Mads Mikkelsen
You may be familiar with Mads Mikkelsen from many successful movies/TV series. These movies range from Hannibal, Marvel’s Doctor Strange and a James Bond film. His career resume is quite impressive but they all have a lot of things in common: Mikkelsen is almost always playing the villian. The reason behind this is Mikkelsen does not mind playing the villian and accepts that he may have facial characteristics of a mainstream villian. Compared to other villians based on race, Mikkelsen has opportunities to change how he is portrayed. Other villians based purely on race, like Chinese, Japanese or Russian gang members/leaders, do not have such options. Mikkelsen is just the face of a character at the end of the day and he can escape this portrayal of him because he does get involved in films that he isn’t the main antagonist. His frequent appearance as a evil person may hinder his actual personalities and can affect his public image negatively.
This concept is very interesting. I see it all the time in the media where one actor or actress would play one role or many roles as the same character and then get identified by default by the kind of person that they play on TV. He is probably completely different than the roles he plays. Maybe he is caring and sentimental in real life, but because he is always portrayed as a villain, we often also attach that identity to the person instead of only the character.