Since 1970, the number of people who left their birth country to live elsewhere has tripled. Among those are stars from the world of cinema and TV that we know well. And more often than not, you could never guess the places they were born.
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Emma Watson is British but she was actually born in Paris, France.
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Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, and only settled with her family in the United States when she was 8 years old.
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Joaquin Phoenix was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, and went to live in Los Angeles at 5 years old with his family.
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Charlize Theron’s ancestry includes Dutch, French, and German roots, but she was actually born in Benoni, South Africa.
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Sebastian Stan was born in Constanța, Romania, but he also lived in Austria and the United States during his childhood.
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Lupita Nyong’o was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and raised in Kenya from the age of 3.
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Bruce Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, in 1955. 2 years later, his father relocated the family to New Jersey in the US.
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Hugo Weaving, who famously played Agent Smith in The Matrix films, was born in Ibadan, British Nigeria.
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Millie Bobby Brown was born to British parents in Marbella, Spain.
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Nina Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, but moved to Canada at a young age.
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Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but was raised in Toronto, Canada.
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