Charlize Theron, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Monster" (2003). She was born in South Africa.
The first foreign-born actor to win an Academy Award for acting was Emil Jannings. He won the very first Oscar for Best Actor at the very first Academy Awards. He was also the very first person to ever be presented with an Oscar Award as Best Actor was the first award presented that evening. He was born in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father. He won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929 for his work in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command.
Two-time Best Actor Oscar winner Tom Hanks was born in 1956.
Sidney Poitier, who also is an American citizen -- born on February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida.
Jose Ferrer was the 1st Puerto Rican actor to win an academy award for best actor in the movie Cyranno De Bergerac in 1937. Rita Moreno was the second Puerto Rican actress to win an Oscar in 1960 in the movie West Side Story. Benecio Del Toro was the third Puerto Rican actor to win an Oscar in 2003.
Jose Ferrer, born in Puerto Rico, won the Oscar as Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).
Jose Ferrer, who was born in Puerto Rico, won the 1950 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Cyrano de Bergerac."
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Ian Roberts - South African actor - was born in 1952.
Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a competitive Academy Award. He received the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
David James - South African actor - was born on 1972-10-28.
Sean Michael - South African actor - was born on 1969-12-24.
If you are talking about actor Oscar Vai To'elau Kightley, he was born in the Saomoan islands, which are off of New Zealand.