Johnny DeppTim RothCary Grant
Are there any others?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)
Christian Bale
― Emergency Rainbow (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)
Uh, Johnny Depp is American.
Oh yeah, Gwyneth Paltrow.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, an American who often plays Britons.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:28 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
is this the gay pirate thread
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:30 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
John HillermanJohn Mahoney
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:31 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
Wha'?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)
lols all around
― and whataburger (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)
o hugh laurie is a good one
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)
Damian Lewis
― a serviceable substitute for wit (Michael White), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)
hugh laurie is spanish you fools
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:34 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
Bob 'Oskins
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)
anthony hopkins
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)
keanu reeves
― and whataburger (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)
Are there any British movie actors who have never attempted an American accent?
― caek, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)
Anjeclica Huston
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)
Anthony 'Opkins is an American now, isn't he?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)
michael caine has never attempted an american accent (i hope, trust and pray)
― country matters, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)
yeah, but he plays brits a lot, tom
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)
Keanu Reeves is British?!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
madonna
(either way)
keanu is welsh for 'a fair wind'
― and whataburger (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)
Secondhand Lions ownz you
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)
chris morris is not a movie actor but i love his american tv personality.
― cutty, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)
In what movie is Madonna British?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)
Desperately Seeking Susan she has a slight accent
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)
Angela Lansbury
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:43 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
movie?
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)
Charlie Chaplin
― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:45 (seventeen years ago)
Christopher GuestMichael MyersMr. Bentley from the JEffersons
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:45 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
michelle ryan.
Wilkinson OTM. Broadbent's usually bumbling, avuncular and very British, no?
― chap, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)
Ray Milland
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)
Brian Cox.
― chap, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)
Ha, sorry on that last one, non-77ers.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)
You're missing a delightful thread entitled how fast could i KO this chickenshit hillbilly?
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)
Isn't that a quote from Morbs re Ethan?
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)
Haha
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)
or are you serious.
Renee Zellweger
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)
it is
xp
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:11 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
james cromwellguy pearce
― omar little, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:26 (seventeen years ago)
wait, cromwell is american
and guy pearce is australian.
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:45 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
yeah i was adding them to the aussie list, incorrectly in cromwell's case
― omar little, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)
Ah, OK, sorry.
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)
Ha, if we're having Australians playing American or (terrible) British, then Anthony LaPaglia.
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:33 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
Gwyneth Paltrow is american.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:53 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
Oh wait, apparently she's kinda full-time French now.
― nabisco, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:10 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, she's basically only working there.
― a serviceable substitute for wit (Michael White), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)
In fact, she might get Oscar-nominated for a French movie this year.
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:18 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
she's working in NYC right now
― very very serious (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:25 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
in a transfer of a British production, xp
― very very serious (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:27 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
It was!
― nabisco, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:28 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
I know, I mentioned her as an American who often plays Britons.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:44 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
hayley mills
― shamwow 69 (get bent), Friday, 12 December 2008 06:09 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/03/02/dale_wideweb__470x348,0.jpg
― or something, Friday, 12 December 2008 12:47 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
You wouldn't let it lie
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Friday, 12 December 2008 13:03 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
(I haven't actually seen her in anything since Home and Away, you see)
― ailsa, Friday, 12 December 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)
Not only Americans, but crazy slutty Americans.
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Friday, 12 December 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)
gillian andersonmichelle williams
maybe 'tend to' is a bit strong.
― Ignition (Remix), Friday, 12 December 2008 17:26 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)