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* ''Series/HiDeHi'': The original Gary, Terence Creasey, was Australian. As Gary had no lines at that point in the series, it went unnoticed, and the second Gary (Creator/ChrisAndrews) was actually British.
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* Yes and no with Polly in ''Series/FawltyTowers''. Creator/ConnieBooth had lived in Britain for so long that she could be said to be actually British. Also played with in "[[Recap/FawltyTowersS1E5GourmetNight Gourmet Night]]", where she sings in a perfect but annoying American accent. Her accent also slips out in "[[Recap/FawltyTowersS1E2TheBuilders The Builders]]" when Basil drags her by the ear.
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* An interesting example in ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'' - Creator/RichardWilson and Creator/AnnetteCrosbie are two Scottish actors playing an English couple, but NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. Retconned in the {{Novelization}} where Victor is said to come from Dundee. (Not an ActorSharedBackground; Wilson is from Greenock, a satellite town of Glasgow.)
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* ''Series/TheCrown'' mainly casts British actors, but UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is played by the American Creator/JohnLithgow putting on an English accent.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Creator/DavidTennant affected an Estuary accent during his tenure as the Doctor. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]", he briefly reverts to his native Scottish.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Creator/DavidTennant affected an Estuary accent during his tenure as the Doctor. Sometimes, however, his Scottish accent comes through, such as during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]] when he's speaking alien gibberish to the Judoon.[[note]]The Judoon only speak syllables ending in "oh" [[TrollingCreator because RTD knew David Tennant had trouble saying that particular sound in an English accent.]][[/note]] In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]", he briefly reverts to his native Scottish.
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* ''Series/TheRising'': Clara Rugaard (Neve) and Nenda Neurerer (Alex) both play Englishwomen. They are Danish and Austrian.
* This ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/saturday-night-live-sketch-theresa-may-brexit-matt-damon-david-cameron-a8685666.html skit about Brexit]] with Creator/KateMcKinnon as British PM Theresa May and Creator/MattDamon as her predecessor UsefulNotes/DavidCameron.
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* This ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/saturday-night-live-sketch-theresa-may-brexit-matt-damon-david-cameron-a8685666.html skit about Brexit]] with Creator/KateMcKinnon as British PM Theresa May and Creator/MattDamon as her predecessor UsefulNotes/DavidCameron.
* ''Series/TheRising'': Clara Rugaard is Danish, playing Englishwoman Neve Kelly.
* ''Series/TheRising'': Clara Rugaard is Danish, playing Englishwoman Neve Kelly.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Colin Hunt from the fourth season purports to be from Scotland Yard. The actor's actual Australian accent is painfully obvious in his attempts to do some sort of mangled Cockney.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': Colin Hunt from the fourth season purports to be from Scotland Yard. The actor's actual Australian accent is painfully obvious in his attempts to do some sort of mangled Cockney.
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** There are many Aussies and Kiwisin the show: Creator/FabianMcCallum (with a hint of Welsh for the Elves), Creator/CharlieVickers (RP accent), Tyroe Muhafidin and Geoff Morrell as well Kiwi actor Ian Blackburn doing a Northern English accent and Markella Kavenagh (West Country accent for the Harfoots).
** Americans: Creator/BenjaminWalker as Gil-galad, Ema Horvath and Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson having RP accent.
** Americans: Creator/BenjaminWalker as Gil-galad, Ema Horvath and Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson having RP accent.
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** There are many Aussies and Kiwisin Kiwis in the show: Creator/FabianMcCallum (with a hint of Welsh for the Elves), Creator/CharlieVickers (RP accent), Tyroe Muhafidin and Geoff Morrell as well Kiwi actor Ian Blackburn doing a Northern English accent and Markella Kavenagh (West Country accent for the Harfoots).
** Americans: Creator/BenjaminWalker as Gil-galad, Ema Horvath as Earien and Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson as Queen Miriel having RP accent.
** Americans: Creator/BenjaminWalker as Gil-galad, Ema Horvath as Earien and Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson as Queen Miriel having RP accent.
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* ''Series/TheRising'': Clara Rugaard is Danish, playing Englishwoman Neve Kelly.
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** AvertedTrope as far as the actors are concerned. Creator/GinaBellman (Sophie) was born in New Zealand to English parents and moved back to the UK when she was eleven, so her accent is genuine, as is Creator/MarkSheppard's. However, the characters sometimes have to put on fake accents for a con, with Sophie making hers more downtown London than Upper-Class British Thief for "The Beantown Bailout Job", and Hardison taking on a Londoner accent in "The Ice Man Job".
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** AvertedTrope as far as the main actors are concerned. Creator/GinaBellman (Sophie) was born in New Zealand to English parents and moved back to the UK when she was eleven, so her accent is genuine, as is Creator/MarkSheppard's. However, the characters sometimes have to put on fake accents for a con, with Sophie making hers more downtown London than Upper-Class British Thief for "The Beantown Bailout Job", and Hardison taking on a Londoner accent in "The Ice Man Job".Job".
** On the other hand, Parker's mentor Archie Leach--played by lifelong Californian Creator/RichardChamberlain--has a posh mid-Atlantic accent and is named after Bristol-born actor Creator/CaryGrant.
** On the other hand, Parker's mentor Archie Leach--played by lifelong Californian Creator/RichardChamberlain--has a posh mid-Atlantic accent and is named after Bristol-born actor Creator/CaryGrant.
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* ''Series/Dracula2013'' features three Irish actors - Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers, Victoria Smurfitt and Katie [=McGrath=] - putting on English accents for their roles. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers goes one further and plays an in-universe FakeAmerican.
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* ''Series/Dracula2013'' features three Irish actors - Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers, ''Series/Dracula2013''
** Creator/KatieMcGrath and VictoriaSmurfitt and Katie [=McGrath=] - putting on Smurfit play English accents for their roles. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers goes one further and characters. They're both Irish in real life.
** Australian Creator/JessicaDeGouw playsan in-universe FakeAmerican.Englishwoman Mina too.
** Creator/KatieMcGrath and Victoria
** Australian Creator/JessicaDeGouw plays
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** American Reeve Carney's British accent as Dorian Gray can be quite shaky at times.
** And of course the French Creator/EvaGreen continues her long streak of playing English characters.
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** American Reeve Carney's Carney plays the British accent as Dorian Gray can be quite shaky at times.
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* ''Series/RulesOfEngagement'': The Indian-British Timmy Patel is played by Indian South African actor Adhir Kalyan.
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** A Season 7 episode has Steven M Porter playing the [[OohMeAccentsSlipping apparently English]] drummer Clive Rexford. [[TheDitz Morgan]] thinks his accent is cute.
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** Owain Arthur is a Welsh actor doing Scottish accent for the Dwarves.
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** Although their characters aren't technically British, Creator/PeterDinklage (Tyrion), Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), Creator/AidanGillen (Irish), Creator/JackGleeson (also Irish), and Creator/ConlethHill (Northern Irish) all adopts cod-English accents as Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively, in order to fit in with the predominantly British cast of the show. Aiden Gillen rather infamously just [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent drops the accent someway through Season 3 with no explanation]].
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** Although their characters aren't technically British, Creator/PeterDinklage (Tyrion), (American), Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), Creator/AidanGillen (Irish), Creator/JackGleeson (also Irish), and Creator/ConlethHill (Northern Irish) all adopts cod-English accents as Tyrion, Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively, in order to fit in with the predominantly British cast of the show. Aiden Gillen rather infamously just [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent drops the accent someway through Season 3 with no explanation]].
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' adopted similar accents to the movies for the English dialects of Middle-earth, therefore having actors of different backgrounds faking the British accents.
** There are many Aussies and Kiwisin the show: Creator/FabianMcCallum (with a hint of Welsh for the Elves), Creator/CharlieVickers (RP accent), Tyroe Muhafidin and Geoff Morrell as well Kiwi actor Ian Blackburn doing a Northern English accent and Markella Kavenagh (West Country accent for the Harfoots).
** Americans: Creator/BenjaminWalker as Gil-galad, Ema Horvath and Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson having RP accent.
** Owain Arthur is a Welsh actor doing Scottish accent for the Dwarves.
** There are many Aussies and Kiwisin the show: Creator/FabianMcCallum (with a hint of Welsh for the Elves), Creator/CharlieVickers (RP accent), Tyroe Muhafidin and Geoff Morrell as well Kiwi actor Ian Blackburn doing a Northern English accent and Markella Kavenagh (West Country accent for the Harfoots).
** Americans: Creator/BenjaminWalker as Gil-galad, Ema Horvath and Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson having RP accent.
** Owain Arthur is a Welsh actor doing Scottish accent for the Dwarves.
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** Iseult is played by Irish actress Charlie Murphy
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** Iseult Iseult[[note]]Cornish, not Anglo-Saxon, but still from present-day England[[/note]] is played by Irish actress Charlie Murphy
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* ''Series/TheLastKingdom'':''Series/TheLastKingdom'': Set in what is today England before it was unified, several Anglo-Saxon characters are played by non-English actors:
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** Although his character isn't technically British, Creator/PeterDinklage adopts a cod-English accent to fit in with the almost exclusively British cast of this show.
** Dinklage isn't the only non-Brit who adopts an English accent to fit in: there's also Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), Creator/AidanGillen (Irish), Creator/JackGleeson (also Irish), and Creator/ConlethHill (Northern Irish) as the very English-sounding characters Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively. Aiden Gillen rather infamously just [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent drops the accent someway through Season 3 with no explanation]].
** Dinklage isn't the only non-Brit who adopts an English accent to fit in: there's also Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), Creator/AidanGillen (Irish), Creator/JackGleeson (also Irish), and Creator/ConlethHill (Northern Irish) as the very English-sounding characters Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively. Aiden Gillen rather infamously just [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent drops the accent someway through Season 3 with no explanation]].
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** Although his character isn't their characters aren't technically British, Creator/PeterDinklage adopts a cod-English accent to fit in with the almost exclusively British cast of this show.
** Dinklage isn't the only non-Brit who adopts an English accent to fit in: there's also(Tyrion), Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau (Danish), Creator/AidanGillen (Irish), Creator/JackGleeson (also Irish), and Creator/ConlethHill (Northern Irish) all adopts cod-English accents as the very English-sounding characters Jaime, Baelish, Joffrey, and Varys, respectively. respectively, in order to fit in with the predominantly British cast of the show. Aiden Gillen rather infamously just [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent drops the accent someway through Season 3 with no explanation]].
** Dinklage isn't the only non-Brit who adopts an English accent to fit in: there's also
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* ''Series/TheLastKingdom'':
** Uhtred is played by Alexander Dreymon, who was born in Germany and grew up in the United States, France, and Switzerland.
** King [=Æthelred=] is played by Scottish actor Alec Newman.
** Odda the Younger is played by Scottish actor Brian Vernel.
** Iseult is played by Irish actress Charlie Murphy
** Father Selbix is played by Irish actor Lorcan Cranitch.
** Hild is played by Irish actress Eva Birthistle.
** Brother Trew is played by Irish actor Peter [=McDonald=].
** Uhtred is played by Alexander Dreymon, who was born in Germany and grew up in the United States, France, and Switzerland.
** King [=Æthelred=] is played by Scottish actor Alec Newman.
** Odda the Younger is played by Scottish actor Brian Vernel.
** Iseult is played by Irish actress Charlie Murphy
** Father Selbix is played by Irish actor Lorcan Cranitch.
** Hild is played by Irish actress Eva Birthistle.
** Brother Trew is played by Irish actor Peter [=McDonald=].
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* ''Series/BecomingElizabeth'': Alicia von Rittberg is a member of the German aristocracy, playing perhaps the most quintessentially English role ever: the young Elizabeth I!
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* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': An accent, FantasyCounterpartCulture variety. Creator/SophieThatcher, an American, plays Drash as one of the Mods who are cyborg swoop gang members. As the rest were all played by English actors who speak in their normal accents, Thatcher put one on too.
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* ''Series/{{Frontier}}'': Englishwoman Elizabeth Carruthers is played by the Irish Creator/KatieMcGrath. In an amusing bit of irony, her character makes several anti-Irish remarks.
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* ''Series/{{Frontier}}'': ''Series/Frontier2016'': Englishwoman Elizabeth Carruthers is played by the Irish Creator/KatieMcGrath. In an amusing bit of irony, her character makes several anti-Irish remarks.
