional Vietnamese interpreter, actress, and TV personality based in South Korea. She is fluent in Vietnamese and Korean. Originally from Hanoi, Vietnam, she had came to South ...more
  • Chi Pu

    79. Chi Pu

    Vietnamese
    61 points by 1 voters
    Nguyễn Thùy Chi known by her stage name Chi Pu, is a Vietnamese actress and pop singer. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Hoang Yen Chibi

    80. Hoang Yen Chibi

    Vietnamese
    60 points by 1 voters
    Nguyễn Hoàng Yến, popularly known as Hoàng Yến Chibi, is a Vietnamese singer, actress, voice actress, and model born in Hanoi, Vietnam. From the age of 3 years old, she was already ...more
  • Julien Kang

    81. Julien Kang

    Canadian
    0 points by 0 voters
    Julien Kang, born in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (overseas collectivity of France), is a South Korean based model, actor, and broadcaster. His father is Korean while his mother is French. His brother is the mixed ...more

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