{"id":745268,"date":"2025-02-25T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=745268"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:32:26","slug":"7-celebrities-were-convinced-are-actually-lebanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/745268\/7-celebrities-were-convinced-are-actually-lebanese\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Celebrities We&#8217;re Convinced Are Actually Lebanese"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>One thing Lebanese people are good at is spotting other Lebanese people. Sometimes, you just look at a celebrity and feel like they&#8217;re Lebanese (even when they&#8217;re not). Here are 8 celebrities we&#8217;re convinced are just like us.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p><em>P.S. if you want a list of celebrities who are ACTUALLY Lebanese, then click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/728811\/random-hollywood-actors-you-didnt-know-had-lebanese-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-tate-mcrae\">1. Tate McRae<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745271\" style=\"width:532px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-attends-the-brit-awards-2024-at-the-o2-arena-on-news-photo-1710255013.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>You can&#8217;t convince us this girl didn&#8217;t go to AUB to study Marketing or Public Relations. She&#8217;s hanging out by West Hall, getting her coffee from Latte Art, and posting stories at Em Sherif Deli almost every weekend.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>Something about her <em>screams<\/em> Lebanese, but alas, she is of Scottish and German descent.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-timothee-chalamet\">2. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/timothee-chalamet-sag-aftra-inc-GettyImages-2201033028-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745274\" style=\"width:530px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/timothee-chalamet-sag-aftra-inc-GettyImages-2201033028-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/timothee-chalamet-sag-aftra-inc-GettyImages-2201033028-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/timothee-chalamet-sag-aftra-inc-GettyImages-2201033028-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/timothee-chalamet-sag-aftra-inc-GettyImages-2201033028-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/timothee-chalamet-sag-aftra-inc-GettyImages-2201033028-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/timothee-chalamet-sag-aftra-inc-GettyImages-2201033028.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>We don&#8217;t care that he has a French-sounding name, Timoth\u00e9e is your standard Achrafieh kid. His dad is probably an advisor to some important politician.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>He looks like he graduated from Lyc\u00e9e and studied abroad in Paris or Lyon. He also always posts about attending football games, so he always has his favorite football team scarf with him.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-lisa-rinna\">3. Lisa Rinna<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745284\" style=\"width:412px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75-400x600.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75-167x250.jpeg 167w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75-600x900.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/75.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>We all know a Lisa Rinna. In fact, we all know or have seen at least 20 Lisa Rinnas on almost every night out in Beirut. You&#8217;ll find her at Paloma in Gemmayze sipping on wine or <em>barely<\/em> touching her grilled halloumi salad.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>She will also swear that she knows the best places&#8230;then proceed to recommend the most popular, overpriced spots in Beirut. <\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-dua-lipa\">4. Dua Lipa<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BYmRjM2RlZjItMDZhNS00MTM2LThiZDUtZDQxMmVjYjQ2ZmM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745280\" style=\"width:402px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BYmRjM2RlZjItMDZhNS00MTM2LThiZDUtZDQxMmVjYjQ2ZmM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BYmRjM2RlZjItMDZhNS00MTM2LThiZDUtZDQxMmVjYjQ2ZmM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BYmRjM2RlZjItMDZhNS00MTM2LThiZDUtZDQxMmVjYjQ2ZmM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BYmRjM2RlZjItMDZhNS00MTM2LThiZDUtZDQxMmVjYjQ2ZmM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BYmRjM2RlZjItMDZhNS00MTM2LThiZDUtZDQxMmVjYjQ2ZmM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BYmRjM2RlZjItMDZhNS00MTM2LThiZDUtZDQxMmVjYjQ2ZmM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>Dua Lipa being Balkan makes her culturally similar to Lebanese people, so this one was pretty easy to imagine. She&#8217;s a very talkative, in-your-face LAU-er who paints her tote bags herself and thought she could start her own tote bag painting business&#8230;but it didn&#8217;t work out.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>Anyway, she probably works in e-commerce now.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-early-2000s-al-pacino\">5. Early 2000s Al Pacino<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Al_Pacino.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Al_Pacino.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Al_Pacino-175x250.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>That one day3a uncle who grew out his hair, always wears a chain, REEKS of cologne (specifically Dior Sauvage), and only speaks in English with an American accent because he spent some time abroad.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>He&#8217;s the cool and &#8220;open-minded&#8221; uncle, but he lowkey judges everyone. Al Pacino&#8217;s parents are Sicilian Italian, and we all know that the Italians are the Lebanese people of Europe. That kinda explains why he looks Lebanese.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-mark-ruffalo\">6. Mark Ruffalo<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745291\" style=\"width:346px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018-396x600.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018-165x250.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018-1013x1536.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018-600x910.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mark-Ruffalo-2018.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>Mark Ruffalo is that one Arabic teacher in middle\/high school who taught you <em>2i3rab<\/em> and tried to get you to appreciate Arab lyricism, but you just wouldn&#8217;t get it. It kinda hurt his feelings, but at least he got you through Brevet and Terminale.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>He looks like he made everyone stand up and sing &#8220;Saba7 El Kheirrrrrrrrrrrr&#8221; when he entered the class. We appreciate you, Estez Hussein. <\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-7-the-beckhams\">7. The Beckhams<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745294\" style=\"width:461px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b-250x250.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__brides__proteus__595b295cec147364a0686f78__11-53d1dd23955b46b1b4d04a72fdc5be4b.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>If David Beckham didn&#8217;t have any tattoos, he would be the stock image of &#8220;stereotypical Lebanese man&#8221;. Besides, his face is plastered on the window of every old barbershop in Lebanon. <\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>Victoria Beckham also looks like she has beef with Lisa Rinna. They were besties at one point and posted each other almost every weekend&#8230;but something happened. No one knows what it is, but someone 7eke 3al tene.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-honorable-mention-luigi-mangione\">Honorable mention: Luigi Mangione<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0x0.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0x0.jpg.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0x0.jpg-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0x0.jpg-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>Not exactly a celebrity but&#8230;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>The criminal that the entire internet is simping for, Luigi Mangione is of Italian descent so it makes sense that he would pass as Lebanese. He&#8217;s an LAU or USEK graduate who studied marketing and is now doing DJ gigs in Beirut. He&#8217;s a pretty chill guy.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(255,245,203) 0%,rgb(182,227,212) 100%,rgb(51,167,181) 100%);font-size:18px\"><strong>Are there any more celebrities you think look Lebanese? 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