History FakeBrit / LiveActionTv

* ''{{Seinfeld}}'': Jerry tries on a Cockney accent, where "Not bloody likely!" comes out as "Nawwt blooudy loiklay!" Kramer criticizes it, but his is no better.

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* ''{{Sanctuary}}'': Creator/AmandaTapping, while she was born in England (Rochford, Essex to be precise) has lived in Canada since she was three. Lampshaded in "Bank Job" when she reverts to her Canadian accent and the bank teller (Gary Davies who plays Sgt. Harriman in ''Series/StargateSG1'') comments "I knew that British accent was fake".

* ''Series/MagnumPI'': John Hillerman, a native Texan, played English ex-military vet Jonathan Higgins. During the show's run, his character was required to "fake" a Texas accent to impersonate his look-alike half-brother Elmo. (Like Niles in ''TheNanny'' and Wesley Wyndham-Price above, a lot of British viewers were convinced he was a real Brit.)

* ''TheNanny'': Niles. A story goes that viewers of this show in the UK wrote in to complain about the "fake" accent used by Charles Shaughnessy (a real Londoner) and praising the "real" accent of Daniel Davis (Niles), a native of Arkansas.

* ''GossipGirl'': American actor Patrick Heusinger played Blair's boyfriend Marcus, an English lord, in season two. Extra twisty points for the fact that Marcus pretended to be an American throughout most of his first episode. Later on his English accent was copied by Chuck, who wanted Blair to think he was Marcus. Chuck, an American, is played by a British actor...

** The episode commentary from Morena Baccarin and Jane Espenson contains some fine FakeBrit moments. Both figures praise SummerGlau for her ability to do accents very well (unfortunately, most British people would disagree on her supposed London accent). Espenson also goes on to mention her love of British slang words and how she likes to use them in her work. The example used is the word 'palaver' - meaning 'an unnecessary fuss'. She pronounces it erroneously as 'par-layver' (it's 'puh-lah-ver' (or 'puh-lah-va' if you're from the London area).

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Although his character isn't technically British, Peter Dinklage adopts a cod-English accent to fit in with the almost exclusively British cast of this show.

* ''{{Sanctuary}}'': Amanda Tapping, while she was born in England (Rochford, Essex to be precise) has lived in Canada since she was three. Lampshaded in "Bank Job" when she reverts to her Canadian accent and the bank teller (Gary Davies who plays Sgt. Harriman in ''Series/StargateSG1'') comments "I knew that British accent was fake".

* ''{{Firefly}}'':
** In the episode ''Shindig'', River Tam mimics Badger's authentic London accent.

* ''{{Magnum PI}}'': John Hillerman, a native Texan, played English ex-military vet Jonathan Higgins. During the show's run, his character was required to "fake" a Texas accent to impersonate his look-alike half-brother Elmo. (Like Niles in ''TheNanny'' and Wesley Wyndham-Price above, a lot of British viewers were convinced he was a real Brit.)

** Spike, Drusilla, and Wesley. Spike's accent is said to be based on Anthony Stewart Head's regular voice, which is a lot less posh than Head's character Giles. James Marsters (Spike) and Juliet Landau (Drusilla) are truly awful at the accents they attempt. Yet Spike is shown in flashback to originally have an upper class English accent, so whatever he's trying now is an affectation.

* ''TheInspectorLynleyMysteries'': DS Barbara Havers is working-class English. She is played by the ''very'' Scottish SharonSmall. Fans who first encounter Small as Havers are often stunned when they hear just how wildly her native Glaswegian accent differs from Havers' Estuary English.

** The two that immediately spring to mind are Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry VIII and SarahBolger as Princess/Lady Mary Tudor. Both are Irish but are playing Brits. Pretty sure there's others as well, since the show is filmed in Ireland.

* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Tatiana Maslany and Jordan Felix, both Canadian, play British orphans who immigrated to Canada. [[spoiler: Maslany uses her actual accent when she plays her character's clones, who were raised in Canada and America respectively.]]

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': John Hart, the EvilCounterpart to Captain Jack Harkness, is played by JamesMarsters using the same affected English accent he used as [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike.]]

* ''TheTudors'':
** The two that immediately spring to mind are JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry VIII and SarahBolger as Princess/Lady Mary Tudor. Both are Irish but are playing Brits. Pretty sure there's others as well, since the show is filmed in Ireland.

* ''GameOfThrones'': Although his character isn't technically British, Peter Dinklage adopts a cod-English accent to fit in with the almost exclusively British cast of this show.

* ''HighlanderTheSeries'': Duncan [=MacLeod=]. Adrian Paul used a Scottish accent in the flashbacks of Duncan's early years, but made it more generalized in the more recent flashbacks.

* At one point while interviewing Ricky Gervais, ConanOBrien decided to do a bit in a fake English accent. After asking if it was supposed to sound British, Gervais comments "Thank you [[Film/MaryPoppins Dick Van-fucking-Dyke]]!"

* ''{{Castle}}'': Colin Hunt from the fourth season purports to be from Scotland Yard. The actor's actual Australian accent is painfully obvious in his attempts to do some sort of mangled Cockney.
* ''{{CSI}}'': Used and an InvertedTrope in one episode in which a man plays SherlockHolmes. When his friends, who were invited, first show up, they all speak in English accents. When they realize their host has died, they drop their accents, except for one -- who turns out to be English.

* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Tatiana Maslany and Jordan Felix, both Canadian, play British orphans who immigrated to Canada. [[spoiler: Tatiana uses her actual accent when she plays her clones, who were raised in Canada and America respectively.]]

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': Lampshaded. Probably written when the role was assumed to be going to an American actress.

* ''Series/TheATeam'': [[BunnyEarsLawyer Murdock]] will use a fake English accent [[CrazyAwesome just for fun]]. It's a generic Received Pronunciation accent, but it's still entertaining.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': The three-part episode of the Creator/AdamWest television series where they end up in London, sorry, ''Londonium'', for a while featured so many atrociously bad English accents and fundamentally stupid errors (''Ireland'' Yard?) that one can only hope it was intended as a parody.
** [[{{Camp}} Of course it was a parody, it was the Adam West]] ''Batman''. Anyway, Scotland Yard is in London. ''Ireland'' Yard is in ''[[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed Londonium]]''. You might as well expect to see the Statue of Liberty in [[BigApplesauce Gotham City]] instead of the Statue of Justice...
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Spike, Drusilla, and Wesley. Spike's accent is said to be based on Anthony Stewart Head's regular voice, which is a lot less posh than Head's character Giles. James Marsters (Spike) and Juliet Landau (Drusilla) are truly awful at the accents they attempt. Yet Spike is shown in flashback to originally have an upper class English accent, so whatever he's trying now is an affectation.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': The majority of the cast are Australian, with the obvious exception of Ben Browder. A few Peacekeepers keep their accent, but the majority of the regular characters disguise it with either FakeAmerican or Fake Brit, most notably Aeryn, Scorpius and Crais.

* ''{{Firefly}}'': In the episode ''Shindig'', River Tam mimicks Badger's authentic London accent.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': While Daphne Moon was played by British Jane Leeves, her brothers Simon and Stephen were played by Australian Anthony [=LaPaglia=] and Swazi Creator/RichardEGrant (his accent is clear RP, however). While Leeves' 'Mancunian' was a rather generic OopNorth accent, the brothers didn't even sound like they were from anywhere near there.

* ''{{Friends}}'': During one episode where Ross has to lecture in NYU, he gets so nervous he starts speaking in an (appalling) English accent. Monica and Rachel mock him by speaking in terrible Irish and Indian accents, respectively. Monica's seems to fluctuate between Ireland and Scotland, possibly as a reference to this trope or just because Americans can barely tell the difference.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': Lampshaded, where the Jerseyite DrJerk played by a Brit calls a hospital several times trying to get info. At one point, he uses an English accent, to which the operator responds "And that's the worst English accent I've ever heard!" Brilliantly done by Laurie, as he wasn't using his native English accent, but was doing an American's-poor-attempt-at-English-accent.
** Also inverted for the series other than that moment, as Dr. House [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome normally speaks in a strong, accurate American accent.]]

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': AvertedTrope as far as the actors are concerned. Gina Bellman (Sophie) was born in New Zealand to English parents and moved back to the UK when she was eleven, so her accent is genuine, as is MarkSheppard's. However, the characters sometimes have to put on fake accents for a con, with Sophie making hers more downtown London than Upper-Class British Thief for "The Beantown Bailout Job", and Hardison taking on a Londoner accent in "The Ice Man Job".

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Alan Dale, who is from New Zealand, plays British character Charles Widmore. In his first few appearances the accent was impeccable, but his accent [[OohMeAccentsSlipping slipped a little]] in "There's No Place Like Home."
** He also played King Arthur for a time in the West End production of ''{{Spamalot}}''.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Anna Lise Phillips (Australian) plays Maggie.

* ''{{Sanctuary}}'': Amanda Tapping, while she was born in England (Rochford, Essex to be precise) has lived in Canada since she was three.
** Lampshaded in "Bank Job" when she reverts to her Canadian accent and the bank teller (Gary Davies who plays Sgt. Harriman in ''Series/StargateSG1'') comments "I knew that British accent was fake".

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': James Doohan, first generation Canadian-Irish descent, as Montgomery Scott in this show.
** His audition for ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was pretty much him speaking in as many accents as possible. He chose to have the character be Scottish, because "all the best engineers are Scottish". Also, his talent with accents caused him to voice ''nearly every male guest character'' in the Animated Series. He ended up being a Fake Native American, among others.

* ''TheTudors'': The two that immediately spring to mind are JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry VIII and SarahBolger as Princess/Lady Mary Tudor. Both are Irish but are playing Brits. Pretty sure there's others as well, since the show is filmed in Ireland.

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': The Originals have British accents despite being Scandinavian. Klaus is played by real Brit Joseph Morgan and Rebekah is played by Australian Claire Holt.
** Also keep in mind that the originals all have different accents. Most notably Klaus has a Welsh accent, Kol has a London accent, Elijah has an American accent and Rebekah has an Australian accent.

** Buffy as well as the spinoff ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had a bad case with one of the Watcher's Council special ops team. While their leader was played by real Brit Alistair Duncan (actually a Scot who now has a more English accent), Jeff Ricketts played one of his underlings, at which point the word "vampire" becomes "vampoire" and the only words he seems to get right are curse words such as bastard.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': Anders was Adam Monroe from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', making him the most English man ever to come out of Oregon.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Spike, Drusilla, and Wesley. Spike's accent is said to be based on Anthony Stewart Head's regular voice, which is a lot less posh than Head's character Giles. James Marsters (Spike) and Juliet Landau (Drusilla) are truly awful at the accents they attempt. Yet Spike is shown in flashback to originally have an upper class English accent, so whatever he's trying now is an affectation.
** Like Dominic West below, at one point, Spike puts on a American accent, which is hilariously bad.
** Alexis Denisof (Wesley), a Maryland native who lived in the UK for much of his early career, is the Buffyverse's most convincing fake Brit; even British fans don't always realise he's not English as long as he doesn't use the typical trip words such as 'data' where it becomes painfully obvious even to Britons who were previously fooled. Drusilla, on the other hand, spends a lot of time talking about "Spoik". In fact, Juliet Landau sounds like she's doing a particularly bad impersonation of [[SteptoeAndSon Harry H. Corbett]].
** Also, ''both'' of the "English" potential slayers, one with a bad Cockney similar to Drusilla, and another with a bad RP accent. God knows how genuine Brit Anthony Stewart Head could put up with filming with them.
** Everyone from Spike's past in [[WholeEpisodeFlashback "Fool for Love"]]. It might be easier to list the characters in Buffy who ''were'' played by actual Brits.
** Buffy as well as the spinoff ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had a bad case with one of the Watcher's Council special ops team. While their leader was played by real Brit Alistair Duncan (actually a Scot who now has a more English accent), Jeff Ricketts played one of his underlings, at which point the word "vampire" becomes "vampoire" and the only words he seems to get right are curse words such as bastard.

* ''TheNanny'': Niles. A story goes that viewers of this show in the UK wrote in to complain about the "fake" accent used by Charles Shaughnessy (a real Londoner) and praising the "real" accent of Daniel Davis (Niles), a native of Arkansas.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': James Doohan, first generation Canadian-Irish descent, as Montgomery Scott in this show.
** His audition for ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was pretty much him speaking in as many accents as possible. He chose to have the character be Scottish, because "all the best engineers are Scottish". Also, his talent with accents caused him to voice ''nearly every male guest character'' in the Animated Series. He ended up being a Fake Native American, among others.
* ''HighlanderTheSeries'': Duncan MacLeod. Adrian Paul used a Scottish accent in the flashbacks of Duncan's early years, but made it more generalized in the more recent flashbacks.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': While Daphne Moon was played by British Jane Leeves, her brothers Simon and Stephen were played by Australian Anthony [=LaPaglia=] and Swazi Creator/RichardEGrant (his accent is clear RP, however). While Leeves' 'Mancunian' was a rather generic OopNorth accent, the brothers didn't even sound like they were from anywhere near there.
** None of the Moon brothers with speaking parts -- or her father -- were played by Englishmen.
** Any of Daphne's 'chim-chimerny' boyfriends from early series - clearly played by American actors who think saying 'cheerio' makes them English. Embarrassing.
** Her mother was at least played by Millicent Martin who comes from London and does a fairly convincing Mancunian. She was once quoted as saying she could have done a ''more'' convincing Mancunian, but [[TakeThat then she wouldn't have sounded like she was Daphne's mother]].
** Martin Crane (played by John Mahoney, originally from Blackpool) could deliver a good Daphne impression. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjrLyWlCrP8 Video]]
* ''{{Magnum PI}}'': John Hillerman, a native Texan, played English ex-military vet Jonathan Higgins. During the show's run, his character was required to "fake" a Texas accent to impersonate his look-alike half-brother Elmo. (Like Niles in ''TheNanny'' and Wesley Wyndham-Price above, a lot of British viewers were convinced he was a real Brit.)
* ''{{CSI}}'': Used and an InvertedTrope in one episode in which a man plays SherlockHolmes. When his friends, who were invited, first show up, they all speak in English accents. When they realize their host has died, they drop their accents, except for one -- who turns out to be English.

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': The Originals have British accents despite being Scandinavian. Klaus is played by real Brit Joseph Morgan and Rebekah is played by Australian Claire Holt.
** Also keep in mind that the originals all have different accents. Most notably Klaus has a Welsh accent, Kol has a London accent, Elijah has an American accent and Rebekah has an Australian accent.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': John Hart, the EvilCounterpart to Captain Jack Harkness, is played by JamesMarsters using the same affected English accent he used as [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike.]]
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Alan Dale, who is from New Zealand, plays British character Charles Widmore. In his first few appearances the accent was impeccable, but his accent [[OohMeAccentsSlipping slipped a little]] in "There's No Place Like Home."
** He also played King Arthur for a time in the West End production of ''{{Spamalot}}''.
* ''{{Sanctuary}}'': Amanda Tapping, while she was born in England (Rochford, Essex to be precise) has lived in Canada since she was three.
** Lampshaded in "Bank Job" when she reverts to her Canadian accent and the bank teller (Gary Davies who plays Sgt. Harriman in ''Series/StargateSG1'') comments "I knew that British accent was fake".

* ''{{Seinfeld}}'': Jerry tries on a Cockney accent, where "Not bloody likely!" comes out as "Nawwt blooudy loiklay!" Kramer criticizes it, but his is no better.
* ''GossipGirl'': American actor Patrick Heusinger played Blair's boyfriend Marcus, an English lord, in season two. Extra twisty points for the fact that Marcus pretended to be an American throughout most of his first episode. Later on his English accent was copied by Chuck, who wanted Blair to think he was Marcus. Chuck, an American, is played by a British actor...

* ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'': Australian Leo [=McKern=] spent his career playing Englishmen, most notably Horace Rumpole.
* ''{{Friends}}'': During one episode where Ross has to lecture in NYU, he gets so nervous he starts speaking in an (appalling) English accent. Monica and Rachel mock him by speaking in terrible Irish and Indian accents, respectively. Monica's seems to fluctuate between Ireland and Scotland, possibly as a reference to this trope or just because Americans can barely tell the difference.
** Also spoofed in an episode where an annoying old friend of Monica and Phoebe's comes back into town after living in England with a fake accent:
-->'''Amanda:''' ''(after an awkward comment)'' Oh! Bugger. Should I not have said that? I feel like a perfect arrrse!
-->'''Phoebe:''' Yeah, well, in America you're just an ''ass.''

* ''TheTudors'': The two that immediately spring to mind are JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry VIII and SarahBolger as Princess/Lady Mary Tudor. Both are Irish but are playing Brits. Pretty sure there's others as well, since the show is filmed in Ireland.
** Sarah Bolger is a very convincing Fake Brit, whereas David O'Hara, playing the Earl of Surrey, is NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
** Princess Elizabeth is played (as of season 4) by Dublin born actress Laoise Murray, meaning that most of the actual Tudors on the show are played by Irish actors. No information on whether Eoin Murtagh (Prince Edward) is Irish or not but that is a pretty Irish first name.

* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': Claire Forlani is British, but even so, Peyton's accent was made some sort of FakeBrit accent.
* ''Series/TheDresdenFiles'': The TV series featured 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.

* ''Series/TheATeam'': [[BunnyEarsLawyer Murdock]] will use a fake English accent [[CrazyAwesome just for fun]]. It's a generic Received Pronunciation accent, but it's still entertaining.
** On the whole, Dwight Schultz gets a lot of mileage out of that accent. It shows up all over the place in his voice acting.
* At one point while interviewing Ricky Gervais, ConanOBrien decided to do a bit in a fake English accent. After asking if it was supposed to sound British, Gervais comments "Thank you [[Film/MaryPoppins Dick Van-fucking-Dyke]]!"
* ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'': Sometimes even Brits fake a 'British accent' for an American audience: for a while on this show one of the team was a sort of cheeky-chappy jack-of-all-trades, whose Dick-Van-Dyke-alike hamming up of a Cockney accent (as well as acting up to other cockney stereotypes in a 'why fank you guvnor, i am ever so 'umble, cheerio, lawks etc' way) made it hilarious to realise he was genuinely English.
* ''K9'': This show is set in London. It's filmed in Australia. The accents vary, but some of them are terrible.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': On one episode, detectives Goren and Eames are unraveling a murder and encounter a "British Lord" who does not realize he is part of a scam (he's an actor who thinks he's been hire for some kind of performance piece) and spend a few minutes trying to figure out where his accent is supposed to be from. He drops the accent and attempts to impress them with his acting bona fides.
* ''TheInspectorLynleyMysteries'': DS Barbara Havers is working-class English. She is played by the ''very'' Scottish SharonSmall. Fans who first encounter Small as Havers are often stunned when they hear just how wildly her native Glaswegian accent differs from Havers' Estuary English.
* ''GameOfThrones'': Although his character isn't technically British, Peter Dinklage adopts a cod-English accent to fit in with the almost exclusively British cast of this show.
* ''Series/StrikeBack'': American actor Philip Winchester portrays English Sgt. Michael Stonebridge on this show. Doubly ironic as Stonebridge's counterpart Damien Scott is a FakeAmerican.
* ''{{Castle}}'': Colin Hunt from the fourth season purports to be from Scotland Yard. The actor's actual Australian accent is painfully obvious in his attempts to do some sort of mangled Cockney.

* Spike, Drusilla, and Wesley from ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}''. Spike's accent is said to be based on Anthony Stewart Head's regular voice, which is a lot less posh than Head's character Giles. James Marsters (Spike) and Juliet Landau (Drusilla) are truly awful at the accents they attempt. Yet Spike is shown in flashback to originally have an upper class English accent, so whatever he's trying now is an affectation.

* Anders from ''Series/{{Alias}}'' was Adam Monroe from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', making him the most English man ever to come out of Oregon.
* Niles from ''TheNanny.''
** A story goes that viewers of this show in the UK wrote in to complain about the "fake" accent used by Charles Shaughnessy (a real Londoner) and praising the "real" accent of Daniel Davis (Niles), a native of Arkansas.
* James Doohan, first generation Canadian-Irish descent, as Montgomery Scott in ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}''.

* Duncan MacLeod from ''HighlanderTheSeries''. Adrian Paul used a Scottish accent in the flashbacks of Duncan's early years, but made it more generalized in the more recent flashbacks.
* While Daphne Moon of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' was played by British Jane Leeves, her brothers Simon and Stephen were played by Australian Anthony [=LaPaglia=] and Swazi Creator/RichardEGrant (his accent is clear RP, however). While Leeves' 'Mancunian' was a rather generic OopNorth accent, the brothers didn't even sound like they were from anywhere near there.

* John Hillerman, a native Texan, played English ex-military vet Jonathan Higgins on ''{{Magnum PI}}''. During the show's run, his character was required to "fake" a Texas accent to impersonate his look-alike half-brother Elmo. (Like Niles in ''TheNanny'' and Wesley Wyndham-Price above, a lot of British viewers were convinced he was a real Brit.)
* Used and {{Inverted|Trope}} in a ''{{CSI}}'' episode in which a man plays SherlockHolmes. When his friends, who were invited, first show up, they all speak in English accents. When they realize their host has died, they drop their accents, except for one -- who turns out to be English.
* Lampshaded in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Probably written when the role was assumed to be going to an American actress.

* The Originals on ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' have British accents despite being Scandinavian. Klaus is played by real Brit Joseph Morgan and Rebekah is played by Australian Claire Holt.

* John Hart from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', the EvilCounterpart to Captain Jack Harkness, is played by JamesMarsters using the same affected English accent he used as [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike.]]
* Alan Dale, who is from New Zealand, plays British character Charles Widmore on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. In his first few appearances the accent was impeccable, but his accent [[OohMeAccentsSlipping slipped a little]] in "There's No Place Like Home."

* Amanda Tapping in ''{{Sanctuary}}'', while she was born in England (Rochford, Essex to be precise) has lived in Canada since she was three.

* The three-part episode of the Creator/AdamWest ''Series/{{Batman}}'' television series where they end up in London, sorry, ''Londonium'', for a while featured so many atrociously bad English accents and fundamentally stupid errors (''Ireland'' Yard?) that one can only hope it was intended as a parody.

* ''{{Seinfeld}}'' - Jerry tries on a Cockney accent, where "Not bloody likely!" comes out as "Nawwt blooudy loiklay!" Kramer criticizes it, but his is no better.
* American actor Patrick Heusinger played Blair's boyfriend Marcus, an English lord, in season two of ''GossipGirl''. Extra twisty points for the fact that Marcus pretended to be an American throughout most of his first episode. Later on his English accent was copied by Chuck, who wanted Blair to think he was Marcus. Chuck, an American, is played by a British actor...
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' - The majority of the cast are Australian, with the obvious exception of Ben Browder. A few Peacekeepers keep their accent, but the majority of the regular characters disguise it with either FakeAmerican or Fake Brit, most notably Aeryn, Scorpius and Crais.

* Australian Leo [=McKern=] spent his career playing Englishmen, most notably Horace Rumpole of ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey''.
* During an episode of ''{{Friends}}'' where Ross has to lecture in NYU, he gets so nervous he starts speaking in an (appalling) English accent. Monica and Rachel mock him by speaking in terrible Irish and Indian accents, respectively. Monica's seems to fluctuate between Ireland and Scotland, possibly as a reference to this trope or just because Americans can barely tell the difference.

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode ''Shindig'', River Tam mimicks Badger's authentic London accent.

* ''TheTudors''. The two that immediately spring to mind are JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry VIII and SarahBolger as Princess/Lady Mary Tudor. Both are Irish but are playing Brits. Pretty sure there's others as well, since the show is filmed in Ireland.

* Lampshaded in ''Series/{{House}}'', where the Jerseyite DrJerk played by a Brit calls a hospital several times trying to get info. At one point, he uses an English accent, to which the operator responds "And that's the worst English accent I've ever heard!" Brilliantly done by Laurie, as he wasn't using his native English accent, but was doing an American's-poor-attempt-at-English-accent.

* Series/{{CSI NY}} Claire Forlani is British, but even so, Peyton's accent was made some sort of FakeBrit accent.
* ''Series/TheDresdenFiles'' TV series featured 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.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' averts this as far as the actors are concerned. Gina Bellman (Sophie) was born in New Zealand to English parents and moved back to the UK when she was eleven, so her accent is genuine, as is MarkSheppard's. However, the characters sometimes have to put on fake accents for a con, with Sophie making hers more downtown London than Upper-Class British Thief for "The Beantown Bailout Job", and Hardison taking on a Londoner accent in "The Ice Man Job".

* On ''Series/TheATeam'', [[BunnyEarsLawyer Murdock]] will use a fake English accent [[CrazyAwesome just for fun]]. It's a generic Received Pronunciation accent, but it's still entertaining.

* Sometimes even Brits fake a 'British accent' for an American audience: for a while on ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' one of the team was a sort of cheeky-chappy jack-of-all-trades, whose Dick-Van-Dyke-alike hamming up of a cockney accent (as well as acting up to other cockney stereotypes in a 'why fank you guvnor, i am ever so 'umble, cheerio, lawks etc' way) made it hilarious to realise he was genuinely English.
* ''K9'' is set in London. It's filmed in Australia. The accents vary, but some of them are terrible.
* On an episode of ''[[Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'', detectives Goren and Eames are unraveling a murder and encounter a "British Lord" who does not realize he is part of a scam (he's an actor who thinks he's been hire for some kind of performance piece) and spend a few minutes trying to figure out where his accent is supposed to be from. He drops the accent and attempts to impress them with his acting bona fides.
* ''TheInspectorLynleyMysteries''' DS Barbara Havers is working-class English. She is played by the ''very'' Scottish SharonSmall. Fans who first encounter Small as Havers are often stunned when they hear just how wildly her native Glaswegian accent differs from Havers' Estuary English.
* Although his character isn't technically British, Peter Dinklage adopts a cod-English accent to fit in with the almost exclusively British cast of GameOfThrones
* American actor Philip Winchester portrays English Sgt. Michael Stonebridge on ''Series/StrikeBack''. Doubly ironic as Stonebridge's counterpart Damien Scott is a FakeAmerican.
* Colin Hunt from the fourth season of Castle purports to be from Scotland Yard. The actor's actual Australian accent is painfully obvious in his attempts to do some sort of mangled Cockney.