Breast Expansion Archive Forum
Miscellaneous => Off-Topic & Testing => Topic started by: Hiram on October 25, 2016, 02:48:50 AM
-
I’ve been thinking of starting this thread for a while, but never got around to it.
There have been many, but I’ll make a start.
Kevin McNally – UK – Designated Survivor
Keifer Sutherland – Canada/UK - Designated Survivor
Andrew Lincoln – UK –Walking Dead
Karl Urban – New Zealand – Star Trek
David Harewood UK - He's been in loads playing an American.
Tim Roth - UK - Lie to me.
Hugh Laurie - UK - House
Millie Bobby Brown - UK/Spain - Stranger Things
Daniel Day-Lewis - UK - Lincoln
Liam Neeson - UK - (whoever you are, I will hunt you out and kill you)
Lennie James - UK - Walking Dead
There are loads more - but my mind has gone blank - more when I think of them.
-
Nothing new about this. The 1939 movie " Gone with the Wind ", which remains the most seen movie in history in ticket sales and, if you take into account inflation, revenue, starred UK actors Vivien Leigh ( narcissist Scarlett O'Hara ), Leslie Howard ( pussy whip Ashley Wilkes ) and Olivia de Havilland ( saintly do gooder Melanie Hamilton ). Australia gave us Errol Flynn ( which gave us the expression " in like Flynn " or getting away with it ), Nicole Kidman and others. Canada has given us John Candy :'( and Dan Aykroyd. Hollywood was a global juggernaut by the 1920's and the fact remains that if you want to be a international star, you have to go to La La Land. Besides, most " American " movies are no longer made in the USA. Canada is usually used as a cheap standby for the USA and since Hollywood no longer sees it itself as particularly American anymore anyways, most movies are no longer set in the USA.
-
Nothing new about this.
True - but I can't really remember actors putting on such convincing accents back then.
Maybe its just me then - but I seem to notice them more now.
-
Nothing new about this.
True - but I can't really remember actors putting on such convincing accents back then.
Maybe its just me then - but I seem to notice them more now.
On " Gone with the wind ", one of the reasons why Vivien Leigh was picked was because she could do a American southern accent better than most non - southern native born Americans. Clark Gable could not pull it off without sounding ridiculous so he did not do it.
-
Let's not forget the delicious Nicola Bryant who played Peri in Doctor Who.
She even pretended to be American to get the part.
-
Parminder Nagra - UK - Agents of Shield
-
David Morrissey - UK, Walking Dead
Benedict Cumberbatch - UK, Dr Strange
Henry Cavill - UK, Superman/Clark Kent
Philip Glennister - UK, Outcast
Christian Bale - UK, Batman/Bruce Wayne
Idris Elba - UK, Various (Prometheus etc)
David Harewood - UK, (Supergirl)
Yvonne Strahovski - Australia (Dexter, Chuck)
Liam Hemsworth - Australia (Hunger Games)
Rose Byrne - Australia (Bridesmaids, Insidious 1 and 2)
Lucy Lawless - New Zealand (Xena)
-
Lucy Lawless - New Zealand (Xena)
Was Xena an American - or did Lucy just play her with a US accent? :)
-
Lucy Lawless - New Zealand (Xena)
Was Xena an American - or did Lucy just play her with a US accent? :)
She played her with an American accent.
-
Lucy Lawless - New Zealand (Xena)
Was Xena an American - or did Lucy just play her with a US accent? :)
She played her with an American accent.
Yeah, it's amazing how American all those Greeks were. ;)
-
Yeah, it's amazing how American all those Greeks were. ;)
And they would all be Canadian if they say " eh ? " all the time. ;) ;D
-
Lauren Cohan - Walking Dead. Technically an American; but brought up in UK, has a British accent. But puts on an American accent on TV.
-
Jean-Claude Van Damme- Belgium,Hard Target
-
Simon Baker - Australia - Mentalist
-
Would Steven Segal now qualify for this list? Putin just granted him Russian Citizenship. (I'm not kidding)
Not that Captain Shoepolish in his hair is relevant anymore.
-
Would Steven Segal now qualify for this list? Putin just granted him Russian Citizenship. (I'm not kidding)
Not that Captain Shoepolish in his hair is relevant anymore.
You can have dual citizenship and still remain an American. I personally DO NOT TRUST anyone with dual citizenship since, being old fashion in this respect, you simply can't be loyal to two countries equally. What if Russia and the USA go to blows ( not inconceivable anymore with Russia's recent behavior ) ? Where does his loyalty lie ? Since he eagerly, personally requested citizenship from Putin himself, I hope he dies in a most gruesome manner since he is a traitor in his heart. >:(
-
You can have dual citizenship and still remain an American.
I can feel another thread coming on. :)
-
Jonathan Hyde - Australia - The Strain
-
Dolph Lundgren-Sweden,I Come In Peace,Universal Soldier
-
Rhys Ifans - Snowden (movie) - Wales. (Very convincing accent) (Oddly, Snowden the place, not the person, is in Wales.)
-
Both stars of the Oscar-nominated biopic Loving are non-American:
Ruth Negga (ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) was born in Addis Ababa to an Ethiopian father and an Irish mother.
Joel Edgerton (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Zero Dark Thirty and The Great Gatsby) was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.
-
Rupert Friend - Homeland - UK.
-
My bad about Xena, I was thinking more of the accent than the fact Xena is not an AMerican since the US didmt exist back then!
Lucy Lawless was also in Veronica Mars and had an American accent in that.
Chris Hemsworth (Australia) played George Kirk in Star Trek
Michelle Ryan (UK) played Jaimie Sommers in The Bionic Woman reboot
-
Michelle Ryan (UK) played Jaimie Sommers in The Bionic Woman reboot
I'd forgotten about that one.
-
Natascha McElhone - UK - Designated Survivor/ Californication
Adan Canto - Mexico - Designated Survivor
-
Daniel Kaluuya (Black Mirror, Kick Ass 2, Get Out) is British (born in London). So is David Harewood (Homeland, Blood Diamond) who was born in Birmingham.
-
So is David Harewood (Homeland, Blood Diamond) who was born in Birmingham.
He's also in Supergirl - and if memory serves, he was in 24.
-
Charlie Cox (UK) - Daredevil
Rachael Taylor (Australia) - Jessica Jones, Park Avenue 666
Aaron Taylor-Johnson (UK) - Kick Ass, Godzilla
Ruth Wilson (UK) - The Affair
Melissa George (Australia) - Friends, The Slap (US version), Dark City
-
Finn Jones - UK - Iron Fist
Jessica Henwick - UK - Iron Fist
David Wenham - Australia - Iron Fist
-
Just saw an ad for Doctor Strange and that reminded me that English actor Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (a Dickensian name if ever there was one) plays the American title role.
-
Katie McGrath (Ireland) - Supergirl (Lena Luthor)
Dominic Purcell (UK/Australia) - DC's Legends of Tommorow (Mick Rory)
Wentworth Miller (UK) - DC's Legends of Tommorow, Prison Break, Resident Evil Franchise
Eliza Taylor (Australian) - The 100 (although she may actually have been born in Space and technically is not American on the show. Has a U.S. Accent though)
Although I should point out that Wentworth Miller is classed as British/American. His parents are American but he is UK born.
-
Although I should point out that Wentworth Miller is classed as British/American. His parents are American but he is UK born.
Yes, Wentworth was born in in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. His father is of African-American (Jamaican) and white (German and English) ancestry, and his mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry. I first remember seeing him in Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" video. In that one, she was about to get married to Eric Roberts but at the last minute she ran away to be with Wentworth. Ironic because as we later found out, in real life, he happens to be gay.
-
Yet another bilingual-in-French-and-English Canadian masquerading as an American:
Rachelle Lefevre (Under the Dome, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Twilight)
-
Charlie Hunnam (UK) - Sons of Anarchy
Toby Jones (UK) - The Hunger Games
Bradley James (UK) - Damien (TV series, although as Damien was born of a Jackal and is the anti-christ, he isn't exactly American but he played the role with an American Accent)
Jamie Dornan (UK) - Shades of Gray
Martin Freeman (UK) - Captain America: Civil War
Tom Holland (UK) - Captain America: Civil War, Spiderman: Homecoming
Angela Lansbury (UK) - Murder She Wrote
Jamie Bell (UK) - Fantastic Four
-
Angela Lansbury (UK) - Murder She Wrote
Since Angela's co-star in National Velvet, Elizabeth Taylor, was born in London to American parents, she received dual British/American nationality at birth. When she married the Welshman Richard Burton for the first time in 1965, she attempted to renounce her American citizenship but since she struck out the phrase "abjure all allegiance and fidelity to the United States" on the renunciation declaration, it was deemed invalid. She had to re-sign the declaration with the phrase left intact, and she did so the next year. When her 6th husband (John Warner) was running to be US Senator from Virginia in 1977, she applied for and received restoration of her U.S. citizenship.
Jamie Bell (UK) - Fantastic Four
In the first attempt to reboot the Fantastic Four franchise, Mister Fantastic was played by the Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd. He has also played Americans in films such as Black Hawk Down (2001).
-
Guy Pearce (Australia) - Iron Man 3, Memento etc
Kenneth Brannagh (UK) - Dead Again, Wild Wild West
Daniel Day-Lewis (UK) - Lincoln, Gangs of New York etc
Charity Wakefield (UK) - Doctor Who (The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
Anna Louise-Plowman (New Zealand) - Doctor Who (Dalek)
-
Linus Roach - UK - Homeland
-
Ricky Whittle - UK - American Gods
-
Portia de Rossi (Ally McBeal, Arrested Development, Better Off Ted, Scandal) is married to an American (Ellen deGeneres) and often plays American roles with an American accent, but was born Amanda Lee Rogers in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Alex O'Loughlin (Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett on the 2010 CBS remake of the TV series Hawaii Five-0, as well as starring roles in TV shows like the short-lived medical drama Three Rivers) was born in Canberra, Australia, and is of Irish and Scottish descent. Three of his colleagues on Hawaii Five-0 have dual nationality:
- Masayori "Masi" Oka (Heroes) was born in Tokyo, Japan to Japanese parents, was raised by his single mom after his parents divorced, and moved with his mother to Los Angeles aged six. In addition to his acting career, he worked for Industrial Light & Magic on special effects for the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
- Grace Park (the Battlestar Galactica reboot) is of Korean descent, was born in Los Angeles but moved to Canada when she was two years old, and thus is Canadian-American;
- Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) was born in Busan, South Korea, and moved to the United States with his family when he was two years old. For his role in Lost, he had to revive his native Korean language skills.
And speaking of Lost, lots of the ensemble cast is non-American:
- Yunjin Kim ("Sun") was born in Seoul, South Korea;
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("Mr. Eko") was born in Islington, London, to Nigerian parents of Yoruba origin;
- Naveen Andrews ("Sayid") was born in Lambeth, London to Malayali Nasrani immigrants from Kerala, India;
- Emilie de Ravin ("Claire Littleton") was born Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia, an outer southeastern suburb of Melbourne;
- Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen") was born in Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, Canada; and
- Dominic Monaghan ("Charlie Pace") was born in Berlin, Germany to English parents.
Parminder Nagra - UK - Agents of Shield
Parminder was allowed to keep her native Leicester accent when she starred in the last seven seasons of NBC's medical drama, ER.[/list]
-
And speaking of Lost, lots of the ensemble cast is non-American:
Good work.
Where some of those characters actually US citizens and not foreigners. Not sure, just sayin though.
-
Where some of those characters actually US citizens and not foreigners. Not sure, just sayin though.
Good question. Let me consult the "Lostpedia".
(a couple of deft Google searches later)
Sun (Yunjin Kim) and her husband Jin (Daniel Dae-Kim) were South Koreans. However, these actors have subsequently both portrayed Americans, in ABC's Mistresses and in CBS' Hawaii 5-0 respectively.
Eko, also known as Mr. Eko and Father Tunde (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) was Nigerian. He has played Americans in films such as Suicide Squad and Concussion, both alongside Will Smith. The irony is that in the latter film, a biopic, Will played the Nigerian doctor Bennet Omalu (https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/12/24/gettyimages-498540422-203b77c308f7e664d2ae20d7dfe3033cbc4779f9-s1200.jpg) with such a terrible attempt at a Nigerian accent that a comedian joked that "Will Smith played a Nigerian, but one with a concussion." (https://www.youtube.com/v/yHsWNw5w8H0&rel=0)
Sayid (Naveen Andrews) was Iraqi, but Naveen has played Americans in such films as Planet Terror.
Claire (Emilie de Ravin) was Australian, but Emilie has played Americans on TV shows like CSI: Miami and NCIS, and in films such as the remake of Stephen King's Carrie.
Kate (Evangeline Lilly) was American, from Iowa.
Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) was English, but Dominic has played Americans in films like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and on TV shows like NBC's Chuck.
-
Speaking of Concussion, one of its stars was Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the daughter of a white English nurse and a black South African doctor. While she has done more than her fair share of English aristocrats (for instance, in the biopic Belle) she played Americans on NBC's Undercovers and FOX's Touch.
-
Where some of those characters actually US citizens and not foreigners. Not sure, just sayin though.
Good question. Let me consult the "Lostpedia".
What I was really saying was did they play Americans on Lost - but you've trumped me with that info.
-
Speaking of Concussion, one of its stars was Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the daughter of a white English nurse and a black South African doctor. While she has done more than her fair share of English aristocrats (for instance, in the biopic Belle) she played Americans on NBC's Undercovers and FOX's Touch.
She also played Martha Jones' sister in Doctor Who.
-
Aaron Taylor-Johnson - UK - The Wall (2017)
-
Linus Roache - UK - Homeland 2018
-
GQ: "How Every Character Was Cast on The Wire" (https://www.gq.com/story/how-every-character-was-cast-on-the-wire)
...including the British actors Idris Elba and Dominic West.
-
Rupert Evans who played Frank Frink in The Man in the High Castle
-
Charlize Theron of course, very famous South African, has played many, many roles with an American accent.
-
Charlize Theron of course, very famous South African, has played many, many roles with an American accent.
She was born in Benoni, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Her first language is Afrikaans, (https://www.youtube.com/embed/m3TTi_gAS5c) and she still speaks it (https://www.youtube.com/embed/mgbazMnt_Pc) quite well. (https://www.youtube.com/embed/HlfM34DXbGw) She explains that since she moved to the States at seventeen, she quickly picked up the American accent. She's currently got dual nationality (USAmerican, and South African), having become a naturalized US citizen in 2007.
-
Kevin McKidd, who played Dr. Owen Hunt on Grey's Anatomy, is Scottish. Here he is (https://www.youtube.com/embed/g3F4ibdBPTE) speaking in his native accent.
-
Although Camilla Luddington, who played Jo Wilson on Grey's Anatomy, is English (https://www.youtube.com/embed/j6NoGKD8lUk), she maintains an American accent while shooting (https://www.youtube.com/embed/q6X6V-qJgrc) because she isn't as adept as daily switching between accents as Kevin McKidd is.
-
Yeah, it's amazing how American all those Greeks were. ;)
And they would all be Canadian if they say " eh ? " all the time. ;) ;D
I did not know that Will Arnett is actually Canadian, from Winnipeg (although he grew up in Toronto). Here he is using the "eh?" correctly. (https://www.youtube.com/embed/evvzG0Xz69Q)
-
I didn't know a lot of that stuff was Canadian only! And a lot of it, I don't say, and I AM Canadian. :)
-
Re-watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and discovered that the bad guy, American businessman Walter Donovan was played by Julian Glover, who is English. Glover is said to have been dissatisfied with the quality of his American accent in the film but I think he was being too hard on himself.
-
^I think he was too, Zookie. I certainly didn't know he wasn't American, watching him.
-
Linus Roache - UK - Homeland 2018
Not only him.
Hugh Dancy - UK - Homeland 2020
-
Rupert Friend - Homeland - UK.
Here he is speaking in his normal accent and on the show with his American one. (https://www.youtube.com/embed/yrRHfHGIW_Y)
-
Janet McTeer, British actress who portrayed Alisa Jones on the Netflix show, Jessica Jones.
-
By total coincidence, I watched Patriot Games (1994) just before changing the channel to watch Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), which I had never seen before. Chris Pine plays Jack Ryan, and the British actress Keira Knightley plays his American fiancée.
-
(Slightly related: Rebecca Ferguson who was in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation playing a British spy is actually Swedish. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsyFgTqk4Dk))
-
On that note. In Netflix's Away - Ato Essandoh who is American actually plays a Brit.
-
On that note. In Netflix's Away - Ato Essandoh who is American actually plays a Brit.
It gets better. Although Ato is Ghanaian-American, in Away he plays a Ghanaian/British/Jewish astronaut :)
-
Wunmi Mosaku, who plays Ruby in HBO's Lovecraft Country, is British of Nigerian heritage. Here she is speaking in her usual accent. (https://tv.avclub.com/wunmi-mosaku-and-abbey-lee-on-this-week-s-metamorphic-1845001704)
-
Watching the scene in Avengers: Infinity War where Tony Stark, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man are discussing how to take out the bad guys. Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Tom Holland (Spider-Man) are both Brits who do excellent American accents. Meanwhile Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark) is an American who does an excellent British accent, although not in this movie.
That scene also had two actors (Benedict Cumberbatch & Robert Downey Jr.) who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes face to face. And the two actors who played their respective Dr. Watsons also appeared elsewhere in the MCU, and also both do excellent American accents: Martin Freeman (Everett Ross in Black Panther and in Avengers: Civil War) and Jude Law (Captain Marvel).
-
Meanwhile Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark) is an American who does an excellent British accent, although not in this movie.
Not sure about that - very few Americans do do the subtlety of a British accent.
-
Meanwhile Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark) is an American who does an excellent British accent, although not in this movie.
Not sure about that - very few Americans do do the subtlety of a British accent.
That is true since there are many different accents within England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Before this corona virus ravaged international tourist travel, we used to get plenty of tourists not only from the British isles but also from Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. To the American ear, they all sound from England BUT quite often we are gently told that is not the case. There is no harm intended, it is what it is. Just like Canadians in Europe don't like being lumped and/or confused with Americans, neither the Aussies or the Kiwis like being confused with the Limeys. Or Poms as several Aussies have pointed out to me. Anyways, as actors they are supposed to play a character as required by the script.
-
The British Isles have a huge range of regional accents. Most American actors don't do English accents well; most absolutely butcher Scottish or Irish accents. RDJ's English accent (as seen in his Sherlock Holmes movies or in Chaplin) is exceptionally good. His wife in the Avengers movies, Gwyneth Paltrow, does a good English accent in Shakespeare in Love also.
-
To the American ear, they all sound from England BUT quite often we are gently told that is not the case.
I have been mistaken for an Australian before when I've been in the US.
Even us Brits can't always identify all the accents - I moved to my current location 10 years ago, I still have trouble identifying where locals are from by their accent. But local people can hear the difference.
-
The British Isles have a huge range of regional accents.
I'd estimate the accent changes every 20 miles - not by much, but enough to notice. Compare a Edinburgh accent to a Glasgow accent. 50 miles.
Kai Accent Guy on Youtube does some good accents.
-
Jodie Comer - UK - Free Guy.
Actually she's great at accents - even the British one she had in the film wasn't her own.
-
Now that he is playing yet another American in tick, tick...BOOM!, I was going to add Andrew Garfield to the list. But I found out that he was born in Los Angeles, California, to an American father and an English mother. So he's American by birth, and by ancestry, as well as English.
-
Sarah Snook (who plays daughter Siobhan "Shiv" Roy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzYxJV_rmE8) on HBO's Succession) is Australian, born in Adelaide in 1987.
-
Bella Ramsey (b. September 2003 in Nottingham, England) had to use a midwestern American accent for her role in the TV adaption of the video game The Last of Us, which will premiere on HBO Max on 15 January 2023. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series))
-
had to use a midwestern American accent for her role
Probably the easier one to use.
Kate Winslet did a good regional ascent in Mare of Easttown.
-
Bella Ramsey (b. September 2003 in Nottingham, England) had to use a midwestern American accent for her role in the TV adaption of the video game The Last of Us, which will premiere on HBO Max on 15 January 2023. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series))
That was filmed here in Alberta. My nephew did some extra work in it.
-
Bella Ramsey (b. September 2003 in Nottingham, England) had to use a midwestern American accent for her role in the TV adaption of the video game The Last of Us, which will premiere on HBO Max on 15 January 2023. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series))
That was filmed here in Alberta. My nephew did some extra work in it.
Yes indeed. From all accounts it was the largest TV production in Canadian history.
-
That was filmed here in Alberta. My nephew did some extra work in it.
I've just started watching the show - how good is Bella's accent? As a Brit it seems pretty convincing.
-
Anna Torv - Australian - The Last of Us.
-
Dan Ackroyd and John Candy. Canadians. :)
-
^I think he was too, Zookie. I certainly didn't know he wasn't American, watching him.
I did, since he has appeared in Doctor Who twice.
The Crusade (1964)
City of Death (1979)
-
The British Isles have a huge range of regional accents. Most American actors don't do English accents well; most absolutely butcher Scottish or Irish accents. RDJ's English accent (as seen in his Sherlock Holmes movies or in Chaplin) is exceptionally good. His wife in the Avengers movies, Gwyneth Paltrow, does a good English accent in Shakespeare in Love also.
Her accent in 'Sliding Doors' is exceptional too.
-
^I think he was too, Zookie. I certainly didn't know he wasn't American, watching him.
I did, since he has appeared in Doctor Who twice.
The Crusade (1964)
City of Death (1979)
I haven't watched those two episodes yet.
-
That was filmed here in Alberta. My nephew did some extra work in it.
I've just started watching the show - how good is Bella's accent? As a Brit it seems pretty convincing.
Yet another Australian playing an American, also on The Last of Us: Murray Bartlett.
Here he is being interviewed earlier this week (https://youtu.be/XRUFv9JMECY), speaking in his natural accent.
-
Kerry Condon - Better Call Saul - Stacey Ehrmantraut. Ireland
Damon Herriman - Justified - Dewey Crowe. Australia
-
I thought I had mentioned him before but:
Alan Cumming, who played the title character's husband's Chicago political fixer in CBS's The Good Wife, is Scottish. He's also played characters who were Russian (in the James Bond movie GoldenEye) and German (Nightcrawler in X-Men 2), among others.
Here he is speaking in his natural accent. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoBSEGNUlIg)
-
How about from Hollywood's golden age of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, like Vivien Leigh and Errol Flynn. England and Australia respectively. :)
-
Alan Cumming, who played the title character's husband's Chicago political fixer in CBS's The Good Wife, is Scottish.
I would have heard him first on British TV, so always thought of him as Scottish.
-
Parminder Nagra - UK - Agents of Shield
Before she was on ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., her most famous American TV role was on the last six seasons of NBC's ER, playing Dr. Neela Rasgotra. She couldn't be arsed to do an American accent so she was able to get them to let her keep her Leicester accent. She's a Brit of Indian Punjabi and Sikh heritage.
Speaking of Parminder, she was Jesminder "Jess" Kaur Bhamra in her breakout movie Bend It Like Beckham (2002). Three of her co-stars in that movie went on to do very well in the USA, often playing USAmericans despite them also being Brits:
* Archie Panjabi, who played Jess' older sister Pinky (https://youtu.be/Dgx2-SL0KVU?t=31) - although born in London to Sindhi Hindu parents who were forced to move from Pakistan to India during Partition, she later played the sexy, mysterious, and badass investigator Kalinda Sharma (https://youtu.be/onOMeYXpcLk) on CBS's The Good Wife for six seasons, a role for which she was nominated thrice for Primetime Emmys, winning once in 2010;
* Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who played Jess' coach Joe (https://youtu.be/MnUGqPzLojs?t=24) - although Irish, he later portrayed Elvis Presley in the biographical CBS miniseries (https://youtu.be/AeE88gPUz8M?t=88) Elvis, earning him a Primetime Emmy nom, and a Golden Globe win, in 2005;
* Keira Knightley, who played Jess' friend, teammate, and romantic rival (https://youtu.be/Dk5SrjFVQIM?t=16) for Joe - although English, she has portrayed many USAmerican characters (https://youtu.be/OYicCMT1cho) in movies and on TV, and has been nominated twice for an Academy Award.
-
Daniel Kaluuya (Black Mirror, Kick Ass 2, Get Out) is British (born in London).
Of course since I posted this, Daniel has gone on to great things: the London-born actor of Ugandan descent portrayed W'Kabi in the MCU blockbuster Black Panther (2018), and won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor portraying the USAmerican political activist Fred Hampton in the 2021 biopic Judas and the Black Messiah.
His very particular accent for Queen & Slim was modeled on people from Columbus, Ohio. (https://youtu.be/XiiA_JbVaL4) Here he is on Jimmy Kimmel Live, speaking in his natural accent. (https://youtu.be/vgKLSfnUb3Q)
-
Surprised she hasn't been brought up before in this thread:
the Dalby, Australian-born actress and producer Margot Robbie has pretty much cut her teeth playing USAmerican roles, from Harley Quinn in the DCEU, to Jordan Belfort's wife in the "based on a true story" movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), to her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Olympic skater Tonya Harding in the biopic I, Tonya (2017).
Margot's Brooklyn accent (https://youtu.be/M2f8gIxCcl8) in The Wolf of Wall Street was so convincing that people couldn't believe that she's really Australian (https://youtu.be/KjICBHj1EzM).
-
Melanie Lynskey - The last of Us - New Zealand.
-
Melanie Lynskey - The last of Us - New Zealand.
Jeez, is there any American actor on that show?! :D :D
-
Melanie Lynskey - The last of Us - New Zealand.
Jeez, is there any American actor on that show?! :D :D
Well there is Pedro...
-
Melanie Lynskey - The last of Us - New Zealand.
Jeez, is there any American actor on that show?! :D :D
Well there is Pedro...
...who, if I'm not mistaken, was born in Chile, and came to the USA at age 8?
The number of excellent actors on that show who also are not American, rivals that of LOST
-
Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh, who both star in Oppenheimer, are
both Irish and English, respectively.
-
Cillian Murphy is Irish. I am shocked. Deeply shocked. ;) ::) :)
-
Cillian Murphy is Irish. I am shocked. Deeply shocked. ;) ::) :)
I don't think he looks Irish mind.
-
Like most actors from the British Isles, his (various) American accents are very good.
-
Daniel Kaluuya (Black Mirror, Kick Ass 2, Get Out) is British (born in London).
Of course since I posted this, Daniel has gone on to great things: the London-born actor of Ugandan descent portrayed W'Kabi in the MCU blockbuster Black Panther (2018), and won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor portraying the USAmerican political activist Fred Hampton in the 2021 biopic Judas and the Black Messiah.
His very particular accent for Queen & Slim was modeled on people from Columbus, Ohio. (https://youtu.be/XiiA_JbVaL4) Here he is on Jimmy Kimmel Live, speaking in his natural accent. (https://youtu.be/vgKLSfnUb3Q)
Daniel has also been in Doctor Who, in the feature length episode 'Planet of the Dead' in 2009
-
I thought I had mentioned him before but:
Alan Cumming, who played the title character's husband's Chicago political fixer in CBS's The Good Wife, is Scottish. He's also played characters who were Russian (in the James Bond movie GoldenEye) and German (Nightcrawler in X-Men 2), among others.
Here he is speaking in his natural accent. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoBSEGNUlIg)
Yes, Alan Cummin has also been in Doctor Who, quite recently in fact, in the episode 'The Witchfinders'
-
I guess Doctor Who is the British equivalent of NBC's Law & Order franchise: any actor who's anyone has been on it at some point in some capacity ;)
-
I don't think I've ever watched a complete episode of The Walking Dead so this was news to me: Andrew Lincoln, the actor who plays Rick Grimes, and Lennie James, the actor who plays Morgan, are both British.
Here they are on a ComiCon panel (https://youtu.be/KQ5SegvkAZg), while Lincoln gets ribbed a bit over how he pronounces the name "Carl" on the show.
-
Yesterday was the first time I've ever watched any episode of Yellowstone so it was only because I went on Wikipedia to do some background on the show that I learned that Kelly Reilly, the actress who plays Beth Dutton, is British.
Here she is during a press junket for Season 2 (https://youtu.be/WGlyqfQviZM), with her TV husband Cole Hauser.
-
Looking over this thread, I noticed it is mostly contemporary times British actors/actresses but how about one from 84 years ago, Vivien Leigh who played the character Scarlett O'Hara in the classic movie, "Gone with the Wind" (1939)
-
Looking over this thread, I noticed it is mostly contemporary times British actors/actresses but how about one from 84 years ago, Vivien Leigh who played the character Scarlett O'Hara in the classic movie, "Gone with the Wind" (1939)
Other non-Americans on that cast:
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes (born in London in 1893);
Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton (born in the Kingdom of Japan to British parents in 1916);
Ann Rutherford as Careen O'Hara (born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1917);
Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson (born in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada in 1902);
Joseph M. Kerrigan as Johnny Gallagher (born in Dublin, Ireland in 1884);
and
Lillian Kemble-Cooper as Bonnie's nurse (born in London in 1892).
-
Mark Gatiss - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
-
Mark Gatiss - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
Still haven't seen that movie yet; what did you think of it?
-
I've talked about quite a few non-Americans in the MCU but can't believe I haven't talked about Tom Hiddleston yet.
Born Thomas William Hiddleston in London, England, he of course has been on Disney+ playing the title character of Loki for two seasons and on 3 episodes of What If...? as the beloved villain, as well as across the MCU:
Thor (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Still can't believe he was ever in the running to play Thor (https://youtu.be/yqweF7en3Zg) - Aussie Chris Hemsworth has so embodied the role that I can't see anyone else doing it now.
Here he is not only speaking in his native English accent (https://youtu.be/mfT-UZCA6Tg) but also doing his excellent impressions of Al Pacino and Robert deNiro from Heat (https://youtu.be/yeSdeQRbhPs) - in front of deNiro himself.
-
Mark Gatiss - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
Still haven't seen that movie yet; what did you think of it?
It was okay as an action movie. Quite a long runtime but the time went quick. I thought the story-line is weakish. Overall I enjoyed it.
-
Mark Gatiss - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
Still haven't seen that movie yet; what did you think of it?
It was okay as an action movie. Quite a long runtime but the time went quick. I thought the story-line is weakish. Overall I enjoyed it.
Thanks! I still intend to see it nevertheless...eventually :)