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* ''Film/TheDamnedUnited'' has Irish actor Creator/ColmMeaney as Middlesbrough-born England football manager Don Revie. The lead character, Revie's rival and fellow Middlesbrough native Brian Clough is played by Welsh actor Creator/MichaelSheen, as a Fake Englishman though not a Fake Brit.
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* ''Film/TheDamnedUnited'' has Irish actor Creator/ColmMeaney as Middlesbrough-born England football manager Don Revie. The lead character, Revie's rival and fellow Middlesbrough native Brian Clough is played by Welsh actor Creator/MichaelSheen, as a Fake Englishman though not a Fake Brit.Brit.
* Almost the entire ensemble of ''Film/PoorThings'' are Americans (Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Creator/WillemDafoe, Creator/RamyYoussef, Creator/MargaretQualley, and Creator/ChristopherAbbott) playing British characters. The only exceptions are Vicki Pepperdine and Creator/KathrynHunter, who are actually British, and Creator/JerrodCarmichael, who uses his natural American accent.
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* Almost the entire ensemble of ''Film/PoorThings'' are Americans (Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Creator/WillemDafoe, Creator/RamyYoussef, Creator/MargaretQualley, and Creator/ChristopherAbbott) playing British characters. The only exceptions are Vicki Pepperdine and Creator/KathrynHunter, who are actually British, and Creator/JerrodCarmichael, who uses his natural American accent.
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* In the Creator/SteveMartin movie ''Film/LAStory'', [[CanadaEh Canadian]] comedian/actor Creator/RickMoranis has a cameo as an English gravedigger, with the accent made to match. His attempt sounds rather corny. In-universe, Trudi accuses Sara of this -- and Sara is British!
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* In the Creator/SteveMartin movie ''Film/LAStory'', [[CanadaEh Canadian]] Canadian comedian/actor Creator/RickMoranis has a cameo as an English gravedigger, with the accent made to match. His attempt sounds rather corny. In-universe, Trudi accuses Sara of this -- and Sara is British!
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* Creator/GertanKlauber was born in Czechoslovakia but played British roles in many ''Film/CarryOn'' films.
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* Creator/EsmaCannon was born in Australia but was a notable character actor in Britain for many years, playing British characters in four ''Film/CarryOn'' films, ''Film/WhatACarveUp'', ''Film/RaisingTheWind'', ''Film/NoKidding'', and ''Film/DoctorInLove''.
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* The Australian Creator/EdDevereaux played many British roles in films of The50s and The60s, including five roles in the ''Film/CarryOnSeries'', and also played Commander Phillips of the US Navy in ''Film/WatchYourStern''.
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* Creator/RobertDowneyJr had his StarMakingRole putting on an English accent in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' and has played Brits in the two ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' films, ''Restoration'' and When BBC reporter Chris Stark was interviewing him for ''Film/IronMan3'' he joked that he was going to congratulate him on doing a great American accent.
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* Creator/RobertDowneyJr had his StarMakingRole putting on an English accent in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' and has played Brits in the two ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' films, ''Restoration'' films and ''Restoration''. When BBC reporter Chris Stark was interviewing him for ''Film/IronMan3'' he joked that he was going to congratulate him on doing a great American accent.
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The character he plays is an American whose sister is married to the English king .
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* Creator/RobertDowneyJr had his StarMakingRole putting on an English accent in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' and has played Brits in the two ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' films, ''Restoration'' and ''Theatre/RichardIII''. When BBC reporter Chris Stark was interviewing him for ''Film/IronMan3'' he joked that he was going to congratulate him on doing a great American accent.
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* Creator/RobertDowneyJr had his StarMakingRole putting on an English accent in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' and has played Brits in the two ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' films, ''Restoration'' and ''Theatre/RichardIII''. When BBC reporter Chris Stark was interviewing him for ''Film/IronMan3'' he joked that he was going to congratulate him on doing a great American accent.
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* ''Film/RaisingTheWind'' has the South African-born Creator/SidJames as the British Sid.
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* ''Film/WatchYourStern'' has the South African-born Creator/SidJames as the British Chief Petty Officer Mundy.
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* ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'': Rod from ''Naked Revolt'' was played by the Canadian-born Lee Patterson.
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* ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' has the Polish Creator/JohnBluthal playing a British railway porter.
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* ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' The ''Film/DoctorSeries'' has the Polish Creator/JohnBluthal playing a British railway porter.porter in ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' and a British taxi driver in ''Film/DoctorInTrouble''.
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* Creator/CateBlanchett plays English characters so often -- ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/RobinHood2010'', ''Film/NotesOnAScandal'' -- some forget that she's actually Australian. Even her natural accent is posh Australian -- a cousin of [[AhPea RP]] which for the uninitiated is easy to mistake for it.
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* Creator/CateBlanchett plays English characters so often -- ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/RobinHood2010'', ''Film/NotesOnAScandal'' -- some forget that she's actually Australian. Even Which isn't helped by the fact that her natural accent is posh Australian -- upper class Australian, a cousin of [[AhPea RP]] which for the uninitiated is easy to mistake for might be easily confused with it.
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* Creator/HugoWeaving is British-Australian; his normal speaking voice is Australian, but he often plays English characters such as Elrond in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/TheHobbit'', V in ''Film/VForVendetta'' and many more.
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* Creator/HugoWeaving is British-Australian; his normal speaking voice is Australian, but he often plays English (accented) characters such as Elrond in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/TheHobbit'', V in ''Film/VForVendetta'' and many more.
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* Creator/RobertDowneyJr had his StarMakingRole putting on an English accent in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' and has played Brits in the two ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 Sherlock Holmes]]'' films, ''Restoration'' and ''Theatre/{{Richard III}}''. When BBC reporter Chris Stark was interviewing him for ''Film/IronMan3'' he joked that he was going to congratulate him on doing a great American accent.
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* Creator/RobertDowneyJr had his StarMakingRole putting on an English accent in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' and has played Brits in the two ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 Sherlock Holmes]]'' ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' films, ''Restoration'' and ''Theatre/{{Richard III}}''.''Theatre/RichardIII''. When BBC reporter Chris Stark was interviewing him for ''Film/IronMan3'' he joked that he was going to congratulate him on doing a great American accent.
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* Creator/CateBlanchett plays English characters so often - ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/RobinHood2010'', ''Film/NotesOnAScandal'' - some forget that she's actually Australian.
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* Creator/CateBlanchett plays English characters so often - -- ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/RobinHood2010'', ''Film/NotesOnAScandal'' - -- some forget that she's actually Australian.
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* ''Film/EducatingRita'' is set in Liverpool but filmed [[CaliforniaDoubling in Ireland]]. Although its main cast members - Creator/JulieWalters, Creator/MichaelCaine and Maureen Lipman - were British, a good amount of the supporting cast were Irish. A couple don't bother with the accents, which is justified since Britain has always had a large number of Irish immigrants.
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* ''Film/EducatingRita'' is set in Liverpool but filmed [[CaliforniaDoubling in Ireland]]. Although its main cast members - Creator/JulieWalters, Creator/MichaelCaine and Maureen Lipman Creator/MaureenLipman - were British, a good amount of the supporting cast were Irish. A couple don't bother with the accents, which is justified since Britain has always had a large number of Irish immigrants.
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* InUniverse example in ''Film/KildTV'', Milton is the host of the ShowWithinAShow, "Dr. Perseco's Late Night Horror". When he's off-camera, he speaks in his normal voice. On-camera as Dr. Perseco, he speaks in a suave British accent.
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* Creator/SelenaGomez in ''Film/MonteCarlo'' as two separate characters. The first; her portrayal of the fictional English heiress Cordelia Winthrop-Scott and then her portrayal of an IdenticalStranger from Texas, Grace, posing as Cordelia. Grace's fake accent is not entirely convincing, but that's kinda the point; Cordelia's accent is a bit better but that might just be because she had fewer lines.
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* Creator/SelenaGomez in ''Film/MonteCarlo'' ''Film/MonteCarlo2011'' as two separate characters. The first; her portrayal of the fictional English heiress Cordelia Winthrop-Scott and then her portrayal of an IdenticalStranger from Texas, Grace, posing as Cordelia. Grace's fake accent is not entirely convincing, but that's kinda the point; Cordelia's accent is a bit better but that might just be because she had fewer lines.
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* ''Film/ThePrincess'': American Creator/JoeyKing puts on an English accent to play the main character, to match most of the other characters in her fictional land.
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* ''Film/ThePrincess2022'': American Creator/JoeyKing puts on an English accent to play the main character, to match most of the other characters in her fictional land.
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* ''Film/ThePrincess2022'': ''Film/ThePrincess'': American Creator/JoeyKing puts on an English accent to play the main character, to match most of the other characters in her fictional land.
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* James Cromwell did it again in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', as his character is even a [[KnightFever Sir]]. Sequel ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' has another case in his daughter Charlotte, played by Irish actress Elva Trill - granddaughter Maisie is at least played by the English Isabella Sermon.
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* French actress Creator/EvaGreen. If one listens to an interview around the time she starred in ''Film/TheDreamers'' she has a very thick French accent. But since working in England and America a lot, her accent has [[VocalEvolution changed to sound more neutral]], so she can believably pass herself as English. In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', ''{{Series/Camelot}}'', ''Series/PennyDreadful'', and ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' she is definitely playing English characters.
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* French actress Creator/EvaGreen. If one listens to an interview around the time she starred in ''Film/TheDreamers'' she has a very thick French accent. But since working in England and America a lot, her accent has [[VocalEvolution changed to sound more neutral]], so she can believably pass herself as English. In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', ''{{Series/Camelot}}'', ''Series/PennyDreadful'', and ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' she is definitely playing English characters.
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* The most (in)famous example -- cited for almost forty years now in anecdote, song and story -- is Creator/DickVanDyke as Bert the chimney-sweep in ''Film/MaryPoppins''. The almost universal negative reaction to his overly fake Cockney was probably the reason that the next time he played an Englishman -- Caractacus Potts in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' -- he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent dispensed with the accent altogether]]. (Ironically, in ''Mary Poppins'' he ''also'' plays another Englishman, [[spoiler:Mr. Dawes Senior]], and [[MethodActing disappears so completely into the role]] many viewers don't realize it's him until the final credits). This was actually a pragmatic decision. Dick van Dyke ''tried'' to do a realistic Cockney accent. And tried. And tried. And failed. And failed. Finally, he decided that since he could only do a bad Cockney accent, he'd do a hilariously bad one.
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* The most (in)famous example -- cited for almost forty years over a half-century now in anecdote, song and story -- is Creator/DickVanDyke as Bert the chimney-sweep in ''Film/MaryPoppins''. The almost universal negative reaction to his overly fake Cockney was probably the reason that the next time he played an Englishman -- Caractacus Potts in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' -- he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent dispensed with the accent altogether]]. (Ironically, in ''Mary Poppins'' he ''also'' plays another Englishman, [[spoiler:Mr. Dawes Senior]], and [[MethodActing disappears so completely into the role]] many viewers don't realize it's him until the final credits). This was actually a pragmatic decision. Dick van Dyke ''tried'' to do a realistic Cockney accent. And tried. And tried. And failed. And failed. Finally, he decided that since he could only do a bad Cockney accent, he'd do a hilariously bad one.
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* Although Creator/RoseByrne - who is Australian - has been best known as a FakeAmerican, she's shown that she can do a fine English accent too. ''{{Film/Troy}}'', ''Film/MarieAntoinette'', ''Film/PeterRabbit'' and ''I Capture The Castle'' are examples (though ironically the first two characters [[TheQueensLatin aren't technically English]].)
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* Although Creator/RoseByrne - who is Australian - has been best known as a FakeAmerican, she's shown that she can do a fine English accent too. ''{{Film/Troy}}'', ''Film/MarieAntoinette'', ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006'', ''Film/PeterRabbit'' and ''I Capture The Castle'' are examples (though ironically the first two characters [[TheQueensLatin aren't technically English]].)
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* In ''Film/{{Hugo}}'' - set in Paris, but everyone speaks with a British accent - American Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz pulls this off impeccably.
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* The 1959 film ''Our Man in Havana'' has Creator/MaureenOHara play an English typist working for MI5 [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent With a pronounced Dublin accent.]]
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* The 1959 film ''Our Man in Havana'' has the Irish actress Creator/MaureenOHara play an English typist working for MI5 [=MI5=]. [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent With a pronounced Dublin accent.]]
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* ''Film/{{Spencer}}'' has the American Creator/KristenStewart as Diana, Princess of Wales, and the German Creator/RichardSammel as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
