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!!In-Universe:
* ''Film/DowntonAbbeyANewEra'': The story is set 1928-9 or so, and one of the characters, a film star named Myrna, has a thick Cockney accent and is facing the end of her career with the talkies coming to Britain. Myrna can't do an upper-class British accent, but she ''can'' do a pretty good American accent, and she resolves to go to America and play Fake Americans full-time.

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!!Examples listing actors:
* A lot of actors can play Americans for most of their career, and people can often be surprised where they're actually from. Hollywood in particular is full of Australians faking accents. There are plenty of Brits too, but the English accent is often considered more marketable than the Australian one[[note]]Daniel Radcliffe started auditioning to play American characters after ''Film/HarryPotter'' and was told he was more marketable with his own accent.[[/note]] - so in general if a Brit is famous in America for a role in their own nationality (Creator/DanielRadcliffe, Creator/EmmaWatson, Creator/KeiraKnightley, Creator/JudeLaw, etc.) they're less likely to be called on to play {{Fake American}}s. Creator/EmilyBlunt is an example of an actress who played more Americans early in her career, but her bigger successes (''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'', ''Film/IntoTheWoods'', ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau'') all have her playing her own nationality. Foreigners who aren't as lucky include:
** Creator/ChristianBale plays an American in his most famous roles - ''Film/AmericanPsycho'', ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', ''Film/TheFighter'', ''Film/TheMachinist'', ''Film/AmericanHustle'' and many others. He's actually British in real life. As he's known for his MethodActing, he tends to keep the accent up whenever he's on a role and when he's doing press for it. Creator/BenAffleck didn't realize he was British until he bumped into Christian at a shop in LA just before filming ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
** Creator/NaomiWatts is British-born but raised in Australia, and has played Americans for most of her career. The only film where she plays an Australian is ''Film/TankGirl''.
** Creator/HughJackman is another Aussie who has played Americans for 90% of his roles. Even though his StarMakingRole in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' is supposed to be Canadian. He jokes that when he played an Aussie in ''{{Film/Chappie}}'' he had to look up what the Australian slang words in the script actually meant.
** Creator/CharlizeTheron is South African but has always played American characters ([[Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman well]], ''[[Film/AtomicBlonde nearly]]'' always). This is partly because she learned English when she was in America, so she speaks with the accent naturally.
** Creator/MelGibson. While he was born in the US, early in his career you can tell he had to make an effort to cover up the Aussie in his speech. You can definitely hear his American accent slip a couple of times in the first two ''Film/LethalWeapon'' films. These days, when he gives interviews, you would be convinced he never left the US since his birth.
** Creator/EmbethDavidtz is the opposite; she's an American raised in South Africa, so she fakes the accent in most of her work (save for a couple of FakeBrit roles as well). The film ''{{Film/Junebug}}'' is one of the rare times she gets to use her real accent.
** Creator/AnnaPaquin is from New Zealand but has been working in America since her teenage years, starting with Rogue in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''. Her accent has mostly faded now. But hilariously her most famous roles are characters from the DeepSouth - the aforementioned Rogue and Sookie Stackhouse on ''Series/TrueBlood''.
** Creator/LiamHemsworth has only played Americans, save for his roles in ''{{Series/Neighbours}}'' and ''Series/HomeAndAway''.
** Creator/GaryOldman has practically made a career out of playing Fake Americans: he puts on a Southern accent for ''Film/TheFifthElement'', a Texan accent for ''Film/TheBookOfEli'', a New York accent in ''Film/TheProfessional''; he even played Lee Harvey Oswald in ''JFK''. Infamously, for a period he went into therapy due to losing his actual accent.
** Creator/RoseByrne can do a flawless American accent and thus rarely finds herself playing Australian characters. She played her first American in ''Film/WickerPark'' and has alternated between that and {{Fake Brit}}s for most of her career.
** Creator/DianeKruger claims she tried very hard to lose her German accent in order to be able to play American characters. She hasn't quite gotten rid of it, as she still has a hint of an accent. Ironically she had to exaggerate her voice to play the German Bridget von Hammersmark in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''.
** Creator/AlexaDavalos is French but has an American-sounding voice, so she only has to change the occasional pronunciation.
** Creator/ElliotPage is Canadian but has played American characters. ''{{Film/Inception}}'' might be an aversion, as his character is a student in Paris whose nationality isn't stated.
** Before making it big as James Bond, Creator/DanielCraig played mostly Americans - ''Film/RoadToPerdition'', ''Film/TheJacket'', ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider''. Aside from his role in ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', his most notable FakeAmerican performances post-James Bond include Joe Bang in ''Film/LoganLucky'' and Benoit Blanc in ''Film/KnivesOut'', both of which are thickly accented American ''southerners''.
** Creator/DominicWest hasn't had a role using his own accent outside of the UK. ''{{Film/Chicago}}'', ''Film/TheForgotten'', ''Film/PunisherWarZone'' and ''Series/TheWire'' all have him using the accent. He describes fans being "a little disappointed" when they find out he's British.
** Creator/IdrisElba early on in his career went into auditions using a FakeAmerican accent, convinced casting directors would turn him away if he was British. With the success of ''{{Film/Thor}}'' and ''{{Series/Luther}}'' using his own accent, this naturally doesn't happen anymore.
** Creator/JimCarrey, who is Canadian, in far too many roles to list.
** Creator/BrendanFraser (born in Indiana, but the son of Canadians who even attended school in Toronto) also. Amusingly in ''Film/TheMummy1999'' some of the British characters insult the Americans, before apologising [[PresentCompanyExcluded to Fraser's]]. He responds that he's not offended, possibly as a LampshadeHanging to the audience.
** Creator/JaiCourtney had a notable role using his own voice in ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' but played mostly Americans from ''{{Film/Divergent}}'' onwards. He did get to use his Aussie accent for ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'', so this might change.
** Creator/CatherineZetaJones is another Welsh actor who only seems to play Americans. In fact, 2016's ''Dad's Army'' was the first time she had played a British character in years. What's more is that her StarMakingRole was ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' and people assumed she was Spanish for a while. It's telling that she was called on to play a lot of SpicyLatina characters in Hollywood - but has no Spanish ancestry herself. She lampshaded this on ''Series/TheGrahamNortonShow'':
--->'''Graham:''' Catherine Zeta-Jones, amazingly enough from Wales.
--->'''Catherine:''' From Wales! [[SarcasmMode There's loads of roles for Welsh girls around!]]
** Creator/CateBlanchett, who's a dual citizen of Australia and the US, has only used her native Australian (her father was American but she was born and raised in Australia) accent a handful of times in her whole film career and only in smaller, lesser-known films. The rest of her roles usually tend to be either American, English, Irish, Scottish, Russian, German, and even French.
** Like Blanchett, Creator/SaoirseRonan has dual American citizenship but wasn't raised there. She was born in The Bronx but moved to Ireland with her Irish Parents as a toddler. She pulled off the American accent flawlessly in her first role at age twelve - in ''Film/ICouldNeverBeYourWoman''. If her Star Making Role hadn't been as a FakeBrit in ''{{Film/Atonement}}'', people would have probably just assumed she was reared in America, with mostly playing Americans (barring ''Film/TheWayBack2010'', ''{{Film/Hanna}}'' and ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''). The film ''{{Film/Brooklyn}}'' was the first time she had played an Irish character - a full twelve years after her professional debut.
** Creator/CaryElwes has played plenty of Fake Americans throughout his career. How well his accent holds up in these roles vary ranging from flawless (''Film/{{Glory}}'' and ''Film/KissTheGirls'') to believable (''Film/ThePentagonWars'') to terrible (''Film/{{Twister}}'').
** Creator/ClaireForlani is British but started her acting career in America, with predictable results. Even in ''Film/MeetJoeBlack'' where her father is played by the British Anthony Hopkins, she's still a Fake American. Her first notable role using her own accent was in the series ''{{Series/Camelot}}'' - ''twenty years'' after her professional debut. She's an example of starting out [[OohMeAccentsSlipping not being very good at the accent]] (see ''{{Film/Mallrats}}'') but improving a lot over the course of her career.
** Creator/EmilyBrowning (Australian) has been working in America since she was a child, and has been able to pull off the accent flawlessly. Many viewers of ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' were surprised to discover her real nationality.
** In Australian Creator/MargotRobbie's short career, she has mostly played only Americans (save for [[Series/{{Neighbours}} before she left Australia]] and donning a FakeBrit accent to play Creator/KeiraKnightley in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch) - ''Series/PanAm'', ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', ''{{Film/Focus}}'', ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' and ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''. So far the only major film she's used her own accent in is ''Film/TheBigShort'' - where she appears AsHerself.
** Irish actor Creator/ColinFarrell is often an American in films. Most of the time he's thought to be pretty good, except for ''Film/PhoneBooth'' where it slips a little. He subverts this in an episode of ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'' where he first puts on an American accent and claims to be Irish-American, but then drops it and reveals he's just Irish.
** Creator/AsaButterfield played his own nationality a lot more as a child actor but has mostly played Americans since growing up. ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'', ''Sex Education'', ''Literature/EndersGame'', ''Film/TheSpaceBetweenUs''. His appearance in ''Then Came You'' alongside fellow Brit Maisie Williams led to a lot of joking about him often starring alongside Brits who keep their accents.
** Creator/TomWilkinson seems to play Americans more often than not: he did so in ''Film/BatmanBegins'', ''Film/MichaelClayton'', ''Series/JohnAdams'', ''Film/TheConspirator'', ''Film/{{Duplicity}}'', ''In The Bedroom'', ''Film/TheGreenHornet'', and ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', among others.
** Australian actress Creator/GeraldineViswanathan has almost always portrayed Americans. The only notable exception is as Bonnie on ''Series/JanetKing''.
** Creator/RebeccaHall is a dual citizen of Britain and the US due to her mother being American but was born and raised in the UK and has rarely used her own accent in American productions. Due to how frequently she plays Americans and her skill at the accent, many are shocked to find out that she is really from Britain.
** Creator/MalinAkerman was born in Sweden and raised in Canada, but has almost always portrayed Americans, for example Silk Spectre II in ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', and rarely, if ever, plays Swedes or Canadians.
* In ''Lemonade Mouth'' and ''Power Rangers'' Creator/NaomiScott portrays American high school students and in ''Aladdin'' she portrays a royal of a Middle Eastern kingdom, albeit a fictional one that seems to include some very light Indian elements. ''Film/CharliesAngels2019'' also has her play the American Elena.
* Chilean Creator/LorenzaIzzo has lived in the US since age twelve but does not have American citizenship, mostly playing Americans during her career (usually though not always Latinas).
* Australian actress Creator/ToniCollette's most recognizable and acclaimed roles are as American characters.

!!Examples listing films:
* Cuban-Spanish actress Creator/AnaDeArmas as the American Creator/MarilynMonroe in ''Film/{{Blonde}}''.
* In ''Film/ColorMeKubrick'', Creator/JohnMalkovich plays a British con artist who impersonates American director Creator/StanleyKubrick. As a result, actual American Malkovich does a laughably unconvincing version of his own native accent.
* Perhaps one of the best-known examples of Fake Americans in film is Indian-born British actress Creator/VivienLeigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Creator/LeslieHoward as Ashley Wilkes in the film ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. When the film came out, it shocked many Americans to see an English actress play a SouthernBelle, but now it's hard for us to NOT see them play those roles. She kept going with it playing Southern Belle Blanche Dubois in ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. Ironically, Creator/ThomasMitchell who played Irish-born Gerald O'Hara was born in Elizabeth, UsefulNotes/NewJersey, making him a real American giving a FakeIrish portrayal. (Although his parents were from Ireland.)
* ''Film/FromHereToEternity'' features British actress Creator/DeborahKerr shedding her IAmVeryBritish tones to play a US Army officer's wife in World War II.
* Creator/LaurenceOlivier tried his hand at this in 1972's ''The Betsy''. General consensus is that it's not very good.
* The 1961 FolkHorror film ''Film/CityOfTheDead'' is set in New England but filmed in actual England - and thus the entire cast are British playing American (including Creator/ChristopherLee, who called the accent quite hard to master). The exception is Venetia Stevenson as Nan - who is British-born but grew up in California and so had the accent naturally.
* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy''
** Creator/AlfredMolina, who plays Doctor Octopus in ''Film/SpiderMan2'', is from London. When he says the line, "I should've known Osborn wouldn't have the spine to finish you!," [[OohMeAccentsSlipping he slips up a bit.]]
** Creator/RosemaryHarris, who plays Aunt May in the films, is also English.
** Creator/DanielGillies, who play John Jameson in the second film, is Canadian-born and grew up in New Zealand.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'': The new Spider-Man, Creator/AndrewGarfield, was born in Los Angeles to a British mother and an American father, but has spent much of his life in the UK - and so has to fake the accent. He actually used two accents in the movies, switching to the classier one at his prestigious school.
* Creator/TomHolland portrays Spider-Man in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, starting with ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. He hails from Britain, but his voice is a near-exact match for Creator/TobeyMaguire from the original ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy.'' His first solo movie, ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', adds in Americans played by an Australian (Angourie Rice as Betty Brant) and a Canadian (Michael Mando as Mac Gargan).
* While on the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}} is played by British Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, there are Canadians playing both Strange's ex (Creator/RachelMcAdams) and [[ComicBook/Agent13 Captain America's love interest]] (Creator/EmilyVanCamp), and the ''{{Film/Thor}}'' movies have Norwegian-American Erik Selvig, played by Swede Stellan Skarsgard.
** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch's {{Series/Sherlock}} co-star, Creator/MartinFreeman plays an American in, as of 2018, two Marvel movies, the same as Cumberbatch.
** ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'': Creator/BenMendelsohn for the most part plays Talos with his native Australian accent. However, he adapts an American accent for the section of the movie where Talos is impersonating Fury's boss.
* Creator/KarenGillan in a few roles, like ''Film/GunpowderMilkshake''. She also drops her Scottish accent in the MCU as Nebula (she stated the Mid-Atlantic accent as being a Creator/MarilynMonroe impression but with some Creator/ClintEastwood elements) and in ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' and [[Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel its sequel]] as Ruby Roundhouse.
* In ''Blonde'', American Caucasian Creator/MarilynMonroe is played by Cuban-Spanish Latina Creator/AnaDeArmas.
** Australian Creator/PoppyMontgomery plays her in the 2001 TV film.
* Anthony [=LaPaglia=] is in a film called ''Film/EmpireRecords'', playing a very American small-town record store owner. Although he's all but lost his Aussie accent as a price. Just listen to him [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=smJho5vNVO4 here]], and compare him to everyone else.
* Creator/HeathLedger (Australian by birth) in a fair few of his movies- ''Film/BrokebackMountain'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', ''Lords Of Dogtown'', ''Film/ThePatriot2000'', and ''Film/MonstersBall''.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Creator/PatrickStewart (English) and Creator/JamesMcAvoy (Scottish) as Professor X, who is confirmed to be half-American in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' when he mentions his grandfather planting a tree on the Westchester estate. Both of them portray the character with English accents, making this a marginal example.
** Creator/FamkeJanssen (Dutch) as Jean Grey; another marginal example, as she has lost her natural Dutch accent. ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' features the English Creator/SophieTurner as the adolescent version of the character.
** Shawn Ashmore (Canadian) as the Boston native Iceman. He's a New Yorker in the comics, but his parents are said to live in Boston in the second film.
** Creator/BrianCox (Scottish) as Stryker in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' add Creator/JoshHelman (Australian) as young Stryker.
** Creator/ElliotPage (Canadian) as Kitty Pryde.
** Canadian/New Zealander Creator/AnnaPaquin doing a Southern accent as Rogue. Her accent eventually faded in real life.
** Creator/NicholasHoult (English) as Beast.
** Creator/RoseByrne (Australian) as Moira [=MacTaggert=], where the Scottish scientist of the comics has been adapted into an American CIA agent.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' has two fictional examples (French Omar Sy as Bishop, Chinese Creator/FanBingbing as Blink--then again, both characters are children of immigrants) and a real person (UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is Canadian Mark Camacho).
** Ben Hardy (English) as Angel in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** Charlie Heaton (English) as Cannonball in ''Film/TheNewMutants''.
* Creator/BobHoskins' portrayal of Eddie Valiant in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Hoskins' natural accent is a thick Cockney, not unlike Creator/MichaelCaine's. Here, he does a fairly convincing hard-boiled New York accent, though the film takes place in Los Angeles. Bob Hoskins plays Mario in ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' with a Brooklyn, New York accent. He also attempts something that sounds like an American accent in his self-directed film ''{{Film/Rainbow}}'' - although he may be going for OohMeAccentsSlipping to imply that Frank has traveled a lot.
** Also from ''Roger Rabbit'', fellow Brit Alan Tilvern plays American cartoon maker R.K. Maroon along with English actor Richard Ridings as Angelo.
* Creator/EmmaThompson's pastiche of UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton in ''Film/PrimaryColors''.
* Creator/KateWinslet:
** Her portrayal of American debutante Rose Dewitt Bukater in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''. Kate admitted being "appalled" by her accent when she watched the movie 15 years later for its 3-D release and wishes she could redo it with all her years of experience she's had since then.
** And again as Long Island resident Clementine Kruczynski in ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''.
** Once more in ''Film/TheLifeOfDavidGale'', rather convincingly. She doesn't sound Texan, but then, they never explicitly say that the character is Texan.
** She also plays Americans in ''Film/LittleChildren'', ''Film/RevolutionaryRoad'', ''Film/MildredPierce'', ''Film/Contagion2011'' and ''Film/{{Carnage|2011}}''.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' is a festival of Fake Americans with Creator/ChristianBale (Franchise/{{Batman}}), Creator/GaryOldman (Detective Jim Gordon), and Tom Wilkinson (Carmine Falcone) hiding their UK accents to play Gotham City citizens in ''Film/BatmanBegins'', as did Creator/CillianMurphy (Dr. Jonathan Crane) with his Irish one. In fact, most of the crew were British. Creator/LiamNeeson (Henri Ducard) also put on such a convincing American accent in ''Film/{{Darkman}}''.
** Creator/CillianMurphy in ''Film/RedEye''. Creator/WesCraven was initially wary about casting him as Rippner since Rippner was explicitly written as American. When Murphy walked into the audition, he actually fooled the casting agent with his accent. (The film also has Canadian Creator/RachelMcAdams and Scottish Creator/BrianCox as Americans.)
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' also has Creator/BurnGorman (English) and Creator/BenMendelsohn (Australian) as Stryver and Daggett respectively. Creator/MarionCotillard (French) as Miranda Tate, though the twist makes the FakeNationality harder to pinpoint.
* In ''Film/DieHard'', Creator/JohnMcTiernan said he decided to extend the scene where Englishman Creator/AlanRickman's character of Hans Gruber pretends to be a hostage in order to show it off. YMMV as to whether you believe this.
** He also played an American in ''Film/BobRoberts''.
** While with the Grubers, in ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', when Simon shows up at the blast scene and poses as a city engineer, Creator/JeremyIrons puts on a very fake Texas drawl - which works!
* Creator/PeterSellers (English) as President Merkin Muffley in ''Film/DrStrangelove''. He affects a sort of flat Midwestern accent that is as "generic" as American accents get, particularly since Muffley was partially based on Illinois Governor and presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. (He also plays a fake ''German'' and an ''actual'' Brit in the same film). Sellers also played Americans in ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' (and that character masquerades as a German at one point!) ''The World of Henry Orient'', ''I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!'', ''Where Does It Hurt?'', and ''Film/BeingThere''. (In the last case, it's an accent whose region can't be identified by the CIA or FBI. Sellers created it by applying an American accent to an imitation of (British) Stan Laurel's voice.) He's one of the more convincing fake Americans when he's "on".
* Creator/CliveOwen who is British, puts on a not-too-convincing American drawl to play Dwight in ''Film/SinCity''.
* In ''Film/PhoneBooth'', you have Australian Radha Mitchell as the wife; see also ''Film/SilentHill'', in which she played the main role (and Creator/SeanBean, below, played her husband, both with American accents).
* Creator/SeanBean pulls off a very frightening generic American accent as the main character in the 2007 remake of ''Film/TheHitcher''.
* Red Leader in ''Film/ANewHope'' has a quite convincing "mountain twang" pilot accent (à la Chuck Yeager, Tom Wolfe must have smiled); despite being played by Brit Drewe Henley. Most of the British extras were dubbed over by American actors. Shelagh Fraser redubbed her ''own'' voice as Aunt Beru to sound more American, though different takes are heard depending on which sound mix of the film you're listening to.
* ''Film/TheExperts'': All of the Russians in the movie are played by American actors, although most of them are pretending to be Americans (which includes working hard on their fake accents) throughout the film.
* Owen Lars was played by American actor Phil Brown in ''A New Hope'', but in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', he is portrayed by Australian actor Creator/JoelEdgerton. Both of Beru Lars' actresses were examples of this, with Shelagh Fraser (''A New Hope'') being English and Bonnie Piesse (''Attack of the Clones'', ''Revenge of the Sith'' and ''Obi-Wan Kenobi'') also being Australian.
* The American-accented Stormtrooper-turned-Resistance fighter Finn in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' is played by British actor Creator/JohnBoyega. According to the man himself, they tested him out using his natural voice, before Creator/JJAbrams quickly told him to do an American one instead. His co-star Creator/DaisyRidley gets to keep her English accent.
* Creator/MichaelJFox has been able to pull off an amazingly convincing American accent for a while now, to the point that it's difficult to believe that the [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 17-year-old time-traveling Californian teenager]] you just saw was [[DawsonCasting actually a]] [[OlderThanTheyLook twenty-three-year-old]] from Canada.
* ''Film/JohnWick'': Creator/AlfieAllen, who is British, manages to be both this and FakeRussian at the same time. Iosef Tarasov has a Russian accent for his Russian dialogue, but as he was raised in New York, he speaks English with a New York accent.
* In ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' trilogy:
** Australian actor Creator/HugoWeaving puts on a slightly exaggerated, sneering Midwestern accent when playing the role of Agent Smith. WordOfGod is that he was trying to imitate director Lana Wachowski.
** More convincingly, from ''Enter Film/TheMatrix'' and a brief bit in ''Film/TheMatrix Revolutions'', is Sparks, the operator of the hovership ''Logos''.
** On the other hand, Weaving's voice for Megatron in the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' does a good job of disguising his accent under a growling tone of voice that well fits this particular incarnation of the character.
* ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'' is chock full of convincing Texan accent and dialect from non-Texan actors (although several actors, like Creator/WoodyHarrelson and Creator/TommyLeeJones, were Texan)... but perhaps the most surprising is that of Creator/KellyMacdonald, who's ''Scottish''. The other big one is Creator/JavierBardem, who is Spanish. In fact, the voice he used for Anton Chigurh came about by accident when he tried to tone down the accent during a run-through of the script.
* Creator/PatrickStewart in [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282659/ King of Texas]] which is ''Theatre/KingLear'' [[RecycledINSPACE IN TEXAS]].
* Many members of the cast of ''Film/BlackHawkDown'': Ewan Bremner and Creator/EwanMcGregor (Scottish), Creator/EricBana (Australian), Creator/IoanGruffudd (Welsh), Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), and Creator/OrlandoBloom, Hugh Dancy, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/JasonIsaacs and Matthew Marsden (all English). Out of those actors, several have portrayed Americans in other movies, with Ewan [=McGregor=] and Matthew Marsden having the most Fake American roles under their belts so far.
* Creator/RobertShaw in ''General Custer of the West''. He does a pretty good job, but his accent falls through a couple times.
* Max Carrigan, the incorrigible draftee and brother of the female lead in ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'', was played by British actor Joe Anderson with a sardonic, nasal, and reasonably convincing American accent. Even more impressive is that he does a great job of ''singing'' in the fake American accent.
* The Austrian Charles Rooner (born Ernst Robitschek) made a career out of playing these ones in old Mexican films.
* The cast of ''Film/ColdMountain'', excluding Creator/ReneeZellweger (a Texan), hailed from anywhere but the American South. Creator/NicoleKidman (Australian, though she is American-born), Creator/JudeLaw, Ray Winstone, Eileen Atkins, and Charlie Hunnam (English), Brendan Gleason and Creator/CillianMurphy (Irish), Creator/DonaldSutherland (Canadian). Creator/NataliePortman is a subversion of sorts as while she is Israeli her parents moved to America when he was young though she was definitely not from the South.
* Parodied in ''Film/TropicThunder'', which casts an American as an Australian cast as an (African) American. (Originally, the character was supposed to be "truly" Irish, but Creator/RobertDowneyJr. found it easier to improvise with an Aussie accent.)
* Creator/JamesMcAvoy as the "hero" in ''Film/{{Wanted}}''. He's Scottish, but usually has an IAmVeryBritish voice in most of his roles. General consensus seems to be that his natural accent slipped through a lot.
* Creator/MichaelCaine had to play a Texan in ''Film/SecondhandLions''. And he did a terrible job, too. In promotional interviews, Caine said the secret to the Texas drawl is "to let the syllables lean on each other." He also pulled off lousy UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents in ''Bullseye!'' (in one of his [[ActingForTwo two roles in that film]]) and ''The Cider House Rules''. And he won an [[OscarBait Oscar]] for the latter, yet! Compare to Creator/CharlizeTheron's far more convincing tones in the same movie (and, in fact, every other film the South African Miss Theron has made – she has yet to play her own nationality on screen).
* Creator/ChristopherLee did a nice flat Californian accent in the movie ''Film/{{Serial}}'' – and floating around out there is a recording of him singing Ghost Riders in the Sky with a Southern drawl. He also played an American teacher in ''The City of the Dead''.
* Averted in ''Film/{{Shortbus}}'', where the director tried to get Sook-Yin Lee to not sound so Canadian, and finally gave up and wrote into the script an explanation that her character was Chinese-Canadian.
* Creator/RobertPattinson does an American accent in ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. He discusses it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25p9r5oKBXs=related here]]. He also plays an American business tycoon in ''Film/{{Cosmopolis}}'' and a New Yorker in ''Film/RememberMe''. He will also play an American in the upcoming ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' reboot.
* Creator/JudeLaw's ridiculously bad American accent in ''Film/IHeartHuckabees''. It's painful. He repeats his performance in ''All The King's Men''. He also did a barely passable American accent in ''Film/EXistenZ''...[[spoiler:however, this is justified seeing as how his American-accented character was just an avatar for a character of his own British nationality.]]
* By that same token, Englishman Creator/EddieMarsan as the villain "Red" from ''Film/{{Hancock}}''. [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent He seems to have a hard time settling on which accent he wants to use.]]
* Before ''Series/{{House}}'', Creator/HughLaurie played the father in the film ''Film/StuartLittle'', American accent included. There's also his role as Internal Affairs Captain James Biggs in ''Film/StreetKings'' (in which his character is remarkably similar to House, ''sans'' beard or bad leg).
* Creator/MinnieDriver as Debi Newberry in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank''.
* In the original cast recording of ''Film/MammaMia'' the travel writer's voice is considerably louder and more "Texan" than the other two DisappearedDad characters. The fact that the musical originated in England probably has something to do with it. Getting back to the film itself, the Irish Creator/PierceBrosnan played an American character, using essentially his real accent.
* Creator/EwanMcGregor was technically using a Southern accent in ''Film/BigFish'', but the result was not authentic-sounding at all. Ditto for his Midwest American accent in ''Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats''. He also played American rocker Curt Wild in ''Film/VelvetGoldmine''. And Oliver (with an American accent and American parents) in ''Beginners'', which was filmed in Los Angeles. He uses both a fake American accent and his natural Scottish accent in ''Film/TheIsland2005''.
* Virtually everyone except the main cast in the FilmOfTheBook ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' was a New Zealander playing an American. The singing scenes had to be dubbed by Americans because the child extras sounded like New Zealanders.
* Jim Sturgess adopts a hilariously bad American accent in ''Film/TwentyOne'', and completely forgoes holding his Rs throughout the second half of the movie.
* Creator/SimonPegg puts on a fairly convincing American accent in ''Film/BigNothing'' (although, funnily enough, his character is supposed to be from Las Vegas, but doesn't sound remotely like a Nevada native). He also uses one in ''Film/{{Inheritance}}''.
* Used to varying effect in ''Film/BugsyMalone'': The movie was filmed in England and used local children for bit parts.
* Raoul Bova, an Italian, does this in ''Avenging Angelo'' and ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator''.
* In ''Film/StarTrek2009'', Creator/KarlUrban (New Zealander) does a flawless (as in ''so close that Creator/LeonardNimoy cried when he first heard it'') "Creator/DeForestKelley Southern Country Doctor" accent.
* ''Film/{{RFK}}''
** English Creator/LinusRoache as American UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy.
* Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme:
** In ''Film/StreetFighter'', he plays the All-American Air Force Colonel Guile, but since he's NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent, he's apparently supposed to be a patriotic immigrant.
** In ''Film/HardTarget'' and ''Film/UniversalSoldier'', Van Damme's Belgian French accent is explained by his characters in those movies being Cajun, in spite of the accents sounding different.
** In ''Film/DoubleImpact'' there's a throwaway line about Van Damme's Los Angeles-based character having been raised in Belgium.
** Van Damme's character in ''Film/SuddenDeath'' is said to be Quebecois in order to explain his accent, having played semi-pro hockey with Pittsburgh Penguins player Luc Robitaille.
* Creator/SamWorthington (Australian) played a lot of Americans early on in his career - in ''{{Film/Avatar}}'' and ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' - but not convincingly. By the time ''Film/ManOnALedge'' came around, he just used his own accent.
* Creator/BrianCox in ''Film/SuperTroopers'' portrays the Irish-American Captain John O'Hagen, whose accent wobbles between the generic American and Irish depending on his mood, but never sounds Scottish.
* While the lead character is played by an American playing a Brit, all the American characters in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'' are played by Canadians. You can really tell with their accents, especially against the British ones.
* Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson as Dave Lizewski in ''Film/KickAss'', which also has Creator/MarkStrong as Frank D'Amico.
* Creator/EmilieDeRavin (best known for playing Claire on ''Series/{{Lost}}'') did an excellent job at concealing her accent in ''Film/{{Brick}}''; ironically, early on during ''Lost'''s run some thought that her natural Australian accent [[RealityIsUnrealistic sounded fake.]] She pulls off good American accents in ''Film/RememberMe'' and ''{{Film/Carrie2002}}''.
* In his final movie appearance, Creator/CharlesLaughton effectively pulled off a Southern accent playing a wily senator in ''Film/AdviseAndConsent''.
* Austrian Creator/TheodoreBikel played a redneck sheriff in ''Film/TheDefiantOnes''.
* Molly, played by Londoner Creator/AliceEve, in ''Film/ShesOutOfMyLeague''. In addition, Molly's parents in the film are played by Eve's real-life parents, who are also British.
* Creator/DevPatel in ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. Zuko himself isn't American, but Patel ''was'' imitating Creator/DanteBasco's normal accent.
* Creator/FreddieHighmore's adorably awful American accent in ''Film/AugustRush''. Although to be fair, he was only about eleven or twelve at the time. He improved it by the time ''Film/TheSpiderwickChronicles'' came around, enough to voice [[PlayingTheirOwnTwin two different characters]]. He's only gotten better since hitting adulthood.
* Creator/TimRoth did a convincing American, though ambiguous, accent in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. Creator/QuentinTarantino thought it was too much of a hassle and had him use his regular accent in ''Film/PulpFiction''.
* Canadian actress Creator/LauraHarris puts on a downright painful Southern drawl in ''Film/TheFaculty''. [[spoiler:FridgeBrilliance comes in when it's revealed that her character is an alien, meaning that she's a FakeAmerican ''in-universe'' as well. In fact, in the original script her character drops her accent shortly before TheReveal.]]
* South African Creator/SharltoCopley and Irishman Creator/LiamNeeson are both Fake Americans in the film version of ''Film/TheATeam''. Copley wanders through several different Southern accents, but given that it's [[CloudCuckoolander Murdock]], it fits quite well, and he deliberately fakes a lot of others throughout the movie. Neeson's more or less works as well, though his brogue tends to slip a bit whenever he says anything with an "oo" sound (such as when he tells Face, "You are ''really'' tan.")
** Copley gets to use his [[HowsYourBritishAccent natural South African accent]] in one scene, which many know from his star-making role as Wikus in ''Film/{{District 9}}''.
* Creator/IslaFisher, born in Oman to Scottish parents and raised in Australia, only ever seems to play Americans. This is somewhat justified, however, as if she ever did use her real accent, the result would be so cute, the universe would collapse in on itself.
* German movie ''Locked Up'' features the main character meeting and falling in love with the "American" Mike while in prison. Mike is just a British guy who has apparently never heard an American speak and wagers no Germans have either. He doesn't even make a flimsy, half-hearted attempt to use anything but his normal speaking voice. Must be a graduate of the Sean Connery School of Accents.
* Radha Mitchell (Australian) and Joe Anderson (English) did passable American accents in the Iowa-set ''Film/TheCrazies2010''.
* Brit Creator/EmilyBlunt used a convincing American accent to play Creator/AmyAdams' sister in ''Film/SunshineCleaning''. She puts on a Southern accent for ''{{Film/Looper}}'' and plays American again in ''Film/{{Sicario}}''. She seems to be averting this and is allowed to use her natural accent for her more famous roles in ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau'', ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' and ''Film/IntoTheWoods''. Ironically she is now an American citizen, and her voice has a few American pronunciations from years of working there. Notably in ''Edge of Tomorrow'', where she's using her natural voice, she alternates between English and American pronunciations.
* Aussie Creator/EmilyBrowning in ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''. She did initially audition in her role as Violet Baudelaire in a British accent, although it eventually winded up in her using an American accent. Browning continued to use an American accent for her role in ''Film/SuckerPunch''. The same film also featured Aussie actress Abbie Cornish as the American Sweet Pea.
* The 1948 film ''No Orchids for Miss Blandish'' was made in the UK but is full of fake Americanisms--left-hand drive cars, a vaguely [[BigAppleSauce New York]] setting, and American accents of varying quality. The original novel was written by an Englishman (James Hadley Chase, who wrote a number of novels set in America - although he never lived there) but so thoroughly riddled with Americanisms that English readers mistook it for an American import.
* ''City Island'' has Emily Mortimer taking part in [[spoiler:the exact same twist she did in ''30 Rock'' (that she's "really" an American pretending to be British)]]. She goes the other way around in ''Film/TheFiftyFirstState'' as [[spoiler: a Liverpool girl Dawn posing as an American assassin Dakota]]. She plays Americans in ''{{Film/Scream3}}'' and ''Film/ShutterIsland'' too.
* Creator/JulianGlover as Walter Donovan in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
* Creator/ThandiweNewton (British) as President Creator/DannyGlover's daughter in ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve''. She also plays Americans excellently in both ''Film/{{Crash}}'' and ''Film/{{Norbit}}''.
* Creator/RalphFiennes (English) playing the American Charles Van Doren in ''Film/QuizShow''. He uses more of a Mid-Atlantic/preppy New England accent, though, with notable English influences. Mark Van Doren, father of Charles Van Doren, was played by Paul Scofield, also English.
* Creator/RyanReynolds has one role that takes this trope in ironic ways: in ''Film/TheProposal'', he's the guy targeted for marriage by his Canadian boss (played by half-German Virginia native Sandra Bullock) before she loses her visa. Ryan claims he trained himself to lose his Canadian accent to make playing Americans easier.
* A peculiar case in ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding''. Nia Vardalos is indeed of Greek ancestry, as is her character, but unlike her character, a Chicago native, she is a Greek-Canadian from the prairies.
* The Irish Creator/ColinFarrell played not only an American but an American Country Singer in ''Film/CrazyHeart''.
* Creator/KennethBranagh affects a [[SoBadItsGood hilarious]] Southern accent for his role in ''Film/WildWildWest''. He also does a somewhat inexplicable nasal Brooklyn accent when playing Creator/WoodyAllen's alter ego in ''Film/{{Celebrity}}''.
* Creator/DanAykroyd (Canadian) does a convincing Chicago accent in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' and ''Film/TommyBoy''. His southern accent in ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy'' and ''Film/{{North}}'' is less convincing.
* For the handful of lines that Creator/AnthonyStewartHead actually speaks in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', he puts on a fairly convincing American accent. He slips a bit when he sings, though.
* The exploitation film ''American Kickboxer 1'' is false advertising on three counts; it wasn't the first of a series, it was filmed in South Africa with the cast trying and failing to sound American, and as for the kickboxing...
* ''Film/{{Aquamarine}}'' was set in Florida but filmed in Australia (a change from the novel, where the plot involves one of the main characters moving ''to'' Florida - in the movie she's going to Australia), and with the exceptions of Creator/EmmaRoberts, Sara Paxton, Joanna Levesque, Creator/ArielleKebbel and Jake [=McDorman=], the cast affected US accents. Some of them [[OohMeAccentsSlipping better than others]].
* ''Film/DarkCity'' had Brit Rufus Sewell putting on a pretty good accent as well as Australian Creator/MelissaGeorge and British-born Canadian Creator/KieferSutherland.
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has British Creator/HenryCavill as the first non-American actor to play Franchise/{{Superman}} (who, while a HumanAlien, was raised in America and is considered an American icon). Fans were initially unhappy but most agree he did a very good job with the accent. Ironically, one line in the film is when he argues with a military general, "I was raised in Kansas, General. I'm as American as it gets". Cavill once again played an American in ''Film/TheManFromUncle2015'' (for bonus irony, the [[Creator/ArmieHammer real American]] played a FakeRussian), and another in ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout''.
** The Australian Creator/MargotRobbie as Harley Quinn starting with ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}''.
** The British Creator/KarenBryson as Elinore Stone in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague''.
** The British Creator/IdrisElba as Robert [=DuBois=]/Bloodsport in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''.
** The Spanish Creator/MaribelVerdu as the American Nora Allen in ''Film/{{The Flash|2023}}''. Downplayed in that, by the sound and look of it, this incarnation of Nora is of Spanish descent.
* British actress Creator/LucyPunch does such an effective Chicago accent in ''Film/BadTeacher''.
* Scotsman Creator/AlanCumming had a bit part as an American hotel clerk in ''Film/EyesWideShut''. He tells an awesome [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdVy-nF6cs story]] of how Creator/StanleyKubrick was first annoyed upon discovering on the day they were to shoot his scenes that Cumming was Scottish and not American. Kubrick grumbled: "You were American on the tape!" Cumming coolly responded: "I know. That's because I'm an '''actor''', Stanley." Cumming's chutzpah earned the notoriously intimidating director's respect.
* Australian Simon Baker in ''Film/MarginCall'', though it's not always ideal (Given that the film has two British characters and it wouldn't be unrealistic for an Australian to be part of the mix as well in a Wall Street investment bank, it's not clear why it was necessary).
* British Joe Anderson pulled off a very convincing American Accent in ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007''. Amplified by most of his scenes taking place with fellow Brit Jim Sturgess who plays an Englishman.
* Most of the main cast of ''Film/{{Lawless}}'' (set in rural Virginia in the 1930s) are either British (Creator/TomHardy, Creator/GaryOldman) or Australian (Creator/JasonClarke, Creator/GuyPearce, Creator/MiaWasikowska), and the Americans in the cast aren't exactly Southerners (Creator/ShiaLaBeouf and Creator/JessicaChastain are both from California). They all do excellent work, though.
* ''Film/PunisherWarZone'' has Irish-born Brit Creator/RayStevenson as the titular New York native, putting on a pretty convincing accent. The film also has Brits Creator/ColinSalmon doing a pretty good job as FBI Agent Butanski and Dominic West with a ludicrously over-the-top Italian-American gangster accent.
* ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'' has Creator/MarkStrong (British), Creator/JoelEdgerton, and Creator/JasonClarke (both Australian) as American CIA and military personnel. It also has Creator/JohnBarrowman, born in Scotland and raised near UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} so his accent is fluid. All do very good jobs, especially Clarke as Dan.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' has Brit Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, doing a terrific accent. Also, Creator/NatalieDormer as Private Lorraine.
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'':
** [[Creator/JonathanPryce The President of the United States]] is British. If you've played ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 3'', he's particularly eyebrow-raising.
** Try ''[[Creator/SiennaMiller the Baroness]]''. Which is pretty damn funny, given the character's origins in the comics.
* British Creator/TomHiddleston does an impeccable American accent as Creator/FScottFitzgerald in ''Film/MidnightInParis''.
** Not only talks but ''sings'' as Music/HankWilliams in ''Film/ISawTheLight''.
* ''Small Apartments'' has Brits Matt Lucas and Creator/JunoTemple and Australian Creator/RebelWilson as Los Angeles natives. They all do very good accents.
* Creator/RebeccaHall, like Creator/ChristianBale and Creator/KateWinslet, seems to be building her career on this trope as evidenced by her accents in ''Film/VickyCristinaBarcelona'', ''Film/TheTown'', ''Lay The Favorite'', ''Film/IronMan3'', ''Christine'' and ''Film/TheGift2015''. Her American accent is so effective most viewers would never guess she is actually British. ''Iron Man 3'' also has the Australian Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian.
* Confederate Army soldier Pencroft is played by the very British Percy Herbert in the film adaptation of ''[[Literature/TheMysteriousIsland Mysterious Island]]''.
* British actor Creator/WillPoulter as Kenny in ''Film/WereTheMillers'', Gallie in ''Film/TheMazeRunner2014'', Jim in ''Film/TheRevenant'' and Mark in ''Film/{{Midsommar}}''.
* Brit Creator/DanielRadcliffe donned one to play Creator/AllenGinsberg in ''Film/KillYourDarlings''. Also in ''Film/{{Horns}}'' and ''Film/{{Imperium}}''. He's said that he was told by casting directors that he "wasn't marketable" without his English accent, so he doesn't do this as often as he could.
* ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'' features Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor (British) speaking with an upstate New York accent while co-stars Creator/MichaelFassbender (German-Irish) and Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (British) speak with Southern accents.
* Australian Creator/JoelEdgerton and British Creator/TomHardy played Pittsburgh born brothers in ''Film/{{Warrior}}''. [[HilariousInHindsight Hilariously]], [[{{Kayfabe}} known]] {{Eagleland}} pro-wrestler Wrestling/KurtAngle plays a FakeRussian in the same film.
* [[Film/RoboCop2014 The RoboCop remake]] stars Joel Kinnaman (Swedish of American descent) as Alex Murphy, who is married to Abbie Cornish (Australian). He is turned into Franchise/RoboCop by the above-mentioned Creator/GaryOldman, who works in the same company as Creator/JayBaruchel (Canadian, born in Ottawa and raised in Montreal).
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' inverts it. Most of the characters are Canadian, but a few are played by Americans like Creator/AnnaKendrick and Kieran Culkin.
* Robert Sheehan in ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'' plays the American Simon and more confusingly, the American-accented boy from north-eastern Europe, Kay von Wollenbarth, in ''Film/SeasonOfTheWitch''. He's Irish in real life.
* English actress Rebecca Hall and Irish actor Creator/CillianMurphy both play American characters in ''Film/{{Transcendence}}''.
* Creator/AnthonyHopkins has played two American presidents, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon in ''Film/{{Nixon}}'' and UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams in ''Film/{{Amistad}}''.
* English-accented Jean Simmons did an excellent generic-American accent in ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls'' and ''Literature/ElmerGantry'', amongst others, and a passable Southern one in ''Film/InheritTheWind''.
* Creator/EmmaWatson may be building a career on this, with her roles in ''Film/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'', ''Film/TheBlingRing'', and now ''Regression''.
* The Brit Creator/JonnyLeeMiller as Dade Murphy/Zero Cool/Crash Override in ''Film/{{Hackers}}''. He also does a hilarious Southern accent for ''{{Film/Mindhunters}}''.
* In ''Film/{{W}}'' consummate American political insider Karl Rove is played by Briton Creator/TobyJones.
* ''Film/{{Stoker}}'' is rife with fake Yanks, with lead roles played by Australians Creator/MiaWasikowska, Creator/NicoleKidman[[note]]U.S.-born but her offscreen accent is pure Aussie[[/note]] and Jacki Weaver as well as Englishmen Matthew Goode and Ralph Brown.
* British actress Creator/ImogenPoots in ''Film/ThatAwkwardMoment'' and ''Film/FrightNight2011''.
* Canadian-born Lisa Jakub in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' as the eldest daughter, Lydia Hillard.
* Creator/RosamundPike is British, but in the film version of ''Film/GoneGirl'', she pulls off a very convincing American accent. [[spoiler: She also does a convincing Southern accent when she dons her new identity as 'Nancy'.]]
* Walter Keane was from the Midwest, while Creator/ChristophWaltz who plays him in ''Film/BigEyes'' is from Austria.
* Creator/CaraDelevingne plays the American Margot in ''Film/PaperTowns'', but is British in real life. She also does an American accent as June Moore in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''.
** ''Suicide Squad'' also features another example from England, Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje (Killer Croc), as well as an Australian (Margot Robbie/Harley Quinn), a Swedish-American (Joel Kinnaman/Rick Flag), and a Native Canadian (Adam Beach) playing a Native American (Slipknot).
* The very Welsh Roger Rees as American CorruptCorporateExecutive Parnell in ''Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot''. Leads to some interesting cases of WhatTheHellIsThatAccent and OohMeAccentsSlipping.
* Northern-Irish Creator/JamieDornan as the American Christian Grey in ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.
* Almost the entire main human cast of ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' is fake Americans: Aussies Creator/JasonClarke and Creator/JaiCourtney respectively as John Connor and Kyle Reese, Brits Creator/EmiliaClarke and Creator/MattSmith as Sarah Connor and Skynet itself respectively, and Nigerian Dayo Okeniyi as Danny Dyson. The only American actor in the main cast is Creator/JKSimmons.
* The cast of ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'' is mostly British, with only Thomas Brodie-Sangster getting to keep his accent as Newt.
* The ''Film/{{Divergent}}'' series is set in Chicago, and yet half of the main cast are played by actors from somewhere in the British Isles:
** The Eaton/Johnson family is made up of Fake Americans. Theo James (Four) is English, while Ray Stevenson (Marcus) is Northern Irish. Naomi Watts (Evelyn) was born in England but raised in Australia.
** Other English actors include Kate Winslet (Jeanine), Ben Lloyd-Hughes (Will), Suki Waterhouse (Marlene), and Janet [=McTeer=] (Edith Prior).
** Jai Courtney (Eric) and Keiynan Lonsdale (Uriah) are both Australians.
** ''The Divergent Series: Allegiant'' adds non-Anglophone actors into the fake American list: the Swedish Creator/BillSkarsgard (Matthew) and the German Nadia Hilker (Nita).
* ''Film/ExMachina'':
** Irish Creator/DomhnallGleeson playing a Portland native.
** Creator/AliciaVikander is Swedish and speaks with an American accent as Ava.
* Both Lina and Doon in ''Film/CityOfEmber''. Lina is played by the Irish Creator/SaoirseRonan, and Doon by the British Harry Treadaway.
* ''Film/TheLovelyBones'' has an American family where the mother is played by the British Creator/RachelWeisz and the daughters by Irish Saoirse Ronan (mentioned above) and the New Zealander Rose [=McIver=]. Ruth is also played by a New Zealand actress.
* ''Bastille Day'' features Creator/IdrisElba (English), Creator/RichardMadden (Scottish), and Creator/KellyReilly (English) playing three American characters. All the more noticeable because for all intents and purposes they are the ''only'' American characters in the movie. Everyone else is French and played by French actors. Richard Madden joked that it was easier for the crew to understand him when he spoke in his Fake American voice rather than his natural Scottish.
* ''Film/PacificRim'' has Englishman Creator/CharlieHunnam using the same broad American accent he used in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' to play the protagonist Raleigh. And, as in the series, its results are a bit shaky at times.
* The film ''Film/Loving2016'' depicts a MalignedMixedMarriage between two people in the American south. They are played by Australian Creator/JoelEdgerton and Irish Creator/RuthNegga.
* ''Film/SeventhSon2015'' is set in a fantasy world but features a few actors using American accents. Ben Barnes and Kit Harrington (both British) and Alicia Vikander (Swedish).
* Creator/DanStevens from Britain has started playing lots of Americans since moving to Los Angeles. Notable ones include ''Film/TheGuest'', ''Film/AWalkAmongTheTombstones'' and the TV series ''{{Series/Legion 2017}}''.
* In the ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'', Jake and his dad (both American) are played, respectively, by Creator/AsaButterfield (English) and Creator/ChrisODowd (Irish).
* ''Film/TheBestExoticMarigoldHotel'''s sequel features an undercover hotel inspector [[spoiler: who's posing as English guest Lavinia Beach]] but is really American. The character is played by [[spoiler: Tamsin Greig, who uses her own English accent while Lavinia is undercover]].
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/TheGirlOnTheTrain'' changes the setting from Britain to America but ironically two {{Fake American}}s in the cast; Welsh actor Luke Evans as Scott, and Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson as Anna. The British Emily Blunt gets to keep her accent as Rachel.
* Creator/EvaGreen is French and mainly plays a FakeBrit but has been American in ''Film/SinCity - A Dame To Kill For'' and ''Film/DarkShadows''.
* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has Creator/MiaWasikowska (Australian) and Creator/CharlieHunnam (English) as the American leads. Creator/JessicaChastain is the opposite - American playing British - as Lucille (though she was approached to play Edythe first).
* ''Film/TheYellowHandkerchief'''s Gordy is played by Creator/EddieRedmayne doing a good generic American accent (he mentions he's from "out west").
** He also does a good Midwestern American accent in ''{{Hick}}''
* ''Franchise/BillAndTed'': Ironically for being quintessential Californian dudes, neither Bill nor Ted are played by American-born actors; Creator/AlexWinter was born in England (though moved to the US as a kid, making him a borderline example), and Creator/KeanuReeves is Canadian.
* ''Film/SelfLess'' features Canadian Ryan Reynolds and British Michelle Dockery as American characters.
* Creator/JamesDArcy has pulled this off in ''Film/{{Guernica}}'' and ''{{Film/Hitchcock}}'' (playing Creator/AnthonyPerkins no less).
* ''Film/StopLoss'' features Abbie Cornish (Australian) and Ciaran Hinds (Northern Irish) as Texas natives.
* ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' features a lot of these. Milla Jovovich doesn't really count; although born in Ukraine she has been in America since she was five and so has the accent naturally. Nonetheless...
** The first film has James Purefoy, Colin Salmon, Liz May Brice (all British), Martin Crewes (Australian), Heike Makatsch (German), and Pasquale Aleardi (Swiss). The British Jason Isaacs also supplies a narration in an American accent.
** ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' has Brits Sienna Guillory, Sandrine Holt and Razaaq Adoti.
** ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' features less than usual but still has Christopher Egan (Australian).
** ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'' gives us Shawn Roberts (Canadian), Boris Kodjoe (German-Ghanian), and Sienna Guillory again.
* In ''Film/SalvationBoulevard'' Irish actors Creator/PierceBrosnan and Ciaran Hinds play Americans, though Brosnan has become a US citizen.
* ''Film/VioletAndDaisy'': Creator/SaoirseRonan as usual plays an American (though she is a US citizen by birth, but raised in Ireland and culturally/ethnically Irish).
* ''Film/APrincessForChristmas'': Irish actress Creator/KatieMcGrath as New Yorker Jules Daly. English actress Leilah de Meza plays her niece, and Canadian actor Travis Turner was her nephew.
* ''Film/FastColor'': Ruth, an American, is played by Creator/GuguMbathaRaw, who's English.
* ''Film/JudasKiss'' has two quintessentially British actors playing Americans: Creator/AlanRickman as Detective David Friedman and Creator/EmmaThompson as FBIAgent Sadie Hawkins. Both do a decent job on the accents, with Rickman speaking with an urbanized southern drawl, while Thompson has a harsher East Coast accent (marking her as not a native of TheBigEasy). Additionally, Australian Simon Baker (who would later find fame playing American Patrick Jane in ''Series/TheMentalist'') plays Junior, one of the major bad guys, with an uneducated southern accent.
* ''Film/AllCheerleadersDie'': Australian actors Caitlin Stacey, Sianoa Smit-[=McPhee=] and Leigh Parker all play Americans.
* ''Film/Revenge2017'': American Jen is played by Italian actress Matilda Lutz, although her mother is American (which probably explains her flawless accent in the film).
* ''Film/TheFinalGirls'': Swedish Creator/MalinAkerman plays the Americans Amanda and Nancy. A few years after the film's release, however, she became a US citizen.
* ''Film/TheColorOfFriendship'': Shadia Simmons, who played African-American Piper Dellums, is really Afro-Canadian.
* ''Film/InTheShadowOfTheMoon'': Australian Cleopatra Coleman played Rya, who's American.
* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'': British actor Creator/RupertEverett portrays the American Sanford Scolex aka. Dr. Claw. The sequel has him portrayed by Australian actor Tony Martin, as noted below.
* ''Film/InspectorGadget2'' takes place in the fictional Riverton, Ohio like the first film did. Unlike the first film (which was filmed primarily in Pittsburgh), it was shot in Brisbane, Australia and the majority of the film's actors -- most of whom were TheOtherDarrin -- were Australians using fake American accents. Creator/FrenchStewart (Gadget), Creator/ElaineHendrix (G2), Caitlin Wachs (Penny), Creator/JeffBennett (voice of Brain), and D.L. Hughley (voice of the Gadgetmobile and the only returning actor from the first film) are the only American actors in the film and Mick Roughan uses his natural Australian accent as Jungle Bob.
* Irish-born New Zealander Creator/SamNeill plays the American paleontologist Alan Grant in ''Film/JurassicPark'', a role he reprised in ''Film/JurassicPark3''.
* ''Film/{{Endless}}'': Most of the American characters were played by foreign actors. This includes Australian Nicholas Hamilton, Creator/FamkeJanssen (Dutch), Ian Tracey, Creator/CatherineLoughHaggquist, Zoë Belkin, and Aaron Pearl (all of them Canadians).
* ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'': Rachel Blanchard (Canadian) as Monica.
* ''Film/{{Toys}}'': Leland is American but is played by Creator/MichaelGambon. He has a British accent because he spent his childhood in England.
* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'': Dutch actress Renée Soutendijk plays American Eve Simmons ([[ActingForTwo plus her android creation, EVE III]]), with a perfect accent.
* ''Nouvelle-France'': Benjamin Franklin is played by Irish actor Creator/ColmMeaney.
* ''Film/GuiltByAssociation'': A large number of the cast are played by Canadians, as the film was made there though set in the US as a joint production. Creator/RachelMcAdams plays Danielle, a young prisoner; this was only her fourth acting role.
* ''Film/CutToTheChase'': African-American Nola is played by Creator/LyndieGreenwood, who's a Black Canadian.
* For a series focusing on American history and culture, ''[[Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl]]'' has casted Canadian actresses to play the lead role a number of times, ironically enough. Molly [=McIntire=] and Isabelle Palmer were played by Canadian child actresses Maya Ritter and Erin Pitt, respectively.
* ''Film/IndiaSweetsAndSpices'': Adil Hussain, an Indian, and Nepali Manisha Koirala play an Indian couple who have become US citizens.
* ''Film/{{Waves}}'': Creator/TaylorRussell, who's a Black Canadian, plays African-American Emily.
* ''Film/DarbyAndTheDead'': Black Canadian Riele Downs plays Darby Harper, an African-American.
* ''Film/AugustInTheCity'': Mandahla Rose is Australian and plays American Clem.
* ''Film/SugarAndSpice'':
** Canadian actress Creator/RachelBlanchard as the presumably American Hannah "The Virgin" Wald.
** Australian Creator/MelissaGeorge played Cleo "The Stalker" Miller, another American.
* ''[[Film/{{X2022}} X]]'' and ''Film/{{Pearl}}'' center around British Creator/MiaGoth as Texan protagonists Maxine and Pearl, and given it was filmed in New Zealand a few New Zealander and Australian actors play Americans.
* ''Film/PerfectAddiction'': Canadian Creator/KianaMadeira is American Sienna Lane, the protagonist.
* ''Film/ToLeslie'' has the English Creator/AndreaRiseborough, born and raised in Tyne and Wear, playing titular character Leslie Rowland, a West Texan.
* ''Film/JaggedEdge'': Englishwoman Creator/MaisieRichardsonSellers plays Billie, an American.
* ''[[Film/Tetris2023 Tetris]]'' has the Welsh Creator/TaronEgerton portraying the real-life game designer and businessman Henk Rogers, a Dutch-American with Indonesian ancestry.
* ''Film/ApartmentZero'': Jack is an American expat in Argentina, with much made about his background (such as the fact that Argentine Adrian knows more about American films than him). He's played by a Canadian, Creator/HartBochner.
* ''Film/{{Lucky Luke|2009}}'' has French folks all over the place playing Americans including Creator/JeanDujardin as ComicBook/LuckyLuke and Creator/SylvieTestud as Calamity Jane.
* Sylvie Testud again for ''Film/Suspiria2018'', as the American Miss Griffith.
* ''Film/{{Colette}}'': English actress Creator/EleanorTomlinson plays Georgie, who's a rich American.
* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'': English actress Creator/GuguMbathaRaw plays Rachel, an American.
* ''Film/SignatureMove'':
** Fawzia Mirza is a Canadian playing Zaynab, an American.
** Shabana Azmi, an Indian, plays Parveen who's Pakistani-American.
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
** The original ''Film/SawI'' film had the British Creator/CaryElwes and the film's Australian co-writer Leigh Whannell playing its two leads, Dr. Lawrence Gordon and Adam, both of whom are American.
** ''Film/SawII'' had Canadians Erik Knudsen and Emmanuelle Vaugier playing Americans Daniel and Addison, while Lyriq Bent, who's Jamaican-Canadian, plays Officer Rigg, an African-American. Noam Jenkins, who played the film's first victim Michael, is also Canadian, and since the film was shot in Toronto, nearly all of the supporting cast is Canadian.
* ''Film/Feed2017'': Englishman Creator/TomFelton plays American Matt.
* ''Film/DoctorSeries'':
** ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' has Mr. Heilbronn and Genevieve Milton, played by the Australian Creator/LeoMcKern and the British Jill Adams.
** ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'' has Creator/AngelaScoular and Tom Kempinski as the American Ophelia O'Brien and Stedman Green.
* ''Film/WatchYourStern'' has the Australian Creator/EdDevereaux as Commander Phillips of the US Navy.
* ''Film/JaneGotAGun'': Scotsman Creator/EwanMcGregor as John Bishop and Australian Creator/JoelEdgerton as Dan Evans, both Americans.
* ''Film/NoKidding'': Out of the four members of the American Treadgold family, only Edgar, the father, was played by an American (Alan Gifford). The other three (Mrs. Treadgold, Dandy Big, and Dandy Little) were played by Brits (Marion Mathie, Michael Gowdy, and Janet Bradbury).
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': The film is set somewhere in the US. Due to being filmed in Vancouver, Canada, many of the characters are played by Canadians though.
* ''Film/DaddyIssues'': Montana Manning, who's English-Canadian, plays American Jasmine.
* ''Film/GirlsLikeMagic'': Australian actress Shantell Yasmine Abeydeera plays American Jamie.
* ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'': Dolly Read, who played the American Kelly, was English. Her American accent tends to slip into British throughout the film.
* ''Film/FairPlay'': British actress Creator/PhoebeDynevor (known for her roles in ''Snatch'' and ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'') portrays Emily, a financial analyst from New York.
* ''Film/ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead'': Englishwoman Creator/GabrielleAnwar plays Dagney, an American.
* ''Film/{{Sheroes}}'': Russian Sasha Luss and Creator/WallisDay, who's English, both play Americans.
* ''Film/ShockTreatment'':
** Australian-born Creator/DarleneJohnson played Janet's mother, Emily Weiss.
** The Scottish-Canadian Creator/ChristopherMalcolm as Officer Parker.
** The British-Canadian Creator/EugeneLipinski as Kirk.
** All the members of Oscar Drill and the Bits (Creator/GaryShail, Creator/ClaireToeman, Creator/DonaldWaugh, Creator/DavidJohn, Creator/GaryMartin, and Sinitta) were Brits.
* In the original ''Film/{{Scarface|1932}}'', Englishman Creator/BorisKarloff[[note]]born William Henry Pratt[[/note]] plays Tom Gaffney, an Irish-American.
* ''Film/DreamScenario'': Due to being shot in Toronto, a number of Americans were played by Canadians.
* ''Film/{{Surrounded}}'':
** Creator/LetitiaWright is a Guyanese-British actress, playing African-American woman Mo.
** Creator/JamieBell is an English actor and plays Tommy Walsh, a white American.
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