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Old 10-23-2013, 06:12 AM
 
Location: S. Nevada
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Stephen Graham, who plays Al Capone on Boardwalk Empire, is an English actor. I had no idea so I pulled up an interview on Youtube. When I heard him speak I had to do a double take to make sure I was watching the same person lol
Whoa, very impressive/surprising. The Harrow actor is also a(nother) Brit. So yeah, a lot of them as you said earlier PDF.

Aren't two of the leads in "12 Years a Slave" Brits? What's up with that?
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Old 10-23-2013, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Aren't two of the leads in "12 Years a Slave" Brits? What's up with that?
And Michael Fassbender is German-Irish.
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Old 10-23-2013, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Niflheim
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Charlie Hunnam (Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy)
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Old 10-23-2013, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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Aussie on Strike Back plays an American. Does a good job too. Lots of Aussies doing tv and films sound genuinely Yankee to me.
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Old 10-24-2013, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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IMHO it seems there are fewer Americans that can convincingly sound foreign.

What? You mean Madonna isn't talking like the Geico gekko anymore?
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Old 10-24-2013, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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How many actors do you know from outside the U.S. who can talk with a convincing "American" accent? Were you surprised to find out a favorite actor or actress was not American? NOTE: We will consider Canadians "American" for this thread.
Lucy Lawless. Her "Xena" american accent was flawless, even if the show wasn't.
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Old 10-24-2013, 03:51 PM
 
Location: New England
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Robert Pattinson does an American accent very well. Very convincing, and his American accent has a very different sound than his British accent .
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Old 10-24-2013, 03:52 PM
 
Location: New England
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Lucy Lawless. Her "Xena" american accent was flawless, even if the show wasn't.
I loved that show as a teen :-) and yes as a kiwi it must be very difficult to do American. She has quite a strong accent . most of the people on that show were kiwi

Karl Urban (Star Trek) is also Kiwi but does American well
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Old 10-27-2013, 02:45 AM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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Add Jonathan Rhys Meyers to that list.. he's Irish playing an American Dracula on NBC... doing a great job too.

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‘Dracula’ With Jonathan Rhys Meyers on NBC
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Old 10-29-2013, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Western North Carolina
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Mel Gibson has an Australian accent, but I never knew it until I heard him interviewed once.
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