Johnny DeppTim RothCary Grant
Are there any others?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago)
Christian Bale
― Emergency Rainbow (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago)
Uh, Johnny Depp is American.
Oh yeah, Gwyneth Paltrow.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, an American who often plays Britons.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago)
he's playing a gay pirate, which is unsurprisingly often mistaken for playing british
― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago)
I don't have time to read entire thread titles. I believe proper procedure here is to start one thread for one, and another for the vice versa.
― Emergency Rainbow (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago)
is this the gay pirate thread
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago)
i'm here to talk about gay pirates
I can't think of many American actors who tend to play British characters, i.e., more than the one character
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago)
John HillermanJohn Mahoney
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago)
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:30 AM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hugh laurie
― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago)
Wha'?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago)
lols all around
― and whataburger (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago)
o hugh laurie is a good one
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago)
Damian Lewis
― a serviceable substitute for wit (Michael White), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago)
hugh laurie is spanish you fools
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago)
no he was on the young ones, hugh laurie. the young ones was an american show ergo=hugh laurie is american
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago)
he adopted a british accent and acted in wacky british sitcoms until he was finally famous enough to break into U.S. show business and use his real accent in stuart little and house. much like jimi hendrix had to play in the uk to get famous enough to break into the U.S. music industry
― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago)
the UK show business industry is like the j.v. US show business industry obv
Jamie Bamber
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago)
Bob 'Oskins
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago)
anthony hopkins
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago)
keanu reeves
― and whataburger (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago)
Are there any British movie actors who have never attempted an American accent?
― caek, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago)
Anjeclica Huston
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
Anthony 'Opkins is an American now, isn't he?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
michael caine has never attempted an american accent (i hope, trust and pray)
― country matters, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, but he plays brits a lot, tom
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
Keanu Reeves is British?!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
famed irish thespian shaquille o'neal
― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago)
Sean Connery, but then he's has never attempted any accent other than Edinburgh
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago)
shaquille isn't actually irish, it's just that his first name throws a lotta people off.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago)
madonna
(either way)
keanu is welsh for 'a fair wind'
― and whataburger (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago)
Secondhand Lions ownz you
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago)
chris morris is not a movie actor but i love his american tv personality.
― cutty, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago)
In what movie is Madonna British?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago)
Desperately Seeking Susan she has a slight accent
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago)
Angela Lansbury
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago)
this fucking guy:http://www.jeffcarnahan.com/photos/20080217-Oscar_Picks/Michael_Clayton-Tom_Wilkinson.jpg
and this guy:http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/09/18_broadbent_lgl.jpg
― schlump, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago)
movie?
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago)
Charlie Chaplin
― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago)
Christopher GuestMichael MyersMr. Bentley from the JEffersons
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago)
tom wilkinson used to be pointkeeper guardback for seattle beatniks before turning to acting, didn't he?
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago)
michelle ryan.
Wilkinson OTM. Broadbent's usually bumbling, avuncular and very British, no?
― chap, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago)
Ray Milland
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago)
Brian Cox.
― chap, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago)
Huh, I think most of the Jim Broadbent movies I've seen have been British films (Mike Leigh films, Little Voice, etc.)
Someone who I had no idea was British for a long time, however:
http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc_arts_john/Brian%20Cox_phixr.jpg
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago)
OK, that was an xpost.
I think we're just listing British actors over the age of about 40, aren't we?
― caek, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago)
Elizabeth Taylor!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)
what about australian actors who move here and pretend they never had an australian accent
― cutty, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)
michael gambon, on occasion
― omar little, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)
what about weirdo south african charlize theron. ever heard a south african speak english? ever heard her on a talk show?
i've seen wilkinson in more british roles than otherwise. brian cox is a good one though.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)
Naomi Watts
― caek, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)
^ Australian?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago)
a mess
― caek, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago)
born in Britain, I think
I didn't even know Naomi Watts was British.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago)
Most people think she's Australian, yeah.
All Australian actors are from somewhere else.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago)
All the bands too.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago)
Born in the UK but brought up in Australia, I imagine she would consider herself Australian
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago)
To be fair, pretty much all of the big-name Australian actors (Kidman, Crowe, Watts, Bana, Blanchett, Jackman, Ledger, Rush) play Americans most of the time.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago)
are australian actors british in the colonial sense anyway though?
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, well I don't think the hippopotamus at my zoo considers himself an Arkansan.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago)
So John Candy is British, too, is what you're saying.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago)
Watts was apparently in England until 14. I just thought of her because someone mentioned Australia.
― caek, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago)
Doesn't Blanchett play mostly Britons?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago)
You forgot Mel Gibson.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago)
How about Canadians who always play Americans?
Oh, that's all of them.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago)
Errol Flynn!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago)
no, john candy is dead, which means he fucks like a briton
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago)
True! How could I.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago)
how long has Jim Broadbent been playing Americans? I only recall Bullets over Broadway, and being furniture in Indiana Jones shdn't count.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago)
Nicole Kidman was born in Hawaii
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago)
Mel Gibson is originally American though.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/04/03/bertn_narrowweb__300x416,0.jpg
^^ Born and raised in Olathe, Kansas.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago)
alfred molina
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago)
― Tuomas, Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:56 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
You know what else was originally American?
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago)
Freedom.
Where does Yahoo Serious fit into all of this?
― LONGUSERNAME IS LONG (John Justen), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago)
― nate woolls, Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:56 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yeah, and Martin Lawrence was born in Germany. So?
This is a good one.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago)
Remember On Deadly Ground?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago)
Isn't every single cast member in "The Wire" British... or sumthin'?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago)
Caine is also American in Cider House Rules I believe.
― chap, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago)
Cary Grant.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago)
yes, and his "american" accent was fucking awful xpost
― LONGUSERNAME IS LONG (John Justen), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago)
xxxp Stringer and McNulty are British. Carcetti is Irish.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago)
he wasn't american in "the quiet american", hence i assumed he never would be, how naive
― country matters, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago)
perhaps he was quietly american
― LONGUSERNAME IS LONG (John Justen), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:05 (sixteen years ago)
Did James Cromwell have an Australian accent in Babe?
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago)
Everyone had an American accent in Babe
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago)
British ILXors who post with an American accent
― cutty, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago)
I guess that's because Babe takes place in a fantasy world.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago)
It does look more like England than Australia
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R&B_number-one_hits_of_1973 (USA)Billy Joel: The Complete Hits Collection, disc 1http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=606
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago)
Ha, sorry on that last one, non-77ers.
You're missing a delightful thread entitled how fast could i KO this chickenshit hillbilly?
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago)
Isn't that a quote from Morbs re Ethan?
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago)
Haha
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago)
or are you serious.
Renee Zellweger
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:08 (sixteen years ago)
it is
xp
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:11 (sixteen years ago)
Broadbent's usually bumbling, avuncular and very British, no?
art school confidential and gangs of new york off the top of my head - he is bumbling avuncular and british, which is i guess why it seems more remarkable to see him as some grizzled braces-wearing american.
― schlump, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago)
james cromwellguy pearce
― omar little, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago)
wait, cromwell is american
and guy pearce is australian.
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago)
http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0805/most.unusual.si.covers/images/1963-bob-hope.jpg
― DavidM, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago)
yeah i was adding them to the aussie list, incorrectly in cromwell's case
― omar little, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago)
Ah, OK, sorry.
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago)
Ha, if we're having Australians playing American or (terrible) British, then Anthony LaPaglia.
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago)
Also a good one. For a long time the only thing I knew him from was So I Married an Axe Murderer, so when he started to receive kudos for Lantana, I was like wha?
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2039784/Michelle-Ryan-has-the-worst-fake-US-accent.html
― Anne Dwutt (some dude), Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago)
Gwyneth Paltrow is american.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago)
I feel like mentioning here that I saw Kristen Scott Thomas in a French romantic comedy the other day.
― nabisco, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago)
Oh wait, apparently she's kinda full-time French now.
― nabisco, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, she's basically only working there.
― a serviceable substitute for wit (Michael White), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago)
In fact, she might get Oscar-nominated for a French movie this year.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago)
I wonder if it's harder or easier to sound convincingly native in a second language.
― nabisco, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago)
I've never heard her try. Everything I've seen her in, she plays a fluent French speaking Englishwoman (or non-specific) non-French person and they haven't bothered to treat it as an issue; just like they are loads of furrin people here in America who speak with an accent. Her French is quite good, though.
― a serviceable substitute for wit (Michael White), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago)
she's working in NYC right now
― very very serious (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, I'm partly asking because the thing I saw her in didn't make any visible cover about how she was originally English, or anything (although I missed part of the beginning), and the mechanics of the plot seemed to suggest she was native French. But it was a fluffy romantic comedy, so it's not like that would be a major point.
― nabisco, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago)
in a transfer of a British production, xp
― very very serious (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago)
Nabisco, I was going to ask if the movie you saw her in was The Valet, but the only reason I wanted to ask was so I could pronounce "The Valet" in the same ridiculous way that it's pronounced in the (English-language) trailer, but we're on the Internet, so I guess I don't really care.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago)
It was!
― nabisco, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago)
In 'Ne le dis à personne' (Tell no-one) you can hear that she's English but it's not really a big deal since she's the girlfriend of the protagonist's sister. Why wouldn't she have an English lover?
― a serviceable substitute for wit (Michael White), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago)
I know, I mentioned her as an American who often plays Britons.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago)
-Brian Cox (whose accent starts to slip thru on 'Supertroopers' when he's drunk)-John Barrowman?
― Vault Boy Bobblehead: Drinking (kingfish), Thursday, 11 December 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago)
How bad was Michelle Ryan's accent? Like, Nicola Bryant bad?
i saw that pride & prejudice remake recently and it was weird to see donald sutherland playing british. he just kind of mumbled through it.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 11 December 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago)
It took me several episodes before I realized that Charlie Hunnam, the Britisher from Undeclared, was the same dude playing the lead in Sons of Anarchy. He might play a convincing yank, but he is pretty annoying as an actor, even if he became slightly less so over the course of the season.
― D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox), Thursday, 11 December 2008 23:51 (sixteen years ago)
late period americanisation turnaround shocker:
http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/a/albert_finney/thumbnails/tn2_albert_finney_3.jpg
― schlump, Friday, 12 December 2008 06:00 (sixteen years ago)
hayley mills
― shamwow 69 (get bent), Friday, 12 December 2008 06:09 (sixteen years ago)
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/03/02/dale_wideweb__470x348,0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/03/02/1172338834592.html&usg=__8IAypZI1JhvVLV9tzcHFBHRebbg=&h=348&w=470&sz=26&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=zspRluAehcT7hM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dalan%2Bdale%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBF_en-GBGB247GB247
― or something, Friday, 12 December 2008 12:44 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/03/02/dale_wideweb__470x348,0.jpg
― or something, Friday, 12 December 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago)
yes he's aussie but they count now don't they?
How long has this been going without mentioning Dick Van Dyke?
― Ed, Friday, 12 December 2008 12:59 (sixteen years ago)
You wouldn't let it lie
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Friday, 12 December 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago)
Does Isla Fisher play Americans in the things she's in, if we're still on Australians?
― ailsa, Friday, 12 December 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago)
(I haven't actually seen her in anything since Home and Away, you see)
― ailsa, Friday, 12 December 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
Not only Americans, but crazy slutty Americans.
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Friday, 12 December 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
gillian andersonmichelle williams
maybe 'tend to' is a bit strong.
― Ignition (Remix), Friday, 12 December 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago)
Is this the thread where I can ask if anyone watches Eli Stone, and if so can they tell me if Jonny Lee Miller's American accent is good, because I think it is, but I don't have much of an ear for this kind of thing. Also please don't spoilerize it, I'm still only halfway through season one.
Gillian Anderson was brought up in London, so she does that John Barrowman thing of having two completely different accents.
― ailsa, Friday, 12 December 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago)
Jonny Lee Miller's accent is pretty outstanding, actually.
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Friday, 12 December 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago)
Lennie James has been an American in a couple of things I've seen. He's not a movie actor though.
― ailsa, Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago)
Albert Finney is the single biggest piece of bullshit hanging from the nostril of Hollywood - and I don't care whether bullshit hangs from nostrils - it does when Bert Finn and Hollywood are involved. I still feel mildly frightened by the end of Ocean's 12.
― GamalielRatsey, Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago)