History FakeAmerican / RealLife

* Creator/GillianAnderson, oddly enough. Though she was born in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, she moved to UsefulNotes/{{London}} when she was two and didn't move back to the US until she was eleven, and by then her speech patterns had been set. She had to work to lose it when she went into acting, and if you pay attention to the early episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'' it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force, though she still puts on an American accent when she's interviewed in the U.S.

* Charlie Pellett, best known to New York City Subway riders as one of several voices used for automated announcements on subway cars built since 2000,[[note]]"Stand clear of the closing doors, please", plus some transfer announcements and public safety messages.[[/note]] was actually born in London and moved to the US as a kid. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhH2eEG8gAc He listened to radio broadcasts to coach himself out of the British accent]].

** For humor purposes, [=YouTube=] personality Brandon Herrera used some ''Beatles'' lines to punctuate barely recognizable singing of Creator/JohnLennon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSS6F0eminM in one of his recent videos.]]

* Anime dub actor Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas was born in Nice, France and raised in UsefulNotes/{{London}}, England and Lausanne, Switzerland, yet he has voiced the good majority of his characters with an American accent (most notable among them being [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Leonardo). Sinterniklaas' natural speaking voice has also evolved into an American-sounding one.

* Anime dub actor Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas was born in Nice, France and raised in UsefulNotes/{{London}}, England and Lausanne, Switzerland, yet he has voiced the good majority of his characters with an American accent. Sinterniklaas' natural speaking voice has also evolved into an American-sounding one.

* Creator/GillianAnderson, oddly enough. Though she was born in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, she moved to UsefulNotes/{{London}} when she was two and didn't move back to the US until she was eleven, and by then her speech patterns had been set. She had to work to lose it when she went into acting, and if you pay attention to the early episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'' it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force, though still puts on an American accent when she's interviewed in the U.S.

* Creator/GillianAnderson, oddly enough. Though she was born in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, she moved to UsefulNotes/{{London}} when she was two and didn't move back to the US until she was eleven, and by then her speech patterns had been set. She had to work to lose it when she went into acting, and if you pay attention to the early episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'' it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force.
** She still puts on an American accent when she's interviewed in the U.S.

* [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel]] was born in England. His accent is at least audible, but Oliver Hardy is an interesting case; from his own neutral very neutral American accent, you'd never guess that he was a native Southerner whose Confederate father was wounded in the Battle of Antietam.

* [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel]] was born in England.

* Creator/CostasMandylor was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, but has spent his career portraying Americans. Most noticeably, he was in five of the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films and his natural accent doesn't appear even ''once''.

* Actor Rick Cosnett is an Australian born actor who lived in Zimbabwe for most of his childhood and also America and Canada due to location filming. He's known for having an incredibly convincing American Accent for roles like Eddie Thawne and Elias Harper.

** Canadians from Ontario, British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces[[labelnote:*]] Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba[[/labelnote]], and Anglophone Quebecers already sound reasonably American. That said, Canadian drama schools do spent quite a lot of time teaching their students on speaking American (it's the little things, like the o in "sorry"). Newfies, Maritimers, people from the territories, and (obviously) French Quebecois usually have more distinctive accents, though how apparent the difference is will vary widely among both speakers and listeners.

* Rapper Slick Rick is British, though he lived in the US for so long that he began to speak with a southern drawl.

* Creator/GillianAnderson, oddly enough. Though she was born in America, she moved to England when she was two and didn't move back until she was eleven, and by then her speech patterns had been set. She had to work to lose it when she went into acting, and if you pay attention to the early episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'' it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force.

* Creator/EmiliaClarke is British but claims that while filming ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' she put on a ValleyGirl accent whenever she was out in public to avoid being recognised. She perfected the accent from watching ''{{Film/Clueless}}'' repeatedly.

* Rapper Slick Rick is British.
** Although he lived in the US for so long that he began to speak with a southern drawl.

* Charlie Pellett, best known to New York City Subway riders as one of several voices used for automated announcements on subway cars built since 2000[[note]]"Stand clear of the closing doors, please", plus some transfer announcements and public safety messages[[/note]], was actually born in London and moved to the US as a kid. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhH2eEG8gAc He listened to radio broadcasts to coach himself out of the British accent]].

* Japan-based English speaking actor Barry Gjerde is from Norway and was raised in Canada, but he speaks with a incredibly convincing American accent.

* Pro Skater Bob Burnquist is from Brazil. To some, he seems to have lost his native accent.

* Hugh Laurie (whose natural voice is about as Oxbridge as it's possible to get (born in Oxford, educated at Eton and Cambridge University) has a very convincing American accent, which he used when playing [[Series/{{House}} Dr. Gregory House]]. During casting the director, tired of hearing British accents to the point that he had stopped even looking at audition tapes from non-US actors, watched Laurie's and said "See, ''this'' is what I want, an ''American'' guy." (For some reason, Brits seem to find Laurie's American accent a lot less convincing than Americans themselves do.)

* Japan-based English speaking actor Barry Gjerde is from Norway, but he speaks with a incredibly convincing American accent.

* Creator/StephenHawking. His voice synthesizer speaks in an American accent, as it was developed for him by an American company, but Hawking himself is a native of Oxford. He has said he would like to get it replaced with one that uses his natural accent, but the synthesizer has become so iconic that he's stuck with it.