History FakeBrit / LiveActionTv

** Captain Hook was played by Irish actor Creator/ColinODonaghue. Ironically he was given AdaptationNameChange so that his real name is Killian Jones, which is Irish. His brother also has the Irish name Liam, though played by Australian actor Bernard Curry. His English accent is a little less convincing than O'Donaghue's.
** Cruella de Ville, who has always been iconically British, is played by Irish actress Victoria Smurfitt. She too had a relative played by an Australian - Anna Galvin as Cruella's mother Madelline.

* ''Series/KillingEve'': Irish actor Fiona Shaw plays the very English Carolyn Martens. Shaw had wanted to play the part with her own accent, until it was pointed out that Irish people aren't allowed to work for [=MI6=].

* The sitcom ''Series/USAHigh'' featured the British beauty Ashley Elliot and her father the headmaster as main characters. Both are played by Americans Kirsten Millern and Nicholas Guest respectively. Another episode featured an English teacher and his wife, both played by Americans too.

** Dinklage isn't the only non-Brit who adopts an English accent to fit in: there's also Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), Creator/AidanGillen (Irish), Creator/JackGleeson (also Irish), and Creator/ConlethHill (Northern Irish) as the very English-sounding characters Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively.

** The two that immediately spring to mind are Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry VIII and Creator/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.

* ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'': Australian Leo [=McKern=] spent his career playing Englishmen, most notably Horace Rumpole.

* ''Series/{{K9}}'': This show is set in London. It's filmed in Australia. John Leeson and Robert Moloney are the only members of the cast who aren't Aussies.

* ''{{Series/Dracula}}'' features three Irish actors - Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers, Victoria Smurfitt and Katie [=McGrath=] - putting on English accents for their roles. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers goes one further and plays an in-universe FakeAmerican.

** Dinklage isn't the only non-Brit who adopts an English accent to fit in: there's also Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), Creator/AidenGillen (Irish), Creator/JackGleeson (also Irish), and Creator/ConlethHill (Northern Irish) as the very English-sounding characters Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively.
** Creator/OonaChaplin is an odd case. She's Spanish born, to an English-American mother and Chilean-Romanian father and has lived in England, Scotland, Cuba, Spain and Switzerland - so she says that her accent will change depending on where she is and who she's talking to. But she affects an RP accent as Talisa, an exiled noblewoman from Volantis in Season 2.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Creator/DavidTennant affected an Estuary accent during his tenure as the Doctor. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]", he reverts to his native Scottish.

** Creator/OonaChaplin is an odd case. She's Spanish born, to an English-American mother and Chilean-Romanian father and has lived in England, Scotland, Cuba, Spain and Switzerland - so she says that her accent will change depending on where she is and who she's talking to. But she affects an RP accent as Talisa, the exiled Volantis noblewoman in Season 2.

** [[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/{{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.

** Canadian Henry Czerny as the Duke of Norolk.

* ''Series/{{Thanks}}'': Tim Dutton is English, but all the other pilgrims are played by American actors. At one point, Cotton asks why James has a different accent than everyone else.

* ''Series/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, not to mention a genuine Baron) and praising the "real" accent of Daniel Davis (Niles), a native of Arkansas.

** Captain Hook was played by Irish actor Colin O'Donaghue. Ironically he was given AdaptationNameChange so that his real name is Killian Jones, which is Irish. His brother also has the Irish name Liam, though played by Australian actor Bernard Curry. His English accent is a little less convincing than O'Donaghue's.

** Out of the three Darling siblings, only one is portrayed by an English actor - Matt Kane as John. James Immekus is American as Michael, and Freya Tingley is Australian as Wendy. Tingley in particular does a flawless accent.
** In the spin-off Alice is played by Sophie Lowe, who is British born but grew up in Australia.

* At one point while interviewing Ricky Gervais, Creator/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]]!"
* David Anders - an Oregon native - has often had to do an English accent. Notably in ''{{Series/Alias}}'', ''{{Series/Heroes}}'', ''Series/OnceUponATime''. He's joked that people don't think his natural American accent sounds convincing.

** 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.

** 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. 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.
** Juliet Landau who plays Drusilla is American, and affects a Victorian era cockney accent. [[BrokenBase Fans can never agree on whether or not it's good]].

** Everyone from Spike's past in [[WholeEpisodeFlashback "Fool for Love"]]. Also notable is Kali Rocha, playing Spike's love interest Cecily. She returns to the show in Season 6 now as Anya's demon friend Halfrek, using her natural accent. As Halfrek and Cecily are implied to be the same person (Halfrek calls Spike 'William' and then avoids his gaze), Cecily may be this in-universe too. [[WordOfSaintPaul Kali Rocha believes they are the same person]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': David Tennant affects an Estuary accent during his tenure as the Doctor. In an episode set in Scotland, he reverts to his native Scottish.
* ''{{Series/Dracula}}'' features three Irish actors - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Victoria Smurfitt and Katie [=McGrath=] - putting on English accents for their roles. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers goes one further and plays an in-universe FakeAmerican.

** Oddly enough, Claudia Black's Australian accent is so close to British that Aeryn uses her natural voice.

** 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.

** 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. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjrLyWlCrP8 Video]]

** Spoofed in an episode where an annoying old friend of Monica and Phoebe's (played by Jennifer Coolidge, who is American) comes back into town after living in England with a fake accent:

** Dinklage isn't the only non-Brit who adopts an English accent to fit in: there's also Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Danish), Aiden Gillen (Irish), Jack Gleeson (also Irish), and Conleth Hill (Northern Irish) as the very English-sounding characters Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively.

** 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.

* Amongst the real Brits, Colin Morgan of ''{{Series/Merlin 2008}}'' is Northern Irish and his real accent shows it. According to WordOfGod, when Irishwoman Katie [=McGrath=] was cast as Morgana, one of them was going to have to do an English accent - because producers didn't want two Irish characters in the main cast.

** Captain Hook is played by Irish actor Colin O'Donaghue. Ironically he was given AdaptationNameChange so that his real name is Killian Jones, which is Irish. His brother also has the Irish name Liam, though played by Australian actor Bernard Curry. His English accent is a little less convincing than O'Donaghue's.

** And of course the French Eva Green continues her long streak of playing English characters.

* ''Series/{{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.

* ''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.

** New Zealander Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey.

** Americans Wayne Alexander as Cornelius, Ethan Phillips as Deaver and Robert Schenkkan as Eli in "Devil's Alphabet".

* This ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/saturday-night-live-sketch-theresa-may-brexit-matt-damon-david-cameron-a8685666.html skit about Brexit]] with Creator/KateMcKinnon as British PM Theresa May and Creator/MattDamon as her predecessor David Cameron.

** Of course, [[HypocriticalHumor Theron is South African,]] and does an awful English accent, so the whole thing starts to get rather baffling.

** Everyone from Spike's past in [[WholeEpisodeFlashback "Fool for Love"]]. Also notable is Kali Rocha, playing Spike's love interest Cecily. She returns to the show in Season 6 now as Anya's demon friend Halfrek, using her natural accent. As Halfrek and Cecily are implied to be the same person (Halfrek calls Spike 'William' and then avoids his gaze), Cecily may be this in-universe too.

** 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 (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.

** 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:

* David Anders - a New York native - has often had to do an English accent. Notably in ''{{Series/Alias}}'', ''{{Series/Heroes}}'', ''Series/OnceUponATime''. He's joked that people don't think his natural American accent sounds convincing.

* ''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 ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}''.

* ''Series/BraveNewWorld'': Three New Londoners are played by foreign actors putting on an English accent. Frannie (Canadian Creator/Kylie Bunbury) Henry (Australian Sen Mitsuji) and Jane (New Zealander Sophie [=McIntosh=]).

** [[{{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....

* This Series/SaturdayNightLive [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/saturday-night-live-sketch-theresa-may-brexit-matt-damon-david-cameron-a8685666.html skit about Brexit]] with Creator/KateMcKinnon as British PM Theresa May and Creator/MattDamon as her predecessor David Cameron.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'':

* ''Series/KillgEve'': Irish actor Fiona Shaw plays the very English Carolyn Martens. Shaw had wanted to play the part with her own accent, until it was pointed out that Irish people aren't allowed to work for [=MI6=].

* ''K9'': This show is set in London. It's filmed in Australia. The accents vary, but some of them are terrible.