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!!Examples listing actors:
* Creator/GwynethPaltrow got famous playing a lot of English characters - notably in ''{{Film/Hook}}'', ''{{Literature/Emma}}'', ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'', and ''Film/SlidingDoors''. She parodied this when hosting ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''; she opened the show speaking in an English accent, only for Creator/BenAffleck to remind her that she wasn't actually British.
* Creator/JohnnyDepp has made an entire career out of faking English accents; ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', ''Film/{{The Libertine|2004}}'', ''Film/FindingNeverland'', ''Film/FromHell'', ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' (although in that he's intentionally doing OohMeAccentsSlipping to show that Jack Sparrow has travelled the world), ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'', ''Film/TheTourist'' [[spoiler:as the key to its TwistEnding.]] He's also in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' switching between this and FakeScot since he's the Mad Hatter. He does the accent so well, some people forget he's actually from Kentucky.
* Creator/AngelinaJolie has played a lot of English characters in her career - ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'', ''Film/TheTourist'', ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' and ''{{Film/Maleficent}}''. A dialect coach [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE praises]] her (at about 11:40) for recreating the old-fashioned RP accent in the latter.
* Creator/EmbethDavidtz is South African-American but often finds herself called on to play English characters. Partly because her natural accent isn't too different from an RP one, and she only has to change certain pronunciations. ''Literature/BridgetJones'', ''Film/TheHole'', ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', ''{{Series/Scrubs}}''. The film ''{{Film/Junebug}}'' is one of the few projects where she gets to use her natural accent - as her character [[ActorSharedBackground is also]] an American who was raised in South Africa.
* Although Creator/RoseByrne - who is Australian - has been best known as a FakeAmerican, she's shown that she can do a fine English accent too. ''{{Film/Troy}}'', ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006'', ''Film/PeterRabbit'' and ''I Capture The Castle'' are examples (though ironically the first two characters [[TheQueensLatin aren't technically English]].)
* Creator/AlanTudyk played a lot of English characters in his career, starting with ''Film/AKnightsTale''. In fact for years, people thought he was a Brit and his American accent was the fake one.
* Creator/HugoWeaving is British-Australian; his normal speaking voice is Australian, but he often plays English (accented) characters such as Elrond in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/TheHobbit'', V in ''Film/VForVendetta'' and many more.
* Creator/NataliePortman is Israeli-American but she found herself doing some British roles in the 2000s. Starting with ''Film/VForVendetta'' and also in ''Film/YourHighness'' and ''Film/TheOtherBoleynGirl''. Opinions are split on whether her accent in the first one was any good, but it's agreed that she had improved by the time she played Anne Boleyn.
* Creator/EricBana is another Aussie who plays Brits a lot - ''Film/TheOtherBoleynGirl'', ''{{Film/Troy}}'', ''Closed Circuit'' -- and has said he's been told that his [[YourCostumeNeedsWork Australian accent sounds fake]].
* Creator/LeePace got mistaken for English after putting on the accent for ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy and, ''Ceremony'' and ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay''. No [[http://screencrush.com/lee-pace-interview-the-hobbit/ seriously]].
* Creator/RobertDowneyJr had his StarMakingRole putting on an English accent in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' and has played Brits in the two ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' films and ''Restoration''. When BBC reporter Chris Stark was interviewing him for ''Film/IronMan3'' he joked that he was going to congratulate him on doing a great American accent.
* Creator/ScarlettJohansson in ''Film/TheOtherBoleynGirl'', ''Film/UnderTheSkin'', ''Film/ThePrestige'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring'' - although in the last one she's supposed to be Dutch.
* Creator/JamesMcAvoy has a very thick Scottish accent in real life but finds himself playing English characters in almost all his roles. The only high profile exceptions are ''{{Film/Wanted}}'' - where he's a FakeAmerican - and ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' where he uses his real voice.
* A similar case with Welsh actor Creator/LukeEvans. Pretty much all of his roles have him putting on an English accent - ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'', ''{{Film/Immortals}}'', ''Film/DraculaUntold'', ''Film/TheHobbit''. He got to play his first American in ''Literature/TheGirlOnTheTrain'', but still no Welsh roles.
* Creator/AnneHathaway has done this a few times; as English author Creator/JaneAusten in ''Becoming Jane'', Madeline Bray in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', and Emma in ''Literature/OneDay''. The latter saw her getting criticised for her attempts at imitating a Yorkshire accent. Although her characters in ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' aren't exactly English, she still gives them those accents.
* French actress Creator/EvaGreen. If one listens to an interview around the time she starred in ''Film/TheDreamers'' she has a very thick French accent. But since working in England and America a lot, her accent has [[VocalEvolution changed to sound more neutral]], so she can believably pass herself as English. In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', ''{{Series/Camelot}}'', ''Series/PennyDreadful'', and ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' she is definitely playing English characters.
* Creator/NicoleKidman is one Aussie who seems to play more Brits than anyone else. Even in ''Film/MoulinRouge'' where everyone pretty much uses their own accents, she puts on an English one. Likewise in the film ''{{Film/Australia}}'' (set [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly where you're thinking]] ) and even perpetual FakeAmerican Hugh Jackman gets to keep his accent, Nicole plays an English character.
* Creator/RussellCrowe too, who is from New Zealand. His StarMakingRole was using TheQueensLatin in ''{{Film/Gladiator}}'' and other English roles include ''Film/MasterAndCommander'', ''Film/RobinHood2010'', ''Film/AGoodYear'', ''Film/LesMiserables2012'', ''{{Film/Noah}}'' etc.
* Creator/CateBlanchett plays English characters so often -- ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/RobinHood2010'', ''Film/NotesOnAScandal'' -- some forget that she's actually Australian. Which isn't helped by the fact that her natural accent is upper class Australian, a cousin of [[AhPea RP]] which might be easily confused with it.
* The Australian Creator/EdDevereaux played many British roles in films of The50s and The60s, including five roles in the ''Film/CarryOnSeries'', and also played Commander Phillips of the US Navy in ''Film/WatchYourStern''.
* Creator/EsmaCannon was born in Australia but was a notable character actor in Britain for many years, playing British characters in four ''Film/CarryOn'' films, ''Film/WhatACarveUp'', ''Film/RaisingTheWind'', ''Film/NoKidding'', and ''Film/DoctorInLove''.
* Creator/GertanKlauber was born in Czechoslovakia but played British roles in many ''Film/CarryOn'' films.

!!Examples listing films:
* The most (in)famous example -- cited for over a half-century now in anecdote, song and story -- is Creator/DickVanDyke as Bert the chimney-sweep in ''Film/MaryPoppins''. The almost universal negative reaction to his overly fake Cockney was probably the reason that the next time he played an Englishman -- Caractacus Potts in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' -- he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent dispensed with the accent altogether]]. (Ironically, in ''Mary Poppins'' he ''also'' plays another Englishman, [[spoiler:Mr. Dawes Senior]], and [[MethodActing disappears so completely into the role]] many viewers don't realize it's him until the final credits). This was actually a pragmatic decision. Dick van Dyke ''tried'' to do a realistic Cockney accent. And tried. And tried. And failed. And failed. Finally, he decided that since he could only do a bad Cockney accent, he'd do a hilariously bad one.
** Allegedly his accent coach was Irish, or from OopNorth, depending on whom you ask, and couldn't do the accent either.
* ''Film/AtlanticWall'' does have a number of British actors to play British World War II characters such as Creator/PeterMcEnery and Creator/TerryThomas, but a number of officers are played by French actors as well such as Patrick Préjean and Robert Le Béal. There's also the American Billy Kearns as the camp's commander and American-French Creator/JessHahn as a colonel of Commander Perry's staff.
* The Hollywood classic ''Film/YoungBess'' has a mostly British cast. The lone exception is Rex Thompson, a New York native, playing the young Edward VI. Not that you'd know; his accent is very good. There's also Robert Arthur as Tom Seymour's dim-witted page Barnaby - who is just about passable.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'' started the tradition of non-Brits playing Robin - Australian Creator/ErrolFlynn (although what English accents were like then is anyone's guess). Played with when it comes to Creator/OliviaDeHavilland as Marian; she was born to English parents and raised in America, with dual citizenship.
* Notably averted in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''. A particularly reckless taxi driver comments about having lived in London his whole life. When asked why he doesn't have a British accent, he nonchalantly responds that he's lucky to even have his driver's license.
* In the Creator/SteveMartin movie ''Film/LAStory'', Canadian comedian/actor Creator/RickMoranis has a cameo as an English gravedigger, with the accent made to match. His attempt sounds rather corny. In-universe, Trudi accuses Sara of this -- and Sara is British!
* Creator/DonCheadle plays Basher Tarr with poor-Cockney abandon in the remake of ''Film/OceansEleven'' and its sequels, complete with jokes about its incomprehensible rhyming slang.
--> '''Basher:''' So unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we're in barney. (''everyone looks confused'') Barney Rubble. (''still confused'') Trouble!
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' went with an AccentAdaptation to have Middle-earth correspond to various English dialects. As a result:
** Creator/ElijahWood as Frodo, doing RP to match Ian Holm's voice as Bilbo.
** With Creator/SeanAstin bringing up the rear with his portrayal of Sam having a 'country' southern English accent.
** Other Americans donning fake English accents of ''The Lord of the Rings'': Creator/BradDourif as Grí­ma Wormtongue, who never used his normal accent in order to maintain it and only stopping when filming ended, which caused Bernard Hill (King Théoden) to wonder why he was suddenly using "such a fake American accent"; and Creator/LivTyler as Arwen, whose voice was so low that her own father wondered [[SameLanguageDub who the voice actor was.]] And also, Creator/ViggoMortensen as Aragorn.
** The movies were filmed in New Zealand and hence employed quite a bit of "local" talent. The numerous Aussies and Kiwis faking English accents include: Creator/CateBlanchett, Creator/DavidWenham, Creator/KarlUrban, Creator/MirandaOtto (with a hint of Irish) and Creator/JohnNoble. (Creator/HugoWeaving grew up in both Australia and the UK),
* Creator/JoshHartnett's ludicrous attempt at a Yorkshire accent in the Keighley-set hairdressing comedy ''Film/BlowDry''.
* Creator/RooneyMara gives Tiger Lily an English accent in ''{{Film/Pan}}''. She does a fine job, apart from whenever she has to pronounce words like 'chance' or 'ours'. She plays the title English characters in ''Una'' too.
* Creator/ReneeZellweger as Literature/BridgetJones. Her portrayal, along with her posh English accent was widely praised. Co-star Creator/HughGrant allegedly believed she was English to the point of wondering why she was using a weird Southern accent when he heard her speak in her natural voice after filming had wrapped. She also donned this accent for her role as Creator/BeatrixPotter in ''Miss Potter''.
* ''Film/TheQueen'' has a cast that's almost entirely British -- except for Prince Philip, played by Los Angeles-born and Manhattan-raised Creator/JamesCromwell. Prince Philip himself is a naturalized Briton having had to renounce his Greek ties before he was allowed to either marry the Queen (then the princess) or be served a peace-time Naval commission.
* James Cromwell did it again in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', as his character is even a [[KnightFever Sir]]. Sequel ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' has another case in his daughter Charlotte, played by Irish actress Elva Trill - granddaughter Maisie is at least played by the English Isabella Sermon.
* Two of the actors who played Film/JamesBond -- Creator/PierceBrosnan is from (southern) Ireland and Creator/GeorgeLazenby is from Australia. All the others are British, whether from Scotland (Creator/SeanConnery), Wales (Creator/TimothyDalton) or England (Creator/DanielCraig, Creator/RogerMoore, Creator/DavidNiven). On two occasions, American actors have been either cast as Bond or were expected to take the role, only to be dropped: Creator/JohnGavin was signed to play Bond in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' until Connery agreed to return; Creator/JamesBrolin was all but signed to debut as Bond in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' until Moore returned. Numerous other actors, including Americans Creator/AdamWest and Creator/BurtReynolds and Australian Creator/SamNeill, have been considered for the role over the years, any of whom would have presumably been required to adopt a British accent for the role.
* Creator/BradPitt as an UsefulNotes/{{Irish Traveller|s}} in ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', with an accent that is frankly alarming. In fact, he originally auditioned for another character, and when he couldn't do a good enough English accent he was assigned a character whose accent is described in the film as [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent "not Irish, not English, just, well, just Pikey."]]
* ''Film/AKnightsTale'' has Creator/HeathLedger (Australian), Shannyn Sossamon (American) and Creator/AlanTudyk (American) putting on English accents. Subverted with Laura Fraser, who got to use her natural Scottish accent as Kate - the first time she had been able to do so in a film.
* Creator/KevinCostner in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' was excoriated and lampooned for his half-hearted attempt at an English accent, which mainly consisted of him missing out an "r" here and there. This was parodied by ''actual'' Englishman Creator/CaryElwes in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights,'' who says, "Unlike other Robin Hoods, [[TakeThat I speak with an English accent]]!"
* Creator/ClaireDanes in ''Film/{{Stardust}}'' pulls off an English accent quite well as Yvaine-- particularly given that there's no reason that ''a star fallen from the sky'' should even have a British accent to begin with. Creator/MichellePfeiffer as Lamia... not so much.
* ''Film/ThePrestige'' features a few fake Brits in the main cast. [[spoiler: Creator/HughJackman]] turns out to be playing a Brit, [[{{Fauxreigner}} pretending to be an American.]] Creator/ScarlettJohansson adopts a lower class Cockney accent that varies in consistency. Piper Perabo meanwhile does a very good job as Angier's wife Julia.
* In the film ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/WinonaRyder and Music/TomWaits all play English characters in Victorian London. Keanu Reeves's is suitably terrible (and he himself has apologized for it in interviews), Winona Ryder's is quite decent and Tom Waits's is good.
* ''Film/ImagineMeAndYou'' features Piper Perabo sporting an unconvincing British accent, but she had perfected it by the time of ''The Prestige'' mentioned above.
* ''Literature/OneDay'' features Patricia Clarkson playing the English mother of Jim Sturgess. She holds up a little better than Creator/AnneHathaway.
* In addition to Creator/AnneHathaway, fellow American Creator/AmandaSeyfried was a Fake Brit in the 2012 film version of ''[[Film/LesMiserables2012 Les Miserables]]''.
* The made-for-TV movie ''Sherlock: Case of Evil'' cast New York native Creator/VincentDOnofrio as Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty with an accent that's just plain embarrassing.
* American Creator/MichelleWilliams sounded very natural in the part of Holly in film ''Me Without You'' playing opposite Anna Friel (who is English, from Greater Manchester) as they both play southerners (Received Pronunciation accent). In fact Williams pulls off the accent even better than Friel.
* ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'' features two non-Brits in the Bennett family. Creator/DonaldSutherland (Canadian) does a decent job as Mr. Bennett, while Creator/JenaMalone (American) does a surprisingly good take.
* Chris Egan uses an accent somewhere between his native Australian and "posh" British in ''Film/LettersToJuliet''.
* ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'' has an in-universe example. Tucker, Mary's 'English' architect "[[DoggedNiceGuy friend]]", [[spoiler: is revealed to be an American pizza delivery boy named Norm.]] His actor, comedian Lee Evans, is British. [[spoiler: So he's a Brit pretending to be an American pretending to be a Brit.]]
* ''Film/TheRocker'' has a scene at the end where [[spoiler: after finally confronting Vesuvius, Fish realizes they all have British accents now. They all deny ever having been American. Later on in the scene the person who replaced Fish points out to him that he actually is British.]]
* Creator/LindsayLohan [[ActingForTwo as one of two twins]] in the remake of ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}''. And of course the in-universe example where the American Hallie has to impersonate the British Annie. As Annie is shown to live in a very well-to-do townhouse, her IAmVeryBritish tone is quite justified.
* [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Nigel Tufnel]] and [[Film/ThePrincessBride The Six-Fingered Man]]? Both played by the same American, Christopher Guest. Although, Guest's father was British - a hereditary peer, in fact, as he himself is now - which may have influenced him. He's not perfect though.
* An in-universe example in ''Film/JustGoWithIt'', where Katherine's daughter is an aspiring actress who insists on speaking with a terrible English accent (the "'ello guv'nah" kind). They are forced to make up a story for Palmer where the daughter was in a British boarding school for a few years.
* ''Film/MyFairLady'' contains the interesting idea of casting Creator/AudreyHepburn as Eliza Doolittle - a character whose entire plot is based around her Cockney-RP dialect shift. An ''interesting'' casting choice, that. Mind you, squire, she din't do an arf bad job. While the woman singer dubbing Audrey as Eliza sounded acceptably English, the man dubbing Creator/JeremyBrett as Freddy unfortunately sounded North American.
* Creator/HeatherGraham attempts the RP accent in ''Miss Conception'' and ''Film/FromHell''. Neither attempt is that convincing.
* American actress Creator/JulianneMoore's character in ''Film/ASingleMan''. Apparently, Moore listened to early Julie Christie for the sixties feel and mixed it up with modern British party girls to get her character's way of speaking. Moore also did an excellent job of a 1940s upper middle class Englishwoman in ''The End of the Affair''.
* Creator/SelenaGomez in ''Film/MonteCarlo2011'' as two separate characters. The first; her portrayal of the fictional English heiress Cordelia Winthrop-Scott and then her portrayal of an IdenticalStranger from Texas, Grace, posing as Cordelia. Grace's fake accent is not entirely convincing, but that's kinda the point; Cordelia's accent is a bit better but that might just be because she had fewer lines.
* Creator/ReeseWitherspoon appears in the 2002 film adaptation of ''Film/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' sporting a posh English accent.
* Americans Creator/EdwardNorton and Creator/LievSchreiber play nineteenth-century English gentlemen in the 2006 adaptation of ''Film/ThePaintedVeil''. The accents are pretty good. They at least avoid sticking out compared to Australian/Brit Naomi Watts.
* Australian Creator/ChrisHemsworth as [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], Americans Creator/JaimieAlexander (born in South Carolina but raised in Texas) as Sif, Creator/ReneRusso as Frigga and Creator/JoshDallas as Fandral in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' put on pretty good English accents. They hold up quite well alongside actual Brits Creator/TomHiddleston and Creator/RayStevenson. [[TheOtherDarrin The second Fandral]] Creator/ZacharyLevi is a straight example too, pulling off a better accent than his predecessor.
* In ''Film/{{Hugo}}'' - set in Paris, but everyone speaks with a British accent - American Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz pulls this off impeccably, as does Creator/MichaelStuhlbarg.
* Creator/BetteDavis in the film adaptation of ''Literature/OfHumanBondage''. She is said to have hired a British maid just to help her learn the accent. It varies in consistency. She always said Mildred's voice was particularly tricky, describing her as someone who tried to sound higher class than she actually was.
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' stars Swede Creator/NoomiRapace as the English Elizabeth Shaw. Her native accent trickles through quite a bit. Her father is also played by the American Patrick Wilson.
* An InUniverse example in ''Film/TheSting''. Curly Jackson, a grifter from Baltimore who joins the con, likes to masquerade as an Englishman.
* In the 1998 glam rock opus ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'', the Irish Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers played a glittering bisexual English rock star (a Music/DavidBowie expy, in fact) rather well. On the flip side, the very Scottish Ewan [=McGregor=] faked it up really well as a big, bombastic, showy American rocker (an [[Music/TheStooges Iggy Pop]] expy) in the same film.
* In the 2005 film ''Film/TheBestMan'' American Creator/SethGreen plays a Londoner. Those in the know [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430919/board/nest/56267613?d=147393207&p=3#147393207 say]] it's pretty much spot-on for a character of that particular demographic, only slipping up when he gets excited.
* Tim from ''Film/AboutTime'' is played by Irish actor Creator/DomhnallGleeson who delivers a very convincing English accent.
* South African Creator/AliceKrige specialized in this (except her most famous role as [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact The Borg Queen]]).
* The 1964 AIP ''Film/BikiniBeach'' features Frankie Avalon as his usual self and as British pop star Potato Bug. The Beatles were just new and foreign enough then for him to play the part like Terry-Thomas on amphetamines.
* Creator/MarkHamill plays the British Professor James Arnold with a spot-on accent in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''.
* American actress Creator/AlisonBrie as Suzy in ''Film/TheFiveYearEngagement'', which was a spur-of-the-moment thing. Emily Blunt plays her sister and keeps her natural accent, so Alison does an imitation of Emily's. She apparently fooled Judd Apatow into thinking she was British.
* American Lake Bell plays English woman Nancy in ''Film/ManUp'', a film set in the UK.
* In ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'', Australian Creator/CateBlanchett puts on an English accent as Lady Tremaine. Creator/RichardMadden disguises his Scottish accent under an English one to play Kit as well.
* Creator/AmberHeard did one in ''Film/TheDanishGirl'', which is the same for most of the rest of the cast, despite being set in Germany.
* In ''{{Film/Noah}}'' despite being set in Biblical times, the cast speak with English accents. Brits Ray Winston, Emma Watson and Douglas Booth use their natural voices, while Americans Logan Lerman, Madison Davenport and Jennifer Connelly and New Zealander Russell Crowe all affect English-sounding accents.
* Creator/NaomiWatts is British born but grew up in Australia and has that accent. She has played British characters in ''Film/TheImpossible'' and ''Diana''.
* The 2001 thriller ''Film/TheHole'' has a mostly British cast. The exception is American Creator/ThoraBirch, who does a passable attempt at an English accent.
* ''{{Film/Maleficent}}'':
** Creator/ElleFanning as Princess Aurora. She leans more towards the IAmVeryBritish school, though some viewers mistook her accent for Scottish[[note]]Her father Stefan has a Scottish accent but she's raised by Maleficent and the three pixies who have English.[[/note]]
** Aussie Creator/BrentonThwaites also affects an English accent for his small role as Prince Philip.
* ''Film/ARoyalNightOut'' has only one of the three leads played by an actual Brit. Canadian actress Sarah Gadon does a very convincing imitation of Queen Elizabeth's voice. Irish actor Jack Reynor nails a 1940s cockney accent as Jack.
* ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' features Kristen Stewart putting on a quite decent accent to play the titular princess. Charlize Theron does likewise to play Ravenna. Most of the supporting cast are British though.
* In the ''Film/HarryPotter'' film adaptations, this is averted for the most part. JK Rowling insisted that the cast and crew had to be British - as there were talks of Creator/HaleyJoelOsment starring as Harry. Zoe Wanamaker is American born but grew up in Britain, and so does not have to fake an accent. Eleanor Columbus, daughter of the director Chris Columbus, is a featured extra as Susan Bones - but has no lines. Verne Troyer, who plays Griphook in the first film, is American but has his voice dubbed by Creator/WarwickDavis. Scottish actress Creator/KellyMacdonald affects an English accent to play Helena Ravenclaw. They're less strict about it with the prequel film series, ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', as American Creator/ZoeKravitz has a prominent role as Leta Lestrange who was born in France and raised in the UK. [[note]] Which is a rare inversion of the usual case of black and mixed race British actors coming to the US for work since it’s a much more racially diverse country with more roles for them[[/note]]
* ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'' is set in 18th-century America, but many characters have English accents presumably to reflect that the American accent had not yet fully developed. It stars the aforementioned Johnny Depp. American Creator/ChristinaRicci puts on an English accent to play Katrina, as does Irish actor Creator/MichaelGambon. Ironically the British actress Creator/MirandaRichardson puts on an ''American'' accent to play Lady Van Tassell. The rest of the cast use their own accents.
* ''Film/EverAfter'', despite being set in France, has a cast full of actors faking English accents; Americans Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, and Megan Dodds, New Zealander Melanie Lynskey and Scottish Dougray Scott.
* The ''Film/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'' film adaptation has Bella Heathcoate, who is Australian, playing Jane Bennett.
* Creator/ClaireDanes has portrayed two Brits onscreen: Margaret Hughes in ''Stage Beauty'' and Yvaine in ''Film/{{Stardust}}''. She does a fine job at imitating an English accent.
* ''Love & Friendship'', a film adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Literature/LadySusan'' had Reginald [=DeCourcy=] played by Australian actor Xavier Samuel.
* Creator/BryanCranston has a cameo in the film ''Leave'' playing a stuffy English professor.
* ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay'' stars the American Creator/FrancesMcDormand as the very English Guinevere Pettigrew. The accent holds up very well, only slipping in the scene where she finds Michael in the flat. The film has Irish actor Ciaran Hinds putting on an English accent too.
* ''Film/RobinHood2010'' featured yet another non Brit as Robin - this time Creator/RussellCrowe. His poor attempt at an OopNorth accent was attacked by critics and he's been known to walk out of interviews if he's ever asked about it. Most of the cast is made up of {{Fake Brit}}s. The Merry Men are played by two Canadians (Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle) and an American (Scott Grimes). Swedish actor Creator/MaxVonSydow plays Sir Walter Loxley, American Creator/WilliamHurt plays [[TheDanza William Marshall]], Guatemalan born American Creator/OscarIsaac plays Prince John and of course the Australian Creator/CateBlanchett as Marion. All of these accents are marginally more solid than Crowe's.
* Creator/GlennClose has proved quite adept at pulling off an English accent, notably her turn as Cruella De Ville in the live action version of ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996''. She also does a very good OopNorth dialect for ''Film/MaryReilly''.
* Creator/ToniCollette is Australian but played an English character in ''Film/AboutABoy''.
* Creator/MerylStreep has pulled off an English accent in several movies. The first one was ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' - in which she sounds uncannily like Creator/DeborahKerr[[note]]This is the one performance she admits she's not proud of, ironically enough.[[/note]]. She's also done it in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJq6mafSr-Y Plenty]]'', and of course playing Margaret Thatcher in ''Film/TheIronLady''.
* Parodied in ''Film/HailCaesar'' when the movie studio decides to have singing cowboy Hobie Doyle star in a romantic drama - that requires a posh accent. Note that Hobie is ''very'' [[DeepSouth southern]]. His line "would that it were so simple" [[spoiler: gets changed to the shorter "it's complicated" in the end]].
* Creator/BenAffleck pulls off a flamboyant Shakespeare-era accent for his role as a flamboyant Shakespearean actor in ''Film/ShakespeareInLove''.
* ''Film/EducatingRita'' is set in Liverpool but filmed [[CaliforniaDoubling in Ireland]]. Although its main cast members - Creator/JulieWalters, Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/MaureenLipman - were British, a good amount of the supporting cast were Irish. A couple don't bother with the accents, which is justified since Britain has always had a large number of Irish immigrants.
* Despite ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'' and its sequel being made and set in Britain, there are a few actors faking English accents:
** Creator/CateBlanchett (Elizabeth Tudor) is Australian.
** Creator/GeoffreyRush (Sir Francis Walsingham) is also Australian.
** Creator/KellyMacdonald (Isabel Knollys) is Scottish.
** Creator/AbbieCornish (Bess Throckmorton) is Australian.
** Creator/SusanLynch (Annette Fleming) is Northern Irish.
* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' features Scottish actor Creator/KevinMcKidd doing an English accent to play Poseidon. Creator/UmaThurman adopts an English-sounding accent as Medusa.
* ''Film/TheImitationGame'' has Allen Leech (who is Irish) putting on an OopNorth dialect. His character is then revealed to be [[spoiler: an undercover Soviet agent]], muddying the issue even further.
* ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' has American actors Creator/RamiMalek and Creator/JosephMazzello playing Music/FreddieMercury (who was British-Parsi) and John Deacon (who is British), respectively.
* Even though the Film/XMenFilmSeries has a surprisingly high number of [[FakeAmerican British actors playing American]], ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' prominently features the one British X-Man, ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}...who is played by American Creator/OliviaMunn. She keeps her own accent though - so it could be a case of AdaptationalNationality.
* The Irish ShortFilm ''Film/HighAndTight'' has Irish actor Thomas Fitzgerald putting on an English accent as Ryan. He does have English roots on his father's side however.
* Canadian-American Creator/MikeMyers puts on ''three'' British accents in his ''Film/AustinPowers'' trilogy: English for Austin and Dr. Evil, and Scottish for Fat Bastard. He then adds a faux-Dutch accent in the third movie for Goldmember. In addition, his OneSceneWonder role in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds'' as a British general has been praised by critics.
* ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' has a mostly British cast, but Creator/DannyHuston (American) puts on a quite decent English accent to play Sandy Woodrow, the British High Commissioner.
* Much publicity came from the fact that Creator/EmmaStone would be doing an English accent to play Abigail in ''Film/TheFavourite''. She does it again in ''{{Film/Cruella}}'' (continuing the tradition of Cruella de Ville being played by non-English actresses).
* Creator/JenniferConnelly does a passable accent to play Emma Darwin in ''Creation''.
* Creator/DanielDaeKim and Sasha Lane are both Americans playing Brits in ''Film/Hellboy2019''.
* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': American Kristen Johnston plays Mrs. Van Helsing as an Englishwoman.
* ''Film/FearInc'': For some reason, Australian Caitlin Stasey put on an English accent to play Lindsey Gains.
* ''The Rhythm Section'' has Blake Lively putting on an English accent to play the lead.
* The 1959 film ''Our Man in Havana'' has the Irish actress Creator/MaureenOHara play an English typist working for [=MI5=]. [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent With a pronounced Dublin accent.]]
* ''Film/TestamentOfYouth'':
** Swede Creator/AliciaVikander is the lead character, Englishwoman Vera.
** A semi example with Creator/ColinMorgan. Though from Northern Ireland, thus a UK citizen, he is playing Englishman Victor, not his native background.
* The Irish ShortFilm ''{{Film/Fallen 2021}}'' has the Irish actor Adam Douglas putting on an English accent to play World War I soldier George.
* Creator/SharonTate, who was Texan born, pulled off an English accent quite flawlessly as Odile in ''Film/EyeOfTheDevil''. Of course the character is possibly French, but she's alongside a bunch of British cast members NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
* ''Film/{{Spencer}}'' has the American Creator/KristenStewart as Diana, Princess of Wales, and the German Creator/RichardSammel as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
* ''Film/{{The Princess|2022}}'': American Creator/JoeyKing puts on an English accent to play the main character, to match most of the other characters in her fictional land.
* InUniverse example in ''Film/KildTV'', Milton is the host of the ShowWithinAShow, "Dr. Perseco's Late Night Horror". When he's off-camera, he speaks in his normal voice. On-camera as Dr. Perseco, he speaks in a suave British accent.
* The ''Film/DoctorSeries'' has the Polish Creator/JohnBluthal playing a British railway porter in ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' and a British taxi driver in ''Film/DoctorInTrouble''.
* ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'': Rod from ''Naked Revolt'' was played by the Canadian-born Lee Patterson.
* ''Film/WatchYourStern'' has the South African-born Creator/SidJames as the British Chief Petty Officer Mundy.
* ''Film/RaisingTheWind'' has the South African-born Creator/SidJames as the British Sid.
* ''Film/TheDamnedUnited'' has Irish actor Creator/ColmMeaney as Middlesbrough-born England football manager Don Revie. The lead character, Revie's rival and fellow Middlesbrough native Brian Clough is played by Welsh actor Creator/MichaelSheen, as a Fake Englishman though not a Fake Brit.
* Almost the entire ensemble of ''Film/PoorThings'' are Americans (Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Creator/WillemDafoe, Creator/RamyYoussef, Creator/MargaretQualley, and Creator/ChristopherAbbott) playing British characters. The only exceptions are Vicki Pepperdine and Creator/KathrynHunter, who are actually British, and Creator/JerrodCarmichael, who uses his natural American accent.
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