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Which actors/actresses fooled you into thinking they were American?

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  • #62
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Adamantium wrote: »
    Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama) in Battlestar Galactica.

    This above one really surprised me, I had no idea. Was fully convinced he was a dyed in the wool American.

    Christian Bale as well.

    Hugh Jackman

    Lena Headey (after Terminator TSCC)

    Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead)

    Lots of Walking Dead Characters are English.
    Rick
    Carol
    The Govner
    The black guy who took Rick in back in Atlanta
    For starters.


  • #63
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Lots of Walking Dead Characters are English.
    Rick
    Carol
    The Govner
    The black guy who took Rick in back in Atlanta
    For starters.

    Carol (Melissa McBride) is American.


  • #64
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Whilst on the subject, I think Renee Zellweger deserves a mention.

    Best English accent by an American actor I've heard.


  • #65
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Not American but anyone who has heard Tom Vaughan Lawlor (Nidge) speak off screen will realise he's definitely more West End than South-side. Couldn't believe the difference in accent when I heard him interviewed :eek:


  • #66
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,106 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    The Aussies pull it off very well

    Rose Byrne of Bridesmaids and X-Men First Class had me fooled!


    Id also second the bombshell wife from Wolf of Wall Street. Used to be in Neighbours, absolute top job of a broad Brooklyn accent.


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  • #67
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    I thought Chris tucker was from Navan


  • #68
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    I thought Jim Carrey was American


  • #69
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Whilst on the subject, I think Renee Zellweger deserves a mention.

    Best English accent by an American actor I've heard.

    It's too stereotypical to be believable, in my opinion. It's a bit forced and has too much grandeur about it.


  • #70
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,054 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    First place I saw Aiden Gillen was The Wire and I never thought for a second he wasn't American. Same goes for Idris Elba and Dominic West come to think of it.


  • #71
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    I don't know how Liam Neeson hasn't been mentioned yet


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  • #72
    mosi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭mosi


    Charlize Theron does a good job of coming across as a Yank. I've always been aware that she's South African but anytime I've heard her speak in interviews, at awards etc, she has an American accent. However, South Africans that I've met have told me that when she's speaking at anything at home, she reverts to her South African accent.


  • #73
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RobbieTheRobber wrote: »
    Arnold Schwarzenegger having watched him play so many all-american type hero I was shocked :eek: to find out he wasn't born in America!

    And becoming governor of California. Mad.


  • #74
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Ellen's wife Portia di Rossi. Astonishing to me that's she's Australian and lived the first 20 odd years of her life there - she hasn't a trace of an accent in interview, on film or anywhere, just your standard generic Hollywood drawl.

    It makes her instantly unlikeable to me.


  • #75
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Cary Grant


  • #76
    ianobrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Diane Kruger had done such a good job that when auditioning for Inglorious Ba$tards she had a terrible job convincing Quentin Tarantino that she was a native German (he wanted German speakers). By all accounts, a passport had to be produced. Tarantino thought she was a yank.


  • #77
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    Liam Neeson in taken. I was convinced he was a yank after that.


  • #78
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Arnie


  • #79
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    ianobrien wrote: »
    Diane Kruger had done such a good job that when auditioning for Inglorious Ba$tards she had a terrible job convincing Quentin Tarantino that she was a native German (he wanted German speakers). By all accounts, a passport had to be produced. Tarantino thought she was a yank.

    She could yank me...


  • #80
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Yvonne Strahovski


  • #81
    Hunchback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭Hunchback


    Gillian Anderson, Scully from X-Files. I practically had to be resuscitated when I found out she was English.


    And as an earlier poster said, yer wan from six feet under as well


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  • #82
    Chazz Michael Michaels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Chazz Michael Michaels


    ken wrote: »
    House
    /thread.

    And yet the thread didn't end.


  • #83
    haro124
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭haro124


    Natalie Portman- didn't have a clue she's Israeli


  • #84
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    Eric Bana. Namely for Black Hawk Down.


  • #85
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    I think Idris "Stringer Bell" Elba has won this thread. Congrats muhfukka....


  • #86
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,989 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Laura Fraser in Breaking Bad
    Melanie Lynskey is from New Zealand


  • #87
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    Fratton Fred wrote: »

    Best English accent by an American actor I've heard.

    The members of the band Spinal Tap were the best English accents by Americans that I ever heard.


  • #88
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Joel Kinnaman from the The Killing US and Robocop. I just assumed he was American, but he's actually Swedish!


  • #89
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Melanie Lynskey is from New Zealand

    Yeah, she was excellent in Peter Jackson's (best) film, Heavenly Creatures.


  • #90
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    When I saw L.A. Confidential, I had no difficulty telling that Russell Crowe was from Dunnunda, but Guy Pearce was another matter entirely. Born in England, grew up in Australia, appeared in Home and Away and Neighbours before making it big in Hollywood. Just to complicate matters, he played King Edward VIII (the one who abdicated) in The King's Speech.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



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  • #91
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Errol Flynn
    Sidney Poitier
    Cary Grant
    Mischa Barton


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