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Posted on 5/7/14 at 1:15 pm to Feral
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I remember being surprised that Liam Neeson was British
Isn't he Irish?
Posted on 5/7/14 at 1:34 pm to Backinthe615
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Idris Elba
Didn't know he was British til season 3 of the Wire.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 1:43 pm to ipodking
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Olivia Cooke from Bates Motel
The guy who plays Norman Bates is british as well, never would have known except I saw some of the after show one time.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 1:46 pm to BOSCEAUX
Jesus, some of you guys need to watch more TV and movies. 
Posted on 5/7/14 at 2:24 pm to BOSCEAUX
For me it's James McAvoy (Scottish) because for years I only knew him from the movie Wanted.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 2:58 pm to Tha Herg
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Both the actors who play Jamie and Tyrion Lanister in GOT are Americans who speak in respectable British accents.
While I know The Nanny is not held in high regard around the MTV Board, when it was broadcast in the UK, people from Britain used to tell/write Charles Shaughnessey (Mr. Sheffield) that his British accent was "fake" and he should try to model his after Daniel Davis' (Niles the butler) accent.
Shaughnessy was native to England (born in London)...Davis was an American (born in Arkansas).
Posted on 5/7/14 at 3:01 pm to udtiger
Roger Moore. His accent is so bad I thought it was a fake.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 4:08 pm to BOSCEAUX
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For me it's Mark Strong.
say what he does plenty of british roles
Posted on 5/7/14 at 4:22 pm to StraightCashHomey21
definitely christian bale
he's in american psycho, american hustle, plays one of the most american superheroes of all time in Batman
he's in american psycho, american hustle, plays one of the most american superheroes of all time in Batman
Posted on 5/7/14 at 5:39 pm to StraightCashHomey21
Robert Downey. Yeah, but I knew Strong was from watching him in the first Sherlock Holmes. And a lot of you keep going Idris Elba, but the guy that surprised me is the "hot" actor right now from 12 years a slave. Chiwetel Ejiofor!
Posted on 5/7/14 at 6:02 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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Posted by StraightCashHomey21 quote: For me it's Mark Strong. say what he does plenty of british roles
But I didn't recall him in any of them. I basically know him from Low Winter Sun. After researching his catalog he has done a lot of English roles I've seen but I just didn't place him at the time.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 6:08 pm to GCTiger11
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Jimmy McNulty and Stringer Bell
Posted on 5/7/14 at 6:12 pm to BOSCEAUX
Eddie Murphy
Posted on 5/10/14 at 5:08 am to BOSCEAUX
I am almost always shocked to learn a Black actor is British.
I usually don't have an inkling until I hear them speak in an interview: Idris Elba many years ago promoting "The Wire"; David Oyelowo promoting "Red Tails" a couple years back; Chiwetel Ejiofor years ago promoting a movie he appeared in with Denzel Washington. (I later saw CE in the movie "Love Actually" and a few other British movies.)
The actor that portrayed Edibisi(sp?) in HBO's Oz had spoken with an African accent in the roles I had seen him in. While watching an interview with him, I was very, very shocked to hear him speak with a British accent when I was expecting him to speak with an African accent.
The one exception is Lennie James. I had seen "Snatch" and was aware that he was British by the time he started appearing in tv series stateside.
There is another Black actor that I was surprised to learn was originally from an European country. Instead of UK, Boris Kodjoe is a native of Germany. He had to learn English when
he first moved to the States.
Since I had seen "Love Actually", I was aware that Andrew Lincoln was British when he debuted on TWD.
I usually don't have an inkling until I hear them speak in an interview: Idris Elba many years ago promoting "The Wire"; David Oyelowo promoting "Red Tails" a couple years back; Chiwetel Ejiofor years ago promoting a movie he appeared in with Denzel Washington. (I later saw CE in the movie "Love Actually" and a few other British movies.)
The actor that portrayed Edibisi(sp?) in HBO's Oz had spoken with an African accent in the roles I had seen him in. While watching an interview with him, I was very, very shocked to hear him speak with a British accent when I was expecting him to speak with an African accent.
The one exception is Lennie James. I had seen "Snatch" and was aware that he was British by the time he started appearing in tv series stateside.
There is another Black actor that I was surprised to learn was originally from an European country. Instead of UK, Boris Kodjoe is a native of Germany. He had to learn English when
he first moved to the States.
Since I had seen "Love Actually", I was aware that Andrew Lincoln was British when he debuted on TWD.
Posted on 5/10/14 at 7:20 am to udtiger
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Daniel Davis
Also had a memorable turn (including a return appearance) as the self-aware hologram Professor Moriarty, on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
For fun, try to catch The Hunt for Red October - he plays the CVN-65 Enterprise commander (Fred Thompson played his boss, the admiral) using what I must presume is his normal accent.
This post was edited on 5/10/14 at 7:22 am
Posted on 5/10/14 at 8:06 am to Ace Midnight
I had forgotten about TNG. Whenever I hear him on The Nanny, my first thought is of HFRO.
Posted on 5/10/14 at 8:54 am to udtiger
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I had forgotten about TNG.
To my American ears, Daniel Davis has the best faux English accent. As far as a brit doing a convincing American accent - the best job is probably Dominic West in his portrayal of Jimmy McNulty (an American of Irish extraction, with a moderately thick Middle Atlantic/Baltimore accent) on The Wire (as others have mentioned in this thread).
Now - what makes this one of the best portrayals is when the character of Jimmy McNulty tries to go undercover with a badly faked English accent - completely convincing that he was having trouble with it in character. I know that both Daniel Davis ("faking" an American accent on The Nanny) and John Mahoney has gone the other way - picking up his English accent opposite Daphne in Frasier, but Dominic West kind of wins this one.
I was in the middle of binge watching The Wire and only realized West was English a few days before watching that episode - and Yorkshire (Sheffield) at that. I completely lost it.
This post was edited on 5/10/14 at 9:09 am
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