History FakeAmerican / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/Defiance'': Tony Curran (Scottish), Jaime Murray (British), Mia Kirshner (Canadian) and Grant Bowler (Australian) all play Americans with very good accents, especially Curran and Murray.

* ''BostonLegal'': In Season 4, the English actress Saffron Burrows joined the show as lawyer Lorraine Weller, with a really bad fake American accent. After a few episodes (presumably after the producers realized the tremendous mistake they had made by casting her as an American), they used a hastily concocted plot twist (she was in hiding from her past life as a high-class British madam) that enabled her to revert to her natural speech, and the horrible American accent was never heard again.

* ''Series/Hannibal'': British Hugh Dancy as Will Graham. The series also has multiple Canadian actors playing Americans.
** Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal Lecter) is actually from Denmark

** Don't forget Jack Harkness, played by Glaswegian John Barrowman, who does have an American accent in real life (except when talking to his parents). Harkness is a Fake American {{{In-Universe}}' as well, being from another planet in the 51st century but posing as an American officer in World War II.

** Don't forget Jack Harkness, played by Glaswegian John Barrowman, who does have an American accent in real life (except when talking to his parents). Harkness is a Fake American ''{{In-Universe}}'' as well, being from another planet in the 51st century but posing as an American officer in World War II.

** Don't forget Jack Harkness, played by Glaswegian John Barrowman.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': David Lyons (Australian) plays Bass Monroe, and Tracy Spiridakos (Charlie) is Greek-Canadian.

** Likewise, in Series/TrueBlood, Skarsgard sports an American accent to play Eric Northman, a vampire who had lived in America for many years. British actor Stephen Moyer and Canadian-New Zealand actress AnnaPaquin also both sport southern American accents to play Bill and Sookie, respectively. Though Moyer's had a few instances where his real accent slipped through.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Laura Fraser does an impeccable American accent as Lydia. Most viewers would never guess that she is Scottish.

** Samantha Carter, played by English-Canadian actress AmandaTapping. Most of the time there's no problem, but a few words in particular she pronounces in a more English or Canadian manner (For example, the word "assume", which she pronounces as "uh-SYOOM" while most Americans say "uh-SOOM"). We don't know where ''exactly'' the character's from, so maybe when she was a kid she lived somewhere that she would pick up a few "exotic" pronunciations?

* ''{{Moonlight}}'': Two of the main characters are played by Fake Americans Alex O'Loughlin (Australian) and Sophia Myles (British). In a subversion, Shannyn Sossamon, who is American plays a FakeAmerican character (Coraline was born in pre-revolutionary France). In fact, most of the older vampires can be considered to be FakeAmerican characters, especially the 700-year old Lola (played by O'Loughlin's then-girlfriend Holly Valance, also an Aussie).

* ''NewAmsterdam'': Nikolaj Coster Waldau plays John Amsterdam in this show and has a good American accent, despite the fact that both he and (technically) his character are [[FakeAmerican Fake Americans]]: the character was born in the Netherlands and the actor is Danish. Oh, and John's parter Eva Marquez is played by a Brit, and therefore is also a FakeAmerican.
* ''NipTuck'': Stars Julian [=McMahon=] (who is from Australia) and Joely Richardson (from England) as Americans. In general, Richardson's American accent is much more accurate than [=McMahon=]'s (except when she says the word "family").
* ''{{Numb3rs}}'': In the Season 5 finale, James Callis, a Brit, plays cult leader Mason Duryea with a believable Southern drawl.
* ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]'': Speaking of Idris Elba, he played the dry but quite American Dunder-Mifflin executive Charles Miner on the American version of this show.

** Jamie Bamber (Lt. Foley)

** He has used an American accent for his other American TV appearances--Series/ColdCase, CSIMiami, Series/{{House}}, Series/GhostWhisperer, etc.

** Bryan Singer actually held him up to the other producers as a shining example of what a 'real American actor' was. It's quite jarring to hear Laurie speak in his native British accent these days. It takes quite a while to realize that the ''{{Blackadder}}'' Laurie and the ''Series/{{House}}'' Laurie were the Same Laurie[[hottip:*: For those who don't follow British comedy, he also appears with full English accent in the ''Friends'' episode "The One with Ross's Wedding" (season 4, episode 23). Laurie's character spends most of his lines berating Rachel during her last-minute flight to London]].

* ''Series/{{BreakingBad}}'': Laura Fraser does an impeccable American accent as Lydia. Most viewers would never guess that she is Scottish.

** In "Dalek", the American characters are played by Kiwi Anna-Louise Plowman, Canadian Nigel Whitney, and British Steven Beckingham.

*** As well as the rarely playing a british guy, Andrew Garfield

* ''TheOffice'': Speaking of Idris Elba, he played the dry but quite American Dunder-Mifflin executive Charles Miner on the American version of this show.

** During an interview, his LawAndOrderUK costar FreemaAgyeman quipped that people were genuinely shocked to learn that he's British, as he'd nailed an American accent so well for four years on ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.

* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'': One old episode featured John Candy in a parody of ''MidnightCowboy'' with a bizarre, hooting accent that was evidently supposed to be Southern US. It was intentional though, as the character's brain-meltingly awful accent (where "y'all" came out as a bizarre, howling "yole") was mocked at least once in the sketch.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Linus Roache's sort-of New York accent. It has improved since he started...
* ''EleventhHour'': Rufus Sewell seems to be doing an American Standard accent.
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Yvonne Strahovski (Australian) plays a CIA agent. She uses her native accent in one of the episodes when she's posing as an Australian scientist.
* ''AreYouBeingServed'': In one episode, Mrs. Slocombe's American uncle is played by a Brit with a very unconvincing accent.
** A very unconvincing New York accent. And he is shown wearing a Stetson hat!
* ''{{Thunderbirds}}'': Gerry Anderson made a conscious effort to make most of the characters American, in order to improve his chances of selling the show internationally. The voice actors who provided the performances were almost all British (the number of ''actual'' Americans who provide voices for the Anderson shows can literally be counted on one hand - David Holliday, David Healy, Robert Easton (''Stingray'') and Ed Bishop), and while the accents themselves are convincing, the dialogue is marked by word usages and slang exclusive to the UK.
** Have you ever heard a FakeAmerican pull off a FakeBrit?
-->'''Jeff Tracy:''' [badly pulling off a british accent] "Oh, bang on. Jolly good show."
* Montreal's WilliamShatner in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''BostonLegal''.
* ''{{Spooks}}'': Has various CIA agents who generally sound half New York City, half Midwestern, and thoroughly JerkAss.
** The later series have some dreadful accents (so bad even British people can tell). Most notably Irish-Australian actress, Genevieve O'Reilly as CIA operative, Sarah Caulfield.
* ''GenerationKill'': Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard plays US Marine Brad Colbert. His accent isn't entirely accurate at times, but it lends itself toward Colbert's status as Bravo Company's "Iceman" and CulturedWarrior.
** Likewise, in Series/TrueBlood, Skarsgard sports an American accent to play Eric Northman, a vampire who had lived in America for many years. British actor Stephen Moyer and Canadian-New Zealand actress AnnaPaquin also both sport southern American accents to play Bill and Sookie, respectively. Though Moyer's had a few instances where his real accent slipped through.
*** Also, Australian actor Ryan Kwanten, who plays Sookie's brother Jason. However, Sam Trammell (who plays -- naturally -- [[TheDanza Sam]]) presumably uses his native accent, being a Louisiana native.
* ''Series/JonathanCreek'': British Anthony Head portrayed Adam Klaus with an American accent. His replacement, Stuart Milligan, actually is American.
** Oddly, Adam Klaus is himself a FakeAmerican and is really Scottish, and Milligan's American accent convincingly "slips" every once in a while.
* ''FawltyTowers'': In the episode "Waldorf Salad", the ugly American, Mr. Hamilton, is played by the Canadian actor Bruce Boa, with an audible Canadian accent.
* ''BostonLegal'': In Season 4, the English actress Saffron Burrows joined the show as lawyer Lorraine Weller, with a really bad fake American accent. After a few episodes (presumably after the producers realized the tremendous mistake they had made by casting her as an American), they used a hastily concocted plot twist (she was in hiding from her past life as a high-class British madam) that enabled her to revert to her natural speech, and the horrible American accent was never heard again.
* ''{{Numb3rs}}'': In the Season 5 finale, James Callis, a Brit, plays cult leader Mason Duryea with a believable Southern drawl.
* MelanieLynskey from ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' and ''{{Drive}}''. On {{Psych}} she used her native New Zealand accent.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In-show, Angel is a FakeAmerican (using David Boreanaz's own accent) from Ireland.
* ''{{Roswell}}'': Had the Australian Emilie de Ravin playing Tess. Emilie's accent slipped a couple of times during her first appearance on the show, but was otherwise convincing.
* ''{{Damages}}'': Rose Byrne (an Aussie) plays Ellen Parsons, a young American lawyer, with a great American accent.

* ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'': ''So'' many people. Some of them are just talking British with an American accent.
* ''The Last Days Of Lehman Brothers'': In this English TV movie, James Bolam puts on an ''atrocious'' "Southern" accent.
* Creator/BennyHill tried to affect a New York accent in a few sketches playing an Archie Bunker-like character. He didn't even come close.
* Lampshaded in an SCTV sketch lampooning MidnightCowboy, in which Canadian John Candy affected a "Southern" accent so tortured that "y'all" came out "yole" and the entire effect was weirdly similar to yodeling.
* ''Series/MythBusters'': Robert Lee, the narrator of this show and others, is a borderline example--he was born in England, but raised in America, and now lives in Australia. He does his voice-over with an American accent, but uses many, ''many'' Britishisms, such as "aluminium" or a person being "in hospital," to name just two.
* ''Series/BurnNotice'': British Gabrielle Anwar normally does a pretty darn good job of pretending to be an Irishwoman pretending to be American. Her accent works very well. Only rarely does it slip, usually when overpronouncing arrs she'd normally leave out.
* ''{{Moonlight}}'': Two of the main characters are played by Fake Americans Alex O'Loughlin (Australian) and Sophia Myles (British). In a subversion, Shannyn Sossamon, who is American plays a FakeAmerican character (Coraline was born in pre-revolutionary France). In fact, most of the older vampires can be considered to be FakeAmerican characters, especially the 700-year old Lola (played by O'Loughlin's then-girlfriend Holly Valance, also an Aussie).
** Josef Kostan, played by the Jason Dohring (American), was originally supposed to be played by Rade Šerbedžija (Croatian) and would've had a thick East-European accent.
* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': Intra-American example: David Ogden Stiers – from central Illinois – played Bostonian Major Winchester on this show with a strong Brahmin accent. RogerEbert, who went to high school with Stiers in Urbana, IL, once commented that he sounded "like that" even back then.
* ''Series/TheDresdenFiles'': The TV series featured FakeAmerican Paul Blackthorne (who was born in Shropshire, England and who grew up on British military bases in Germany and in England) as the very American wizard-private investigator Harry Dresden. The show also starred FakeBrit Terrence Mann (who was born in Ashland, Kentucky and who grew up in Largo, Florida) as ghost-with-a-Teutonic-name-and-a-British-accent Hrothbert of Bainbridge. Bainbridge, by the way, is a real town in North Yorkshire.
* ''TheGates'': Paul Blackthorne also plays an American vampire in several episodes.
* ''Series/BionicWoman'': Michelle Ryan who played Jaime Sommers in this 2007 TV series fakes it. But this is also subverted in one episode where Jaime goes undercover at a college as a British student, with Michelle using her own accent. The episode also stretches the subversion to include a sequence where she continues to use the fake/real British accent while communicating with a fellow agent, who wonders why she's continuing to use the accent but admits he finds it sexy.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': James Callis as Dr. Grant. Since Grant is also a time-traveler, he has to affect an American accent from the 1940s. The accent is really terrible, although some of that is attributable to the occasionally {{narm}}tastic lines he has to deliver.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'': JamieBamber (a native Londoner) played Lee "Apollo" Adama with an American accent, though his character isn't identified as such since the series [[spoiler:is set several hundred thousand years before "Britain," "America," or indeed "the English language" were things]]. The idea was to make the relationship with Edward James Olmos more believable, in combination with Olmos wearing blue contacts and Bamber [[DyeingForYourArt dying his blond hair dark]].
** He has used an American accent for his other American TV appearances--Series/ColdCase, CSIMiami, Series/{{House}}, Series/GhostWhisperer, etc.
** One commercial on BBC America for ''Law & Order: UK'' calls him "secretly British".
** During an interview, his LawAndOrderUK costar FreemaAgyeman quipped that people were genuinely shocked to learn that he's British, as he'd nailed an American accent so well for four years on ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.
* ''{{Californication}}'': NataschaMcElhone, born in London and raised in Brighton, plays Hank Moody's sassy, East Coast American for-all-intents-and-purposes-wife/ex-wife/lost love on this show.
* ''Series/JohnAdams'': British actors Stephen Dillane, Tom Wilkinson, and Rufus Sewell played Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton in this HBO miniseries.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': British actors Andrew Lincoln, Lennie James and David Morrissey as, respectively, the southerners Rick, Morgan and the Governor in this show.
** A borderline example is Laurie Holden as Andrea – while she was born in the US, she was raised in Canada.
** Lauren Cohan is another borderline example. She was born in the US and spent the early part of her life there but has lived in Britain long enough to develop an accent.
* Brit Cary Elwes donned an American accent to play Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins (though ironically, the real Collins was born in Rome, and raised as an army brat in various US towns), while Canadian Dave Foley faked a southern accent to play Apollo 12 moon-walker Al Bean in ''From the Earth to the Moon''.
** Cary Elwes also used a passable southern American accent in KissTheGirls. Sadly, when [[spoiler:his accent changed to a more "standard" American when he was revealed as the villain, he couldn't keep his real British accent from slipping through.]]
** He also played an American agent in season 9 of TheXFiles.
* ''TheRiches'': Starred the very British EddieIzzard and Minnie Driver as the patriarch and matriarch of a Southern family of con artists. Of the two, Driver does a much better job of it.


* ''{{Smallville}}'': Contains many Canadian actors, as it is filmed in Canada, despite taking place in Kansas and all characters listed here are from Kansas.
** Erica Durance (Lois Lane)
** Kristin Laura Kreuk (Lana Lang)
** Aaron Ashmore (Jimmy Olsen)
** Laura Vandervoort (Kara)
*** Actually, Kara's from Krypton.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Has several examples.
** "American" Companion Peri Brown is played by British Nicola Bryant.
** In "Dalek", the American characters are played by Kiwi Anna-Louise Plowman, Canadian Nigel Whitney, and British Steven Beckingham.
** "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" had British Miranda Raison and Ghanaian-born British-raised Hugh Quarshie as guests of that story.
*** As well as the rarely playing a british guy, Andrew Garfield
** Brits Mark Sheppard and William Morgan Sheppard play Canton Delaware in "The Imposssible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon". Other guests include Nigerian Chukwudi Iwuji, British Mark Griffin and Canadian Kerry Shale.
** In "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky", British actor Ryan Sampson plays Luke Rattigan.
** In ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'', Vienna-born George Roubicek and Welshman Clive Merrison play Captain Hopper and Jim Callum. Their accents are quite awful.
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* Actress Tammin Sursok (of Australia soap opera ''HomeAndAway'') was cast as Colleen Carlton on American soap opera ''TheYoungAndTheRestless'' which launched her North American career. She has been in various movies and tv shows since then using an American accent. Most recently, as the blind Jenna on ''PrettyLittleLiars''. Although having an Australian accent, the actress was actually born in South Africa (as was her co-star Sasha Pieterse, although unlike Tammin she was brought up in the US).
** She also played an American super model in the final season of HannahMontana. For the most part, she managed to sound pretty convincing, but she seemed to have trouble with certain words and sounds and you could tell she wasn't really from the states.

* ''Series/StrikeBack'': Sullivan Stapleton, an Australian, plays the allegedly American Damien Scott in this Creator/{{Cinemax}} action show. For extra irony/mind screw points, his [[FakeBrit "British"]] counterpart Michael Stonebridge is played by American Philip Winchester.

* ''Series{{BreakingBad}}'': Laura Fraser does an impeccable American accent as Lydia. Most viewers would never guess that she is Scottish.

* ''{{Roseanne}}'': The late Irish actor Glenn Quinn portrayed for several seasons the American Mark Healy, the reviled son-in-law of the title character.


* ''TheSandbaggers'': Avoided the problem of FakeAmerican by having American characters Jeff Ross and Karen Milner played by American actors.

* ''Series/TheSecretCircle'': Has Phoebe Tonkin, the actress who plays Faye, who is actually from Australia.
** Louis Hunter and Jessica Parker Kennedy are from Australia and Canada, respectively.
** Natasha Henstridge is Canadian as well.

* ''TheOffice'': Speaking of Idris Elba, he played the dry but quite American Dunder-Mifflin executive Charles Miner on the American version of this show.

* British TV detective series, such as ''{{Mystery}}'', ''SherlockHolmes,'' etc., have American characters turn up every so often. You can usually tell when a British actor is doing a Fake American, because he is SPEAKING FIVE DECIBELS LOUDER THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE SCENE. Also, the minor American characters in these shows tend to be [[{{Eagleland}} pushy and obnoxious]], sometimes ludicrously so.
** In ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', Creator/JohnCleese, as the Grim Reaper, collects four people from a dinner party. When the American, played by real American Terry Gilliam, objects, Death tells him off: "Shut up, you American! You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say 'let me tell you something' and 'I just wanna say'. Well, you're dead now, so shut up!"
* ''{{Frasier}}'': Parodied by Daphne only being able to say one word like an American. ("Sure.")
** Jane Leeves, who plays Daphne, was born in Essex and brought up in Sussex, but puts on a Mancunian (i.e. from Manchester) accent throughout the series. See FakeBrit for more details.
*** A later episode shows that Daphne has gotten "better" at her fake American accent when she holds an entire phone conversation with it. Frasier compares her deep-voiced attempt to the voice of a drag queen.
** The Daphne example becomes doubly-amusing once you learn that John Mahoney, who played Frasier's all-American dad Martin, is an ACTUAL Mancunian (though he spent decades in the US before this show began).


* ''{{Journeyman}}'': Kevin [=McKidd=]'s perpetually slipping American accent can be grating on the ears.
** Though he wasn't as bad ''GreysAnatomy''.
* StargateVerse: Many characters are Canadians playing Americans, because a lot of shoots – and almost all outdoor shoots – are done in and around Vancouver.
** Samantha Carter, played by English-Canadian actress AmandaTapping. Most of the time there's no problem, but a few words in particular she pronounces in a more English or Canadian manner (For example, the word "assume", which she pronounces as "uh-SYOOM" while most Americans say "uh-SOOM"). We don't know where ''exactly'' the character's from, so maybe when she was a kid she lived somewhere that she would pick up a few "exotic" pronunciations?
*** It's particularly glaring in one scene where Carter comments on Rodney's and his sister's Canadian pronunciation of "sorry," then immediately says the word with the ''exact same pronunciation'' herself.
** Dr. Daniel Jackson, played by Canadian Michael Shanks. Like the Carter example above, his accent is mostly fine, but every once in a while a "sore-y" or two slips out.
*** Particularly amusing is the one sentence he speaks while playing John Crichton in the 20-second ''Farscape'' parody in ''[[Series/StargateSG1 SG-1]]'''s 200th episode. He imitates the Southern accent of his co-star Ben Browder, who played Crichton originally, and the result is less than perfect. But since it's an over-the-top parody, that's okay.
** Dr. Jennifer Keller, played by Canadian Jewel Staite in ''Series/StargateAtlantis''.
*** To Be Fair, Keller is supposed to be from Chippewa Falls, WI -- and a lot of us from the region really do have pretty much the same accent.
** On the other hand, in Staite's other famous science fiction role as Kaylee Frye on ''{{Firefly}}'', the Oklahoma-esque accent she seems to be attempting [[OohMeAccentsSlipping slips constantly]].

* ''TheFullMonty'': Mark Addy, the 'fat bastard', did a fake American accent for four years on ''Still Standing''.
** The same one he did while playing Fred Flintstone, basically. Of course, in that case, he was supposed to sound like a cartoon...
* ''Volcano in New York'': The entire cast of this SyFyChannelOriginalMovie had [badly] put on "Noo Yawk" accents.

* Alan Dale, a New Zealander, has played several American characters, including a Vice-President of the United States in ''Series/TwentyFour'', and the patriarch of the Meade family in ''UglyBetty''. He seems to be the guy you break out for evil American roles.
** Not to mention his role as devious patriarch Caleb Nichol in ''Series/TheOC''.
* ''NipTuck'': Stars Julian [=McMahon=] (who is from Australia) and Joely Richardson (from England) as Americans. In general, Richardson's American accent is much more accurate than [=McMahon=]'s (except when she says the word "family").
* ''NewAmsterdam'': Nikolaj Coster Waldau plays John Amsterdam in this show and has a good American accent, despite the fact that both he and (technically) his character are [[FakeAmerican Fake Americans]]: the character was born in the Netherlands and the actor is Danish. Oh, and John's parter Eva Marquez is played by a Brit, and therefore is also a FakeAmerican.
* ''Series/ThePrisoner'': In the SomethingCompletelyDifferent episode of this show, Patrick [=McGoohan=] affects an American accent that even an online transcript points out as unconvincing.
** Oddly, [=McGoohan=] actually was born in America. His character on the 1959-60 ''Danger Man'' series, John Drake, was in theory supposed to be an American working for NATO, but he basically sounded like [=McGoohan=].

* ''BetterOffTed'': Australian Portia [=DeRossi=] as American Veronica in this show.
** And Lindsay Bluth on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', and Nell Porter on ''AllyMcBeal''.
*** Her accent is completely convincing until she says the word "anything".
* ''{{Deadwood}}'': The creators of this show were unsure whether Ian [=McShane=] could completely pull off an American accent for his role as Al Swearengen. They added English ancestry to his past, something untrue of the real Swearengen, to explain any slips.
** Paula Malcomson, who plays Trixie is from Northern Ireland but manages very well.
** Immigrant backgrounds are a good way to cover up any accent problems in the plot and are entirely plausible, historically. Hence Polish Izabella Miko and South African Alice Krige play transient prostitute characters in the third season.
* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'': Lennie James as Rob Hawkins.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Evangeline Lilly, a Canadian, plays Kate, who is from Iowa. In an early flashback, before we knew much about her backstory, Kate mentioned being from Canada, but she turned out to be lying. Since then, Canada has become a RunningGag, in that every time Canada is mentioned, the character who does so is lying about ''something''.
* ''BrothersAndSisters'': Matthew Rhys (Welsh) and Rachel Griffiths (Australian) put on a very convincing American accent.
* ''GossipGirl'': Ed Westwick is a Brit who plays American Chuck Bass.
** Parodied early in the second season, when Chuck fakes the (very bad) English accent of the aristocrat who's romancing Blair (instead of using his own natural accent).
* EliStone is supposed to be an American lawyer, who is played by British actor Creator/JonnyLeeMiller, who also faked a Scottish accent in ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', but that's a different trope altogether.
* ''TheMentalist'': Simon Baker (Australian) and Owain Yeoman (Welsh).
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'': One old episode featured John Candy in a parody of ''MidnightCowboy'' with a bizarre, hooting accent that was evidently supposed to be Southern US. It was intentional though, as the character's brain-meltingly awful accent (where "y'all" came out as a bizarre, howling "yole") was mocked at least once in the sketch.

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': Has Elena played by the Bulgarian born Canadian Nina Dobrev.
** Several of the Originals (at least Klaus, Rebekah, and Kol plus the dead son Henrick) were born in the New World, making them American and they are not played by American actors.
* ''Warehouse13'': Paul Blackthorne appeared in a ChristmasEpisode of this show using a pretty bad American accent.
* ''Series/TheWire'': Has several non-US actors including Dominic West (who plays Jimmy [=McNulty=]; is from Sheffield, England), Idris Elba (Stringer Bell; London, England) and Aiden Gillen (Tommy Carcetti; Dublin, Ireland) who attempt American accents with varying degrees of success.
** In the Season Two episode ''Stray Round,'' the show has an example of LampshadeHanging when [=McNulty=] ''fakes'' a British accent while going undercover to expose a prostitution ring. His Brit accent is [[HowsYourBritishAccent awful]] at first, but it ''improves'' (when the actor basically speaks in his natural British accent).
** Idris Elba was so dedicated to his accent (and so good at it) that he used his Stringer Bell voice during promotional appearances in order to avoid disturbing ''Wire'' fans.
* ''Series/WithoutATrace'': Anthony [=LaPaglia=] (Jack Malone), Poppy Montgomery (Sam Spade), and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Vivian Johnson). The first two are Aussies, the latter British.
** Although [=LaPaglia=] and Montgomery have been putting on the American accent for so long that they scarcely sound Australian any more. In fact, Montgomery once said that her Australian accent has atrophied so much that when she attempts it with her family, they tell her to just give up.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': David Lyons (Australian) plays Bass Monroe, and Tracy Spiridakos (Charlie) is Greek-Canadian.
* ''{{Ringer}}'': Tara Summers in this show, who plays an American next to Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, is not only British but shares her name with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Tara Maclay and Buffy Summers.]]

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': In the second episode (the marriage counsellor sketch), Creator/JohnCleese attempts (unsuccessfully) a cowboy drawl. (Significantly, the version of this sketch included in ''And Now For Something Completely Different'', a CompilationMovie targeted at American audiences, replaced the cowboy character with the voice of God.) In the third episode, the "Bicycle Repair Man" sketch features deliberately exaggerated American accents.
** John did this again in the "Attila The Hun Show" sketch. Since the joke was about putting a major historical character into an American-style sitcom, he naturally attempted a generic Midwest/California accent. It's... not very good.
** Apparently all you have to do is add [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tXtPygIL5E r's]] there and there.
*** Nope, that's just the Pythons. Even Terry Gilliam, who ''is'' American (he's from Minnesota), can't do a convincing American accent.
*** Chapman manages an accent that sounds fairly American in that clip, it's just that he can't seem to settle on one region: It's a weird mix of John Wayne (Iowa), JFK ("idear", Boston), and something vaguely Texan.
*** Michael Palin is possibly the worst here, though he has pretty stiff competition from both Terry Jones and Chapman, Mike doesn't even bother for most of his lines.
** On the other hand, in the several Python performances where she used a Yank accent ("Scott of the Antarctic", etc), Carol Cleveland's pronunciation was flawless... being half-American probably was a contributing factor.
*** In that same sketch, Eric Idle plays an obviously-American film producer. His accent isn't awful, but he gives himself away when he over-corrects his "r"s.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': HughLaurie as Dr. Gregory House. When he auditioned for the part, his accent was disguised so well one of the producers of the series thought he ''was'' an American ''from the same region as the character''. Maybe it had to do something with the fact that his American voice sounds ''really, really creepy and ominous''.
** People who'd seen him in the live action film of 101 Dalmatians (he plays one of Cruella's henchmen) have heard his native accent.
** Bryan Singer actually held him up to the other producers as a shining example of what a 'real American actor' was. It's quite jarring to hear Laurie speak in his native British accent these days. It takes quite a while to realize that the ''{{Blackadder}}'' Laurie and the ''Series/{{House}}'' Laurie were the Same Laurie[[hottip:*: For those who don't follow British comedy, he also appears with full English accent in the ''Friends'' episode "The One with Ross's Wedding" (season 4, episode 23). Laurie's character spends most of his lines berating Rachel during her last-minute flight to London]].
** Laurie does however do his 'George (Blackadder) voice' in an episode where he tries to convince someone over the phone that he is English.
** Lampshaded in an episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' called "Poison", in which Chase uses a horrible fake American accent (Southern, of course) to trick a patient's mother. When he demonstrates the accent, House replies, "You fooled her with ''that''?"
*** He also does a reasonably good American accent in season six when House told him women were only interested in him for his looks, and challenged him to try speed-dating without the accent or mentioning his profession.
** A recurring skit on ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' had Laurie and his co-star Stephen Fry both playing overbearing American tycoons; which typically consisted of horribly, and obviously, fake American accents, and cursing at high volume.
** Laurie has released a blues album called ''Let Them Talk'', on which he ''sings'' with an very twangy American accent.
** The two times Hugh Laurie hosted ''SaturdayNightLive'' zigzagged this trope. Most of the time, he spoke with his native British accent while other times, he spoke with an American-sounding accent that was more-or-less a toned-down version of the voice he uses when he plays Gregory House.
* ''Series/{{Poirot}}'': Jaime Murray in the episode "Mystery of the Blue Train".
* ''Series/WithoutATrace'': Anthony [=LaPaglia=] (Jack Malone), Poppy Montgomery (Sam Spade), and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Vivian Johnson). The first two are Aussies, the latter British.
** Although [=LaPaglia=] and Montgomery have been putting on the American accent for so long that they scarcely sound Australian any more. In fact, Montgomery once said that her Australian accent has atrophied so much that when she attempts it with her family, they tell her to just give up.
* ''{{Roseanne}}'': The late Irish actor Glenn Quinn portrayed for several seasons the American Mark Healy, the reviled son-in-law of the title character.

* ''TheSandbaggers'': Avoided the problem of FakeAmerican by having American characters Jeff Ross and Karen Milner played by American actors.

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': Has Elena played by the Bulgarian born Canadian Nina Dobrev.
** Several of the Originals (at least Klaus, Rebekah, and Kol plus the dead son Henrick) were born in the New World, making them American and they are not played by American actors.
* ''Series/TheWire'': Has several non-US actors including Dominic West (who plays Jimmy [=McNulty=]; is from Sheffield, England), Idris Elba (Stringer Bell; London, England) and Aiden Gillen (Tommy Carcetti; Dublin, Ireland) who attempt American accents with varying degrees of success.
** In the Season Two episode ''Stray Round,'' the show has an example of LampshadeHanging when [=McNulty=] ''fakes'' a British accent while going undercover to expose a prostitution ring. His Brit accent is [[HowsYourBritishAccent awful]] at first, but it ''improves'' (when the actor basically speaks in his natural British accent).
** Idris Elba was so dedicated to his accent (and so good at it) that he used his Stringer Bell voice during promotional appearances in order to avoid disturbing ''Wire'' fans.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Double Parody: James Marsters (an American) playing (British vampire) Spike attempting a bad American accent ("No, sirr, eye'm a frrend o' Xanderrrs.")
* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': An unusual version of this was seen on this show where British actress Emily Mortimer played a character who was ultimately revealed to be an American posing as a Brit. Naturally, her character's "fake" British accent was completely flawless and she only did one line with an American accent.

* ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'': Jane Seymour has played many American characters[[note]]and became an American citizen in 2005[[/note]], most notably this show.
** In fact, as Dr. Quinn, she spoke with an old-world Boston accent – which is similar to a British accent, at least as far as American accents go.

* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'': This show is absolutely stuffed with British and other non-American actors, including but not limited to:
** Damian Lewis (Winters)
** Shane Taylor (Doc Roe)
** Peter Youngblood Hills (Shifty Powers) - South African
** Nicholas Aaron (Popeye Winn)
** Dexter Fletcher (Sgt. Martin)
** Robin Laing (Babe Heffron)
** Rick Warden (Harry Welsh)
** Matthew Leitch (Tab Talbert)
** Marc Warren (Blythe)
** Jamie Bamber (Lt. Foley)
** Peter O'Meara (Lt. Dike) - Irish
** Stephen Graham (Mike Ranney)
* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' (2010 version): Aussie Alex O'Loughlin as Steve [=McGarrett=].

* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'': British actor Ryan Cartwright adopts an American accent.

* ''{{Dollhouse}}'': Dichen Lachman puts on an American accent when she is Sierra (and for various imprinted identities) and uses her natural Australian accent for Sierra's true identity, Priya Tsestang.
** There's also British actor Mark Sheppard as American FBI Agent Graham Tanaka.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Strangely, both Castle and Beckett's actors, Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, respectively, are Canadians.
* Jake Weber on AmericanGothic and {{Medium}} does an impeccable American accent. You'd really never think He was from England.
* ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'': Louise Lombard played Sofia Curtis on this show, and did such a poor job trying to sound American that it turned into a WhatTheHellIsThatAccent situation.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': David James Elliott aka Harmon Rabb, Jr. in this show hails from Canada. However, he did become a U.S. Citizen during the show's run.
* ''Series/LastResort'': Another fake American Naval officer, Lt. Cmdr. Sam Kendal of the USS ''Colorado'' in this show is played by British-Canadian actor Scott Speedman.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': David Lyons (Australian) plays Bass Monroe, and Tracy Spiridakos (Charlie) is Greek-Canadian.
* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'': Has three: Nicholas Brody is played by Damien Lewis, David Estes is played by David Harewood, and Peter Quinn is played by Rupert Friend, all of whom are British.
* ''Series{{BreakingBad}}'': Laura Fraser does an impeccable American accent as Lydia. Most viewers would never guess that she is Scottish.
* British, but US-based infomercial host Anthony Sullivan is infamous for his mangling of words like "potatoes" and "forty five" to sound like the American pronunciations. Apparently he does this to appeal to the [[ViewersAreMorons least intelligent demographic]]
* British comedian Tracy Ullman used a number of different American accents on her various sketch shows. She said that most British actors tend to sound very nasal when doing an American accent.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Brings us Stephen Amell (Canadian) as Oliver Queen, Paul Blackthorne (British) as Quentin Lance, Jessica De Gouw (Autsralian) as Helena Bertinelli, Alex Kingston (British) as Dinah Lance and John Barrowman (Scottish but American-raised) as Malcolm Merlyn.

* Michelle Ryan who played Jaime Sommers in the 2007 TV series ''Series/BionicWoman'' fakes it. But this is also subverted in one episode where Jaime goes undercover at a college as a British student, with Michelle using her own accent. The episode also stretches the subversion to include a sequence where she continues to use the fake/real British accent while communicating with a fellow agent, who wonders why she's continuing to use the accent but admits he finds it sexy.
* James Callis as Dr. Grant in ''Series/{{Eureka}}''. Since Grant is also a time-traveler, he has to affect an American accent from the 1940s. The accent is really terrible, although some of that is attributable to the occasionally {{narm}}tastic lines he has to deliver.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'': JamieBamber (a native Londoner) played Lee "Apollo" Adama with an American accent, though his character isn't identified as such since the series [[spoiler:is set several hundred thousand years before "Britain," "America," or indeed "the English language" were things]]. The idea was to make the relationship with Edward James Olmos more believable, in combination with Olmos wearing blue contacts and Bamber [[DyeingForYourArt dying his blond hair dark]].

* NataschaMcElhone, born in London and raised in Brighton, plays Hank Moody's sassy, East Coast American for-all-intents-and-purposes-wife/ex-wife/lost love on {{Californication}}.
* British actors Stephen Dillane, Tom Wilkinson, and Rufus Sewell played Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton in the HBO miniseries ''Series/JohnAdams.''
* British actors Andrew Lincoln, Lennie James and David Morrissey as, respectively, the southerners Rick, Morgan and the Governor in ''Series/TheWalkingDead''.

* ''TheRiches'' starred the very British EddieIzzard and Minnie Driver as the patriarch and matriarch of a Southern family of con artists. Of the two, Driver does a much better job of it.
* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' is absolutely stuffed with British and other non-American actors, including but not limited to:

* {{Smallville}} contains many Canadian actors, as it is filmed in Canada, despite taking place in Kansas and all characters listed here are from Kansas.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has several examples.

* British actor Ryan Cartwright adopts an American accent on ''Series/{{Alphas}}''.
* Sullivan Stapleton, an Australian, plays the allegedly American Damien Scott in the Creator/{{Cinemax}} action show ''Series/StrikeBack''. For extra irony/mind screw points, his [[FakeBrit "British"]] counterpart Michael Stonebridge is played by American Philip Winchester.
* On {{Dollhouse}}, Dichen Lachman puts on an American accent when she is Sierra (and for various imprinted identities) and uses her natural Australian accent for Sierra's true identity, Priya Tsestang.

* Strangely, both Series/{{Castle}} and Beckett's actors, Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, respectively, are Canadians.

* Louise Lombard played Sofia Curtis on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and did such a poor job trying to sound American that it turned into a WhatTheHellIsThatAccent situation.
* Paul Blackthorne appeared in a ChristmasEpisode of Warehouse13 using a pretty bad American accent.
* Tara Summers in {{Ringer}}, who plays an American next to Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, is not only British but shares her name with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Tara Maclay and Buffy Summers.]]
* David James Elliott aka Harmon Rabb, Jr. on ''Series/{{JAG}}'' hails from Canada. However, he did become a U.S. Citizen during the show's run.
* Another fake American Naval officer, Lt. Cmdr. Sam Kendal of the USS ''Colorado'' in ''Series/LastResort'' is played by British-Canadian actor Scott Speedman.

* Laura Fraser does an impeccable American accent as Lydia in ''Series{{BreakingBad}}''. Most viewers would never guess that she is Scottish.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' brings us Stephen Amell (Canadian) as Oliver Queen, Paul Blackthorne (British) as Quentin Lance, Jessica De Gouw (Autsralian) as Helena Bertinelli, Alex Kingston (British) as Dinah Lance and John Barrowman (Scottish but American-raised) as Malcolm Merlyn.

* In the second episode of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' (the marriage counsellor sketch), Creator/JohnCleese attempts (unsuccessfully) a cowboy drawl. (Significantly, the version of this sketch included in ''And Now For Something Completely Different'', a CompilationMovie targeted at American audiences, replaced the cowboy character with the voice of God.) In the third episode, the "Bicycle Repair Man" sketch features deliberately exaggerated American accents.

* ''AsTimeGoesBy'' had an arc where Lionel and Jean work on an American miniseries. The producer they associate with has an American accent that's just as bad as the miniseries.
* HughLaurie as Dr. Gregory Series/{{House}}. When he auditioned for the part, his accent was disguised so well one of the producers of the series thought he ''was'' an American ''from the same region as the character''. Maybe it had to do something with the fact that his American voice sounds ''really, really creepy and ominous''.

* Jaime Murray in the ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' series episode "Mystery of the Blue Train".
* Anthony [=LaPaglia=] (Jack Malone), Poppy Montgomery (Sam Spade), and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Vivian Johnson) from ''Series/WithoutATrace''. The first two are Aussies, the latter British.

* The late Irish actor Glenn Quinn portrayed for several seasons the American Mark Healy, the reviled son-in-law of the title character on ''{{Roseanne}}''.
* American KyraSedgwick (a New York BlueBlood if there ever was one) fakes the [[strike:Southern]] ''specifically Georgia'' (it's good enough!) accent of her character Brenda Johnson in ''TheCloser''.
* Claudia Black on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has a pretty feeble accent when she plays Crichton inhabiting Aeryn's body. Her body language, though? Pure Ben Browder.

* ''TheSandbaggers'' avoided the problem of FakeAmerican by having American characters Jeff Ross and Karen Milner played by American actors.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', set mainly in Massachusetts, stars two Australians and a Canadian in the lead roles.
** The show DarkMatters on the ScienceChannel also has John Noble doing an American accent, as a possible ActorAllusion to his character on Series/{{Fringe}}, MadScientist Dr. Walter Bishop (the whole show discusses real-life scientists and mathematicians who can arguably be called [[MadScientist mad scientists]] themselves).
* ''Series/TheSecretCircle'', has Phoebe Tonkin, the actress who plays Faye, who is actually from Australia.

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' has Elena played by the Bulgarian born Canadian Nina Dobrev.

* ''Series/TheWire'' has several non-US actors including Dominic West (who plays Jimmy [=McNulty=]; is from Sheffield, England), Idris Elba (Stringer Bell; London, England) and Aiden Gillen (Tommy Carcetti; Dublin, Ireland) who attempt American accents with varying degrees of success.

* Speaking of Idris Elba, he played the dry but quite American Dunder-Mifflin executive Charles Miner on the American version of ''TheOffice''.
* Every season of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' from ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Ninja Storm]]'' through ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', due to a move to New Zealand, has had a number of New Zealanders with Fake Californian accents, including with it [[OohMeAccentsSlipping a certain amount of slippage]] (in such a way that, famously, Xander had to be handwaved as a native Aussie in ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'' [[RealLifeWritesThePlot because Richard Brancatisano ]][[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent couldn't hide his accent]]). The most obviously Fake American is probably Bede Skinner (who plays Jarrod in ''[[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Jungle Fury]]''). Beginning with ''[[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Samurai]]'', Americans were cast as the Rangers themselves, but all of the extras are still Kiwi.

* Parodied in ''{{Frasier}}'' by Daphne only being able to say one word like an American. ("Sure.")

* Double Parody: James Marsters (an American) playing (British vampire) Spike attempting a bad American accent, on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' ("No, sirr, eye'm a frrend o' Xanderrrs.")
* An unusual version of this was seen on ''Series/ThirtyRock'' where British actress Emily Mortimer played a character who was ultimately revealed to be an American posing as a Brit. Naturally, her character's "fake" British accent was completely flawless and she only did one line with an American accent.
* Kevin [=McKidd=]'s perpetually slipping American accent on ''{{Journeyman}}'' can be grating on the ears.

* Many StargateVerse characters are Canadians playing Americans, because a lot of shoots – and almost all outdoor shoots – are done in and around Vancouver.

* Anna Friel, who is English, pulls off a very convincing American accent as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles in ''PushingDaisies''.
* Mark Addy, the 'fat bastard' from ''TheFullMonty'', did a fake American accent for four years on ''Still Standing''.

* The entire cast of SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Volcano in New York'' had [badly] put on "Noo Yawk" accents.
* The Cat in ''Series/RedDwarf'' was supposed to be portrayed as a flashy American type. Danny John-Jules had a decent accent, marked by occasional cat-like yowls; but once in a while, British usage would slip in. e.g., "What I don't understand is why he went through the trouble of having to use his kidney as a full-stop." (A full-stop is a period)

* Charlie Hunnam from Newcastle, England, plays the American biker Jax Teller in Sons Of Anarchy. The accent he uses is a classic example of an English person overdoing an American accent, but at least works for the purpose of carrying the story. He tends to completely overdo the accent when the character is angry, leading to LargeHam moments.

* ''NipTuck'' stars Julian [=McMahon=] (who is from Australia) and Joely Richardson (from England) as Americans. In general, Richardson's American accent is much more accurate than [=McMahon=]'s (except when she says the word "family").
* Nikolaj Coster Waldau plays John Amsterdam in ''NewAmsterdam'' and has a good American accent, despite the fact that both he and (technically) his character are [[FakeAmerican Fake Americans]]: the character was born in the Netherlands and the actor is Danish. Oh, and John's parter Eva Marquez is played by a Brit, and therefore is also a FakeAmerican.
* In the SomethingCompletelyDifferent episode of ''Series/ThePrisoner'', Patrick [=McGoohan=] affects an American accent that even an online transcript points out as unconvincing.

* Jane Seymour has played many American characters[[note]]and became an American citizen in 2005[[/note]], most notably ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman''.

* Australian Portia [=DeRossi=] as American Veronica in ''BetterOffTed''.

* The creators of ''{{Deadwood}}'' were unsure whether Ian [=McShane=] could completely pull off an American accent for his role as Al Swearengen. They added English ancestry to his past, something untrue of the real Swearengen, to explain any slips.

* Lennie James as Rob Hawkins in ''Series/{{Jericho}}''.
* Evangeline Lilly, a Canadian, plays Kate, who is from Iowa, on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. In an early flashback, before we knew much about her backstory, Kate mentioned being from Canada, but she turned out to be lying. Since then, Canada has become a RunningGag, in that every time Canada is mentioned, the character who does so is lying about ''something''.
* Matthew Rhys (Welsh) and Rachel Griffiths (Australian) put on a very convincing American accent in ''BrothersAndSisters''.
* On ''GossipGirl'', Ed Westwick is a Brit who plays American Chuck Bass.

* Simon Baker (Australian) and Owain Yeoman (Welsh) in ''TheMentalist''.
* An old episode of ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' featured John Candy in a parody of ''MidnightCowboy'' with a bizarre, hooting accent that was evidently supposed to be Southern US. It was intentional though, as the character's brain-meltingly awful accent (where "y'all" came out as a bizarre, howling "yole") was mocked at least once in the sketch.
* Linus Roache's sort-of New York accent in ''Series/LawAndOrder''. It has improved since he started...
* Rufus Sewell seems to be doing an American Standard accent in ''EleventhHour.''
* Yvonne Strahovski (Australian) plays a CIA agent in ''Series/{{Chuck}}''. She uses her native accent in one of the episodes when she's posing as an Australian scientist.
* In an episode of ''AreYouBeingServed'', Mrs. Slocombe's American uncle is played by a Brit with a very unconvincing accent.

* On ''{{Thunderbirds}}'', Gerry Anderson made a conscious effort to make most of the characters American, in order to improve his chances of selling the show internationally. The voice actors who provided the performances were almost all British (the number of ''actual'' Americans who provide voices for the Anderson shows can literally be counted on one hand - David Holliday, David Healy, Robert Easton (''Stingray'') and Ed Bishop), and while the accents themselves are convincing, the dialogue is marked by word usages and slang exclusive to the UK.

* ''{{Spooks}}'' has various CIA agents who generally sound half New York City, half Midwestern, and thoroughly JerkAss.

* In ''GenerationKill'', Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard plays US Marine Brad Colbert. His accent isn't entirely accurate at times, but it lends itself toward Colbert's status as Bravo Company's "Iceman" and CulturedWarrior.

* In ''Series/JonathanCreek'', British Anthony Head portrayed Adam Klaus with an American accent. His replacement, Stuart Milligan, actually is American.

* In the ''FawltyTowers'' episode "Waldorf Salad", the ugly American, Mr. Hamilton, is played by the Canadian actor Bruce Boa, with an audible Canadian accent.
* In Season 4 of ''BostonLegal,'' the English actress Saffron Burrows joined the show as lawyer Lorraine Weller, with a really bad fake American accent. After a few episodes (presumably after the producers realized the tremendous mistake they had made by casting her as an American), they used a hastily concocted plot twist (she was in hiding from her past life as a high-class British madam) that enabled her to revert to her natural speech, and the horrible American accent was never heard again.
* In the last episode of Season 5 of ''{{Numb3rs}}'', James Callis, a Brit, plays cult leader Mason Duryea with a believable Southern drawl.

* In-show, Series/{{Angel}} is a FakeAmerican (using David Boreanaz's own accent) from Ireland.
* ''{{Roswell}}'' had the Australian Emilie de Ravin playing Tess. Emilie's accent slipped a couple of times during her first appearance on the show, but was otherwise convincing.
* In ''{{Damages}},'' Rose Byrne (an Aussie) plays Ellen Parsons, a young American lawyer, with a great American accent.
* Kiwi Lucy Lawless uses a flawless American accent in ''XenaWarriorPrincess'', and it's startling to hear her native, higher-pitched accent in interviews.

* ''So'' many people from ''Series/JeevesAndWooster''. Some of them are just talking British with an American accent.
* In the English TV movie ''The Last Days Of Lehman Brothers'', James Bolam puts on an ''atrocious'' "Southern" accent.

* Robert Lee, the narrator of ''Series/MythBusters'' and other shows, is a borderline example--he was born in England, but raised in America, and now lives in Australia. He does his voice-over with an American accent, but uses many, ''many'' Britishisms, such as "aluminium" or a person being "in hospital," to name just two.
* British [[Series/BurnNotice Gabrielle Anwar]] normally does a pretty darn good job of pretending to be an Irishwoman pretending to be American. Her accent works very well. Only rarely does it slip, usually when overpronouncing arrs she'd normally leave out.
* Two of the main characters in ''{{Moonlight}}'' are played by Fake Americans Alex O'Loughlin (Australian) and Sophia Myles (British). In a subversion, Shannyn Sossamon, who is American plays a FakeAmerican character (Coraline was born in pre-revolutionary France). In fact, most of the older vampires can be considered to be FakeAmerican characters, especially the 700-year old Lola (played by O'Loughlin's then-girlfriend Holly Valance, also an Aussie).

* Intra-American example: David Ogden Stiers – from central Illinois – played Bostonian Major Winchester on ''Series/{{Mash}}'' with a strong Brahmin accent. RogerEbert, who went to high school with Stiers in Urbana, IL, once commented that he sounded "like that" even back then.
* ''Series/TheDresdenFiles'' TV series featured FakeAmerican Paul Blackthorne (who was born in Shropshire, England and who grew up on British military bases in Germany and in England) as the very American wizard-private investigator Harry Dresden. The show also starred FakeBrit Terrence Mann (who was born in Ashland, Kentucky and who grew up in Largo, Florida) as ghost-with-a-Teutonic-name-and-a-British-accent Hrothbert of Bainbridge. Bainbridge, by the way, is a real town in North Yorkshire.
* Paul Blackthorne also plays an American vampire in several episodes of ''TheGates''.