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A non-Scottish actor pretending to be a Scottish character.

Scottish people in particular get very tetchy about foreign actors trying to pull off their accent, probably because they're so conditioned to it being done badly that they can't accept that someone might actually be good at it.

Compare FakeIrish, FakeBrit, and FakeAustralian.

Not to be confused with NoTrueScotsman.

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!!Examples:
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* Creator/EmilyWatson in ''Film/BreakingTheWaves''.
* Creator/MelGibson in ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''.
* Creator/MikeMyers in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'', ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'', as Fat Bastard in the ''Film/AustinPowers'' series, and his "All Things Scottish" recurring sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. According to Myers, he bases his accent on that of his Scottish grandfather.
* Creator/ChristopherLambert (French) and Creator/AdrianPaul (English) in ''{{Franchise/Highlander}}''. Making it even more egregious is that Creator/SeanConnery stars as an Egyptian pretending he's a Spaniard without even hiding his Scottish accent.
* Creator/JonnyLeeMiller in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''. As the film caused the majority of the cast to break out in the '90s, they were referred to as the 'Jock Pack' - and Jonny Lee Miller got put with them, despite not being Scottish.
* InUniverse: Franchise/IndianaJones tries to affect the accent in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. The (German!) butler he's talking to doesn't buy it for a second ("If you are a Scottish lord, [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba then I am Mickey Mouse]]."), so Indy goes for an [[TalkToTheFist alternate route]]. And the funniest thing is Indy's dad is ''Creator/SeanConnery'', whose Scottishness is impossible to doubt.
* ''Film/AnotherTimeAnotherPlace'' has an internal example with Glaswegian actors Phyllis Logan and Gregor Fisher putting on fake northeastern accents.
* The whole cast of ''Film/TheBodySnatcher'' (starring Creator/BorisKarloff and Creator/BelaLugosi). The play's set in Scotland, and the characters use bits of Scottish dialect - "the wee dog," "we highlanders have what we call the Second Sight," "you're a wild lass, Meg," etc... but they don't even try to do the accents (which is better than trying and doing them badly). The one exception is the street singer, but we never hear her speak.
* English actors Amelia Bullmore and Ben Miller as Scottish relatives living in the Highlands in ''Film/WhatWeDidOnOurHoliday''.
* ''Film/TheLochNessHorror'' was filmed at Lake Tahoe, and has a bunch of American actors pretending to be Scottish, very badly.
* ''Film/HarryPotter'':
** English actress Creator/MaggieSmith puts on a Scottish accent to play Minerva [=McGonagall=], whose nationality wasn't explicitly stated in the books but was strongly implied[[note]]by her having a very Scottish last name and frequently wearing tartan[[/note]] (and later confirmed by WordOfGod) to be Scottish. Meanwhile, in an inversion of this trope, the Scottish actor Creator/RobbieColtrane puts on a West Country (South West England) accent to play Hagrid.
** A curious inversion happens with Creator/KellyMacdonald playing Helena Ravenclaw. She is Scottish but puts on an IAmVeryBritish accent. But her natural accent slips through on occasion, which some fans have taken to be deliberate. Her mother is referred to as "fair Ravenclaw from Glen", implying that Rowena Ravenclaw was Scottish herself.
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/ThePrimeOfMissJeanBrodie'' has only one Scottish actor in the main cast - Gordon Jackson. Dame Creator/MaggieSmith, Pamela Franklin and Celia Johnson are all English but speak with Scottish accents. Robert Stephens, who plays Teddy Lloyd, keeps his English accent.
* ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'' has English actor Edward Woodward as Scottish policeman Sgt Howie. Most of the supporting cast were English, Britt Eckland (Willow) was Swedish and Ingrid Pitt (the librarian) Polish.
* ''Film/TheEagle2011'' has a marginal example. Creator/JamieBell plays Esca, who is apparently a native of a tribe in what's now Scotland - he speaks the language. But he uses his natural Manchester accent. Additionally, the seal tribe has one child that's played by a Northern Irish actor. This is excusable though as it predates Scotland, Scottish people, or [[TranslationConvention the English language]]. People at the time there were Picts.
* ''{{Film/Centurion}}'''s Arianne is played by English actress Creator/ImogenPoots doing a good Scottish accent. Ukrainian-French actress Creator/OlgaKurylenko also plays the Scottish Etain. But since Etain is a mute who had her tongue cut out, this is less obvious.
* Ryan Phillippe plays the apparently Scottish Henry Denton in ''Film/GosfordPark''. [[spoiler: He's actually an actor from America]]. {{Lampshaded}} as the one real Scottish character (who's played by an actual Scot) says his accent isn't from anywhere in Scotland she knows.
* Creator/JulieWalters as the Scottish Mrs Bird in ''Film/Paddington2014''.
* ''{{Theatre/Macbeth}}'':
** Orson Welles's 1948 film version had the cast speaking in Scottish accents. The majority were American alongside English (Roddy [=McDowall=]) and Irish (Creator/DanOHerlihy). ExecutiveMeddling had them record a different audio track in their own voices. The only one who doesn't do an accent in either version is [[TheKidsAreAmerican Orson Welles's young daughter.]]
** Roman Polanski's 1971 version averts the trope by having all the characters speak in English accents.
** The 2015 film version has Michael Fassbender and Jack Reynor (Irish), Creator/DavidThewlis, Sean Harris and Paddy Considine (English), and Creator/ElizabethDebicki (Australian). Averted for Marion Cotillard - as they made Lady Macbeth French to accommodate her.
* John Hammond in ''Film/JurassicPark'' is Scottish; his actor Creator/RichardAttenborough was not, hailing from Cambridge. The accent was attempted, but kind of comes and goes.
* Eve Austin and Sally Messham, who play Kay and Manda in ''Film/OurLadies2019'', are both English.
* Australian singer-songwriter Music/{{Sia}} as Scottish Mrs. Tiggy Winkle in ''Film/PeterRabbit'' and ''Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway''.
* Angus from ''Film/NoKidding'' is a Scot played by the English Martin Stephens.
* The Scottish Mr. Truscott from ''Film/ConfessionsOfADrivingInstructor'' was played by the Welsh Creator/WindsorDavies.
* ''Film/TheDamnedUnited'' has Scottish footballer Billy Bremner played by Scouse actor Creator/StephenGraham.
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* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': Creator/RowanAtkinson, who usually played Blackadder himself, ActingForTwo as Blackadder's identical Scottish cousin [=MacAdder=] in "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E6DuelAndDuality Duel and Duality]]".
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** English actor Creator/FrazerHines put on a Scottish accent to play 18th century Highlander Jamie [=McCrimmon=], who debuted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders The Highlanders]]" and became the longest-serving companion in the show's history by episode count. Hines' mother was Scottish, which helped him to get the accent right.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders The Highlanders]]" also featured English actor Donald Bisset as Scottish Laird Colin [=McLaren=].
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]" has English actors John Woodnutt and Robert Russell playing Scottish characters the Duke of Forgill and the Caber respectively.
* Adrian Paul in ''{{Series/Highlander}}''. Paul is half British but English rather than Scottish. He used a Scottish accent in the flashbacks.
* ''Series/TheLastKingdom'': King Constantine of Scotland is played in English actor Rod Hallett putting on an accent.
* {{Discussed|Trope}} [[http://youtu.be/Yo-CEXgHwkk here]] by Creator/TomHanks in an appearance on ''Series/TheLateLateShow''. Hanks claims you can do a stereotypical Scottish accent by saying "silver plate" in a particular way.
* ''Series/LipService'': Most cast members are English, not Scottish, even the ones who are supposedly natives of Glasgow. The main exception is Creator/LauraFraser, who's really from there.
* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Owain Arthur is a Welsh actor doing Scottish accent for the Dwarves.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' features the kingdom from ''Brave'' in the fifth season. Although Merida is played by Scottish actress Creator/AmyManson, her parents are both played by Irish actors.
** English actor Creator/StephenLord puts on a Scottish accent as Rumplestiltskin's father Malcolm.
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' Season 5 has Irish actor Brian Gleeson playing the Scottish Jimmy [=McCavern=].
* Kiwi actor Ari Boyland plays the Scottish Flynn in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. His father is also played by a New Zealand actor. He specifically based the accent off the Glaswegian dialect, but was told to tone it down by producers for the sake of the American children the series was aimed at. Years later at conventions, actual Scottish people approached him and said they thought he was genuine, and he even recalled crew members asking him things like "how long have you been in New Zealand?" on set.
* Parodied in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' when Mr Pool is revealed to be of Scottish descent. He's played by the Jewish Paul Feig. Not to say that you can’t be both Scottish and Jewish.
* Franchise/StarTrek:
** Canadian actor Creator/JamesDoohan as Scotty in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]''.
** Later, Creator/SimonPegg (who unlike Doohan, is at least British - though from England; that said, Canada and Scotland had strong historical links) in ''Film/StarTrek2009''. His accent was heavier to highlight Scotty's PluckyComicRelief nature.
* Creator/EmmaThompson in ''Series/TuttiFrutti''. She has Scottish ancestry on her mother's side and grew up there for a time, so she's quite good at it.
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[[folder:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Wrestling/RoddyPiper is billed as being from Glasgow, Scotland, and even wears a kilt. He's actually from Canada.
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[[folder:{{Radio}}]]
* Barry Cryer as Hamish and Alison Steadman as Mrs Naughtie in ''Radio/HamishAndDougal''. Dougal is an interesting case, because Graeme Garden is from Aberdeenshire, but grew up in England and doesn't have a noticeable Scottish accent normally ... and in any case is clearly matching his performance to the comedy accent used by Cryer. Jeremy Hardy as the Laird, meanwhile, uses the same voice he always does when playing an UpperClassTwit, presumably on the basis that most posh Scots ''do'' sound much the same as posh English because they went to BoardingSchool.
* Music/MitchBenn frequently did a Scottish accent on ''Radio/TheNowShow''. Downplayed in that he does have Scottish ancestry, although he was born and grew up in Liverpool. In one song, he insists he's ''not'' a fake Scot:
-->I'm slightly Scottish, I bloody am too,\\
I eat neeps and tatties, I drink Irn Bru,\\
I'm sick of your doubting, your jeers and your snipes,\\
I'll prove that I'm Scottish: Bring on the pipes!\\
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* Zach Hanks as Captain [=MacMillan=] in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. The character is played by a genuine Scot, Tony Curran, when he returns in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3''.
* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' has Haggis [=McMutton=] (birth name: Heart Liver and Kidneys Boiled in the Stomach of the Animal [=McMutton=]) voiced by Alan Young.
* Pom from ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' has a Scottish-sounding accent yet is portrayed by the Texas born Allie Moreno.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''Webanimation/GenLock'' has Cammie, voiced by the English Creator/MaisieWilliams. Ironically, the Scottish Creator/DavidTennant voices an Englishman.
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* Alan Young as Scrooge [=McDuck=] and Hal Smith as Flintheart Glomgold in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''.
** {{Averted}} in [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 the 2017 reboot]], where Scrooge is played by Scotland native Creator/DavidTennant. However, Glomgold is still played by an American actor (Creator/KeithFerguson). (Then again Glomgold himself is a fake Scot.)
* Creator/DanCastellaneta as Groundskeeper Willie in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Amusingly enough, one episode has Homer (voiced by the same actor) trying to fake a Scottish accent to fool Willie.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'':
** The spin-off TV series has Creator/NolanNorth as Stoick and Chris Edgerly as Gobber are Fake Vikings With Scottish Accents since they voice characters originally played by Creator/GerardButler and Creator/CraigFerguson, repectively.
** The second theatrical film features the Australian Cate Blanchett putting on the same 'Scots Viking' accent as Valka.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}'' features the above-mentioned Emma Thompson putting on a Scottish accent as Queen Elinor. Julie Walters - who hails from Liverpool - also dons a Scots accent for her small role as the Witch. Narrowly averted with the protagonist Princess Merida; the American Reese Witherspoon was originally hired to voice her, but she ended up played by Kelly Macdonald.
* The Scottish Twins from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', Donald and Douglas, were voiced by English actors Rob Rackstraw and Joe Mills.
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